On November 16th, the award ceremony of the 2024 Future Designer · National College Digital Art and Design Awards (NCDA) and the Future Designer · National Art and Design Teachers' Teaching Innovation Competition (NDTC) was held in Chongqing. Professor Gu Yi, Dean of the International Institute of Creative Design (IICD), along with Vice Dean Xu Rongrong, attended the ceremony. Mr Yu Feng from IICD was awarded First Prize in the national finals.
Mr Yu Feng has long been dedicated to frontline teaching. In 2020, he won the Special Prize in the Art and Design category of the Shanghai Young Teachers' Teaching Competition. Based on his outstanding teaching outcomes, he has published teaching research articles in CSSCI-indexed journals and authored academic books. In 2022, Mr Yu's course was selected as one of Shanghai's key blended online-offline courses. In 2023, it was further chosen for the university-level MOOC course construction project. Currently, he has completed recording 25 online lessons, totalling 255 minutes.
Our university actively organises participation of both faculty and students in the Future Designer · National College Digital Art and Design Awards, and this year received the Excellence in Organisation Award at the national finals of the 12th NCDA (2024).
The Future Designer · National Art and Design Teachers' Teaching Innovation Competition (NDTC), included in the Ministry of Education's Teaching Competition Rankings of the China Association of Higher Education and officially approved by the Education Department, is the first competition focusing specifically on teaching innovation in the art and design disciplines. Established in 2012 and held annually, the competition has become an important event for higher education teachers, having successfully run for 11 consecutive years. This year’s competition attracted 2,427 participating teams from 505 universities, involving a total of 10,039 teachers across 29 competition regions, organised by provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities nationwide.
