Digital Simulation and Virtual Cognition Assisted Online Teaching Practice of Basic Landscape Architecture Design Courses

Based on the background of integrating digital technology into landscape architecture education, and the important trend of constructing “golden course” for first-class specialty and curriculum, as well as the urgent needs of distance education during the COVID-19 epidemic period, this paper takes the “online + MOOC platform” in Basic of Landscape Architecture Design II, a course of Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology as an example. Firstly, aiming at the four dilemmas and four needs of the online teaching process, it puts forward the teaching adjustment idea based on digital simulation and virtual cognitive assistance. Then, it integrates the digital resources of MOOC platform from the four aspects of “principle cognition – dynamic simulation – virtual investigation – spatial operation”. It goes on to discuss the online transformation way of this course from the specific teaching process, achievements and problems of the 2019-2020 spring semester. Finally, by summarizing the practical experience of the online teaching, it brings up the direction to be further optimized and adjusted, so as to provide new ideas for the future development of “online + offline” innovative teaching mode of the Basic Landscape Architecture Design courses.