Helping patrons find locally held electronic resources: An interlibrary loan perspective

The University of North Texas Libraries provide extensive online access to academic journals through major vendor databases. As illustrated by interlibrary loan borrowing requests for items held in our databases, patrons often have difficulty navigating the available resources. In this study, the Interlibrary Loan staff used data gathered from the ILLiad interlibrary loan management system to investigate why patrons request locally available materials. This study resulted in recommendations for the Libraries' linking strategies in EBSCOhost databases. Several user education needs were identified and communicated to the Libraries' Subject Liaisons.     

从情感维度整合中学物理教学探讨

教育的根本价值在于促进学生素质的全面发展,然而,现实教育中所存在"重知轻情"的教学失衡状况令人堪忧.本文以情感教育思想的历史渊源和时代展望为起点,浅析我国中学物理情感教学的现状,以新一轮课程改革为契机,整合各种教学资源,提出以情感因素优化中学物理教学的几点建议.     

初中理科教学中的情感培养

初中理科教学中,落实情感目标存在着重认知、轻情感;功利主义;学习缺乏吸引力等现象。其原因有教师方面的,也有考试评价方面的。要使情感目标落到实处,课堂教学过程是关键,同时评价方式与内容力求多元化,以及提高教师的自身素质。     

从一个Jigsaw活动看任务型教学

本文在介绍Jigsaw的有关信息的基础上，结合作者自己编写的Jigsaw来看它在任务型教学中的应用及与任务型教学的关系。     

The Florida Geographic Data Library: Lessons Learned and Workflows for Geospatial Data Management

The University of Florida GeoPlan Center has been organizing, standardizing, and distributing geospatial data since 1998 through the Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL), a collection of Florida geospatial data from various agencies, as well as data developed in-house. With funding from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), FGDL serves as a public distribution mechanism for hundreds of Florida geospatial data layers. Since 2004, FGDL layers have formed the data foundation for FDOT's interagency application known as efficient transportation decision making (ETDM), which facilitates the review and permitting process for proposed transportation projects. Data layers are standardized and inspected to ensure that the data are adequate for use in analysis and decision making. To efficiently manage the geospatial data and workflows, a quality assurance/quality control (QAQC) process and relational database schema was developed to track the standardization procedures, lineage, versioning, and archiving of the data layers. This article details the history of the Florida Geographic Data Library, challenges of managing a large geospatial data repository, development of a QAQC process and database schema, and lessons learned.     

Enhancing Teaching and Learning: Libraries and Open Educational Resources in the Classroom

Academic libraries continually adjust services to adapt to the ever-changing landscape in higher education. In response to the broken textbook market, libraries are becoming actively involved in the open educational resources (OER) movement. Although there is not a formal program in place, librarians at Utah State University explored a collaborative approach to integrate OER in faculty members' courses. One goal of the effort was to work closely with faculty to consider course objectives and learning outcomes when evaluating and incorporating OER. This article identifies a streamlined process for targeting courses most suited for OER adoption and outlines a process of collaborating with teaching faculty to integrate relevant OER. The paper includes a detailed workflow that other libraries can easily adapt to make OER part of their faculty outreach toolkit.     

Teaching Them to Teach: Programmatic Evaluation of Graduate Assistants’ Teaching Performance

Academic libraries are one of the most important sources of “on the job” training for future library instructors. Librarians who supervise and assess these future library instructors (often in graduate assistant positions) often choose to provide observations and feedback each semester to these instructors in training. Scholarly literature, however, provides little information on whether this system helps graduate assistants to develop as teachers. The authors of this article assessed graduate assistants’ performance as teachers over three semesters using a system of observation and self-assessment. They analyzed both patterns and areas of growth and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this system.     

大学修辞教学改革初探

大学修辞教学要达到教学大纲的要求,必须打破“辞格中心论”,突破句子的分析界限,使大学生摆脱旧的修辞观念的束缚。同时,还应当注意教学方法的多样化,才能使大学生的语言交际能力得到全面提高。     

高师声乐课教学模式改革试探

要提高学生的整体音乐素质，有一个十分重要的环节必须特别加以重视，即应改革音乐教学模式。突出主体性，并利用“微格教学”，拓宽教学内容，这样才能培养出高素质和开拓型的音乐教育人才。     

中国现代远程教育质量论略

远程教育的教学质量应该由开展远程教育的机构、参加远程教育的学习者、社会来认可,而三者对教育质量的标准的认同必须统一。认定远程教育的质量标准是一项较为复杂的工作,需要经过科学研究,由国家权威部门制定或由行业制定国家认可的标准,同时由相关部门组成专家对开展远程教育的机构、学院进行经常性的评估。