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Weeks, Margaret R.; Li, Jianghong; Liao, Susu; Zhang, Qingning; Dunn, Jennifer; Wang, Yanhong; Jiang, Jingmei – Health Education & Behavior, 2013
Social and public health scientists are increasingly interested in applying system dynamics theory to improve understanding and to harness the forces of change within complex, multilevel systems that affect community intervention implementation, effects, and sustainability. Building a system dynamics model based on ethnographic case study has the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Prevention, Health Promotion
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McQuaide, Shiling – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
The Distance Education Project for Rural Schools (DEPRS) was implemented by the Chinese government between 2003 and 2007 to improve the quality of basic education in rural areas of China, especially in the poorer western provinces. It has been referred to as "the largest ICT project in the world up to now" because "it serves a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Education, Rural Schools, Rural Areas
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Yu, S. Q.; Wang, Minjuan J. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2006
The Modern Distance Education Project for the Rural Schools (MDEPRS) of China has a wider scope and serves a larger population than any other informational project in the world. It likely will result in a far-reaching informational revolution for basic education in China. Here, we introduce three main innovative models of material delivery, the…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Rural Schools, Foreign Countries, Models
Ding, Xingfu – 1999
A new conceptual framework for comparative analysis of distance higher education systems, called the Systems Analysis, Typology and Shaping Mechanism (SATS), was used to compare the structures and functions of the DE systems of Australia (which includes external studies and open learning components) and China (which includes correspondence…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Delivery Systems, Distance Education
Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association, Alexandria. – 2001
This document contains 95 papers and summaries of 5 poster sessions from an Australian conference on putting vocational education and training (VET) research to work. The following are among the areas covered in the papers: factors affecting VET graduates' employability over time; technical and further education (TAFE) institutes as models of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Case Studies