Making sense of learner and learning Big Data: reviewing five years of Data Wrangling at the Open University UK

Most distance learning institutions collect vast amounts of learning data. Making sense of this ‘Big Data’ can be a challenge, in particular when data are stored at different data warehouses and require advanced statistical skills to interpret complex patterns of data. As a leading institute on learning analytics, the Open University UK instigated in 2012 a Data Wrangling initiative. This provided every Faculty with a dedicated academic with expertise data analysis and whose task is to provide strategic, pedagogical and sense-making advice to staff and senior management. Given substantial changes within the OU (e.g. new Faculty structure, real-time dashboards, two large-scale adoptions of predictive analytics approaches, increased reliance on analytics), this embedded case study provides an in-depth review of lessons learned of five years of data wrangling. We will elaborate on the design of the new structure, its strengths and potential weaknesses, and affordances to be adopted by other institutions.     

Predicting transition and adjustment to college: biomedical and behavioral science aspirants’ and minority students’ first year of college

The purpose of this study is to explore key factors that impact the college transition of aspiring underrepresented minority students in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, in comparison with White, Asian students and non-science minority students. We examined successful management of the academic environment and sense of belonging during the first college year. Longitudinal data were derived from the Higher Education Research Institute’s (HERI) 2004 Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) Freshman Survey and the 2005 Your First College Year (YFCY) Survey. Using a reformulation of the integration model (Nora, Barlow, and Crisp, 2005), we find concerns about college financing, negotiating family support and responsibility, and campus racial dynamics (perceived and behavioral) affect student adjustment and sense of integration in the first year. This study was made possible by the support of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH Grant Number 1 RO1 GMO71968-01. This independent research and the views expressed here do not indicate endorsement by the sponsor.     

Implicit knowledge of general upper secondary school in a bridge-building project

Bridge-building activities are practiced widely in the education systems of Europe. They are meant to bridge transitions between lower and upper secondary school and form a mandatory part of the youth guidance system in Denmark. By giving pupils the opportunity to experience the different educational context of upper secondary school, bridge-building activities are meant to facilitate their decision-making on educational paths, but also to attract more and new groups of pupils. However, the premises of the inherent differences of educational contexts and of pupils’ lacking knowledge of upper secondary education can be questioned. In this ethnographic case study of a bridge-building project in a rural area in Denmark, we analyse the implicit knowledge of the general upper secondary school, as it is practiced in a bridge-building project, and how it is experienced by the pupils on the background of their prior knowledge. The analysis is theoretically informed by especially the code concepts of Basil Bernstein.     

科学计算中辅助技术探讨

科学计算中辅助技术是计算机科学发展到一定阶段而提出的一个很有实际意义的课题．本文针对科学计算过程探讨了工程数据库技术和可视计算技术     

XML安全技术在石材信息检索系统中的应用

XML是一种面向数据的标记语言,具有结构严谨,简单易用等优点,己成为数据交换的标准．本文首先阐述了XML的特点,语言规范和应用领域,然后从XML加密,XML数字签名,以及XML公钥管理技术三个方面对XHL的安全技术进行了讨论。并组建了XML数据交换平台架构．在此基础上,给出了XML安全技术在石材信息检索系统中的应用．以及系统的需求分析和功能模块设计．     

城郊型宗教名山的旅游转型——以木兰山为例

由于人们生活水平日益提高,旅游需求不断变化,单一的旅游功能无法满足游客的需求,旅游目的地的转型升级已成为旅游业关注的焦点问题.通过分析国内城郊型宗教名山存在的旅游问题,探寻此类旅游目的地的升级转型模式,提出了城郊型宗教观光旅游目的地向综合性旅游目的地转型的方向和具体途径.在此基础上,以木兰山为具体案例,给出木兰山旅游的转型方向、模式、方法,期望为城郊型宗教名山的旅游转型提供借鉴.     

基于行波测距的电缆故障测试装置的研究

介绍基于行波测距的电缆故障测试装置的原理、结构及其设计方案。选择C类方法进行实现,设计脉冲发送电路及脉冲接收电路,在高速数据采集的支持下,完成对电缆故障定位。     

基于GIS的中小学应急救援指挥系统的设计

以石家庄市为例,以GIS为平台,结合数据库系统,研究开发了中小学应急救援指挥系统.分析了此系统设计的原则、系统架构及特色、系统功能模块和系统的数据库设计,此系统的使用有利于在突发状态下进行通讯指挥,最大程度地预防和减小灾害造成的损失.     

基于无线数传模块的时钟信息显示系统设计

针对大型公共场合需放置多台同步时钟的问题,提出了基于无线数传模块和GPS的时钟信息显示系统设计方案．它利用GPS实现准确授时、无线数传模块实现数据传输、时钟芯片实现时钟信息的存储和更新、8英寸数码管实现时间显示．该时钟信息显示系统的时间同步于GPS授时,走时准确,安装方便．     

基于DSP的心电信号采集存储系统设计

介绍了一种以TI公司的TMS320LF2407A DSP芯片为核心的实时数据采集存储系统设计方案.该系统通过外接12位AD转换器AD7858来提高DSP采样精度,实时采集病人的心电数据,通过数字滤波处理后可以真实反映病人的心脏健康状况,借助串口电路建立与上位机的通讯.相对于采用PC机和单片机设计的系统,该系统具有功耗小、成本低、实时性强等优点.