Exploration and Practice of Innovation Education for Young College

Students

Yang Jian and Cong Wenqi

Anhui University of Technology, Ma’anshan, 243002, China

Keywords: College, Innovation Education, Exploration, Practice.

Abstract: After years’ experience inheritance and valuable practices, China’s college education has become relatively

stable. However, immutable college education cannot adapt to social requirement of students’

characteristics and personalization. The relevant discoveries and practices are imperative. On that basis,

neither the important role of practice nor feasible study of innovation should be ignored. Therefore, further

discoveries of cooperation between teachers and students, which are democratic and advanced, should be

encouraged to improve the quality of China’s college education.

1 INTRODUCTION

With the thriving of college education, more reforms

of vigor and competitive awareness appear. Many

colleges, students and faculties try innovations on

school features or advanced education philosophy.

Thus, college education has flourished. The eager

aspirations for reform are greatly associated with

practical problems and social remarks. Due to the

changing world and shortcomings of college work,

exploration on innovation education and practical

work has been keeping pace with the times.

2 SITUATION OF INNOVATION

EDUCATION IN YOUNG

COLLEGE STUDENTS

2.1 Over-impetuousness in Innovation

Education

Generally, faculties, students, parents and employer

are concerned about college education innovation.

Education will directly influence students’ attitudes

on academics and work, minds, life and values. Most

graduates that show excellent professional skills

benefit from innovative activities. Consequently,

innovation education not only concerns colleges and

faculties, but also greatly matters quality of China’s

talents cultivation. Therefore, more education

concepts, modes and practical methods of higher

quality and level should be introduced and applied to

college students’ training and education nowadays.

Thus, most college faculties or groups are required

to regularly or quantitatively make teaching plans

and students training programs about innovation.

Therefore, they will satisfy college demands in the

field. Besides, some teachers regard this as index, so

they obtain title evaluation qualification or salary

raise. Apparently, huge amounts of students’

education innovation appear in colleges every year,

and the field is flourishing and hundred schools of

thought contend. However, people should know that

pass and shoddy phenomenon exist in the huge

amounts of creative fruits. The flourishing numbers

can not reflect the truth of China’s college

education. Meanwhile, circumstances such as ‘new

bottles with old wine’ still exist in the great numbers

of education plans. Many same innovations will not

push educational field, forming bubbles conversely.

Thus, great numbers of faculties and students will be

overly optimistic and give unrealistic remarks on

educational and academic fields. Furthermore,

quality of teaching, learning state and career

planning will be influenced.

2.2 Lack of Practical Evidence of

Educational Innovation Mode

Educational innovation is a theory that requires

substantial practices for accurate evaluations and

proof. Combined with students groups, class

education, talents cultivation and complete

explanation are obtained. As a new thing, true and

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Exploration and Practice of Innovation Education for Young College Students.

DOI: 10.5220/0006021401710174

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subjective remarks will be made on its advantages

and disadvantages. Meanwhile, researchers of

teaching fruits should have the right attitudes

towards exploration in educational with professional

qualities. Besides, they should view problems and

shortcomings properly. Thus, right values lead to

high level of teaching methods and skills.

Nowadays, most of college innovations remain

theoretical. Too few are tested in practice.

Considering the cost, complex procedures and some

uncertainties, most people always have the chance to

escape or cut down practices. Thus, it results in

severe consequences. Theoretical values of the mode

will have great discounts and all the ‘cutting

corners’ will not be economic or worthwhile. In fact,

both faculties and students benefit from various

forms of practices, especially in the innovation with

supporting classical theories and advanced factors as

the goal. In the process, students receive relatively

new and flexible teaching and different knowledge

structures. Meanwhile, faculties try new minds to

have academic collision and promotion with

students. Fruits of students’ education require

teachers’ practices. Thus, it will materialize the

abstract theories and ensure expected good results.

2.3 Students’ Low Fitness in Education

Innovation Activities

Nowadays, professional faculties operate and control

innovation activities. Considering relatively high

academic levels and professional qualities,

subjective and emotional factors influence direction

and realization of educational innovation. Therefore,

researches and communications should not be

restricted to faculties and colleges. Emphasis should

be paid to students in exploration. People should pay

more attention to students’ acceptation, cooperation

and feedbacks. Nowadays, modes and fruits of

students’ innovation are rarely seen in colleges.

Even fewer students know them. Therefore, people

cannot stop wandering where the innovational

discoveries and practices that should be applied to

teenage groups go. Meanwhile, it is unknown

whether more academic fruits remain in papers and

journals. Apart from the inactivity of teachers and

colleges, it is also a big problem that students do not

cooperate with and care about teaching adjustments.

Thus, it eliminates virtuous development and self-

promotion of college teaching. For example, the hot

‘reversing classes’ in recent years demands that

students exchange roles with teachers. Thus, it

contributes to the interaction by confusing their

roles. However, students do not like it in some of

China’s colleges. The main reason is that class

atmosphere is so serious that teachers can not deal

with class progress and students’ psychology easily.

Therefore, students cannot be motivated

substantially and have difficulty in identity

reversing. Besides, some college students dare not to

take the floor. All the above reasons make it difficult

to smoothly promote advanced and open teaching in

China’s colleges.

3 DISCOVERIES AND

PRACTICES ON INNOVATION

EDUCATION MODE

3.1 Students’ Education Innovation

Mode Requiring Standing on Solid

Ground

The key of innovation lies in class practices. Empty

talks never replace teaching activities. Meanwhile,

they cannot make the most accurate assessment on

students’ feedback, advantages and shortcomings of

education or improvement. Therefore, teaching

evaluation asks people to abandon procedural

comprehension and bad habits. People should seek

truth and never easily trust effects proclaimed by

educational mode or define new teaching methods.

Furthermore, on the basis of practices, unrealistic

modes and theories require instant and serious

treatments. Thus, strict and serious attitudes are

formed and college faculties’ professional values are

rebuilt. For example, in Renmin University of

China, faculties communicate with student groups

weekly and conduct academic evaluation. In the

process, not only students are influenced by what

they see or hear, but also extensive academic games

are conducted with teachers. Thus, it contributes to

common progress. They also provide firsthand

information to teachers on new methods and forms.

Therefore, meaningful adjustments are made to

teaching methods to help college and faculties. In

conclusion, this not only demonstrates teaching

direction and plan to students most directly, but also

helps faculties ground in a full practice of teaching.

Thus, feasibility of education innovation and plan is

greatly improved. Broad-range innovation also

becomes certain method or action. Educational fruits

have been transformed into wealth that benefits

students.

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3.2 Necessary Practices for

Educational Innovation

Theoretical teaching innovation can never be

efficient or excellent. Only by turning theories into

realities can people fully understand advantages,

characteristics and predicted outcome. Firstly,

source of educational innovation needs huge

amounts of practical experience as the solid

foundation. In college, there are flexible educational

forms. Considering the visionary and creative

characteristics of college students, data collection of

certain scale should be done before educational

research. Detailed investigation includes students’

education, course acceptance, completion of college

programs and personal development after

graduation. After comparing them with original

resources, reliable reference data will be obtained.

Meanwhile, excellent foundation will be set for

independent research and development of

educational exploration.

Secondly, all forms of practices are essential in

research. They provide plan with adjustment

direction, problems prediction and comparisons of

real outcome. Thus, teaching is perfected and

promoted to ensure high quality and feasibility.

Available practices include short-term plans, which

let some students accept innovation education for

some time and record details. Meanwhile, it needs

innovation investigations from various channels into

different majors, grades, students of all levels,

teachers and mentors from the same major. The

different forms of teaching evaluation are meant to

get rid of mistakes resulting from incidental

behaviors, personal factors and incomplete

information. Thus, it retains and protects excellent

original mode.

3.3 Cooperation between Faculties and

Students Should Have Innovation

Characteristics

Teaching and studying needs cooperation between

faculties and students. Thus, it promotes teaching

purposes. On one hand, harmonious relationship

between faculties and students creates innovation

and development of teaching mode. On the other

hand, it demonstrates fine relationship of

democracy, equality and friendship when discussing

academics. Thus, it contributes to mind

emancipation and thinking divergence. Teachers

cannot deny that students are wise and have new

ideas. Therefore, they are more likely to inspire

academic resonance and creative passion. Thus,

academic discussion will break traditional thinking

and restraints of authority theory with more

experiences. In college with dense academic

atmosphere and shared resources, faculties should be

closer to students. They will not have ideas until

they help students cut the cords. Therefore, they will

remain key position in educational innovation. Also,

it helps them contact, inquire and communicate with

students more. Meanwhile, colleges should give

ideological education to students in daily life and

help them actively participate in innovational

activities. Thus, it enhances the fine cooperation and

common progress. Besides, the democratic and free

teaching of the west can be introduced. Traditional

classes can be replaced by outdoor discoveries,

student-centered and future ones. Therefore, colleges

will be the battlefield of teaching innovation.

Meanwhile, advanced teaching trends will be

combined with high quality talent education. Thus,

we attach great importance to the

internationalization and advancement of China’s

education form and concept.

4 CONCLUSION

As the birthplace of great numbers of academic

researches and cradle of application-oriented talents,

innovation education should be studied and

practiced to the utmost extent. Therefore, it

determines college education and talents cultivation.

It is also closely connected with the prospects of

college education. Through the emphasis on practice

and connection of relationship between teachers and

students, education innovation will greatly push

development of college education and talents

cultivation as people expect.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The work is funded by Revival Plan for Higher

Education in Anhui Province and Promoting Core

Values of Famous Teachers Workshop Instructors

Special Fund of 2014(2014FDYMSGZS006).

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