CDIO and Teaching Reform of Document Retrieval Courses

CDIO is a new education model, which cultures students´ specialized technical knowledge, individual ability, professional ability and ability of working and communicating in team towards systemic product design. We obtain practical experience using organic combination between document retrieval and analog electronic technology, and try out a teaching model of document retrieval combined with specialized courses which is lectured by professional teachers. The model is formed by the following three stages. First, methods and theories developed by social scientists and mathematical logicians were adopted to conceive the course content structures and the formation rules for project teams. Second, internet based information sharing tools developed by systems engineers were utilized to encourage organized interactions among students and teachers. Then, it leveraged the lecture hours as a“marketing”platform for students to share their findings and exhibit their creativity based on flexibly designed assignments. Practice shows that the organic combination between document retrieval and specialized courses is an ideal education model of document retrieval under CDIO.