As was announced recently by the Ministry of Education of the PRC, the Virtual Simulation Project for the Special Education of Interventional Treatment of Cerebral Palsy Children, a project led byQNU Professor Huang Xiaodong from the School of Educational Science, has made the list of National Virtual Simulation Teaching Projects 2018. The list has been published annually since 2018. Among the 296 winners this year, 9 are teaching projects. QNU becomes the only university with a short-listed project in the area of special education.
Through the simulation of children with special needs and the situation they might be in, the project enables learners to experience the educational intervention process — the collection and analysis of both subjective and objective data, the scientific evaluation, and the design and execution of the intervention plan. It not only disperses the ethical doubt of using children with special needs as experimental subjects in teaching technique training but also overcomes the problem of the experiment being incomprehensive and irreversible. It prepares the students’ mind and ability for the follow-up field training by implementing the idea of “virtual training before field training” and “inter-supplementation between field and virtual training”. Thus QNU will keep improving a training system with the integration, complementation, and co-existence of virtual training and field training. With the continuous improvement of visual-reality technique, QNU will continue its work on the development and application of virtual simulation experiments for special education and try to create “golden courses” of virtual simulation to promote the quality in cultivating professional talents for special education.
(School of Educational Science)