Professional development design: Embedding educational reform in New Zealand

Teacher professional development variously supports ongoing skill development, new knowledge, and systems change. In New Zealand, the implementation of major assessment reforms in senior secondary schools provided opportunity to investigate teacher professional development as a function of the particular stage of an educational reform. Multi-method data sources including teacher surveys and school case studies were employed to evaluate professional development during the embedding stage of a standards-based assessment system, revealing a positive relationship between professional satisfaction and teacher involvement in setting priorities for the professional development. Other positive features were networking, personalized learning, and facilitator expertise. This research illustrates the importance of tailoring professional learning to implementation phase of an organizational change.     

高校教育技术教学改革的探索与研究

本文就高师现代教育技术的改革、发展进行了探索与研究 ,对如何更新和改革现代教育技术的内容及教学方法提出建议     

网络技术专业人才需求及教育衔接研究

高职高专计算机网络技术专业是相对成熟的IT类专业.对石家庄网络技术人才的需求状况和学生的就业岗位进行了分析,探讨了中高职街接的几个方面：人才培养目标及专业结构布局的街接,课程体系、教材及信息技术应用的街接,教育教学过程和评价模式的衔接及院校间、教师间的多向合作.     

新课程改革中信息技术课教师角色行为的转变

基础教育课程的改革，对教师的职业生涯产生了具有历史意义的重大影响：教师将重新认识自己在课程决策、开发、研究等方面的作用和价值；教师将不再只是课程的执行者，而是课程的建设者。信息技术作为一门新兴的学科，理应在课程改革中发挥示范作用。作为一个处于课程改革中的信息技术课教师，必须转变自己的角色行为，努力适应新课程，并通过实施新课程达到自身专业化程度的提高，尽快地成为新课程的有效执行者和积极的建设者。     

The emerging information and communications technology educational research forum

Abstract

In education, research presents a number of challenges. One of these is to ensure that educators are well placed to utilise the outcomes of research, and conversely that the profession is able to inform the research agenda. This is as true for the application of information and communications technology in education, as in any other field. At the same time, there is a growing perception that the education profession needs to become more ‘evidence based’ and draw on educational research and validated good practice. This applies to teachers in all phases of education, from the nursery school to the university, and to those who provide services to education and training and inform their strategic development. However, because teaching and learning take place in increasingly complex environments and across multiple organisations and systems, careful interpretations are required to put research into practice.     

论教育信息活动及其技术

在教育过程中,人们获取、加工、储存、表达和传递教育信息的活动,就是教育信息活动。教育信息活动离不开教育信息技术。教育信息技术是教育领域所运用的信息技术,也是教育媒体技术在信息时代的新发展。     

The use of information technology for educational management in Uganda and Botswana

This paper reports on a study of the implementation of a Computerised Information System (CIS) at the Ministry of Education in Botswana, and the use of CISs in secondary schools in Uganda. The findings portray the levels of use, the impact of CIS use, and the factors that influence the utilisation of the CISs in both countries. Although both countries have recognised the potential of CISs for managing educational institutions, the utilisation of these information systems were still at an early stage. Users’ perceptions of the impact of CIS use were in general very positive. Factors critical for CIS use in Botswana were the quality of the information the CIS provided, and the amount of user training. In Uganda, the amount of CIS use was especially dependent on the extent of training, and the support from the information system administrator. Carefully designed user training courses are considered important in promoting wider and better CIS use.     

职教计算机技术专业AutoCAD课程教学改革

针对当前职业教育面对的学生现状作了分析,剖析了职教计算机技术专业AutoCAD教学应该从提升学生对AutoCAD的重视程度方面、提高学生学习积极性方面、促进学生学习兴趣方面、弥补学生机械制图知识不足的方面、及时巩固学生所学的知识和以实践考核学以致用的方面来设计教学改革。多年教学实践证明采用此教改方案得到学生、学校和家长的一致认可。     

Media Studies in Northern Ireland: threat or promise?

Although increasing attention is being paid to the impact of the mass media on society in general, media studies has still to find its place as a mainstream subject in most school systems. Many teachers are drawn towards it as an area of obvious importance in students’ lives, while at the same time being hampered by doubts and obstacles, some of their own making, some not. This article explores the thoughts of a group of Northern Ireland teachers on the subject and suggests possible ways forward.     

The state's stake in educational reform

This article argues that the recent national reports on educational reform must be understood as manifestations of the influence of capital and the state. The considerable pressure exerted on the schools by representatives of state capitalism does not guarantee that the proposed reforms will be enacted, however. The contradictory nature of the school's location in the democratic capitalist state, coupled with various forms of teacher and student resistance to the reports' recommendations, afford the opportunity for progressive educators to strip away the mystique of the school as a neutral site and to challenge the dominant ideology.A somewhat different version of this paper will appear in Shea, C., Sola, P., & Kahane, E., (eds.),The New Servants of Power: A Critique of the 1980's School Reform Movement. Greenwood Press (forthcoming).     

城域教育网:教育信息化的新阶段

随着教育信息化改革浪潮的兴起和宽带网的迅猛发展，城域教育网已成为人们当前关注的一个热点问题。本文首先阐述了城域教育网的概念、结构和功能，其次提出了城域教育网的建设理念，最后介绍了山东寿光城域教育网和浙江海宁城域教育网的建设经验。     

深化高职教育改革服务海西电子信息产业的思考

结合海峡西岸经济区电子信息产业经济发展的特点和我院教育的现状,深入讨论了高职教育的专业教学改革并在专业设置、课程教学体系、订单式教学等方面提出了改革与建议。     

试论现代教育技术与外语教学改革

现代教育技术的飞速发展改变着传统的教育模式 ,2 1世纪的外语教学同样面临挑战。应用现代教育技术 ,改革传统的外语教学模式已势在必行     

澳新远程教育考察见闻

2001年末,由中央电教馆和北京电教馆、贵州电教馆有关同志组成的远程网络教育考察团对澳大利亚、新西兰进行了为期15天的参观考察。现在把所见所闻记录下来,给大家提供参考。一、整体印象（一）澳大利亚国土面积760万平方公里,但人口只有1960万,不到我国人口的1/60。新西兰的国土面积是268,103平方公里,人口360万,其国土面积相当于日本、英国,但人口只有北京的1/4多一些。优越的地理环境、辽阔的国土,为其提供了得天独厚的生存与发展条件。这两个国家法律完备,社会稳定,经济发展,福利较高,但市场