高职院校计算机平面设计课程教学改革的思考

高职院校都将计算机技术的学习作为学院的一门主要科目。职业教育的教学内容、教学方法、教学手段和人才培养模式需要进一步的改革,才能适应日新月异的社会变革。在平面设计的教学理论研究,可以作为设计创新的源泉。职业教育的教学内容、教学方法、教学手段和人才培养模式需要进一步的改革,才能适应日新月异的社会变革。     

基于CDIO的软件工程专业创新应用型人才培养模式的构建与实践

根据区域发展的需要和信息化产业对软件应用型人才培养的要求,大连科技学院对软件工程专业的人才培养模式进行了一系列改革,提出将CDIO理念引入教学过程,并对教学内容进行模块化、项目化建设,改进教学模式和教学方法,完善教学评价方式。通过人才培养模式的改革,学生的创新能力、实践能力和就业竞争力得到了极大的提高。     

阐述生化实验教学改革中创新体系的建立与实践

实验教学是高等院校教学的最基本方式之一,为了适应高校培养创新型人才的需要,在教学中以更新教学内容,改革教学方法,探索新的实验教学模式和从培养学生的创新能力和探索精神出发,建立综合性、设计性的实验教学模式,这种教学方法的应用有利于在教学中加强学生创新思维和实践能力,同似乎培养学生的科研能力。本文讨论了目前生物化学实验教学中的现状和不足,对教学之中需要进行的实验改革、教学内容改革和开始改革进行初步探讨,在教学对学生积极性的调动有着积极的促进意义,同时能够提高教学质量和效益。     

高等学校物流专业人才培养模式探讨

伴随快速发展的物流业,物流专业教育意义凸现,本文针对物流专业人才的需求特征提出了在改变物流人才培养理念,改革培养机制基础上,探索创新型的物流人才培养模式。从明确教学目的、完善教学内容等方面分析物流教学课程的优化及教学方法改革,并简单探讨了如何完善物流专业教学质量管理。     

地方高校质量管理专业人才培养模式探讨

所谓专业人才培养模式，就是给该专业的受教育者制定一个科学合理的培养结构，以及实现这一结构的培养方案。这一模式集中体现了该专业的教育思想和教育观念，并且规定该专业的人才培养特征。有了专业的培养模式，就可以设计出适合这一专业的教学计划、课程体系、教学内容、教学方法和教学手段。     

校企合作定向培养保险应用型人才

校企合作定向培养是高职高专人才培养模式的重要改革方向,这种模式将带动整个专业的建设与发展,从而引导课程设置、教学内容和教学方法的改革,进而提升职业院校的教育质量。长春汽车工业高等专科学校与中国平安保险(集团)股份有限公司合作开办定向班,积累了一定的经验,在人才培养模式上做出了一定的探索。从培养机制与实施方式着手,创新培养模式,发挥了企业在定向培养中的作用,建立校企合作长效机制,共同培养保险应用型人才。     

高等教育教学创新改革与实践探讨

本文从高校教育教学中人才培养模式、教学方法和教学管理三个方面提出了创新和改革,提出教育的中心应该是培养全面发展的人才,培养学生的创新思维和创新能力。     

应用型人才培养导向下课程改革实践探析——基于房地产营销策划

房地产营销策划课程需要注重实践能力的培养,基课程改革将围绕人才培养目标“知识、能力、素质”三个维度出发。改革内容包括：一是教学内容改革,包括教学内容模块化、任务化、项目化;二是教学方法改革,采用案例教学、讨论教学、情景模拟教学等多元化手段;三是考核方式改革,着重对过程性的考核,教师评价为主,学生、企业评价为辅。改革取得良好教学效果,但仍需继续改进。     

基于培养大学生素质与能力的公关教学改革

人才培养是学校的根本任务,质量是学校的生命线,教学是学校的中心工作。所以,要深化教学内容改革,建立与经济社会发展相适应的课程体系,要坚持知识、能力和素质协调发展,继续深化人才培养模式、课程体系、教学内容和教学方法等方面的改革,实现从注重知识传授向更加重视能力和素质培养的转变。现主要谈谈基于培养大学生素质与能力的公关教学改革内容。     

地方本科院校应用型人才培养的探讨——以黄淮学院土木工程专业为例

分析地方本科高校应用型人才培养特点和培养路径,结合黄淮学院教育教学实践,提出了土木工程专业应用型人才培养目标、培养模式、课程体系、教学方法和创新创业教育的改革措施,对其他同类院校应用型人才培养具有一定的指导意义。     

Development in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Statistics at the Australian Bureau of Statistics

This paper outlines the ICT statistical developments that the ABS has undertaken over recent years. These developments have been on both the supply side (ICT industry) and the demand side (use of IT by sector). The content of ABS ICT surveys has changed significantly over the last few years and are expected to develop further in line with industry changes and emerging policy needs.
Recent developments in household collections have been the inclusion of IT use questions in the 2001 Census of Population and Housing and in various ABS social surveys such as Children's Participation in Culture and Leisure Activities. Annual business IT use surveys are now conducted and include topics such as Internet commerce and IT security. Biennial ICT industry surveys are conducted to provide data on ICT production, imports and exports, ICT industry employment, performance and structure information. An Internet activity survey is run every six months and provides regional Internet access details and infrastructure details on Internet service providers.
A major development for 2002–03 will be the compilation of an ICT satellite account. ABS intends to produce an ICT Information Development Plan to guide its future statistical development work in the ICT field.     

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.     

Value at Risk in the Suburbs: Eminent Domain and the Geographical Politics of the US Foreclosure Crisis

Several US counties and local governments have recently considered a novel solution to the foreclosure crisis. They plan to use eminent domain to compel the owners of mortgage debt—and specifically of private‐label mortgage‐backed securities—to sell the debt to the government at a price reflecting the loan's market value. The government would then restructure the debt and resell it to new investors. The plans are striking because—in contrast to both development‐driven eminent domain and the federal subprime bank bailout—they would force investors to assume asset devaluation and increased long‐term risk. Notably, the plans have emerged as an instance of financialization‐focused politics in suburbs and suburban cities of color, specifically majority‐black and ‐Latino/a suburbs. Local support for the plans, we argue, is rooted in the long‐term disinvestment of these ‘suburbs of exception', which became targets of subprime lending and eventually sites where the ‘financial exception' has been localized. But these demographic shifts, fragmentation and fiscal pressures have at the same time created a suburban political terrain in which the plans have gained their strongest political support.     

Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization

Serendipity – the notion of making surprising and valuable discoveries – plays a major role in the success of individuals and organizations alike. Previous research has established the importance of serendipity and identified important individual- and organizational-level antecedents. However, the literature has been dispersed and the boundaries of the concept have been blurry, leading to a lack of conceptual clarity and structure, and thus limiting validity and managerial actionability. Based on a systematic literature review, I synthesize existing management-related research on serendipity and explicate the emergence and composition of serendipity in the organizational context. I first identify three necessary conditions that differentiate serendipity from related concepts such as luck or targeted innovation: agency, surprise, and value. Then, I draw from the literature on sensemaking, event-based theorizing, and quantum-based approaches to management to conceptualize the process of cultivating serendipity in the organizational context as a process of enabling potentiality and materialization, and develop a multi-level theory of (cultivating) serendipity. This conceptualization contributes to our collective understanding of how, why, and when (i.e., under what conditions) organizations can leverage the value in the unexpected, which opens up fruitful avenues for further research.     

Accountability of NGOs in Bangladesh A critical overview

NGOs in Bangladesh have been recognized as effective change agents in the socio-economic arena throughout the world. Their contributions in micro credit, non-formal education and primary health care are widely known. NGOs play a significant role in society. NGO accountability, as a result, has become a critical issue. NGO accountability in Bangladesh has been examined here in relation to patrons, clients and themselves. Of the three relationships only accountability to patrons is in a near satisfactory state. Accountability to clients is handicapped by lack of opportunities of beneficiaries to participate meaningfully in NGO policy making. Accountability to themselves is adversely affected due to the adherence to a strictly hierarchical system and the influence of founding and charismatic NGO leaders.     

Ansätze und Ergebnisse anglo-amerikanischer M&A-Forschung

Based on a review of established U.S. management journals (1995–2003), six schools of thought are identified within the Anglo-American M&;A research: “Capital Market”, “Principal/Agent”, “Industrial Organization”, “Organizational Behavior”, “Human Resources” and “Strategic Management”. The literature review shows that the definition of M&;A success, the methods applied, and insights from empirical research differ according to the respective school of thought. Empirical studies focus on the resource combinations of merger partners, the specific circumstances of merger negotiations, and on integration management as antecedents of merger performance. Unfortunately, empirical findings have not yet provided reliable explanations for M&;A success. Based on the current state of Anglo-American M&;A research, the authors discuss implications for business practice, identify research gaps, and propose areas for future research.     

Towards an Asian model of human resource management? A comparative analysis of China,Japan and South Korea

There has been much discussion regarding the possible decline and weakening of national systems of human resource management (HRM). Yet, culture and institutions are often cited as the major stumbling blocks to this outcome. Such constraints may dissipate in the analysis, particularly if ‘regional clusters’ are considered where geographic and cultural closeness and ‘openness’ to similar economic pressures exist. In such cases, it might be postulated that convergence in HRM will occur. We argue that China, Japan and South Korea represent such a cluster. This article examines these countries, to see if a degree of convergence is taking place and if it is towards an identifiable ‘Asian’ model of HRM. A model of change is presented that distinguishes between levels of occurrence and acceptance. Details of the development and practice of HRM in each country are then set out. The article ends with a discussion and implications section and a brief conclusion.     

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.     

Introduction of New Technology with a Sound Transition of the Input-Output Structure

We examine the general equilibrium repercussions associated with the introduction of new technologies, using the generalized Leontief system that allows technological substitutions. We show that an untested introduction of cost-increasing technologies in any industry may result in creating a non-productive technological structure that does not satisfy the Hawkins-Simon condition, following the autonomous dynamic adjustment process with structural transitions in the economic system. Therefore, we propose a practicable control scheme of introducing cost-increasing technologies that strictly avoids the creation of non-productive structures in all periods of structural transition, using the available information on the ex ante technological structure.     

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.