The virtual class is coming

A long term action research programme initiated in 1987 by the Department of Communication Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, is seeking to develop a virtual class. The virtual class is regarded as the critical component of a new educational paradigm for an information society. The action research programme takes the form of a spiral of cyclical attempts to create a virtual class. Each attempt is seen as a syntagmatic episode of a virtual class paradigm attempted in the light of an existing paradigm. The results of each syntagmatic episode are seen as influencing the further development of the paradigm.     

Competence-based blended learning in building automation: towards a EU curriculum in ‘Domotica’

A competence-based approach was applied to a blended learning on line distance training in the Euroinno EU project aimed at vocational training in building automation. The current paper describes the experience gathered during the learning process and the definition of the curriculum. A number of issues emerged during the sessions concerning regional differences among the various European partners involved in the learning. Refusal to accept e-learning approaches has been considerable among teachers and students in piloting building automation courses, and mainly related to four factors in the tradition of adult education: curriculum tradition, oral tradition, lack of confidence in technical solutions to educational matters and lack of experience with the media.     

论学习型知识理论中虚拟现实技术对管理培训的价值

学习型组织理论是21世纪全球管理的新方向，虚拟现实则是21世纪管理中的主要技术。本文论述了虚拟现实技术的概念和特征，介绍了学习型团队理论中的虚拟团队和虚拟企业，提出学习型组织理论中虚拟现实技术对管理培训的价值有以下三个方面：虚拟现实体现了组织中教育培训的主体价值；虚拟现实为学习型组织提供了良好的学习环境；虚拟现实对知识性和技能性学习具有重要作用。     

基于数据挖掘技术的资源型学习

数据挖掘技术是一个正在迅速发展的新兴领域，受到社会各界的重视，在现今的应用中，数据挖掘技术主要用于商业，军事，工业等领域的决策应用，在本中，我们将通过对数据挖掘技术、知识发现，资源型学习的认识来讨论一种基于数据挖掘技术的资源型学习。     

Being and becoming a university teacher

This study examined how one academic framed the enablements and constraints to her project of being and becoming an academic. Complexity facilitated reflection in that it provided a visual representation of data, which was used to generate a concept map, which represented as equal all the component parts of her landscape. Five spaces with emancipatory potential to assist the academic in her professional development emerged, namely: communities of practice, academic freedom, position statements, development opportunities and a supportive environment. Rather than suggesting any generalisability in the findings, the authors argue that the significance of this study is theoretical and methodological. Complexity theory has the potential to help academic development practitioners understand the landscapes in which their academics operate, and guide appropriate development opportunities.     

Calculating the power of alternative choices by school leaders for improving student achievement

This paper addresses a wicked problem faced by leaders wanting to be evidence informed in their choices of school improvement priorities and the most productive leadership practices to enact in pursuing those priorities. While local contexts will always be central to these choices, results of research ought to provide useful points of departure. But determining what relevant evidence recommends, local context aside, is far more difficult that the admonition to be ‘evidence informed’ seems to imply and the research community has offered few systematic solutions to the problem. This paper offers one possible solution, the calculation of ‘Power Indices’ using, for the purposes of illustration, evidence about the effects of a selected set of potential school improvement priorities (teachers’ emotions) on student learning, in combination with evidence about the effects on teacher emotions of a selected set of transformational leadership practices. Results argue for the value of a unique line of future research enabling school leaders to make choices about both school improvement priorities and how they might best pursue those priorities that systematically reflect the results of relevant evidence.     

学习型社会中的终身教育与终身学习

信息技术革命和知识经济的到来改变着我们所生存的这个世界。学习型社会已经到来,终身教育、终身学习的理念伴随着学习型社会的思潮冲击着原有的社会传统观念。终身教育与终身学习有着相同的理念和目标,但在出发点和侧重点方面又有所不同。终身学习为学习型社会提供了不竭的内在发展动力,终身教育为学习型社会提供了长效的外在支撑体系,二者有机统一在学习型社会之中。     

组合式因素神经网络系统的数学描述

本文对组合式因素神经网络系统的组成结构进行了分析和论述,作出了数学描述.     

如何提高计算机类课程的课堂教学效果

从激发学生学习兴趣及提高学生动手制作能力两个方面,探讨了提高计算机类课程课堂教学效果的方法,对于职业院校理论课堂和实训课堂教学提供参考和借鉴。     

谈“辩”论“当”——墨家辩学与现代论辩理论

墨家辩学是我国古代名辩理论的主要部分。根据墨家辩学中的有关知识,联系现代论辩理论中的“承认”说,可以得到一种认识:进行论辩是为了“争胜”;要能“争胜”,就要注意在论辩中“取当”;所谓“取当”,也就是要注意在论辩过程中谋求“承认”。