CEFContemporary Education Frontiers3029-18793029-1860WHIOCE PUBLISHING PTE. LTD.10.18063/CEF.v4i3.1768ArticleInnovation and Practice of the VPC Teaching Paradigm for the “Database Principles” Course in the Context of Emerging Engineering Educationhttps://artdesignp.com/journal/CEF/4/3/10.18063/CEF.v4i3.1768LiuZhongyan,YangJunjie,ChenYongheng,QiaoFu2026432026-03-26Addressing the pain points in the teaching of the “Database Principles” course, such as the disconnection between theory and practice, lack of engineering thinking cultivation, rigid integration of ideological and political education, mismatch between teaching supply and personalized needs, and the one-dimensional nature of learning assessment, this study, guided by the construction of “Emerging Engineering Education” and fulfilling the fundamental task of “Fostering Virtue through Education”, constructs a new VPC teaching paradigm with “Value guidance as the soul, Problem orientation as the bone, and Case teaching as the flesh”. Through the implementation of “dual-chain driven” curriculum content restructuring, innovation in teaching methods via “university-enterprise collaboration + digital empowerment”, “three-levels and three-integrations” ideological and political education design, a “five-stage three-closed-loop” teaching organization process, and diversified evaluation reform, a shift from knowledge impartation to the integrated cultivation of values, abilities, and literacy has been achieved. Teaching practice shows that this model effectively enhances students’ ability to solve complex engineering problems. Related achievements have been awarded national-level recognitions such as the National First-Class Offline Undergraduate Course, providing a replicable and scalable reference paradigm for teaching reform in specialized courses under the context of Emerging Engineering Education.Database principles, VPC teaching paradigm, Five-stage three-closed-loop, Curriculum ideology and politics, Emerging engineering education, Teaching innovation

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