Teaching Model Application of Three Explorations with Three Problems in Universities

摘要

This paper presents a novel teaching model called three explorations with three problems (TETP) during the reform process of higher education. The essence of TETP is to divide classroom teaching process into three stages, different levels of problems are solved sequentially by self-exploration, group-cooperation exploration and class-cooperation exploration. TETP fully takes the student as the main character, puts more emphasis on the cultivation of different thinking, and guides the students to find forwardly a problem, ponder independently the one, explore cooperatively the issues, and be good at expanding a new problem from multiple perspectives. Moreover, TETP not only emphasizes the process of repeated explorations which can encourage each student to master knowledge and improve the problem-solving abilities, but also focus on each student's learning situation in each step which is used to evaluate the achievement of learning objectives. It conforms to the idea of outcome-based education (OBE) which is advocated by international engineering alliance. Therefore, TETP is the development direction of class teaching reform.