Exploration and Practice of Computer Fundamentals Course Based on Computational Thinking Competency Improvement

The computer fundamentals course is an important course in computer education in higher education. It serves the role of cultivating students’ computational thinking and being able to use information technology to solve complex computational problems in various majors. However, the original objectives and teaching content of the course did not meet the needs of the new AI era, did not integrate with the disciplines, and the teaching method did not reflect the shortcomings of student-centered. This paper constructs a computational thinking hierarchical competency improvement model of, and adopts the OBE method to reverse the teaching content, teaching methods and evaluation methods. The teaching reform achieved good results in practical teaching and learning. Finally, this paper discusses the inefficient of teaching reform and the direction of improvement in the future.