TITLE:
Integrating Ideological and Political Education into Professional Basic Courses: A Learning-Centered Conceptual Design for Operations Research Course
AUTHORS:
Honghua Shi, Yunxia Wu, Zhenhua Li, Peng Su
KEYWORDS:
Learning-Centered, Curriculum Politics, Operations Research, BOPPPS, PBL
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Applied Sciences,
Vol.16 No.6,
June
17,
2026
ABSTRACT: As an important part of higher education, professional basic courses are the key carrier to implement the fundamental task of moral education. In the past teaching process, teachers in the course group were also actively integrating ideological and political elements. Still, they could not deeply touch students’ ideological cognition. In view of the above problems, based on the learning-centered teaching concept, this paper takes the Operations Research course as an example, and presents a conceptual reform proposal that rethinks both its ideological and political integration and its overall teaching mode. The conceptual framework is designed from four aspects: teaching objectives, teaching contents, teaching methods, and evaluation system. It is hoped that through this reform, the teaching effect and education quality of the operations research course can be improved, and the organic unity of knowledge imparting, ability training, and value guidance can be realized.