基于卓越工程师培养的基础创新训练教学研究与实践     

马鹏飞马伟民  张应龙曾艳明 《中国科教创新导刊》2013,(34):16-17

工程训练教学是高校实施“卓越工程师教育培养计划”的重要组成部分,“卓越计划”的重要特点之一就是强化培养学生的”工程能力和创新能力”.我校针对“卓越工程师”基础创新训练教学体系、教学内容和教学方法展开了深入的探索、改革创新和实践,成为了学生提高综合工程素质,培养创新精神和创新能力的重要实践环节.  相似文献   

Public Sector Agricultural Extension System Reform and the Challenges Ahead     

William M. Rivera 《The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension》2013,19(2):165-180

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This paper is organized into two main sections. The first section examines extension as an engine for innovation and reviews the numerous priorities confronting extension systems. Section two highlights the current knowledge imperative and the critical connection of extension to post-secondary higher education and training, organizational inservice training, and vocationally oriented self-directed learning. Final comments address ‘The Continuing Role of the Public Sector’, and the prospect of its role in balancing societal interests and promoting extension as an aspect of a knowledge economy. The conclusion proposes what may be agricultural extension's challenges ahead.  相似文献   

Role of Brokerage in Evolving Innovation Systems: A Case of the Fodder Innovation Project in Nigeria     

Elias Madzudzo 《The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension》2013,19(2):195-210

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This paper looks at brokerage functions in a project on building innovation capacity through improved networking. Innovation capacity influences how actors respond to changes in their environments. In such dynamic environments well connected sets of actors are at an advantage in that they can combine skills to address the emerging opportunities and challenges. However, policy and cultural barriers especially in African innovation systems raise the transaction costs of networking leading to weak connectivity among actors thus poor innovation capacity. This paper uses case studies from West Africa to illustrate that actors that play brokerage functions are critical in navigating around or dismantling the barriers and thus enhance innovation capacity. This paper assumes that innovation capacity rather than innovations per se is lacking in African agriculture. The paper is a product of an action research based study of Key Partner Organizations and the coalitions of stakeholders they formed around fodder innovation themes in Nigeria. We show that brokerage negotiates innovation barriers and improve networking. The paper concludes that brokerage roles are context-specific; policies that facilitate eclectic brokerage functions are critical. This paper is shedding light on the broadened scope for actors playing boundary roles, e.g. extension organizations under more relaxed organizational and policy contexts. There are few studies on brokerage and boundary work particularly in African agriculture. This study is a grounded discussion on the brokering functions in African rural development. It uses data from similar programmes to qualify observations and conclusions from the Fodder Innovation Project (FIP) case study.  相似文献   

Learning and Innovation Competence in Agricultural and Rural Development     

Laxmi Prasad Pant 《The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension》2013,19(3):205-230

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Purpose: The fields of competence development and capacity development remain isolated in the scholarship of learning and innovation despite the contemporary focus on innovation systems thinking in agricultural and rural development. This article aims to address whether and how crossing the conventional boundaries of these two fields provide new directions for developing learning and innovation competence in international development.

Design/methodology/approach: Using mixed methods research, this article assesses work environments for experiential learning and innovation, and investigates effective ways of enhancing core competence in agricultural research, education, extension and entrepreneurship.

Findings: Findings suggest that while the focus on input and output indicators are relevant for technological innovation competence development, outcome indicators, such as measures of changes in cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains of learning and innovation, would better serve the purpose of developing organisational and institutional learning and innovation competence.

Practical implications: This research concludes that crossing the conventional boundaries of competence development and capacity development serves as a way to renew the role of education within the innovation systems thinking. However, such an attempt to enhance human capabilities and functionings through education should integrate theory-based, competence-based and experiential learning components as a coherent whole.

Originality/value: This article demonstrates the value of crossing the conventional boundaries of the two seemingly unrelated fields—competence development through education and capacity development through extension—to provide new directions to operationalise innovation systems thinking in agricultural education and extension.  相似文献   

The Future of Agricultural Education: The Case of the Netherlands     

Martin Mulder  Hendrik Kupper 《The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension》2013,19(2):127-139

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How Dynamics of Learning are Linked to Innovation Support Services: Insights from a Smallholder Commercialization Project in Kenya     

Catherine W. Kilelu  Laurens Klerkx  Cees Leeuwis 《The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension》2013,19(2):213-232

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