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28 December 2022 Mixed mode of instruction database principles and applications
Yang Yu, Tong Yu, Xiaojie Guo
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Proceedings Volume 12506, Third International Conference on Computer Science and Communication Technology (ICCSCT 2022); 1250646 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2662531
Event: International Conference on Computer Science and Communication Technology (ICCSCT 2022), 2022, Beijing, China
Abstract
Thanks to the rapid development of Internet technology, the popular mixed mode of instruction combines the advantages of online learning and offline classroom learning, which can give full play to the advantages of online learning and provide rich and high-quality learning resources for teachers and students. In this context, teachers can keep abreast of students’ learning progress and the improvement of knowledge consolidation level, guide students to think, stimulate students’ learning motivation and enthusiasm, and improve students’ ability to solve practical problems and comprehensive professional ability through offline classroom teaching, so as to give full play to students’ subjective initiative. Through the online and offline mixed teaching practice of database principle and application, a student-centered teaching mode is introduced, that is, students are changed from passive recipients to active learners and knowledge internalization is deepened, which not only improves students’ learning initiative, but also strengthens the communication between students and teachers, thus effectively improving teaching efficiency.

1.

INTRODUCTION

MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), SPOC (Small Private Online Course) and other new teaching modes have risen rapidly in recent years, which provides a good environment for the reform of curriculum teaching mode in schools. MOOC is a student-centered teaching mode of ability training, which can offer a good platform to the teaching mode reform of the course “Principles and Applications of Database”. What’s more. the teaching objectives of the course are very consistent with the objectives and connotations of MOOC. Against such a background, the mixed mode of instruction naturally appears. Mixed mode of instruction refers to a new teaching form that combines online learning with offline traditional classroom learning, so that their respective advantages can be given full play to. The online and offline mixed mode of instruction based on traditional classroom and MOOC makes the advantages of traditional offline classroom teaching and online learning, and complement each other, so that teachers can guide and monitor the teaching process, and students can exert their subjective initiative during this process. A large number of studies and practices have proved that the mixed teaching mode for computer courses teaching effect or has a more obvious role. The course group of Database Principle and Application in our school conforms to the situation of the times, actively explores the mixed teaching mode, and carries out practice and exploration in the course.

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PROBLEMS EXISTING IN THE TEACHING OF DATABASE PRINCIPLE AND APPLICATION

Principle and Application of Database is the core basic course of computer related majors, This course mainly cultivates the students’ ability of database application and design. However, the traditional teaching mode is difficult to ensure its teaching effect, especially under the background of engineering education certification, it is difficult to embody the concept of “student-centered” and change and enhance students’ innovative ability. The traditional curriculum teaching mode takes teachers as the main body of teaching activities, leading and dominating the whole teaching activities, while students, as objects, passively participate in teaching activities. This traditional teaching mode has the following shortcomings in the implementation process:

2.1.

The Mobilization of Students’ Initiative in Class Is Ignored

The characteristic of traditional classroom teaching mode is that teachers mainly adopt indoctrination teaching method, which limits students’ initiative and initiative, and can’t arouse students’ active participation consciousness, thus affecting the effect of knowledge imparting and limiting the development of students’ inquiry and innovation ability.

2.2.

The Differences and Individual Needs of Students Is Not Given the Priority it Deserves

In the traditional curriculum teaching mode, teachers adopt unified teaching contents and teaching methods. In fact, different students have great differences in their cognitive level, study habits and learning progress. Therefore, this teaching mode is difficult to meet the learning needs of different students, which will affect students’ interest and enthusiasm in learning to a great extent.

2.3.

The Class Hour Is Too Short

In the traditional curriculum teaching mode, teachers mainly teach students knowledge through classroom learning, but the classroom time is limited. The teaching task of specialized courses is heavy and difficult. It is far from being able to impart knowledge only through the classroom. Therefore, our teachers must enable students to learn professional knowledge by making full use of the forms expect for the classroom.

2.4.

It Is Detrimental to the Teaching Management

Under the traditional curriculum teaching mode, teachers need to bring paper teaching manuals to name them one by one, which wastes time and increases teachers’ workload; It is also not conducive to the needs of teachers to assign tasks and share information; It also makes it inconvenient for students to submit homework and communicate and answer questions between teachers and students.

Considering the shortcomings of the traditional curriculum teaching mode, the online and offline mixed mode of instruction can just solve the problems of students’ lack of autonomous learning time, lack of interest in class and insufficient classroom time. In addition, it can also meet the learning needs of different students and effectively manage teaching.

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PRACTICE OF MIXED MODE OF INSTRUCTION AND ITS MAIN IDEAS

The purpose of carrying out the construction of mixed teaching curriculum lies in building a new type of teacher-student relationship through the reform of teaching mode, and to form a vivid classroom with dialogue, discussion, gain, quality, and thus effectively improve the teaching quality. However, in practice, based on the different understanding of teachers and students and the quality of teachers’ curriculum design, mixed teaching tends to become a hotbed of cultivation. Therefore, we need to fully understand and seize the following contents in the process of putting ideas into practice:

3.1.

Reconstructing the Learning System

Mixed mode of instruction is essentially a process of reconstructing learning system. That is to say, a main line of learning is formed, and the teaching space, learning methods and the relationship between teaching and learning are reconstructed on the basis of the structure of knowledge system. In terms of the reconstruction of teaching space, it requires that teaching is no longer bound in limited time and space, but can be infinitely expanded and extended before and after class, that is, learning can be carried out anywhere and at any time. Reconstructing learning methods refers to forming low-level knowledge according to the level of knowledge points, which is completed by students themselves; Middle-level knowledge shall be mastered by students under the instructions of teachers; High-level knowledge shall be finally achieved by students through teachers’ effective teaching activity design. We advocate reconstructing the relationship between teaching and learning to form a “learning-centered” teaching model. Our aim is to serve students’ learning and development. Teachers’ teaching behavior is the condition or means to arouse and promote students’ active and effective activities, and students’ participation in learning activities and effective completion of learning process are the noumenon or purpose pursued by teachers to play their roles.

3.2.

Online and Offline Mixed Learning

As two inseparable links of mixed mode of instruction, online learning and offline mixed learning may play important roles in students’ learning process together. Online learning is the starting point of each stage of learning. It allows students to master the knowledge points of the course through autonomous learning, and then attend the classroom teaching with certain knowledge base and problems; At the same time, it is also a summary of each stage of learning. Students can summarize, test and reflect on the learning content online, thus ensuring the quality of classroom teaching from the beginning to the end. Offline learning is the key link to control the learning effect of courses, and it is one of the most important ways to achieve high-level, innovative and challenging classroom. Teachers take carefully designed classroom teaching activities as the carrier to complete the test of students’ online learning achievements, help students complete the consolidation and transformation of knowledge, and guide students to achieve higher-level learning. Online and offline mixed teaching are interlocking and cycling, which is capable of forming a complete teaching cycle and a closed learning loop running through “before class + during class + after class”.

3.3.

Unidirectional Transmission and Multidirectional Interaction

Most of the time, the information transmission in traditional classroom follows the one-way transmission principle from “teacher” to “student”, that is, from what teachers know to what students know. As a matter of fact, students have far more ways to learn than we thought. Mixed mode of instruction constructs such a multi-directional interactive relationship among teachers and students, students and students. This kind of multi-directional interaction needs teachers to design online and offline teaching activities such as online discussion, interactive answering questions and offline classroom group assignments.

3.4.

Differentiated Learning Needs

Compared with traditional classroom teaching, mixed mode of instruction puts forward higher requirements and challenges for students’ autonomous learning ability, especially online teaching. Online learning allows students to decide their own learning time, place and even some learning contents, which can meet students’ differentiated learning needs to a certain extent. However, each student’s learning consciousness, self-discipline, learning attitude and learning ability are quite different, which will make students have more distinct “differentiation” characteristics when entering offline classes, that is, their mastery of basic knowledge before class is uneven. This requires teachers to face up to the differences among students, not to adopt a “one size fits all” teaching method, but to set different levels of teaching objectives according to different types of students. At the same time, in the course assessment, combined with the progress and changes made by students, a comprehensive evaluation of learning situation and learning effect is formed. Finally, teachers should correctly handle the relationship between curriculum teaching objectives and students’ differentiated needs in the teaching process.

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MIXED MODE OF INSTRUCTION AND ITS PRACTICE IN OUR SCHOOL

Since 2020, our school has carried out a comprehensive mixed teaching reform on the course “Principles and Applications of Database”, changing the original offline teaching mode of 64 hours into a mixed teaching mode of 32 hours offline +32 hours online. In order to adapt to this teaching mode, at first, the curriculum group carried out the overall design of mixed teaching including students, teachers and colleges (as shown in figure 1). For the syllabus, the teaching calendar, teaching manual, teaching plan, teaching courseware, experimental instruction book and project case base have been upgraded completely. According to the cognitive law, 67 micro-lesson videos are recorded for about 10 minutes, and the course content is fragmented according to the knowledge points, which is convenient for students to learn effectively through various information terminals at any time, anywhere and in any way on the mobile internet terminal. After each micro-lesson video, a wealth of exercises and exercises are designed to facilitate students to consolidate and apply the knowledge points they have learned. In the process of learning this course, students can use the interactive function of online learning platform to realize online communication between students, between students and teachers, and between groups to discuss problems. Compared with traditional curriculum learning, it has the characteristics of autonomy and interactivity. Different from the traditional formative assessment, this course makes a scientific, reasonable and comprehensive assessment through the trajectory of students’ learning process (homework, test, interaction, examination, etc.). Based on the staged evaluation results, it will find out the problems existing in students’ learning in time and give targeted guidance.

Figure 1.

Overall design of mixed mode of instruction.

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Since the reform of mixed mode of instruction was performed, the course group has designed teaching activities according to the students’ level, the teaching characteristics and teaching contents of this course, and guided students to make full use of MOOC resources for online and offline mixed mode learning, which has achieved good results. After the the reform of mixed mode of instruction was implemented, the average scores of students have increased by more than 4 points compared with the previous ones, and the advantages were rather obvious. It fully proved that students’ participation in classroom was enhanced, and students gradually changed from passive learning to active learning via online and offline mixed teaching, thus ensuring knowledge retention rate and improving teaching quality.

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CONCLUSION

The 5G era has arrived, which provides a more solid technical foundation for the effective development of online and offline mixed teaching mode and promotes the development of “Internet plus’s higher education”. Therefore, as the main implementers of teaching, teachers should keep pace with the times, update educational concepts in time, adhere to student-centered, and constantly improve the knowledge structure system, so as to meet the diversified and differentiated needs of college students for knowledge in the new period; Teachers should also standardize the mixed teaching mode and consolidate every teaching link before, during and after class, so as to promote the effective improvement of education and teaching quality and the all-round development of students, and train more outstanding and qualified talents for socialist construction.

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Yang Yu, Tong Yu, and Xiaojie Guo "Mixed mode of instruction database principles and applications", Proc. SPIE 12506, Third International Conference on Computer Science and Communication Technology (ICCSCT 2022), 1250646 (28 December 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2662531
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KEYWORDS
Online learning

Databases

Design and modelling

Consciousness

Education and training

Information technology

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