Applying Role-Switch Model in College Information Technology Course

China's regional imbalance in terms of education resources gives rise to the wide discrepancy of pre-acquired computer knowledge amongst first-year college students, posing a huge challenge to present college information technology teaching. To deal with problems of high student-teacher ratio and tight teaching schedule, we have constructed a new teaching model with switched student-teacher roles. Inspired by Carl Rogers' non-directive teaching theory, this model shifts the priority of teaching from the teacher to students, doubled with group discussion, catering to the situation of first-year students and college information technology curriculum. The experiment results show that this model has acquired better effects and enhanced teaching quality.