论高等教育领域合作伙伴关系模型的构建

本文描述一个可以用来审视和检验教育机构之间合作伙伴关系的理论模型,重点讨论该模型的不同组成成分以及它们之间的相互关系,分析合作伙伴关系建立过程中涉及的各个方面,描述合作伙伴关系的重要特征,特别是发展早期的特征,以及提出评估合作伙伴关系时应该考虑的一系列重要问题.＃     

世界工厂必备--也谈协同软件PLM

在我们日常生活中所接触的，现代生活必不可少的产品当中，电子业的产品远远多于其他行业，对此，我们已经习以为常。电子业生产的器件和终端产品之多，令人惊叹。从最常见的手提电话、笔记本电脑、PDA、计算机和打印机等到那些虽不常见但却渗透了生活方方面面的联网设备、路由器、存储器等。     

Wikis as Platforms for Authentic Assessment

Calls for accountability focus attention on assessment of student learning. Authentic assessment involves evaluating student learning as students perform real world tasks. We present a four-stage conceptual framework for authentic assessment. We argue first that evaluation is a process rather than a static one-time event. Second, authentic assessment involves evaluating experiential learning. Third, multiple evaluators assess student work, including self-assessment or review by a public audience. Finally, authentic assessments offer more learner choice. Wikis, as user-friendly web spaces that support easy web authoring for individuals or for collaborative groups, provide a platform for both student learning and authentic assessment.     

学习对象的整体教育观——再利用问题之未来方向

学习材料的再利用问题是教育领域内正在显露并且十分重要的问题.一般的看法是学习对象在学科上使用,由于其借助了学习内容的模块化,从而为再利用创造了良好条件.从教育视角认识学习对象,可以区分出两种基本的取向:一种是“分析观”,其与当下流行的学习对象教育技术途径完全一致;另一种是“整体现”,目前尚未被充分认识其价值.同样,还有一些与两种认识取向相一致的问题有待于解决:一种是与分析观相匹配的“小问题”,包括了元数据问题、排序问题和交换问题;另一种是与整体现相匹配的“大问题”,包括了情境问题、教育功能问题和一致性问题.目前,强调了一种以重新编辑代替再次利用、中间产品代替最终产品、呈现模板代替给出实体,以及技术上尽力实现自动化为特征的综合途径正在受到重视,有可能成为解决学习对象再利用问题的一个方向.     

Faculty as Learners: Developing Thinking Communities

The shifting demographics of faculty ranks, expansion of faculty work, and the expectations of accountability and revenue production place new demands on today’s faculty. Collaborating with other faculty members is one option for easing workload demands and reinvigorating faculty members in the conduct of their teaching and research. In this article we discuss the importance of collaboration among faculty members in deriving new strategies for the classroom and approaches to research, and we provide suggestions for moving beyond short term collaborations and toward the creation of thinking communities that have the potential to re-energize faculty members and bring passion back to their work.     

Stay tuned next week. The power of social marketing: how Egypt learned about ORS

In Egypt, as in many other countries throughout the world, diarrhea is the number 1 killer of children under 2. The recent medical miracle responsible for battling diarrhea is nothing more than a simple solution of salts, sugar and water, commonly known as oral rehydration solution (ORS). In Egypt, the use of ORS saved an estimated 130,000 infants over a brief period of 2 years, and since 1980, deaths associated with diarrhea have been reduced by nearly 2/3 for children under 2. However, the lives saved in Egypt would not have been possible if mothers, pharmacists, doctors and nurses had not known about ORS and had not used the solution in the proper way at the proper time. The process of education Egyptians about ORS occurred due to the adaptation of commercial marketing methods for socially beneficial ends. The National Control of Diarrehal Diseases Project has managed to get the message out to mothers and medical professionals through a carefully planned communications strategy involving the coordinated use of mass media, market research, and evaluation; and relying on a multiplicity of channels that encompassed the Ministry of Health, medical professionals, the private sector and foreign technical assistants. This article outlines the ways in which social marketing was used to make this project a success.