Equipping novice teachers with a learning map to enhance teaching practice

Using tools to support learning design has been proven feasible in improving the integration of technology into the curriculum. However, novice teachers are faced with two major issues, including their limited experience in learning design and limited ability in using new technologies. Learning map is explored and developed in e-Textbooks to serves as a scaffolding for novice teachers during their development into expert teachers. This paper presents a case study in which learning map is integrated into learning design with associated resources in an e-Textbook authoring environment. The participants were instructed to complete a learning design task for an e-Textbook during a one-hour session and then complete a questionnaire afterward. The results indicate that novice teachers value the learning map for learning design in e-Textbooks regardless of their background in ICT teaching and learning design. Novice teachers adopt positive attitudes toward the use of templates because of their numerous benefits. The teachers also suggested that better quality templates should be integrated into the authoring tool to distinguish the advantage of e-Textbook learning design from that of a traditional book and to provide them with additional options.     

Action learning as an element within an assessed and supported year in employment for newly qualified social workers: a three-role perspective

The assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) is employer-led and provides a programme to support and assess newly qualified social workers (NQSWs) working with children and families and adults during their first year of employment. Action learning was brought into Cambridgeshire County Councils ASYE programme as a 12-month pilot from October 2015 to September 2016, with the view of providing an opportunity for the 55–60 NQSWs to develop critical thinking, problem-solving and leadership skills. This paper gives an account of the journey from the perspective of the roles of the accoucheur and action learning lead, ASYE Programme Lead and Evaluator and identifies key learning points. In writing this paper, the authors acknowledge the contribution of their colleague facilitators and the NQSWs who participated in action learning sets.     

Challenges of adopting constructive alignment in action learning education

This paper will critically examine how the two influential pedagogical approaches of action-based learning and constructive alignment relate to each other, and how they may differ in focus and basic assumptions. From the outset, they are based on similar underpinnings, with the student and the learning outcomes in the center. Drawing from experiences of developing an action-based master program in management with the integration of constructive alignment in its curriculum, the purpose is to reflect on what difficulties emerge when adopting both perspectives simultaneously. Constructive alignment works under the premises that the learning goals can and should be decided beforehand in order to align them with learning activities and examination forms. This view brings a challenge for programs where the means of the learning process is provided, while it is much up to the students’ own responsibilities to drive the learning toward some self-governing and internalized learning outcomes.     

Leveling the playing field in ICT design: Transcending knowledge roles by balancing division and privileging of knowledges

Abstract

This article develops a conceptual model of users’ and designers’ knowledge roles in the information and communication technology design process. The “ideal” center at the intersection of the axes for division of knowledge work and privileging of knowledges represents a balanced distribution of knowledge work between users and designers and an avoidance of privileging either group over the other. The article then applies this model to analyses of the design process for six video games wherein the knowledges of Indigenous peoples in North America were mobilized. It concludes by discussing implications for research and design practice, particularly for broadening the participation and self-articulation of marginalized groups.     

中小城市商业步行街规划建设浅探

目前城市商业步行街建设的热潮折射出现代城市人对适合人尺度的生机勃勃的街道生活的需求回归。中小城市要积极慎重地建设商业步行街,规划建设商业步行街要重点考虑步行街的定位、交通组织、建筑空间和景观设计。     

新形势下医学生人文素质教育面临的困境及可行性对策

高等医学专业学生既要具备扎实的专业知识和临床技能,同时也要具备很高的医学人文素质。人文素质教育对培养新时代兼具深厚的人文素养与高超医术的医学人才至关重要。本文首先阐述了目前医学生人文素质教育的现状,并从人文教育理念、课程设置、师资队伍、教育方式和评价方法、校园文化等几个方面,提出一些有益于医学院校人文素质教育培养、提高医学生人文素质的举措。     

数学实验方法的历史脉络

本文从数学实验的实践出发,拨正对数学实验的误识,运用历史分析、逻辑分析和实证性研究的方法,指出数学实验可分为观察推演法、统计抽样检验法(包括蒙德卡罗方法、生物数学方法、运筹实验法)、模型数值计算和随机模拟法等三大类,并考察每类方法的发展历史和认识论特点。     

技术治理中技术人工物的底层属性逻辑探析

技术人工物的本体属性经过还原后存在多种争议，造成使用者和设计者在对其认知和行为方式上的困扰。本文通过技术人工物的“两重性”和“三重性”的溯源；伦理实在性的前提批判；伦理本体属性的考量和“四重性”的实践进路，四个层面解析技术人工物底层属性逻辑的问题，以期伦理转向视角为技术人工物的技术治理提供一些解决思路。     

科研运行机制研究

本文介绍了机制设计的理论和方法 ,构建了我国科学研究运行机制的框架 ,结合我国科技体制改革的实践 ,着重分析了投资机制、决策机制、评价机制和激励机制。     

高校科研专利管理信息系统设计

主要阐述了建设一套高效的科研专利管理系统,旨在有效地提高专利管理工作的效率,它包括了专利中请、专利受理、专利授权、专利实施各个阶段的法律状态、专利奖励、专利费用、专利纠纷等信息的管理。