The 2024 World Digital Education Conference was held in Shanghai, and more than 800 domestic and foreign delegates discussed the proposition of "where education is going" and the world's concern of the times. In the context of the rapid iteration of artificial intelligence technology, it is the historical mission of higher education to accelerate the cultivation of scientific and technological innovation talents with forward-looking and cross-cutting thinking and seize the opportunities of scientific and technological development. The College of Future Technology is a powerful practice of the overall planning of the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, the strategy of strengthening the country with talents and the strategy of innovation-driven development, and it is also a strategic measure to seize the opportunities of future scientific and technological development and form a strategic measure to lead the global future technological innovation and industrial development pattern. There is a long way to go in how to make the College of Future Technology truly become a teaching and scientific research highland that leads future scientific and technological innovation and effectively cultivates talents, and accelerates the transformation and upgrading from "Made in China" to "Created in China".
Optimize access conditions, and select the best of the best for the future. First, it is necessary to strictly select the future technical college. In accordance with the principles of "mature one, start one", "zoning demonstration, pilot first, and batch start", the future technical college will be scientifically cultivated and constructed, and the acceptance will be strictly controlled. Second, it is necessary to diversify and formulate the enrollment standards of future technical colleges. The enrollment system is the gatekeeper of talent training, and the established Future Technology College mainly adopts the methods of "college entrance examination + summer camp selection", "college entrance examination + secondary selection in the school" and "pre-assessment" to carry out the selection work, integrating professional ability assessment and innovative quality test, aiming to select outstanding students with real professional quality and comprehensive quality, forward-looking vision and subversive thinking. Third, it is necessary to improve the circulation mechanism of dynamic outflow and secondary selection, give students full opportunities to choose, and truly select future technical talents with new engineering expertise and innovation potential and interest in exploring future technologies.
Adhere to cross-integration, infinite possibilities lead to the future. On the one hand, it is necessary to clarify the concept of interdisciplinary talent training and break through the shackles of traditional disciplines. It is necessary not only to promote the combination of science and engineering, the intersection of engineering and engineering, the penetration of engineering and culture, and the integration of medicine and engineering, but also to develop the integration and intersection of arts and sciences, and to integrate the content of disciplines, integrate the advantages of disciplines, reconstruct the concept of disciplines, and improve the collaborative innovation system of disciplines. On the other hand, we should innovate the interdisciplinary organizational system and explore the interdisciplinary talent training model. It is necessary to break through the original organizational structure, carry out interdisciplinary planning and layout with a new departmental system, and optimize the allocation of discipline resources and teachers. The training method implements the joint training method of the interdisciplinary tutor group that pays equal attention to knowledge and practice, and the training program realizes the whole-process training mechanism of "undergraduate, master's and doctoral", and in the process of training and evaluation, it is necessary to surpass the traditional evaluation methods such as examination results and first-class results, and establish an evaluation orientation that points to the future scientific research ability.
The curriculum is optimized and reconstructed to stimulate potential and create the future. It is necessary to optimize and reconstruct the basic courses, professional core courses and practical education courses, make up for the shortcomings of interdisciplinary knowledge for students of different foundations and majors, and help them establish systematic interdisciplinary thinking, cultivate broad horizons and innovative thinking, and enhance the ability to transform scientific and technological achievements. The high-standard construction of the curriculum of the Future Technology College should be explored and innovated on the basis of the existing modular and project-based course construction, so as to form a modular curriculum system with the project as the chain, and improve the project-led and modular personalized future technical talent training system. In the process of course teaching, attention should be paid to cultivating students' practical ability, taking scientific research projects as the center and being problem-oriented, emphasizing students' own practical operations, substituting theoretical explanations into the solution of practical problems, guiding students to discover, analyze, and solve real problems from project practice, so as to improve the competency of future scientific and technological talents.
Synergy between politics, research and industry, and the greatest joint efforts to win the future. First, religion and state work hand in hand. It is necessary to deepen the comprehensive cooperation with the Institute of Future Technology, and give full play to the leading role of all-round innovation in talent training and the regulation and control of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. The second is to promote learning through research. Integrate the latest scientific research results into the classroom teaching of the Institute of Future Technology to stimulate students' innovative thinking;Encourage students to participate in high-quality scientific research collaborations, exercise their scientific research abilities in high-intensity scientific research practice, and systematically understand possible future research fieldsThe school and the institute jointly build a college of science and education integration, realize the strong alliance and complementary advantages of the school, promote technological innovation, solve the "stuck neck" problem, strengthen key technology research, and accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. The third is the integration of education and industry. Implement the dual tutor system to realize the multi-faceted connection of "academic tutor + practical tutor" and "on-campus tutor + off-campus tutor", and jointly help the cultivation of new engineering professionals.
Author: Ba Ying is a doctoral student at the School of Marxism, Dalian University of Technology