Joint Construction of Virtual Teaching and Research Section Across Universities:Creating a New Model for Collaborative Teaching and Research

The creation and application of massive open online courses,online and offline blended courses,and AI-empowered courses drive the reform in higher education.In this context,the establishment of grassroots teaching organisations should be increasingly promoted.By leading more schools and teachers to more efficiently develop courses and effectively implement teaching reforms through cross-regional and cross-university grassroots teaching organisations,virtual teaching and research section(VTRS)has emerged as a new means to explore the creation of such organisations in the“Internet+”era.This paper introduces the background of the VTRS proposal,analyses the connotations of three types of VTRS,and explains seven characteristics of VTRS.Next,it proposes a VTRS construction framework that involves team building,platform construction,mechanism construction,and content construction.Finally,using computational thinking virtual teaching and research section as an example,this paper introduces the construction cases and methods for VTRS.As a new model of collaborative teaching and research,VTRS will improve teaching skills and research engagements of university teachers and will enhance teaching management and professional development in universities.

Operating a Virtual Teaching and Research Section as an Open-Source Community:Practice and Experience

The teaching and research section is the fundamental organizational unit for teaching and research in a university,and the virtual teaching and research section(VTRS)is crucial for the exploration of the digital transformation of new basic teaching organization construction in the information age.However,this new type of organization transcends institutional and spatial boundaries,and motivating participants and sustaining their engagement are key challenges in VTRS implementation.The VTRS for database courses(VTRS-DB)proposes an open community-based operating model,founded on the core concepts of openness,dedication,competition,and orderliness.It establishes a hierarchical organizational structure and working group operation mechanism.After two years of practical exploration,a course knowledge graph and a wealth of teaching experiment cases have been developed.A series of distinctive teaching and research methods,such as collaborative course preparation,have been implemented,and the domestic database in the classroom brand activity has been established.The VTRS-DB has incubated several national and provincial level first-class courses and has won national and provincial level teaching achievement awards,achieving significant results.