A study of adults' orientations to learning at the national open university of Taiwan

Chen, Kun-Fu

doi:10.25148/etd.fi14060165

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“…In addition, Chen 4 classified the safety factors into three major components, including personnel safety, cargo safety and machinery safety. Shang and Tseng 19 investigated risk management’s effect to the Kaohsiung port’s safety handling operation.…”

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“…Because SOA and CSA involve frequent container operations with heavy machinery, accidents occur quite often, causing financial losses, injuries and even deaths. Chen’s 4 study on accidents of container operations showed that 72% of these accidents were caused by human error. A survey investigated by Shyu et al 5 also showed that 25% of the accidents took place on the container wharf and operation areas, and most of them were due to human error.…”

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Core risk factors influencing safe handling operations for container terminals at Kaohsiung port

Yang

Ding

Chiu

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part M:

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Safe handling operations for container terminals significantly determine whether cargos can be successfully delivered. However, the container terminals involve frequent container operations with heavy machinery and accidents occur quite often, causing financial losses, injuries and even deaths. Since various handling operations cannot guarantee absolute safety as well as many of these operations have substantial risks that can cause losses, we find safe handling operations a topic worthy of in-depth investigation. This study analyzed risk factors influencing safe handling operation problems with complicated cause-effect relationships and their correlations; hence, the main purpose of this article was to apply the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory method to evaluate the core risk factors of the container handling operations at Kaohsiung port in Taiwan. This article first sorted out five major risk aspects with 17 risk factors through interviews with other scholars and direct investigation at Kaohsiung port. Then, based on the questionnaire surveys, we used the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory method to analyze the cause-effect relationships of each risk factor. To clearly explain the relationship between each risk factor shown in the cause-effect diagram, the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory results finally showed four quadrants and their corresponding risk factors. To achieve our research purpose, the seven core risk factors in the first quadrant are identified,

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Core risk factors influencing safe handling operations for container terminals at Kaohsiung port

Yang

Ding

Chiu

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part M:

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“…These problems highlight the difficulty of using the benefits of digital teaching materials and the impossibility of providing teaching content. Chen (2011) highlighted that up to date, many digital textbooks, of which layout, interface, and broadcast speed were still traditional and unidirectional learning functions. Tang (2012) conducted a content analysis on 30 online Chinese language materials and found that most of the materials provided learners with exercises of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, but most of them were copied from paper books and transferred to webpages without bidirectional and interactive learning functions.…”

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Constructing Assessment Indicators Weight System of Digital Business Chinese Materials

Cai

2021

SAGE Open

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Learning business Chinese through digital materials has become an inevitable tendency with the growth of the internet and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the increasing research-based publications and practices relating to Chinese language textbooks, there is a dearth of assessment indicators weight systems constructed by alternative research tools and statistical methods to evaluate the quality of the growing digital business Chinese materials. To the best of our knowledge, no literature review has been published on using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method to construct the assessment indicators of digital business Chinese materials. Therefore, this study aims to fill this gap by reviewing the existing, but limited, literature and providing recommendations for developing a checklist—based on the assessment indicators weight system—to evaluate digital business Chinese materials. The preliminary PC2U (Production, Content, Use, and Usefulness) assessment indicators are constructed based on the current research on business Chinese, CLTML, and relevant assessment indicators. In addition, the analysis hierarchy process (AHP) is used to construct the weight system. The results show that it is crucial to prioritize the access of digital business Chinese content. Of the three criteria in the content dimension, learning needs and credibility are equally important, and both are more important than data update. The assessment indicators are not only beneficial to fill the knowledge gap on business Chinese research, but also helpful for publishers and teachers to compile and select high quality digital business Chinese materials.

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“…Taiwan's declining forest was perceived by students to be a serious sustainability problem. In the 1940s, about 66% of the island was covered by forest (Chen, 1950). In 1977, forest covered only 52% of the island, a decrease of 14% in less than forty years (Taiwan 2000Study, 1989.…”

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Taiwan's environment, resource sustainability and green consumerism: perceptions of university students

Wong

2001

Sustainable Development

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It is argued that university students are the future elite members and decision-makers of a society, therefore the attitudes and behaviour of Taiwanese students will have a significant effect upon the future course of development of Taiwan. This article discusses university students' perceptions of the environment, resource sustainability, and green consumerism in Taiwan. A total of 345 students studying at the National Taiwan University completed the survey questionnaire in October 1996. It is encouraging to find that most students appear to be concerned with, and aware of, the environmental and resource sustainability issues of Taiwan. Furthermore, the paper reveals students' attitude toward priority of development options, their consumption patterns and their participation in environmental protection campaigns. Students advocate a fundamental change of the prevalent wasteful lifestyle to achieve the long-term sustainability of Taiwan. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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A study of adults' orientations to learning at the national open university of Taiwan

Cited by 18 publications

References 271 publications

Core risk factors influencing safe handling operations for container terminals at Kaohsiung port

Core risk factors influencing safe handling operations for container terminals at Kaohsiung port

Constructing Assessment Indicators Weight System of Digital Business Chinese Materials

Taiwan's environment, resource sustainability and green consumerism: perceptions of university students

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