Teaching Social Work in an Online Environment

This article discusses the current debate surrounding online instruction (also known as distance) versus in-class social work instruction and reviews the relevant literature associated with those instructional models. The discussion specifically focuses on key issues, including the definition and growth of online education and the Blackboard revolution, and it addresses concerns about the effectiveness of teaching online compared to in-class social work instruction in areas related to students’ learning outcomes and satisfaction. Literature references also suggest that factors such as demographics may be related to outcome differences between distance and traditional students, while others found no significant differences between both student populations and their learning outcomes in particular courses such as research methods courses. Even today, however, the comparisons between online and traditional courses are unsettled, and many questions remain about the appropriateness or usefulness of these models. Therefore, the debate will continue to lead to even larger disagreements between researchers and educators on both sides. The concern about the effectiveness of teaching in an online environment is still the main concern of educational models in general and of social work education in particular. Even deeper concerns are found among educators and scholars about the ethical issues surrounding the entire online education debate.     

西部新农合筹资公平性分析

新型农村合作医疗制度(以下简称新农合)是由政府组织引导支持,农民自愿参加,个人、集体和政府多方筹资,以大病统筹为主的农民医疗互助共济制度。实现这项制度的可持续发展,既是一项政治任务,同时也是一项经济活动。本文结合我国西部地区近几年新农合的运行情况对筹资的公平性进行分析并提出意见建议,以实现这项制度的可持续发展。     

基于诱因分析的高校学生突发事件预警模型研究

对高等学校学生突发事件的诱因进行了多层次的分析,设计了全面的预警评价指标。采用问卷调查法和专家打分法获取原始数据,并用因子分析法和层次分析法提取出9大关键因子,确定因子的权重系数,构建高校突发事件预警模型。     

培育大学生国家安全意识是社会主义核心价值体系的内在要求

培育大学生国家安全意识是社会主义核心价值体系的内在要求．是国家安全战略以及高校教育不可忽略的组成部分。为创新大学生国家安全意识的培育,工作中必须坚持社会主义核心价值体系的引导,构建起大学生国家安全教育新体系。     

认同和践行社会主义核心价值体系的路径探讨

就当前社会主义核心价值体系建设实际而言,各地通过有效载体传播、灌输、渗透,使核心价值体系逐步内化为人民群众的价值追求,使核心价值体系在社会民众中发挥了重要的引领作用。另一方面,社会大众认同与践行核心价值体系仍然存在诸多问题。我们要认真贯彻落实党的十八大精神,积极拓展认同和践行社会主义核心价值体系的有效路径,特别强调党政干部带好头、宣传教育要做到“三贴近”、利益格局调整的合理及时。     

民族自治地方和谐发展的制度困境与变革导向——评《民族自治地方社会和谐的法治保障研究》

《民族自治地方社会和谐的法治保障研究》一书从多重视角分析了民族自治地方构建和谐社会面临的问题和困难,找准了完善我国民族自治制度的突破口——制度根源,对制定和完善国家民族政策及民族法制提出了的积极有效的建议。研究视角独特、观点新颖,不失为近年来民族政策和法制研究的杰作。其立论始于实证分析,结论归于具有操作性的意见,对于民族区域自治制度的完善以及少数民族人权的法律保护,均具有重要的理论和现实意义。     

Minority Elder Maltreatment:

Comparison of 126 minority and 161 non-minority instances of elder maltreatment produces no compelling profile of differences, although there are implications for both study and practice. Within the minority subsample, differences in ethnic group, gender, age, and income provide some information. Hispanics have a less developed social support system, female-male distinctions focus on mortality rate and maltreatment type differences, the oldest old appear to differ from younger elder groups in several respects, and the poor may form a subgroup of isolates or loners.     

Informal Support Networks Meet Health needs of Rural Elderly

While major studies of informal support systems have been conducted in urban areas, it is important to gain comparable knowledge for the rural and small town communities in which so many older people live. This exploratory study had as its overall purpose to examine the association between community based informal support networks and the ability of older adults to carry out daily activities in a rural area-the measure of the functional health status of the person. Within a rural perspective the outcome of the study included: replication of urban data in terms of network identification; the generation for further study of two hypotheses related to the association of network functionality and functional health and one hypothesis related to the association of network proximity and functionality; and recommendations of unstudied areas of concern for a better understanding of network functionality.     

Determining the optimal double-component assignment for a stochastic computer network

This study determines the optimal double-component assignment based on the system reliability criterion for a computer system, in which the computer system is represented as a network with a set of links and a set of vertices. The double-component assignment is to assign a set of transmission lines (resp. facilities) to the links (resp. vertices) of the network, in which each transmission line (resp. facility) has multiple states due to maintenance or failure. Thus, the computer system according to any double-component assignment is called a stochastic computer network. The system reliability is the probability that the specific units of data are successfully transmitted through the stochastic computer network. An optimization algorithm which integrates the genetic algorithm, minimal paths, and Recursive Sum of Disjoint Products is utilized to find the optimal double-component assignment with maximal system reliability. Several computer networks are utilized to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm compared with other algorithms. By solving this problem, data can be more reliably transmitted and thus the organization operation is executed more smoothly.     

“民工荒”现象成因及对策分析

从去年下半年开始出现的“民工荒”打破了我国劳动力“无限供给”的神话,对我国未来经济增长产生了不容忽视的影响。本文对“民工荒”之所以出现作了原因分析,认为当前宏观经济形势和新的二元社会结构是导致“民工荒”的深层次原因,并对此提出了相应的对策。