Application of ICT in human machine interface design course

Traditional educational methods often focus on the teacher's role and teaching form in the class is vary monotonous. This paper proposed a method to apply ICT into the human machine interface course, which can provoke the interests of students to this course. ICT makes the educational method become variable and colorful therefore promotes the quality of education. In addition, ICT is applied into the practice section. Students were asked to choose a new IT technology they are interested in and to form a developing team, to use the theory they studied in the class to design a software interface. By this way, they master the theory of this course on the basis of practice and their developing abilities are also enhanced.