CAVEman: Standardized anatomical context for biomedical data mapping

The authors have created a software system called the CAVEman, for the visual integration and exploration of heterogeneous anatomical and biomedical data. The CAVEman can be applied for both education and research tasks. The main component of the system is a three‐dimensional digital atlas of the adult male human anatomy, structured according to the nomenclature of Terminologia Anatomica. The underlying data‐indexing mechanism uses standard ontologies to map a range of biomedical data types onto the atlas. The CAVEman system is now used to visualize genetic processes in the context of the human anatomy and to facilitate visual exploration of the data. Through the use of Java? software, the atlas‐based system is portable to virtually any computer environment, including personal computers and workstations. Existing Java tools for biomedical data analysis have been incorporated into the system. The affordability of virtual‐reality installations has increased dramatically over the last several years. This creates new opportunities for educational scenarios that model important processes in a patient's body, including gene expression patterns, metabolic activity, the effects of interventions such as drug treatments, and eventually surgical simulations. Anat Sci Ed 1:10–18, 2008. © 2007 American Association of Anatomists.     

Global virtual teams in education: Do peer assessments motivate student effort?

During the last decade, global virtual teams have become increasingly common in academic and work settings. Considering the recent global pandemic, now they seem to be more the rule than an exception. Drawing on expectancy theory and using a latent growth model approach, this paper investigates the relationship between peer assessments and student individual effort to complete a given task. The analysis of these two variables as parallel processes indicates that the more abrupt the decrease in peer assessments, the steeper the positive rate of change in effort in the context of global virtual teams. This longitudinal study suggests that peer assessments are a useful and effective means to boost global virtual team members’ individual effort. The paper concludes with implications and recommendations for researchers, managers and educators who use global virtual teams in education and practice.     

虚拟空间中的游离:大学生“在线逃课”的质性研究

大规模在线教学一定程度上突破了时空的局限,但相比线下课堂,逃课现象更为突出且多样。基于逃课学生访谈内容的分析发现:大学生线上逃课主要有"借机为乐、边听边玩","听觉在场、家务缠身","身体出场、听觉游离","身心游离、全然缺场"四种形式;虚拟教学空间的监控力弱、繁杂的家庭事务、自律性不强形成的逃课惯习是大学生线上逃课的主要原因;面对教师的管控,学生往往采取"自救"和"共谋"的应对策略;逃课学生的学习效果和学业成绩皆受到严重影响。     

土力学虚拟三轴实验教学平台的开发及应用

基于现代信息网络技术,自主研发了多层次和多模块的土力学虚拟三轴实验教学平台,解决了传统三轴实验教学中存在的仪器设备数量不足、实验周期长、限制多等问题。利用虚拟实验平台,探索了虚实结合的实验教学模式,拓展了实验教学的时间、空间和深度,激发了学生的学习积极性和主动性。通过平台反馈信息,可以实时评估教学效果,有效提高了实验教学质量和水平。     

扩招后我国高等教育资金筹措机制研究

1999年之后,中国高等教育经历了跨越式的发展。高校规模的数量性扩张,给高等教育财政带来了怎样的冲击?同时,这种变化将给高等教育机构的运作行为,尤其是高等教育质量的维持与提高造成怎样的影响?本文将聚焦于高等教育资金的筹措机制,对扩招后我国高等教育的财政拨款模式、资源配置、学费定价、不同类型高校的资金筹措行为及其背后隐含的问题进行剖析与思考。     

金属矿山岩石力学与安全开采虚拟仿真教学实验中心建设与教学实践

传统的实验教学内容已经不适应新形势对创新人才能力培养的要求,不能体现时代特色和新的教育观念,缺乏理论联系实际的有效方法。虚拟仿真实验不但可以获得与真实实验相同的体会,而且可以规避真实实验或操作可能带来的各种危险,还可以打破时空限制。在保证教学效果的前提下还可以极大地节省成本,具有传统实验室难以比拟的优势。通过金属矿山岩石力学与安全开采虚拟仿真实验教学中心的建设,我们对传统的教学内容实施大刀阔斧的改革,在发展的过程中始终遵循"物理实验与虚拟实验并重"、"校内学习与校外实践并重"、"科学研究指导教学实践"、"理论学习与工程应用并重"的教学理念,走出一条产学研有机结合的新路。让学生主动参与虚拟实验的设计和开展创新型实验,有利于创新人才能力培养,也有利于实现"教与学的互动、理论与实践的结合、能力与兴趣的共增"的教学目标。     

Post-qualitative line of flight and the confabulative conversation: a methodological ethnography

This paper is a methodological ethnography aiming to highlight the difficulties in using conventional methods in connection with an explorative philosophy; Deleuze and Guattari’s. Taking an empirical point of departure in conversations about the future with students in upper secondary school, the struggle to find a scientifically valid label through the focus group interview is outlined. However, combining the particular philosophy with a conventional qualitative method turned out to be an impossible aim since the ideals of the focus group interview departures in the image of stable subject simultaneously as the method is blemished by positivistic language and standards. By turning to post-qualitative research, which encourages new concepts and methods, the confabulative conversation was produced. Within these confabulative conversations, the aim has been to create a methodologically smooth space in order to enable movements beyond manifested knowledge in favor of the virtual and the not-yet-seen, and thus producing possibilities for something new.     

连云港职业技术学院虚拟校园的设计与实现

虚拟校园的建立能够全方位地、直观地给人们提供有关校园的各种具有真实感的场景信息,并可以以第一人称的身份进入校园,感受到与实地观察相似的真实感.基于VRML技术的虚拟环境用于虚拟校园,建模是很重要的一步.利用3DS MAX可视的三维建模能力,结合VRML语言构造虚拟校园,可以实现用户与虚拟场景的互动.     

虚拟现实技术支持下的情景学习

情景学习在培养学生高级思维、促进知识迁移和培养积极情感等方面有着无可比拟的优势，而虚拟现实技术则为情景学习提供了有力的技术支持，弥补了情景学习条件的不足，为情景学习提供了一个更广阔的天地。