On November 30, the Ministry of Education issued the Notice on Publishing the Results of the First Batch of National First-class Undergraduate Courses. 75 courses of HIT were selected into the national first-class undergraduate courses, including 48 online first-class courses, 17 offline first-class courses, 2 mixed online and offline first-class courses, and 8 first-class virtual simulation experimental teaching courses, ranking the fourth in China.
According to the Implementation Opinions of the Ministry of Education on the Construction of First-class Undergraduate Courses and the requirements of relevant circulars, a total of 5,118 courses, which were being declared and recommended by provincial education administrative departments, education departments (bureaus) of relevant departments (units), and higher education schools under the Ministry, have been recognized by the Ministry of Education as the first batch of national first-class undergraduate courses after expert evaluation and public announcement. (These include 1,559 former 2017 and 2018 national high-quality online open courses and national virtual simulation experimental teaching projects that made significant contributions in promoting the deep integration of information technology and education teaching, especially in the large-scale online teaching implemented during the COVID-19 epidemic.) Among them, there are 1,875 online first-class courses, 1,463 offline first-class courses, 868 mixed online and offline first-class courses, 728 first-class virtual simulation experimental teaching courses, and 184 first-class social practice courses.
Harbin Institute of technology has always attached great importance to the curriculum construction, with the overall improvement of knowledge, ability and quality as the goal, taking the world-class universities as the reference. HIT has continuously improved the curriculum system integrating general education, professional education, practical innovation and personality development, and established professional cluster Teaching Committee and major professional Teaching Committee. HIT also strengthens the characteristics of talent cultivation by broadening the scope of specialty by the category cultivation, promotes the individualized development of students by the integration of undergraduate and graduate students, converts the advantages of scientific research into teaching content, promotes the integration of scientific research and teaching, general purpose and professional combination. HIT attaches great importance to strengthening the construction of school-based core courses, consolidating the foundation of mathematics and physics, and establishes 42 school-based core courses in 5 batches; HIT has enriched its quality-oriented education curriculum system with the goal of all-round development in all aspects. It has built ten modules of cultural quality-oriented education, including science, engineering, humanities and society. It has built 236 courses and introduced 367 excellent online open courses. Hit has built an innovation and entrepreneurship course system that is conducive to cultivating talents with innovation spirit, entrepreneurship awareness and innovation and entrepreneurship ability; Hit has built an innovation and entrepreneurship course system that is conducive to cultivating talents with innovation spirit, entrepreneurship awareness and innovation and entrepreneurship ability. HIT has set up a series of innovation and entrepreneurship education courses, including innovation research course, innovation experiment course, innovation and entrepreneurship course, Innovation and Entrepreneurship MOOC and lecture, with a total of 779 related courses. HIT has strengthened the in-depth integration of information technology and course teaching, invited MOOC platform lectures, organized course training, introduced technical partners, and carried out course approval. Remarkable achievements have been made in the construction of online courses, 235 of which have been built; HIT also strengthens the application of information technology, vigorously promotes the teaching mode of "MOOC+SPOCs+ Flipped Class" to guide students' independent learning, cooperative learning and inquiry learning.
In addition, the university has also introduced a series of systems such as the HIT Online Open Course Construction Application and Management Measures, HIT MOOC/SPOC Construction Specifications, HIT Hybrid Teaching Implementation Management Rules, HIT Excellence Online Open Course Recognition Measures, HIT Undergraduate Course Construction Management Measures (Temporary), etc. HIT has formulated these systems to strengthen the management and construction of various undergraduate courses.
