Park landscape design is a core practical course in landscape architecture and environmental design disciplines, featuring ecologicality, artistry, and sociality. It serves as an important carrier for the implementation of ideological education and the reform of intelligent teaching in these courses. Addressing issues such as fragmented integration of ideological education in traditional teaching, shallow application of digitalization, restricted practical scenarios, and a single evaluation system, this paper constructs a "ideological education immersion + digital empowerment" dual-integration teaching system. It integrates ideological elements such as ecological concepts, cultural inheritance, craftsmanship spirit, and social responsibility with digital technologies like GIS analysis, 3D modeling, and virtual simulation, reconfiguring the teaching content, mode, practice, and evaluation system of the course. Teaching practice has shown that this reform model effectively enhances students' professional practical ability, digital literacy, and comprehensive ideological and political literacy, achieving a unified integration of knowledge imparting, ability cultivation, and value shaping, providing practical references for the digital ideological education reform of design courses.

Cheng Zhang. From Ideological Education to Intelligent Teaching: Exploration and Practice of Digital Reform in Park Landscape Design Course. International Journal of Educational Curriculum Management and Research (2026), Vol. 7, Issue 1: 26-32. https://doi.org/10.38007/IJECMR.2026.070104.

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