Empowered educators: how high-performing systems shape teaching quality around the world

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 1012-1014
Author(s):  
Amanda R. Casto
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Quality ◽  
High Performing ◽  
The World

scholarly journals Comparing the Chinese Construction Industry with Other Developing Countries to Identify an Applicable Solution to Low Construction Performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Yutian Chen ◽  
Oswald Chong
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
State University ◽  
Arizona State University ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
High Performing ◽  
Best Value ◽  
The World

The Chinese Construction Industry (CCI) has become one of the largest in the world within the last 20 years. However, due to its rapid growth it has been experiencing issues causing the industry to struggle with delivering high performing projects. Due to the differences between developed and developing countries construction industries, research from other developing countries that were similar to China (Vietnam and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) were used to help identify solutions to improve the CCI. Previous research has identified the major risks in Vietnam and Saudi Arabia. It has also been identified the only solution that has documented evidence that it can improve construction performance is the Best Value Approach that was developed in the United States at Arizona State University. A literature research was performed identifying the major risks and issues that have been documented in the CCI. These risks were then compared to that of the Vietnam and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s construction industry risks. It was identified that the majority of the top risks were similar in all three countries. Identifying that developing countries have been experiencing the same issues. This also identifies that the Best Value Approach might be a solution to help improve the CCI.

scholarly journals Producer Exploration can Generate Categories without Audiences

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Vashevko
Keyword(s):  
Category Theory ◽  
Formal Model ◽  
Search Process ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Exploration Process ◽  
High Performing ◽  
Specific Category ◽  
The World ◽  
Single Category

Category theory argues that markets function as an interface between producer candidates and audiences that evaluate those candidates. Audiences lump similar producer into categories in order to facilitate their search process, so that producers who do not fit into one specific category -- or who span multiple categories -- are penalized relative to their single category peers. I present an alternative model of the world in which producers in a market segregate into categories but without any reliance on an audience process: instead categorical boundaries reflect producers' best efforts to explore a complicated marketplace given their limited information about what audiences demand. Categories emerge as a cross-sectional consequence of a dynamic exploration process: At any given time, the world features a mix of high-performing producers within categorical clusters and low-performing producers outside or between them. But spanning positions are more likely to be occupied by entrepreneurial producers, and future categorical clusters emerge from their efforts to explore the terrain. As such any apparent category spanning discount is nothing more than the consequence of bad luck in the process of taking risk. I establish this result in a formal model and illustrate in simulations.

scholarly journals Moving Beyond Peer Review of Teaching: A Conceptual Framework for Collegial Faculty Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 003465432199072
Author(s):  
Rachelle Esterhazy ◽  
Thomas de Lange ◽  
Sofie Bastiansen ◽  
Anne Line Wittek
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Development ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sociocultural Perspectives ◽  
The World ◽  
Relational Factors ◽  
Theoretical Considerations ◽  
Synthesis Approach

Over the past decades, peer review of teaching has become commonplace at many universities around the world. Though research on the topic is expanding, much of the literature is composed of qualitative studies that offer relevant empirical findings but often have limited foundations in theory. Using a framework synthesis approach, we synthesize the empirical findings of 48 qualitative articles on peer review of teaching into a comprehensive conceptual framework drawing on sociocultural perspectives of learning. We propose the term “collegial faculty development” (CFD) to encompass all practices that support faculty in developing their teaching quality by drawing on the expertise of their colleagues. Our framework conceptualizes the main elements of CFD and shows how different contextual, individual, and relational factors shape the way CFD unfolds. Based on these theoretical considerations, we discuss issues of intersubjectivity, materiality, and temporality as potential avenues for further research.

scholarly journals EXPLORING AND UNDERSTANDING THE SPREAD OF MOOCS IN AN EMERING ECONOMY : A TEXT MINING ANALYSIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 58-65
Author(s):  
El Moussaouiti Imane ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
New Method ◽  
Clear Picture ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Massive Open Online Course ◽  
The World

The Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC is a new method of distance learning especially in the universities, a number of them use this method to contain the different obstacle of leaning in higher education in order to improve the teaching quality among a large number of students. This paper will explore this new method of a distance learning in the word and its impact on an emergent economy as Morocco. The purpuse of this paper is to give a clear picture of the MOOC in the world and in moroccan universities as an emergent economy, by analysing a text mining of the use of MOOC and their classification.

Balanced Assessment of Flexible E-Learning vs. Face-to-Face Campus Delivery Courses at an Australian University

2012 ◽  
pp. 304-339
Author(s):  
Kenneth David Strang
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
International Student ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Balanced Assessment ◽  
The World ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Will Force

This case study reminded researchers of the value in using formal methodologies to gain an objective balanced perspective of actual practice. By using models and survey instruments that gathered objective input from key stakeholders in the higher education market, several of the true underlying factors were revealed. The key instrument used in the case study allowed us to objectively measure if flexible e-learning was at least as effective as campus delivery mode. More so, the assessment was not just performance and not just student satisfaction – instead the outcomes assessed included six factors that were linked to Australian university accreditation: Industry focus, resources/content materials, critical thinking activities, teaching quality, student satisfaction, and student performance (including completion). One of the most interesting aspects of the case study was that we are seeing history in the making to some degree in that as a result of the 2008 global economic crises, the international student market is changing which will force universities to change what and how they offer higher education in the future. More countries (and their populations) in the world are seeking a credible university higher education and they do not always want to travel to holiday destinations to obtain that… the world economic model is changing, continuing to increase the demand for education, yet changing how that product/service must be delivered. Successful higher education institutions around the world are already showing the followers how to do that. This case study provides some ideas and benchmarks for becoming more competitive in higher education, and while the model was developed and used in Australia, likely it can be applied elsewhere since the majority of students feeding into this model and research were international.

Realizing the World’s First Upgradeable, 40-year Lifetime High Concentration Photovoltaic (HCPV) System – An Accelerated Pathway to Grid Parity

2013 ◽  
Vol 1493 ◽  
pp. 37-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hojun Yoon ◽  
Sameet Nabar ◽  
Yoav Banin
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Business Models ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
High Performing ◽  
Module Design ◽  
Incentive Programs ◽  
Performance Tracking ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Technologies

ABSTRACTAs incentive programs for solar energy are gradually being phased out around the world, solar must quickly become a viable and competitive option to the mainstream, fossil-based power generation technologies. As such, it must begin to assume more of the characteristics of the traditional technologies in order to be compatible with utility generation business models. With this goal in mind, Solergy has realized a series of innovations that include optics, concentrator module design, and tracking to create a high performing, long-lasting High Concentration Photovoltaic (HCPV) system. Because it is upgradeable, Solergy is the only HCPV system that can actually increase its power output over its lifetime and then subsequently extend its life out to 40 years. This talk will discuss the types of technological advances required to achieve this and share results from the lab and the field. In particular, the talk will cover the world’s only all-glass concentrating lens, high performance tracking, and the unique upgrade mechanism.

scholarly journals Design of Materials for Bone Tissue Scaffolds

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (20) ◽  
pp. 5985
Author(s):  
Antonio Boccaccio
Keyword(s):  
Bone Tissue ◽  
Healing Time ◽  
Tissue Scaffolds ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
High Performing ◽  
The World ◽  
Implantation Process ◽  
Optimal Material ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Manufacturing Technologies

The strong impulse recently experienced by the manufacturing technologies as well as the development of innovative biocompatible materials has allowed the fabrication of high-performing scaffolds for bone tissue engineering. The design process of materials for bone tissue scaffolds represents, nowadays, an issue of crucial importance and the object of study of many researchers throughout the world. A number of studies have been conducted, aimed at identifying the optimal material, geometry, and surface that the scaffold must possess to stimulate the formation of the largest amounts of bone in the shortest time possible. This book presents a collection of 10 research articles and 2 review papers describing numerical and experimental design techniques definitively aimed at improving the scaffold performance, shortening the healing time, and increasing the success rate of the scaffold implantation process.

scholarly journals Relevansi Teknologi Pendidikan dan Mutu Pendidikan

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 273
Author(s):  
Zaedun Na'im
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
School Performance ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Education Technology ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Educational Problem ◽  
The World

The quality of education is an important issue in the world of education, because by looking at the quality of education can be a reflection of the success of education that is carried out. If the quality of education is good, it can be said that in the implementation of good education, likewise if the quality of education is low, then it can be assumed that in the implementation of education there are serious problems. Therefore this paper was appointed to inspire education observers to pay more attention in maintaining and overseeing the quality of education so that the output or graduates can be relied upon. This article review method uses qualitative. While presenting data using descriptive analysis and designed using a central approach by looking for literature that discusses the quality of education and education technology. The results of this study are the relevance or relationship between educational technology and the quality of education, because the quality of education with regard to everything that achieves the achievement of quality education both in terms of student achievement, teaching quality, and school performance can be achieved well through an educational technology approach. That is because with educational technology involving people who have an important role in the educational problem, it is then regulated by standardized procedures and the next stage is organized for analysis and finding solutions to solve them

scholarly journals НОВАЯ МОДЕЛЬ ПОДГОТОВКИ СПЕЦИАЛИСТОВ В ОБУЧЕНИИ РУССКОМУ ЯЗЫКУ В КИТАЕ В НОВУЮ ЭПОХУ

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luo Xiaoxia
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
National Standards ◽  
National Standard ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Development Mode ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

В настоящее время иноязычному образованию уделяется большoе внимание. В связи с этим возникла необходимость построения новой модели обучения русскому языку как иностранному. Изменения, происходящие в Китае под влиянием инициативы «Один пояс и один путь», приведут к большим возможностям в этой области. В 2018 г. опубликован государственный образовательный стандарт обучения русскому языку в вузах на этапе бакалавриата, в котором описано настоящее состояние этого вопроса, а также его существующие проблемы и перспективы в будущем. The world we live is currently in the development mode of political, economic and cultural globalization, so foreign language education is receiving more and more attention all over the world. Thus, it is also imperative to establish a new model of teaching Russian as a foreign language in China. Meanwhile, both the changes that China has made under the “One Belt and Road Initiative” and the impact of Chinese culture’s “going out” strategy have brought new opportunities and challenges to Russian language teaching. Many Chinese experts and scholars have written several relevant articles to discuss the mode of teaching Russian talents under such new situation. In 2018, the Ministry of Education of China published the “National Standards for Undergraduate Professional Teaching Quality in Ordinary Colleges and Universities” (referred to as “National Standard”) providing a basis for the establishment of Russian professional quality standards and improving the quality of teaching Russian talents in the new era. The positioning of the “national standard” is reflected in the following three rules: 1) Professional orientation: combination of tradition and innovation. 2) Talent training: combination of comprehensive quality and practical ability. 3) Teaching staff: combination of teaching and scientific research. Meanwhile, the existing problems of Russian teaching in China are expounded.

Balanced Assessment of Flexible e-Learning versus Face-to-Face Campus Delivery Courses at an Australian University

2010 ◽  
pp. 42-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth David Strang
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
International Student ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Balanced Assessment ◽  
The World ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Will Force

This case study reminded researchers of the value in using formal methodologies to gain an objective balanced perspective of actual practice. By using models and survey instruments that gathered objective input from key stakeholders in the higher education market, several of the true underlying factors were revealed. The key instrument used in the case study allowed us to objectively measure if flexible e-learning was at least as effective as campus delivery mode. More so, the assessment was not just performance and not just student satisfaction – instead the outcomes assessed included six factors that were linked to Australian university accreditation: Industry focus, resources/content materials, critical thinking activities, teaching quality, student satisfaction, and student performance (including completion). One of the most interesting aspects of the case study was that we are seeing history in the making to some degree in that as a result of the 2008 global economic crises, the international student market is changing which will force universities to change what and how they offer higher education in the future. More countries (and their populations) in the world are seeking a credible university higher education and they do not always want to travel to holiday destinations to obtain that… the world economic model is changing, continuing to increase the demand for education, yet changing how that product/service must be delivered. Successful higher education institutions around the world are already showing the followers how to do that. This case study provides some ideas and benchmarks for becoming more competitive in higher education, and while the model was developed and used in Australia, likely it can be applied elsewhere since the majority of students feeding into this model and research were international.

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