PRESENTATION DESIGN FOR THE COURSE TUNNEL ENGINEERING

To play an active role in this situation, high education would be in a transforming way to meet the diverse needs of the society.As a traditional course needs redesigning, well-designed presentations for the course are necessary.Here is the presentation design for the course Tunnel Engineering at Chang'an University in China, with the considerations of the practical situation, the contents and features of the subject knowledge, the styles of the information available, the focus for the course stages, the efficiency of the students' knowledge building and the evaluation of the course procedure.The design plan is executed in a dynamic way, in which the contents and styles of the presentation are tuned according to the evaluation results of the student's knowledge learning levels at a specified stage.The practice shows that: (1) students are skillful to find information, but they need instruction in information sampling and knowledge system building;(2) instructors should focus on the presentation of key concepts, the connections of the knowledge points, student's learning skill and capacity development; (3) adequate evaluation and active motivation are necessary and favorable to student knowledge building.