Region - Educational Research and Reviews

Traditional course models struggle to fulfill the core mission of cultivating innovative talent due to outdated content, students' entrenched conventional thinking, and superficial evaluation mechanisms. This study therefore focuses on exploring a dual-pathway deep reform scheme integrating AI technology application and academic competitions. The goal is to reconstruct the curriculum system, overcome teaching challenges, and ultimately establish a novel teaching model that effectively stimulates students' innovative potential and develops their multidisciplinary design capabilities. Through these reform pathways, a new rapid design process characterized by human-machine collaboration has been established within the curriculum paradigm. This liberates students from repetitive drafting tasks, allowing them to focus on higher-level creative planning, critical judgment, and integrated decision-making. At the student competency level, this approach effectively breaks habitual thinking patterns, broadening the breadth and depth of design thinking. Student design proposals now demonstrate enhanced innovation, logical coherence, and technical integration. In the teaching relationship, it redefines the roles of teachers and students, transforming educators from knowledge transmitters into learning facilitators and thought catalysts. Dual-engine driving by AI technology application and disciplinary competitions represents an efficient pathway to advance rapid design course reform in environmental design and cultivate innovative talent.