科学发展观视野下高校教育信息化研究

高校教育信息化建设是一项复杂的系统工程,其要素相辅相成。我国高校教育信息化存在信息化基础设施较差、教育资源缺少整合、缺乏配套的管理机制、教师队伍素质参差不齐、标准不完善、应用水平绩效不高等问题,为了克服不良建设对高校教育信息化造成的负面影响。本文从中国国情出发,以科学发展观为指导,对高校教育信息化可持续发展进行系统研究,提出可行的措施来推动高校教育信息化健康、稳步、快速、和谐发展,并展望高校教育信息化发展的未来。     

Sustainability and distance learning: a diverse European experience?

Higher Education (HE) is experiencing disruption from technologies, demographics, the globalising world and longer life expectancy. Historically Higher Education has had a legacy of being seen as the requirement for an educated ‘elite’, there has been a policy ambition set in various countries (including the UK) for it to become the expectation for much wider segments of the population as a whole. As students become ‘everyone’ and learning becomes ‘all the time’ Distance Teaching and Research Institutions have a tremendous opportunity but there are also many disruptions and barriers to overcome. Higher Education institutions have an important role within Education for Sustainable Development and sustainable lifestyles; one of the important goals and targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development goals for 2030. Higher Education can contribute to sustainability in many ways – social, technical and environmental; globally and locally. In particular distance-learning universities due to the flexibility in the learning process, use of technologies, and inter-disciplinary approach to teaching and learning, constitute key factors in education for sustainable development. But what will this contribution look like? In this paper, the responses from senior leaders in four major European distance-learning universities are presented, compared and discussed. The tentative conclusions draw out some strategic imperatives for sustainable higher education in the twenty first century.     

Teacher Education for Sustainability. I. Global Change Education: The Scientific Foundation for Sustainability

Our schools and educators face a compelling responsibility to serve society by fostering the transformations needed to set us on a path to sustainable development in the 21st century. Education for Sustainability is a new paradigm, that is based on a life long learning process that leads to an informed and involved citizenry having the creative problem solving skills, scientific, technological, and social literacy, and a commitment to engage in responsible actions that will help ensure an environmentally sound and economically prosperous future for all. This paper and the following paper, from a soon to be published book, Education for a Sustainable Future: A Paradigm of Hope, edited by Keith A. Wheeler, focus on the need to have science imbedded at the core of the Education for Sustainability paradigm and the need to increase and enhance teacher education to better be able to create the necessary interdisciplinary thinking critical to transform learners for the next millennium.     

Education for sustainability within early childhood studies: collaboration and inquiry through projects with children

This paper considers an Action Research project which was implemented to establish a shared understanding of the term ‘Education for Sustainable development’ within the context of an Early Childhood Studies degree. Students engaged in projects with children and local early years’ providers, and the research aligns with previous work undertaken by Siraj-Blatchford, Smith, and Samuelsson (2010. Education for Sustainable Development in the Early Years. Organisation Mondiale Pour ?Education Prescolaire (OMEP)), which explored the role of education for sustainability in the field of Early Childhood Education. With the lingering and persistent preoccupation with testing, results and outcomes in early childhood education, compulsory school education and higher education the research aimed to capture the idea of the student as a change agent with opportunities to work with children as agents of change. The main findings lean towards participatory action research as an emancipatory reminder that research does not need to be a technical activity and the voices and actions of children, students and early childhood educators can be foregrounded in a way that validates authentic involvement by all participants.     

Justifying Compulsory Environmental Education in Liberal Democracies1

The need for education for (as opposed to about) sustainability is urged from many sides. Initiatives in this area tend to focus on formal education. Governmental, supra‐governmental and non‐governmental bodies all expect much of this kind of education, which is to transform children—and through them society—in the direction of sustainability. Due to the combination of great transformative expectations or ambitions and a focus on schooling (the idea of) compulsory environmental education poses potentially severe problems for governments committed to liberal principles, in particular the principle of state ‘neutrality’ with respect to ‘comprehensive conceptions of the good life’. The central question of this article is whether liberal governments can make environmental education of this kind compulsory without coming into conflict with the liberal principle of state neutrality. I discuss three defences of the compatibility of compulsory environmental education with liberal neutrality, namely those put forward by Derek Bell, Andrew Dobson, and Simon Hailwood, as well as some problems inherent in these defences. In the final section I sketch a form of compulsory environmental education that realises at least some of the aims commonly stated for Education for Sustainability and Education for Sustainable Development, and can be justified on the basis of liberal principles.     

《高教发展与评估》近五年文献计量分析

《高教发展与评估》是一份在国内享有良好声誉的高等教育类学术期刊。从文献计量学的角度,对该刊近五年(2006-2010年)载文的载文量、栏目设置、作者合作情况、作者分布、引文等进行统计分析,结果表明该刊各项指标皆优于国内教育类期刊的平均水平。虽然与国内外办刊历史长、学术水平高的教育类期刊相比,仍有些差距。但是,只要《高教发展与评估》走内涵积累发展之路,始终如一地坚持"质量第一,学术至上"的办刊理念,其知名度、美誉度和学术影响力必将会更进一步提升。     

试论开放大学架构下高等教育自学考试制度与现代远程教育的沟通

高等教育自学考试制度与现代远程教育是我国现存的两种远程开放学历教育形式。长期以来,双方在各自的轨道独立发展,取得了不斐的成绩。《国家中长期教育改革和发展规划纲要》提出健全宽进严出的学习制度,办好开放大学,改革和完善高等教育自学考试制度。本文从我国远程开放学历教育的历史和现实出发,提出了高等教育自学考试制度与现代远程教育相沟通所应遵循的基本原则与基本途径。     

Practical Considerations When Using Benchmarking for Accountability in Higher Education

The qualitative study on which this article is based examined key individuals’ perceptions, both within a research university community and beyond in its external governing board, of how to improve benchmarking as an accountability method in higher education. Differing understanding of benchmarking revealed practical implications for using it as an accountability tool. A change model is presented for enhancing the effectiveness of benchmarking in higher education communities.Sue D. Achtemeier received the B.A. in mathematics and computer science with High Honors and the M.S. in mathematics from Florida State University and the Ph.D. in Higher Education from the University of Georgia. She has held teaching positions in Illinois and Georgia and is now Assistant Director for Institutional Effectiveness for the University of Georgia with particular interest in accreditation and accountability. Ronald D. Simpson is Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Science Education and Director Emeritus of the Office of Instructional Support and Development at the University of Georgia. He holds degrees in the biological sciences and in science education from the University of Tennessee and the University of Georgia and continues to teach and advise doctoral students in UGA’s Institute of Higher Education.     

The Latest Publications of the Research Institute for Higher Education of the Russian Federation

The Research Institute for Higher Education of the Russian Federation in Moscow celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1999. Over the years, its staff members have conducted a variety of research projects on aspects of Russian and foreign higher education that have subsequently been published. It has also been producing such recurring publications as the Annual Report on the Development of Higher Professional Education . The following short essay introduces the reader to the variety of activities, particularly the publication activities, of this Research Institute.     

高职校企合作模式的国际比较

在《国家中长期教育改革和发展规划纲要（2010--2020年）》和《国家高等职业教育发展规划（200-2015年）》中,都明确提出要大力发展校企合作,校企合作是高等职业教育又一次飞跃性改革,是我国高等职业教育发展的里程碑。本文通过比较西方国家高等职业教育校企合作的模式,借鉴他们的优秀经验来发展我国的高等职业教育。     

《布朗报告》与英国高等教育持续发展

“确保未来的高等教育持续发展”的《布朗报告》就如何使英国高校得到可持续的经费投入、如何提高英国高等教育的教学质量、如何确保英国高等教育的公共利益等问题提出了改革建议.报告还对英国高等教育场域内各利益相关方——政府、高校、学生或家长、第三方教育监管机构的角色进行了重新界定.在此,着重介绍这项报告的背景、内容及影响,解析英国高等教育发展的趋势及策略.     

高等教育必须适应经济发展的需要——教育与经济依存关系探讨

教育依存于经济基础,受经济和科技发展程度的制约,教育若能适应经济需求就能极大地推动经济的发展。我国经济快速发展已达27年,给高等教育发展提供了条件与空间,要保持经济持续发展,还必须进一步发展高等教育,尤其是要大力发展高等职业教育。高等教育也必须主动适应经济发展,为经济服务。     

现代职业教育体系下高职公共课程教学改革研究

在国家教育部下发的《国家中长期教育改革和发展规划纲要(2010-2020年)》和《教育部关于推进高等职业教育改革创新引领职业教育科学发展的若干意见》中提出了构建现代职业教育体系的新思路。在构建现代职业教育体系的过程中,高职院校公共课程将面临诸多新的挑战。本文全面深入分析了公共课程教学改革面临的问题,并提出了行之有效的对策。     

中高职自考衔接的课程衔接与教学模式研究

教育部出台的《教育部关于推进中等和高等职业教育协调发展的指导意见》（教职成[2011]9号）,明确了中等和高等职、Ik衔接发展,为中高职自考衔接指明了方向。对中职学校而言,中高职自考课程体系应体现学生的主体性地位,要符合学生的身心发展规律,并在学习中使其心灵与情感得到升华。中高职自考衔接教育的真正目的应是培养学生养成良好的学习习惯,掌握一定的学习技巧和自学方法,为学生终身学习打下良好的基础。     

高等教育质量多元化与高教评估改革——中国高等教育学会高等教育评估分会2006年学术年会综述

中国高等教育学会高等教育评估分会2006年学术年会的主题是“高等教育质量多元化与高教评估改革”。会议讨论了我国高等教育大众化阶段高等教育质量多元化的问题,分析了高等教育质量多元化对高教评估改革的影响,探讨适合中国高等教育发展的高等教育质量观和多元化评价体系,交流了各级各类学校在高教评估方面的经验。     

加州高等教育总体规划的经验教训及其启示

《加州高等教育总体规划1960-1975》有力地促进了加利福尼亚州高等教育的发展。它不仅成功地化解了公立高等院校之间的矛盾,使高等学校之间停止了恶性竞争,而且把加州高等教育引上了健康有序发展的道路。规划实施后,加州大学系统、州立大学系统和社区学院系统都得到了很大发展,使加州公立高等教育系统成为美国运转最为良好而且质量一流的公立高等教育系统。加州高等教育总体规划对各层次高校成功定位的经验,对我国高校的结构层次划分可能包含积极的借鉴意义或警示意义的因素。     

Towards using transformative education as a benchmark for clarifying differences and similarities between Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development

The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) charges educators with a key role in developing and ‘securing sustainable life chances, aspirations and futures for young people’. Environmental Education (EE) and ESD share a vision of quality education and a society that lives in balance with Earth’s carrying capacity, even as they differ in terms of expectations of how that vision is realized, and what might need to be balanced. Rather than treat EE and ESD as sparing partners or fellow travellers towards the same destination, this paper analyses EE and ESD from the perspective of transformative educational goals. Using these goals as a benchmark transcends immediate problems with either form of education, while also helps to clarify policies and practise formations, appropriate to a diversity of educational contexts.     

Teaching for a Sustainable World: the Environmental and Development Education Project for Teacher Education

The social, economic, political and ecological imperatives of sustainable development outlined in ’Our Common Future, Agenda 21’ and ’Caring for the Earth’ have established a renewed agenda for environmental education which links it very closely with development education. Teacher educators in Australia have responded to the need to link environmental and development education and to raise the level of attention usually devoted to them in teacher education programmes. The ’Environmental and Development Education Project for Teacher Education’ has been the result. The project has involved 20 educators, drawn from 11 universities, government departments and NGOs across Australia, in writing and trialing a set of 18 3‐hour workshop modules on environmental and development education for use in pre‐service teacher education courses. These modules, published in the project manual, ’Teaching for a Sustainable World’, illustrate how environmental education and development education are related and provide practical assistance for teacher educators who wish to include these important fields in their programmes. An intensive dissemination programme in 1993‐94 involves workshops for all Faculties of Education in Australia.     

The Potential of Education for Sustainable Development for Reform in Schools

Can the concept of education for sustainable development foster reform in schools? The discussion of this question is based upon some reflection on social challenges in education, on a brief presentation of three concepts of environmental education (OECD Project 'Environment and School Initiatives' (ENSI); Action Competence Model; Socio-ecological Environmental Education) and on a closer theoretical look at the term Education for Sustainable Development. With some reference to an ongoing initiative in whole school development on the basis of education for sustainability called 'Ecologisation of Schools', the present and future relevance of the sustainability debate, with all its inherent dilemmas, uncertainties and confusions, is seen as a breeding ground for promoting innovations in education which might meet and cope with the current social challenges in an active and constructive manner.     

改善农村高等教育的政策建议

随着高等教育大众化进程的推进,我国城乡高等教育差距进一步拉大,农村高等教育的增长情况并没有随着整个高等教育的扩招而迅速扩大。本文通过对农村高等教育现状的分析,找出了制约农村高等教育发展的因素,并在此基础上提出了改善农村高等教育的政策建议。