澳大利亚TAFE教育与我国高职国际合作浅谈

TAFE教育属于澳大利亚高等职业教育,它顺应社会变化的需要,提供各种层次和各种类型的中学阶段以后的技术教育类课程,为澳大利亚各行各业培养中高等层次的技术人才．已经成为了世界上最优秀的职业教育模式之一,它们的模式值得我国正在发展中的高职院校借鉴学习,并与之加强交流与合作,在双方的教育教学合作中,借鉴澳大利亚的经验和模式,探索发展我国特色的高等职业教育体制。     

文化——高等职业教育不可或缺的精神涵养

现代社会和企业对人才不断有新的要求，比较狭窄的专业教育思想，逐渐失去存在的合理性。技术与人文是一个职业人达到高度完美的双翼，高等职业人才应该具有精到的专业知识，广泛的邻近学科知识和深厚的文化知识。面向职业生活的人文教育必须以培育主体性为核心，发掘科学技术的人文价值来为人的发展服务。高等职业教育应该兼顾为社会和为人的发展服务的两大基本功能，教学指向兼顾学识修养和人文精神的隐性素质。     

澳大利亚TAFE教育与我国高职国际合作浅谈

TAFE教育属于澳大利亚高等职业教育,它顺应社会变化的需要,提供各种层次和各种类型的中学阶段以后的技术教育类课程,为澳大利亚各行各业培养中高等层次的技术人才,已经成为了世界上最优秀的职业教育模式之一,它们的模A值得我国正在发展中的高职院校借鉴学习,并与之加强交流与合作,在双方的教育教学合作中,借鉴澳大利亚的经验和模式,探索发展我国特色的高等职业教育体制。     

关于高职院校高等数学课教学改革的思考

高职高等数学课面对课时少、内容多、学生基础差的现状,教学改革应紧紧围绕高职教育的培养目标和自身特点进行,不断探索,不断改进,才能使高等职业教育办出特色。     

我国高等职业教育教材中存在的问题分析与对策

教材建设是高等学校建设的一项基本内容,高质量的教材是培养合格人才的基本保证。大力发展高等职业教育,培养和造就适应生产、建设、管理、服务第一线需要的高等技术应用性人才,要求我们必须重视高等职业教育教材改革与建设,编写和出版具有高等职业教育自身特色的教材。一、现行高职教材中存在的问题分析由于传统理念以及一些主客观因素的影响,高职教材仍有一定距离,存在许多问题。总的看来,主要集中在三个方面,即:一是教材本身存在的问题。二是教材选用中存在的问题。三是教材建设过程中的问题。(一)现有教材本身存在的问题首先是教材的价…     

新形势下构建高等职业教育特色研究

高职教育要以内涵促发展,在办学过程中突出自身特色。高职学院办学突出特色的基本方法:一是要定位准确,二是要通过提升内涵突出学院核心竞争力。本文以特色办学的基本内容和组成元素作为切入点,深入地分析职业教育如何培养出高素质劳动者和技术技能人才,以及高职教育特色办学的内涵本质和对社会的深远意义。     

高等职业技术教育的特色创新研究

本文在提出高等职业技术教育办学特色的重要意义基础上,阐述了高等职业技术教育发展的主要特色。提出高等职业技术教育中创新发展的基本途径,为当前我国高等职业技术教育的特色创新提供了理论基础分析和实践指导依据。     

新形势下构建高等职业教育特色研究

高职教育要以内涵促发展,在办学过程中突出自身特色。高职学院办学突出特色的基本方法：一是要定位准确,二是要通过提升内涵突出学院核心竞争力。本文以特色办学的基本内容和组成元素作为切入点,深入地分析职业教育如何培养出高素质劳动者和技术技能人才,以及高职教育特色办学的内涵本质和对社会的深远意义。     

走开放化教学之路 促进高等职业教育发展

高等职业教育是高等教育体系中一个不可缺少的且与国民经济社会发展密切相关的重要层次教育,是实现我国高等教育大众化的主要力量。高等职业教育的目的主要是培养高级应用型、技术型人才。这要求教育者必须重新审视并探索一条适合新形势的教学和管理模式,全面贯彻新时期高等职业教育改革的指导思想,走开放化教学之路,使我国的高等职业教育迈上一个新台阶。     

运用现代教育技术推动高等职业技术教育的发展

怎样科学地、有效地运用和发挥现代教育技术培养出高素质技能型人才,实现高职教育的培养目标。这是电教工作者需要认真思考、深入研究的课题。本文从现代教育技术的形式、特色、手段、目的等方面论述了运用现代教育技术推动高等职业技术教育的发展。     

Students' Reactions to the Introduction of Videoconferencing for Classroom Instruction

This study examined how students who had no prior experience with videoconferencing would react to the use of videoconferencing as an instructional medium. Students enrolled in seven different courses completed a questionnaire at the beginning of the semester and again at the end of the semester. Students at the origination and remote sites did not differ in their reactions toward videoconferencing but there was a significant difference for gender. Women reacted less favorably to videoconferencing. Compared to the beginning of the semester, students reported significantly less positive attitudes toward taking a course through videoconferencing at the end of the semester. There were no significant differences in students' attitudes toward videoconferencing across courses at the beginning of the semester but there were significant differences across the courses at the end of the semester. The results suggest the need for better preparation for both students and instructors.     

Cooler temperatures inductive to locust outbreaks

Ajoint study by Prof. ZHANG Zhibin from the CAS Institute of Zoology and his co-workers from Norway, US and Swiss have indicated that historical outbreaks of migratory locusts in China were associated with cold spells, suggesting that China＇s projected climate warming could decrease the pest＇s numbers. The study was published in Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences on 17 September, 2007.     

Exploring Multiplexity: Social Network Structures in a Computer-Supported Distance Learning Class

A computer-mediated group is a complex entity whose members exchange many types of information via multiple means of communication in pursuit of goals specific to their environment. Over time, they coordinate technical features of media with locally enacted use to achieve a viable working arrangement. To explore this complex interaction, a case study is presented of the social networks of interactions and media use among members of a class of computer-supported distance learners. Results show how group structures associated with project teams dominated who communicated with whom, about what, and via which media over the term, and how media came to occupy their own communication niches: Webboard for diffuse class-wide communication; Internet Relay Chat more to named others but still for general communication across the class; and e-mail primarily for intrateam communication. Face-to-face interaction, occurring only during a short on-campus session, appears to have had a catalytic effect on social and emotional exchanges. Results suggest the need to structure exchanges to balance class-wide sharing of ideas with subgroup interactions that facilitate project completion, and to provide media that support these two modes of interaction.     

The Role of Intermediating Institutions in the Diffusion of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): How Industry Associations Intervened in Denmark, Finland, and Hong Kong

Electronic data interchange (EDI) provides means for interorganizational communication, creates network externalities, requires an advanced information technology (IT) infrastructure, and relies on standards. In the diffusion of such innovations, institutional involvement is imperative. Such institutions contain governmental agencies, national and global standardization organizations, local government, and nonprofit private organizations like industry associations. The last type of organizations we call intermediating institutions. They intermediate or coordinate ("inscribe") the activities of a group of would-be adopters. Unfortunately, little is known of how these organizations shape the EDI diffusion trajectory. In this article we examine one specific type of intermediating organizations?industry associations?and how they advanced the EDI diffusion process in the grocery sectors of Hong Kong, Denmark and Finland. We identify six institutional measures, placed into a matrix formed by the mode of involvement (influence vs. regulation) and the type of diffusion force (supply push vs. demand pull), that can be mobilized to further the EDI diffusion. Industry associations were found to be active users of all these measures to varying degrees. Their role was critical especially in knowledge building, knowledge deployment, and standard setting. Furthermore, institutional involvement varied due to policy and cultural contingencies and power dependencies.     

Low doses of a red wine ingredient figh diabetes in mice

Aresearch group led by Prof. ZHAI Qiwei from the Institute for Nutritional Sciences under the CAS Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences has discovered that even relatively low doses of resveratrol--a chemical found in the skins of red grapes and in red wine--can improve the sensitivity of mice to the hormone insulin, according to a report in the October,2007 issue of Cell Metabolism. As insulin resistance is often characterized as the most critical factor contributing to the development of Type 2 diabetes, the findings“provide a potential new therapeutic approach for preventing or treating” both conditions, the researchers said.     

How Electronic Publishers are Protecting Against Piracy: Doubts About Technical Systems of Protection

The increasing prospects of digital piracy has prompted the perceived need by electronic publishers to adopt technical systems of protection, and governments to reform their copyright laws. This article is a preliminary study of the management of intellectual property by electronic publishers, defined as those involved in the production of online databases, and CD-ROMs. It focuses on three main issues: (1) how electronic publishers view the increasing threat of piracy; (2) the methods of protection employed to protect intellectual property in digital format; and (3) the importance of technological protection of intellectual property in electronic publications. The analysis is based on a sample of 23 UK electronic publishers. The interviews revealed an interesting assortment of protection methods and did not show that technological protection was a preferred way. Instead, the means of protection, in addition to copyright law, comprised niche markets, pricing, trust, bad publicity, and nontechnical and technical means.     

Rough Justice: A Statistical Assessment of ICANN's Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy

Long-standing conflict between domain name registrants and trademark holders prompted the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to create a global, mandatory arbitration procedure known as the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The UDRP has been used in 2166 cases involving 3938 domain names as of 1 November 2000. The policy gives the initiator of a complaint, generally a trademark holder, the right to choose which ICANN-accredited dispute resolution service provider (RSP) will handle the case. During the preparation of the UDRP,some feared that complainant selection would lead to "forum shopping" that might bias the results. This article performs a statistical assessment of the forum-shopping thesis and finds support for it. There are statistically significant differences in the various RSPs' propensity to take away names from defendants; there are also major differences in the number of cases brought to each RSP. RSPs who take away names have the larger share of cases. The study examines other variables that might explain differences in market share, such as price, the plaintiff's nationality, or the time taken to decide a case. It finds that nationality and time also are correlated with market share. The study concludes that shopping for a favorable outcome is an important factor in the UDRP.     

Prevalence of soft neurological signs in Chinese people

Prof. Raymond C.K. Chen, a neuropsychologist with the CAS Institute of Psychology, has made novel progress in his studies of schizophrenia. His work has been reported by a recent issue of Behavioural Neurology.     

Monoculture Rubber Plantations Have Negative Ef ects on Controlling Splash Erosion

<正>In Xishuangbanna,one of China’s most biodiverse regions,landscape has changed dramatically during the past three decades due to the conversion of tropical rainforest to rubber plantations.In steep areas,terraces are often constructed before planting rubber trees,which causes two important changes in the soil:the destabilization of soil in the bench terraces and the increased vulnerability of unvegetated riser faces to erosion.Few studies have documented the nature and intensity of erosion on bench terraces.Prof.LIU Wenjie and his colleagues from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden(XTBG)conducted a study in Menglun County(21°5′39″N,101°15′55″E),Xishuangbanna to evaluate the influence     

Chinese Scientists Use Earth Observation Technologies to Study and Protect Wild Camels

<正>Chinese scientists plan to apply Earth Observation technologies to protect the critically endangered wild camels(Camelus ferus).With the help of remote sensing,satellite positioning,geographical information system and wireless sensors networks,they will be able to access the distribution and population of the wild camels and protect their habitats.The project will be carried out by the International Research Center for Wild Camel Conservation,which was jointly established earlier this year by the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth(RADI)of the Chinese