Engaging excellence? Effects of faculty quality on university engagement with industry

We investigate how universities’ research quality shapes their engagement with industry. Previous research has predominantly found a positive relationship between academics’ research quality and their commercialization activities. Here we use industry involvement measures that are broader than commercialization and indicate actual collaboration, i.e. collaborative research, contract research and consulting. We hypothesise that the relationship between faculty quality and industry engagement differs across disciplines, depending on complementarities between industrial and academic work, and resource requirements. Using a dataset covering all UK universities, we find that in technology-oriented disciplines, departmental faculty quality is positively related to industry involvement. In the medical and biological sciences we find a positive effect of departmental faculty quality but establish that this does not apply to star scientists. In the social sciences, we find some support for a negative relationship between faculty quality and particularly the more applied forms of industry involvement. The implication for science policy makers and university managers is that differentiated approaches to promoting university-industry relationships are required.     

A context-adaptive teacher training model in a ubiquitous learning environment

In view of the discrepancies in teacher training and teaching practice, this paper put forward a context-adaptive teacher training model in a ubiquitous learning (u-learning) environment. The innovative model provides teachers of different subjects with adaptive and personalized learning content in a u-learning environment, implements intra- and inter-group collaboration to facilitate knowledge construction and in-depth study, and promotes reflection with the help of the supervising teacher's review and summarization. To test the effect, the model was applied to a general teacher training. Participants were then given questionnaires and interviews were conducted to assess the effectiveness of the model and attitude. Results showed that the model promoted teachers’ learning effectively, achieved the combination of teacher training and teaching practice. Moreover, teachers held positive attitude toward the model.     

国内外社会法治化管理方略及借鉴

推广国内外社会法治化管理的好经验、好做法,善力提升社会法治化管理水平,这是当前的一个重大的现实课题。鉴于此对较典型的美国、日本以及国内的山东省和江苏省的法治化管理模式进行探讨．以期对提升贵州社会法治化管理水平有一定的参考价值和借鉴意义。     

Potential for teacher collaboration in post-Soviet Ukraine

The purpose of this conceptual paper is to analyze the potential for collaborative relationships in schools in Ukraine. In this paper, I examine the nature of teacher collaboration in schools within a framework of postmodernism as a constructive social theory. To better grasp the deep meaning of collaborative interactions in schools, I use cultural and micropolitical perspective. Further, I turn to the discussion of the potential for collaboration in Ukrainian schools, utilizing the notion of a collective that prevailed in Soviet society and system of education. Implications for establishing collaborative school cultures in Ukraine conclude the paper.     

Motivation in a computer-supported collaborative learning scenario and its impact on learning activities and knowledge acquisition

Addressing a drawback in current research on computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL), this study investigated the influence of motivation on learning activities and knowledge acquisition during CSCL. Participants’ (N = 200 university students) task was to develop a handout for which they had first an individual preparing phase followed by a computer-supported collaborative learning phase immediately afterwards. It was hypothesized that in both phases current motivation (in terms of expectancy and value components) influences both learning activities and knowledge acquisition in a positive way. According to main results, only goal orientations (before learning) were associated with knowledge acquisition respectively observed learning activities during the collaborative phase. Expectancy and value components of current motivation related neither to observed learning activities nor to knowledge acquisition during collaborative learning but were in part associated with learning activities and knowledge acquisition during individual learning. The discussion addresses several possible explanations for these unexpected results.     

Differential effects of problem-solving demands on individual and collaborative learning outcomes

The effectiveness and efficiency of individual versus collaborative learning was investigated as a function of instructional format among 140 high school students in the domain of biology. The instructional format either emphasized worked examples, which needed to be studied or the equivalent problems, which needed to be solved. Because problem solving imposes a higher cognitive load for novices than does studying worked examples it was hypothesized that learning by solving problems would lead to better learning outcomes (effectiveness) and be more efficient for collaborative learners, whereas learning by studying worked examples would lead to better learning outcomes and be more efficient for individual learners. The results supported these crossover interaction hypothesis. Consequences of the findings for the design of individual and collaborative learning environments are discussed.     

体验式教学理念在英美文学教学设计中的应用

本研究重点阐述以体验哲学为基础,以学生为课堂的中心开展英美文学教学、学习活动。运用“合作式”教学和审美体验教学理念设计英美文学课程的教学任务,让学生通过身体和情感的体验不仅提高自身语言能力．而且提高人文素质修养,成为知识建构的主体。     

大数据视域下的虚拟学习社区安全研究——基于门限代理签名的协同学习系统探讨

在＂大数据＂时代,数据管理成为虚拟学习社区面临的重要挑战,而学习资源的数据安全是数据管理的核心。通过文献研究,得出目前大数据的规模和来源;从学习资源共享和保护两方面,分析了大数据对虚拟学习社区产生的新影响和大数据下虚拟学习社区呈现的新特点以及虚拟学习社区面临的安全威胁和挑战。随着大数据海量信息的爆炸式增长,传统的虚拟学习社区资源保护技术和方法力不从心,结合虚拟学习社区的特点和功能,提出了门限代理签名在虚拟学习社区的应用。协同学习作为虚拟学习社区的一种重要形式,成为人们学习、探索知识的有效方式之一;通过分析大数据时代虚拟社区协同学习的分布式特点、新的演变和组成要素,厘清了虚拟学习社区中协同学习的安全需求,提出了基于门限代理签名的协同学习安全保护方案,以期为大数据时代虚拟学习社区提供安全的网络学习环境做出理论的新探索。     

国外战略性新兴产业发展政策比较与借鉴

后危机时代,为了顺应低碳经济、绿色经济和新科技革命的发展潮流,寻求新的经济增长点,世界各国在发展战略性新兴产业方面都进行得如火如荼,特别是美、日、欧盟等对发展战略性新兴产业的重视和政策支持都达到了前所未有的高度。本文对这三个发达国家或经济体在发展战略性新兴产业中的相关政策进行了梳理和总结,最后,对中国战略性新兴产业发展提出了对策和建议。     

载体先行,为海南文化产业人才发展构筑平台

借鉴国内文化产业先进地区载体建设经验,通过设立海南省非物质文化遗产生产性保护示范基地、完善海南国际创意港等园区建设、组建海南省文化投资控股有限公司等,完善海南文化产业载体建设。与此同时,海南要做好人才发展基础性工作,强化人才引进的(文化)产业导向、培育人才成长环境等。