Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-138). Also available on the Internet.

The energy crisis of 2001, high prices for gas and electricity and worries of climate change have caused a growing awareness about energy issues in California. The problems are clear. This paper looks at the next step of finding and implementing solutions. In this case the contribution that solar photovoltaic and solar thermal generation could make toward solving the problem. This paper looks at technological change, the current state of solar energy research, current government policies on solar energy, and finally makes policy recommendations to meet the stated problem.

The principal aim of this study was to obtain an understanding of the relative importance of emotion management for the Swiss private higher education sector, and for the lecturing profession in general. Extant literature has focused on the emotion management of teachers and lecturers working in the public sector but has somewhat overlooked the private higher education sector. A single case study design was selected for this research, which consisted of a well-established and highly regarded Swiss private higher education institute. Focus groups were conducted with three groups of faculty staff at the case institute. This was followed up by eleven individual interviews. Thematic analysis was then used to analyse the data, resulting in the identification of several core themes. The findings show that emotion management is an essential element of the lecturing profession within the Swiss private higher education sector. There was evidence of emotional labour in action, with participants enacting the various emotion regulation strategies as espoused throughout the literature. This study identified that ‘naturally felt emotions’ and ‘deep acting’ were the preferred emotion regulation strategies. The prescriptive and philanthropic categories of the typology of workplace emotion were found to be the primary motivators behind the faculty performance. This thesis has made strides in expanding the field by providing new insights into the relevance of emotion management for professional occupations, specifically those of faculty staff. Overall, participants reported more positive than negative outcomes associated with emotion management, suggesting less of a dichotomy of outcomes in comparison to previous studies. The findings show that a number of contextual factors also have an influence on the emotion management of individual lecturers. Backstage areas and humour were found to be the most common coping strategies which participants used to detach from the job. Unexpectedly, cultural diversity was considered as having implications for the emotion management of lecturers. The research findings represent a further step towards developing an understanding of emotions and their management in a private higher education setting.

M.Ed. / Academic staff development is seen as a vehicle of empowerment that focuses on assisting individual members of staff to acquire knowledge, understanding and skills needed to teaceffectively. A great number of South African Higher Education institutions have made inroads and advances with regard to academic staff development programmes. However many such programmes are usually general to all staff members including administrators and professionals and do not address the specific needs of academics. Managers often plan these programmes without consulting the envisaged participants or conducting any needs assessment despite the literature on academic staff development emphasising the importance of conducting a proper needs assessment. As a result academic staff members in these institutions still feel left behind when it comes to academic issues affecting them directly, such as an absence of continuous staff development and the development of their research and academic writing skills. Many academics feel that such programmes are irrelevant and boring and do not attend. Based on the above the aim of this study was to explore the needs of academics within the Education Department of Vista University Soweto Campus in order to arrive at an informed understanding of such needs for the purpose of informing future academic staff development programme planning. For the purposes of this study qualitative research was conducted using semi-structured interviews with a purposefully selected sample of eleven academics within the Education Department in order to ascertain their academic staff development needs. Data were analysed using the constant comparative method. The findings of the research reveal that the majority of the academics were dissatisfied about the manner in which academic staff development activities are planned and conducted. Among the factors mentioned, the following feature prominently: the need for continuous staff development; the necessity of conducting a proper needs assessment prior to planning academic staff developmental programmes, the needs of the academics in acquiring the skills for research and academic writing, and the availability of more funding for staff development activities. This report concludes with a number of recommendations for planning with regard to academic staff development programmes.

Studies show that the use of narratives enhances the lecture method of teaching. The model and manual developed in this study focus on the needs of lecturers who require creative guidance in all aspects of creating and using didactic narratives. This study suggests that the subject content of a lecture has a deep structure that can be used to generate the surface structure of a didactic narrative. The model and manual are informed by theories and models from a variety of disciplines that have been adapted for analyzing subject content, transforming subject content structure into a parallel narrative structure, and integrating the narrative into lecture.

No / In this paper, a similarity concept is proposed to improve student understanding on difficult and complicated engineering theory. The planned application of this approach is for the Transportation Studies module (CSE6004-A) at School of Engineering, University of Bradford, United Kingdom. In the module, noise induced by road transport and vehicles are taught in depth, where the proposed teaching method will be applied to aid student understanding on the numerical concept of the vibration effect and noise on vehicle braking system. As part of the module planning, the full numerical solution of brake judder/vibration effect, which includes shaking (forced vibration) and nibbling (torsional vibration) effects will be introduced to students where similarity concept will be adapted in its teaching. The successfully applied concept will also be able to utilize by other engineering teaching and modules.

The problem of this study was to determine the relationship between preference of experienced secondary teachers to instruct by the Group or Lecture method, their subject field, and selected personality traits.

Šiandienos pasaulyje vykstant intensyviam sujudimui aukštojo mokslo erdvėje, siekiant aukštos kokybės, įvairios studijų kokybę gerinančios galimybės tampa svarbiu prioritetu tarptautinėje aukštojo mokslo erdvėje. Yra nemažai nuveikta siekiant gerinti aukštojo mokslo kokybę, yra sukurta nemažai aukštojo mokslo kontrolės priemonių, rekomendacinio pobūdžio dokumentų aukštojo mokslo kokybės klausimais, tačiau Lietuvos didelis jaunimo nedarbas, nekokybiškų studijų programų gausėjimas, rodo kad Lietuvos studijų kokybė yra prasta. Kadangi iki šiol taikytos kokybės siekimo priemonės nedavė siekiamų rezultatų, tampa aktualu pažvelgti į studijų proceso tobulinimą siekiant gerinti studijų kokybę. Studijų procesas nėra vienalytis, jis taip pat susideda iš atskirų dalių, dėstymo, studentų vertinimo, studentų motyvacijos ir kt. Visos jos įtakoja studijų kokybę, o jų trūkumai lemia studijų kokybės trūkumus. Darbo tikslas - išanalizuoti Lietuvos aukštųjų universitetinių mokyklų studijų proceso tobulinimo kryptis, remiantis studentų poţiūriu. Darbo tikslui įgyvendinti pasirinkti uždaviniai: -aptarti pagrindinius Lietuvos ir Europos strateginius dokumentus studijų proceso kokybės klausimais; -atskleisti studijų kokybės elementus ir veiksnius, įtakojančius studijų procesą; -apžvelgti Lietuvos aukštąsias universitetines mokyklas; -atskleisti Studijų kokybės vertinimo centro vaidmenį studijų proceso kokybės gerinimui; -atlikti studentų bei studijų kokybės vertinimo ekspertų poţiūrio į Lietuvos... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / A necessity to find new options to improve quality of study process becomes a priority in high education worldwide. So far signifant efforts have been used to improve quality of studies and a number of measures have been adoped to control it. There a few documents of advisory nature, which seek to respond to quality issues. Nevertheless, high unemployment rate with young population and increase of low quality study programes in high shools of Lithuania unfortunately indicate a non-satisfactory level of study process in Lithuania. Wheareas measures that have been used so far failed to achieve their goals, it is necessary to review means of improvement of study process in Lithuania again. Study process is a complex process, which consists of separate segments, such as lecturing, evaluation of knowledge of students, motivation of students, etc. All of such segments influence the quality of studies, while defects also have an effect on the overall process. The main goal of this master„s thesis is to analize options of improvement of study process in the universities of the Republic of Lithuania with a students point of view. The following tasks were chosen to achieve the said goal: -to discuss the fundamental strategic documents regulating quality issues in study process in Lithuania and European Union; -to disclose elements and mechanisms of quality of studies, which have effect on the study process; -to review aspects of study processes in universities of Lithuania; -to... [to full text]

The problem of this study was to compare the effectiveness of the note-test method and the traditional lecture method of teaching general introductory microbiology. The study was prompted by the desire to improve teaching strategies in microbiology in order to improve the attitudes of students taking microbiology at the Indiana College of Mortuary Science. The conclusions are that the note-test method of teaching is at least as effective as the traditional lecture method but is not better than the traditional method in regard to student achievement or student attitudes about the microbiology course to which they were assigned. Since the method requires less lecturing than the traditional lecture method used in this study, it may be used effectively by some instructors in certain subject matter areas and may hold promise in maintaining achievement and acceptable attitude levels.

Submitted in full compliance with the requirements for a Master’s degree in Technology: Dental Technology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2017. / Post-apartheid restructuring of the South African Higher Education system has brought about significant changes. Institutions of Higher Learning have implemented minor and major changes in their objectives, delivery of knowledge, functions, accreditations and overall outcomes (Du Pre 2006, Reddy 2006, Department of Education 1997). One of the more significant transitions within South Africa’s Higher Education landscape has been the conversion of technikons into universities of technology (UoTs) (Powell & McKenna 2006). This thesis investigates the discourses of academics within a university of technology, exploring their responses to and constructions of institutional shifts. The study has an ontological focus in that it is interested in the ‘being’ of Dental Technology academics. It is interested in the discursive constructions not only of themselves as academics, but also of their work in this changed institutional context. By conducting interviews with the Dental Technology academics lecturing in universities of technology in South Africa, it was the intention to explore these academics’ discourses on institutional shifts. Adopting discourse analysis as the primary method of data analysis enabled the exploration of how academics constructed the notion of academic identity, how they discursively constructed students and knowledge, as well as other core issues related to their work. / M