|
|
|
| The Pattern of Crossspecialty Education and the Innovation in Its Practice: A Perspective of Collaborative Innovation |
| LEI Jiabin1, 2 |
| 1. Center for Higher Education, Wuhan Institute of Technology;2. Research Centre for Regional Higher Education Development, Key Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences for Universities of Hubei Province, Wuhan 430205, China |
|
|
|
|
Abstract Implementation of crossspecialty education as an effective application of collaborative innovation theory in higher learning is an important means of producing innovative, interdisciplinary talents. At present, colleges and universities in China have created some patterns of crossspecialty education such as the parallel specialty mode, the specialty integration mode, the second major mode, the large discipline mode and the crosscollege education mode. However, there are some problems with these modes like difficulty in guaranteeing the effectiveness of specialty learning, students unclear objectives for their learning, inconvenient coordination between teaching management and the concerned department, etc. Based on the theory of collaborative innovation and combined with the experience of Wuhan Institute of Technology in producing interdisciplinary talents with “E+” projects, the present article proposes countermeasures to solve these problems including integrating and perfecting the crossspecialty cultivation scheme, optimizing the organization and the mechanism of crossspecialty education, strengthening the guidance of crossspecialty students in their learning and exercising more strict teaching management and quality control.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2014, Vol. 8 
