“Montrose” child life protection unit: A treatment and assessment model in child abuse intervention

In New South Wales, Australia, the Department of Youth and Community Services is empowered by statute to deal with cases of child abuse and neglect. Its child protection services include the Montrose Child Life Protection Unit which is designed to support and complement the work of both the Intake Service, Field Service and most importantly the work of child protective facilities in the community. The service has intake crisis counselling and call out resources; maintains a central register; provides a facility for crisis residential care for children and families, diagnostic assessment, and a day programme. The emphasis in service delivery in New South Wales in the area of child protection is on multidisciplinary intervention. The Department of Youth and Community Services is involved in promoting interagency cooperation and co-ordination. Over and above a philosophy that underlies service delivery is the Montrose Unit's involvement in sensitising the community to the difficult and often demanding role of parenting. Montrose represents an attempt to create an environment where parenting myths can be examined from a reality base and strategies implemented for reeducation.     

资源与服务质量认证是促进优质数字化资源建设和应用的有效途径

数字化资源和学习服务的质量是影响信息化教学效果的关键。采用评估或者评优的方式对数字化资源和学习服务进行评价是一种关注事物结果、事后的、教育系统内部的自我评价。目前国际上越来越流行的质量认证,从第三方角度,关注事物发展过程,能通过对资源开发和服务过程的规范和改进,促进优质数字化资源的建设和应用,间接达到提高信息化教学质量的效果。开展数字化资源开发与服务质量认证,要在正确认识认证的基础上,建立科学、合理、统一、与时俱进的指标体系,成立可持续发展、针对性强、良性竞争的第三方认证机构。     

现代远程教育校外学习中心模式及对自学考试的启示

我国的现代远程教育经过近十年的发展,已经取得了很大的成绩。校外学习中心模式已经逐步建立起来,并已成为支撑远程教育的重要形式之一。校外学习中心模式吸收了国外开放大学学习中心模式的精髓,有着明显的中国特色。本文从"学习中心"的起源、职能、运行模式等方面对校外学习中心模式进行了全面的分析,并提出该模式对自学考试完善社会化学习支持服务体系在两方面有重要启示作用。一是,校外学习中心市场化的运作模式及其组织保障系统;二是,服务的思想和力度可以通过学习中心模式得到更好的实现和加强。     

开放会计市场急需解决的几个问题

开放我国会计市场 ,急需转变观念 ,增强风险意识 ;健全行业考试制度 ,提高整体水平 ;完善交易规则 ,加快法制建设 ;鼓励会计师事务所联合 ,走规模经营之路 ;建立会计信息中心 ,实现资源共享。     

基层电大远程开放教育环境下必要的学习支持服务

随着远程开放教育的发展，如何为学习提供完善的学习支持服务已成为教育机构着手研究的重要课题。本在基层电大实践的基础上就此提出了自己的一些看法。     

创新教育与高校图书馆信息服务关系研究

随着创新教育的深入开展，培养创新人才已成为时代赋予高等学校的历史使命，同时．也为高校图书馆的发展提供了良好的发展机遇。图书馆应根据学校教育改革的步伐不断调整自己的服务，将图书馆的文献信息服务推向一个更新更高的层次，与学校主教学院系共同担负起培养社会需要的创新人才的重任，才能够不负时代的重托。     

商务网站建站方式比较分析

自助建站、虚拟主机、主机托管等建站方式是目前最主要的网站架设方式,在实际应用中这些建站方式在技术、资金、人才等方面的要求上有很大差别,企业在进行建站方式选择上要充分了解它们的特点.     

Distributing and Showing Farmer Learning Videos in Bangladesh

Purpose: To describe the results of showing farmer learning videos through different types of volunteers.

Design/Methodology/Approach: Semi-structured interviews with volunteers from different occupational groups in Bangladesh, and a phone survey with 227 respondents.

Findings: Each occupational group acted differently. Shop keepers, tillage service providers, agricultural input and machine dealers reached fairly small audiences. Tea stall owners had large, male audiences. Non-governmental organisations and community-based organisations, reached more women. The cable TV (dish-line) operators showed the videos on local TV, but some were reluctant to do so again. The Union Information Service Centres showed the videos and reached women viewers. Half of the official government extension agents surveyed also showed the videos publically.

Practical Implication: This video featured maize, wheat and rice seeding machinery. Because the machinery is complex and requires hands-on training, this first video aimed to expose tillage and sowing service providers and farmers to the machinery, without trying to teach them how to use it. But some farmers were so interested that they watched the video many times to learn more about the equipment. Before farmers and service providers decide to buy machinery for direct seeding, they still want to see and learn from demonstration plantings, to examine first-hand how the crop behaves when planted with the new equipment.

Originality/Value: Video can be an effective way of sharing high-quality information with a large audience, if properly distributed.     

Virtual and Dynamic Hierarchical Architecture:an overlay network topology for discovering grid services with high performance

INTRODUCTION Grid (Foster et al., 2001) technology is one ofthe most important ones to appear in recent years.The recent big progress is that scientists (Foster etal., 2002; Roure et al., 2001; Rana and Walker,2002) proposed service-oriented architectures suchas Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) (Fos-ter et al., 2002) that integrated the so-called com-putational/data Grid architecture (Foster et al.,2001) with Web services (Grid Web ServicesWorkshop, 2001). In the service-ori…     

数字参考服务若干问题研究

文章论述了数字参考服务的概念与内涵，以及数字参考服务的三种基本方式，指出了未来数字参考服务的发展趋势，认为提供个性化服务是未来数字参考服务的核心方向与目标。