英文摘要 |
Due to the influence of geographical and economic factors in eastern Taiwan, many cultural characteristics differ from those in metropolitan areas. As a result, students' learning attitudes, their ability to acquire skills and key resources at schools there are different from those in metropolitan areas. Innovation is the key word of the contemporary economy. Peter Drucker, the father of management, even used the phrase ''innovate or die'' to explain its importance in the future economic era. The authors are seeking how to train students to have the ability to innovate and think creatively despite their cultural backgrounds and resources differing from those in metropolitan areas, in turn obtaining the competitiveness needed for the workplace. The cultivation of students' capacities for creativity (C), innovation (I) and entrepreneurship (E) (collectively referred to as “CIE”) has become a key challenge for schools in this region. In order to cultivate students' creativity, thinking skills and workplace competitiveness, the authors have referred to the system of innovation proposed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 2015. There are limited faculty, courses and resources at technical schools in eastern Taiwan. In this organizational system, is the authors proposed embedding innovative, cross-disciplinary CIE credits into the curriculum. The originally single-discipline-oriented curriculum system was changed structurally, foundationally changing the atmosphere of the school to promote innovation with the expected outcomes of 1) boosting the students’ foundational CIE skills and expanding the disciplinary scope of each student, 2) promoting the cross-disciplinary development of innovative products to allow students to boost their workplace competitiveness, and 3) promoting the establishment of an industry-academia cooperation system to effectively link learning to the community. In addition to adopting an instructional method that is cross-disciplinary, diversified, knowledge-based, application-based and fun, the curriculum also includes related activities/competitions and encourages and actively guides students to strive for honors inside and outside of school so as to enhance their workplace competitiveness. Furthermore, the purpose of promoting innovation and entrepreneurship in this curriculum includes considerable freedom in cross-disciplinary study and helps with cross-disciplinary learning. Moreover, through related activities, such as awards won by students' projects and the promotion of the development of teachers' academic exchanges and industry-academia cooperation, in the context of teaching innovation and the environment, we can indirectly see related organizational innovation methods that have driven the shaping of the school’s unique characteristics. In addition, it is helping the development of local industries and forming a model of social responsibility for schools of higher education through inter-school exchanges and care for the local culture. As with the concept of systematic innovation diffusion described by F. Geels and R. Raven (2006), this study discusses the changes in the state of awards won by students for projects, the promotion of academic exchanges among teachers and industry-academia cooperation, and the states of innovative instruction and environmental activation after implementing the CIE curriculum. The results show that using an organizationally innovative method in establishing the curriculum has not only allowed the program to become well-established but also has had the effect of inspiring more students than expected to enter projects in international competitions or obtain opportunities to participate in discipline-specific studies. The cooperation between the school and the community not only effectively created a more innovative education method but also led to more frequent exchanges and strategic alliances among schools. Furthermore, the learning atmosphere at the school was activated, in turn producing an effect on the community. Thus, the strategy boosted innovation within the school culture and even had an influence on the local industry and economy. |