Modelling versions in collaborative work

The educative experience of people with disability leads the international debate towards the value of inclusive learning contexts. Nonetheless, the theoretical and methodological principles of an inclusive education approach have to be outlined. Data collected using explorative questionnaires during a five-years survey in an Italian region's schools show a slow evolution of the scholastic context. From the perspective of Special Pedagogy, the qualitative investigation on three macro-dimensions (the diversity perception, the didactic and methodological means, the wellbeing of pupils) reveals an emerging development of solid awareness among teachers. Findings confirm that the inclusion processes at school are attainable only throughout a series of clear methodological elements: 1) a valorising attitude towards diversity; 2) an orienting learning process; 3) a plural and flexible use of both methodologies and strategies; 4) a collaborative work environment; 5) a continuous training process; 6) a deontological approach. These are the principles that allow teachers to support each student in the manifold itineraries of identity fulfilment, encouraging pupils to express their needs and to develop their abilities in a welcoming and participative context.

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Working at the Crossroads: A Guide for Border Crossing

Kalfou A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies ◽

10.15367/kf.v4i2.159 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

John Mckiernan-González

Keyword(s):

American Studies ◽

Collaborative Work ◽

Border Crossing ◽

Keynote Address ◽

Cross Border ◽

Entry Points ◽

Academic Labor ◽

Boyle Heights ◽

The University ◽

The Impact

This article discusses the impact of George J. Sánchez’s keynote address “Working at the Crossroads” in making collaborative cross-border projects more academically legitimate in American studies and associated disciplines. The keynote and his ongoing administrative labor model the power of public collaborative work to shift research narratives. “Working at the Crossroads” demonstrated how historians can be involved—as historians—in a variety of social movements, and pointed to the ways these interactions can, and maybe should, shape research trajectories. It provided a key blueprint and key examples for doing historically informed Latina/o studies scholarship with people working outside the university. Judging by the success of Sánchez’s work with Boyle Heights and East LA, projects need to establish multiple entry points, reward participants at all levels, and connect people across generations.I then discuss how I sought to emulate George Sánchez’s proposals in my own work through partnering with labor organizations, developing biographical public art projects with students, and archiving social and cultural histories. His keynote address made a back-and-forth movement between home communities and academic labor seem easy and professionally rewarding as well as politically necessary, especially in public universities.

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The history of neurosurgery at the House Clinic in Los Angeles

Journal of Neurosurgery ◽

10.3171/2019.5.jns19602 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 133 (3) ◽

pp. 749-755 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Gautam U. Mehta ◽

Gregory P. Lekovic

Keyword(s):

Los Angeles ◽

Vestibular Schwannoma ◽

Video Transmission ◽

Collaborative Work ◽

Hearing Preservation ◽

Auditory Brainstem ◽

Team Approach ◽

Middle Fossa ◽

History Of ◽

Operative Microscope

Although most widely known as the birthplace of neuro-otology, the House Clinic in Los Angeles has been the site of several major contributions to the field of neurosurgery. From the beginning of the formation of the Otologic Medical Group in 1958 (later renamed the House Ear Clinic), these contributions have been largely due to the innovative and collaborative work of neurosurgeon William E. Hitselberger, MD, and neuro-otologist William F. House, MD, DDS. Together they were responsible for the development and widespread adoption of the team approach to skull-base surgery. Specific neurosurgical advances accomplished at the House Clinic have included the first application of the operative microscope to neurosurgery, the application of middle fossa and translabyrinthine approaches for vestibular schwannoma, and the development of combined petrosal, retrolabyrinthine, and other alternative petrosal approaches and of hearing preservation surgery for vestibular schwannoma. The auditory brainstem implant, invented at the House Clinic in 1979, was the first ever successful application of central nervous system neuromodulation for restoration of function. Technological innovations at the House Clinic have also advanced neurosurgery. These include the first video transmission of microsurgery, the first suction irrigator, the first debulking instrument for tumors, and the House-Urban retractor for middle fossa surgery.

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Proposal of an instrument to evaluate interaction spaces in a VLE

Journal of Teaching and Educational Research ◽

10.35429/jter.2019.15.5.1.13 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-13

Author(s):

Rubí Estela Morales-Salas ◽

Daniel Montes-Ponce

Keyword(s):

Learning Environment ◽

Design Space ◽

Collaborative Work ◽

Virtual Learning ◽

Interaction Space ◽

Learning Objects ◽

Traditional Education ◽

Virtual Learning Environment ◽

Discussion Forums ◽

Exhibition Space

A virtual learning environment is conceived as an interaction space that ease the realization of mediated activities by technology, in this case the internet; besides using multimedia materials, learning objects, social networks, among others; which have changed imminently the traditional education. In this article an instrument is proposed in a checklist format, to evaluate any platform that has interaction spaces such as a Virtual Learning Environment, in this case responding to four spaces or general indicators: information Space, Mediation / Interaction Space, Instructional Design Space and Exhibition Space. Criteria are used according to the interactions and activities carried out by the consultant and virtual student. These, in turn, come up from the analysis and interaction of the advisers achieved in the discussion forums and portfolio activities through collaborative work. It was situated as a qualitative research, with a descriptive nature since it is not limited to data collection only, but also it refers and analyzes the interaction of the advisers achieved in the discussion forums and portfolio activities through the collaborative work of the workshop course "Virtual Learning Environments" developed in a virtual learning environment.

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La evaluación del interprofesionalismo en la educación basada en simulación

Studies in the Economic History of Southern Africa ◽

10.22201/fm.24484865e.2019.0.06 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 62 (0) ◽

pp. 56-63

Author(s):

Laura Silvia Hernández Gutiérrez ◽

Angélica García-Gómez ◽

Argimira Vianey Barona Nuñez ◽

Erick López Léon

Keyword(s):

Health Professionals ◽

Interprofessional Education ◽

Collaborative Work ◽

Educational Process ◽

Educational Institutions ◽

Controlled Environment ◽

Study Group ◽

The Us ◽

Improvement Strategies

The education based on simulation is an educationalstrategy where students learn from their errors, developing skills, knowledge, competences,etc. in a controlled environment. During the process of teaching by simulation, it is necessaryto execute various types of assessments (diagnostic, summative, formative) in order tomake adjustments or changes in the educational process of the students, therefore identifying areas of opportunity for improvement. With the simulation, different processes can be taught, like interprofessionalism and collaborative work. Nowadays, there is a major concern for added safety and the quality of care for the patients and their families. Therefore, a WHO study group determined the basic interprofessional competences, and has been given the task of disseminating and promoting interprofessional education. Some educational institutions in the US, Canada and Europe have integrated interprofessional and collaborative work in simulation practices. All the activity by simulation must be evaluated in order to provide feedback to the participants and establish improvement strategies. The assessment of the interprofessional work focuses on the evaluation of common skills and competencies among various health professionals.

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Scientific Collaboration and Collective Knowledge

10.1093/oso/9780190680534.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Keyword(s):

Particle Physics ◽

Scientific Practice ◽

Collaborative Work ◽

Scientific Research ◽

Climate Science ◽

Collective Knowledge ◽

Interdisciplinary Field ◽

Social Structure Of Science ◽

Contemporary Science ◽

The Social

Descartes once argued that, with sufficient effort and skill, a single scientist could uncover fundamental truths about our world. Contemporary science proves the limits of this claim. From synthesizing the human genome to predicting the effects of climate change, some current scientific research requires the collaboration of hundreds (if not thousands) of scientists with various specializations. Additionally, the majority of published scientific research is now coauthored, including more than 80% of articles in the natural sciences. Small collaborative teams have become the norm in science. This is the first volume to address critical philosophical questions about how collective scientific research could be organized differently and how it should be organized. For example, should scientists be required to share knowledge with competing research teams? How can universities and grant-giving institutions promote successful collaborations? When hundreds of researchers contribute to a discovery, how should credit be assigned—and can minorities expect a fair share? When collaborative work contains significant errors or fraudulent data, who deserves blame? In this collection of essays, leading philosophers of science address these critical questions, among others. Their work extends current philosophical research on the social structure of science and contributes to the growing, interdisciplinary field of social epistemology. The volume’s strength lies in the diversity of its authors’ methodologies. Employing detailed case studies of scientific practice, mathematical models of scientific communities, and rigorous conceptual analysis, contributors to this volume study scientific groups of all kinds, including small labs, peer-review boards, and large international collaborations like those in climate science and particle physics.

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The Oxford Handbook of Emotion Dysregulation

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190689285.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Keyword(s):

Personality Disorder ◽

Emotion Dysregulation ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

Peer Group ◽

Collaborative Work ◽

Treatment Strategies ◽

Externalizing Disorders ◽

Levels Of Analysis ◽

Affective States ◽

Unified Protocol

Emotion dysregulation—which is often defined as the inability to modulate strong affective states including impulsivity, anger, fear, sadness, and anxiety—is observed in nearly all psychiatric disorders. These include internalizing disorders such as panic disorder and major depression, externalizing disorders such as conduct disorder and antisocial personality disorder, and various other disorders including schizophrenia, autism, and borderline personality disorder. Among many affected individuals, precursors to emotion dysregulation appear early in development, and often predate the emergence of diagnosable psychopathology. Collaborative work by Drs. Crowell and Beauchaine, and work by many others, suggests that emotion dysregulation arises from both familial (coercion, invalidation, abuse, neglect) and extrafamilial (deviant peer group affiliations, social reinforcement) mechanisms. These studies point toward strategies for prevention and intervention. The Oxford Handbook of Emotion Dysregulation brings together experts whose work cuts across levels of analysis, including neurobiological, cognitive, and social, in studying emotion dysregulation. Contributing authors describe how early environmental risk exposures shape emotion dysregulation, how emotion dysregulation manifests in various forms of mental illness, and how emotion dysregulation is most effectively assessed and treated. This is the first text to assemble a highly accomplished group of authors to address conceptual issues in emotion dysregulation research; define the emotion dysregulation construct at levels of cognition, behavior, and social dynamics; describe cutting-edge assessment techniques at neural, psychophysiological, and behavioral levels of analysis; and present contemporary treatment strategies. Conceptualizing emotion dysregulation as a core vulnerability to psychopathology is consistent with modern transdiagnostic approaches to diagnosis and treatment, including the Research Domain Criteria and the Unified Protocol, respectively.

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A Meta-Analysis of Studies on Groupware for Collaborative Work Environments

Proceedings ◽

10.3390/proceedings2021074009 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 74 (1) ◽

pp. 9

Author(s):

Birgul Kutlu ◽

Yeliz Gunal Aggul ◽

Idil Atasu ◽

Zeynep Kaymaz

Keyword(s):

Research Method ◽

Design Science ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

Collaborative Work ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Work Conditions ◽

Work Environments ◽

Academic Field ◽

Time Space ◽

Space Matrix

This meta-analysis examines the studies on groupware published between the years 2010 and 2020. Descriptive analysis was conducted to determine the distribution of studies in terms of publication year, time–space matrix category, targeted sectors, research methods, and the academic field of the journals that published these studies. Although groupware played a significant role in communication, collaboration, and coordination of users in various collaborative work conditions and sectors, the majority of studies focused on asynchronous and distributed collaborative work environments in the software engineering field, and the research method preferred was design science.

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Emergency Online Learning in Low-Resource Settings: Effective Student Engagement Strategies

Education Sciences ◽

10.3390/educsci11010024 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 24

Author(s):

Victoria Abou-Khalil ◽

Samar Helou ◽

Eliane Khalifé ◽

MeiRong Alice Chen ◽

Rwitajit Majumdar ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Online Learning ◽

Collaborative Work ◽

Instructional Designers ◽

Online Classes ◽

Education Students ◽

Low Resource Settings ◽

Low Resource ◽

Engagement Strategies ◽

Sequential Mixed Methods ◽

Screen Sharing

We aim to identify the engagement strategies that higher education students, engaging in emergency online learning in low-resource settings, perceive to be effective. We conducted a sequential mixed-methods study based on Moore’s interaction framework for distance education. We administered a questionnaire to 313 students engaging in emergency online learning in low-resource settings to examine their perceptions of different engagement strategies. Our results showed that student–content engagement strategies, e.g., screen sharing, summaries, and class recordings, are perceived as the most effective, closely followed by student–teacher strategies, e.g., Q and A sessions and reminders. Student–student strategies, e.g., group chat and collaborative work, are perceived as the least effective. The perceived effectiveness of engagement strategies varies based on the students’ gender and technology access. To support instructors, instructional designers, and researchers, we propose a 10-level guide for engaging students during emergency online classes in low-resource settings.

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