On the afternoon of October 10th, Professor Xiang Rong from the School of Business Administration of Zhejiang Gongshang University, at the invitation of the School of Business of Taizhou University, delivered a lecture with the theme of “Construction of First-Class Economics and Management Courses in the AI Era”. The lecture was hosted by Vice Dean Chen Guodong, with the participation of key teachers from various departments.

Professor Xiang delivering a lecture

Based on his experience of constructing the national first-class course, Professor Xiang proposed three major paths for AI to empower economics and management education. Firstly, the curriculum goal should be transformed towards the dual integration of “technology plus humanities” and add such cutting-edge modules as “AI and Business Decision-making”; Secondly, the teaching method should adopt “AI-assisted plus practical project” model, such as cultivating students’ decision-making ability through intelligent simulation and real enterprise cases; Thirdly, the process assessment and interdisciplinary achievement evaluation should be introduced into the evaluation system. Taking the course of “Enterprise Crisis Management” as an example, he demonstrated how to enhance students’ comprehensive abilities with the three-level teaching method of “rehearsal—confrontation—review”. The achievement has been promoted by many universities across the country.

During the interactive session, teachers raised questions on “the balance between AI tools and teaching” and “the development of local cases”. Professor Xiang suggested to start from auxiliary teaching, gradually promote the intelligentization of key links in courses, and advocate for deepening the cooperation between two schools in building a course resource library. Vice Dean Chen summarized that the lecture has provided new insights for course construction; and the next step will be to promote the AI-driven transformation of core courses and further deepen the integration of industry and education.