Development of Digital Maker Education from Elementary School to University
Announced Date：2020-06-05
Announced Unit：Office of the Secretary
To improve teachers' teaching ability in digital maker education, the Ministry of Education has entrusted the National Kaohsiung Normal University (NKNU) as the general coordinator in the promotion of the STEM + A Course-Oriented Digital Maker Education Development Program. With the integration of three subprograms in northern, central, and southern Taiwan and the bases in line with the “star- planet-satellite” model, schools with the willingness to participate are guided to implement digital maker education. Sun-Lu Fan, Political Deputy Minister of Education, said that we were currently in a hands-on era and that the development of digital maker education into formal courses and the common version of teaching aids were very helpful for teaching sites in the front line. Schools that have received subsidiaries for teaching aids will, in the initial period, incorporate the common teaching aids developed by universities into their instruction under the new curriculum guidelines. It is expected that, eventually there will be at least 72 "micro courses" being developed, incorporating digital maker education in various subject areas at the end of the year.