Construction development and implementation of a quality national online course on dairy cow production

Dairy Cow Production is the core course of any animal husbandry and veterinary major program in higher vocational education. It is an application-oriented professional course with a strong leaning toward practicality, intended mainly to cultivate comprehensive practical skills related to dairy cow production. To highlight the cultivation of practical skills in students while stimulating their interest and fostering virtues, the course teaching content is guided by industry needs and job requirements. Curriculum reform is implemented through the approach of "precise education, integration of learning and training, and job development"; that is, by effectively integrating farm job tasks with the teaching content, work process, learning process, job evaluation, and learning evaluation. By combining knowledge transmission, ability development, and ideological and political education, the course aims to be able to cultivate application-oriented personnel with the high-quality and strong technical and practical skills, solid theoretical knowledge, and high comprehension ability required for the development of the dairy industry. This new course intends to fully unleash the subjectivity of students and cultivate their innovative abilities as well as promote the continuous improvement of teaching quality.