Since the establishment of Ming Chi University of Technology, the university has required all junior students to participate in full-time internships with major companies for an entire academic year to help them gain practical experience. To ensure that students can continue to enhance their professional knowledge and essential skills while working, around 30 distance learning courses are offered each year for students to select from. To maintain the quality of these distance learning courses, every course is subject to a self-evaluation by the instructor after completion, and the results are reviewed by external experts. Starting from the 112th academic year, the Teaching and Learning Resource Center has fully implemented the Ministry of Education’s Digital Learning Course Certification, aligning the self-evaluation standards of distance courses with the guidelines issued by the Ministry. The goal is to help faculty meet the certification requirements during their regular teaching preparation and course delivery, ultimately achieving official course certification from the Ministry of Education.

For this event, the Teaching and Learning Resource Center invited Professor Hung-Ling Chen from the Department of International Business at Shih Chien University to share her insights online. Professor Chen has extensive experience in distance education, having passed the certification with outstanding results and being invited to serve as a digital course certification lecturer by the Ministry of Education. Drawing from her recent application experience and feedback from review committees, Professor Chen provided a detailed explanation. She specifically reminded our faculty to pay close attention to student-teacher interaction, encouraging students to give feedback on various topics to earn points, thereby enhancing the quality and quantity of interaction in distance learning.

In addition to expressing gratitude to Professor Chen for her presentation, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Dr. Fong-Rey Liu, pointed out that the passing rate for digital course certification remains low, making it challenging to achieve certification. However, aside from the interaction between learners, the evaluation criteria also require instructors to upload learning materials to help students better understand the course content. The Vice President hopes that faculty members at the university will gradually improve their distance learning courses to enhance teaching quality and student learning outcomes.