Later life learning experiences: listening to the voices of Chinese elders in Hong Kong

Abstract

Governments’ anxieties about ageing populations are mostly concerned with the costs of welfare, care and health provision which all have to be paid for by an ever dwindling working population. However, research in later life learning indicates the significant role that lifelong learning can play in promoting mental well-being and resilience, and in assisting with maintaining personal self-confidence and self-coping strategies that prevent cognitive decline in an ageing population. This paper draws on the research with a group of Chinese elders in Hong Kong, who provide information about their experiences and views on learning in later life, including the meaning of learning, barriers to participation, learning interests, needs, motivations, and instructional preferences. Both quantitative and qualitative findings are reported to shed light on later life learning experiences, which contribute to the global understanding of later life learning and serve to inform the development of policy and practice geared to the planning and provision of opportunities to keep learning at the later stages of life.     

心内科规范化培训教学中融入情景模拟结合案例教学法的探讨

心血管内科疾病病情多变且突发急症多,使规范化培训带教困难,学员思维培养和技能掌握效果较差,因此传统的授课方法难以适应临床教学要求。本课题拟结合心内科疾病的特点,探讨情景模拟结合案例教学法的教学方式在心内科规培中的优越性及可行性。情景模拟结合案例教学能通过分析典型病例,深入理解疾病机制,在讨论中发散学习,形成立体的诊疗思维,并利用情景模拟训练临床技能,适应环境压力,适合心内科住院医师规范化培训。     

大学生素质教育中的自学能力培养探析

对大学生自学能力的培养与素质教育的问题进行综述。探讨了培养大学生自学能力的必要性、可能性及具体方法,这在提倡素质教育的今天具有极为重要的意义。     

论第二语言学习中的回避现象

本文阐述了不同语言学理论对第二语言学习中的回避现象所作的解释,分析了回避现象的消极影响具体表现在词汇、句型、语用等方面,指出在中国外语学习者中,回避现象作为一种学习策略被广泛误用。     

关于采用AGENT技术构建远程教育智能导学系统的研究

介绍 AGENT技术的概念与特点 ,并应用 AGENT技术创建远程教育智能导学系统的基本框架 ,给出 AGENT结构图和导学策略及自学方案自动生成流程图 ,阐述系统的总体设计思路和智能化特征。指出 AGENT技术应用于远程教育网络对解决异质计算环境的协调问题 ,实现主动的智能化信息服务和提供有针对性、前瞻性和颇具个性化色彩的导学服务有重要意义     

微课在数学分析教学中的应用

随着无线网络的全覆盖和手机等移动产品的普及,基于“微课”的学习越来越普遍,“微课”必将成为一种新的适应时代发展的教学模式和学习方法。基于微课小而精、制作简单、形式新颖、学习的时间和地点比较自由的特点,本文探索利用微课辅助教学,拓展教学新方法。     

激发者角色定位与影响激发因素的思考

教师在教学过程中所扮演的角色并非只是简单地进行知识的讲授，而应该是教学过程中的组织者和促进者，是学生学习动机的激发者。教师职业的这一角色定位不仅是由其职业性质所决定，更是由其影响并激励学生方式的特点所决定的。教师要成为一个成功的激发者，应当具有准确地理解学生学习动机、建立平等互动的师生关系和应对各种压力的能力，具备首先能够激发自己动机的素质。     

The engagement agenda,multimedia learning and the use of images in higher education lecturing: or,how to end death by PowerPoint

This article is concerned with student engagement and understanding in large group teaching in Higher Education (HE). Specifically, it is concerned with the application of Multimedia Learning (MML) methods in Politics, History, International Relations, Sociology, Social Work, and Business and Economics teaching that privilege the use of images to complement text in lecture presentations. This ‘visual’ method, it is claimed in the literature, generates engagement and understanding better than text alone. This article develops, applies and empirically tests with students, MML methods across a range of Higher Education disciplines over three years. The research deploys Participatory Action Research (PAR) methods engaging students as active agents of investigation and change. It finds evidence to support the hypothesis that apposite images combined with reduced text increases students’ engagement and understanding with academic content, but that much formal research needs to expand on the range of demographics tested.     

当代新易家的理论建构——评张其成博士后的易学四书

当代新易家的理论建构为 :中华文化的主干既不是儒家 ,也不是道家 ,而是通贯儒道二家的“易道”。易符、易图、象数是“易道”的载体和表达形式。易学与中国传统生命科学紧密结合在一起。消解科学文化与人文文化的对立 ,消解中国文化与西方文化的冲突 ,促进人与自然的和谐、科学与人文的互补、中西文化的融合是当代新易家的追求目标     

Paired peer learning through engineering education outreach

ABSTRACT

Undergraduate education incorporating active learning and vicarious experience through education outreach presents a critical opportunity to influence future engineering teaching and practice capabilities. Engineering education outreach activities have been shown to have multiple benefits; increasing interest and engagement with science and engineering for school children, providing teachers with expert contributions to engineering subject knowledge, and developing professional generic skills for engineers such as communication and teamwork. This pilot intervention paired 10 pre-service teachers and 11 student engineers to enact engineering outreach in primary schools, reaching 269 children. A longitudinal mixed methods design was employed to measure change in attitudes and Education Outreach Self-Efficacy in student engineers; alongside attitudes, Teaching Engineering Self-Efficacy and Engineering Subject Knowledge Confidence in pre-service teachers. Highly significant improvements were noted in the pre-service teachers’ confidence and self-efficacy, while both the teachers and engineers qualitatively described benefits arising from the paired peer mentor model.