Abstract: Abstract: To address students’ lack of spatial imagination and learning initiative and the difficulty in teach-student interactions in the traditional teaching of mechanical graphics, this paper mainly drew from the reform experience of the American universities: the “active and collaborative learning” integrated teaching modes. In the teaching process, the real time interactions in class and “online + offline” modes after class were utilized to foster students’ active studying ability. At the same time, the collaborative learning assisted by the creative design projects was employed to train students’ team collaboration and innovation spirits. Take one class from University of South China as the object of this study, the results of the practices indicate that the teaching proposal could enhance the effectiveness and quality of teaching.

Key words: Keywords: mechanical graphics, teaching modes, active learning, collaborative learning, innovative design