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Deepening Practice and Innovation, Empowering Intelligent Control: A Teaching Innovation and Practice Report on the Programmable Logic Controller Course

Author(s)

Si Liu

Affiliation(s)

Hankou University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Abstract

The Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), a key carrier of intelligent manufacturing technology, is one of the most important courses that bridges theory and practice in engineering fields of mechanical engineering and intelligent manufacturing. The challenges facing current course teaching are noticeable such as archaic teaching philosophies, lack of resource support, superficial theory/practice integration, and monolithic evaluation, which lead to underdevelopment of the practical capability and innovative thinking and leaves students unable to meet the needs of Industry 4.0 development. Based on the talent development orientation of engineering education, this course follows a teaching philosophy of student-centered learning and OBE-directed teaching and creatively develops a blended teaching framework of one competition as the driver, three lines running through, and three steps in progression. By redesigning the teaching material of the triadic concept of knowledge-project-ideology, by incorporating inquiry-based and digital teaching methods and developing an all-encompassing multi-dimensional evaluation system, the course achieves a comprehensive transformation from knowledge transmission to competence development and quality shaping. In the wake of the reform, the applied and innovative skills of students have significantly improved, and the quality of teaching has been widely recognized.

Keywords

Programmable Logic Controller; OBE; Blended Teaching; Multi-Dimensional Assessment; Transformation

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