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When new faculty arrive for a new position at a college or university, they are typically flooded with information on all the "things to know and do" before the start of their first semester. They often participate in orientation sessions that give them snapshots on human resources, research protocol, departmental requirements, getting a computer account, using the library, using the course...
A set of online feedback tools has been developed in the learning portal that supports an ICT-based Chinese Language teaching and learning programme implemented in some Singapore schools. The tools are an integral part of an ICT-based peer assisted learning environment that contributes to pupils' self-directed learning and formative assessment processes. This paper discusses the design principles,...
The development of modern information technology has promoted the construction of digital learning environment which represented as digital learning harbor, in this situation, teachers' learning community became an effective shortcut for teachers' professional development. This paper comes from digital learning harbor project, analyses and defines the connotations of teachers' learning community in...
The Establishment Framework for Theory of Socialized Service marketing mix in stadiums and gymnasiums of colleges and universities is studied by literature review, specialists visiting, and field investigation. The framework of the adopted marketing mix is established on the basis of study on socialized service marketing mix, which involves personnel, physical exhibition and process except for the...
The nature of education is to serve the community. MBA education is to develop elites who are capable to serve the nations. This paper concentrates on analyzing the problems arising from MBA education. The essence of MBA education has decided the targets of MBA education. MBA teaching model is designed to achieve these targets. Thus, the MBA course setting is affected by both teaching methods and...
The situational teaching approach is a teaching method with relatively strong practical significance and feasibility derived from the case study analysis. The pedagogy of situational teaching approach is significantly conductive to integrate theory with practice. Implementation of the Situational Teaching Approach should insist on theoretical teaching and exercise simulation, the domination of teachers'...
In spite of comparable levels of computer access and use by males and females at home and school, women continue to be under represented in careers and education related to the computer and information sciences. In this paper, we describe outreach activities taking place within the wConnect project, a research effort aimed at building a developmental learning community of women in which members at...
In 2005, the Government of Tamil Nadu collaborated with Intel Educational Initiatives, to provide 21st century global skills to the teachers of the state. This initiative aimed to bring about an enhancement in education along with community development. This study was conducted in two schools serving the underserved children with a similar socio economic status - one in Karaikottai Needamangalam block...
Teaching Practical Knowledge Accumulation Platform (TPKAP) has a great significance to both teachers' teaching and growth. The teachers can share their practical knowledge by using individual blogs or Researching Teams which are contained in this platform. And it also establishes the room of teaching video case analysis, electronic documents of the best teaching resources, construction of teaching...
Over the past 25 years technology entrepreneurship programs of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech), a unit of the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland (UM), has evolved from an on-campus incubator for technology-oriented startup companies to a dozen innovative programs in entrepreneurship education, venture creation and industry partnerships, three of which are...
Blog is already accepted and used by more and more users in today society, but the assistance role which Blog plays in the education teaching aspect is also extremely important. The paper first elaborated the Blog development and characteristics, then discussed the difference between Blog, traditional BBS and personal website; Finally studied the application of Blog in the education, separately from...
An effective integrated teaching Management Model of college is proposed. Moddle, an opened course management system, is used to build the PLA-based integrated teaching managing platform. Based on this platform, the college administration management, classroom teaching monitoring, class management, network courses management, laboratory construction management, teaching group and personal or organizational...
Currently we see a plethora of learning object repositories that address the need to share learning content with peers within and across educational institutions. We also observe a growing interest in standards and tool functionality to model didactic scenarios describing the social, spacial and temporal configuration of learning arrangements. These scenarios also specify physical resources, software...
As the result of the economy and operability of open-source software, many countries including China, have applied open source software to education. Following is to compare five current mainstream of open-source e-learning management platforms, which are Atutor, Moodle, Sakai, Claroline and Dokeos. Analyzing from the establishment to the application of the platforms in education, and their main advantages...
The series of questions about the loss of teacher's subjectivity and student's initiative in traditional classroom teaching, the high input and low output of the network teaching and the lack of leading position of teachers make us have to think about something. A separate focus on a particular mode of teaching can not achieve the purpose of effectively improve student learning outcomes. The introduction...
Teacher professional development (TPD) under ecological approach emphasized "teacher culture", "community", "collaboration" and "context". This paper tried to construct an educational ecosystem - teacher virtual community of practice (CoP) to promote teachers' professional development by ecological foundational principles. The concept and ecological character...
This paper, with analysis on real data of 36 high schools' entrance exam results, and further studies rate of 1999 in Pudong New Area, establishes a continuous Verhulst model to reveal the existence of objective laws of education, provide a quantitative basis for analysis, computation and predict the Pudong New Area senior secondary education systems. The proposed method first appeared in the fifth...
The ultimate purpose of this work-in-progress is to contribute to increased recruitment and retention efforts for first generation college students studying engineering at the undergraduate level. This paper describes the first stages of a project which aims to translate the authors' research into a ??tool kit?? of practical outreach and recruitment materials (e.g., brochures, slides, web-based information)...
This work in progress is a National Science Foundation funded project proposed to move Florida Agricultural and Mechanical (A&M) University to the next level of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) student achievement by applying a holistic approach to educating the STEM student. The project goal is to improve the overall quality of STEM education at the University by increasing...
As time goes on, the usual methods for teaching deaf students appeared many disadvantages. They can't study very well, however, as the development of the computer and the Internet, Web-based learning is very common and important in normal education. So, in a few years later, virtual learning community appeared, and the successful examples of using it in normal education have proved that it will be...
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