Teaching reform and practice of “Pattern Recognition” in mining research universities: A case of chapter ANN

To build the mining research universities, we have to enhance not only the teachers' abilities of teaching and research, but also the students' abilities of learning and research. According to this request, we analyzed the characters, teaching goals and requirements of the undergraduate courses “Pattern Recognition”, then using three kinds of teaching methods, such as (1) to strengthen the teaching of theory and practice, (2) to improve the students' learning initiative and enhance the students' ability of innovate, (3) to enhance interact of students and students, students and teachers. Taking the “artificial neural network” chapter as an example, we combined with our practical research and the teaching reform to improve the students' abilities to use the knowledge of “pattern recognition” course to analyze and solve practical problems. At last, we achieved good results of teaching reform.