In response to the educational transformation trend in the digital intelligence era, to optimize the implementation path of the “Three Excellence Plan” (Excellent Teachers, Excellent Students, Excellent Courses), and to promote the intelligent upgrading of international Chinese education classrooms and curriculum development, the School of International Education(SIE) successfully hosted the 7th “Seeking the Path” Teaching Salon and Digital Intelligence Teaching Workshop on January 12. The event invited Associate Professor Li Minyu, Senior Instructional Designer of Chaoxing Group and Senior Researcher at the Smart Teaching Research Institute, who delivered a themed training session titled “Outcome-Oriented Digital Intelligence Empowers the Full Process Design and Practice of Smart Course Teaching.” The workshop was chaired by Associate Professor Guo Hanning, with the participation of all faculty members.

Starting from the international background and domestic policies of smart course development, Li Minyu systematically explained the necessity and implementation pathways of integrating artificial intelligence into education. He combined multiple cases to highlight the practical application of AI across all aspects of teaching, vividly demonstrating feasible approaches to smart course development. Examples included how to systematize teaching courses by constructing knowledge graphs, problem-solving frameworks and educational schema; how to integrate real-world scenarios and digital human technology into courses to promote modular restructuring of teaching content; and how to implement a “dual-system” teaching model through digital human mentors and real-world project libraries. These cases provided valuable references for faculty in designing smart courses within a cross-cultural context.

This salon served not only as a training session on technical tools but also as an opportunity to reshape teaching philosophies and curriculum systems. SIE encourages all faculty to take the “Three Excellence Plan” as a guide, actively utilize AI tools to promote the integration of ideological and political elements into curricula, the development of teaching cases and the applications for first-class courses accreditation, and to explore smart teaching paths with distinctive school characteristics. In the future, SIE will continue to rely on the “Seeking the Path” Teaching Salon platform to enhance the cultivation of faculty digital literacy, strengthen the intelligent integration of teaching resources and the transformation of outcomes, and inject sustained momentum into building the “Study at DUT” brand and promoting the high-quality development of international education in China.