Reform and Practice of a “Three-Link, Three-Drive, Three-Community” Blended Teaching Model for the Microcontroller Course under the Background of Emerging Engineering Education

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10.2991/978-2-38476-628-4_23How to use a DOI?

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emerging engineering education; microcontroller course; blended teaching; three-link; three-drive; three-community; teaching reform

Abstract

The construction of Emerging Engineering Education (EEE) places stricter demands on engineering graduates’ practical ability, innovative thinking, and capacity for self-directed learning, and it consequently challenges the way hardware-related courses such as the microcontroller course are taught. Several difficulties had long been observed in this course: students’ individual learning needs were hard to satisfy, engineering and innovative thinking were insufficiently cultivated, and learning motivation was difficult to sustain. To tackle these problems, this paper presents a “Three-Link, Three-Drive, Three-Community” blended teaching model. The three links—theory, simulation, and practice—run through the entire teaching process and form a closed learning loop; the three drivers—project, case, and problem—activate learning through tasks at multiple levels; and the three communities—teacher–teacher research, teacher–student teaching, and student–student learning—build a diversified and interactive learning ecosystem. The model is underpinned by a three-level progressive task system, four-dimensional teaching resources, and a multi-dimensional assessment scheme, with ideological and political education integrated throughout. After two academic years of practice, grade analysis, questionnaire surveys, competition achievements, and multi-dimensional teaching evaluations all indicate that the model has effectively promoted students’ knowledge construction, competence enhancement, and character development, and has significantly improved the teaching quality of the course and students’ engineering innovation ability. The experience may serve as a reference for the teaching reform of similar hardware courses.

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AU  - Mingxia Su
AU  - Du Lin
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/30
TI  - Reform and Practice of a “Three-Link, Three-Drive, Three-Community” Blended Teaching Model for the Microcontroller Course under the Background of Emerging Engineering Education
BT  - Proceedings of the 2026 2nd International Conference on Education Research and Training Technologies (ERTT 2026)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 211
EP  - 219
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-628-4_23
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