论组织理论在高等教育系统研究中的运用

用组织的观点研究高等教育系统应以知识为逻辑起点来进行。工作、信念、权力是用组织的观点研究高等教育系统的三个基本要素。     

美国扶助薄弱中小学的主要措施

美国联邦政府近年来颁布了一系列要求提高中小学办学质量和学生成绩的法案,各州都据此制定了本州的各种改革措施,其中在对薄弱学校的扶助方面,各州都建立了比较完善的机制.本文以其中的四个有代表性的州为例,简要介绍和分析其具体做法.     

“尊重学生”的管理机制

为了使尊重学生的原则落到实处,需要教育管理制度的保证。为此,学校可以尝试在管理机制上进行改进,包括施行组织结构扁平化,内部顾客链和倒金字塔组织模式,双向闭合评价模式。为使这些管理机制有效发挥作用,学校应该从整个制度建设出发系统考虑。     

Why some teachers easily learn to use a new virtual learning environment: a technology acceptance perspective

After a decade of virtual learning environments (VLEs) in higher education, many teachers still use only a minimum of its affordances. This study looked at how academic staff interacted with a new and unknown VLE in order to understand how technology acceptance and support materials influence (perceived and actual) task performance. In an experimental design, 36 participants were split into a control (online help) and experimental (instructor video) condition and completed five common teaching tasks in a new VLE. In contrast to most technology acceptance model research, this study found that perceived usefulness of the VLE was not related to (perceived) task performance. Perceived ease of use was related to intentions and actual behaviour in the VLE. Furthermore, no significant difference was found between the two conditions, although the experimental condition led to a (marginal) increase in time to complete the tasks.     

Peer facilitated writing groups: a programmatic approach to doctoral student writing

Very few empirical studies have investigated programmes in which doctoral students act as peer facilitators in faculty writing groups. We report on the development of a centrally delivered doctoral student writing programme in which twenty student participants were mentored and provided with the resources to initiate their own faculty-based doctoral writing groups. ‘Legitimate peripheral participation’ was used as a conceptual lens to interpret the data collected during the establishment and evaluation of the programme. All student participants in the preparatory training course, which was developed in consultation with postgraduate students and research supervisors, went on to become doctoral writing peer facilitators of peer writing groups. Insights from seven of these showed how a well-structured and supportive programme harnessed the benefits of peer learning by bringing personal rewards to participants and building institutional capacity around doctoral research writing literacies.     

Breaking the tyranny of office hours: Overcoming professor avoidance

ABSTRACT

Studies have found that Faculty–Student Interaction (FSI) has many positive benefits for students including academic support, professional development, mentoring, and career planning. Research-intensive universities exhibit the lowest levels of faculty–student interaction within higher education. This article utilises qualitative methods to explore faculty, student, and staff perceptions of faculty–student interactions, particularly those that take place out of the classroom, at a research-intensive public U.S. university. We identify social distance between faculty and students based on unequal status within a rigid, hierarchically-organised culture as a key barrier to FSI. We then discuss methods that some of the faculty in our study used to mitigate their social distance with students in an effort to increase FSI.     

远程教育学习支持服务满意度调查分析

远程教育机构关注的焦点在于学生的学。本研究把学习者的满意度作为学习支持服务的衡量标尺,从服务对象出发,展开学习支持服务满意度调查。结果表明,学习者对学习支持服务总体上呈现出比较满意的状态。专业对学生满意度影响较为显著;就地域来看,苏北、苏南区域差异变得不甚明显。研究者认为,必须根据学习者的需求,针对学习支持服务中存在的问题,更新理念,投入更多的人力与物力,为建设开放大学打下坚实基础。     

低碳经济与水能资源开发

水能资源作为中国发展低碳经济突出的优势资源之一,其开发需要国家的政策支持：出台支持水能资源开发的具体政策,改变对水电的不公正待遇,建立和实施环境税制度,建立移民分享工程收益机制。     

开放获取对科学研究活动的影响分析

论述了信息开放获取给科研人员和科研机构带来的困扰,分析了现阶段开放获取存在的问题,提出通过制订积极有效的开放获取支持机制,保证和促进开放获取科学研究工作中的健康发展的措施。