“One-system, two-integration, three-link, four-blend” teaching innovation practice for Microbiology

Abstract:

Microbiology, with a strong theoretical, practical, and abstract nature, is a core professional course for undergraduates majoring in biology. The conventional teaching of Microbiology has some problems, such as lack of teaching resources, weak self-learning and innovation abilities of students, and poor ideological and political education. In view of these problems, our teaching team adopted the student development-centered teaching method, constructed systematic course resource databases, and created a novel "one-system, two-integration, three-link, four-blend" teaching model. Specifically, one-system refers to the procedural learning system; two-integration refers to the integration of science and competition; three-link refers to the teaching before class, during class, and after class; four-blend refers to the blending of online and offline, in-class and extra-class, ideological and political education and course education, and virtual experiment and practice. Furthermore, we established an assessment system involving multiple aspects. The practice showed that the innovative teaching model mobilized students' enthusiasm of self-learning and improved the teaching effect of Microbiology.