A risk‐analysis approach to implementing web‐based assessment

Computer‐Based Assessment is a risky business. This paper proposes the use of a model for web‐based assessment systems that identifies pedagogic, operational, technical (non web‐based), web‐based and financial risks. The strategies and procedures for risk elimination or reduction arise from risk analysis and management and are the means by which the quality of the system is measured. A comparison is made between the severity of risks for non‐web based systems and web‐based systems.     

网页界面设计中的残疾人用户可访问性分析

互联网作为日益重要的媒介 ,它对残疾用户有很多传统媒体不具备的优越性 ,因此本文提出在网页界面设计要重视残疾用户的可访问性 ,针对不同类型的残疾人 ,作相应的设计考虑 ,努力营造人性化的网络环境     

The women mentor project: A sharing approach

The Women Mentor Project, a component of the Fort Wayne Community School's Horizons Gifted Education Program, was introduced as a pilot model in one elementary, five middle, and three senior high school buildings during the 1982–83 school year.

Funding for this project was made possible through the 1982 Gifted Children Advocacy Association grants competition and Ball State University Alumni Association. The project endeavored to provide gifted young girls with opportunities to develop their self‐esteem, leadership abilities, and career awareness through weekly guidance meetings and time spent with successful community women from traditional and nontraditional careers.     

Using web‐based activities to enhance writing in science: The dynamic earth project

Abstract

Content, literacy development, and technology use are being integrated as tools for learning. As part of this process, K‐12 educators and teacher preparation faculty have been trying to come to grips with what preservice teachers should know and be able to do regarding this integration. The university/school partnership in this case study sheds light on how content area standards, literacy, and technology standards can be addressed and taught in a project carried out in cyberspace. This case study investigated how literacy strategies embedded in a Web‐based project enhanced the writing performance of students in a middle school science classroom. After choosing a topic and researching, analyzing, and synthesizing the information, the students wrote essays on the earth's surface. Results of this case study suggest that Web‐based activities did have an effect on students’ performance as they became engaged in a cyber‐context to construct meaning.     

Learning about democracy at school: an action research project in early childhood education

This article examines part of an action research project carried out in a Spanish public school. We explain the complex reality of an early childhood education classroom. Focusing on early childhood education, the project was developed in collaboration with a teacher from one of the classrooms of four year olds. Several of the children in the class have serious behaviour problems. The teacher (Lucía) is very concerned because they take their anger and frustration out on objects, classmates and adults by hitting them. She has a lot of difficulty working with these problem children. This research work deals with transforming the practices of the researcher, the pupils and the teacher. One of the first critical challenges was to turn classroom discussions into opportunities for addressing the injustices that the children experience daily. Teaching should serve to empower children. Programmed classroom discussions can be a place where pupils are given the chance to speak out about conflicts, and where important decisions are made to address them.     

Learning to design and implement educational web sites within pre‐service training: a project‐based learning environment and its impact on student teachers

This paper reports on a project‐based learning (PBL) environment targeted towards introducing student teachers to the design and development of educational web sites. The participants were 46 student teachers who constructed 16 web sites for primary school. A survey of their views, before and after the projects, and an evaluation of the web sites created by them were conducted with a view to assessing their responses to the learning environment, its impact on them, as well as the challenges faced during web site creation. The results showed that the PBL approach has been motivational and effective regarding the acquisition of web site design and development skills. The participants demystified the process of educational web site creation and became more interested in and self‐confident about it, although they encountered certain difficulties in image processing, file management and design of navigational structures.     

Retracted: Learning in troubleshooting of automotive braking system: A project‐based teamwork approach

The following article from British Journal of Educational Technology, ‘Learning in troubleshooting of automotive braking system: A project‐based teamwork approach’, by Janus S. Liang, first published online in Wiley OnlineLibrary ( http://www.wileyonlinelibrary.com ) on 15 April 2011, has been retracted by agreement between the author, the journal Editor, Nick Rushby, and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. The retraction has been agreed due to the inclusion of significant passages of unattributed material from other authors. Reference Liang, Janus S. (2012). Learning in troubleshooting of automotive braking system: A project‐based teamwork approach, British Journal of Educational Technology, 43, 2, 331–352. doi: 10.1111/j.1467‐8535.2011.01182.x     

协同治理视域下政府公共服务职能重构——以深圳“织网工程”为例

我国政府公共服务职能宏观整体设计滞后,目标定位模糊,部门本位主义突出,职能碎片化严重.公共服务职能弱化直接导致了公共服务供给效率低下,严重阻碍了公共服务均等化进程.传统粗放型公共服务供给模式已经无法满足不断增长的公共服务需求,必须在“协同治理”框架下对政府公共服务职能进行重构.深圳市“织网工程”以信息化为手段,通过创新政府公共服务组织模式,提高了公共服务供给能力和绩效水平.其本质是对传统模式的变革和扬弃,是制度创新的过程.通过对这一典型案例进行制度创新类型、制度创新动因以及制度创新手段的分析,可以研判制度创新的条件和环境,使基层社会治理成功的创新模式具有更广泛的适用性,促进社会治理现代化的早日实现.     

Interdisciplinary project teams on agriculture and environment: A problem-oriented approach

Abstract

In a one-year, postgraduate, professional training course an interdisciplinary project approach is taught to prepare disciplinary specialists for interdisciplinary team work. This paper is based on five years of experience with such projects and deals with the conditions necessary to engage successfully in interdisciplinary project teaching. A high degree of organisation, firm guidance at the start of the project, feedback on actual practice from experts, the importance of cyclical working methods, the use of project planning techniques and product-oriented thinking are elements to be stressed. As an illustration a project is presented on environmental policy for a specific target group: greenhouse horticulturists in the province of Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands.     

The improvement of higher education in Indonesia: A project approach

The authors describe an experiment in improving the teaching of chemical engineering in an Indonesian technological university with the assistance of Dutch counterparts. The project approach used was then applied to other universities and disciplines and became part of a general government-sponsored programme aimed at improving the quality of teaching in Indonesian universities generally. The authors claim that practically-orientated projects concerned with the improvement of teaching effectiveness can, by dissemination, lead to a general improvement in the quality and quantity of output from universities.     

Learning about Peers: A Missed Opportunity for Educational Psychology

The author reviews four factors that contribute to the reduction of the authority and power of teachers: the Far Right, the Christian Right, the standards movement, and the decline in the use of collective bargaining. As a result of these initiatives, teachers are forced to abandon many progressive educational practices and embrace educational philosophies alien to them; stand by while useful courses such as music, art, physical education, and creative writing are eliminated; adopt drill and grill activities rather than open-ended discussion with students; and forsake any sense of a unique individual school identity and philosophy. Therefore, teaching is fast becoming an unattractive, if not demeaning, profession.     

项目教学法在网页设计与制作课程中的应用

传统的网页设计与制作课程存在着学生被动接受知识、无法在现实中学以致用等各种弊端,阐述项目教学法及实施过程,以及探讨项目教学法将理论与实践相结合,调动学生学习的积极性,挖掘学生的潜能的作用.     

Learning about the past: exploring the opportunities and challenges of using an outdoor learning approach

This paper examines the potential of outdoor learning for supporting children’s understanding of and attitude towards history. A class of primary school children participated in an intensive experiential, residential history programme. A range of data was collected before, during and after the residential programme, and the findings suggest that the experience had a positive impact on the children’s attitude towards history and enabled many of the children to be able to easily recall highly specific factual knowledge. However, the children’s understanding of history as a provisional construct was not developed, as it was not a strong feature of the programme. Nor was the experiential nature of the experience fully exploited. Overall the study suggests that such a programme has the potential to support children’s learning of the past, but a deeper understanding of history, drawing on the benefits of outdoor learning pedagogy, needs to be planned for more explicitly.     

Learning to teach with the web: Factors influencing teacher education faculty

Professional development at postsecondary institutions has primarily been supported through a central faculty development center. With purposive sampling, this small case study explored the ways in which teacher education faculty members were influenced to participate in decentralized professional development focused on learning to teach with WebCT. Results suggest that university faculty were influenced by both intrinsic factors (including convenience, comfort, common interests, and future purposes) and an extrinsic factor (external pressures). This research suggests that these factors also contributed to the faculty's satisfaction with the professional development. A follow-up interview explored how faculty coped with budgetary limitations and encouragement to pursue other distance education technologies.     

开放与远程学习：高等教育的有机组成——在亚洲开放大学协会第18届年会上的主题报告

会议组织委员会主席要求我用英文向与会各国代表作主题报告，但我的Power Point演示文件大多使用的是中文。我报告的主题是，开放与远程学习：高等教育的有机组成。     

Pedagogical intersectionality: exploring content,technology, and student-centered learning through a problem based/project based approach

ABSTRACT

A narrative case study exploring the course design and implementation of a capstone undergraduate course for future teachers taught with a lens of pedagogical intersectionality, an integration of K-12 history-social science content, advocating for students, and technology. Four undergraduate students’ perspectives on the taught concepts of culturally sustaining pedagogies, universal design for learning and social justice through multimodal approaches resulting in the creation and facilitation of a digital one-day lesson (DODL) that incorporates course tenets and use of technology. Data was collected from course surveys, reflections, DODL lesson plan, and DODL Post microteaching reflections. Themes generated from the data sources were personal learning experiences, cultural respect and acknowledgement, pedagogical growing pains, fatigue, and synthesis occurring in DODL. Collaborators responded to student comments and reflected on course design and goals to foster independent learning of course tenets. Future research will involve additional analysis of subsequent sections of the course based on feedback and reflective modifications learned through this project.