关于高等职业教育人才规格培养的若干思考

在教学过程中,进行课程改革和建设是提升教学质量的关键,是教学改革的重点和难点所在.高等职业教育以市场需求为导向,以培养高素质的技术型人才为目标.本文通过阐述高等教育进行课程改革的重要性,分析高等教育课程改革的发展趋势,为高等教育的人才培养提出政策建议,为高等教育的发展提供参考依据.     

应用型本科院校“模拟公司”实验平台构建研究

实践性课程体系改革是教学改革的重点、难点和突破点,经管类专业应用性与实践性的特点,决定了实践教学在专业教育中的重要地位。本文提出以＂模拟公司＂为改革平台,通过科学化的课程设置、全面的课程安排,构建适应社会需求的应用型人才培养课程体系的改革思路。     

建筑学专业城市规划原理课程教学改革探析

当前高校正尝试着教育教学的改革,以人为本是教育教学改革的重点。本文从加快我国城镇化进程的实际出发,分别对建筑学专业课中城市规划原理课程的教学内容、教学方法和师资队伍等方面的改革进行了探讨,并提出了一些具体的改革措施,阐述了以学生为本的建筑学专业课程教学改革的必要性。     

现代信息技术在高等教育领域中的应用——以“多媒体技术及应用”课程为例

当今信息时代,高等教育的教学质量问题成为教育界关注的重点和热点,混合式学习方式逐渐被教师和学者认同。以"多媒体技术及应用"课程为例,通过分析目前高校课程教育现状,合理改革教学模式、建设网络课程、制定良好的教学活动实施策略并改革课程考核方式,以此来构建合理的混合式教育模式,供研究者进行交流与探讨"多媒体技术及应用"课程的教学。     

"以学生为中心"的会计教学课程改革研究

随着课程改革的全面实施,会计教学课程改革也提上日程,"以学生为中心"的教学模式强调学生在会计教学中的主体地位,注重对学生自主学习能力的培养,革新了以往"以教师为中心"的教学理念,符合现代教育教学发展趋势.本文以会计教学课程改革为切入点,结合"以学生为中心"的教学理念,阐述"以学生为中心"的基本内涵,重点探讨"以学生为中心"的会计教学课程改革策略,以期为会计教学提供参考借鉴.     

浅谈高职教育中《CorelDraw》课程的教学内容改革

高职教育是以培养高素质应用型人才为目的,所以培养学生的实践应用能力、自学能力、创新能力等就成了研究的重点,本文主要从以上角度出发,浅谈高职教育中《CorelDraw》课程的教学内容改革。     

工学结合课程标准开发的研究与实践——以“中级会计核算与报告”课程为例

课程标准的开发是高职课程改革系统工程中的一个重要枢纽,是促进高职课程规范化的关键。根据教育部《关于全面提高高等职业教育教学质量的若干意见》,高等职业教育教学改革工作要以人才培养模式改革、课程体系重构和教学内容改革为重点,而工学结合课程标准的制定是课程体系和教学内容改革落到实处的保障。本文对工学结合课程标准的开发进行了研究,并就中级会计核算与报告课程标准的制定进行了描述。     

高中数学教材教法模式的探究

为适应我国新一轮高中数学课程改革的挑战,高中数学教育应加紧培养出符合当前课程改革需要的教师队伍。“高中数学教材教法”课程改革的实践是关于课程内容与教学方法的改革。教学方法改革的内容是:以适应新时期的教育思想和教育观念指导教学;改革传统的教学方法,注重培养学生的创新意识和实践能力;加大教师职业技能训练的力度;注重在教育教学中让学生多接触体现新思想新观念的教学方法;强化对教育教学的指导工作。     

试论高职教育课程改革的几点内容

随着高等职业教育的日益发展,结合高职教育的特点,重点论述了课程改革的几个核心问题,就课程改革的方向提出新的看法。     

基于工学结合的高职《计算机基础》课程改革研究

《国家中长期教育改革和发展规划纲要2010-2020》中提到：“把提高质量作为重点。以服务为宗旨,以就业为导向,推进教育教学改革。实行工学结合、校企合作、顶岗实习的人才培养模式”。基于此教育改革的要求及职业岗位的需要,实施《计算机基础》课程改革。通过课程改革培养学生的专业技能、创新能力、社会实践能力和职场服务意识,便于学校形成各具特色的体制和机制,实现高等职业教育与社会实践相结合的目标。     

Incumplimiento del salario mínimo en Europa central y oriental

En este estudio se analiza el incumplimiento del salario mínimo durante el periodo 2003–2012 en diez países de Europa central y oriental con salario mínimo obligatorio nacional. A partir de los datos de EU‐SILC y la metodología propuesta por Bhorat, Kanbur y Mayet (2013), se cuantifica la incidencia y magnitud del incumplimiento. Se realizan análisis de regresión sobre determinantes individuales, laborales y macroeconómicos. Aunque la incidencia permanece relativamente baja, los trabajadores a los que se dirigen las políticas de salario mínimo parecen los más expuestos a su incumplimiento. Con el tiempo, una mayor incidencia se asocia a una razón más alta entre salario mínimo y salario medio.     

Cultural Economy Planning in Creative Cities: Discourse and Practice

While a growing body of research analyses the functional mechanisms of the cultural or creative economy, there has been little attention devoted to understanding how local governments translate this work into policy. Moreover, research in this vein focuses predominately on Richard Florida's creative class thesis rather than considering the wider body of work that may influence policy. This article seeks to develop a deeper understanding of how municipalities conceptualize and plan for the cultural economy through the lens of two cities held up as model ‘creative cities’ — Austin, Texas and Toronto, Ontario. The work pays particular attention to how the cities adopt and adapt leading theories, strategies and discourses of the cultural economy. While policy documents indicate that the cities embrace the creative city model, in practice agencies tend to adapt conventional economic development strategies for cultural economy activity and appropriate the language of the creative city for multiple purposes.     

Input/output ranges and performance: an examination of US machine tool producers

Despite the establishment of high-tech multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Ireland since the late 1950s, the country did not succeed in closing the technological gap with most of its EU counterparts. The weak National System of Innovation (NSI), and in particular low business and government R&D levels, combined with a lack of research and technology linkages between MNEs and indigenous firms, explain these poor results. However, the Shannon region in the West of the country presents some specific institutional characteristics that could theoretically make the region a strong technological enclave. The various actors in the region - i.e. the administrative, financial, political and research institutions, as well as the business organizations - have indeed infused a new type of economic development. After a brief review of the available concepts and models articulated around these actors and their interrelationships, the paper analyses whether the Shannon region, taken as an illustrative example, mirrors a specific economic and technological localized setting. The study is based on a survey of indigenous and foreign firms.     

Sixty years of discrimination and diversity research in human resource management: A review with suggestions for future research directions

This article reviews discrimination and diversity research published in Human Resource Management (HRM) over the past 60 years. While discrimination and diversity are very different constructs, it is often informative to study them together, because when people recognize each other's diversity, this can result in bias, stereotyping, and discrimination. We conducted bibliographic searches for terms related to discrimination and diversity as well as a manual search through every title and abstract published in HRM over the last 60 years to assess article relevance. The search resulted in 135 research articles with 136 unique studies (i.e., samples) which are reviewed in this article. Sex and race are the demographics that have been examined the most in HRM, while religion has been examined the least. Moreover, the number of studies examining lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) employees in the workplace in HRM has grown quickly within the past 10 years, culminating in a recent meta‐analysis. Our review looks at some of the earliest research published, the most recent research published, and the overall trends we identified in the research over the years for both discrimination and diversity articles. We then make future research suggestions and recommendations to advance the study of discrimination and diversity in the coming years.     

The Early History of the Cumulants and the Gram-Charlier Series

The early history of the Gram-Charlier series is discussed from three points of view: (1) a generalization of Laplace's central limit theorem, (2) a least squares approximation to a continuous function by means of Chebyshev-Hermite polynomials, (3) a generalization of Gauss's normal distribution to a system of skew distributions. Thiele defined the cumulants in terms of the moments, first by a recursion formula and later by an expansion of the logarithm of the moment generating function. He devised a differential operator which adjusts any cumulant to a desired value. His little known 1899 paper in Danish on the properties of the cumulants is translated into English in the Appendix.     

Capturing the Implications of Services Trade Liberalization

This paper evaluates the impact of service sector trade liberalization on the world economy by a ten-region, eleven-sector CGE model with import embodied technology transfer from developed countries to developing countries. Simulation results show that service sector trade liberalization not only directly affects world service production and trade, but also has significant implications for other sectors in the economy. The major channel of the impact is through inter-industry input-output relations and TFP growth induced from services imported by developing countries from developed countries, which may be embodied with new information and advanced technology.     

City Children and Genderfied Neighbourhoods: The New Generation as Urban Regeneration Strategy

Former industrial cities in the West are employing gentrification as urban policy. In these policies, women and families currently play an important role as gentrification pioneers. In my analysis of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, I propose the term genderfication to understand the gender dimensions of this process. Genderfication refers to the production of space for different gender relations. I analyse Rotterdam's urban planning program for becoming a ‘child‐friendly city’, which entails replacing existing urban dwellings with new, larger and more expensive ‘family‐friendly homes’ as a strategy for urban re‐generation. Urban re‐generation supplements regeneration in the form of material and economic restructuring, and refers to the replacement of part of the current population by a new and better suited generation. The ‘child‐friendly city program’ is considered in tandem with punitive ‘youth policies’.     

Hierarchical Models in Environmental Science

Environmental systems are complicated. They include very intricate spatio-temporal processes, interacting on a wide variety of scales. There is increasingly vast amounts of data for such processes from geographical information systems, remote sensing platforms, monitoring networks, and computer models. In addition, often there is a great variety of scientific knowledge available for such systems, from partial differential equations based on first principles to panel surveys. It is argued that it is not generally adequate to consider such processes from a joint perspective. Instead, the processes often must be considered as a coherently linked system of conditional models. This paper provides a brief overview of hierarchical approaches applied to environmental processes. The key elements of such models can be considered in three general stages, the data stage, process stage, and parameter stage. In each stage, complicated dependence structure is mitigated by conditioning. For example, the data stage can incorporate measurement errors as well as multiple datasets with varying supports. The process and parameter stages can allow spatial and spatio-temporal processes as well as the direct inclusion of scientific knowledge. The paper concludes with a discussion of some outstanding problems in hierarchical modelling of environmental systems, including the need for new collaboration approaches.     

Multinomial distributions applied to random sampling of particulate materials

When sampling a batch consisting of particulate material, the distribution of a sample estimator can be characterized using knowledge about the sample drawing process. With Bernoulli sampling, the number of particles in the sample is binomially distributed. Because this is rarely realized in practice, we propose a sampling design in which the possible samples have a nearly equal mass. Expected values and variances of the sample estimator are calculated. It is shown that the sample estimator becomes identical to the Horvitz–Thompson estimator in the case of a large batch-to-sample mass ratio and a large sample mass. Simulations and experiments were performed to test the theory. Simulations confirm that the round-off error due to the discrete nature of particles is negligible for large sample sizes. Sampling experiments were carried out with a mixture of PolyPropylene (PP) and PolyTetraFluorEthylene (PTFE) spheres suspended in a viscous medium. The measured and theoretical variations are in good agreement.