An Investigation Of Online Teaching Method Application For Year 1 Humanities Courses At XJTLU

Presenter: Kai Liu (Chinese Culture Teaching Center)

Key words: Online Teaching Methods; Humanities Courses; Year 1 Students; Utalk

The Chinese Culture Teaching Center (CCTC) is responsible for Year I Chinese course teaching at XJTLU. These courses consist of four compulsory modules covering the basic elements of Chinese literature, philosophy, history, management, law and national conditions with some comparison to western cultures. To realize the objectives of the XJTLU Five Star Education Model (FSEM), these courses are taught not only through lectures in class, but also through a distinctive online teaching and learning platform (U-talk) that has been developed by CCTC. Currently, the actively used online teaching methods include pre-reading material delivery, internet posting communication, course video interaction, as well as quiz and assignment assessment through mobile devices. These methods break the traditional lecturer-centered teaching mode, and jointly inspire students’ learning initiatives, supervise students’ learning processes, build students’ moral characters and facilitate students’ future careers.

This presentation will introduce the U-talk learning platform and highlight how it supports extensive use of online teaching methods, how it can retrain students’ thinking abilities, improve their learning approaches, and enhance student-lecturer interactions to guarantee students’ learning efficiency and quality. Furthermore, it can assist lecturers to objectively assess students’ results, optimize the existing functions of U-talk, and realize the target of high-efficiency and high-quality humanities education.

*This is a Teaching Development Fund project.