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In the current environment where COVID-19 is serious, the space, place and resources required for teaching nuclear power plants are restricted to a great extent. To solve such problems and improve the utilization of education resources, this study improved an accident simulator for nuclear power plants based on the concept of cloud technology. We build the Browser / Server architecture so that the platform has successfully implemented multiterminal, multiplatform and multiuser simultaneous applications. Through the simulation results of the Small Break Loss of Coolant Accident (SBLOCA) and the test results of platform performance by PCTran-Cloud, the correctness of PCTran-Cloud in the accident simulation function and results were verified. In general, PCTran-Cloud has the characteristics of high scalability, high concurrency and high security. The platform can provide an environment for the training and education of nuclear power professionals. © 2022 IEEE.
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In the case of COVID-19 epidemic, online education supported by computing technology is playing an increasingly important role, while online education resources, especially micro-lectures, are seriously insufficient, which greatly hinders the development of online education. In this paper, a micro-lecture resource construction scheme for online courses with teacher-student collaboration was proposed based on the learning pyramid theory. The practice proved that this scheme can make full use of students' technical foundation in the Internet era to build micro-lectures, which can not only improve the quality of online courses, but also build curriculum resources quickly and with high quality, thus providing a strong resource guarantee for the follow-up online teaching. © 2022 Association for Computing Machinery.
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The learning styles of engineering students have evolved over the years with the advent of technology-enhanced education. Educators have also changed their teaching styles to incorporate student-centric pedagogy and educational technology. While the COVID-19 pandemic proliferated online teaching worldwide, often forcing educators to conceptualize and convert face-to-face teaching materials to online learning modules, Ansys academic endeavours have also pivoted to support educators and digital learning. This paper highlights the Ansys Education Resources, aimed at helping undergraduate materials and simulation-based design educators teach and inspire students. These are also perfect for students and self-learners who are looking to complement classroom content. Moreover, these help professors in assigning supplemental homework or capstone projects. The resources, of which 80% are openly accessed, are categorized as lectures, case studies, micro-projects, exercises, etc., and make the educators' job easier in inspiring and engaging the students' digital learning process throughout the undergraduate curricula. Solutions to exercises and projects are restricted to educators with current Granta EduPack product licenses. In developing these resources, the content developers consider different teaching and learning styles with special emphasis on project-based learning and incorporating questions that inspire students to consider societal impact and ethical choices. Some resources are purposely prepared for discussions and debates. The impact of these resources is measured through qualitative questions-answers in user group meetings, periodical surveys, and quantitative performance (such as download numbers) of the website repositories. © 2022 SEFI 2022 - 50th Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education, Proceedings. All rights reserved.
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Purpose: The present study aims to evidence the origin of resources, the implementation and distribution processes of the emergency benefit destined to the popular classes, comparing with Lowi's distributive theory, and justify the control and accountability. Methodology: A literature review was conducted regarding Lowi's approach to distributive theory and a documentary research in federal executive transparency sites for the construction of this theoretical essay. Results: The results point to the existence of a mere mutation of the origins of resources in education and health, for the Ministry of Citizenship leaving doubts about whether there was effectiveness of investments. The emergency benefit immediately serves the most disadvantaged people but does not repair the permanent damage of the trajectory of vulnerability and sub citizenship of the population of the popular classes. The control action and accountability of resources by the Federal Court of Auditors shows that there was a lack of focus on social policy, as predicted by Lowi's distributive theory (Marcuso & Moreira, 2013). Contributions of the Study: In the academic and scientific sphere, this study contributes to the debate of Lowi's distributive theory applied in contingency situations, such as in the context of covid's pandemic 19. For society, its contributions permeate the need for more transparent, reliable information and greater comprehensibility of the use and origins of public resources to avoid budgetary manipulations. And the need for intervention of controlling institutions to ensure the proper use of the public office.
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Higher education institutions of all types are experiencing increased challenges related to acquiring financial resources to support educational initiatives. Executive leaders, particularly during periods of instability and crisis, are required to make decisions related to highly complex challenges that have the potential to influence the long-term sustainability and viability of the institution they serve. Based on historical data, existing challenges, the operational and financial disruptions created by the COVID-19 global pandemic, and projections of enrollment shortfalls beginning in 2025, institutional leaders will be required to navigate increasingly complex environments and make difficult choices amidst a collection of less-than-ideal options. The purpose of this study was to explore, through a qualitative phenomenological design, the decision-making processes of executive-level administrators (i.e., presidents, chief financial officers, chief academic officers) during periods of institutional financial instability in the state of Texas. Data was collected through individual interviews with 13 participants from public, 4-year institutions in Texas. Five themes emerged from the data, highlighting the influence of ecological systems, organizational complexity, consensus building, institutional mission, and market factors on executive's decision-making processes. In order to better navigate periods of complex financial instability and improve decision quality, leaders are encouraged to enhance their awareness and management of environmental influences, purposefully manage relationships with key internal and external institutional stakeholders, develop reliable methods of quantitative and qualitative information gathering, increase the number of stakeholders involved in decision-making, solidify their institution's resource allocation strategy, build buy in and consensus around assessment metrics, and unambiguously align institutional initiatives with the mission. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)