Abstract
Cultivating college students’ innovation ability is an important task of higher education. Innovation is regarded as the soul of a nation and the basic driving force of a country’s sustainable development. The purpose of the current study is to explore and examine the practical path of maker education mode on the improvement of the innovation ability of Chinese college students majoring in digital media art, as well as through the teaching strategy exploration and teaching method practice on the basis of the five stages of teaching mode of I-E-C-E-E including situational inspiration, architecture design, project creation, maker’s experience and demonstrating evaluation to conduct action research, summarize the practical application of maker teaching mode in the teaching of digital media art, and also to promote the development of the teaching mode of digital media art in application-oriented undergraduate colleges. The results of this study show that the experimental group is more desirable than the control group in creativity, practicability and technical characteristic.