Pathophysiology teaching reform during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic has changed the way most people live and work, including the way in which students undertake study. To protect students during the pandemic, most schools in China adopted a study-at-home model. Under these circumstances, the pathophysiology teaching team at Tongji University considered how to reform teaching methods to minimize the impact of the pandemic on students’ curriculum studies. This article describes our teaching reforms in detail, notably a combination of online education resources, online discussion courses, and a WeChat study group. We compared the effects of the reformed and traditional teaching approaches, including student performance and student evaluation of the reformed teaching methods. Analysis showed that although students were generally worried about the impact of the pandemic on their curriculum studies, their overall performance was not affected by the reformed teaching methods. Of interest, compared with traditional teaching, the proportion of students with higher final test scores (≥90 points) actually increased. The revised teaching methods promoted the learning of some students externally and internally and enhanced their enthusiasm for medical study and their academic performance. These approaches could be applied as a reference for future course arrangements after the pandemic.

Characterizing English Language Literacy among Famous English Language Educators in China

The present study explores the features of English language literacy among 12 famous English language educators since the opening-up policy in China, using the narrative research approach. The purpose of this paper is to examine the characteristics of English language literacy among some famous educators in China and the influencing factors in the process of their formations of English language literacy through the analysis of the narrative texts of some foreign language educators. The findings showed that English language literacy among these famous educators is fundamental, developmental, and comprehensive. In addition, it has been found that the formation of their English language literacy is related to social, teacher, and personal factors. This study will be insightful for the cultivation of English language literacy in curriculum reform, teaching practice, and evaluation. Moreover, it will be helpful for the construction of cultivating talents based on the English language literacy, the consummation of the research of English language literacy, and the profound fusion of the talent cultivation.

COLLABORATION WHEN ADAPTING DIGITAL LEARNING OBJECTS IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

Teachers who seek for continuous education (learning) process improvement, not only reform teaching methods, but also use a variety of digital innovations, including the digital learning objects. Usually, a teacher becomes responsible for the introduction of innovations and a student for the mastering them. In many cases, the teacher's qualities determine whether innovation will be accepted or rejected, but in order to incorporate digital learning objects into the educational process, collaboration between a teacher and a student becomes an important element. The teacher decides which digital learning object to use when at this point student can evaluate, test and discuss with the teacher how much it benefits. Thus, the object of this presentation–collaboration when adapting digital learning objects in the educational process. The analysis has revealed that the adaptation of digital learning objects requires collaboration, and in the process of adapting the digital learning object, there is collaboration that ensures a smooth adaptation process: discussions, sharing knowledge and ideas. All this helps to make targeted use of the digital learning object in the process of education, according to the different needs of teachers and students.

Reflective Teaching and the Ways to Reform Teaching of Foreign Linguistics Courses

At the end of the last century, China introduced reflective teaching from the West, and formed a good reflective teaching trend in the field of education in China. Chinese educators began to conduct research and practice on reflective teaching, which has important significance for the development of reflective teaching in China. In the current perspective, reflective teaching has already had a certain impact on the teaching of foreign linguistics courses. However, these foreign linguistics courses must continuously be reformed accordingly to better cultivate applied talents. This article explores and analyzes the important role of reflective teaching and the problems existing in the current teaching of foreign linguistics courses in China, and proposes effective ways for reforming reflective teaching and foreign linguistics' curriculum, in the hope of contributing to the improvement of the quality of foreign linguistics courses.

A critical reflection on the discipline of nursing based on the correct analysis of the relationship between medicine and nursing

As nursing becomes a first-level discipline, the central focus of the development process of nursing science is the independent exploration of the future path of nursing care. Although many countries have made efforts to develop nursing as an independent discipline, no remarkable advancement has been achieved due to the incorrect understanding of the relationship between nursing and medicine and the improper comprehension of other factors involved in the process of nursing reform. Teaching and practicing nursing also face many problems. Based on our understanding of the relationship between nursing and medicine and through a careful analysis of the existing problems in the current nursing discipline, this paper provides some insights into the future directions of nursing development by exploring the independently developing nursing discipline in foreign countries.

Using Patterns-of-Participation Approach to Understand High School Mathematics Teachers’ Classroom Practice in Saudi Arabia

During the past decade, the Saudi Arabian education system has undergone major changes. Government agenciesinvolved in education have introduced new policies, standards, programs, and curricula. The focus of this research is todescribe and understand high school mathematics teachers’ current practices in Saudi Arabia. This research includesthree cases of teachers currently teaching high school mathematics in Saudi Arabia. Using the Patterns of Participationconcept (PoP) as the main framework, I identified some of the significant practices, or figured worlds, from theteachers’ sense of their practices. Some of the figured worlds that emerged are mathematics, the textbook, reform, andresponsibility for students’ achievement. Mathematics, as it has always been, remains an influential figured world formathematics teachers. Reform and the textbook are becoming as influential because of the current changes in theeducation system in Saudi Arabia. While some participant teachers are developing a new understanding of whatmathematics is and what it means to teach it, they also indicated that they are mostly still using traditional teachingstrategies rather than reform teaching strategies

The generation of the GDR

The German Democratic Republic (GDR) was in existence for 41 years. A single generation spent its whole professional life there – namely those born in the early 1930s who carried this state’s hopes. With Karl Mannheim’s notion of generations as a unit in the sociology of knowledge in mind, this article describes this generation’s typical experiences from the point of view of a particularly telling group: economists at the Humboldt University of Berlin. I present their socialization in Nazi Germany, their formative years in the aftermath of the Second World War that led to their choice of a politically driven profession, their studies during the first years of the GDR, when Stalinism was still the dominating dogma, and their commitment to a state career when writing their dissertations and habilitations. Ready to shoulder Honecker’s regime, their daily lives as professors were characterized by continuing attempts to reform teaching and research. In 1989 the ultimate reform transpired, and it encompassed the end of the state as well as of their professional careers. This narrative historicizes, on an experiential level, a tension often noted in GDR research, that between the ideological and productive functions of knowledge in socialism, that is, between loyalty and relevance.

Development and Implementation of Touch Screen Multimedia Technology in Sports Physiology Curriculum

With the advance of technological development, many emerging technologies have been successfully applied in the teaching field, resulting in significant improvements in teaching effects. However, applying these technologies to sports specialty teaching is difficult because of certain limitations of the specialty. Few trials have been made to reform teaching methods. This study analyzes innovative studies on existing sports teaching, points out shortcomings, and attempts to introduce touch screen multimedia technology in the sports specialty. This study also discusses the theoretical basis and supporting technology to construct touch screen multimedia teaching system, as well as the design and implementation of this system. The author applies this system in Sports Physiology teaching and designs a control experiment. Results show that the practical teaching effect of touch screen computer-assisted sports is superior to the traditional teaching method, and this technology offers a new teaching mode for sports teaching.

The Exploration And Practice Of Innovative Talents Training With “Six Characteristics” – Case Study Of Student Science And Technology Association Of Shijiazhuang University Of Economics

As the world developing rapidly, worldwide educational system needs an urgent breakthrough on establishing a rational and feasible innovative talents training system. The paper takes as the case study training path within Student Science and Technology Association of Shijiazhuang University of Economics, elaborating the six features of innovative talents in their growing up. They are, but not limited to, “difference”, “sustainability”, “publicity”, “perseverance”, “exploring” and “inclusiveness”. It describes the association's constructing a scientific and comprehensive training system based on its exploration. Besides, the paper discusses the way to reform teaching and learning system as well as the training talents, referring to the experience of students' self-managing. In the end, the paper tries to offer meaningful approaches to building an effective innovative education.