Innovative teaching strategies for art and design based on VAR model

The rapid development of art and design nowadays puts forward higher and higher requirements on the teaching of art and design, and the bottleneck phenomenon of cultivating innovative ability in art and design is becoming more and more prominent. To study the innovative teaching strategy of art design, this paper proposes a creative new teaching strategy based on the VAR model for the current problems in art design teaching. The experiment examines the feasibility of the strategy in three dimensions: student satisfaction, innovation rating, and comprehensive rating of teaching outcomes. The results showed that the innovative teaching strategy increased the percentage of satisfied students by 29.7% and decreased the percentage of dissatisfied students by 50%. The mean value of students' innovation rating in the traditional teaching mode was 58.3, while the mean value of students' innovation rating in the VAR model-based teaching method was 67.3, an increase of 15.4%, showing that the innovation of teaching was recognized. In terms of the overall rating of teaching results, the mean value of traditional teaching was 61.5, and the mean value of innovative teaching was 81.3, an increase of 32.1%, which showed that the teaching effect was significantly improved. Moreover, the standard deviation of traditional teaching scores reached 10.01, which is much larger than 5.87 under innovative teaching. The adoption of an innovative teaching strategy can greatly shorten the gap between art and design students. In conclusion, the innovative teaching strategy proposed in this paper can be well adapted to the art and design classroom, which can be well accepted by students and improve the teaching effect. © 2023 Qinyan Gao, published by Sciendo.