scholarly journals Role play in blended learning: A case study exploring the impact of story and other elements

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Dracup
Keyword(s):  
Computer Games ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Management Styles ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Powerful Learning ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
The Impact

<span>Role play is an increasingly popular technique in tertiary education, being student centred, constructivist and suitable for a range of subject areas. The choice of formats is wide open, with options ranging from the traditional face to face performance through to multi-user online computer games. Some teachers prefer to take advantage of features of both online and face to face formats and offer a blended form. This case study describes an innovative blended role play in which the online component plays a small but important part. The findings show that decisions on not only how to make the best use of technology but also how to design and facilitate a role play can have a profound effect on the creation of an engaging first-person story from which powerful learning can be drawn-in this case, learning outcomes including deep insights into strengths and weaknesses of participants' personal change management styles.</span>

Development of Competences Through the PBL and the Use of Technology

2019 ◽  
pp. 176-198
Author(s):  
María Elena Zepeda Hurtado ◽  
Yarzabal Coronel Nashielly ◽  
Pérez Benítez Alma Alicia
Keyword(s):  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Meaningful Learning ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Polytechnic Institute ◽  
Written Expression ◽  
Ict Skills ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Research Analysis

The objective of this chapter is to present a case study in the National Polytechnic Institute, which is focused on two aspects: 1) to know what kind of educational practices are implemented in the classroom and how ICTs are used and 2) to analyze the impact of project-based learning (PBL) in the Oral and Written Expression Learning Unit I to know what competences such as creative thinking, improving motivation, and meaningful learning are developed, as well as the use of ICT for research, analysis, experimentation, simulation, and socialization, in such a way that, during the application of the PBL methodology in conjunction with ICT, skills that are required throughout life are developed, both in academic, scientific, and occupational fields.

The Blended Learning Classroom

2008 ◽  
pp. 57-80
Author(s):  
Karen García ◽  
Renata Suzuki
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Social Software ◽  
Development Activity ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Professional Development Activity ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Online Tools ◽  
Course Material

This blended learning classroom (BLC) case study identifies and describes successful procedures and methodologies that widen the use of online tools in virtual environments. It provides a systematic and organized access to the plethora of free social software available online for the development of collaborative learning activities. The goal of this particular BLC professional development activity was to offer a face-to-face group of English teachers in Venezuela the opportunity to meet members of an international community of practice (CoP) and together review a packaged learning course material online. Blended technology, the mix and match of available tools, served to display the wide use of resources and each person’s skills. By exploring online tools, participants gained an opportunity for learning about both educational theory and the use of technology. The experience described here shows a prototype of future pathways towards educational content use and development.

Breaking through barriers: the impact of organizational culture on open government reform

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erna H.J.M. Ruijer ◽  
Richard F. Huff
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Open Government ◽  
Government Reform ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Practice Gap ◽  
Government Reforms ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of organizational culture on open government reforms by developing a theoretical framework bridging the theory and practice gap. Design/methodology/approach An exploratory qualitative study consisting of a document analysis and a case study was conducted. Findings An open organizational culture is a precursor to effective open government. A network strategy as a facilitator for developing an open culture was used in one US federal agency, breaking across boundaries within the organization, creating greater symmetrical horizontal and vertical openness. Originality/value Much of the focus in both theory and practice has been on the use of technology as a vehicle to increase government openness. This study argues that a movement toward openness is beyond the technical. Organizational culture is a key to openness and may need to be changed. A networks strategy may be one way to facilitate a transformation to a more open culture.

scholarly journals The Role of Responsive Leadership in Meeting Customers' Needs during Crises

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Leadership Attributes ◽  
Leadership Support ◽  
The Face ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
The Impact

This case study conducted to investigate the impact of a responsive leadership approach in meeting customers' needs in a higher education institution in the UAE during the COVID-19 pandemic. For this purpose, a mixed-method model has been used. The data has been collected from a convenient sample working and studying at Al Qasimia University Language Center, in fall 2020. This result indicates that the provided responsive leadership support during COVID-19 was effective and helped in motivating learners and customers to keep learning and making progress greater than what was shown before COVID-19, during the face-to-face teaching and physical assessment. Although the qualitative and quantitative results in this case study revealed a significant impact of responsive leadership approach on customers’ progress, there is still a need to conduct other researches to develop and validate a responsive leadership inventory to facilitate measuring of responsive leadership attributes in a large scale sample and/or population.

scholarly journals An analysis of the impact of implementing a new interactive voice response system (IVR) on client experience in the Canadian banking industry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscilla Manatsa
Keyword(s):  
Banking Industry ◽  
Interactive Voice Response ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Client Experience ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Net Promoter ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Canadian Banking ◽  
Voice Response

Banks are constantly competing to find new ways to satisfy clients and meet their growing, heterogenous needs. Clients can access round the clock banking services worldwide. One way to access information is through Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems. This research is an analysis of the process of implementing an IVR system and the impact on client experience using the case study of a Canadian bank. The research question is: “What is the impact of an IVR system upgrade on client experience in the Canadian banking industry?” The Productivity Paradox and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology model (UTAUT) are leveraged and a thematic analysis of the feedback provided from Net Promoter Score (NPS) surveys is done. The results show that although the IVR system can be an attractive automation interface for clients, there are many unanswered concerns about customer satisfaction as demonstrated by NPS feedback.

Conclusions

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia M. Gouda
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Irrigation Management ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Irrigation Water Management ◽  
Water Users ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Irrigation Infrastructure ◽  
Water Users Associations

This chapter outlines the general conclusions of the research and the book based on the analysis of the four case study areas in Egypt. It also provides the basis for thoughts about a more realistic and critical consideration of social capital theories into the mainstream of community-based natural resource management in general, and irrigation management transfer in particular. The research undertaken for this book show that it was worthwhile to develop a comprehensive conceptual framework for the analysis of social capital to use in place of Putnam's theory and approach, which romanticize traditional village organizations and cannot satisfactorily explain the complexity observed in the case study areas. The findings also provided key lessons to keep in mind when establishing and supporting water users' associations (WUA) at the level of tertiary and branch canals. Among these are the impact of improvements to irrigation infrastructure on farmers' behavior and the functioning of WUAs on the tertiary canal, namely that reducing face-to-face interactions reduces the creation of social capital, social control, and collective action; and that cooperation is not only dependent on the availability of water but is also affected by the autonomy of the irrigation water management field and the assignment of water rights.

The Blended Learning Classroom

2010 ◽  
pp. 834-851
Author(s):  
Karen García ◽  
Renata Suzuki
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Social Software ◽  
Development Activity ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Professional Development Activity ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Online Tools ◽  
Course Material

This blended learning classroom (BLC) case study identifies and describes successful procedures and methodologies that widen the use of online tools in virtual environments. It provides a systematic and organized access to theplethora of free social software available online for thedevelopment of collaborative learning activities. The goal of this particular BLC professional development activity was to offer a face-to-face group of English teachers in Venezuelathe opportunity to meet members of an international community of practice (CoP) and together review a packaged learning course material online. Blendedtechnology, the mix and match of available tools, served to display the wide use of resources and each person’s skills. By exploring online tools, participants gained an opportunity for learning about both educational theory andthe use of technology. The experience described here shows a prototype of future pathways towards educational content use and development.

scholarly journals Factors Influence on Packaging Design in an Impulse Consumer Purchasing Behavior: A Case Study of Doritos Pack

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alaeddin Mohammad K. Ahmad ◽  
Qais Mohammad K. Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Product Innovation ◽  
Product Information ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Purchasing Behavior ◽  
Packaging Design ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Manchester City ◽  
The Impact

<p>The conventional role of packaging in buyer products has been to save and protect the product. In fact these days, buyer and manufacture trends propose a progressively significant part for packaging as a tactical tool as well as a marketing strategy. This research aims to investigate the impact of factors influence on packaging design in an impulse purchasing circumstances as a case study of Doritos pack in Manchester city-UK. This research consists of the independent variables represented by visual components and informational components namely (pack graphics, layout, color, photography and illustration, typography, pack size and shape; product information, and package technology) and dependent variable which represented by impulse purchasing behavior. In order to explore the relationship between independent and dependent variables the qualitative method was used to collect primary data through a social media, online, and face to face interviews, which was administered with customers and experts in product innovation. The research sample in this research consists of 34 participants and an expert in product innovation. The results confirm that for most participants in the interviews, the factors which influence on the bad image of current Doritos chips bags in the marketplace are; protection, communication, and information. The research concludes that there are many functions to packaging design in order to ease and communicate with customers; increasingly, there is important role of packaging as a strategic tool to attract consumers’ attention and their perception on the product quality. Brand has important role in identify layout, graphics, color, and typeface. The new packaging design mostly uses the brand in products. Mainly, the packaging design includes all printed information such as made it, where it was made, when it was made, what it contains, how to use it. Moreover, the printed information is given in the brand and its value has to be showed while promoting the product in the market.</p>

scholarly journals Impact of the Flipped Classroom Method in the Mathematical Area: A Systematic Review

Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 2162
Author(s):  
Francisco-Domingo Fernández-Martín ◽  
José-María Romero-Rodríguez ◽  
Gerardo Gómez-García ◽  
Magdalena Ramos Navas-Parejo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Do So

Currently, the use of technology has become one of the most popular educational trends in Higher Education. One of the most popular methods on the Higher Education stage is the Flipped Classroom, characterised by the use of both face-to-face and virtual teaching through videos and online material, promoting more autonomous, flexible and dynamic teaching for students. In this work, we started to compile the main articles that used Flipped Classroom within the mathematical area in Higher Education, with the aim of analysing their main characteristics, as well as the impact caused on students. To do so, the method of systematic review was used, focusing on those empirical experiences published in Web of Sciences and Scopus. The results indicated that, in most cases, the implementation of Flipped Classroom led to an improvement in students’ knowledge and attitudes towards mathematical content and discipline. In addition, aspects such as collaborative work, autonomy, self-regulation towards learning or academic performance were benefited through this method.

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