Research on enhancing non-major students' abilities based on constructivism

Abstract

Improving students' abilities of computational thinking and professional problems solving is an urgent issue for non-major students who live in the information age. This paper first analyzes the reasons of the above issue from time gap and guide absence. Constructivism learning theory is then introduced as the guiding principle, and its four core characteristics are elaborated by the computer innovative practice base of East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST). Furthermore, the project based collaborative learning process is illustrated step by step to solve the existed problem. In the end, four years' experimental result shows the method is effective in improving students' abilities of analyzing professional problems, solving professional problem and cultivating computational thinking.