International Journal of
Information and Education Technology

Abstract

General education is not only a kind of educational philosophy, but also a way of personnel training, aimed at cultivating a person with sound personality, comprehensive and harmonious development integrity. In this paper, the spirit of general education is considered through the philosophy of course construction and teaching, course content organization and forms of teaching. The construction of general course on information science and technology and informationization is actively carried out. Deep thinking and exploration are given on series topics, such as general education philosophy, top-level design on general education curriculum system, and teaching quality of general courses, which ae restraining factors of the curriculum development. Three suggestions are provided for top-level design, including establishing a specialized work organization, absorbing the essence of successful patterns and focus on the reality. In order to guarantee the quality of general curriculum construction, five measures should be taken, which are strengthening management of the curriculum declaration, strengthening process supervision, perfecting assessment and evaluation mechanism, strengthening teaching staff construction and strengthening the management of students.