Integrating Social Needs and Ideological and Political Education into the Construction of Digital Image and Photography Art Courses

The current digital image and photography art courses face issues such as insufficient ideological and political content, teaching materials disconnected from students' lives, emphasis on theory over practice, and a single assessment method. The course team, guided by "social needs" as the training goal and in accordance with the requirements of ideological and political education in courses and high-quality online course construction, has implemented reforms in clarifying teaching objectives, optimizing ideological and political teaching content, building online teaching resources, enriching practical teaching links, and improving the assessment mechanism. After two years of teaching practice following the completion of these reforms, the teaching content and methods have received positive feedback from students. The construction experience of this course provides reference and guidance for the teaching reform of photography and art design courses in higher education institutions.