scholarly journals Augmenting Design Education for Sustainability through Field Exploration: An Experience of Learning from DIY Practices in a Rural Community

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 13017
Author(s):  
Alexandra Raeva ◽  
Svetlana Usenyuk-Kravchuk ◽  
Anton Raev ◽  
Irina Surina ◽  
Marina Fionova
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Appropriate Technology ◽  
Education For Sustainability ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Comic Strip ◽  
Road Vehicles ◽  
Local Conditions

This article (visual essay) provides a glimpse of a field trip ventured by design students as part of a larger study of developing a localised version of design education for sustainability, focusing on the wants and needs of non-urban populations in vast Russian hinterlands. The central goal is to introduce would-be designers to the concepts of locally appropriate technology and sustainable/circular living by real-life examples and, eventually, teach them to recognise the sustainable potential of place-based technologies and practices of their making, using and maintaining. The primary data came from the trip to Pozhva, a village in Permskiy Krai, Russia, that gained popularity among DIY activists and users of off-road vehicles in Russia in the early 2000s because of its unique, community-centred manufacture of lightweight ATVs on low-pressure tires, nicknamed “jeeps”. This article presents the students’ journey in a comic strip portraying a composite character of technologies and their user-designers as experts in local conditions and (subconsciously) agents of circularity. The article closes with a discussion on the expedition’s discoveries and learning outcomes, correlating them with broader implications for design education.

scholarly journals Neural alignment predicts learning outcomes in students taking an introduction to computer science course

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meir Meshulam ◽  
Liat Hasenfratz ◽  
Hanna Hillman ◽  
Yun-Fei Liu ◽  
Mai Nguyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Final Exam ◽  
Neural Representations ◽  
Real Life Setting ◽  
The Right ◽  
Mri Study

AbstractDespite major advances in measuring human brain activity during and after educational experiences, it is unclear how learners internalize new content, especially in real-life and online settings. In this work, we introduce a neural approach to predicting and assessing learning outcomes in a real-life setting. Our approach hinges on the idea that successful learning involves forming the right set of neural representations, which are captured in canonical activity patterns shared across individuals. Specifically, we hypothesized that learning is mirrored in neural alignment: the degree to which an individual learner’s neural representations match those of experts, as well as those of other learners. We tested this hypothesis in a longitudinal functional MRI study that regularly scanned college students enrolled in an introduction to computer science course. We additionally scanned graduate student experts in computer science. We show that alignment among students successfully predicts overall performance in a final exam. Furthermore, within individual students, we find better learning outcomes for concepts that evoke better alignment with experts and with other students, revealing neural patterns associated with specific learned concepts in individuals.

The wheel of fortune as a novel support for constructive alignment and transformative sustainability learning in higher education

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Noy ◽  
Teresa Capetola ◽  
Rebecca Patrick
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Education For Sustainability ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Constructive Alignment ◽  
Common Framework ◽  
Changing Times

Purpose Education for Sustainability in Higher Education (ESHE) sits within and across disciplinary settings that share the need for a framework that provides a basis for pedagogy, assessment and learning outcomes (Kalsoom, 2019). ESHE strives to create transformative learning spaces that help students gain the knowledge and skills they need to understand and contribute to shaping a world based on communities living within the limits of earth’s resources. This paper aims to offer a novel solution to the challenge of teaching students from different disciplines struggling with the complexity of sustainability. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores the development of an interdisciplinary subject designed for undergraduate students from four faculties. It presents a case study of pedagogy that moves away from three pillars/concentric circles approaches towards practices based in systems thinking and interactive transformative learning. It describes the iterative process of developing and implementing an infographic: the “Sustainability Wheel of Fortune” (Wheel), to support constructive alignment of content, assessment tasks and learning outcomes. Findings The Wheel provides a holistic, interconnected and dynamic focus for framing content and teaching. The pedagogy aligns with sustainability competencies, builds in flexibility in response to changing times and student experiences and provides teachers and students with a common framework for interrogating the possibilities for sustainable futures. Originality/value The Wheel is a novel learning tool for contemporary sustainability education. It captures key elements of approaches to and concepts about sustainability, visually reinforces the idea of a holistic interconnected approach and provides a framework that supports the constructive pedagogy of an interdisciplinary sustainability subject.

scholarly journals Management of successful technology transfer in agriculture: The case of Kazakhstan

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 488-501
Author(s):  
Rui Dinis Sousa ◽  
Ainur Boranbayeva ◽  
Zaira Satpayeva ◽  
Amina Gassanova
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Transfer Of Technology ◽  
Factor Evaluation ◽  
Successful Technology

Progress of agriculture is becoming increasingly reliant on the successful application of technology. However, many developing countries depend on technology transfer from other countries to be utilized in large and complex projects in agriculture. This study intends to identify strategic directions for successful technology transfer in developing countries’ agriculture with Kazakhstan as a case study. A SWOT analysis was conducted using Internal Factor Evaluation, External Factor Evaluation, Strategic Position and Action Evaluation, and Quantitative Strategic Planning matrices as analytical methods, based on primary data from interviews and secondary data from reports. With a weight of 52%, opportunities prevail in external factors, with emerging good geographical position, land area latitude, and participation in economic integrations as the most significant ones. On the other hand, internal factors such as emerging low skills in agricultural innovation, insufficient resources in agriculture, old technologies and worn-out equipment, and lack of mechanisms for effective adaptation of foreign technologies to local conditions are indicated as weaknesses, with the percentage of 82%. This study includes twenty-six strategies that were specially designed for technology transfer, and nine of them are considered the most relevant in overcoming internal weaknesses by exploiting external opportunities. Promoting agriculture in an innovative direction, expanding the resource base necessary for technology transfer, and increasing sources of funding for the transfer of technology and the R&D expenditures in agriculture make a top 3 of these strategies. These results will be of interest for policymakers in decision-making on technology transfer in agriculture.

scholarly journals Manipulative Leadership and The Effect towards Its Subordinate as Portrayed in Orson Scott Card’s Novel

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Sharavina Delani
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Future Change ◽  
The Government ◽  
Undergraduate Thesis

Literary works, such as novel, usually comes from the writer’s feeling; it could be the feeling of love, frustrations, angers, satisfactions, disappointments, satire, and many other feelings towards an individual, social, organizations, even the government. A novel could also be some kind of warning towards the readers so that they could be cautious if there are any similar events happen in their real life. The main objective of this research explains the American manipulative leadership and the American cultural values seen in Ender’s Game and to analyze the effect of American Manipulative Leadership towards its Subordinate shows by Ender’s Game. The researcher uses the qualitative method to analyze the primary data and the supporting data using content analysis to interpret the images, symbols, and words.    This undergraduate thesis concludes two major points. Firstly, American manipulative leadership uses two values; which are risk-taking and the future, change, and progress and forgotten two other values, directness/openness/honesty and freedom of American Cultural values. Secondly, American manipulative leaderships also affect the subordinate psychological condition. And novel can also be called as a popular culture due to its enormous achievement and its consumption by the mass.

scholarly journals READING AND LITERARY EDUCATION IN IST-IIIRD CLASSES OF PRIMARY SCHOOL AS A SOURCE OF MULTI-ACTIVITY OF STUDENTS

2016 ◽  
pp. 58-69
Author(s):  
Teresa Yanitska-Panek
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Education ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Narrative Description ◽  
Attitudes Towards Reading

Literary education is very important in the process of forming the personality of the individual. It is necessary to implement a number of conditions in order to student’s contact with literature was a great experience. Reading can be seen as a way of man’s existence in the world of symbols and information. Reading can also be a medium through which cultural content reaches to the recipient and enrich and improve his language and engage him emotionally. Reading is an act of great importance, austerity and effort, and at the same time it is an act of preparing the reader and the recipient to the reflection.Many authors emphasize the value of reading, inspired many motives. The authors draw attention to the different attitudes towards reading of the text which have been described by Lech Witkowski, philosopher and pedagogue in 2007. Eight status of the text in the course of reading are specific hints for teachers and non-pedagogical readers how to treat the text. The philosopher’s look on the function of reading puts this ability in a variety of contexts and makes that people interested in reading can become seekers and creative.The reading is determined the following learning outcomes: student reads fluently, correctly, fluently and expressively aloud texts consisting of words discussed during classes. These texts relate to real-life experiences of children and cognitive expectations. A student also understands short texts read silently; student correctly reads aloud texts written own in a notebook and texts stored on a PC. The student working with text by searching for the most beautiful piece. He is also able to distinguish in literary texts the forms such as narrative, description and dialogue.

The customization of corporate reporting as a new development phase of the practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 1033-1053
Author(s):  
Zhanna E. KASHCHINA
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Accounting Data ◽  
The Real ◽  
Corporate Reporting ◽  
Future Performance ◽  
New Development

Subject. This article discusses the trends in the development of corporate reporting. Objectives. The study aims to prove or debunk the hypothesis that currently users of accounting and reporting data actively seek to access primary data on business facts in the real life format. To demonstrate the existing tendency of reporting customization, the study uses the concept of personalized reporting. Methods. Studying the analysis of accounting data, I applied the methods of comprehensive, critical, logic, and statistical analyses. Results. I applied the direct survey method to collect data of 300 companies. I proved that users of accounting data and financial statements are very interested in detailed data on the company’s business facts in the real life format. Furthermore, the article mentions alternative methods for corporate reporting presentation, which could be used to make more precise forecasts on the future performance and the financial position of the companies. The findings prove the relevance of the proposed methods and customized reporting in particular. Conclusions and Relevance. The study corroborated the hypothesis stating that today users strongly need customized reports, becoming more and more popular in practice.

OPTIMALISASI PENGGUNAAN ALAT BANTU PEMBELAJARAN UNTUK MENINGKATKAN HASIL BELAJAR SERVIS ATAS

PHEDHERAL ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Sunardi Sunardi
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Action Observation ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Plastic Ball ◽  
Data Validity ◽  
Academic Year

<p><em>The aim of the research is to improve the service learning outcomes of the volleyball through aids such as hula hoop, javelin, raffia cord, net, cone, plastic ball, sponsors ball in the learning process of students of SMA N 4 Surakarta.</em></p><p><em>            </em><em>This research is a classroom action research (CAR). This research was conducted in two cycles which each cycle consists of planning, implementation of the action, observation,</em><em> </em><em>reflection. The subjects of the research are the students of</em><em> class</em><em> X</em><em> </em><em>IIS 4 SMA N 4 Surakart</em><em>a academic year 2016/2017, with the number of 30 students, 13 students and 17 students. Sources of data in this study are primary data and secondary data. Technique of collecting data with test and observation. Data validity using method triangulation. Data analysis using percentage technique, where from the data that has been obtained, then analyzed by percentage to see the learning result in volleyball game on learning in school.</em><em>         </em><em></em></p><p><em>The results showed that learning with the optimization of the use of tools can improve the learning outcomes of service on volleyball in students of class X IIS 4 SMA N 4 Surakarta 2016/2017 academic year. In the first cycle, the results of service learning on the volleyball students reached 63.33% or 19 students of 30 students have entered the criteria thoroughly while 11 students or 36.67% in the category has not been completed. In the second cycle there is an increase in the percentage of student learning outcomes in the category of completion of 83.33% or a number of 25 students. Until the end of the meeting there are 5 students or 16.67% that have not been completed.</em></p><p><em>Based on the result of the research, it can be concluded that the learning with the optimization of the use of the tools can improve the learning outcomes of service on the volleyball in the students of class X IIS 4 SMA N 4 Surakarta in the academic year 2016/2017.</em></p><p><em> </em></p>

Nexus Between Social Network, Social Media Use, and Loneliness

2020 ◽  
pp. 228-243
Author(s):  
Md. Aminul Islam ◽  
Bezon Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Correlation Matrix ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Facebook Use

This paper mainly explores how real-life social network and social media use are related to loneliness among university students in Bangladesh. To carry out this paper, primary data and several methods are used. This paper uses Lubben Social Network Scale and UCLA loneliness scale to measure the level of real life social network and loneliness, respectively. Besides Pearson's partial correlation matrix is used to find out the correlation between social network, social media use, and loneliness. The study finds that students are averagely engaged in real-life social network and moderately lonely. The study also finds a significantly positive relationship between social media (Facebook) use and loneliness, and a significantly negative relationship between real life social network and loneliness. This paper calls for the students to be careful in using social media and be engaged more in real life social network to avoid loneliness.

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