El atelier invertido: caso de estudio

Los proyectos siguientes son ejemplos del Atelier Invertido (3.3), una oportunidad pedagógica en la cual los estudiantes trabajan en el diseño y construcción de un proyecto real. En ambos casos las ambiciones de diseño eran mucho mayores de lo que los presupuestos de los clientes podían afrontar. La estrategia fue, consecuentemente tomar contratistas para construir la parte gruesa de la obra, reservando los componentes inusuales y complicados para el equipo de diseño y construcción. En ambos casos la actividad pedagógica amplió significativamente el trabajo y el nivel de diseño.Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanism

El atelier invertido: caso de estudio

Los proyectos siguientes son ejemplos del Atelier Invertido (3.3), una oportunidad pedagógica en la cual los estudiantes trabajan en el diseño y construcción de un proyecto real. En ambos casos las ambiciones de diseño eran mucho mayores de lo que los presupuestos de los clientes podían afrontar. La estrategia fue, consecuentemente tomar contratistas para construir la parte gruesa de la obra, reservando los componentes inusuales y complicados para el equipo de diseño y construcción. En ambos casos la actividad pedagógica amplió significativamente el trabajo y el nivel de diseño.Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanism

Putting Children First: Ending Family Homelessness In Illinois: A Statewide Survey on Family Homelessness

The recent economic recession and resulting layoffs compounded by a severe lack of affordable housing, lack of living wage jobs, and an increase in foreclosures, has caused increasing hardship for families in Illinois, including homelessness. This December 2001 study of seventeen agencies that serve homeless families in fifteen counties throughout Illinois and the eight warming centers (emergency shelters) in Chicago gathered information regarding family homelessness in Illinois. The agencies surveyed indicate an increase in family homelessness over the past year and specifically over the past two months. These results, and other recent research regarding the acute shortage of affordable housing in Illinois points towards the increasing need for Illinois to invest in homelessness prevention initiatives and the development of affordable housing for the benefit of thousands of families and children

The construction of the female subject: Belghoul and Colette

1995-01-01

A Longitudinal Evaluation of the Impact of a Problem-Based Learning Approach to the Teaching of Software Development in Higher Education

First year students on Computing courses at tertiary level find Software Development difficult: learner outcomes are poor, with high failure rates and low learner retention. A number of research studies have shown that novice programmers have low intrinsic motivation and low programming self-efficacy. One of the other possible explanations for the difficulties many learners have with Software Development is that it may be a Threshold Concept in Computing. The literature suggests that Problem-Based Learning (PBL) can improve the teaching of difficult concepts, and it has been promoted by professional and funding bodies as a teaching strategy that can improve learner outcomes and bring about positive changes in learner behaviour. The main aim of this research study was to establish the impact on learner outcomes and behaviour of a Hybrid PBL approach used in the teaching of an introductory Software Development module at an Irish tertiary level institution. Learners on the Software Development module are characterised by low prior attainment in State college entry examinations, and the majority are from low income socio-economic backgrounds. Learner outcomes and behaviours were investigated over four cohorts of learners using a large range of data sources. A randomised controlled experimental design was used to measure changes in attainment, programming self-efficacy, motivation, approaches to study and preferences for types of teaching. Questionnaires, data mining of learner activity and attendance logs were used to provide additional information about learner behaviour, and further analysis was undertaken using qualitative techniques such as classroom observations and interviews. Both qualitative and quantitative measures were used to confirm, cross-validate and corroborate findings. The study made significant discoveries about the strengths and limitations of the Problem-Based Learning approach in the teaching of Software Development to low attainment learners. The implications for instructional practice and for educational theory and research are discussed and a number of recommendations are made

Repetition, difference and liturgical participation in Coleridge's 'The ancient mariner'

Theological interpretations of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ have sometimes been judged to do little more than to compound the problem of interpretation. This essay reflects on a contrasting response from the Welsh poet David Jones which challenges the ‘Rime’ for a theological incoherence in itself constituting a failure of imagination, and then considers the relation of language to liturgy in recent postmodern theology. What emerges from Coleridge’s poem is a divergence between the identical repetition of the tale itself and a ‘repetition with difference’ implied in the Mariner’s vision of a procession to the kirk. Coleridge’s ‘Gothic’ imagination can do little more than stage this difference of repetition on the margins of his poem, but there are implications for his later writing career, as he moves away from the predominance of imagination towards the counter-horizons of speculative theological prose

Why is Voting Habit-Forming: Evidence from Sweden

For decades, scholars of electoral behavior have noted persistence in individuals' turnout decisions and hypothesized that such persistence is the result of habit. Recent empirical studies provide persuasive evidence supporting the habitual voting hypothesis, but we still do not know why individuals develop habits for voting. One theory is that voting causes individuals' to view themselves as "voters," increasing their future probabilities of voting. Another theory asserts that voting may ease institutional barriers, making future voting less costly and changing conative attitudes towards voting. This study seeks to disentangle these two causal mechanisms by testing the habitual voting hypothesis in Sweden. Since institutional barriers to voting are minimal in Sweden, evidence in favor of the habitual voting hypothesis will lend credence to a psychological mechanism. The opposite result will point to an institutional mechanism. Ultimately, habitual voting is found in Sweden, which suggests the psychological mechanism is valid

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Manure handling is one of the most unappreciated chores associated with livestock enterprises. It is also the most difficult problem to solve in a totally satisfactory manner because physical characteristics of manure usually change with the daily weather, seasons, and ration. All handling systems have their limitations, and none works perfectly all the time. The problem of manure handling is most easily solved if cows are confined in covered housing because physical characteristics of the manure remain more uniform under cover — no surface water, less drying and freezing. Improper design of manure-handling systems may lead to higher costs for redesign than new facilities would cost. Even with new facilities, manure handling may present major problems if systems are inadequate for the particular environmental conditions of the area. In continuing efforts to improve livestock waste-handling systems, new methods and equipment are being used. Waste-system components, related closely to dairy-manure handling, deal with removal of waste from buildings and storage facilities that are separated from the livestock housing facility. The major systems provide for collection, transfer, storage, and land application, and are divided into two groups — liquid and semisolid manurehandling systems. Many manure-handling systems are used in the United States. Not all of these systems, however, are adapted to northern climates. The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation currently has no code of practice for livestock waste facilities. The agency, however, must be notified for approval of waste-treatment systems used in livestock enterprises. The systems described in this report comply with current state codes in the northern United States and Canada, and most are adaptable to the environmental conditions of Alaska.Introduction -- Liquid-Manure Systems -- Semisolid-Manure Systems -- Conclusions -- Bibliograph

A self-organising awareness system for distributed software engineering

Software engineers and other collaborative disciplines rely on informal "out-of-band" communication for ef- fective coordination of their activities, especially in agile methods. This type of communication is lost when development is distributed, with consequent deleterious effects on engineer effectiveness. In order to effectively support distributed software engineering, a replacement for this informal communication must be found. Much previous research focussed on either synchronous awareness such as radar views and shared editors, where participants were distributed in space not time, or asynchronous awareness such as change notification, which did not explicitly support concurrent activities. A unified approach is necessary to support software engineering. Furthermore, requiring co-location of engineering teams is not possible in today's marketplace where development is often outsourced, consequently a definite requirement for awareness tools to replace informal communication exists. To implement an awareness tool capable of providing awareness of activities distributed both in time (asyn- chronous awareness) and space (synchronous awareness). The tool will not rely on a centralised reflector; instead information will be distributed over a peer-to-peer network arranged using a self-organisation algorithm. Consequently awareness information need not travel more than a few hops from its originating peer, reducing network load and increasing relevance of information received. Unlike reflector-based CSCW systems, the network will scale and will not have a single point of failure in the reflector. Furthermore, without the need to setup a reflector, there is the capability for ad-hoc awareness, using low-complexity peer discovery by local broadcast for example. The tool will be integrated with the Eclipse development environment. The files a user is currently editing will determine the data they are interested in and fuzzy similarity metrics will be used to compare the collections of each peer in the network in order to drive the self-organisation process. To evaluate the success of self-organisation, a simulation approach will be used before deploying the algorithms in the wild. To evaluate the effectiveness of the awareness provision, initial deployment and controlled experiments will be conducted within the Distributed Software Engineering group at the University of Lincoln and a later version of the tool will be trialled with existing Eclipse user