Mixed Teaching Pattern Analysis of Engineering Mechanics in the Information Age

Education Research Frontier December 2015, Volume 5, Issue 4, PP.105-108

Mixed Teaching Pattern Analysis of Engineering Mechanics in the Information Age Yanxia Wang School of transportation and vehicle engineering/Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, China †

Email: wangyx200@163.com.

Abstract That “Mixed Teaching Pattern Analysis” is the change and inheritance of college under current information background and has a strong feasibility and necessity. This essay begins with the necessity and feasibility of Mixed Teaching Pattern of engineering mechanics, and then it analyzes some problems and solutions we may meet in the Mixed Teaching Pattern. The article suggests that teachers in universities and colleges should face up to this challenge, update the education teaching ideas, promote the ability of instructional technology, complete teaching environment under the information age, adopt our good points and avoid its shortcomings and optimize teaching method persistently.

Keywords: Information Technology; Mixed Teaching Pattern; Engineering Mechanics; Classroom Teaching; Online Educate

1 INTRODUCTION That the change and innovate of information technology brings huge impact and challenge to modern college teaching. College teachers ought to fully consider the actual characteristics of technology information and the physical truth of college teaching and make his teaching experience and skills blend in the information technology in the process of the informationization teaching exploration. For assuring completing the design process of the informationization teaching and high efficiency scientifically and reasonably[1-3].As a college teacher, what accommodation and changes should we do? I'll talk about some experiences combined with my own situation of teaching engineering mechanics in this information era of Mixed Teaching Pattern.

2 NECESSITY AND FEASIBILITY ENGINEERING MECHANICS

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The mixed teaching pattern is the model of combining teachers' "online education" "Classroom Teaching" with students' "internet learning" "classroom learning". This model is very necessary and realistic.

2.1 The Necessity of the Mixed Teaching Pattern of Engineering Mechanics Modern college students and classes are different from that before the 21st century. These students grow up with digital and "Skip class network" appears in our classroom. It impacts that we teachers are not keep pace with the times if we still use traditional teaching method. And it's impossible producing talents that modern society needs [4].

At the same time, engineering mechanics lays stress on speculative knowledge and its content is rich, abstract and boring. So students feel difficult generally. What's more, the engineering mechanics' class hour is constant compression. New teaching methods are introduced into our classroom when adopt Mixed Teaching Pattern. From engineering virtual model to CAI multimedia teaching software and the application of animation technology, then some courses invisible before are vivid expressed. It can strengthen the students' understanding of abstract concepts and principles, improve the students' learning interest and ensure the good teaching effect. At the same time, learning on line can cultivate students' autonomous learning and inspire the enthusiasm of students' learning. That selfdirected learning is not only the characteristic of college students' learning, but also is university education concept of education. For the students to attend after work to continue to study and for further study to lay the foundation.

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2.2 The Feasibility of the Mixed Teaching Pattern of Engineering Mechanics At present, we have to carry out the mixed teaching conditions. A series of modern visual fields of development of information technology come into our curriculum[5,6],and network teaching platform is also established in the campus web site. Our university has to carry out the "mixed teaching mode" of hardware conditions. Mechanics teaching and research section of all teachers in our school, committed to the mechanics course teaching, teaching reform many years, has accumulated rich experience in teaching reform. Many rich teaching experiences of teaching masters and Dr Young master modern information technology in our teaching team, so we have qualifications to carry out the "mixed teaching pattern" of software.

3 THE CONSTITUTION OF MIXED TEACHING PATTERN IN INFORMATION AGE That College's Mixed Teaching Pattern in information age is combined the classroom teaching activities with the network teaching activities. This mixed teaching model can be summed up as "two lines and one point". That "two line" is network teaching and learning and classroom teaching and learning; that "one point" is teachers and students teaching activities, which is the essences of two lines. Their relationships are shown in figure 1.

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Classroom teaching and learning The teaching and learning of the teachers and students Teaching and learning of the network

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FIGURE 1.COMPOSITION DIAGRAM OF MIXED TEACHING PATTERN

4 ISSUES WORTHY OF FURTHER DISCUSSION That "Mixed teaching pattern" is the college teaching mode of inheritance and updates, which not only avoid the disadvantages of the traditional teaching mode, but also connect to the information teaching. The integration of the two is an important part of the college teaching activities which we further forward to the informationization. But some problems still should be concerned:

4.1 "Classroom teaching and Learning" and "Teaching and Learning of the Network to Learn" Which is the Main, Which is the Assistant?

The purpose of learning engineering mechanics is to make the students establish the necessary engineering mechanics quality and improve students' ability to analyze and solve practical engineering problems, so that students can further obtain mechanics knowledge and provide theoretical basis for students to use scientific thinking mode in practical engineering to solve the problems encountered. These objectives must be implemented through the training - 106 www.erfrontier.org

and strengthening in the real classroom. Therefore, we should take the "teaching and learning in the classroom" as the main "teaching and learning of the Internet" as a supplement. We should not only pursue the function of information technology, and neglect the needs of the objective reality.

4.2 How to Control the Students' Network Learning?

How to judge the students' learning situation in the case of students don't enter the classroom reality but only Click, browse, discussion and communication on the network? Because there are a lot of students may just to complete the teacher's task and very casually online learning activities. What's more, some students playing games or watching the film and television while completing learning tasks on network. In my opinion, teachers should strengthen the network teaching assessment, strengthen monitoring.

4.3 How to Choose and Use Information Technology in the Teaching?

The ultimate goal of any Combination of technology and teaching activities is realizing the teaching. Without doubt the choice and use of information technology should also follow the purpose of this. Teachers should be fully aware of the main body position of teachers and students in teaching class in the process of teaching activities. The information technology should be used as a medium of communication between students and teachers, make full use of the interactive performance of multimedia information technology, construct a good communication platform, provide help for students to solve difficult problems, and play the best teaching effect.

At the same time, the information technology used in the teaching process also needs to be comprehensively evaluated from different perspectives, and finally decides whether to adopt the new teaching technology along with the information technology renewal cycle. Teachers should fully aware of the important role that information technology can play as a medium of teaching, and to evaluate the performance of it. Teachers should also fully consider the important role of information technology to the students' thinking training and performance improvement. Teachers should assure that in the process of training the ability of information teaching, to fully explore the multiple functions of information technology in order to promote the teaching of information technology in the teaching activities for good results. From the perspective of the human and resource utilization, to mobilize the teaching scene vivid, lifelike, the function of the information technology should be fully used in every link of teaching.

4.4 How to Improve the Efficiency of the Mixed Teaching?

The course of engineering mechanics is getting less and less in recent years. In addition to a very few professional open 80 hours of engineering mechanics, most of the engineering mechanics course for 64 hours, or even 40 hours.

In this case, carry out network teaching, will undoubtedly make up for the short period of time. But college students' extracurricular activities are rich and colorful, all kinds of business activities, all kinds of competitions are everywhere, strongly attract college students to participate in at present. How to improve the efficiency of the mixed teaching and how to make the students learn the course in the shortest possible time? I think that the teacher should deal with the connection between the classroom teaching and the network teaching, and avoid the avoid students to repeat learning. In addition, teachers should strengthen the interaction with the students, grasp the students' learning situation at any times, and constantly adjust the rhythm of teaching.

5 CONCLUSIONS With the development of information technology, the traditional teaching mode is undergoing tremendous changes.

Multimedia, Internet and other information technology teaching methods have been gradually popularized and promoted by the campus. We should combine the traditional teaching technology and advanced information technology to form a kind of information teaching mode with the times connotation to meet the needs of teaching work in this context. Teachers should conscientiously sum up the relevant teaching experience and lessons, and then sum up a set of ways and methods to solve the problems encountered in the teaching process in the process of information teaching. So that through continuous teaching practice, we can improve the relevant information - 107 www.erfrontier.org

technology, improve the quality and level of education and form a mixed teaching model which is in line with the actual situation of education.

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AUTHORS Wang YanXia (1966.10-), woman, Master of Engineering, professor, research direction: Material mechanical properties and fatigue failure. Email: wangyx200@163.com

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