Learning and building social capital in a community of family farm businesses

This paper analyses the processes that occur in a ‘learning community’ of Australian family agricultural businesses for evidence of use or generation of stores of social capital. The purpose of analysing processes that use or build social capital is to derive a framework or checklist of stages and characteristics that can be used to analyse the extent of social capital use and generation in other communities. The qualitative design is suitable for a study such as this, which investigates possible relationships and influencing factors concerning learning and changes to farm management practices. Data collection involved observing a learning activity session and interviewing 12 members in a focus group during the session and subsequently 14 individually at their farms. Data were analysed for themes and coded with the assistance of NUD*IST qualitative data analysis software. An understanding of how what is identified as social capital can be built in a formalized learning programme can be used to facilitate social capital building; in other formal learning settings, as well as more widely. The findings of the study reported here and findings from studies of informal learning in geographic communities have contributed to the development of the Centre for Research and Learning in Regional Australia's model of the simultaneous building and use of social capital. The model, presented in this paper, conceptualizes the way in which social capital is used and built in interactions between individuals.     

文学理论课堂研讨式教学的普世力与接地气研究——基于上海政法学院中文专业的实践

研讨班(Seminar)是一种源于欧洲大学高年级学生在教授的指导下进行创见性研究,利于发展学生个性,培养创造性人才的教学模式。我国高校当前在引进这一教学方法过程中,存在表面化、零散化、片面化和前提缺失等缺陷。教师在注重该方法普世力的同时,也要接地气,要根据学校和人才培养目标、遵守课程性质,选择具体教学方式和实施步骤,设计人才能力点和评估和考核方式,从而实现创造性人才的发现和培养。     

大型运动会志愿者培训研究

从近几年我国大型运动会志愿者队伍的招募、培训规划、培训类型与形式、培训内容等方面进行全面深入探讨,并结合我国运动会志愿者培养的特征,从招募制度、选拔程序等层面提出可操作性建议,使志愿者队伍充分发挥其能力为大型运动会提供更好的服务.     

电子商务隐式浏览输入中的用户聚类分析

针对隐式浏览输入中用户信息难以把握、推荐质量难以提高的问题,从用户心理和用户行为出发,定义用户隐式兴趣度,进而得到用户对产品种类的兴趣度,并对其中的难点进行深入剖析。最后研究基于兴趣度的用户聚类分析结果,为推荐系统中的算法研究和推荐输出研究奠定基础。     

Personal records on the web: Who's in charge of archiving, Hotmail or archivists?

This examination of how the general public uses commercially provided e-mail and blog services to keep their personal documents and history supports exploration into how information professionals can assist the general public in archiving their data, with a view to preservation for future generations and historians. An online survey was conducted to gather data on the current status of e-mail and blog usage, users’ perceptions on archiving their contents in e-mail and blogs, and the expectations for and functionalities of archiving tools users find useful or necessary. A total of 345 e-mail and blog users participated in the survey. Participants were found to be well aware of the risk of losing their content in e-mail and blogs, and of the fact that most e-mail and blog services do not provide any method of backing up content. Participants valued the content related to their personal history highly and would have liked to have it preserved; however, they had not located many acceptable tools for preservation. Despite this, information professionals have not been actively engaged in meeting such users' needs.