从麻省理工学院OCW谈我国高校经典教育

在分析麻省理工开放课程计划(OCW)14门课程的基础上,给出3门课程的重点剖析,得出OCW“文理贯通”、“注重开放性和创新”、“注重经典教育(学习)”等三大特点,以求推进我国高校的经典教育,着力提高我国高校毕业生素质以加强我国的综合国力。在美国高校以加强西方经典教育来回答“全球化时代的文化传统、文化创新与教育”问题的时代,我国高校的经典教育迫在眉睫。     

地方院校推广MOOCs的必要性研究

国内各大院校的精品课程项目已经建设到一定的规模,但推广和应用还很不够,与国外的网络化教育存在很大差距。为了使这些资源得到更有效的利用,提升教学质量和科研水平,地方院校应该积极利用现有的人力物力以及经验和资源上的优势致力于推广应用MOOCs的学习新模式。     

Agency workers and organisation's commitment to its workers

This study explores the understanding that Dutch agency workers (i.e. workers affiliated with a temporary-help service firm) have of organisation's commitment to its workers (OCW). Semi-structured interviews with 33 Dutch agency workers aimed to answer two questions: (1) what do agency workers believe the agency and the client should offer if they are aiming for perceived OCW and (2) who are the potential messengers of agency and client OCW? If agencies and clients want to get rewarded by agency workers with perceived OCW, they have to carry a shared responsibility for many aspects of fair and favourable human resource management. However, agency workers link some aspects exclusively to one of the two organisational parties: agency workers seem to associate promotion with the client organisation, and certain aspects of job characteristics (e.g. autonomy and performance feedback) solely with the client OCW. Other elements related to job characteristics were only associated with agency OCW (current and future person–task fit, job-satisfaction concerns and job-related problems), as well as keeping in touch and problem solving (e.g. job dissatisfaction) solely with agency OCW. Moreover, agency workers personify all the mentioned responsibilities: organisational member's actions concerning these responsibilities represent OCW. Agency consultants seem to be the sole representatives of perceived agency OCW, whereas several agents (e.g. top managers, direct supervisors, co-workers, clients' ‘clients’) serve as potential representatives of client organisations' commitment.