scholarly journals Moving From Fragmented to Seamless Sense-Making in Blended Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-275
Author(s):  
Bi Xiaofang
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learners ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Authentic Problems

Context: Sense-making, understood as meaning making or giving meaning to experience, is an integral part of everyday life, work and learning, and is a process critical in enabling people to recognise how and when to respond to situations appropriately so that they can resolve problems effectively (Weick et al., 2005). Earlier studies on sense-making in educational or organizational settings (e.g. Harverly et al., 2020; Weick et al., 2005) tended to focus on the sense-making process per se in particular setting such as classrooms or organizations, few of them have paid much attention to the sense-making process in blended learning (BL). BL in vocational training mainly aims to enable adult learners to apply what was learnt in classrooms to solve authentic problems in workplaces or simulated settings. High quality of sense-making is crucial to help the learners achieve the aim. This timely study is to offer a comparative look at how different dynamics of BL interplay together to mediate the quality of sense-making in achieving learning outcomes. The dynamics include industry and training connections, policy and institutional contexts, the inhabited pedagogical practices and curriculum design. Methods: This study adopted phenomenological (Moran, 2000) and semi-ethnographic approaches (Hammersley, 2010), including semi-structured interviews, observations, analysis of relevant documents (e.g. curriculum and learning materials) to capture the rich data in case studies to understand learners’ sense-making experience in BL. Researchers focused on seeking to understand how different environments, tools and artefacts mediate the quality of sense-making as the learners progressed through their learning journey. To triangulate the data, adult educators, curriculum designers and where possible, workplace supervisors, were also interviewed and observed for their perceptions and behaviours in learners’ sense-making in BL. Findings: The findings from two different BL courses (ICT and HR) surface that the degree to which learners’ sense-making is fragmented (low quality) or seamless (high quality) is mediated by the interplay of different contextual factors in BL in multiple ways, such as, the connections (or not) with industry, the use (or not) of authentic problems and tasks. Conclusion: The interplay between different dynamics in BL is of great importance to mediate the curriculum design and pedagogical approaches used in BL for high quality of sense-making of adult learners in vocational training.

scholarly journals Creating an inclusive educational environment for vocational learning: A tale of two cities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darren Turnbull ◽  
Ritesh Chugh ◽  
Jo Luck
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Course Delivery ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Learning Materials ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Inclusive Learning ◽  
Training Institutions ◽  
The Creation

One of the significant challenges facing vocational training institutions is the conundrum of providing the best possible learning outcomes to a diverse range of people using pedagogical practices and materials that by design demand uniformity in delivery approaches. In this paper, we examined a snapshot of perspectives from teachers and students in two distinctly different vocational training institutions, one in China and the other in Australia. Comments from participants revealed that flexible approaches to course delivery, the provision of a range of different types of learning materials, and institutional support in teacher training and curriculum design are vital elements in implementing an inclusive learning space for students. This paper proposes that a triad of interrelated elements, consisting of pedagogy, learning materials and institutions, are bound together by learning management systems that facilitate the creation of multi-modal course delivery approaches. We further contend that teaching practices that pigeonhole people as belonging to immutable categories of learning styles are outmoded and detract from creating inclusive learning environments. The findings from this study indicate that best practice approaches for developing truly engaging educational environments are rooted in the facilitation of individual autonomy in the learning process. The creation of opportunities for constructive interaction between learners is needed.

Features of specialist training in the system vocational and pedagogical education

2020 ◽  
pp. 18-21
Author(s):  
Ya.S. Markova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Specialist Training ◽  
High Quality ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
Special Knowledge

Various educational systems operate in Russia to meet educational needs, among which vocational and pedagogical education occupies a special place. One of the indicators of the high quality of training of a teacher of vocational training, armed with general scientific, general professional and special knowledge, who has a professional pedagogical methodology, is his ability to manage the pedagogical process and predict the results of various methods of organizing the educational process. The proposed methodological recommendations can be used in organizing the training of teachers in secondary vocational and higher education.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of Active Labour Market Programmes on the Job Quality of Welfare Recipients in Germany

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 807-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
KATHARINA DENGLER
Keyword(s):  
Propensity Score ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Propensity Score Matching ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
Active Labour Market Programmes

AbstractUsing rich administrative data on unemployed welfare recipients in Germany and propensity score matching, the author analyses the effects of participating in four major active labour market programmes (ALMPs) on various dimensions of job quality. In Germany, welfare recipients may suffer from poor job quality because they are forced to accept any reasonable job offer. However, few studies consider the effects of participation in ALMPs on job quality. The results imply that participation in a programme not only increases the probability of taking jobs but also increases the probability of holding a high-quality job for some dimension of job quality. In particular, further vocational training is very effective in terms of job quality for West German women. Thus, job centres should focus on the activation of unemployed welfare recipients.

scholarly journals HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING OF STATE CIVIL SERVANTS IN RUSSIA

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-59
Author(s):  
N. K. Litvinenko
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Training ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Historical Aspects ◽  
Service Institution ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article examines the historical aspects of the professional training of civil servants in Russia. It is shown that the effectiveness of the functioning of the civil service institution largely depends on the quality of vocational training of civil servants. The historiography of vocational training of civil servants in Russia from the 9th to the 19th century is given. The study used the narrative and systemic methods. The article dwells upon the educational institutions that trained civil servants, the studied academic disciplines, and the examinations that students and graduates had to pass. It is noted that the application and reinterpretation of the pedagogical practices of the past, taking into account modern developments, can be instrumental in building an educational system for professional training of civil servants.

The Role of Knowledge Management in Improving Performance of Human Resources – A Field Study on the General Organization for Technical and Vocational Training, Riyadh Region –: دور إدارة المعرفة في تحسين أداء الموارد البشرية – دراسة ميدانية على المؤسسة العامة للتدريب التقني والمهني بمنطقة الرياض –

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (20) ◽  
pp. 65-46
Author(s):  
Ghadair Abdurahman Alsaqhan, Wala Abdullah Almostadi Ghadair Abdurahman Alsaqhan, Wala Abdullah Almostadi
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
A Value ◽  
General Organization

This study aimed to identify how knowledge management plays a role in improving human resources, it also aimed to identify the realities of knowledge updating of the institution, and knowledge disseminating and distributing among workers. The research sample consists of the employees of the top departments 11.419 of the general organization for vocational training in three departments: the national training department, the general administration of quality and training, the general administration for development and curriculum design, in the Riyadh region, the study used a descriptive and analytical approach to address the research subject. knowledge management has been also mentioned as an important and positive impact on the efficiency of the organization's internal processes and the quality of performance. The results have been as follows: there is a positive statistical significant correlation between the knowledge diagnosis and measuring the quality of human resource performance, the value of the correlation between them was (0.577), at a significant level (0.00), which is a value less than (0.01),there is a positive statistical significant correlation between updating knowledge and measuring the quality of human resources performance, as the value of the correlation between them reached (0.682), at a significant level (0.00), which is a value less than (0.01),there is a positive statistical significant correlation between the disseminating and distributing of knowledge and the measuring of the quality of human resource performance (0.705), at a significant level (0.00), which is a value less than (0.01), as the higher the diagnosis of updating, disseminating and distributing knowledge, the higher the quality of human resource performance. The most important recommendations of researchers: The necessity for the institution to have the ability to identify its employees who possess knowledge related to its fields of activities. The necessity for the institution to provide material and moral rewards to its employees for their efforts to gain new knowledge that supports its activities. Reliance on objective and fair standards in order to truly reveal the levels of employee performance, which leads to avoiding problems among workers.

Predicting Post-Trauma Quality of Life: Meaning-Making Trumps Medical Reality

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ed De St. Aubin ◽  
Abbey Valvano ◽  
Terri Deroon-Cassini ◽  
Jim Hastings ◽  
Patricia Horn
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Life Meaning

Influence of technology parameters of free-cutting steel continuous casting on the billet internal structure

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-142
Author(s):  
A. T. Kunakbaeva ◽  
A. M. Stolyarov ◽  
M. V. Potapova
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Continuous Casting ◽  
Internal Structure ◽  
Sulfur Content ◽  
Manganese Content ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Correlation And Regression Analysis ◽  
Cutting Steel ◽  
Continuously Cast

Free-cutting steel gains specific working properties thanks to the high content of sulfur and phosphorus. These elements, especially sulfur, have a rather high tendency to segregation. Therefore, segregation defects in free-cutting steel continuously cast billets can be significantly developed. The aim of the work was to study the influence of the chemical composition of freecutting steel and casting technological parameters on the quality of the macrostructure of continuously cast billets. A metallographic assessment of the internal structure of cast metal made of free-cutting steel and data processing by application of correlation and regression analysis were the research methods. The array of production data of 43 heats of free-cutting steel of grade A12 was studied. Steel casting on a five-strand radial type continuous casting machine was carried out by various methods of metal pouring from tundish into the molds. Metal of 19 heats was poured with an open stream, and 24 heats – by a closed stream through submerged nozzles with a vertical hole. High-quality billets had a cross-sectional size of 150×150 mm. The macrostructure of high-quality square billets made of free-cutting steel of A12 grade is characterized by the presence of central porosity, axial segregation and peripheral point contamination, the degree of development of which was in the range from 1.5 to 2.0 points, segregation cracks and strips – about 1.0 points. In the course of casting with an open stream, almost all of these defects are more developed comparing with the casting by a closed stream. As a result of correlation and regression analysis, linear dependences of the development degree of segregation cracks and strips both axial and angular on the sulfur content in steel and on the ratio of manganese content to sulfur content were established. The degree of these defects development increases with growing of sulfur content in steel of A12 grade. These defects had especially strong development when sulfur content in steel was of more than 0.10%. To improve the quality of cast metal, it is necessary to have the ratio of the manganese content to the sulfur content in the metal more than eight.

Experience of clinical testing of personal telemedicine system ‘Obereg’ for remote monitoring of patients in intensive care units

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Eryomenko ◽  
N. V. Rostunova ◽  
S. A. Budagyan ◽  
V. V. Stets
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Remote Monitoring ◽  
Clinical Testing ◽  
Transportation Of Patients ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Telemedicine System ◽  
Accuracy Of Measurements ◽  
Hospital Equipment

The experience of clinical testing of the personal telemedicine system ‘Obereg’ for remote monitoring of patients at the intensive care units of leading Russian clinics is described. The high quality of communication with the remote receiving devices of doctors, the accuracy of measurements, resistance to interference from various hospital equipment and the absence of its own impact on such equipment were confirmed. There are significant advantages compared to stationary patient monitors, in particular, for intra and out-of-hospital transportation of patients.

ПСИХОЛОГО-ПЕДАГОГІЧНІ ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ПРОФЕСІЙНОГО НАВЧАННЯ СОЦІАЛЬНИХ ПРАЦІВНИКІВ

1970 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 232-241
Author(s):  
Марина Лапіна
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The Future

Статтю присвячено проблемам професійного навчання соціальних працівників, зокрема розглянуто психолого-педагогічні аспекти процесу підготовки висококваліфікованих фахівців. Зазначено що в професійній психології та педагогіці набуває поширення компетентнісний підхід до сучасної освіти. Акцентовано увагу на особистісно-орієнтованому та психолого-акмеологічному напрямках професійної освіти та навчання. Особистісні якості фахівця розглядаються як метапрофесійні компетенції, що забезпечують якість праці майбутнього соціального працівника. На основі аналізу специфіки підготовки фахівців соціономічних професій окреслено загальні напрями формування професійних компетенцій соціальних працівників: пріоритет професійно-особистісного розвитку для досягнення високого рівня професіоналізму фахівця; формування психологічної, особистісної та рефлексивної компетентності; практична зорієнтованість процесу навчання. Розглянуто методи та технології активного формування психологічної та особистісної компетентності фахівця в процесі професійного навчання, а саме методика контекстного (знаково-контекстного) навчання та психолого-акмеологічні методи та процедури професійного розвитку. Стверджується, що включення до навчального процесу інноваційних, заснованих на взаємодії педагога та учня, психолого-педагогічних технологій активного навчання має формувати особистісні зони розвитку майбутніх фахівців, удосконалювати способи та засоби професійного становлення, що значно підвищує якість професійного навчання соціальних працівників. The article deals with the problems of vocational training of social workers. They are particularly considered with psychological and pedagogical aspects of training highly qualified specialists. It specifies that competence-based approach to modern education gets spreading in the professional psychology and pedagogy. The article is accented on personality-oriented and psycho-akmeological directions existing in the psychology of professional education and training. Personal qualities of the professional are considered as metaprofessional competences which ensure the future social worker’s quality of work. The general directions of formation professional competence of social workers are identified on the base of the analyses of the specific professional training socionomic professions: priority of vocational and personality development for achievement a high level of professionalism; formation of the psychological, personal and reflective competence; practical orientation of the learning process. The methods and technologies of active formation of psychological and personality’s competence of the specialist during the vocational training are reviewed in the article, specifically the method and technique of signed-contextual learning and psycho-akmeological methods and procedures of professional development. It is alleged that the inclusion in the educational process of preparation innovational, psychological and pedagogical techniques of active learning, based on the interaction between the teacher and the student, should generated personal’s development zones of the future professionals, refine the methods and means of the professional development that significantly improves the quality of social worker’s professional training.

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