Effectively cultivating undergraduate computer application ability of information management and information system specialty

This paper presents some courses and pedagogical methods to effectively cultivate undergraduates´ computer application abilities of information management and information system specialty. It describes a computer curricular framework, which emphasizes the theoretical and practical aspects of information technology application development. The courses divide into two threads in accordance with the basic skills and professional skills. The former is that all specialties students master computer knowledge. The latter is professional skills training of information management and information system specialty. The paper also introduced several effective pedagogical methods in order to increase practice ability, self-study ability and innovation ability of students. Experimentation is an important ability cultivating means, which train students a high level of computer application ability. So this paper introduces experimentation arrangement. A formal evaluation has been carried out and demonstrated a very effective and realistic learning experience for the students.