From July 27th to July 31st, the on-site finals of the 4th National College Teaching Innovation Competition, hosted by the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education of the PRC and sponsored by the China Association of Higher Education, was held at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. After fierce competition, SHI Junzhi’s team from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering won the first prize in the intermediate and below Emerging Engineering Education group. while ZHANG Baoguo’s team from the School of Physical Education won the third prize in the deputy senior group of new liberal arts. It was the third time that our teachers had won the first prize after ZHANG Housheng’s team won the first prize in this competition in 2022 and Zhang Yan’s team in 2023, marking one of the 3 first prizes awarded in the Shandong division. Additionally, for the first time, SDUT won the “Prize for The Best Organization for Participating Universities” in this competition, being one of only 11 institutions nationwide to receive this honor, and ranking fourth in the country, making it the only award recipient from Shandong Province.
The National College Teaching Innovation Competition follows a three-tiered competition structure—university-level, provincial level, and national level. It is divided into 7 main categories according to the new engineering, new medical science, new agricultural science, new liberal arts, basic courses, ideological and political fields curriculum, industry-education integration and the participating teachers’ professional and technical position levels. Each category consisted of 3 groups: senior, deputy senior, as well as intermediate and below, totaling 18 groups. The competition consists of online reviews and live finals. A total of 104,686 teachers from 1249 universities in 32 regions across the country participated in the university-level competition first. 25,761 of these advanced to the provincial competition and 1779 (including team members) from 483 courses participated in the national finals. The competition for the 7th category, industry-education integration, was organized separately. This year’s competition awarded a total of 73 first prizes, 170 second prizes, and 240 third prizes.
The National College Teaching Innovation Competition is approved by the Ministry of Education and included in the List of Reserved Items of the Three Evaluations and One Competition of Units Directly Affiliated with the Ministry of Education. It is the only college teaching competition for various disciplines, majors, and titles. The competition aims to further promote the construction of a powerful education system and the high-quality development of higher education. It seeks to implement the fundamental task of moral education, promote the spirit of educators, support the construction of ideological and political fields curriculum and enhance the development of new engineering, new medical science, new agricultural science, new liberal arts. Additionally, it aims to drive the innovative integration of information technology with higher education, improve the effectiveness of industry-education collaborative training, enhance teachers’ teaching capabilities, and raise the quality of talent cultivation in higher education institutions, establishing a benchmark for teaching reform in universities.