与学习进阶相适宜的科学探究课程方案述评

美国的科学探究课程IQWST提供了把科学探究学习进阶理论转化到教学实践的有效方式。其开发理念为:依据学习进阶框架确定课程目标,以"驱动问题"为线索设计、组织课程内容,强调科学知识和科学实践能力共同进阶。这启发我们在落实以"核心素养"为目标的课程改革中要注重知识的部分与整体的联系,课程中合理设置科学实践活动,做好科学探究课程与传统课程的结合。     

新工科内涵式发展理念的本质溯源

本文结合汕头大学OBE-EIP-CDIO工程教育改革实践对工程教育体系的系统性与科学性进行了再认识,建立了由课程教育体系,去"非工程化"实践教育体系,支撑体系,评价体系,统筹发展体系等构成的融合创新体系模型。基于体系构成与逻辑的分析以及新工科纲领性文件研究,指出新工科内涵式发展本质要求在于教育系统对新需求响应的快速性与定位精准性。结合新工科范式转换理论研究,文中指出工程教育系统的系统性与科学性是新工科专业建设的必要基础和先决条件。这些分析有助于厘清新工科发展理念中的模糊界限与争议,更重要的是为指导新工科具体实施提供了明确的手段和方法。     

军民融合与高等教育发展的互动关系

高等教育正成为军民融合深度发展的关键主体。军民融合为高等教育提供了新的平台与技术转移阵地、新的创新生态系统和创新发展机遇;高等教育则为军民融合提供了关键的人才资源、科技生产力和创新动力保障。当前高等教育的军民融合参与应着力解决思想观念、顶层统筹统管体制、政策法规和运行机制、工作执行力度等4方面核心问题,不断提高军民融合参与的广度、深度、强度和厚度。     

基于OBE理念,构建通识教育课程教学与评估体系——以清华大学为例

国内高校积极探索实现通识教育的路径已有多年,但其效果在一定程度上仍然受到质疑。课程是实现通识教育的主要载体,清华大学在探索构建通识教育课程体系过程中,尝试性地采用了工科教育中广泛使用的成效基准教育理念与能力导向课程设计来分析当前我国大学通识教育的课程建设,指出通识教育众课程与通识教育目标之间欠缺逻辑对应的普遍性问题。本文重点介绍了清华大学通识教育课程建设中的困惑和设想,探讨了如何锚定与对应课程与能力目标之间的逻辑关系。本文建议高校在通识教育初建阶段将引入OBE框架以及能力导向课程设计理念可作为一种选择,此举有助于厘清大学通识教育在本科教育中的定位与通识课程之间的逻辑和结构关系。     

从应用理科到“新工科”

当前高等教育"新工科"建设的讨论中,从"应用理科"延伸出"新工科"被认为是一种可行的方案。本文分析了"理科"和"工科"的关系和区别,并从此角度探讨了由上述方案可能引出的问题及其解决途径。文章指出,从"应用理科"衍生出来的"新工科"在教育教学上必须增加新的工科要素或"基因";其中特别强调了由"创造人所需的有用物"的"工程"定义及其"多源"的综合性质所引发的"设计"与"融合"在教学上的重要性。笔者阐述了北大早年尝试建设新工科的经验教训并对此加以了说明。结合新经济所要求的"四新",文章分析了"融合"在"新产业"中的作用,据此提出了在建设新工科的课程体系中贯彻"融合"的一些原则建议。同时,文章还阐述了实践对新工科教育的重要性,并就"学产研"结合之途做了多方探讨。     

Spatial Discovery of Linked Research Datasets and Documents at a Spatially Enabled Research Library

Current publishing practices in academia tend to result in datasets that are difficult to discover. This is because datasets are not well-integrated across academic domains and they are often not linked to the documents that reference them. For these reasons, discovering datasets across domains can be challenging; for example, discovering archeological observations and biological specimens using the same search is not widely supported, even if both datasets share a similar spatial extent, like Mesoamerica. It is also challenging to retrieve relevant documents that reference datasets; for example, retrieving a series of field reports that reference archeological observations is typically not supported. Our work develops an extensible method for: (1) geographically integrating collections across disciplinary repositories and (2) connecting datasets to related documents. We describe a collection of spatially-referenced researcher datasets, capturing their metadata elements and encoding them as linked open data. We then leverage existing library services to formalize links from datasets to documents. The system described in this work has been deployed, resulting in an experimental open data site for the UCSB campus. Results indicate that this system can be scaled-up with support from an institutional repository in the near future.     

新课改背景下教师权威的消解与重构

随着新课程改革的不断推进，教师权威受到严峻的挑战。教师权威的存在是客观且有其合理性的。新课程消解了教师的知识权威、传统权威和法定权威。重建教师权威，需要从转换教师角色、改善知能结构、完善人格等几个方面着手。     

Suggestions for the "Integration in Multiple Certificates" Curriculum System Construction

Business English professional "Integration in Multiple Certificates" refers to these two kinds of certificates——a diploma and vocational certificates. Business English curriculum design unified vocational qualification certificate with professional training objectives. Basis on the meeting of requirements of certificates for graduation, making professional training contents, curriculum,teaching methods together with vocational training and the requirements of professional qualification certificates.     

Finding the common ground: Teachers' and employers' representations of English in an assessment context

There has been a long‐standing debate about how ‘English’ can be defined. Educational policy changes have typically been driven by differing representations of the subject, and have ranged from broad ‘aesthetic’ definitions to more narrow ‘functional’ views. The present study aims to analyse areas of consensus and contention in stakeholders' discourse regarding English. A questionnaire‐based survey and focus groups were used to explore how teachers and employers viewed English as a subject. Their views were conceptualised into three themes: the importance of functional English; English as atomistic versus holistic study; and English as critical thought. These themes are discussed in relation to historical definitions of ‘English’, and their implications for the future reform of English qualifications.     

Six into One: The Contradictory Art School Curriculum and how it Came About

This article reports historical research which sought to understand the present‐day post‐secondary art curriculum through analysing its history in terms of changes in conceptions of art. It found that there have been six distinctive curricula: Apprentice, Academic, Formalist, Expressive, Conceptual and Professional. As a new curriculum has been introduced, it has co‐existed with much contained in a previous one. Most of the curriculum changes have taken place in the past 65 years. During this time, there has been a massive expansion in the education of artists and at the same time art schools accommodated first modernism and then post‐Duchampian aesthetics. A conclusion is that this has made for a very crowded curriculum. Moreover, despite there being an ever increasing choice of things a student might learn, it appears that there is nothing which all students have to learn. It can be problematic that one part of the curriculum is in contradiction to another part, and moreover this lack of a core raises fundamental, ontological questions about what art as a discipline is.