Application-Oriented Higher Education

Ye Zhang is currently an associate professor at School of International Exchange, Shanghai Polytechnic University, and a Member of several academic associations. She has published widely on comparative education and higher education and undertaken several research projects sponsored by various institutions. She received her Ph.D. degree in Pedagogy from the University of Munich, School of Psychology and Education, Germany. Xinrong Chen is a professor at Fudan University and a member of several academic associations. His research areas are artificial intelligence and machine learning.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Higher Education System in Germany and China.- 3. Conceptual and Theoretical Frameworks for Application-Oriented Higher Education.- 4. Application-Oriented Higher Education in Germany.- 5. Application-Oriented Higher Education in China.- 6. Methodology.- 7. Results: Empirical Analysis.- 8. Concluding Reflections.