From August 16th to 17th, the 2025 Summer Forum on High-Quality Development of Private Higher Education in Shandong Province was held at the Yanzi Mountain Villa Conference Center. Our school's principal, Li Kangju, was invited to attend the conference and delivered a special report titled "Exploration of Educational Reform in Private Colleges under the Background of the Digital Intelligence Era", systematically sharing the school's development strategies, educational achievements and innovative practices in the construction of modern industrial colleges in the Digital intelligence era, which attracted widespread attention.
In the report, Li Kangju elaborated on three aspects: the impact of current situation changes on private colleges and universities, the achievements of modern industrial college construction, and thoughts and practices on the digital transformation of education. He pointed out that the world is currently undergoing a profound transformation driven by digital and intelligent technologies. The rapid development of cutting-edge technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and cloud computing has not only reshaped the industrial landscape but also posed new challenges to the education sector. "Cultivating high-quality, versatile talents who can adapt to the digital and intelligent era" has become a common topic in the global education sector. Private colleges and universities should adapt to the development needs of The Times more quickly and actively carry out digital transformation.
Building a teaching staff with solid practical abilities and mastery of advanced enterprise technologies is the core to breaking through the integration of industry and education and deepening school-enterprise cooperation. Chairman Wang Zhaobao attaches great importance to the training of digital teachers and has widely carried out such training throughout the school. The school makes full use of the superior resources of enterprises such as Huawei and Midea, as well as the high-end practical teaching centers jointly established by them. It invites experts and engineers from these enterprises to give lectures, bringing the most cutting-edge technologies from the enterprises. It provides professional learning that supports the development of digital skills for teachers and spares no effort to cultivate them into high-level teachers that meet the demands of the modern digital industry. All the teachers in the school responded positively to the call of Chairman Wang Zhaobao and actively participated in the training, constantly improving their teaching skills and jointly promoting the digital transformation of the school. A learning craze is surging everywhere in the school.
In terms of education and teaching, the school has introduced the real environment of enterprises into actual teaching scenarios, establishing a brand-new teaching model that integrates "real scenes, practical combat, and practical training". Through the joint development of applied textbooks, practical guidance books, and project research by the school and enterprises, it has achieved seamless connection between professional courses and industrial demands. In the process of talent cultivation, the school innovatively adopts a joint teaching model of "enterprise experts + on-campus teachers", enabling students to seamlessly connect with the cutting-edge practical knowledge of the industry on the basis of solid theoretical learning.
In terms of the construction of modern industry colleges, our school has integrated the resource advantages of both the school and enterprises. Through in-depth cooperation with leading domestic and foreign enterprises such as Huawei, Midea, Rockwell Automation, Huazhong Numerical Control, KUKA, and Inspur, 19 modern industry colleges have been established. This includes the Huawei - Shenyang Institute of Technology Modern Industry College, the Shenyang Institute of Technology - Midea Digital Lighthouse College, the Inspur Industrial Internet College Joint Innovation Center, the KUKA Authorized Industrial Robot College, etc. At the same time, 24 on-campus practical teaching centers and 303 laboratories have been built as supporting facilities, establishing a teaching platform covering the entire production process of modern manufacturing. This platform focuses on four key links: root technology learning, tool application, production manufacturing, and operation and maintenance management. It comprehensively cultivates high-quality applied talents who are familiar with the architecture and processes of modern manufacturing, proficient in cutting-edge production technologies, and skilled in using digital tools, providing solid human resource support for industrial transformation and upgrading.
Relying on the industry college, the school has innovatively created a "six Commons and Five Integrations" school-enterprise collaborative education model. Both the school and the enterprise jointly formulate talent cultivation plans and develop characteristic courses. Through the "order-based" and "customized" training models, they precisely meet the demands of enterprises. Students in the order classes are in high demand, and graduates achieve high-quality employment. The school has also established a council for the Modern Industry College, promoting multi-subject participation in decision-making by the school, government, industry and enterprises, and forming a joint force for education.
Facing the wave of the digital intelligence era, our school actively promotes the digital transformation of education and drives the shift of teaching and management methods from "to B" to "to C". The school has collaborated with Huawei to deepen the integration of AI and education, empowering the construction of modern industrial colleges, professional development, curriculum systems, and educational and teaching management with AI. Give full play to Huawei's advantages in AI, cloud computing and other fields, and jointly build practical teaching bases and a new talent cultivation system by using Huawei's ICT technology curriculum system. On-campus deployment of deepseek focuses on educational scenarios and has significant advantages in academic professionalism and functionality. The model is based on the school's talent cultivation, course materials, research reports and other resources to meet the needs of teachers and students. The deepseek module is embedded in the school's APP, and the computing power is optimized through training using the Huawei Ascend server model. Realize students' autonomous learning, intelligent question answering and precise assessment.
The school has integrated the demands of enterprises into the entire process of talent cultivation by jointly building modern industrial colleges and order classes with them. As a result, the quality of graduates has significantly improved. The "two-way selection" for employment has become more competitive, and the "targeted delivery" has become more targeted. This has achieved a seamless transition from campus to the workplace, paving a broad path for students' employment and ensuring high-quality employment for them.
As the achievements of school-enterprise cooperation gradually emerge, the school's social reputation and influence have significantly improved. In the 2025 Shanghairanking Consultancy's Survey on the satisfaction of Chinese College Students, the school strongly ranked among the Top20 in terms of satisfaction in the employment support module. This year, our school's enrollment work has achieved outstanding results. As a result, the quality of science and engineering majors has continued to improve, and the quality of the student source has been continuously improving. Take Liaoning Province as an example. In the past five years, the quality of students in the undergraduate physics group in Liaoning has continued to improve, and the minimum admission scores for 19 majors have increased. It fully demonstrates that the school's educational strength and characteristics have been highly recognized by the society and candidates.
This forum sharing session vividly demonstrated our school's development strategy of jointly cultivating talents with leading enterprises by taking Huawei - Shenyang Institute of Technology Modern Industry College as a model, highlighting the firm direction and practical achievements of the school in educational reform under the empowerment of digital intelligence.
Translated by Basic Courses Department
