Exploring the teaching method of docking & inlaying-model in Food Microbiology and Food Microbiological Testing

Abstract:

Food Microbiology is a fundamentally important course for students who major in Food Quality and Safety, and is also essential for further learning of the advanced course of Food Microbiology Testing. Previously the two course were treated independently in traditional teaching design. Later we found that there are many repeated and related contents in theory and experimental teaching of the two courses, which results in the ineffective link between the learning and teaching. In this study, theory teaching contents of Food Microbiology and Food Microbiology Testing were effectively docked by breaking the teaching structure of the two courses. Meanwhile, the experimental teaching contents of the two courses were inlayed into a series of combined experiments. After three years’ teaching practice, the cross-course docking and inlaying-model was effectively constructed. The model improves not only the teaching efficiency, the students’ professional capacity and overall qualities, but also provides a good reference sample for course reforming.

Key words:Food Microbiology, Food Microbiology Testing, Cross-course integration, Teaching method