Exploring MOOCs That Promote Innovative Public Services

The promotion and dissemination of a government’s basic policy are essential to implement innovative public services to establish sustainable country development and to ensure that the benefits are shared among citizens. This study focused on the MOOCs project in Thailand, and five courses were selected for exploration. Qualitative content analysis and sentiment analysis were applied to understand how information and communications technology in government services was promoted in the courses. These methods also explained the differences in the content of each course. It turned out that the strategy of improving service quality was the most-emphasized strategy in courses with an explanation of positive sentiment. The number of users who received a positive explanation of improving service quality was estimated at 711 and rated as a satisfactory result. The result of the qualitative content analysis was assembled into groups that could reveal the government’s pleiotropic orientation in their work on basic policy. All of these groups are involved in the international criteria for a government’s digital transformation, and other activities have also been highlighted as future challenges. The possibility of using MOOCs for policy promotion and education is suggested to bridge the gap between Thailand and other countries.

An Analysis on Performance Evaluation and Coordination Strategies of Transformation and Upgrading of Manufacturing Small and Micro Enterprises: An Empirical Study Based on AHP-Regression

Transformation and upgrading are the key to the development of manufacturing industry.Through the questionnaire survey, we designed 17 observation indicators and used the Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) to calculate the two levels of transformation and upgrading, and found that small and micro enterprises paid most attention to internal management and industrial chain upgrading. When we using multiple regression analysis to analyze the impact of internal and external promotion strategies on transformation and upgrading, it is found that the combination strategy of assets, information management level and the overall quality of employees had the best effect, which is consistent with the most important transformation and upgrading indicators of enterprises.In terms of government support and tax policy promotion strategies, tax policy has a relatively good independent impact, but when combined with other indicators, the impact will not be significant. This shows that the conversion efficiency of the policy is low, and the applicability and pertinence need to be optimized. In addition, in terms of the promotion strategy of innovation input for transformation and upgrading, the effect is not good, indicating that the innovation efficiency of Chinese small and micro enterprises is not high, and the ability to transform innovation resources into innovation output is insufficient. This has also formed evidence support for internal management indicators in transformation and upgrading.

Correlation Research on the Practice of School Administrative Ethics and Teachers’ Job Morale and Job Involvement

Being in such a highly competitive knowledge economic era with changing social value and fast information spread, the relationship between school teachers and staff is different from it in the past and the dilemmas and difficulties encountered by schools are increasing. School administrators have to face problems and accept challenges on policy promotion and work execution and even have to immediately make decisions on certain issues. School administrators’ decisions mostly involve in people that the considerations are broad, e.g. conforming to education objectives, taking care of different learners’ needs, and satisfying various stakeholders. Aiming at university teachers in Shandong Province as the empirical objects, total 360 copies of questionnaire are distributed for this study. 254 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 71%. According to the research results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to help domestic universities and colleges enhance the practice of administrative ethics, stimulate and promote the administrative effectiveness of schools, and enhance the overall effectiveness.

Silvopasture policy promotion in European Mediterranean areas

Silvopasture is the deliberate integration of a woody component with grazed pastures as understorey. It is one of the most extended agroforestry practices all over the world. Silvopasture use is key to increase the sustainability of livestock farming systems as silvopasture reduces the use of concentrates since the woody component provides feed for animals. However, it is not an extensively used practice in Europe. This paper aims at evaluating, from Eurostat, LUCAS database and the 118 rural development programs, the current situation of permanent grasslands in the Mediterranean area of Europe as well as the rural development programmes fostering silvopasture to better understand how sustainable land use systems are promoted and provide insights to foster silvopasture across Europe. The results of this study show that most of the policy measures related to silvopasture are adapted to the local necessity. The already existing agroforestry managed land (dehesas/montado) are related to measures supporting regeneration and maintenance while in those areas where agroforestry does not exist the measures are related to forest fire prevention.

The uniqueness of collisions in a typical scenario: the language policy of the Republic of Moldova

The article is devoted to the formation and evolution of an independent language policy in the new post-Soviet sovereign states, each of which, despite similar processes, has its own specifics, due to both internal and external factors. The author focuses on the language policy in the Republic of Moldova, as stated in the language legislation, as well as on the extraordinary collisions that have arisen and are arising in dealing with language issues in this multi-ethnic republic during the 30 years of its independence. Since there are no special comprehensive studies on this topic at present, the article is an important attempt to give an analytical overview of language policy in the Republic of Moldova with relevant sociolinguistic comments on the documents forming its legal sphere, as well as taking into account the specifics of such regions as the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan Republic and the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauz-Yeri. The article introduces the latest documents and materials on language policy of Moldova for the first time. The logic of the article structure enables to present the three key directions of language policy in the republic in a consistent and sufficiently detailed manner: language policy regarding the state language, with regard to the Romanian influence on it; policy regarding the Russian language as a popular means of inter- ethnic communication with a sufficient index of sustainability and its status; and policy regarding the languages of ethnic minorities that have long lived in the Moldovan region. The article gives a holistic view not only of the documents, but also of the motives, circumstances and processes of their adoption, as well as the consequences of each new step in the language policy promotion in the Republic of Moldova.

Institutional investors in Russia: problems and prospects

The objective reasons for assessing the role of institutional investors as valuable participants of the Russian financial market and forecast trends within the framework of various projects is explained by the necessity of optimizing their participation in serving the needs of national and international economy as well as using the tools of environmental policy promotion. The subject of the research is the activity of institutional investors in contemporary environment and possible ways of making them as financial intermediaries more effective in providing the needs of the modern economy, especially in the fuel and energy complex as a key sector of the Russian Economy. The article provides a comparative analysis of the current set of factors and threats that affect the prospects of participation of institutional investors in financial markets. The complex analysis methodology, used in assessing the problems, involves considering the standpoint of the influence of a set of factors, subdivided into internal and external. Internal factors include the national market conditions and environmental issues. External factors reflect the long-term impact of a potentially adverse or favorable impact on the course of projects implementation based on institutional investors’ facility in spite of market turbulence, political sanctions or pandemic conditions.

Meeting the Needs of Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in Entrepreneurial Education in Malaysia: The Government’s Role

Entrepreneurship education holds great value for all students of science, technology, mission work, social work, healthcare, and education. It also serves as a great incubator for the types of creative, innovative ideas of our students and the global needs in the 21st century where combining entrepreneurship syllabus and exposure of the fourth industrial revolution is essential. This study explores the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) as an opportunity to change models of innovation-driven entrepreneurship for the better, and create an environment that makes entrepreneurship more inclusive, while maximizing the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s benefits to the society and minimizing the risks that come with it. The role of Malaysian government in enhancing entrepreneurial education must therefore recognize the fourth industrial evolution and its impacts that must be compatible with Malaysia’s industry policy. Promotion of entrepreneurial experimentation within an appropriate entrepreneurial education ecosystem will provide entrepreneurs with smart government support that invests in entrepreneurial skills in Malaysia. This article assesses (i) fourth industrial revolution impact on entrepreneurial education; (ii) new expectations arising from impacts of fourth industrial evolution in Malaysia: method in teaching and learning; (iii) government’s role in supporting entrepreneurship education and finally (iv) entrepreneurial education reforms in Malaysia.