Improving school administration through information technology? How digitalisation changes the bureaucratic features of public school administration

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Dormann ◽  
Stefan Hinz ◽  
Eveline Wittmann
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
School Administration ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Head Teachers ◽  
Digital Data Processing ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Technology Enactment ◽  
Public School Administration ◽  
School Organisation

Digital media and digital data processing have substantially influenced public institutions in recent years and changed their efficiency, effectiveness and organisational set-up (nature of organisations). Based on Fountain’s Technology Enactment Framework (TEF), this paper argues that, firstly, in a circular process, digital requirements transform the bureaucratic features of school organisation, and that the effects of digital technologies on the performance and efficiency of schools as bureaucratic organisations are ambivalent. We use interview data from a sample of 51% of the head teachers of vocational school centres in the jurisdiction of Bavaria in order to substantiate these assumptions by means of structured qualitative analysis. Email technology seems particularly significant from a quantitative perspective. Indications for the transformative nature of objective digital technologies with regard to the school bureaucracies can be found for all bureaucratic categories under consideration in this analysis, particularly for the feature ‘standardisation’. The examples presented here seem to highlight that gains in efficiency or reductions of losses in efficiency caused by digitalisation are mostly caused by the concrete use of digital technology within the respective school organisation.

scholarly journals The implementation of new digital technologies during pre-shift examinations of personnel at energy enterprises

2021 ◽  
Vol 288 ◽  
pp. 01087
Author(s):  
Rob. N. Khizbullin ◽  
B.V. Chuvykin ◽  
Rad. N. Khizbullin ◽  
A.A. Makhov
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
Electric Power ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Physiological Parameters ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Health Control ◽  
Hardware Complex ◽  
Digital Data Processing

The article discusses the possibility of using a new digital automated medical hardware complex which ensures health control of energy enterprise personnel. The considered complex consists of separate functional devices. Thanks to their technical characteristics a high reliability of the registered physiological parameters of the examined workers can be obtained. Thus, we get high reliability of personnel health monitoring. The automated complex carries out digital data processing. According to this data the prognostic state of the employee is issued. It plays a key role in improving safety at electric power enterprises, reduces the risk of accidents caused by personnel.

scholarly journals Telling science stories in an evolving digital media ecosystem: from communication to conversation and confrontation

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. C04 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Holliman
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
The Political ◽  
Institutional Governance ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
The Relationship

The globalised digital media ecosystem can be characterised as both dynamic and disruptive. Developments in digital technologies relate closely to emerging social practices. In turn these are influencing, and are influenced by, the political economy of professional media and user-generated content, and the introduction of political and institutional governance and policies. Together this wider context provides opportunities and challenges for science communication practitioners and researchers. The globalised digital media ecosystem allows for, but does not guarantee, that a wider range of range of contributors can participate in storytelling about the sciences. At the same time, new tools are emerging that facilitate novel ways of representing digital data. As a result, researchers are reconceptualising ideas about the relationship between practices of production, content and consumption. In this paper I briefly explore whether storytelling about the sciences is becoming more distributed and participatory, shifting from communication to conversation and confrontation.

scholarly journals The digital data processing concepts of the LOFT mission

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Tenzer ◽  
A. Argan ◽  
A. Cros ◽  
Y. Favre ◽  
M. Gschwender ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Digital Data Processing

Selected References on Public-School Administration. II

1938 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 458-465
Author(s):  
William C. Reavis ◽  
Nelson B. Henry
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
School Administration ◽  
Public School Administration

scholarly journals Social Bots and Fake News as (not) seen from the Viewpoint of Digital Education Frameworks

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (Occasional Papers) ◽  
pp. 61-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dietmar Janetzko
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
Digital Education ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Eu

Over recent years, international organisations like the EU and UNESCO have set up a number of proposals, models and frameworks that seek (i) to map and to conceptualize digital literacy and related concepts, e. g. information, digital or media literacy, digital competence, digital skills and (ii) to formulate policies and recommendations based on the conceptualizations developed. The resulting frameworks, such as Digital Competence (DigComp) developed by the EU, or Media and Information Literacy (MIL) developed by UNESCO, have a strong formative power on a global scale. Affected are policies, laws, regulations, research activities, and academic disciplines like media pedagogy and mindsets. Do these frameworks consider the effects of disruptive attempts by digital media to intervene in public debates e. g. social bots, fake news and other manifestations of biased or false information online? Do they offer avenues for reflection and action to address them? Guided by these questions, this paper studies the flagship frameworks on digital education of the EU and UNESCO, DigComp and MIL. It finds biases in both frameworks. To different degrees, both tend to overemphasize the practical and instrumental use of digital literacy.

scholarly journals THE CIPA DATABASE FOR SAVING THE HERITAGE OF SYRIA

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B5 ◽  
pp. 953-960 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minna Silver ◽  
Fulvio Rinaudo ◽  
Emanuele Morezzi ◽  
Francesca Quenda ◽  
Maria Laura Moretti
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
High Quality Data ◽  
Open Access Database ◽  
Directorate General ◽  
International Projects ◽  
Restoration Work ◽  
Set Up

CIPA is contributing with its technical knowledge in saving the heritage of Syria by constructing an open access database based on the data that the CIPA members have collected during various projects in Syria over the years before the civil war in the country broke out in 2011. In this way we wish to support the protection and preservation of the environment, sites, monuments, and artefacts and the memory of the cultural region that has been crucial for the human past and the emergence of civilizations. Apart from the countless human atrocities and loss, damage, destruction and looting of the cultural heritage have taken place in a large scale. The CIPA’s initiative is one of the various international projects that have been set up after the conflict started. The Directorate-General of the Antiquities and Museums (DGAM) of Syria as well as UNESCO with its various sub-organizations have been central in facing the challenges during the war. Digital data capture, storage, use and dissemination are in the heart of CIPA’s strategies in recording and documenting cultural heritage, also in Syria. It goes without saying that for the conservation and restoration work the high quality data providing metric information is of utmost importance.

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