Citizens as planners: Harnessing information and values from the bottom-up

In this paper, we focus on understanding the critical role of everyday citizen in planning and policy-related issues in their city enabled by the newly emerging technological platforms such as mobile-based application and internet-based participatory platforms. The interest and capability of citizens to use and benefit from such online platforms that facilitate urban planning has grown in recent times, which makes it important to study the nature of these platforms and civic engagement that is facilitated through them. We study three such platforms and provide policy recommendations to urban planners based on our analyses of the platforms.     

The potential role of citizen conservation in re-shaping approaches to murals in an urban context

Public visual spaces, populated by a blend of community murals, unauthorised street art, and historic painted mercantile signs, are often the mark of an urban environment that is both progressive and eclectic. Changes in the aesthetic and cultural value of these urban mural forms have led to an increase in the appreciation and, in some instances, promotion of their artistic merit and cultural significance as examples of public art. However, examining the significance of these works, with a view to implementing a conservation approach is problematic. This is due to a number of practical and theoretical considerations that are primarily a result of the ephemeral existence of urban murals outside conventional exhibition spaces, and issues associated with their often fragmented ownership and uncertain authorship. Consequently, larger thinking on the interpretation, conservation assessment, and advocacy for the conservation of urban murals are required. Key to defining and implementing such strategies is contextualising the public visual spaces that these murals occupy and, as part of this, the local and wider communities’ perception of these murals as culturally significant objects as well as fostering awareness and understanding of appropriate measures aimed at their conservation. This paper examines the role of citizen science, or crowd-sourcing, of local community members in establishing a conservation dialogue and generating conservation- relevant data on urban murals. It looks specifically at a project involving a collection of in situ historic painted mercantile signs — also known as ghost signs — in the City of Port Phillip, Melbourne, Australia. The project fostered the establishment of an informed and open dialogue between conservation specialists and participants from the local community on the significance of local ghost signs whilst transferring knowledge on conservation processes and assessment methods. Working directly with community members, a programme was designed in which conservation and community knowledge of these urban art forms, could be collected and exchanged across digital platforms. This enabled researchers to examine how citizen science can be utilised as a research tool as well as a means to advocate for the conservation of collections of urban murals. It created the opportunity to consider the role of non-specialists and shared authorities in the collection and collation of conservation- relevant data and how information generated from what we call citizen conservation projects, can inform the way in which conservators evaluate and prioritize the conservation of urban cultural heritage. The data gathered and interpreted proved to be the most effective means of ‘conserving’ these often ephemeral forms of cultural material.     

基于开发社区的软件研发实训平台的建设

通过开发社区开展软件研发实训教学,探讨基于开发社区的软件研发实训平台的建设思路、建设内容及建设方法,使学生能有效地利用校内外资源参与真实项目研发,从而获得大量的实训机会,以培养学生的专业能力、方法能力和社会能力。     

科技期刊数字出版平台建设的思考与建议

在当前复杂的国际局势下,推动我国科技期刊数字化转型升级,建设世界一流科技期刊的任务显得更为紧迫。科技期刊数字出版平台的建设已成为共识并有了诸多实践,但科技期刊数字出版平台的功能定位与建设方向并未明确。本文总结我国科技期刊数字出版平台建设的现状,参照国外科技期刊平台的建设经验,结合国家发展战略与数字技术发展趋势,提出了科技期刊数字出版平台建设新思路,即推动科技期刊数字出版平台建设,将其纳入新型基础设施建设计划,由政府部门规划、布局并投资建设统一的科技期刊大数据中心和云计算中心,由专业技术公司提供数字技术服务,再由科技期刊根据自身需要,订制符合需求的采编系统、出版系统和知识服务系统,以形成符合时代发展趋势的科技期刊综合数字出版平台。     

高校思政课网络教学平台的途径探析

网络的普及给思政课教学带来了很大的影响,因此思政课教学改革中如何利用网络平台拓展课堂空间,激发学生的学习主动性和积极性,为思政课教学增强实效性成为亟待解决的问题。     

基于网络教学平台的艺术类高职院校信息化教学实践的研究

高速发展的互联网给我国高等职业教育的信息化教学模式改革带来了极大的发展契机。文章以网络教学平台为载体,在艺术类高职院校中应用信息化教学,打破了以往艺术类高职院校传统的教学模式,实现现代课堂教学的完全翻转,充分调动了艺术类高职学生学习的积极性和创造性,提高了艺术类高职教育教学质量,创新了艺术类高职教学模式,使艺术类高职课堂教学充满了活力和吸引力。     

浅谈农业科研院所科技平台建设与发展

立足于新时期科技平台发展现状,分析了农业科技平台在现代农业发展中的科技支撑作用,结合中国农业科学院科技创新工程,以中国农科院农业资源与农业区划研究所为例,讨论了近年来的研究所科技平台建设进展,提出了科研院所科技平台建设与管理中存在的问题,思考新时期、新形势下科技平台创新发展方向,为相关科研院所的科技平台建设与发展提供借鉴与参考。     

高校信息化三大平台建设路径探讨

教育信息化是教育现代化的重要内容,是实现教育现代化的重要步骤,对教育的发展具有重要意义,三大平台的建设是教育信息化的具体实施举措.本文针对高校信息化三大平台建设中的问题,根据教育现代化建设目标,探索高校教育信息化三大平台的建设路径.     

安徽省全民健身信息化平台建设研究

针对安徽省全民健身信息化平台建设进行研究,通过建立数据库,发展网络技术整合全民健身资源,实现覆盖面广,全省互联互通,资源共享的全民健身网络信息服务开放型平台,从而使广大健身者更快、更便捷的获取健身信息,更好地服务于广大群众,为建设安徽体育强省服务。     

在线开放课程下混合式教学学习效果的研究--以“数据库基础”课程为例

本文以"数据库基础"课程为例,以学习者的学习过程和教学者的教学活动为研究对象,经过两个周期的在线开放课程建设后,根据教学数据进行统计分析,研究结果表明,采用在线开放课程进行混合式教学的学生成绩与没有参加过的学生成绩具有显著性差异。在线学习活动的完成率和正确率与学习者最后的考试成绩有较强的相关性。