The Dudley Challenges: virtual balloon journeys and real learning     

Shirley Hackett  John Davies  Eric Tibble 《Educational Media International》2013,50(2):125-133

The Dudley Challenges were developed to celebrate the millennium and the first year of the Dudley Grid for Learning. Three Challenges, Challenge 2000 the original resource, Challenge Europa and Junior Trek, are based on virtual balloon journeys, visiting a series of interesting cultural centres. Access to each centre visited is by solving a series of difficult, cross‐curricula problems that deliver a range of higher order learning experiences. Creativity, imagination, initiative, perseverance as well a range of ICT skills are promoted, developed and celebrated as key elements of the challenge.

Die Dudley Herausforderungen: Virtuelle Ballonreisen und wirkliches Lernen

Die Dudley Herausforderungen wurden zur Milleniumsfeier und zum ersten Jahrestag des “Dudley Grid of Learning” entwickelt. Die drei Herausforderungen, Challenge 2000 die Original Ressource; Herausforderung Europa und Junior Treck beruhen auf einer virtuellen Ballonreise, in deren Verlauf eine Serie interessanter kultureller Zentren besucht werden. Der Zugang zu jedem besuchten Zentrum ist nur nach Lösen einer Reihe schwieriger Allgemeinbildungsfragen, die einen hohen Lernzuwachs liefern, möglich. Kreativität, Einbildungskraft, Initiative, Durchhaltevermögen ebenso wie Computerkompetenz werden gefördert, entwickelt und gefeiert als Schlüsselelemente der Herausforderung.

Les Challenges Dudley :les voyages virtuels en ballon et l’apprentissage réel

Les Challenges Dudley ont été crées pour célébrer le millénaire et la première année de la Grille d’Apprentissage Dudley.Trois de ces Challenges, le Challenge 2000 la resource –mère,le Challenge Europa et Junior Trek sont fondés sur des voyages en ballon virtuels qui permettent la visite de centres culturels pleins d’intérêt.Pour accéder à chaque centre et le visiter , il faut résoudre une série de problèmes difficiles, interdisciplinaires qui offrent une gamme d’aventures apprenantes de premier ordre. On stimule,on développe et on célèbre ainsi la créativité, l’imagination,l’initiative la persévérance ainsi qu’un éventail de compétences en TIC qui sont les éléments‐clés du Challenge.  相似文献   

Short reports     

Shui-Fong Lam  Pui-Shan Yim  Tom Wing-Hong Lam 《Educational research; a review for teachers and all concerned with progress in education》2013,55(2):181-195

While Western educators caution against contrived collegiality in the midst of enthusiasm for peer coaching as a form of teacher development, Hong Kong educators are struggling to detach discussion and observation of classroom teaching from staff appraisal. The challenges for this task are twofold: to secure a niche for peer coaching in the practice of staff development, and to ward off contrived collegiality in the course. Using an action research paradigm, the present project attempted to meet these challenges in two schools. As a joint work between various parties, the present project had to negotiate its way cautiously to achieve genuine collaboration and avoid imposition from the administrators and outsiders to the front-line teachers. During the course, innovative strategies were taken to cope with various difficulties, including time constraints, teachers' psychological pressure, and the possibility of contrived collegiality and implementation partnership. The evaluation of the project showed that the teachers generally accepted peer coaching and found it helpful to their professional development. The experience in the two schools indicated that true collaboration might emerge from organizationally induced collegiality under certain conditions.  相似文献   

The Influence of Communication Apprehension on Superiors' Propensity for and Practice of Participative Decision Making     

Travis L. Russ 《Communication quarterly》2013,61(3):335-348

This investigation examined if traitlike communication apprehension (CA) serves as a significant predictor of superiors' propensity for and practice of participative decision making (PDM)—that is, involving others in decision-making processes. A total of 219 superiors recruited from a variety of organizations served as participants in this study. Results revealed that traitlike CA is a significant determinant of variation in superiors' inclination for, as well as their actual practice of, PDM. These findings suggest that superiors with lower CA possess favorable perceptions of PDM and are more inclined to involve others in decision-making processes than their colleagues with higher CA. Conversely, results suggest that superiors with higher CA typically possess less favorable perceptions of PDM and are less likely to involve others when making decisions. Theoretical and practical implications underpinning these results are explored. Future research directions are also proposed.  相似文献   

协作知识建构视角下的教师论坛组织策略研究——以教师论坛网中的教师BBS为研究案例     

刘丽南  任剑锋 《现代教育技术》2009,19(10):94-97

论文从协作知识建构的视角研究教师基于教师论坛的交互行为,通过选取教师论坛网中的教师BBS作为个案进行分析,得出现有教师论坛在交互时的质量及存在的问题,提出能有效的促进协作知识构建的教师论坛组织策略——促进边缘性参与策略、信息属性分类策略和观点收敛策略。  相似文献   

为信息素质而合作--来自美国的启示   总被引：51，自引：2，他引：49  

王朴 《大学图书馆学报》2005,23(1):84-88,91

倡导多层次、全方位的合作是美国推进信息素质教育的一项重要举措。文章分析了 美国信息素质合作的原因,介绍了合作的几种模式,并针对我国的实际提出了若干建议。  相似文献   

亲密因子对科研合作网的影响     

宋丽华  王伊蕾  李涛 《图书情报工作》2009,53(20):65-67

参照人际关系网络中的亲密因子构造一个科研合作网络演化模型,分别从网络的度分布、点强度分布、平均路径长度以及聚集系数对亲密因子进行分析,发现演化后的科研合作网具有较短的平均路径长度和较大的聚集系数。最后对一个科研合作的实证网络和仿真网络进行比较,发现两者社团结构具有相同的特征。  相似文献   

国外公益性数字文化服务合作机制研究进展     

戴艳清 《档案学研究》2014,28(4):79-85

本文主要介绍了发达国家公益性数字文化服务的合作战略规划、合作责任主体、合作模式、合作内容、合作资金来源、合作行动的监测以及合作风险控制等。结合本国国情,提出我国公益性数字文化服务活动开展和合作机制建立的措施。  相似文献   

The role of collaborative networks in supporting the innovation performances of lagging-behind European regions     

Ivan De Noni  Luigi Orsi  Fiorenza Belussi 《Research Policy》2018,47(1):1-13

In rapidly changing regional economies, less innovative European regions (henceforth referred to as lagging-behind regions) must actively work to reduce the gap between them and knowledge-intensive regions. Recent literature has stressed that the lack of efficient institutional settings reduces the opportunities of local knowledge spillover and increases the need for local organisations to exploit collaborative networks to better support their innovation performance. In this light, since increasing attention has recently been directed at the role of inter-regional collaborations, we have measured the capacity of local innovative organisations embedded in lagging-behind European regions to develop internal and external regional inventors’ networks by exploring their collaborative patenting processes. Then, a seven-year panel dataset (2002–2008) was organised using patents data at a regional level to validate the research hypothesis that collaborations, and specifically with highly innovative (knowledge-intensive) regions, positively affect the innovation performances of lagging-behind regions. Finally, the implications of EU policies for supporting lagging-behind regions are discussed.  相似文献   

R&D subsidies & external collaborative breadth: Differential gains and the role of collaboration experience     

Gary Chapman  Abel Lucena  Sergio Afcha 《Research Policy》2018,47(3):623-636

External collaboration breadth is important for firms to acquire the knowledge needed to innovate. In this paper, we combine cross-sectional and longitudinal data from the Spanish Panel of Technological Innovation Survey (PITEC) to examine the indirect impact of R&D subsidies on firm external collaboration breadth. We contribute to understanding of the indirect impacts of R&D subsidies by first providing strong evidence of an economically significant average positive impact of R&D subsidies on firm external collaboration breadth. Second, our results advance understanding of the differential impacts of R&D subsidies by revealing the vast heterogeneity of the impact at the firm level, where approximately only half of treated firms experience a positive collaboration impact from R&D subsidies, while the remainder experience no impact or a negative effect. Finally, we advance understanding of the characteristics explaining the differential impact of R&D subsidies on external collaboration breadth by utilising the organisational learning literature to demonstrate the important role of firm collaboration experience.  相似文献   

Socially mediated metacognition and learning to write     

Shirley Larkin 《Thinking Skills and Creativity》2009,4(3):149-159

Writing can be viewed as a recursive process involving both cognitive and metacognitive processes. Task, environment, individual cognition and affective processes all impact on producing written text. Recent research on the development of metacognition in young children has highlighted social constructivist and socio-cultural factors. Metacognition is seen as facilitated through collaborative tasks and through talk. This study investigated the peer construction of metacognition in 5-7-year-old children engaged on collaborative writing tasks. Six year 1 and year 2 classes were involved in the project (n = 172). 25 h of video observation data, teacher and researcher reflections and structured field notes were analysed qualitatively using ATLAS ti software. The written texts produced in these sessions were analysed using a qualitative content analysis, looking specifically for evidence of the process of text construction and metacognition. The findings provide evidence of young children's ability to engage in metacognitive talk and to use metacognition intentionally in the co-construction of written texts. The relationships between children and their talk partners mediated the effect of pre-determined ability in literacy. Teachers’ direct questioning aimed at reflection on the writing process did not always support metacognitive dialogues. Drawing on recent models of metacognition and writing the paper highlights the role of social factors in developing metacognition and illustrates the ways in which young children negotiate task demands during shared writing tasks.  相似文献