高校思想政治理论课网络资源运用的思考——以毛泽东思想和中国特色社会主义理论体系概论为例

当今世界已进入信息化、网络化的时代。如何运用信息技术提高教学质量,是广大教师关注的重要课题。在人类社会迈向信息化、网络化社会的历史进程中,运用网络资源开展才学活动是教育现代化的重要标志之一。网络资源在教学中的应用,不能简单地看作是一种教学手段或教学方法的运用,它是一场教育思想观念、教学方法手段和教学模式的深刻变革。目前,在思想政治课教学过程中,运用信息网络资源进行高校思想政治理论课教学的主要途径有三个方面：其一是课前对网络平台的运用,其二是课堂上对网上讨论的点评,其三是开展课外思想政治教育。     

网络时代大学生思想政治教育探析

分析了网络与信息时代大学生思想政治教育工作的特点,认为网络信息技术的发展为大学生思想政治教育工作提供了新的机遇,也带来了新的挑战,提出了加强校园网建设,加强校园文化建设,加强网络道德、法制教育等促进网络时代大学生思想政治教育发展的策略。     

P2P中的典型资源搜索算法原理及其性能研究

P2P(Peer-to-Peer)技术是一种新型的网络技术,用户如果想在网络中访问某些数据或者需要某些服务,可以不通过相关的服务器或中间设备,而把依赖分散到网络中参与者的计算能力和带宽,其应用的核心技术是资源搜索机制.本文根据其网络模型特点,分析并研究了四种典型的资源搜索算法原理及性能.     

基于网络视角的90后大学生思想政治教育研究

伴随着计算机和网络技术的发展,90后大学生的思想政治教育遇到了前所未有的挑战。本研究着力于挖掘大学生网络思想政治教育的内涵,分析开展大学生网络思想政治教育的必然性和可行性,准确把握思想政治教育实践中遇到的问题,并提出了具体解决方法。     

HTML5本地数据存储技术研究

随着互联网信息量的迅猛增长,以及B/S架构的应用逐步深入,服务器端存储数据的压力越来越大,传统的Cookies方式已显得力不从心.HTML5通过两种方式:Web Storage和Web SQL Database将一些数据存储在本地客户机,避免了服务器存储容量和网络传送带宽的限制,同时也可以存储较大容量的数据,从而支持网络应用程序的推广和应用.     

基于人工神经网络的玉米价格短期预测研究

为获得更精确预测粮食价格的方法,引入了人工神经网络预测法,建立了一种改进的人工神经网络模型,并通过该模型自学习的特性对已获得粮食价格时间序列数据的波动规律与发展趋势实现记忆性的学习,最终预测出未来价格.结果表明：人工神经网络模型在预测价格问题上具有很高的精度;其方法不仅可行,而且适用性强,预测结果客观、合理,具有一定的研究价值和较好的应用前景.     

Cooperative Learning and the Organization of Secondary Schools

This article describes the inter‐relationship between school organization and classroom instructional style. Two distinct models of school organization, the bureaucratic and open‐systems models, are characterized in terms of three major dimensions of school life; a. the behavior of administrators, teachers and students, b. work design and tasks, and c. space‐time allocations. It is shown that the bureaucratic model of school organization parallels, and sustains, the traditional whole‐class method of teaching in all of the three dimensions. An open‐systems model of staff organization at the school level is required to sustain an alternative form of classroom instruction such as cooperative learning. The approach presented here emphasizes the inter‐relatedness of all three dimensions of schooling at the organizational and classroom levels. It also claims that the implementation of genuine instructional change, that entails new patterns of interpersonal relations in the classroom, is contingent upon similar changes being made at the level of the school as an organization. Lack of attention to school organizational change may explain why efforts at changing instruction at the classroom level frequently fail to yield results.     

Racism and citizenship education in Northern Ireland

Racist attitudes towards, and attacks on, the minority ethnic populations in Northern Ireland (NI) have increased dramatically over the last number of years. Despite the increased media attention regarding racist attacks, the fallacy that racism is not a major problem in NI is an enduring one. However, there is a growing recognition that minority ethnic communities experience a diverse range of racial harassment. Education is a mode promoted by national and European governments as the vehicle in which anti-racism programmes can be delivered. This article suggests the impending introduction of a statutory citizenship education (CE) component to the revised NI curriculum from September 2007 can play an important role in tackling the high levels of racism being experienced by the minority ethnic population in NI.     

Scaling-up Sustainable Land Management Practices through the Concept of the Rural Resource Centre: Reconciling Farmers' Interests with Research Agendas

Abstract

Purpose: Formal agricultural research has generated vast amount of knowledge and fundamental insights on land management, but their low adoption has been attributed to the use of public extension approach. This research aims to address whether and how full participation of farmers through the concept of Rural Resource Centre (RRC) provides new insights for the development of alternative and farmers-based extension methods.

Design/Methodology/Approach: Using the Concept of RRC, this research assesses the role of farmers in on-farm demonstrations and scaling-up of land management practices, and investigates effective ways to enhance beneficial interactions between researchers, extension workers and farmers in view of improving adoption.

Findings: The findings suggest that farmers can effectively participate in demonstrations and scaling-up of agricultural practices. This participation is enhanced by judicious incentives such as higher crop yields that motivate farmers and influence adoption. The current success of the approach stems from the fact that farmers, extension workers and researchers jointly implement the activities and their different aims were achieved simultaneously: scientific results for researchers, better agricultural practices for extension workers, and economic success and free choice for farmers.

Practical implications: This research concludes that farmers have the capacities to play an innermost role in demonstrations and scaling-up of agricultural practices. However, there is a need to build and strengthen their capacities to facilitate their participation and contribution.

Originality/Value: The article demonstrates the value of the preponderant role of farmers in on-farm demonstrations and scaling-up practices by exhibiting the beneficial interactions between researchers, extension workers and farmers.     

A customised Total Quality Management Framework for schools

Abstract

Research has revealed that many of the historically disadvantaged schools in South Africa experience difficulty in implementing policies aimed at restoring the quality of teaching and learning. The difficulty has been attributed to several factors such as poor conceptualisation and implementation of quality management systems at school level. This article reports on empirical research that investigated the possibility of applying Total Quality Management principles in schools for the purpose of restoring the culture of learning and teaching. Data was collected through qualitative and quantitative methods in selected schools situated in the Tshwane North District. The findings revealed that there is a gap between what is provided in the policy framework on the management of quality teaching and learning. It is recommended that in order to fill the gap, schools need to apply customised principles of Total Quality Management. The primary aim of this research was to develop such an integrated framework that is not only theoretically sound but that has been customised for schools’ contexts and conditions.