高校思想政治理论课教师的职责定位

在新时期,要增强思想政治理论课教学的说服力和感染力,其中提高其针对性、目的性和实效性的关键是高校思想政治理论课教师如何明确自身职责定位。一名新时代的思想政治理论课教师,必须是高素质的,同时是专业学科教师、学生人生导师、学生心理健康教育教师三者的高度统一。     

高校思想政治理论课教师的职责定位

在新时期,要增强思想政治理论课教学的说服力和感染力,其中提高其针对性、目的性和实效性的关键是高校思想政治理论课教师如何明确自身职责定位。一名新时代的思想政治理论课教师,必须是高素质的,同时是专业学科教师、学生人生导师、学生心理健康教育教师三者的高度统一。     

艺术院校思想政治理论课情感教学探析

强调情感因素在艺术院校思想政治理论课中的地位和作用,不仅是高质量地实施思想政治理论课"05方案"和思想政治理论课教学内容的内在要求,同时也是针对艺术院校学生特点,加强针对性,提高实效性的需要。加强艺术院校思想政治理论课情感教学,主要从教师、学生方面展开。     

正确处理思想政治理论课教学中的若干关系——以《毛泽东思想和中国特色社会主义理论体系概论》为例

思想政治理论课是高校对大学生进行思想政治教育的主渠道,对大学生形成正确的世界观、人生观、价值观发挥着重要的作用。因此,如何在教学过程中处理好各种关系,增强思想政治理论课对学生的吸引力和说服力,从而使其成为大学生终身受益的课程,就成为教师必须思考的问题。     

艺术院校思想政治理论课情感教学探析

强调情感因素在艺术院校思想政治理论课中的地位和作用,不仅是高质量地实施思想政治理论课“05方案”和思想政治理论课教学内容的内在要求,同时也是针对艺术院校学生特点,加强针对性,提高实效性的需要。加强艺术院校思想政治理论深情感教学,主要从教师、学生方面展开。     

高校思想政治理论课情感教学探讨

高校思想政治理论课承担着对大学生进行马克思主义理论教育的任务,是大学生思想政治教育的主阵地。如何以新的思路、新的措施提高高校思想政治理论课的针对性和实效性是改革的重点。在高校思想政治理论课中,运用情感教学,是提高思想政治理论课课堂教学吸引力和感染力、增强教育教学实效性的途径之一。     

对标“思维要新”提升高职院校思政课青年教师整体教育教学水平

对标"思维要新"提升高职院校思政课青年教师整体教育教学水平,就是要解决教师态度上的"新不了"、能力上"新不好"、毅力上"新不久"的现实问题。如何落实高职院校思想政治理论课教师"思维要新",需要遵循更新教学理念、创新教学方式、纳新教学内容的实践路径,提升思想政治理论课的实效性、吸引力,进而达到让学生"爱学""会学"和"乐学"的效果。     

高职院校提高思想政治理论课教学有效性的若干思考

思想政治理论课是大学生思想政治教育的主渠道和主阵地.目前,高职院校思想政治理论课课堂教学仍存在着低效、无效甚至负效的教学行为,如何增强高校思想政治理论课教学的有效性和吸引力,是当前高职院校亟待思考的问题.文章通过对高职思想政治理论课教学现存问题的分析,提出了提高高职院校思想政治理论课教学有效性的若干对策.     

浅议“注重学生公共生活有效参与”教学理念的运用--以民办高校思想政治理论课教师为研究角度

公共生活需要他人的在场,追求人之卓越。学生有效参与公共生活能够使其具备足够的自我满足感,完成自信心的培育,有力促进民办高校学生对未来社会生活与工作的适应。同时,学生公共生活的有效参与也是对民办高校思想政治理论课传统说教灌输教学理念的创新。在民办高校思想政治理论课教学中,学生公共生活的有效参与是多种因素综合作用的结果。其中,教师起着举足轻重的作用。民办高校思想政治理论课教师要确保学生有效地参与公共生活,切实增强民办高校思想政治理论课教学的实效性。     

浅议“注重学生公共生活有效参与”教学理念的运用——以民办高校思想政治理论课教师为研究角度

公共生活需要他人的在场,追求人之卓越。学生有效参与公共生活能够使其具备足够的自我满足感,完成自信心的培育,有力促进民办高校学生对未来社会生活与工作的适应。同时,学生公共生活的有效参与也是对民办高校思想政治理论课传统说教灌输教学理念的创新。在民办高校思想政治理论课教学中,学生公共生活的有效参与是多种因素综合作用的结果。其中,教师起着举足轻重的作用。民办高校思想政治理论课教师要确保学生有效地参与公共生活,切实增强民办高校思想政治理论课教学的实效性。     

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.     

Our Own Devices: Heterotopic Communication, Discourse, and Culture in the Information Society 1

The main premise of this article is that in information societies generally, and in virtual social contexts particularly, a distinctive style of interaction to facilitate the communication of difference, heterotopic communication , has emerged. It rests on two cultural foundations: an ideological belief in the positive, socially integrating power of communication, and a prevailing ethic of instrumental rationality, subjective individualism, and strategically practiced self-interest. The former is demonstrated by the use of simulation and spectacle as sources of information; exhibitionism/voyeurism as a communicative style; and the awareness of surveillance. The latter is seen in the competitive use of knowledge as a commodity; a surface globalism masking deep parochialism; lateral as well as vertical information inequity; and the use of public versus private as strategies for engagement rather than as spaces. Those who engage in heterotopic communication resort to their 'own devices' both in the sense of personal agendas, strategies, interests, and interpretations, and in the form of the telecommunication tools that help realize them. These personal and technological devices allow individuals with the right educational and technical resources to avoid exposure to disagreement, difference, or other information that does not serve their direct purposes or reflect their particular views of the world; yet they also help convey the appearance of openness, availability, and cooperation. This style of interaction is used strategically in combination with information and communication technologies to gain social or economic advantages, but it may encourage social separatism and parochialism, inhibit the negotiation of disputes, and emphasize competing interests.