Higher Education SPROUT Project

Project Summary and Highlights

Implement teaching innovation and improve teaching quality:   The College of Design employs a three-stage series of "internal deepening, parallel movement, and external divergence" at the core of instruction. Through problem-oriented teaching, the curriculum is interactively integrated to emphasize culture, environment, humanity concern. The College of Management has implemented cross-domain courses. So far, over 50% of students have taken cross-domain courses, and a "discussion-based smart classroom" has been built to create an environment for teachers and students to interact with each other in real time, and also helping building up the English-friendly environment for EMI courses. In addition, The College of Human continuously carries out community training activities, provides cross-domain micro-learning programs, and promotes community-based teaching to strengthen the link between academy and industry. The College of Culture and Creativity has employed relocation teaching to stimulate cross-cultural thinking and creativity, and activate the energy of the worldwide exhibition platform. The College of Business Information promotes the application of industrial technologies based on the linkage of information industries, and focuses mainly on the application and development of the tourism industry, and mountain area community development. The Committee on General Studies has expanded the variety of general studies and has grown up the scale and flexibility of student learning community, enhancing student self-regulated learning.  

Develop university characteristics: The number of partner universities at the university has increased from 108 to 262, of which 34 have signed double degrees, created more than 500 international exchange opportunities, offered co-creation courses, provided joint courses for students from both sides to take courses together, and annual Asia University's summer courses also provide diverse cross-domain learning opportunities. PRAXES, Shih Chien fashion design brand, the curriculum combines design practice and international marketing, and conducts practical exercises from design, manufacturing and marketing to optimize the cultivation of integrated design talents. At the same time, it actively expands brand sales points, and has emphasized on applying smart digital technologies, setting up a paradigm of future fashion businesses. The university deepens the industry-university linkage, formulates methods and incentives to increase the number of industry-university projects, and completes a customized intellectual property rights consulting service platform. At the same time, the "industry school" integrates industry practices into the curriculum, the "virtual industry workshop," along with the "multi-functional performing arts classroom" as a practical field, and then the commercialization of course research and study results comes to realization. The professionalization and popularization of cloud computing promoted by AWS Academy have also begun to bear fruit, thanks to the Smart Business Center, Design and Strategy Visioning Center, University Social Responsibility Promotion Center, the industry-university linkage is getting more inseparable.

Fulfill social responsibilities: establish a "Social Responsibility Promotion Committee" and a "USR Promotion Center" to improve support mechanisms and encourage teachers and students to participate in social practice. Take Ruifang and Tucheng in New Taipei City for example. The teachers and students have work together to conduct on-site inspections of the market, combine courses and integrate design concepts, develop specialty products in mining areas. The team also expand community residents’ active participation in community affairs and achieve autonomous operations through coaching and organizing joint training courses for the training team. In addition, the 4D method is used to match the integration of teachers and students with local community manpower and local life industry to build a value co-creation platform and expand to the 9 Districts of east Kaohsiung, assisting recreation businesses in Neimen District, promoting technological marketing and service innovation and implement the reconstruction of rural villages featuring humanistic practice and cultural creativity.