Teaching Innovation and Improvement: Our school promotes interdisciplinary learning through a point-line-plane approach, starting with self-directed learning activities and gradually expanding to interdisciplinary courses, micro-programs, and credit programs, deepening into minors and double majors. The integration of CDIO into the curriculum has also been piloted. The College of Management has taken the lead in implementing "curriculum programization," using the Smart Digital Micro-Program as a model, gradually promoting it to other colleges. Each year, new interdisciplinary micro-programs are added, building a learning network across colleges and disciplines. In terms of self-directed learning, we continuously expand learning domains through micro-credit courses, student-initiated courses, and digital self-directed learning. Micro-credit courses cover diverse topics, allowing students to freely choose and earn general education credits. The student-initiated course model is designed flexibly based on community needs, offering credit certification, with over a hundred teams participating in the past two years. In digital learning, we continue to develop distance teaching and MOOCs, and collaborate with other universities to offer cross-university general education courses, expanding students' learning options. Some courses have been certified by the Ministry of Education, demonstrating our efforts in digital teaching quality.
Fulfilling Social Responsibility: Our school integrates curricula and industry-academia resources to promote the health, economic, and ecological development of local communities. By integrating professional knowledge and bridging external resources, we drive qualitative changes in community development, enhancing the resilience of University Social Responsibility (USR). To encourage faculty participation in USR practices, we have established support mechanisms such as reduced teaching hours and bonus points in full-time faculty evaluations, and integrated administrative and teaching system resources. In terms of curricula, we have gradually integrated USR content into existing courses, adding several project courses, forming a course combination. In the future, we will link micro-programs and credit programs, ultimately establishing a credit program in the USR field, providing students with broader learning pathways. Additionally, the school actively integrates resources from Ministry of Education projects such as iLink and XPlorer, incorporating innovative teaching resources into student learning adaptation and exploration, enhancing their social care and professional practice abilities, embodying the core values of social responsibility.
Industry-Academia Collaboration: Continuing the model from the first phase of integrating faculty research outcomes into curriculum teaching through feature centers, we integrate resources from both the northern and southern campuses, deepening AWS cloud computing collaboration. This includes basic education, industry internships, and certification guidance, promoting students to obtain intermediate certifications and practical experience, further becoming an AWS Training Partner, providing industry-level training and practical learning environments. In digital learning, we promote the development of smart digital interdisciplinary programs and micro-programs, launching several Ministry of Education-certified digital courses, strengthening students' self-directed learning and digital skills. We also combine curriculum design with practical training programs, such as the Ministry of Labor's employment programs, and guide students to participate in national competitions and win awards, demonstrating the effectiveness of teaching and industry alignment. In terms of distinctive industry-academia collaboration, the "VISION BASE" focuses on sustainable development, digital manufacturing, and AI applications, promoting interdisciplinary exchange and innovation through workshops and international cooperation, developing sustainable materials and design technologies, forming a "hybrid" feature, laying the foundation for future intelligent and community-based learning.
Enhancing Higher Education Publicness: Our school continues to establish a high-care counseling system tailored to students' needs, training peer counselors to care for and track new and transfer students. Additionally, we promote gender equality education and psychological health education, strengthening students' awareness of gender equality and mental health. Economically disadvantaged students participate in courses including skill enhancement, time management, and emotional regulation through scholarships, supplemented by individualized learning counseling. For students with disabilities, we plan scholarships for their career development needs and hold workshops on therapeutic crafts and self-exploration. We also encourage economically disadvantaged students to obtain professional certifications, holding multiple related workshops and competitions, and providing career development and off-campus internship scholarships. Through mechanisms such as mock interviews and workplace skills training, we ensure students can seamlessly transition to employment.