On July 2, the 2nd Jiangsu University Computerized Teaching Competition was held in the Smart Classroom of Sanshan Building. President Yan Xiaohong attended the opening ceremony. Tang Dong at the School of Automobile and Traffic Engineering and Wang Ziping at the School of Civil Engineering and Mechanics won a first prize at the Competition.
The panelists comprise staff from the Teaching Affairs Office, the Trade Union and the Computerization Office as well as university-level superintendents. Two inspectors were selected for the Competition. Through careful assessment, 2 first prizes, 4 second prizes, 6 third prizes, and 8 excellent prizes were awarded to the winners. In addition, 3 excellent organization prizes were awarded to the organizers. Han Guangcai, head of the panelists and the Team of University-level Superintendents, made comments on the performance of the competitors. Finally, Dean of the Teaching Affairs Office and Director of Jiangsu University Center for Faculty Development Wang Qian declared the competition results.
President Yan Xiaohong personally conferred the award certificates to the winners. He then delivered a speech, stressing that we must adhere to the moral education and cultivate talents with high moral standards, reinforcing the construction of high-quality faculty. He extended wishes that all faculty members, especially the young faculty, should bear in mind the original aspiration and the mission of the CPC, be an ambitious person, and make efforts to promote our teaching skills and levels.
The Competition that started two months ago includes three stages: preliminary competition at the School or College level, University-level evaluation, and final competition. The competitors are divided into backbone faculty and trainee faculty. The Competition is organized in accordance with the protocol of the 1st National Teaching Innovation Competition. A comprehensive appraisal of the computerized teaching capability of the contestants was conducted based on the recording of their authentic classroom instruction and their performance in the face of the panelists. 20 finalists were selected through careful evaluation.
At the Competition, the contestants demonstrated their unique and novel teaching approaches and a high level of applying state-of-art information technology through an elaborate design of teaching procedures and by means of computerized teaching apps like “Yunbanke (Mosoteach)”, “Yuketang (Rain Class)” and “Xuexitong (Interactive Learning)”.
The initial purpose of the Competition is to promote the faculty’s teaching level through participating in a teaching competition. It is also organized in response to the national call for constructing “gold classes”. The Competition highlights reinforcing the intensive use of information technology in classroom instruction, prompting the faculty to renovate their teaching notions, reform their teaching modes, and raise their teaching effects, and lays a solid foundation for the construction of national “First-class Courses”.
