A Comparative Study of Online Aesthetic Education Courses in Chinese and American Colleges

Based on the "iCourse" and "edX" Platforms

Abstract

At present, the college aesthetic education is not compatible with the construction of an all-round education system in areas such as morals intelligence physical fitness work and aesthetics. In an era of big data and artificial intelligence, with the help of modern information intelligent means, college online aesthetic education courses take advanced and specialized aesthetic knowledge as the main content, and promote the development of students' "aesthetic and humanistic literacy", becoming a major starting point for deepening the comprehensive reform of aesthetic education in colleges. This paper simply takes college online aesthetic education courses offered by  "iCourse" platform in China and "edX" platform in America as the objects, focusing on the comparison of three types of courses and their contents, such as art aesthetic education courses, professional aesthetic education courses, and comprehensive aesthetic education courses, to find their respective characteristics and problems, and to provide a reference for the integration of aesthetic education courses and information intelligence in Chinese colleges. It is expected to form a new pattern of aesthetic education in colleges, which is "comprehensively improving the quality of universal art education, promoting the combination of various disciplines and majors with innovation and entrepreneurship, and promoting the integration of aesthetic education with as morals intelligence physical fitness work in colleges", so as to provide an interpretive perspective for the construction of a diversified and high-quality socialist modern aesthetic education system with Chinese characteristics.