Mechanical design innovation is the source of progress of human material civilization. The decision of the central government on some major issues of building a socialist harmonious society points out that “focus on enhancing students’ practical ability, creative ability and employability and entrepreneurship”, which points out the direction for the reform and development of higher vocational education. It is of great practical significance to explore the construction of mechanical innovative design ability cultivation program and network teaching resource library.
The importance of mechanical innovative talents cultivation
Innovation is the soul of a country. At present, the country needs a lot of high-quality comprehensive talents, especially those with strong innovation ability. To measure the goodness of electromechanical products, the innovation point is an important indicator. The innovation ability of mechanical students is often reflected in the innovation point of mechanism function and structure realization. The competition of national power is increasingly obvious in the competition of scientific and technological innovation ability and innovative talents.
At present, there are many scientific and technological innovation activities and various competitions for college students. It is generally valued by all institutions. As Comrade Zhou Ji pointed out, machinery is important, without machinery there is no such thing as industry; innovation is important, without innovation there is no development; design is important, design determines the cost, function and service life of the product. How to improve mechanical innovation and design capabilities of related research is increasing.
Foreign understanding of innovative talents is broader than domestic, mostly emphasizing the overall development of human personality while highlighting the cultivation of innovative consciousness and innovative ability. It should be noted that the world’s major developed countries have a long history of attaching importance to the innovative consciousness, innovative spirit, innovative thinking and innovative ability of talents, which has become more prominent in recent years. In China, since the mid-1980s, there have been numerous academic researches on the cultivation of innovative talents. However, there is no unanimous view on what innovative talents are, and there is a need to further explore how to cultivate innovative talents in the production line with application type.
The necessity of network teaching resources construction
With the rapid development of computer science and technology, modern education technology demonstrates the development characteristics of media, intelligence and global network in many forms, which provides the basis for cultivating the educational environment of mechanical innovative design talents and effectively promotes the change of education and teaching means.
The construction of network teaching resources library helps to broaden the way of students’ knowledge acquisition and broaden the teaching horizon. It creates a learning environment for classroom teaching with lush graphics, virtual simulation, and a blend of knowledge and fun, which promotes the formation of students’ perceptual understanding, stimulates students’ active learning enthusiasm, and raises their interest in mechanical innovation design; it provides a broad platform for after-class digestion of classroom knowledge, independent mechanical innovation design learning, extra-curricular competition counseling, discipline development dynamics, technical standard inquiry, teacher-student interaction and exchange, self-assessment of learning effects, and close The cooperation between schools and enterprises provides a wide space for practice and innovation. It helps students to get the corresponding resources according to their needs, which greatly saves the time of personal query information, significantly improves the learning efficiency, and accelerates the formation of mechanical thinking ability and innovative design ability.
Construction of teaching resources of network courses
Teaching resources refer to the necessary and relatively direct conditions that constitute the elements of teaching activities and the implementation of teaching. Teachers, students and teaching materials are the basic teaching resources, and there are some teaching resources, such as libraries and laboratories, which are environmental resources, as well as teaching equipment, facilities resources, media resources, etc. As for the curriculum teaching resources, its connotation is extremely rich, and the teaching materials are only one of the content of the curriculum resources. It should also include the sum of all human, material and natural resources that can be used in the whole course development process such as curriculum design, preparation, implementation and evaluation.
Network teaching resources refer to teaching and learning materials that have been digitized and can run in a network environment and can be shared remotely and off-site. It covers a wide range of contents, including multimedia courseware library, teaching materials library, online courses, digital library, teachers’ teaching design ideas, professional related course resource library and many other aspects.
With students as the main body, constructivism as the theoretical basis, modern education concept as the guiding ideology, mechanical innovation design as the main line, combined with the training objectives requirements and characteristics of professional personnel training program, with the help of Web-based network teaching platform, multimedia production tools and network programming tools, build a framework of mechanical innovation design course teaching resources system more applicable to higher education, see Figure 1.
The course resource library can establish a separate website or be covered in a professional resource library, which should be based on the existing network resources. This course resource library is intended to be built under the network resource library of mechatronics technology. Among them, the faculty column: mainly show the main teachers and the construction status of the course teaching team. Teaching research column: mainly releases the progress of teaching research such as curriculum standards, teaching improvement, teaching papers and invention patents. Course construction column: the main contents are course orientation, course construction objectives, textbook construction and development, engineering integration, simulation animation demonstration of typical institutions.
The effect of using the course resource library is tested through the course evaluation column (self-evaluation, external expert evaluation and student evaluation) and the results display column (teacher’s results and student’s results), and students’ course learning assessment is realized through teacher-student teaching interaction and the assessment reflecting the learning process. The web resource library can be used to automatically form course assessment results through teacher assignment release, student assignment submission, teacher assignment correction, student online learning, and the web resource library according to different students’ learning situations. The rich test bank can also be used for computerized examinations through the network to realize paperless examinations.
The connotation of network course teaching resources construction
In order to construct an educational environment conducive to the cultivation of innovative talents and make students learn and query the resources they need conveniently, quickly and effectively, the selection of materials and the organization of content should meet both the professional training program and the learning habits of senior students, the systematic framework of the core content of selected courses, and the focus of the composition of teaching resources of mechanical innovation design course is on the refinement of high-quality resources.
Talent training program is the platform to achieve the goal of talent training, and is the “soul” hidden in the construction of teaching resources, which must be studied precisely. The purpose of the overall design and unit design of the course is to accurately describe the competence objectives of the course, and then determine the corresponding knowledge, ability and quality objectives. This is also the guarantee of accomplishing the course teaching objectives. Students can obtain important information related to the course from online resources prior to taking the course.
The production of courseware should be planned closely around the overall course and unit design, with rich content, informative cases, and simple and easy-to-understand language as the most basic requirements. The design of the courseware should start from the aspects of teachability, ease of use and artistry, use a variety of media elements, organic combination of motion, video, graphics, audio and video as a whole, design a high-quality courseware that meets the psychology of students and reads fluently. The typical mechanisms and mechanical principles that are not easy to understand in the mechanical innovation design course should be shown in the resource library through simulation and animation as much as possible. It helps students to understand and master the method of mechanism evolution and stimulate their interest in mechanism innovation design.
For extracurricular science and technology activities and mechanical design and other related competitions, establish knowledge modules such as innovation design practice library, excellent works display library and innovation design knowledge expansion. Absorb the results of previous mechanical innovation and design competitions, “Challenge Cup” science and technology works competition, computer-aided design competition and other projects. Open up a column of student club activities to promote the students’ own design, production and competition process related to video. To promote the initiative of students’ study and research, stimulate students’ innovative thinking, enthusiasm to participate in mechanical innovation design competition and self-confidence to achieve success. Innovative design knowledge expansion module mainly includes: innovative design of mechanisms, transmission components and shaft parts design materials, innovative discussion test bank designed for teaching units, information of previous competitions, new standards and frontier development of mechanical disciplines and the release of the latest scientific research results.
The construction and application characteristics of the course resource library
1. Relying on the professional resource library and related high-quality courses, avoiding the repeated construction of high-quality network resources and highlighting the theme of mechanical innovation and design. Provide relevant material resources and thematic guidance for course design guidance, mechanical design competition and related certificate assessment and identification.
2. Strengthen the resource construction of practical teaching links, open the column of school-enterprise cooperation and engineering integration, quickly link the practical training and practice bases inside and outside the school, and share the relevant resources of enterprises.
3. Sharing of related majors and similar courses. Compared with undergraduate colleges and universities, the professional settings and curriculum of higher education are more specific and closer to the needs of vocational positions.
4. In terms of funding for the construction of curriculum resource base, there are great differences among different higher vocational institutions. Therefore, it is a real problem to build a resource library to meet the teaching objectives of the course with less investment. The web resource library of this course is constructed with the least capital investment.
5. The purpose of the construction of the course resource library is for students’ application, especially for after-class learning. Therefore, the framework of the whole course resources is built with students in mind, not for attending the review.
6. The whole online course resource library is a dynamic updated teaching and learning platform that supports quick update of resources. It can meet the learning of school students, but also suitable for graduates and young workers in enterprises for self-learning, and strive to achieve the effect of learning through network resources can play no teacher.
The construction of the network course teaching resource library is a long-term process, mechanical innovation and design technology is developing rapidly, the construction of the course teaching resource library needs to be closely combined with the development needs of the times, and constantly accumulate, enhance and update the content.
The rapid development of science and technology has led to a sharp increase in the demand for mechanical innovation talents and promoted the reform of teachers’ teaching methods and means. The construction of teaching resources through network courses has enriched the teaching contents and further improved the teaching methods. The construction of an all-round three-dimensional open teaching mode not only provides an independent learning environment for school students, but also provides a good learning platform for post-graduation re-learning, as well as for new employees engaged in mechanical innovation design in enterprises. The construction of network course teaching resources will certainly produce far-reaching significance for improving the quality and pace of training mechanical innovation talents.