Factors affecting the adoption of an e‐assessment system

A case study was conducted in 2006–07 to explore how one US campus implemented a centralised e‐assessment system. The study specifically measured the extent of adoption by faculty members, identified their reasons for adoption and evaluated the impact on teaching and learning. The purposes of the system, entitled researching learning (REAL, a pseudonym), were to measure student learning, meet accountability requirements and assist the university in becoming a learning organisation. An electronic database included programme assessment plans, results and sample instruments. The system also included a peer review process to improve plans by an assessment committee of faculty and administrators.     

知识组织的研究范围及发展策略

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The business of film music in mainstream Nollywood: competing without advantage

This article addresses the business of film music in mainstream Nollywood. It does so by focusing on the materiality of the industry as an institution: its social organisation and systems of film music production; markets; networks; and power relations. Specifically, the arguments rely on social organisational theories, and economic concepts such as vertical integration and market competition alongside inferences from interviews with insider-practitioners. Findings reveal that the Nollywood film music industry is characterised by non-institutionalised vertical integration within a perfectly competitive market in which its film music composers are, essentially, competing without advantage.     

影响我国农村体育发展的非经济因素与对策

农村体育是社会主义新农村建设的重要组成部分,而我国的农村体育事业建设还处于一种发展非常缓慢的状态。制约农村体育发展的首要因素是经济,但经济不是唯一因素,还有大部分非经济因素。对影响农村体育发展的非经济因素进行了分析,并提出了对策:开展喜闻乐见、丰富多彩的体育活动,深入挖掘、开发农村传统体育项目;发挥大众传媒作用,提高各级领导和广大农民对农村体育的认识,建立良好的农村体育发展软环境;加强农村基层体育组织、专业人员队伍建设。     

Learning to Cook: Production Learning Environment in Kitchens

Learning in workplaces is neither ad hoc nor informal. Such labels are a misnomer and do not do justice to the highly-structured nature and complexity of many workplaces where learning takes place. This article discusses the organisational and structural framework developed from a three-year doctoral study into how apprentice chefs construct their knowledge and skill in moving from a novice to a more experienced chef. The processes of knowledge and skill construction were as much aided by the indirect guidance of the production environments of the kitchens as by the direct guidance of the chefs. It is through the space, tempo, routines, hierarchy and workflow of a kitchen, comprising the organisational and structural framework, that many of the opportunities to construct knowledge and skill reside for the apprentices.     

高校虚拟学习社区的组织化——《数字媒体基础》在线教学个案研究

随着高校信息化建设的深入和互联网的飞速发展,校园网已经成为一项基本的教学设施,虚拟社区已经成为校园文化密不可分的一部分,而虚拟学习社区研究也成为网络教学研究的一个重要方面。新的网络传播模式使教学过程中师生的关系趋于平等,学生主动性加强。因此,虚拟学习社区的组织化成为完善网络教学的重要环节之一。本文从组织理论的角度出发,以清华大学的网络课程《数字媒体基础》为案例,通过虚拟学习社区中组织的建构与组织文化的建设,探讨进一步完善网络学习的方式和提高教学质量的途径。     

Looking for their voice: the formation of identity in the new Israeli principals’ organisation

ABSTRACT

Based on an in-depth analysis of newspaper articles and internal documents, in this article I examine the formation of a new collective and glocal identity for the Israeli principals’ organisation, Manhigim, which was established in October 2018. I show how, in the process of establishing the organisation, the leaders formed a collective glocal identity comprised of three distinct identities, namely a labour union identity, a professional identity, and a political identity. These identities respond to the question, ‘Who are we?’ As such, they have relationships to the past, present, and expected future. Each one of the identities is glocally constructed; that is, it is influenced by global norms and values, but also by local problems and concerns. My findings suggest that, by stressing the global values of autonomy, trust, and partnership, the organisation’s leaders facilitated an interesting reformulation of the principals’ professional identities. Moreover, they positioned the organisation as the most knowledgeable and important actor in the Israeli educational field. As such, the glocal identity legitimises the primacy and acceptance of the new principals’ organisation as an integral part of the system of Israeli education policymakers.     

现代远程教育学习中心组织结构设计

在现代远程教育中,学习中心是各试点院校分布各地的为学生提供学习支持服务的基层组织机构,是远程教学和远程学习的活动基地,它的组织结构是学习中心的关键和基础。本文根据学习中心的特点,运用组织结构设计理论,探讨一些现代远程教育学习中心的组织结构设计方案。     

Innovating for a cause: the work and learning required to create a new approach to healthcare for homeless people

Innovation occupies a pivotal place in our understanding of knowledge-based economies, and this is raising questions about sources of innovation, how it originates, and the role played by employees, work practices and learning. This paper explores these issues through case study research into a new approach to providing healthcare for homeless people in England, and by bringing together conceptual insights from the employee-driven innovation literature, and more broadly from social and practice-based learning theory and organisational theory. Applying these perspectives to our case enables illumination of the innovation as a process – not an event – and as an ongoing set of organisational practices that transcend their origins. Through our analysis we argue that the notion of ‘a cause’ is helpful in elucidating the impetus and the commitment to making the innovation happen (and go on happening). Our findings are presented under three themes: ‘establishing a cause’, ‘organising for innovation’, and ‘innovative capability in practice’. Building on these, we have identified five key inter-related dimensions which help conceptualise the work and learning that it took to create and (re-)enact the innovation and that we suggest may have relevance for understanding and characterising other employee-led innovations in and perhaps beyond healthcare.