A Novel Integrated Teaching, Learning and Practicing Mode for Navigation and Control Curriculum

Abstract

With the rapid advancements of various information technologies in recent years, many new forms of e-learning schemes have emerged. Due to the various issues with such e-learning schemes, however, the commonly adopted teaching method is still the traditional face-to-face classroom in practice. In such a teaching mode, the three key elements of all teaching modes, i.e., theory, experiment, and practicing, are separate and independent of each other, which largely degrades the learning efficiency. To address such a practical issue, based on the objectives of professional personnel training for navigation and control, this paper presents a curriculum teaching model that integrates the three learning key elements together. Specifically, this paper shows the architecture of the curriculum construction mode first, and then presents the composition and function of the student dimension, teacher platform dimension, laboratory server dimension and laboratory equipment dimension in the navigation and control course group, respectively. Finally, with the course of “principle of inertial sensor” as a case study, this paper introduces the teaching process of using the teaching mode, which integrates the three key teaching elements together in the course. The practical teaching results show that this proposed teaching mode could not only make the teaching process of engineering courses intuitive and easy to understand, but also enable students to participate in the theorical, experimental, practical teaching and learning process throughout the presented mode. This mode could largely enhance both students’ learning enthusiasm and the efficiency.