摘要:Background: "Enhancing students ability of practice and innovation" is a great task to implement quality education, improve education quality and build a harmonious socialist society. As the foundation of knowledge and technological innovation system, it is the responsibility of college to develop the advanced specialized talents with innovative spirit and practical ability. This study focuses on the teaching of computer software application courses in colleges and to seek the effective way to cultivate students ability for practice and innovation through promoting the teaching reform. Materials and Methods: With the wide application of information technology represented by computer in all fields of life and work, the courses of computer application has become an important part of the training of talents. Strong practice and innovation of computer applications, making these courses has obvious advantages in cultivating students practical and innovative ability. On the basis of the investigation of the current situation of teaching, taking reform of teaching mode as the breakthrough point, the study introduced the flipped classroom into the teaching of software applications course. Combined course characteristics with strong practicality and originality in application, the study built a new teaching model, which is mainly composed of three interrelated teaching composition with support of network teaching platform: Autonomous learning before class, training for internalization in class, after-school to strengthen and promote learning. According to the teaching model, took "Flash animation design" as an example to carry out the teaching design and implementation. Results: The practice test and investigation proved that the model is beneficial to help student master knowledge and skills, improve the students learning interest, meet the needs of students individual learning and help to cultivate the practical and innovative ability. Conclusion: The study aimed on reform of teaching mode, introduced the flipped classroom into the teaching of software applications course and constructed a new teaching model and provide a beneficial reference for similar courses teaching reform and exploration on the effective ways of cultivating college students practical and innovative ability.