Practical Curriculum Development for Application-oriented Undergraduate Education from the View of Maker Education

Abstract

The Maker spirit and Maker Education have made important sense on developing suitable practical curriculums and realizing the differential school characteristics for the application-oriented undergraduate universities. The relative background, idea and problems were discussed first in this paper. The practical course ‘Digital Medical Instrument Development’ for biomedical medical engineering of Shanghai University of Medicine & Health Sciences was referred as an example, with the teaching theories of ‘learning by doing’, constructivism and scaffolding instruction, to express the idea, objectives, project tasks and evaluation of developing an application-oriented undergraduate practical curriculum from the view of Maker Education, with the goal of making a relative realistic environment of developing medical instrument for students.