The Engineering Practice and Innovation Project (EPIP) is an innovative teaching model developed in China. It is widely adopted in the field of vocational education and training (VET), and is characterized by a strong integration of theoretical instruction and practical application. This pedagogical model employs real projects completed by enterprises as teaching materials, emphasizing student practice within real workplace settings. The primary aim is to cultivate students’ occupational competencies and their capacity to adopt innovative solutions to solve complicated work-related problems. The theoretical framework and pedagogical logic of EPIP align closely with the objectives of cross-border e-commerce degree-rewarding programs, which seek to nurture highly skilled professionals. Specifically, EPIP offers an effective means of addressing structural challenges in routine training and instruction, such as the mismatch between theory and practice, and the misalignment between workplace requirements and student competencies. By optimizing the existing training schemes and curriculum design to be in line with actual occupational demands, EPIP strengthens the coherence, systematic, and progression of course structures. Furthermore, it fosters the development of diverse, multi-model, and co-developed teaching resources by educational institutions and enterprises. The establishment of an interdisciplinary, dual-qualified teaching team, which features a close collaboration between institutional education and industry training, and provides a foundation for the innovative application of the EPIP model in cross-border e-commerce education.

Xifeng Liao. Exploration on Application of the EPIP Teaching Model to Cross-Border E-Commerce Instruction in Vocational Education and Training. Frontiers in Educational Research (2025), Vol. 8, Issue 9: 1-6. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2025.080901.

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