The spirit that always denies     

Tony Hafliger 《Higher Education Quarterly》1986,40(3):294-302

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Specific Learning Difficulties (Dyslexia): Equal Opportunities Issues     

Tony Cline  Rea Reason 《British Journal of Special Education》1993,20(1):30-34

Their article raises important questions concerning the lack of attention to issues of equal opportunity in the literature on specific learning difficulties. The authors identify five objectives for professional practice and research.  相似文献   

The Right to Teach, the Right to Learn     

Laurie Bush  Tony Hill 《British Journal of Special Education》1993,20(1):4-7

Believe that the findings and recommendations of the Elton Committee have much to offer schools for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties, as well as mainstream schools. They outline the way they have introduced 'assertive discipline' into behaviour management policy of the school.  相似文献   

Letters to the Editor     

James Graham  Peter T. Farrell  Tony Best  Gerda Hanko  Helen Robinson 《British Journal of Special Education》1993,20(2):70-71

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The Curtain Falls     

Stuart Pickford 《English in Education》1986,20(3):39-39

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Lord Salisbury and the Politics of Education     

Tony Taylor 《Journal of educational administration and history》1984,16(2):1-11

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An empirical investigation of factors influencing the adoption of data mining tools     

Tony Cheng-Kui Huang  Chuang-Chun Liu  Dong-Cheng Chang 《International Journal of Information Management》2012

Previous studies explored the adoption of various information technologies. However, there is little empirical research on factors influencing the adoption of data mining tools (DMTs), particularly at an individual level. This study investigates how users perceive and adopt DMTs to broaden practical knowledge for the business intelligence community. First, this study develops a theoretical model based on the Technology Acceptance Model 3, and then examines its perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and its ability to explain users’ intentions to use DMTs. The model's determinants include 4 categories: the task-oriented dimension (job relevance, output quality, result demonstrability, response time, and format), control beliefs (computer self-efficacy and perceptions of external control), emotion (computer anxiety), and intrinsic motivation (computer playfulness). This study also surveys the moderating effect of experience and output quality on the determinants of DMT adoption and use. An empirical study involving 206 DMT users was conducted to evaluate the model using structural equation modeling. Results demonstrate that the proposed model explains 58% of the variance. The findings of this study have interesting implications with respect to DMT adoption, both for researchers and practitioners.  相似文献   

Academic Development as Academic Work     

Tony Harland  David Staniforthb 《International Journal for Academic Development》2013,18(1-2):25-35

In this paper the authors reflect on their experiences of being academic developers and suggest how our profession might advance in the future. Our inquiry focuses on academic development and how we can support our clients more effectively. We propose that the profession of academic development should aim for academic status with many more research‐active staff contributing to its knowledge base. If this profession were located within the already recognized research field of higher education, we believe a number of potential benefits could accrue. These include a new level of professional standing, greater efficiency in our universities and a more substantial academic development community. Our thoughts and arguments on the nature of our work are framed within a discussion of professional identity, knowledge and academic freedom.  相似文献   

Out of the ordinary: recapturing the liberal traditions of a university education through field courses     

Tony Harland  Rachel A. Spronken-Smith  Katharine J. M. Dickinson  Neil Pickering 《Teaching in Higher Education》2013,18(1):93-106

This article aims to stimulate debate about the nature of field courses in higher education. We use a colloquium format that allows each of us to reflect on the philosophy of field course teaching and our writing endeavours to establish a dialogue between the authors and leave the reader with a sense of curiosity. It starts with a position paper that sets out a particular viewpoint on field courses to which responses were invited. Two of the respondents were experienced field-course teachers in disciplines traditionally associated with this type of curriculum, the other a lecturer in a non-field-course-oriented discipline.  相似文献   

Sustaining technological innovation: The example of videoconferencing in English Schools     

Chris Comber  Tony Lawson 《Education and Information Technologies》2013,18(4):641-659

The main factors associated with technology integration have been the subject of research for over a decade. However, the conditions which sustain technological developments have been less frequently investigated. This paper explores this issue in the context of the use of videoconferencing in schools in England. The research took a multiple case-study approach by returning to schools with a reputation for demonstrating innovative policy and practice in videoconferencing, which were the subject of an earlier investigation. Analysis of developments in the interim five-year period led to the construction of a five-level typology of change. Further analysis identified critical dimensions associated with the sustainability of videoconferencing. These included technical and structural factors, as well as policy frameworks and personnel status. The perceived usefulness and relevance of videoconferencing as a learning technology emerges as a central determinant of sustainability, with the conclusion that for policymakers and schools, videoconferencing has become an ‘orphan’ technology.  相似文献