Teaching Reform of Engineering Geology for Foreign Students

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10.2991/icesem-17.2017.116How to use a DOI?

Keywords

civil engineering; foreign students; engineering geology; teaching reform

Abstract

To further improve the teaching effect of engineering geology course for overseas students of Shenyang Jianzhu University, the teachers carried out various and pertinent reforms. The reform measures include the selection of practical teaching concepts, selection of foundation and suitable teaching content, using multimedia teaching and a lot of photos, animated gifs and videos, improving the examination system focusing on comprehensive ability. The curriculum after the reform pays more attention to the combination of teaching and practice, training the students' comprehensive ability, and emphasizing the initiative of the students. Reform has been recognized by students. Class enthusiasm and academic performance has improved significantly. In the reform, we adopted the teaching method of giving priority to pictures and giving priority to students' learning, and achieved good results.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Dayong Yang
AU  - Zhiwei Xie
AU  - Yingchun You
PY  - 2017/10
DA  - 2017/10
TI  - Teaching Reform of Engineering Geology for Foreign Students
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Education Science and Economic Management (ICESEM 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 515
EP  - 518
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icesem-17.2017.116
DO  - 10.2991/icesem-17.2017.116
ID  - Yang2017/10
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