Content Management Systems: Enriched learning opportunities for all?

This article examines the popular claim of Content Management Systems (CMSs) that providing a rich toolset and leaving the use under learner control is beneficial to learning. By means of a literature review, the current contribution examines whether all students are capable of using CMS tools so that their learning is enhanced. In contrast to what is assumed, the study conceptualizes tool use as a complex self-regulation strategy that cannot be taken for granted. Specifically, the article reviews empirical studies in relation to three topics: (a) personal agency in tool use, (b) performance effects of tool use and (c) influencing tool use variables. Findings reveal that not every student profited from the CMS learning opportunities; in multiple studies students differed in their tool use, and these differences had significant performance effects. Hence, these findings suggest that the pedagogical claim CMSs make is problematic. Besides this accumulated corpus of knowledge, the review revealed serious limitations in the retrieved studies which could hamper our findings. As a consequence, the review establishes a need for further research into students’ CMS tool use from an instructional design perspective. In addition to the theoretical framework, several directions for future research are given.     

Model reduction for combined surface water/groundwater management formulations

A methodology for clustering stresses on a groundwater system based on similarity of hydrologic response produced by the stress is presented. The method is relevant to the computationally efficient calculation of response matrixes for use in groundwater management and other applications. The procedure is presented for the case in which the impact of pumping withdrawals on streamflow is of interest. The method uses cluster analysis on multiple, transient responses and a simplified response matrix for the modeled system. It is demonstrated on a field scale hypothetical management problem applied to a portion of the Republican River basin in the High Plains Aquifer of the United States with a multi-decadal planning horizon that maximizes well withdrawal while requiring that minimum streamflows be maintained. For this case, the clustering approach both reduces the computational requirement and helps to produce response coefficients with meaningful precision. The effectiveness of the model reduction is tested by comparing the optimal solutions produced by a full scale formulation and two reduced size formulations.     

Promoting and assessing water governance at subnational level: the experience of Brazil’s National Water Management Pact

Relying on previous experiences of goal-oriented initiatives, an inclusive method for classifying and evaluating subnational water management systems has been implemented nationwide to promote the effective participation of social actors in the establishment of water governance goals. Nowadays, the methodology has been fully adopted by all Brazilian subnational federative entities – 26 states and the Federal District – and, in most cases, it has been used as an instrument for orienting state action. This article describes this methodological approach in the light of Brazil’s legal and institutional framework for water resources management.     

浅谈BIM模式下设施管理的应用价值

本文主要从国内大型现代商业建筑的角度,结合国内BIM和设施管理发展现状,探讨和分析BIM模式对于设施管理的应用价值。     

An Innovative Distributed Project Control Approach: A Case Study of the Cassini Management Information System (CMIS)

ABSTRACT

The Cassini Project, a NASA-funded exploration mission to Saturn that is being managed by the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA, has developed a distributed project schedule control system for complex development programs. The system is called the Cassini Management Information System (CMIS). The system was built to make schedule control simple, user-friendly, and low-cost. CMIS is distributed across a local area network of PCs and Macintosh computers and consists of four major modules: schedule control, action item tracking, work package implementation plan, and budget tracking. This article focuses on the schedule control module of CMIS. CMIS was one of the innovations introduced in response to the decrees of the U.S. Congress, and subsequently NASA, to conduct space exploration on a fixed-price basis. This article summarizes CMIS development history as a schedule control tool, its key features, and its use by more than 130 engineers and managers.     

基于.NET的设备管理系统的设计与实现

.NET平台是应用非常广泛的平台,文中结合SQL Server2005数据库来开发某高职院校的设备管理信息系统.系统的运行,极大的提高了设备管理工作的质量和效益,减少差错,减轻劳动强度,从而提高学校的整体管理水平.     

基于B/S高校学生宿舍管理系统的设计

本文首先从系统架构、功能模块、数据库进行分析,然后介绍了系统的界面设计和登陆模块、查询模块的详细设计。     

关于运营商局房管理系统新增功能的浅析

本文对运营商局房资源管理现状进行了分析,阐述了资源管理系统增加审批模块及资源更新的方案,实现工作流程的有效监督。     

新时期石油企业安全管理问题及对策研究

当前,社会发展进入十三五新时代,以人为本充分体现了对社会生产中劳动力的强烈关注,因此安全生产是企业得以发展的最基础保证。石油企业作为国民经济的支柱产业,但又是高危行业,安全形势十分严峻。因此安全管理成为石油企业急需深入探究的问题。文章分析了石油企业目前在安全管理方面存在的问题,提出了在安全管理上采取的一些方法和措施。