On Thursday, April 19^th,2018, IVT welcomed a delegation of African friends. This delegation consists of 20 vocational college presidents and leaders in education from five different countries of Africa. President Shan welcomed them and showed them around the campus.Different from the past  receptions,this time,the introductions were made by the students.

These students are second year English majors from IVT International. All together the guests visited 13 places around the campus, namely, the flags of the Board of Directors, Mechatronics Engineering Department, Samsung Displayer College, Precision Engineering Department, Micube AI College, Samsung Engineering Academy, Information Engineering Department, Cross-border E-commerce College of the Business Administration Department, Mei Zhuishi International Design College of the Architecture Department and Digital Arts Department,IKE Auto College, Tongcheng Travel College and the Gameboy.

The students made the introductions in English and the visitors are very interested in their introductions.They thought that’s a very good practice for the students and encouraged the students to talk in English and communicate with them. They said that’s a very good demonstration of IVT’s education concept---- learning by doing. After the visiting, President Shan gave a short lecture in the Rhino Community Coffee bar, introducing the teaching mode of IVT and discussing with the guests about vocational education. He vividly explained the vocational education in China by using a“two birds” metaphor, which is, IVT is like a bird, by studying it we can learn about the vocational education in China,something like to have a bird eye view. The visitors listened very carefully to President Shan’s lecture and they had a very warm discussion.

This reception and communication activity was very successful. The visitors thought highly of IVT education concepts and operation mode, they expressed wishes to visit again and to have cooperation in the future. The students were extremely impressed and they thought they learned quite a lot because it’s totally different from the classroom learning and book learning and it’s real and field practice. This is a good try of field training, in the future we can improve and promote such kind of teaching and learning style.

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