基于应用型人才培养目标的学生实践能力培养模式探究——以工程估价类课程为例

应用型人才就是指能把成熟的技术和理论应用到实际的生产、生活中的技能型人才。本文的工程估价类课程包括《土建工程估价》《安装工程估价》《市政工程估价》《园林绿化工程估价》及《工程结算》《工程量清单编制》等与工程估价有关的课程。根据该类课程的特点,对课程的思路设计、教学方法、教学手段及课程的考核方式都将成为应用型人才培养的关键环节,各环节之间相辅相成,环环相扣,培养过程更强调理论与实践的结合,突出对基本知识的熟练掌握和灵活应用,最终达到具备工程估价的技能。     

“工程估价”课程线上线下混合式教学建设探讨

线上线下混合模式教学不仅顺应信息时代教学改革发展的潮流,还极大地完善了教学体系与提高教学质量。本文探讨了线上线下混合式教学在“工程估价”课程中的应用,重点研究教学模式存在的问题、线上平台的选择、课程实施和成绩评定等方面,促进“工程估价”课程线上线下混合式教学建设。混合式教学不仅不受时间与空间的局限性,还充分调动学生对学习的自主能力并且提高学生的实践操作能力,进而提升了“工程估价”课程的教学效果。     

结合BIM的《工程估价》课程案例教学改革探讨

目前我国BIM技术快速发展,教育部也提出了新工科建设等理念,在此背景下高等教育人才培养需要进行改革和发展。文章以《工程估价》课程教学为基础,分析了BIM技术和案例教学法在课程教学中的有利条件,构建了结合BIM技术案例进行课程教学的教改方案和实施路径,以期为我国高校《工程估价》课程教学与BIM技术的融合提供新思路。     

基于实践能力培养的教学模式改革探讨——以工程估价类课程为例

本文从工程估价类课程的特点入手,以学生实践能力形成的心理机制为出发点,将估价知识向估价技能的转化、估价技能的内化及估价知识技能的迁移的整个环节作为学生实践能力培养的过程,寻求一种以提高学生就业竞争力、降低"可替代性"的实践能力教学培养模式。     

实践教学环节中小组合作学习模式的应用——以工程估价课程设计为例

工程估价是一门实践性很强的课程,由于学时的限制,要想在课堂讲授中把知识点面面俱到是不可能的,因此,课程设计就成了必不可少的教学环节。充分发挥课程设计的作用,研究课程设计中的有效学习方法就显得非常有意义。文章介绍了一种适合工程估价课程设计中应用的小组合作学习模式。     

基于工程估价课程群的估价综合能力测评模式的探索与实践

工程估价类课程属于理论与实践并重,且对实践技能要求较高的课程群,为此课程组的成员一直在寻求对学生的知识、能力、素质进行综合评定的考核与评价模式。     

独立学院土木工程专业“工程经济学”课程教学改革探索

土木工程专业开设的＂工程经济学＂课程,长久以来注重学习工程经济的基本理论、基本分析方法,但对相关的工程财务、工程估价等内容涉及过少,不能有效地与本专业学生工作职业发展需要相结合。本文围绕这一问题,提出对独立学院土木工程专业＂工程经济学＂课程教学内容进行改革,加强本课程与实际应用的结合性,努力完善独立学院应用型本科人才的培养目标。     

房地产估价课程教学改革实践与探索

从房地产估价课程原有教学模式的弊端分析入手,阐述了该课程教学改革的必要性和改革目标,介绍了该课程在教学内容、教学方法、成绩评定、教材建设等方面进行的改革.实践证明,通过深入开展房地产估价课程教学改革的研究与实践,有效地推动了房地产经营与估价专业的专业建设和教学改革.     

“房地产估价”课程教学方法探讨

针对房地产估价课程的教学内容和重点,结合自身教学实践,对此课程的教学方法进行了探讨。提出帮助学生培养对课程的兴趣爱好,采用案例武、启发式、互动式等多种教学方法融入于教学中,从而丰富教学内容,激发学生的积极性,从各方面加强学生独立分析问题能力、判断能力和决策能力的培养,提高教学质量。     

基于能力培养的工程管理专业课程设置探讨

工程管理专业毕业生应具有良好的交流沟通、管理协调、学习创新等公共能力和项目策划、项目管理、工程施工、投资与造价控制、估价咨询等专业能力。为培养学生的这些能力,工程管理专业的课程设置了公共基础课、学科专业基础课、专业课等三类课程群。三类课程对培养学生的能力是一个有机的整体,但各有侧重点。     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Molecular motor assembly of a biomimetic system

Active biological molecules and functional structures can be fabricated into a bio-mimetic system by using molecular assembly method. Such materials can be used for the drug delivery, disease diagnosis and therapy, and new nanodevice construction.     

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