College academic affairs management is the core of teaching, the management ability of academic affairs management personnel affects the normal development of college teaching. It meanwhile directly reflects the teaching quality of colleges and universities, thus affecting school development and survival. Therefore, mobilizing the enthusiasm of academic affairs management personnel becomes the ...

In the past five years there has been considerable change in curriculum design and delivery in universities in the UK as the sector moves towards an outcomes based approach This is having a marked effect on teaching and learning and particularly on assessment strategies and methods Accompanying the curriculum change we have seen an increased emphasis on the role of teaching in HE with central f...

introduction: in the past 2 decades, research findings established achievement goal theory as a powerful framework for conceptualizing difference in the quality of student’s engagement, persistence on task, and academic resilience. so the present study examined the relationship between achievement goal orientations and academic resilience. method: participants were 606 students (307 girls and 2...

Industrial-led research in the early nineties, searching for new competitive paradigms, launched today's interest in agile systems with a study centered at Lehigh University. Subsequent research went on to identify metrics, modalities, and engineering principles observed in systems that exhibited high degrees of adaptability in the face of unpredictable demands and requirements. This paper revi...

Dr. James K. Shaw is Director of the Applied Economics Program at the University of San Francisco. His primary research involves the economics of new product development in the telecommunications industry. He has extensive teaching experience in the field of forecasting methodology as it pertains to the development of telecom systems, and is presently a consultant on market forecasting to Pacif...

While both business press and scholarly research largely portray entrepreneurship within well-established companies as inherently good, empirical evidence for positive performance implications based on rigorous research is scarce. This paper empirically assesses whether and for whom entrepreneurial activity creates value in a large traditional firm. In contrast to previous research I adopt a le...

Much has been written about the difficulties students have with producing traditional dissertations. This includes both native English speakers (L1) and students with English as a second language (L2). The main emphasis of these papers has been on the structure of the dissertation, but in all cases, even when electronic versions are discussed, the dissertation is still in what most would regard...

Computers and electronic products in general put heavy constraints on human-product interaction. These products demand people to adapt to their way of functioning instead of the other way around. In this paper we try to offer methods to free man from these constraints. To this aim we analyse the existing situation, and point to an approach we use in product design where man as a whole is taken ...

Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA. Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco, 94143 California, USA. Department of Pathology, Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA. Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Ar...