Developing a virtual engineering management community     

Bill Hewitt  Moray Kidd  Robin Smith 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2016,41(2):220-230

The paper reviews the lessons of planning and running an Engineering Management practitioner development programme in a partnership between BP and the University of Manchester. This distance-learning programme is for professional engineers in mid-career experienced in the engineering and support activities for delivering safe, compliant and reliable projects and operations worldwide. The programme concentrates on the why and how of leadership and judgement in managing the engineering of large and small projects and operational support. Two intensive residential weeks are combined with a virtual learning environment over one year. Assessed assignments between and after the residential weeks provide opportunities for individual reflective learning for each delegate through applying concepts and the lessons of case studies to their experience, current challenges and expected responsibilities. This successful partnership between a major global company and a university rich in research and teaching required a significant dedication of intellectual and leadership effort by all concerned. The rewards for both parties and most importantly for the engineers themselves are extensive.  相似文献   

Editorial     

Beverly J. Irby  Jennifer Boswell  Kimberly Kappler Hewitt  Shinhee Jeong  Elisabeth Pugliese 《Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning》2019,27(1):1-4

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Improving the Construction of the Essay and Objective New Type Examination     

Jack E. Hewitt 《Research quarterly for exercise and sport》2013,84(3):148-154

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Editor’s overview: mentoring educators in the university setting     

Beverly J. Irby  Jennifer Boswell  Kimberly Kapler Hewitt  Shinhee Jeong  Elisabeth Pugliese 《Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning》2013,21(4):365-369

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Exploring the Use of Cases and Case Methods in Influencing Elementary Preservice Science Teachers' Self-Efficacy Beliefs     

Susan Yoon  Erminia Pedretti  Larry Pedretti  Jim Hewitt  Kirk Perris  Roland Van Oostveen 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2006,17(1):15-35

In this study, we hypothesize that cases demonstrating exemplary practice in the science classroom can be used as a source for learning content and pedagogical skills that will improve teachers' self-efficacy beliefs. Twelve preservice elementary science teachers are followed as they participate in a case and case method activity illustrating the Grade 7 topic of robotics and fluids. While there was little evidence to show improvements in content knowledge, results indicate that the case acted as a boundary object for brokering between individual experiences and those found in the science teaching community by scaffolding for multiple points of entry, bridging the theory practice gap and offering beginning teachers more immediate access to the community of already practicing teachers.

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CAMPAIGN TO SAVE THE EIAJ     

C.L. Hewitt 《Learning, Media and Technology》1980,6(3)

The writer reports a meeting at Manchester this summer which brought together users of the EIAJ1/2″ videocartridge format, and led to the formation of a campaign to prolong its useful life in the UK.  相似文献   

Revealing the existence of child abuse in the context of marital breakdown and custody and access disputes     

Brown T  Frederico M  Hewitt L  Sheehan R 《Child abuse & neglect》2000,24(6):849-859

OBJECTIVE: Child abuse in the context of legal and de facto marital breakdown has received little attention internationally. Many believe it does not exist in this context and regard it as just a "gambit in the divorce wars." Recently, however, family courts in a number of countries have become concerned over the management of child abuse allegations in custody and access cases, known more commonly now as residence and contact cases. This article presents a unique research study, which investigated how the Family Court of Australia dealt with such cases. The study, covering all forms of child abuse, sought to discover who were the families bringing these problems to family courts, what precisely the abuse was and how the courts dealt with it. METHOD: The study reviewed court records of some 200 families where child abuse allegations had been made in custody and access disputes in jurisdictions in two states, observed court proceedings and interviewed court and related services' staff. RESULTS: The findings showed that these cases had become a core component of the court's workload without any public or professional awareness of this change, that the abuse was real, that it was severe and serious, and that the courts and child protection services did not provide appropriate services to the families. CONCLUSION: A new specialized intervention system was developed based on the research and it is now being trialed and evaluated. The new intervention system contains features derived from the research findings that may be suitable internationally for implementation.  相似文献   

Design Principles for Distributed Knowledge Building Processes   总被引：10，自引：0，他引：10  

Jim Hewitt  Marlene Scardamalia 《Educational Psychology Review》1998,10(1):75-96

In this paper we explore various interpretations of the term distributed cognition, then turn our attention to communities grounded in the practice of collaborative knowledge building. We discuss CSILE (Computer-Supported Intentional Learning Environments), a technology designed to support contributions to a communal database. Shared responsibility for this community resource extends to aspects of school practice typically handled exclusively by teachers, and engagement in improving and connecting the contents of the database makes the process of knowledge building self-sustaining. We discuss knowledge building communities involving students and teachers, and end with discussion of design principles for distributed knowledge building processes.  相似文献   

Scan Rate: A New Metric for the Analysis of Reading Behaviors in Asynchronous Computer Conferencing Environments     

Jim Hewitt  Clare Brett  Vanessa Peters 《The American journal of distance education》2013,27(4):215-231

This article introduces a new computer conferencing metric called Scan Rate, which is a measure of students' and instructors' online reading speed. The term “scan” refers to the practice of either skimming through a message at an unusually rapid pace or reading a message partially and then stopping before the end is reached. It is proposed that the Scan Rate metric offers a useful way of monitoring how thoroughly students attend to the messages they read. Four analyses illustrate the utility of the metric. These reveal that (1) scan rates increase with message size, (2) students are more likely to scan the messages of their peers than messages written by their instructor, (3) students engage in scanning practices more frequently than instructors, and (4) scan rates are partially a function of class size and class configuration.  相似文献   

Theatre U.S.A.: Actual and potential     

Barnard Hewitt 《Quarterly Journal of Speech》2013,99(4):385-396

IN PRAISE OF PROMETHEUS: HUMANISM AND RATIONALISM IN AESCHYLEAN THOUGHT. By Leon Golding. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1966; pp. ix+137. $5.00.

THE POLITICAL BACKGROUND OF AESCHYLEAN TRAGEDY. By Anthony J. Podlecki. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1966; pp. x+188. $7.50.

TWELFTH NIGHT AND SHAKESPEARIAN COMEDY. By Clifford Leech. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1965; pp. vii+88. $3.50.

HAMLET AND REVENGE. By Eleanor Presser. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1967; pp. xiv+287. $7.50.

THE THEATRE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. By Marvin Carlson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1966; pp. xii+328. $10.00.

ROYALL TYLER. By G. Thomas Tanselle. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967; pp. xvi+281. $7.50.

DRAMAS FROM THE AMERICAN THEATRE 1762–1901. Edited and Introduction by Richard Moody. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1966; pp. 873+illus. $15.00.

THE LANGUAGE OF CRITICISM. By John Casey. New York: Barnes &; Noble, 1966; pp. xii+205. $5.75.

MARK TWAIN'S LETTERS TO HIS PUBLISHERS, 1867–1894. Edited with an introduction by Hamlin Hill. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967; pp. xiv+388. $10.00.

MARK TWAIN'S SATIRES AND BURLESQUES. Edited with an introduction by Franklin S. Rogers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967; pp. viii+485. $10.00.

MARK TWAIN'S WHICH WAS THE DREAM. Edited by John S. Tuckey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967; pp. xi+588. $10.00.

AMBROSE BIERCE: A BIOGRAPHY. By Richard O'Connor. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967; pp. 333. $6.95.

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM. By M. K. Naik. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966; pp. ix+221. $4.95.

REMEMBERING MR. MAUGHAM. By Gar‐son Kanin. Foreword by Noel Coward. New York: Atheneum, 1966; pp. vi+313. $5.95.

SOMERSET AND ALL THE MAUGHAMS. By Robin Maugham. New York: New American Library, 1967; pp. 224. Paper $0.95.

FROM PROUST TO CAMUS: PROFILES OF MODERN FRENCH WRITERS. By André Maurois. Translated by Carl Morse and Renaud Bruce. Garden City, N.Y.: Double‐day, 1966; pp. 368. $5.95.

RELIGION AND THE AMERICAN MIND: FROM THE GREAT AWAKENING TO THE REVOLUTION. By Alan Heimert. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1966; pp. x+668. $12.50.

THE GREAT AWAKENING: DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATING THE CRISIS AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. Edited by Alan Heimert and Perry Miller. Indianapolis: Bobbs‐Merrill, 1967; pp. lxx+663. $7.50; paper $3.75.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. By Ralph Ketcham. New York: Washington Square, 1965; pp. xiv+226. $3.95.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY. By Roger Burlingame. New York: Coward‐McCann, 1967; pp. 255. $5.75.

DANIEL WEBSTER AND THE SUPREME COURT. By Maurice G. Baxter. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1966; pp. ix+265. $6.75.

THE PAPERS OF WOODROW WILSON, Vol. II, 1881–1884. Edited by Arthur S. Link. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1967; pp. xvi+680. $15.00.

THE PRESIDENCY OF WOODROW WILSON: PRELUDE TO A WORLD CRISIS. By Leon H. Canfield. Rutherford, N. J.: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 1966; pp. xv+299. $6.00.

LANDON OF KANSAS. By Donald R. McCoy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966; pp. x+607. $8.50.

CHANGING VIEWS ON BRITISH HISTORY: ESSAYS ON HISTORICAL WRITING SINCE 1939. Edited by Elizabeth Chapin Furber. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1966; pp. xii+418. $9.00.

HUMAN COMMUNICATION THEORY: ORIGINAL ESSAYS. Edited by Frank E. X. Dance. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967; pp. x+333. $6.50.

NEBRASKA SYMPOSIUM ON MOTIVATION: 1966. Edited by David Levine. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966; pp. ix+209. $5.95; paper $2.75.

COMMUNICATION: THEORY AND RESEARCH. Edited by Lee Thayer. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, 1966; pp. xv+583. $22.50.

COMMUNICATION: CONCEPTS AND PERSPECTIVES. Edited by Lee Thayer. Washington: Spartan Books, 1967; pp. viii+440. $14.00.

COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS. By Edward J. Robinson. Columbus: Charles E. Merrill, 1966; pp. 618. $9.50.

THE PLAY THEORY OF MASS COMMUNICATION. By William Stephenson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967; pp. x+225. $5.00.

MICROCOSM: STRUCTURAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS EVOLUTION IN GROUPS. By Phillip E. Slater. New York: John Wiley, 1966; pp. ix+276. $7.95.

MODERN INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATION: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE. By Arthur Lall. New York: Columbia University Press, 1966; pp. xii+404. $8.95.

BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE. By Eric H. Lenneberg. Appendices by Noam Chomsky and Otto Marx. New York: John Wiley, 1967; pp. xvi+489. $14.95.

PORTRAITS OF LINGUISTS: A BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCE BOOK FOR THE HISTORY OF WESTERN LINGUISTICS, 1746–1963. Edited by Thomas A. Sebeok. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1966; pp. xvi+580, I; 605, II. $27.50 set.

THE APHASIC CHILD: A NEUROLOGICAL BASIS FOR HIS EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION. By Alice Calvert Roberts. Foreword by Louis D. Boshes. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, 1966; pp. xi+79. $4.50.

CHILDHOOD APHASIA AND BRAIN DAMAGE: VOLUME III, HABILITATION. Edited by Sheldon R. Rappaport. Norris‐town, Pa.: Pathway School, 1966; pp. vii+ 120. Paper $3.25.  相似文献