聚焦未來技能，寧波諾丁漢大學英籍教師的創(chuàng)新畢業(yè)設計課程獲評省一流

Please scroll down for the English version -Innovation and co-creation lead UNNC module to be recognised as ‘first class’ at provincial level.

不久前，寧波諾丁漢大學馬修·派克（Matthew Pike）作為課程負責人教授的《計算機科學畢業(yè)設計》被認定成為浙江省省級高校一流本科課程。

憑借面向未來的教學模式與“以學生為中心”的教學理念，這幾年，馬修在寧波諾丁漢大學計算機科學系的學生中頗受歡迎和好評。

將課程與生活相結合，

培養(yǎng)適應未來所需技能

初見，他站在講臺上談笑風生，笑起來時眉眼彎彎，給人如沐春風的感覺。他就是馬修·派克，一位明明可以“靠臉吃飯”，卻偏要用實力圈粉的英國帥小伙。

馬修于2018年9月加入寧波諾丁漢大學，擔任計算機科學助理教授，至今已任教超過十余門課程。他的主要研究興趣集中在人機交互，即模擬現(xiàn)實環(huán)境中的人為表現(xiàn)。他曾在華為工作過，是英國高等教育研究院的研究員。

“計算機科學是一個快速發(fā)展的領域，新技術范式和技術方法不斷被引入。在這種環(huán)境下，僅提供‘知識’不會使學生具備適應和未來發(fā)展所需的技能�！�

馬修的教學理念本質上是建構主義，強調學習者的主動性。馬修認為，僅逐字逐句地口授知識是淺層次的，讓學生從經(jīng)驗中去理解和掌握知識，則是更深層次的。

因此，他非常強調在課堂上將課程材料與學生現(xiàn)有經(jīng)驗聯(lián)系起來，通過使用實際的、日常的例子解釋理論概念，促進學生深度理解與思考，應對未來不斷產生的新技術和新業(yè)態(tài)。

有學生記得，在上《數(shù)據(jù)庫導論》這門課時，馬修給出了一個在線商店的情景案例，同學們則扮演顧客和商店的店員。一家商店在它數(shù)據(jù)庫的多個表格中保存了一位長期客戶的家庭地址。當使用非標準化數(shù)據(jù)庫時，一旦這位客戶的家庭地址改變，這個數(shù)據(jù)沒辦法在整個數(shù)據(jù)庫里做出更新，商品可能就送到了錯誤的地址。隨后，同學們重演了一遍在標準化的數(shù)據(jù)庫中的情況——一切數(shù)據(jù)都會保持實時更新，商品可以配送到正確的地址中。

“這樣一來，我們就很好地理解了數(shù)據(jù)庫規(guī)范化的重要性，并提高數(shù)據(jù)庫中整體數(shù)據(jù)的完整性�！边@位同學說。

設計匿名反饋系統(tǒng)，

提升教學滿意度

在馬修看來，敲代碼和編寫程序有時是很枯燥的。如何保障同學們的學習效率，而不是在反復的錯誤指令中喪失興趣，是對課堂教學提出的一大挑戰(zhàn)。

他的解決方案是把學生作為一個學習主體，放在教學的中心。他想了很多辦法——比如，通過隨堂小測直觀快速地體現(xiàn)學生的課堂學習成果；設計一個匿名反饋系統(tǒng)，讓學生可以大膽地提出他們的意見。針對同學們給出的反饋，馬修也會認真反思并不斷改進自己的教學方法。

正是因為有了這種高度透明、交互式的溝通渠道，學生們對馬修的教學滿意度越來越高，他覺得自己的教學水平也在這個過程中得到了很大程度的提高。

計算機科學大三學生楊笑迎就表示，馬修是她最喜歡的老師之一，備課充分、教材詳細，解答學生問題時更是有十足的耐心。

“馬修上課的時候很可愛，有時候為了監(jiān)督同學們上課有沒有走神，他會故意講錯，看同學們有沒有認真聽講。在大課上，他還會走到后面嚇唬那些開小差的同學們。但是說實話，在馬修的課上很難開小差，干貨很足。加上他說一口標準的英語，自帶英式幽默。在他的課上，同學們都是百**的全神貫注�！�

此次獲評浙江省省級高校一流創(chuàng)新課程的《計算機科學畢業(yè)設計》，馬修就是課程負責人。

據(jù)他介紹，這門課的核心是通過機制和技術創(chuàng)新實現(xiàn)學生與導師的無障礙溝通，使同學們能做出優(yōu)秀的畢業(yè)設計。讓他非常驕傲的是，通過對課程的不斷打磨，學生畢業(yè)設計的質量不斷提高，不少畢業(yè)設計已經(jīng)達到了優(yōu)秀科研成果的水準。

教學之余，馬修是個運動達人

Innovation and co-creation lead UNNC module to be recognised as ‘first class’ at provincial level

The Final Year dissertation module convened by Dr Matthew Pike, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), has recently been recognised as a “first class” module course in Zhejiang Province. Because of his student-centred teaching philosophy and future-facing teaching style, Dr Pike has gained considerable popularity among the students.

Dr Pike joined UNNC in September 2018, and his principal research interests centre around human-computer interaction, which is the simulation of human performance in real environments. In addition to this, he is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is responsible for the UK Professional Standards Framework.

“Computer science is a rapidly evolving field, with new technology paradigms and technological approaches being introduced at a continuous rate. In this environment, delivering 'knowledge' alone, will not equip students with the skills necessary to adapt and evolve to future developments,” Dr Pike introduces.

Dr Pike’s teaching philosophy is essentially constructivism, which views learning as the process where learners generate meaning and construct understanding based on their previous knowledge and experience. He places a strong emphasis on linking course material to students’ existing experiences and promotes this practice by explaining theoretical concepts using practical, everyday examples to develop students’ capabilities to deal with the changing industry environment in the future.

In order to keep students interested and productive during class, Dr Pike has devised an approach that places students at its centre and employed a number of techniques. For example, he has implemented in-class quizzes that reflect students’ learning outcomes, and has even championed a continual feedback system in all of the modules he convenes to collect students' anonymous feedback on a recurring basis, which enabled him to improve his teaching methods continuously.It is because of such highly transparent and interactive communication channels that students became increasingly satisfied with Dr Pike’s teaching.

Xiaoying Yang, a Year Three student of Computer Sciences at UNNC, said that Dr Pike is one of her favourite lecturers as he is fully prepared for each lesson, offers a comprehensive set of teaching materials, and is patient in explaining answers to students’ questions. “He is very funny. Sometimes he will make little mistakes on purpose to check if we are listening carefully. He speaks very beautiful British English with typical British humour, so it isn’t difficult at all for us to pay attention in his classes.”

The key principle behind this recently recognised provincial first-class module is to allow students to create their own success by promoting open and free communication between students and supervisors through classroom practices and technological innovation, which ensures an equal relationship between student and teacher. Thanks to this continuous reviewing of the module, many graduation projects have been graded as “outstanding research achievements”.

文字來源 | Fay Ma, Lily Su

徐�，�，Elena Yang

圖片來源 |張欣然，蘇欣然，F(xiàn)oSE

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