| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 工業教育研究所 === 89 === English Abstract
The principal focus of this research examines outlines for professional printing courses taught at community colleges in Taiwan to assess course contents. Research results address specific issues related to such courses with the goal of providing a reference for community college administrators who plan to establish professional printing courses in the future.
This research uses documentary analysis, with a research questionnaire specially designed and drafted as a research tool. The targets of this research were principally professional printing instructors and operational managers of printing businesses. Data collected in the questionnaire were weighted based on experts'' recommendations prior to final analysis of questionnaire findings. Principal findings of this analysis included:
1.The Position and Purpose of Community Colleges
(1)Community colleges should take into account the skill needs of the national economy and the personnel requirements of industry when planning curricula.
(2)Courses offered should address the skill upgrade desires of students as well as the special needs of that geographic area.
(3)A college should foster an environment conducive to continuing education and multidisciplinary learning activities.
(4)Colleges should satisfy both their public''s desire for continuing education and the development needs of the community.
2.Future Trends in Taiwan''s Printing Industry and Associated Skill and Training Needs
(1)Development Trends in Prepress Technology
i.The full digitalization of prepress work has revolutionized the printing industry.
ii.Integrating the electronic network into the production process has created an open-architecture, fully-digitized printing data exchange network.
(2)Development Trends in Press (Printing) Technology
i.Preprocessing and press stages in the printing process will gradually merge together. Applications associated with this combined stage will gradually mature and lead to a blossoming of functions and capabilities.
ii.Trends toward digital and automatic control of print production raises production efficiency and effectiveness by integrating the entire process.
iii.New, flexible relief printing technology will raise print quality and effectiveness while lowering costs and reducing environmentally-damaging wastes.
iv.In line with digital printing tenets, color printing will increasingly meet user expectations for small volume, changeable, and fast printing jobs -- ushering color printing into a new era.
v.Printers will leverage the speed and convenience of the Internet to send data around the globe to be printed in formats suited to individual markets.
(3)Content of Community College Professional Printing Curricula
i.Professional courses should be designed to accept students according to ability to permit a systemized curriculum, consecutive courses, and continuity.
ii.Core curriculum content should address current technologies and applications and keep in step with trends.
iii.Use of both Intranet and Internet applications to ensure Internet-related courses can be made an effective part of the curriculum.
iv.Worker safety and health issues should be incorporated into the curriculum to recognize the increased importance of worker rights and environmental concerns.
v.Course materials should focus on macro as well as micro issues of the industry and courses in approach, operation, and application should all be incorporated into the curriculum in order to meet the needs of industry.
vi.Theory and practice should be made complementary so that students develop their own ability to explore and resolve problems on their own. Course material should be made as practical as possible.
|
|---|
