The Achievements of Implementing Teaching Innovation and Elevating Teaching Quality
●Promote multiple teaching innovation models and enhance learning interests of students
●Continue to promote the teaching assistant systemPromote teaching innovation models such as PBL,cross-school learning, learning by doing, learning outside the classroom, industry-university co-education, community integration, learning autonomy and so on. With regard to teaching innovation and efficiency enhancement, 47% faculty successfully adopted innovative teaching principles. In order to encourage Interaction between teachers and students in the classroom, NTD 3 million digital currency "South Taiwan Dollar" issued every year, it can be used on campus and 7-11. In 2020, South Taiwan dollars were issued to 3,430 courses, used by 11,566 students, which effectively increasing students’ willingness to participate in discussions in class.
In2020, the TA review mechanism has been amended, TA is used to assist in the basic courses of the lower grades, and assisted teachers to implement A and B courses. Expect TA can effectively help students better learning course. In 2020, the number of TA is 703.
●Comprehensive classroom optimization and construction of characteristic practice place
In the 107-109 academic year, NTD 10.38 million was invested in the construction of 87 classroom interactive environments. In addition, Luban workshops, similar production-line factories, creative thinking design workshops, smart financial laboratories and other characteristic practice sites have been built.
●Improve basic skills of students in Chinese and English
The improvement rate of students' Chinese reading and writing ability reached 70.15%, and passed the percentage of English-language graduation qualifications is 90%.
●promoted interdisciplinary learning
In order to increase the talents of students, and to have more diversified choices of courses, and to cultivate cross-field knowledge integration or second expertise beyond specialized courses, we had constructed a perfect cross-disciplinarily learning mechanism. In2020, STUST has also successfully promoted interdisciplinary learning through the modularization of courses, resulting in 4,846 students who have studied courses cross-disciplinarily.
●Development of curriculum innovation for engineering talent cultivation
The training of talents in the hoops-and-bucket(箍桶) curriculum is to construct curriculum planning through practical topic orientation ,and the courses emphasize teamwork. Those students participating in this course cultivation method are significantly better performances than the general course students in the graduation thematic evaluation.
item |
hoops-and-bucket course students |
general course students |
Innovation |
84.23 |
72.22 |
Completeness of works |
86.43 |
83.47 |
technical difficulty |
87.59 |
70.56 |
Work utility |
88.87 |
83.75 |
Poster and presentation skills |
83.16 |
79.44 |
●Promote innovation and entrepreneurship education
The school builds an ecological environment for innovation and entrepreneurship, guides students to create ideas, and develop toward industrial applications. Renovate the comprehensive cultivation space for entrepreneurship education, link the existing hardware equipment, manpower, the resources and capacity of department and each center in the school, and provide a world-class training and guidance environment for domestic new industries. From2017 to 2020, the number of students enrolled in innovation and entrepreneurship courses increased from 1,600 to 1,884, an increase of about 18%.
In 2020, STUST’s student won the gold medal in the painting and decorating category of the National Skills Competition.
The Department of Hospitality handles the pastry exchange activities in conjunction with the "NA-Tai Dollar". The contestants got inspiration from the questionnaire and won the silver medal in the competition