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Strategies for Local Universities to Promote Balanced and Excellent Development of Regional Education: A Triple Helix Analysis from China
China’s education reforms have come a long way. But quality across regions? Still uneven. A stubborn problem. This paper asks: Can local universities help? Make regional education fairer and better. We used the “Triple Helix” framework. That’s universities, industry, government working together. Policy analysis. Plus a close look at Yulin University in Shaanxi. We talked to fifteen people. The interviewees included university leaders, local officials, and school principals. Three practical approaches emerged. First, work with local businesses. Create short “micro-credential” programs. Focused. Fill specific skill gaps. Second, build a shared online platform. Push good teaching resources into rural schools. Third, set up a teacher residency model. For ongoing professional growth. The upshot: local universities can serve as anchors. But how well they do depends on handling limited resources. Also lining up everyone’s incentives. This study rethinks what local universities can do. Shrink education gaps. By the way, most interviews were done over tea – people talk more freely that way.
Copyright (c) 2026 Xiaoju Liua, Xiaoyan Ma http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Building a Smart Curriculum for Core Engineering Courses through Teacher-Student-AI Interaction: The Case of Mechanics of Materials
China’s national push for educational digitalization has made a lot of application-oriented universities rethink how they teach core engineering courses. They are trying to make these courses smarter, and that has become a big part of how they reform talent training now. Mechanics of Materials is a required course for mechanical engineering students, but teaching it well has always been hard. The theories are abstract, and they often feel cut off from real engineering work. Students come in with very different levels of preparation, and teachers just cannot give each student enough personal help in large classes. Our work is based on the provincial first-class undergraduate course at the University of Science and Technology Liaoning. We built a smart curriculum system that puts Teacher-Student-AI Interaction at the center, uses a knowledge graph as its backbone, connects everything through a course-specific AI agent, and runs on multi-dimensional evaluation. What we saw in actual teaching shows that this system helps fix old problems that traditional teaching has had for a long time. Students end up with better knowledge and stronger engineering practice skills. We think this gives other application-oriented universities a model they can use for their own foundation courses.
Copyright (c) 2026 Chuanzun Zhao, Zihan Yan http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Major Selection and Career Intentions under TCM Culture Entering Campuses—Evidence from a Questionnaire Survey
Purpose: This study aims to explore the impact of exposure to traditional Chinese medicine culture in primary and secondary schools on college students' professional choice and career intention. Method: Adopt a combination of convenient sampling and online questionnaire survey. The data is collected through the "Questionnaire Star" platform. Results: College students generally have a positive attitude towards traditional Chinese medicine. Compared with students who have not been exposed to traditional Chinese medicine culture, students who have been exposed to traditional Chinese medicine culture are significantly more affected in terms of professional choice and career intention. Conclusion: Exposure to traditional Chinese medicine culture has a significant positive impact on the academic and career choices of college students. Therefore, it is recommended to strengthen the construction of traditional Chinese medicine culture on campus, improve the curriculum system of traditional Chinese medicine, expand the communication channels of traditional Chinese medicine education, and further deepen the integration of traditional Chinese medicine culture and primary and secondary education.
Copyright (c) 2026 Zhengying Wu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
An Empirical Study on the Influencing Factors of Chinese Language Teaching Efficacy Among Primary School Teachers
Based on survey data from 160 primary school Chinese language teachers in Yunnan Province, this study investigated the factors influencing their teaching efficacy. The Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES) and a self-designed questionnaire were used for data collection, followed by statistical analyses including one-way ANOVA, independent-samples t-tests, and exploratory factor analysis. The results showed significant variation in teachers’ efficacy scores. Demographic factors such as age and years of teaching experience had a significant impact on teaching efficacy, whereas gender and professional title did not. Among personal factors, the ability to analyze teaching materials, professional identity, and teacher-student communication skills were significantly associated with teaching efficacy. Regarding external factors, teachers’ recognition of the fairness and scientificity of the evaluation system positively influenced their teaching efficacy. Accordingly, the study recommends enhancing teaching efficacy through coordinated efforts at the individual teacher, school management, and policy-making levels.
Copyright (c) 2026 Yinting Zhao, Qiumei Yu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
A Syntactic Analysis of the “X de” Construction: A Study of Word Class Licensing Mechanisms from the Perspective of Cognitive Grammar
The "X de" construction is a typical nominal de-construction in Modern Chinese. Nouns, verbs, and adjectives—by virtue of their respective conceptual natures as entities, processes, and properties—can provide a stable categorization base for the de-construction, thus forming legitimate referential expressions. In contrast, numerals, as pure quantity operators, and classifiers, as dependent bounding/landmark units, both lack independent conceptual autonomy and therefore cannot serve as X. This distributional difference reflects a deep selectional restriction imposed by the "X de" construction on the conceptual essence of word classes. It can be given a unified explanation in terms of the correspondence between syntactic well-formedness and conceptual autonomy.
Copyright (c) 2026 Wang Yuzhen http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Integrating Beijing’s Cultural Resources into International Chinese Language Education: Multidimensional Values, Practical Dilemmas and Improvement Paths
Boasting profound heritage and diverse forms, Beijing’s cultural resources constitute vital teaching materials for international Chinese education. This paper systematically explores four dimensions: multidimensional values, integration models, practical hurdles and optimization strategies. Beijing’s culture features unique merits in urban positioning, cross-cultural communication and learners’ communicative competence cultivation. Its integration spans textbooks, classroom instruction, offline experience and AI application, yet problems persist: unfocused textbook content, rigid teaching modes, insufficient local support and disjointed in-class-out-of-class activities, plus superficial AI adoption. Accordingly, solutions are put forward: develop graded textbooks, innovate task-based teaching and immersive activities, expand school-community cooperation, and deepen AI-culture integration via a Beijing cultural knowledge graph.
Copyright (c) 2026 Xinyue Zhang http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Application of a Science-Education Integration Experimental Platform in Research-Oriented Teaching of Marine Technology
With the continuous rise in global demands for marine strategy and the in-depth advancement of new engineering education reform, the cultivation of marine technology professionals is shifting from a knowledge-transfer-oriented model toward a research- and innovation-driven paradigm. However, at the undergraduate level, current teaching practices still commonly face challenges such as the disconnection between classroom instruction and scientific research, insufficient experimental resources, and the absence of a systematic framework for fostering students’ innovative capabilities. Against this backdrop, an integrated science–education experimental platform characterized by standardization, informatization, and digitalization has been introduced. This study leverages scientific research resources to reinforce teaching and replaces traditional didactic instruction with research-oriented pedagogy in core courses of marine technology. By constructing an end-to-end science–education integration model, restructuring the practical teaching system, and optimizing the evaluation mechanism of talent cultivation, this work effectively enhances students’ engineering practice ability, research thinking, and innovative design competence, thereby establishing a replicable framework for experimental teaching reform. The results demonstrate that the science–education integration experimental platform exerts a significant positive impact on teaching effectiveness and offers substantial value for pedagogical innovation in marine technology education. It provides an important reference for promoting the transformation of undergraduate education in marine disciplines under the context of new engineering education in China.
Copyright (c) 2026 Lei Yang, Dingfeng Yu, Hao Gao, Yingying Zhang, Maosheng Zhou http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Exploration on the Teaching Reform of “Aging Design” Course for Civil Engineering Specialty under the Background of Aging
The degree of aging in China continues to deepen, and the demand for old residential renovation and old-age facilities construction has surged. The aging project has become the focus of urban and rural construction. As a carrier for the cultivation of construction talents, the existing courses of civil engineering lack systematic teaching content suitable for aging, and the supply of talents is out of line with the needs of the industry. Based on the development of aging society and the actual needs of engineering, this paper analyzes the existing shortcomings from the curriculum system, teaching content, practice platform and teaching staff, constructs the integrated reform system of theory, practice and curriculum ideology and politics, and puts forward the optimization path of reconstructing curriculum, innovating teaching, expanding practice and integrating ideology and politics. The research shows that promoting the reform of aging-appropriate teaching can improve the training mode of civil engineering talents, cultivate compound engineering talents with both professional ability and humanistic care, and continuously transport professional strength for urban and rural aging-appropriate construction.
Copyright (c) 2026 Li Boxiao, Ma Linlin http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The Effects and Boundaries of Human–AI Collaborative Creation in Language Aesthetic Education: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from 10 Higher Vocational Colleges in the Chengdu–Chongqing Region (Note 1)
This study explored the facilitating effect and application scope of human-AI collaborative creation on higher vocational students’ language aesthetic literacy to provide evidence-based support for AI-empowered language aesthetic education in higher vocational institutions. A quasi-experimental design was used, and the subjects were 600 first-year students from the ten higher vocational colleges in the Chengdu–Chongqing area. A three-group (human-AI collaborative / pure-human / pure-AI) pre-test + post-test + delayed post-test experiment was conducted. The four-dimensional, 26-item self-developed *Higher Vocational Students’ Language Aesthetic Literacy Scale* (Cronbach’s α = 0.89, CFI = 0.93, RMSEA = 0.06), the AI Self-Efficacy Scale (AISE), the AI Anxiety Scale, the work evaluation scale and the human-AI collaborative creation log were used in this study to systematically examine the impact of language aesthetic education in human-AI collaborative creation and its moderating mechanisms and application scope. The results were as follows: (1) The human–AI collaborative group exhibited significantly higher post-test total scores in language aesthetic literacy than the pure-human group (Cohen’s d = 0.72) and the pure-AI group (d = 0.85), with effect sizes for the aesthetic perception and aesthetic appreciation dimensions exceeding those for aesthetic creativity (d > 0.80 vs. d = 0.68). (2) Collaborative depth exhibited an inverted-U curvilinear effect; moderate collaborative depth (AI-assisted ideation + polishing; d = 0.65 vs. low collaboration) represented the optimal range, whereas high collaborative depth (+ evaluation intervention) resulted in attenuated effects (d = 0.58 vs. moderate collaboration). (3) AISE positively moderated the relationship between collaborative depth and aesthetic education effects (β = 0.15, p = 0.020), whereas AI anxiety negatively moderated this relationship (β = –0.12, p = 0.039). (4) Technical boundaries, cognitive boundaries, ethical boundaries, and aesthetic boundaries constituted a four-dimensional boundary framework for human–AI collaborative creation in language aesthetic education, systematically demarcating the operable space and non-negotiable bottom lines for AI intervention. Human-AI collaborative creation can effectively promote higher vocational students’ language aesthetic literacy, but the extent of this effect depends on how deeply and in what way it is coordinated with the learners’ psychological characteristics. A moderate level of collaboration depth (ideation + polishing) is ideal; thus, one must be mindful of AI anxiety interventions and the joint management of the four-dimensional boundary. The “optimal collaborative depth model” and the “four-dimensional boundary framework” built in this study provide a theoretical basis and a practical path for AI-enhanced language aesthetic education in higher vocational schools, and they have good generalizability.
Copyright (c) 2026 Hong Yili http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Research on the Innovative Training Model of Innovative and Entrepreneurial Sports Talents in Colleges and Universities from the Perspective of Industry Education Integration
From the perspective of industry education integration, universities are accelerating the cultivation of innovative and entrepreneurial sports talents, which can not only meet the practical needs of the development of the sports industry in the new era, but also promote the comprehensive development of students and enhance their employment competitiveness. The article elaborates on the value and implications of cultivating innovative and entrepreneurial sports talents in universities, analyzes the innovation difficulties of the training mode of innovative and entrepreneurial sports talents in universities from the perspective of industry education integration, and explores the innovation strategies of the training mode of innovative and entrepreneurial sports talents in universities from the dimensions of constructing a modular curriculum system, building a real scene training platform for the sports industry, constructing a diversified scene incubation support system for sports industry entrepreneurship, and building a deep collaboration mechanism between schools and enterprises. The aim is to provide useful references for the innovation of the training mode of innovative and entrepreneurial sports talents in universities from the perspective of industry education integration.
Copyright (c) 2026 JinLong Wang http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Exploration on the Teaching Reform Path of Steel Structure Course from the Perspective of New Engineering Construction
The new engineering construction takes the integration of production and education, digital empowerment and innovation cultivation as the core orientation, and puts forward new requirements for the comprehensive engineering practice, digital design and innovative problem-solving ability of talents. As a core compulsory course for civil engineering and intelligent construction, steel structure has the characteristics of theoretical abstraction, engineering practicality and industry frontier. The traditional teaching mode has been difficult to adapt to the talent demand of intelligent construction and assembly construction industry. Based on the long-term teaching practice of steel structure course, this paper combs the three outstanding problems of the current classroom teaching mode solidification, the separation of theory and practice, and the single evaluation system, and puts forward the systematic teaching reform scheme from the four dimensions of the reconstruction of teaching content, the integration of multiple teaching methods, the improvement of practical teaching quality and the improvement of the whole process of multiple evaluation system. The reform practice shows that the integration of digital teaching resources, the introduction of project-based engineering practice, and the establishment of a process-based assessment mechanism can effectively stimulate students’ awareness of independent learning, strengthen students’ BIM modeling, steel component design, and on-site construction coordination capabilities, and achieve the trinity of knowledge transfer, ability training, and value shaping.
Copyright (c) 2026 Xiaoxiao Sun, Qingchi Zhang, Chuanli Yang, Zhe Yang, Lijuan Chen, Huaken Zhang http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
A Study on the Paths of Integrating Lingnan Culture into Ideological and Political Education in College English Curriculum
Amid the comprehensive advancement of ideological and political education in curriculum, college English teaching undertakes the dual mission of cultivating linguistic competence and guiding values. As an important component of excellent traditional Chinese culture, Lingnan culture boasts the spiritual traits of openness and inclusiveness, pragmatism and innovation, and the courage to be a pioneer, which provides abundant local cultural resources for the ideological and political education in college English curriculum. This paper mainly explores the significance, practical problems and specific implementation paths of integrating Lingnan culture into the ideological and political education in college English curriculum. It aims to realize the in-depth integration of language teaching and cultural education by reconstructing teaching contents, innovating teaching methods, optimizing evaluation mechanisms, improving teachers’ professional quality and strengthening resource development, thereby enhancing students’ cultural confidence and patriotism, and providing a referential practical model for the construction of ideological and political education of English courses in local universities.
Copyright (c) 2026 Wang Xiya, Feng Yang http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Research on Cross-cultural Narrative Strategies of Chinese Education Brand on Short Video Platform—Take TikTok as an example
In the context of digital transformation, TikTok has become the core media carrier for international Chinese education brands to carry out cross-cultural communication, and overseas Generation Z learners have gradually formed the habit of short video fragmented Chinese learning. Relying on the data of official platforms such as the Center for Sino-foreign Language Exchange and Cooperation of the Ministry of Education and Duolingo, the number of Chinese learners in the world has exceeded 200 million, the total broadcast volume of TikTok # LearnChinese related topics has exceeded 340 million, and the broadcast volume of # 4tones4dance Chinese Tone Challenge has reached 5.8 billion. Short video narrative has become the key path for Chinese education brand to achieve cultural entry. Based on the adjustment logic of international Chinese communication media and communication environment, this study puts forward optimization strategies from four dimensions of narrative subject, narrative content, narrative expression and narrative interaction, aiming at providing theoretical reference and practical scheme for Chinese education brand to break through cross-cultural communication barriers and build a long-term international communication mechanism.
Copyright (c) 2026 Dongke Li http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
AI-Empowered Education of Ideals and Beliefs for Adolescents
In the era of digital intelligence, the education of teenagers’ ideals and beliefs faces serious challenges such as cognitive fragmentation, loss of values and weakening of subjectivity. As a transformative force in the educational ecosystem, artificial intelligence (AI) provides a historic opportunity to reshape the subjectivity of adolescents in this field of education. This article systematically analyzes the intrinsic mechanism and practical path of artificial intelligence empowering ideals and beliefs education. Based on the Marxist dialectic on the relationship between subject and object, this article believes that artificial intelligence promotes the transformation of education from “one-way indoctrination” to “two-way objectification”, so that teenagers can take the initiative to build their own value system in the process of transforming cognitive content and realize the development from “abstract people” to “specific people”. Artificial intelligence improves cognitive ability through an intelligent value cultivation system, expands the practical space by relying on the educational environment of virtual and real integration, and strengthens the effectiveness of collaborative education by optimizing curriculum connection, teacher collaboration and home-school-community linkage mechanism. This process realizes the dialectical unity of “subject objectification” and “object subjectification”.
Copyright (c) 2026 Qiong Xia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0