Use of Distance Education and Audiographic Technology in Preparing Practicing Teachers in Rural Communities

1993 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis R. Knapczk
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Staff Development ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
Rural School ◽  
School Corporations ◽  
Practicing Teachers ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Training Institutions

Improving the skills of school personnel already teaching in rural communities will require that universities and other training agencies develop new approaches for structuring and delivering training experiences. The success of such activities will depend upon the ability of training institutions and school corporations to establish partnerships in carrying out staff development and devising models of training. Distance education and audiographic technology can give agencies flexibility in organizing and offering a wide range of training experiences adapted to the needs of rural school corporations.

Improving Staff Development in Rural Communities Using Distance Education and Communication Technology

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Knapczyk ◽  
Paul Rodes ◽  
Thomas Brush
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Staff Development ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Rural Schools ◽  
Innovative Approach ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
School Corporations ◽  
Computer Based

There are many challenges to universities and school corporations in offering quality staff development to teachers in rural communities. This article describes an innovative approach to staff development that uses distance education and computer-based audiographic communications technology. This approach enables rural schools to over come many of the challenges to staff development because it gives them the ability to link with outside experts, to share in the ownership of the training, to devise experiences that improve the on-the-job performance of the staff, and to increase overall collaboration among personnel.

NEW APPROACHES TO THE ORGANIZATIONAL AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT OF THE EXAMINATION OF COMPETITIVE APPLICATIONS FOR STATE SUPPORT IN THE FORM OF GRANTS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION TO YOUNG RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS – DOCTORS OF SCIENCES AND PHILOSOPHY DOCTORS (DOCTORS AND Ph. D.) AND LEADING SCIENTIFIC SCHOOLS

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-67
Author(s):  
N.A. Mironov ◽  
E.A. Maryshev ◽  
N.A. Divueva
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Technical Support ◽  
Examination System ◽  
State Support ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Integrated Information System ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Integrated Information

The article discusses the issues of improving the examination system of competitive applications for state support in the form of grants of the President of the Russian Federation on the basis of an integrated information system that includes the information support system of the Grants Council of the President of the Russian Federation and the information system of the Federal Roster of Scientific and Technological Experts and containing information about experts, applications and expert examination results. In order to improve the principles of transparency and openness of support programs and competition winners, to ensure the objectivity of the competitive selection of projects, a number of organizational and technical solutions are proposed in the application examination system based on an integrated information system. The new and proposed new approaches to the organizational and technical support of the examination of competitive applications for state support in the form of grants of the President of the Russian Federation to young Russian scientists made it possible, by attracting a wide range of scientific and technological communities, to conduct examination of more than five thousand applications with high quality and deadlines set by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia.

scholarly journals The Fiscal Effects of Tax Increment Financing on Rural School Districts: The Case of Iowa

AERA Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 233285842199114
Author(s):  
Phuong Nguyen-Hoang
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
School Districts ◽  
Property Tax ◽  
Rural School ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Rural School Districts ◽  
Tax Increment Financing ◽  
Tax Base ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Development Tool

Tax increment financing (TIF)—an economic (re)development tool originally designed for urban cities—has been available to rural communities for decades. This is the first study to focus solely on TIF in rural school districts, to examine TIF effects on school districts’ property tax base and rates, and to conduct event-study estimations of TIF effects. The study finds that TIF has mostly positive effects on rural school districts’ property tax base and mixed effects on property tax rates, and that TIF-induced increases in tax base come primarily from residential property and slightly from commercial property. The study’s findings assert the importance of returned excess increment if rural school districts in Iowa and many other states are to benefit from TIF.

scholarly journals What makes or breaks higher education community engagement in the South African rural school context: A multiple-partner perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Gabriel Machimana ◽  
Maximus Monaheng Sefotho ◽  
Liesel Ebersöhn
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
School Context ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Rural School ◽  
Multiple Partner ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Education Community ◽  
Wide Range

The purpose of this study is to inform global citizenship practice as a higher education agenda by comparing the retrospective experiences of a range of community engagement partners and including often silent voices of non-researcher partners. Higher education–community engagement aims to contribute to social justice as it constructs and transfers new knowledge from the perspectives of a wide range of community engagement partners. This qualitative secondary analysis study was framed theoretically by the transformative–emancipatory paradigm. Existing case data, generated on retrospective experiences of community engagement partners in a long-term community engagement partnership, were conveniently sampled to analyse and compare a range of community engagement experiences ( parents of student clients ( n = 12: females 10, males 2), teachers from the partner rural school ( n = 18: females 12, males 6), student-educational psychology clients ( n = 31: females 14, males 17), Academic Service-Learning ( ASL) students ( n = 20: females 17, males 3) and researchers ( n = 12: females 11, males 1). Following thematic in-case and cross-case analysis, it emerged that all higher education–community engagement partners experienced that socio-economic challenges (defined as rural school adversities, include financial, geographic and social challenges) are addressed when an higher education–community engagement partnership exists, but that particular operational challenges (communication barriers, time constraints, workload and unclear scope, inconsistent feedback, as well as conflicting expectations) hamper higher education–community engagement partnership. A significant insight from this study is that a range of community engagement partners experience similar challenges when a university and rural school partner. All community engagement partners experienced that higher education–community engagement is challenged by the structural disparity between the rural context and operational miscommunication.

A Comparison of Urban with Rural Support Networks: Liverpool and North Wales

1995 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Clare Wenger
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Social Variables ◽  
North Wales ◽  
Care And Support ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
High Level ◽  
The City

AbstractThis paper compares findings on the distribution of support networks in the City of Liverpool and in rural communities in North Wales. It demonstrates that while support network type is highly correlated with a wide range of demographic and social variables in both urban and rural samples, the nature of the relationships are not always comparable. The paper shows how cultural, migration and socio-economic factors interact to affect the formation of different types of support networks. As a result of a more stable elderly population, more old people in Liverpool have network types able to provide a high level of informal care and support.

scholarly journals Holistic Approach to Design, Test, and Optimize Stand-Alone SOFC-Reformer Systems

Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 348
Author(s):  
Michael Höber ◽  
Benjamin Königshofer ◽  
Philipp Wachter ◽  
Gjorgji Nusev ◽  
Pavle Boskoski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Diffusion Processes ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Maximum Error ◽  
Gas Diffusion ◽  
Electrochemical Analysis ◽  
Internal Reforming ◽  
Operation Conditions ◽  
Wide Range

Reliable electrical and thermal energy supplies are basic requirements for modern societies and their food supply. Stand-alone stationary power generators based on solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) represent an attractive solution to the problems of providing the energy required in both rural communities and in rurally-based industries such as those of the agricultural industry. The great advantages of SOFC-based systems are high efficiency and high fuel flexibility. A wide range of commercially available fuels can be used with no or low-effort pre-treatment. In this study, a design process for stand-alone system consisting of a reformer unit and an SOFC-based power generator is presented and tested. An adequate agreement between the measured and simulated values for the gas compositions after a reformer unit is observed with a maximum error of 3 vol% (volume percent). Theoretical degradation free operation conditions determined by employing equilibrium calculations are identified to be steam to carbon ratio (H2O/C) higher 0.6 for auto-thermal reformation and H2O/C higher 1 for internal reforming. The produced gas mixtures are used to fuel large planar electrolyte supported cells (ESC). Current densities up to 500 mA/cm2 at 0.75 V are reached under internal reforming conditions without degradation of the cells anode during the more than 500 h long-term test run. More detailed electrochemical analysis of SOFCs fed with different fuel mixtures showed that major losses are caused by gas diffusion processes.

Problems of education in the post-industrial era

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-79
Author(s):  
Vladimir Artamonov ◽  
Elena Artamonova
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Corporate Education ◽  
Industrial Education ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Changing Roles ◽  
Post Industrial

Considering the problems of education in the post-industrial era, the authors present the key concepts and make an attempt to describe the post-industrial reality as a volatile and complex system. Тhe authors discuss new approaches in technical and corporate education. A model of the development of «post-industrial education» is proposed, which helps to understand the main trends and challenges that await the education system in the future. The problems of «post-visual reality» and distance education are discussed, technical and organizational methods of its implementation are considered. In accordance with the concept of «life-long learning», conclusions are drawn about the changing roles of students and teachers.

A design methodology for the supply of subterranean water through the use of wind energy

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Brett Richard Marais
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Wind Energy ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Potable Water ◽  
White Paper ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Government

The Reconstruction and Development Programme adopted by the Government of National Unity is more than a list of the services required to improve the quality of life of the majority of South Africans. It is not just a call for South Africans to unite to build a country free of poverty and misery; it is a programme designed to achieve this objective in an integrated and principled manner. Based on the strategic objectives, as highlighted in the White Paper on Water Supply and Sanitation Policy, with regard to alleviating the chronic potable water shortages in South Africa, this thesis investigates a design methodology to supply potable water through the use of wind energy. The design focuses on small rural off-grid developments where grid electricity either has not or will not reach, and where renewable energy is the only viable option. This thesis provides an overview of wind energy and presents the fundamentals of wind power calculations. It also formulates an overview of the historic and present situation with regards to potable water supply, and reflects on the need for urgent intervention. The feasibility of using wind energy to supply potable water to rural communities in South Africa is explored in a case study. The various problem areas are identified and examined and a wide range of possible solutions are recommended. A final flow chart for the system design is proposed, thus ensuring comprehensive design methodology from which future design of similar systems can be based.

scholarly journals LOCAL BENEFITS OF THE ATLANTIC FOREST: EVIDENCES FROM RURAL COMMUNITIES IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 87-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
GISELE GARCIA ALARCON ◽  
ALFREDO CELSO FANTINI ◽  
CARLOS H. SALVADOR
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Ecological Corridor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Local Use

Abstract Environmental services provided by forests are essential to the social reproduction of populations in rural areas. Perceptions about the services provided by forests play an important role in the planning of landscapes; however, few studies have investigated this issue. This study aimed at understanding how farmers perceive the role of forests in maintaining environmental services. One hundred farmers from the Chapecó Ecological Corridor - SC were interviewed. Provisioning and regulating services were mentioned most often. Water availability ranked first (65%), followed by the maintenance of habitat for biodiversity (34%) and firewood (23%). Income and local use of forest resources were the variables that best explained farmers' perceptions of forest benefits. Nevertheless, the use of forest resources has been limited by restrictions imposed by environmental legislation, which is affecting the perception of farmers about the wide range of environmental services provided by forests.

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