Overcoming the Single-IS Paradigm in Individual-Level IS Research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin P. Gerlach ◽  
Ronald T. Cenfetelli
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Redundant Information ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Is Research ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
New Challenges

Over the years, the number of digital technologies that individuals use in their work and nonwork lives has increased significantly. These different technologies are often subject to interactions and interdependencies among them, which creates new challenges and opportunities for individuals. For instance, multiple digital technologies might be incompatible or offer redundant information to individuals. In this research, we offer a framework that can help scholars to study phenomena that involve multiple digital technologies and can assist designers and developers in making design decisions that facilitate beneficial interactions between technologies and mitigate undesirable ones.

scholarly journals The continuum of simulator-based maritime training and education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tae-eun Kim ◽  
Amit Sharma ◽  
Morten Bustgaard ◽  
William C. Gyldensten ◽  
Ole Kristian Nymoen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Competency Development ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Maritime Education ◽  
Training Interventions ◽  
The Future ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Maritime Operations ◽  
Maritime Education And Training

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to the maritime supply chain and called for accelerated adoption of digital technologies in various aspects of maritime operations, including the area of maritime education and training (MET). This paper aims to discuss the current maritime simulator-based training and educational practices that forms an integral part in seafarer training and competency development. The study provides a review of the existing simulators in use in MET, and discusses upon the technological and pedagogical advancement of maritime simulator-based training interventions with predictions regarding the future MET practices with use of virtual reality and cloud-based simulators. This study—by focusing on ship’s bridge operations—highlights the characteristics of various types of simulators and also discusses the role of instructors, challenges, and opportunities involving future simulator-based MET due to accelerated adoption of digital technologies and the need to comply with pandemic-related restrictions for MET institutes. The analysis generated in the paper may contribute to the ongoing discussion regarding the future of simulator-based MET and the fulfillment of the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 in the maritime sector.

Digital platforms aren’t mere tools —they’re complex environments

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (6) ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Antero Garcia ◽  
T. Philip Nichols
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Complex Environments ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Educational Stakeholders ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Social Uses

Antero Garcia and T. Philip Nichols explore how classrooms and schools must reframe their conceptions of technology from a focus on tools that serve specific purposes to a focus on platforms and their ecologies. In doing so, they argue, educational stakeholders should attend to three different dimensions of how technology is integrated in schools: the social uses of digital technologies, the design decisions that were made about these products, and the material resources that help make them operate. This approach requires educators to ask complicated questions about what technology does in schools and how to teach with and about it.

scholarly journals Bot Datasets on Twitter: Analysis and Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 4105
Author(s):  
Luis Daniel Samper-Escalante ◽  
Octavio Loyola-González ◽  
Raúl Monroy ◽  
Miguel Angel Medina-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Information Exchange ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Online News ◽  
Social Networking Service ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Twitter Analysis ◽  
Radar Chart ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Bot Detection

The reach and influence of social networks over modern society and its functioning have created new challenges and opportunities to prevent the misuse or tampering of such powerful tools of social interaction. Twitter, a social networking service that specializes in online news and information exchange involving billions of users world-wide, has been infested by bots for several years. In this paper, we analyze both public and private databases from the literature of bot detection on Twitter. We summarize their advantages, disadvantages, and differences, recommending which is more suitable to work with depending on the necessities of the researcher. From this analysis, we present five distinct behaviors in automated accounts exhibited across all the bot datasets analyzed from these databases. We measure their level of presence in each dataset using a radar chart for visual comparison. Finally, we identify four challenges that researchers of bot detection on Twitter have to face when using these databases from the literature.

scholarly journals Special Issue on Smart Sustainable Manufacturing Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 2264
Author(s):  
Gökan May ◽  
Dimitris Kiritsis
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Systems ◽  
Sustainable Manufacturing ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

With the advent of disruptive digital technologies, companies are facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities [...]

Inequality in active ageing: evidence from a new individual-level index for European countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 541-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
MIKKEL BARSLUND ◽  
MARTEN VON WERDER ◽  
ASGHAR ZAIDI
Keyword(s):  
Age Groups ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Share Data ◽  
The Individual

ABSTRACTIn the context of emerging challenges and opportunities associated with population ageing, the study of inequality in active-ageing outcomes is critical to the design of appropriate and effective social policies. While there is much discussion about active ageing at the aggregate country level, little is known about inequality in active-ageing experiences within countries. Based on the existing literature on active ageing, this paper proposes an individual-level composite active ageing index based on Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) data. The individual-level nature of the index allows us to analyse inequality in experiences of active ageing within selected European countries. One important motivation behind measuring active ageing at the individual level is that it allows for a better understanding of unequal experiences of ageing, which may otherwise be masked in aggregate-level measures of active ageing. Results show large differences in the distribution of individual-level active ageing across the 13 European countries covered and across age groups. Furthermore, there is a positive association between the country-level active ageing index and the equality of its distribution within a country. Hence, countries with the lowest average active ageing index tend to have the most unequal distribution in active-ageing experiences. For nine European countries, where temporal data are also available, we find that inequality in active-ageing outcomes decreased in the period 2004 to 2013.

Research on mixed learning mode based on MOOCs and micro class in internet background

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Zhang Zhehua
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Mixed Mode ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Teaching Mode ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
New Form

In the era of education information and globalization, a new mode of teaching and micro class has emerged in the background of the Internet, which brings new challenges and opportunities to the teaching of the classroom. MOOCs has been piloted and applied in many universities in the form of SPOC. As a new form of curriculum, micro course has been applied to the teaching and learning process. The integration of Moor and micro class resources helps to turn the classroom into a mixed mode. This article will focus on this hot topic to analyse the characteristics of the class, the characteristics of the micro class and the influence on the students and teachers, to improve the quality of teaching and to realize the individualized and active study of the students. The article summarizes the results of blended teaching mode at home and abroad, and explores the development and application of MOOC and micro class resources.

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