新建本科高校应用型人才培养模式背景下的就业指导实践教学研究

当前大众化教育时代,新建本科高校迫于形势,纷纷采用应用型人才培养模式,而作为思想政治理论课程体系中实践性较强的就业指导课,应该更新课程结构设置,增加实践课学时,同时建设一支"双师型"教学团队,激发教师积极性,切实提高教师的创造性,确保就业指导课切实为学生求职就业提供指导。     

The Sum Is Greater Than the Parts: Deconstructing Homemade PowerPoint Games

Homemade PowerPoint games are a low-tech alternative for using game design in classrooms. To date, much of the research examining the games has not shown an improvement in performance. This has led some to question whether the games are properly aligned with the instructional strategies researchers have used as justifications to support using them. This study examined how increasing the structure of the game design project affected student performance when compared to control groups, as well as those who created games in previous iterations of the study. In addition, we examined the effects of student performance when two of the instructional strategies (microtheme writing and question writing) were tested in isolation. Most of the comparisons showed no statistical difference in performance; however, results from the final iteration yielded significant gains when compared to the control group.     

Academic workload: the silent barrier to the implementation of technology-enhanced learning strategies in higher education

The effect of technology-enhanced learning (TEL) strategies in higher education has arguably been transformative despite the not-insignificant barriers existing in this context. Throughout the discourse very little attention has been paid to those primarily responsible for this implementation—academic teaching staff. This paper aims to highlight the impact of academic workload allocations, an often silent barrier to the uptake of TEL strategies in higher education. We will discuss the effects of academic identity and culture, preferential time allocation to associative activities, academic technological capacity, university policies and workload and funding models on the uptake, and implementation on TEL in higher education. Our aim is to highlight the risks to staff, students and institutions should these concerns not be addressed and to propose a model for utilisation by all staff responsible for implementing flexible workload models supportive of further implementation of TEL strategies across the sector.     

An investigation of citizenship construction among students in higher education: a Foucauldian perspective

Higher Education - This study, adopting the Foucauldian lenses of citizenship, investigates how a group of students understand the prevailing social discourses and how such understanding and...     

Influence of Public Engagement with Science on Scientific Information Literacy During the COVID‑19 Pandemic

Science & Education - During the COVID-19 pandemic, we are fighting not only the novel coronavirus, but also the “infodemic” induced by the pandemic. Therefore, it is urgent to...     

How do thinking styles and STEM attitudes have effects on computational thinking? A structural equation modeling analysis

Computational thinking (CT) is vital for success in numerous domains. However, the nature, definition, and scope of CT are ill-defined, and research on how best to develop CT is very limited. This study focused on how thinking styles and STEM attitudes have effects on computational thinking. Using a proportionate stratified random sampling procedure, 1195 students from two universities were surveyed. A structural equation modeling analysis showed that students' thinking styles and STEM attitudes directly predicted their computational thinking skills and that thinking styles mediated the relationship between STEM attitudes and computational thinking skills. Thinking styles and STEM attitudes are strong predictors of CT skills. Based on the results, we recommended that the conceptualization of CT be broadened to reflect its trans-disciplinary nature within the context of STEM education. This study adds to the limited theoretical understanding of CT and CT-predictors in higher education, which has been studied much less than in K-12 education.     

An improvement on the transient response of tracking for the sampled-data system based on an improved PD-type iterative learning control

An improvement on the transient response of tracking for the sampled-data system based on an improved PD-type iterative learning control (ILC) is proposed in this paper. The developed analog ILC method and the high-gain property tracker design methodology are first combined to significantly reduce learning epochs and overcome the initial condition shift problem and discontinuous reference input in the traditional ILC. Besides, the proposed ILC improves the transient response and decreases the rate of weighting matrices Q$Q$ to R$R$ under the traditional linear quadratic tracker design. First, the off-line observer/Kalman filter identification (OKID) is used to determine the appropriate (low-) order system parameters and state estimator for the physical system with unknown system equation, so that the model-based PD-type ILC can be implemented for practical applications. Then, to improve the transient response and decrease the control effort, the proportional difference type (PD-type) ILC algorithm is combined with the high-gain property linear quadratic tracker (LQT) design to construct the high performance tracker for the model-based sampled-data systems. Furthermore, the discrete-time version high performance tracker design for the unknown stochastic sampled-data system via the iterative learning control method is proposed in this paper based on the Euler method and the digital redesign approach. Finally, some examples are given for illustrating the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

枢纽-网络结构:区域发展的新组织模式

在自然要素禀赋第一本性和交通区位条件第二本性的支撑下,中国区域发展形成了基于中心地理论的中心-腹地结构。然而,以信息化条件和人力资本为标志的第三本性涌现后,区域发展需要新思想和新模式的指导,枢纽-网络结构适应了这种需要。枢纽-网络结构承认第三本性,遵从区域机会公平的政治逻辑,反映自由发展的经济思想,在扁平化网络组织理论的影响下,重视区域领导力,形成面向整体的专业化分工和一体化协作的区域新格局。     

团购导航网站用户满意度研究

为了对团购导航网站进行较为客观的用户满意度评价,本文在文献回顾、专家咨询、问卷调查的基础上,运用因子分析法归纳出影响团购导航网站用户满意度的五大公因子：网站界面、网站性能、网站信息质量、网站服务、网站形象,并由此建立了相应的评价指标体系。然后以此为基础,提出了运用灰色关联分析法对团购导航网站用户满意度进行测评,并建议结合第三方监测机构的监测数据对导航网站的实际运营情况进行分析,最后利用本文提出的指标体系和研究方法,对3个团购导航网站进行了实证分析。有利于网站运营者从用户角度出发,发现网站存在的缺陷,并为网站改进指明了方向。     

动物学理论教学改革初探

本文通过分析动物学学科特点以及当前动物学理论课教学现状,以激发学生兴趣为目的,从师生关系、教学方法、教学内容和考核体系等方面讨论了改革措施。