Academic Journal of Education (AJE) is an international, peer-reviewed journal published by Darcy & Roy Press. The mission of the journal is to provide an academic platform for scholars and practitioners to discuss the issues of education across the world. All articles published are rigorously and fast reviewed meeting the Journal Quality standards.
Educational Philosophy and Realistic Reflection of Family Education in Preschool Stage from Psychological Perspective
Between the ages of three and six, children develop their personal traits and daily routines most rapidly. The way families bring them up leaves a deep imprint on their entire life journey. In order to sort out the logic of scientific education and solve the existing practical problems in preschool parenting, this article draws on classic theories of developmental psychology and uses public research data and policy documents from the Ministry of Education and the China Children's Center. Based on the theoretical achievements of Piaget, Erikson, Baumrind, etc., this paper sorts out the core connotation of family education that conforms to the laws of physical and mental development of preschool children. Research has found that there are prominent problems in current preschool family education, such as premature academic instruction, imbalanced parenting styles, insufficient father involvement, and lack of emotional guidance. This study offers practical steps around updating concepts, optimizing education, promoting home-kindergarten collaboration, and providing social security. The study advocates abandoning utilitarian parenting ideas and carrying out family education in accordance with the laws of children's psychological development. This not only provides theoretical references for parents to establish scientific parenting cognition, but also provides practical ideas for improving the guidance system of preschool family education.
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Operational Mechanisms of Curriculum Quality Monitoring Systems in Higher Education Administration
The curriculum quality monitoring system directly affects the quality of talent cultivation in universities and is a key link in higher education administration. Curriculum quality control in contemporary universities still requires further optimization. Based on this, this paper aligns with the requirements of the Ministry of Education's "Implementation Plan for Undergraduate Teaching Audit and Evaluation in Ordinary Higher Education Institutions (2021-2025)", drawing on the teaching practices of public and application-oriented universities, and integrates relevant theories of Total Quality Management and closed-loop management to focus on analyzing the operational logic of the curriculum quality monitoring system. This paper sorts out the core components of the system, including organizational structure, indicator design, and implementation process. At the same time, this paper draws on the quality assurance practice of Lanzhou University's "One Platform, Four Systems" and summarizes an operational model featuring hierarchical management, diversified evaluation, data-driven support, and continuous improvement. Practice demonstrates that improving this monitoring system can effectively strengthen the control of the entire teaching process, improve talent cultivation quality, and offer practical references for universities to optimize higher education administration and enhance curriculum quality.
Research on Student Academic Emotion Profiling and Interactive Education Models from the Perspective of Big Data
The application of big data technologies in the field of education is currently a prominent research hotspot. Artificial intelligence and big data technologies can analyze learners’ basic information, behavioral data, and learning data to intelligently generate personalized learning paths, provide individualized learning support, recommend customized learning resources, and enable intelligent assessment and feedback, ultimately facilitating the construction of academic emotion profiles and interactive education models. The New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan issued by the State Council of China emphasizes the need to establish online intelligent education platforms and improve the AI education system, accelerate the reform of talent cultivation models and teaching methods through intelligent technologies, build a new educational system encompassing intelligent and interactive learning, provide precisely targeted educational services, and realize customized daily and lifelong education. Effectively leveraging big data and AI technologies to serve the entire teaching and learning process will inevitably become a key research focus in future education. In 2017, the State Council issued the *13th Five-Year Plan for National Education Development*, which proposes to actively harness the important role of big data in digital learning spaces, explore new models of future education and teaching, and support personalized learning and targeted instruction. AI and big data technologies can analyze learners’ basic information, behavioral data, and learning data to intelligently generate personalized learning paths, offer individualized learning support and interactive learning resources, and enable intelligent assessment and feedback.
Constructivist Classroom Interaction Design and Student Development
Constructivist classroom interaction design centres on the learner’s active construction of meaning. By creating dialogic contexts, collaborative tasks and reflective practices, it promotes students’ comprehensive development across cognitive, social and emotional dimensions. Drawing upon constructivist learning theory, this paper systematically analyses the theoretical foundations and fundamental principles of classroom interaction design. It explores the cognitive mechanisms (conceptual transformation, metacognitive development), social mechanisms (social identity construction, cultivation of collaborative skills) and affective mechanisms (learning motivation, self-efficacy) through which interaction design promotes student development. Building on this, the paper further proposes four typical models: problem-based interactive design, role-playing interactive design, project-based collaborative interactive design, and technology-enhanced interactive design, and analyses their respective core contributions to student development.
Effects of Optimal Power Load Training on Lower Limb Explosive Power and Sport-Specific Kicking Performance in Male Taekwondo Athletes
This study investigated the effects of Optimal Power Load Training (OPL) on lower limb explosive power and sport-specific kicking performance in male taekwondo athletes. Sixteen male athletes from the Taekwondo Team of Xi'an Physical Education University served as participants. The study employed literature review, experimental, testing, and statistical methods. Participants were randomly assigned to either an experimental group (n = 8) or a control group (n = 8). The experimental group underwent an individualized optimal power load training protocol based on each athlete's peak power output, while the control group followed a conventional resistance training protocol. The intervention lasted eight weeks. Outcome measures included standing long jump distance, squat jump (SJ) height and flight time, countermovement jump (CMJ) height and flight time, and 10-second consecutive bilateral roundhouse kick performance. The results demonstrated that both groups exhibited improvements in lower limb explosive power and sport-specific kicking performance following the eight-week intervention. However, the experimental group showed significantly greater gains in SJ performance, CMJ performance, consecutive kick frequency, and mean kick force, with several indicators reaching statistical significance (P < 0.05). These findings suggest that OPL training can effectively enhance lower limb explosive power and sport-specific technical output capacity in male taekwondo athletes, thereby exerting a positive influence on competitive performance. Accordingly, OPL training may serve as an important component of sport-specific strength conditioning in taekwondo. It should also be noted that factors such as athletes' age, competitive level, training background, and individual physical fitness may all influence training outcomes. Future studies should expand sample sizes and conduct more systematic investigations targeting diverse athlete populations.
Intervention Effect of 8-week Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction on Test Anxiety in College Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Objective To explore the immediate intervention effect and 1-month short-term maintenance effect of 8-week standardized mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on test anxiety in college students, and to analyze the mediating role of mindfulness level. Methods A prospective randomized controlled trial design was adopted. From March to April 2025, 60 college students with Test Anxiety Scale (TAS) score ≥50 were recruited from a comprehensive university in China, and randomly divided into intervention group and control group, with 30 students in each group. The intervention group received 8-week standard MBSR group training (90 minutes per week), while the control group received no intervention. All participants were assessed with TAS, Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) before intervention (T1), immediately after intervention (T2) and 1 month after intervention (T3). Results Repeated measures ANOVA showed that the time× group interaction effect of TAS scores was significant (F=28.63, p<0.001). Immediately after intervention and at 1-month follow-up, the TAS scores of the intervention group [(42.5±5.8), (43.1±5.5)] were significantly lower than those of the control group [(56.8±6.0), (57.2±5.9)] (all p<0.01). Mediation effect analysis showed that mindfulness level played a partial mediating role between MBSR and test anxiety, with a mediating effect value of -0.32, accounting for 45.7% of the total effect. Conclusion The 8-week standardized MBSR can effectively alleviate test anxiety, improve mindfulness level and sleep quality in college students, and the intervention effect has good short-term stability. The improvement of mindfulness level is an important mechanism of MBSR in reducing test anxiety.
Paternal Emotional Bonding and Social Anxiety in Middle School Students: The Mediating Role of Self-Concept
This study examined the relationship between father-child emotional bonding and social anxiety among junior high school students, focusing on the mediating role of self-concept. A sample of 478 students (grades 7–9) from a middle school in China completed self-report measures of paternal bonding, self-concept, and social anxiety. Results showed that paternal emotional bonding was positively correlated with self-concept (r = 0.17, p < 0.01) and negatively correlated with social anxiety (r = -0.20, p < 0.01). Self-concept was negatively correlated with social anxiety (r = -0.16, p < 0.01). Mediation analysis using bootstrap methods revealed that self-concept partially mediated the relationship between father-child bonding and social anxiety (indirect effect β = -0.03, 95% CI [-0.07, -0.01]). These findings suggest that a strong father-child emotional bond directly reduces adolescent social anxiety and indirectly alleviates it by enhancing positive self-concept. Demographic differences indicated that females reported higher self-concept than males, only children reported stronger paternal bonding and self-concept than those with siblings, and both paternal bonding and self-concept increased with grade while social anxiety decreased. Implications for family education and school-based interventions are discussed.
A School-Based Psychological Counseling Support Model for Primary and Secondary Students: Needs, Barriers, and Implementation Pathways
Student mental health is increasingly understood as an educational concern because psychological difficulties are associated with learning, attendance, peer relationships, school adjustment, and longer-term development. Although schools can provide accessible settings for prevention, early identification, counseling, referral, and coordinated support, school-based psychological counseling is often implemented through fragmented activities rather than through a coherent support system. This article develops a concise school-based psychological counseling support model for primary and secondary students through an integrative framework synthesis of school mental health literature, international guidance, implementation science, and evidence from the Chinese school context. The synthesis indicates that student needs are ecological, developmental, educational, and equity-related. Key implementation barriers include limited help-seeking, stigma, role ambiguity, uneven workforce preparation, weak screening-to-intervention pathways, fragmented collaboration, insufficient data use, and sustainability challenges. The proposed Integrated Ecological Multi-Tiered Counseling Support Model links universal mental health promotion, systematic identification, tiered counseling, referral and crisis response, family-school-community collaboration, data-informed improvement, and workforce development. The model offers a practical framework for moving from isolated counseling activities toward coordinated whole-school support.
Application Practice and Teaching Value of NotebookLM in International Chinese Reading Instruction
The continuous deepening of the integration of artificial intelligence and education has created new opportunities for the reform of international Chinese education models. Reading instruction is a key link in international Chinese language acquisition, and there are still many practical problems in current teaching practice: learners' language proficiency levels are significantly differentiated, it is difficult to achieve hierarchical adaptation of reading texts, the interpretation of cultural connotations in texts remains insufficient, and teachers’ energy is limited, making it difficult to carry out refined personalized teaching. This article takes NotebookLM intelligent tool as the research object, and adopts a combination of literature review and teaching practice induction. Based on the inherent functions of the tool and the actual teaching situation in the industry, it explores its application path throughout the entire process of pre-class preparation, classroom implementation, and post-class consolidation in reading teaching. This tool relies on large language model technology and has practical functions such as document parsing, content organization, multilingual annotation, and source tracing. It can adapt to the learning needs of learners at different levels, effectively reduce the cost of text processing and teaching design for teachers, help students improve their text reading ability and cross-cultural cognitive literacy, fill the existing gaps in traditional reading teaching, and provide feasible practical references for the digital transformation of international Chinese education.
International Chinese Reading Instruction
Three-Dimensional Closed-Loop Classroom for Maritime English in Vocational Colleges Enabled by Generative AI
Driven by the dual forces of educational digital transformation and high-quality development of the shipping industry, generative artificial intelligence (Generative AI) provides a new technical path for innovating vocational foreign language teaching models. As a type of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), maritime English in vocational colleges is highly job-oriented and practice-intensive. At present, vocational maritime English teaching generally suffers from rigid models, difficulties in differentiated instruction, lack of practical scenarios, and fragmented teaching links. Traditional linear teaching fails to form an effective closed loop, restricting the development of students’ job-related English competence. Based on generative AI, this study integrates closed-loop teaching theory and personalized learning theory, and adopts bibliometric analysis, questionnaire surveys, quasi-experimental research, and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation. Focusing on pre-class, in-class, and post-class dimensions, it deeply analyzes current shortcomings in maritime English classroom construction. It explores existing pain points in three-dimensional classrooms, details the implementation paths of AI-enabled closed-loop instruction, constructs an intelligent teaching model consisting of diagnosis, training, and consolidation layers, and establishes supporting mechanisms for technology, faculty, and evaluation. Teaching practice shows that this model effectively alleviates problems such as differentiated learning difficulties, insufficient practice, and weak connectivity, enabling cyclic data feedback and dynamic teaching optimization. This study emphasizes practicality and implementability, providing a practical model for digital reform of maritime English teaching and a reference for intelligent construction of similar specialized foreign language classrooms.
Exploration and Practice of Pathology and Pathophysiology Course Based on the "Five-Education Simultaneously" Concept
Against the background of the "Five-Education Simultaneously" concept and the construction of "New Medicine", this paper takes the course of Pathology and Pathophysiology as the research object, and systematically analyzes the problems in current teaching, such as complicated content, difficulties in constructing knowledge systems, the impact of artificial intelligence on medical education, disconnection between theoretical teaching and clinical practice, and a single evaluation mechanism. On this basis, a curriculum reform pathway centered on the all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical education, aesthetic education, and labor education is proposed and constructed. The systematic implementation of the "Five-Education Simultaneously" concept in Pathology and Pathophysiology helps improve the comprehensive quality of nursing students, promotes the coordinated development of knowledge, ability, and values, and provides a feasible teaching pathway for cultivating interdisciplinary medical talents to meet the strategic needs of "Healthy China".
A Study on the Impact of the "Double Reduction" Policy on the Mental Health of Elementary School Students in Rural Areas and Countermeasures: A Case Study of a County in Inner Mongolia
Taking a county in Inner Mongolia as a case study, this paper examines the dual impact of the "Double Reduction" policy on the mental health of elementary school students in rural areas. The study found that following the implementation of the policy, students’ homework burden was significantly reduced, their sleep and physical activity time increased, and their overall mental health improved. However, due to disparities in resources across the county, some students have developed "new anxieties." The study proposes countermeasures, such as establishing a collaborative mechanism among schools, families, and the community, to promote the mental health development of elementary school students in rural areas.
From Intervention to Engagement: Enhancing Participation and Acquisition Effectiveness in Chinese Second Language Learning
Insufficient participation is a key bottleneck that hinders learners' acquisition effectiveness in learning Chinese as a second language (CSL). This article is supported by the theory of second language acquisition engagement and the three-dimensional model of participation, and adopts a research method that combines literature review and empirical data integration. It focuses on the transformation path from external teaching intervention to learners' active engagement, and constructs a hierarchical intervention strategy system that is suitable for CSL teaching practice. The integration of 12 domestic and international empirical research data from 2020 to 2025 shows that systematic teaching interventions can increase CSL learners' classroom participation rate by 16-25 percentage points, vocabulary acquisition efficiency by 26.8%, and oral fluency by 3.42 standard scores (p=0.001). The constructed cognitive-affective-behavioral trinity engagement promotion framework can effectively stimulate learners' intrinsic motivation and realize the synergistic improvement of participation and acquisition effectiveness. This study provides a practical path and scientific evaluation tool for international Chinese language teaching, and provides empirical support and theoretical reference for improving the quality of CSL education.
A Need Assessment for Communication Skills Training among Nursing Science Students
This study evaluated the communication skills and training needs of nursing students at Universiti Malaya using a cross-sectional quantitative design. Based on a needs assessment framework, a structured online questionnaire assessed five core areas: student personal characteristics, patient characteristics, medical team characteristics, theoretical knowledge level, and educator support. A total of 230 valid responses were collected. Results showed that nursing students' overall communication ability was at an upper-middle level, indicating effectiveness in most clinical situations. However, notable deficiencies remained in handling complex or high-pressure situations and enhancing self-efficacy. The study analyzed findings through social constructivism, experiential learning theory, and self-efficacy theory, emphasizing the need for multi-dimensional teaching strategies. Accordingly, nursing education should strengthen practical, contextualized content by integrating diverse cultural backgrounds and technological innovations, particularly virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI), to create immersive learning environments that enhance communication skills and self-efficacy in diverse clinical settings. This study provides empirical support for reforming nursing communication courses and offers theoretical guidance for improving student communication with patients and multidisciplinary teams. Limitations include the single-institution sample, reliance on self-reported data, and the cross-sectional design, which cannot track developmental trajectories across learning stages.
Construction and Empirical Research on the Evaluation System of Academic Ethic Construction in Colleges and Universities from the Perspective of Counselors
Academic ethic construction is a key task in the educational reform and sustainable development of colleges and universities, and a fundamental work to cultivate high-quality talents that meet the requirements of the times and society. The construction of the academic ethic system and its evaluation index system in colleges and universities should be based on ideological and political work, follow the laws of student growth and academic development, to further enhance the initiative, pertinence, and effectiveness of ideological and political education, and help students grow and become talents. Based on an empirical study of an independent college, this paper points out that the evaluation system of academic ethic construction should follow the principles of scientificity, systematicness, and the combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis. From the perspective of counselors and the law of student growth, the evaluation index system and weight are scientifically set, and countermeasures and suggestions are put forward to improve the quality of academic ethic construction.
Research on a Model for Promoting Preschool Children's Mental Health Based on Emotion Education: Theoretical Reconstruction and Practical Paths from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
This study aims to address the "intellect over emotion" bias in preschool education and construct a culturally adaptive preschool mental health promotion system. Based on the upgraded "2+1+3+2" model, it integrates international theories including Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence theory and Bowlby’s Attachment theory with Liu Naihua’s localized educational concepts of "emotional nourishment" and "life-based education". Through theoretical interpretation and case analysis, the study explores the dual-subject collaboration of kindergarten and family in emotion education, and designs practical paths of comprehensive acceptance, understanding and expression of emotions. The results show that the model can help children transform from passive emotion recipients to active emotional managers, and it constructs a three-dimensional ecological system for preschool mental health promotion with both international vision and local characteristics. The study provides a scientific practical framework for preschool emotion education and mental health cultivation.
Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Course and Practice Based on Project-driven 3D Printing Landscape Model Production
In the context of digital technology, project-driven 3D printing of landscape models enhances course content quality through real-world project integration, transforms teaching methodologies, and emphasizes industry-academia collaboration with practical application focus in curriculum reform. This study employs literature review and field investigation methods to analyze model-making courses, enabling students to develop innovative thinking and digital hands-on skills through practical project implementation. The course outcomes also serve as a reference for industry-academia collaboration initiatives in other higher education institutions.
Industry-academia-research collaboration
Research on Teaching Reform of Signals and Systems for Postgraduates in Energy and Power Engineering
Signals and Systems serves as a core professional foundation course for postgraduates in energy and power engineering, bridging mathematical theory with engineering applications such as intelligent monitoring, fault diagnosis, and dynamic control of energy and power systems. It is a pivotal course for cultivating digital and intelligent competencies among energy and power professionals. Addressing prevalent issues in current teaching—including the disjunction between theoretical instruction and industry practice, rigid teaching models, theory-biased assessment, and insufficient professional adaptability—this study proposes targeted reform pathways across five dimensions: teaching objective reconstruction, teaching content optimization, teaching model innovation, assessment system reform, and curriculum ideological and political integration. Drawing on teaching practice outcomes and supported by educational research literature, this paper aims to construct a specialized Signals and Systems teaching system tailored to energy and power engineering, enhance students’ signal analysis and engineering practice capabilities, and facilitate the cultivation of high-quality innovative talents in the energy and power sector.
Curriculum Ideological and Political Education
Educational Equity under the Digital Divide: Online Education in Rural Areas of Developing Countries
This study focuses on the core issue of "educational equity under the digital divide," examining online education challenges in rural developing countries. With global online education users growing from 860 million in 2019 to 2.12 billion by 2025, the penetration rate gap between high-income and low-income countries widened from 39.4 percentage points to 59.2 percentage points, indicating that online education expansion has not automatically narrowed the digital divide. Through analyzing access disparities and usage disparities, the study systematically identifies infrastructure bottlenecks and capability gaps in rural online education, revealing multidimensional impacts of the digital divide on educational equity. Research findings demonstrate that the digital divide transcends mere technological access disparities, representing systemic inequalities embedded within social structures that directly manifest as fundamental fractures in educational equity across three dimensions: starting point fairness, process fairness, and outcome fairness. In rural developing countries, these fractures exhibit a "triple overlap" characteristic: physical infrastructure deficiencies, human capital capacity gaps, and symbolic cultural disconnections collectively form insurmountable structural barriers to educational equity. Multidimensional analysis of digital divide manifestations reveals that low-income countries score higher across all three dimensions (78.6-85.7 points) with progressively widening gaps, highlighting cumulative effects where early-stage disadvantages amplify over time. Access disparities create unequal starting points, usage disparities lead to process inequities, while achievement gaps result in outcome disparities. The study provides empirical evidence for formulating targeted intervention strategies and promoting educational equity under the digital divide.
Research on AI-Enabled Instructional Reform for General Valve Materials
As one of the core courses of the valve design and manufacturing major, General Valve Materials plays a crucial role in cultivating highly skilled talents for the valve industry. However, traditional teaching models face challenges such as significant disparities in student foundations, weaknesses in engineering practice components, and a lack of dynamic assessment mechanisms. The advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology offers new perspectives and methods to address the existing issues. Firstly, the course structure is redesigned and its content optimized by integrating AI-based on actual engineering projects. Secondly, teaching strategies are adjusted scientifically, driven by AI-powered learning analytics data. Concurrently, AI-generated adaptive learning pathways provide precise learning resources, enabling personalized instruction. Finally, AI-driven intelligent formative assessment facilitates dynamic competency evaluation and instructional feedback. The research findings indicate that the AI-enabled intelligent teaching approach for General Valve Materials provides an effective pathway for constructing an intelligent engineering education system. It holds significant practical value for cultivating high-quality skilled talent that meets the demands of modern industrial development.
The Construction of the Courses-based Ideological and Political Education for Postgraduate in Business Administration
The Ideological and political education (IPE) integrated into the curriculum serves as a vital approach for universities to fulfill the fundamental task of “fostering virtue through education”, making it indispensable for the training of graduate students in business administration. Based on interviews with faculty and students at University AC, this paper analyzes the current status of IPE construction in core business administration courses and identifies existing challenges regarding faculty competence, curriculum content, and pedagogical methods. In light of these findings, the paper proposes that graduate business education should: construct teaching content grounded in the Chinese context; implement pedagogical methods centered on critical inquiry; cultivate faculty with strong ideological and political literacy; and strengthen process management of IPE implementation. These measures are essential to truly realize the goal of “fostering virtue through education”.
Ideological and Political Education in Curriculum
Business Administration Professional Courses
Research on the Construction Logic and Practical Path of the Quality Curriculum System for Maritime Majors in Higher Vocational Colleges from the Perspective of "Dual Integration-Driven"
Aiming at the practical dilemmas of insufficient cultural infiltration and disjointed literacy cultivation in the construction of quality curriculum systems for maritime majors in higher vocational colleges, this study takes the dual integration of maritime culture and professional literacy as the core research perspective. By adopting the research methods of literature review, case analysis and field investigation, it systematically combs the theoretical connotation and educational value of dual integration-oriented education, conducts an in-depth analysis of the internal construction logic of the quality curriculum system, and explores operable practical implementation paths. The research results show that the construction of the dual integration-driven quality curriculum system must be rooted in the industrial characteristics and post demands of the maritime field, and can be realized through the progressive logical chain of core element identification → dual integration logical coupling → three-dimensional framework construction. The three-dimensional practical path of scenario-based implantation + school-enterprise collaborative education + data-driven dynamic optimization constructed in this study can effectively improve the industry adaptability of maritime talent cultivation and the systematisms of coordinated education between culture and literacy. This research provides theoretical support and practical paradigms for the high-quality reform of quality curriculum systems for maritime majors in higher vocational colleges, and also offers a reference for the integration of professional culture and literacy cultivation in vocational education.
Exploring Pathways for Integrating Sex Education into High School Biology and Its Practical Significance
This paper explores the necessity, theoretical foundations, and practical pathways for integrating sex education into the high school biology curriculum. By analyzing the current state of sex education domestically and internationally, the modules on sexual knowledge within the biology curriculum, and the healthy development needs of adolescents, it proposes interdisciplinary teaching strategies and evaluates their positive impact on students' scientific literacy, development of healthy behaviors, and enhancement of social adaptability. The study argues that biology, as a natural vehicle for sex education, can promote the realization of comprehensive sexuality education for adolescents in a scientific and desensitized manner.
Developing an Outcomes-Based Blended English Teaching Model for Teacher Education: Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Multimodal Learning under the Teacher Education Accreditation Framework
With the rapid development of digital technologies and the reform of higher education, innovative instructional models are increasingly needed to improve language education. Under the framework of teacher education accreditation, outcomes-based education (OBE) emphasizes the alignment of learning outcomes, teaching activities, and assessment. Meanwhile, emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and multimodal resources offer new opportunities for language learning. To address the limited integration of these approaches in existing studies, this paper proposes an outcomes-based blended English teaching model for English teacher education programs. Based on a review of relevant literature, the study develops a conceptual framework that integrates OBE principles, blended learning, AI-assisted learning, and multimodal resources. The proposed model aims to promote student-centered learning, enhance communicative competence, and support the professional development of pre-service English teachers.
Artificial Intelligence in Language Learning
Research on College English Reading Teaching Based on TRIZ Theory
Reading comprehension ability is an important reflection of college students’ overall English proficiency and is a key issue in the reform of college English teaching. In current college English reading instruction, students generally face problems such as a single reading strategy, insufficient information integration ability, and a lack of critical thinking and innovative awareness, which hinder the further improvement of reading comprehension skills. Based on this, the present study introduces TRIZ theory, a systematic innovation problem-solving method, and apply it to college English reading teaching practice. The study, conducted over one academic year with sophomore non-English major students at Lyuliang University, utilizes contradiction analysis, the segmentation principle, and the ideal final result principle to guide students in optimizing their reading strategies. The results show that the TRIZ-based reading teaching model helps students effectively tackle complex texts, improving their reading comprehension, critical thinking skills, and learning initiative. It has practical value and potential for broader application in the reform of college English reading teaching in local universities.
Content Reconstruction, School-Enterprise Joint Teaching, Digital Intelligence and Internationalization: Case of Introduction to Tourism
As a foundational course for the Tourism Management major, Introduction to Tourism undertakes the important tasks of disciplinary introduction and theoretical enlightenment. However, in the teaching process, the course faces numerous challenges: it must adapt to the rapid iteration of industry development, while also addressing students' cognitive differences and constraints in teaching resources. Based on summarizing the teaching difficulties of Introduction to Tourism, this paper proposes a curriculum reconstruction pathway of “digital-intelligence empowerment + internationalization”. By introducing English textbooks, constructing knowledge graphs and AI teaching assistants, and deeply integrating the “school-enterprise collaboration” situational teaching model, the innovative model explored in this study not only improves learners' practical abilities, but also promotes the active dissemination and discourse power construction of China’s tourism education in the international arena.