Abstract: The content of the brewing techniques is designed based on the requirements of society and student. According to students′ study achievement on different levels, the micro course and Presentation-Assimilation-Discussion (PAD) class have been used in our courses over the last three years. The PAD class is a new teaching method combining the advantages of lecture and discussion. Its key idea is to allocate half of the class time to teacher′s presentation and the other half to students′ discussion. The presentation and discussion are separated so that students can have one week in self-regulated learning and individualized assimilation with the help of micro course resources. The corresponding learning assessment changes into multiple evaluation mechanism mainly on process assessment, therefore the regular grade can take 65% of the total score in this evaluation system. The teaching reform stimulated students′ interest in learning brewing techniques and increased the attractivenese of its classroom teaching. It also could cultivate autonomous learning ability of students, which is a basic attainment of modern college students. The effectiveness of reform teaching has been improved greatly. Student who accepted the teaching reform process got significantly higher scores in theory, experiment and comprehensive performance than those taught in traditional model. In the course of teaching reform, the teacher should change the notions of students′ learning to make them cooperate with teacher′s work very well and also try the best to reduce the burden of teachers and students in teaching and learning. Learning, communications and training are indispensable for teachers to solve the problem encountered in the process of teaching innovation. Educational reform can not be achieved overnight, so we should maintain a positive attitude towards the work and keep it up.

Key words: brewing techniques, requirements of society and student, micro course, PAD class