The on-site competition of the 3rd National Teaching Innovation Competition for College Teachers was held at Zhejiang University from August 18th to 22nd, 2023. The course team of "Principles of Computer Composition" led by Professor Leihua Qin won the first prize in the New Engineering Full Professor Group.
Principles of Computer Composition, taught by Professor Leihua Qin, is a theoretical, engineering, technical and practical core foundation course for computer majors. The course focuses on deepening students' overall understanding of computer software and hardware systems, establishing the concept of hardware/software synergy, and enhancing students' ability to design computer systems.
To address teaching challenges such as students' limited understanding of high-level systems thinking and low completion rate of large-scale hardware system design experiments, Professor Leihua Qin has led the team to undertake more than 10 national and provincial research projects, including the Ministry of Education's New Engineering Subjects program since 2005. They actively carry out teaching reform in both theory and practice, propose the innovative concept of "hardware/software synergy, theory and practice-driven" and reconstruct the content based on the three lines of hardware/software synergy, performance, and IT ecosystem. They have developed a series of theoretical and practical resources called the "Three Networks and Six Libraries," established an integrated and progressive practice system, and designed a dual-line (main line + bottom line) multiple evaluation system based on the OBE concept, which promotes the change of the learning mode and the achievement of the curriculum objectives.
The course has successively been awarded the National Excellent Resource Sharing Course, the National First-class Online Course, the Provincial First-class Virtual Simulation Experiment, and the Provincial First Prize for Teaching Achievements. The innovative teaching experience has been effectively promoted nationwide, successfully driving a batch of similar course reforms and making important contributions to the national strategy of innovation in information technology application and the cultivation of innovative talents in the field of information technology.
The National Teaching Innovation Competition for College Teachers is an approved competition by the Ministry of Education and is included in the "List of Retained Items of Three Assessments and One Competition for Units Directly Under the Ministry of Education". With the theme of "Promoting Teaching Innovation and Cultivating First-class Talents", the competition aims to effectively assist the construction of the "Four New" initiatives, fully leveraging the role of demonstration and leadership, comprehensively promoting the construction of Civic and Political Programs, and creating a platform for showcasing and exchanging teaching innovation benchmarks among college teachers. The competition consists of six main groups: New Engineering Subjects, New Medical Subjects, New Agricultural Subjects, New Humanities Subjects, Foundation Courses, and Ideological and Political Courses. Each group is further divided into three subgroups: full professors, associate professors, and lecturers and below. Over 83,224 teachers from more than 1,000 colleges and universities participated in the school-level competition, with 23,088 teachers advancing to the provincial-level competitions. Finally, 465 outstanding teachers competed at the national level, resulting in 72 recipients of the first prize, 166 recipients of the second prize, and 227 recipients of the third prize.
