scholarly journals Collaborative model for remote experimentation laboratories used by non-hierarchical distributed groups of engineering students

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oriel A. Herrera ◽  
David A. Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Collaborative Environments ◽  
Laboratory Practice ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Past ◽  
Remote Experimentation ◽  
Methodological Aspects

<span>Remote experimentation laboratories (REL) are systems based on real equipment that allow students to carry out a laboratory practice through the Internet on the computer. In engineering, there have been numerous initiatives to implement REL over recent years, given the fundamental role of laboratory activities. However, in the past efforts have concentrated on laboratory groups interacting face to face, disregarding the capacities of distributed student collaborative environments. This article proposes a model for the implementation of REL in a distributed collaborative scenario, focusing on two crucial key elements: shared knowledge and interaction for collaboration. The model focuses on the methodological aspects of executing REL in a distributed collaborative scenario and disregards technical aspects of the implementation. This study analyses distributed collaborative scenarios where the teacher plays a fundamental role in REL configuration to ensure group collaboration. The new model introduced presents diverse aspects that are associated with the methodological implementation of REL in the field of engineering; hence it is to be regarded as a foundation for teachers developing REL in distributed collaborative scenarios.</span>

scholarly journals Stoichiometry in Context: Inquiry-Guided Problems of Chemistry for Encouraging Critical Thinking in Engineering Students

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Gabriel Pinto ◽  
María Luisa Prolongo
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mineral Water ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Educational Tools ◽  
The Past ◽  
Guided Instruction ◽  
Quantitative Treatment

This paper focuses on examples of educational tools concerning the learning of chemistry for engineering students through different daily life cases. These tools were developed during the past few years for enhancing the active role of students. They refer to cases about mineral water, medicaments, dentifrices and informative panels about solar power, where an adequate quantitative treatment through stoichiometry calculations allows the interpretation of data and values announced by manufacturers. These cases were developed in the context of an inquiry-guided instruction model. By bringing tangible chemistry examples into the classroom we provide an opportunity for engineering students to apply this science to familiar products in hopes that they will appreciate chemistry more, will be motivated to study concepts in greater detail, and will connect the relevance of chemistry to everyday life.

scholarly journals Tüketimin Değişen Yüzü: Elektronik Ticaret Uygulamaları ve Sosyal Paylaşım Ağlarının Rolü / The Changing Face of Consumption: E-Commerce Applications And The Role of Social Networks

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Büşra Halis
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Human History ◽  
Conceptual Content ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Past ◽  
Over Time

İnsanlık tarihi kadar eski olan tüketim, zaman içerisinde yaşanan değişim ve dönüşümlerle birlikte yeni bir boyut kazanmıştır. Eskinin, ihtiyacı kadar almak ve çalışmak gibi fenemonlerinin yerini, günümüzde daha çok satın almak için çalışmak, tükettiğinin ölçüsünde var olabilmek ya da olamamak almıştır. Tüketimin soyut anlamda kavramsal içeriğinin farklılaşmasının yanı sıra, tüketim araçları da farklılaşmıştır. Artık, yüz yüze görüşmeler yoluyla yapılan alışverişlerin yerini; fiziki mekândan bağımsız, internet üzerinden e-ticaret yoluyla ve birtakım paylaşım ağları aracılığıyla yapılan alışverişler almıştır. Bu çalışmada da, tüketimin ve tüketimde kullanılan araçların geçmişten bugüne değişen anlamı ve bu değişimi körükleyen sosyal ağ paradigması tartışılmaktadır. The Changing Face of Consumption: E-Commerce Applications And The Role of Social Networks Consumption, which is as old as human history has gained a new dimension with changes and transformations in the course of time. In the past, people bought and worked as they needed, but now, they work to buy more things except necessity and they be or not to be until they consumed. Over time, the conceptual content and tools of the consumption has changed. Shopping, which is done independent of the physical space, via the internet through e-commerce replaced shopping made by face to face. In this work, the changing meaning and tools of consumption from past to present and the paradigm of social networks which encouraging this change is to be held.

Getting the Message

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laszlo Solymar
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Optical Fibres ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

Laszlo Solymar’s book is quite unique in the sense that it is the only one that covers all the major developments in the history of telecommunications for the past 4,000 years, like fire signals, the mechanical telegraph, the electrical telegraph, telephony, optical fibres, fax, satellites, mobile phones, the Internet, the digital revolution, the role of computers, and also some long-forgotten technologies like news broadcasting by a devoted telephone network. It tells the technical aspects of the story but also how it affects people and society; e.g.it discusses the effect of the electric telegraph on war and diplomacy, how thanks to the telegraph Kitchener could preserve the Cairo-to-Cape Town red band for the British Empire, or more recent events like the effect of deregulation upon the monopoly of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T). A number of anecdotes are told, e.g. how one murderer was caught by telegraphy when he arrived at Paddington Station and how another murderer was caught by wireless telegraphy when tried to escape by boat from Britain to Canada. The last chapter is concerned with the future: how the future was envisaged in the past and how we imagine the future of telecommunications now.

Live Assessment by Questioning in an Interactive Classroom

2006 ◽  
pp. 276-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael McCabe
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
Audience Response ◽  
Audience Response Systems ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Interactive Classroom ◽  
Response Systems

This chapter presents an overview of audience response systems as tools for promoting learning in an interactive classroom. The comparison with a popular TV programme is used to introduce the role of questioning in face-to-face teaching, before examining the intrinsic pedagogical benefits of questions. Technical aspects of different systems are summarised, and pedagogical issues discussed, based on the author’s personal teaching experience. Appropriate ways of using audience response systems in the classroom, and guidelines for question delivery are presented. New technology will continue to open up opportunities, but the challenge for the future remains to use the technology effectively and in pedagogically sound ways.

scholarly journals Virtual Parent-Child Relationships: A Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Downing
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Online Games ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Past ◽  
Online Safety ◽  
Role Of Parents ◽  
Parent Child Relationships

Studies on parenting and online gaming abound, most of this literature considering the role of parents in educating their children about online safety, maintaining boundaries and limiting time spent online. Embedded within these inquiries is often the assumption that parents live with their children and must balance the physical-virtual divide. Relatively little research has considered the role of the virtual in the lives of parents who do not live with their children. In this inquiry, I present a narrative-ethnographic account of my experiences as a father living apart from my six-year-old son, communicating daily through various online games. I draw on my own experiences over the past three years, as well as formal and informal interviews with my son. I consider how our relationship has evolved in relation to virtual constructs including spaces, characters, and stories, and the extension of the virtual worlds we inhabit into our face-to-face conversations, play, and subjective individual and collective constructions of the reality of our relationship. Ultimately, I propose broader implications for the study of virtual worlds and relationships, as well as an expansion of the understanding of parenting in a digital age, where gaming is not always a distraction from familial engagement but can in fact integrate with family life.

Do insults always insult? Genuine impoliteness versus non-genuine impoliteness in colloquial Spanish

Pragmatics ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 775-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Bernal
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Social Effect ◽  
Spanish Society ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Communicative Exchange

This study is based mainly on conversations extracted from a corpus of spoken Spanish gathered in the metropolitan area of Valencia, Spain (Briz and Val.Es.Co Group 2002). Adopting a socio-pragmatic perspective (Bravo and Briz 2004), our purpose is to describe the social effects produced by the use of certain strategies related to (im)politeness phenomena in face-to-face interaction with the ongoing negotiation of participants’ face (Goffman 1967). We will refer in this paper to Culpeper’s concept of authentic impoliteness (1996, 2003, 2005), aimed at describing the damage of a hearer’s face. For this author, insults constitute intentionally threatening acts. However, in our study we found that some expressions commonly used for insulting or mocking can, in certain contexts, produce an affiliative social effect, strengthening feelings of solidarity within a group and of closeness between interlocutors. We call this use non-authentic impoliteness. Kienpointner (1997) and Culpeper (op. cit.) identify this impoliteness as mock impoliteness. In turn, Zimmermann (2003) uses the term anti-politeness to refer to similar strategies of impoliteness. We follow Zimmermann’s concept but without restricting it to the function of creating male teen identity only. This is because in the Spanish society we observe other groups in which such identity feature is absent. We also take into account Bravo’s concepts relative to the crucial role of context to consider participants’ expectations and shared knowledge in a given society, such as Bravo’s socio-cultural hypothesis (2003: 104; Bravo, in this volume). In our analysis of colloquial interactions, we have registered different linguistic realisations that can be classified as insults in their unmarked form. This unmarkedness is not present in all instances: In certain cases, for example, insults can encourage an interpersonal affiliation between participants. The markedness of insults depends on certain contextual factors (such as interactions between close friends) and an adequate socio-cultural contextualisation and textual co-textualisation. As mentioned above, this markedness would constitute realisations of non-authentic impoliteness. It seems then that there would be a principle of no offence between participants that characterises the communicative exchange.

scholarly journals Controversies in the Science of Sedentary Behaviour and Health: Insights, Perspectives and Future directions from the 2018 Queensland Sedentary Behaviour Think Tank

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (23) ◽  
pp. 4762 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biddle ◽  
Bennie ◽  
De Cocker ◽  
Dunstan ◽  
Gardiner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sedentary Behaviour ◽  
Vigorous Physical Activity ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Prolonged Sitting ◽  
The Past ◽  
Future Work

The development in research concerning sedentary behaviour has been rapid over the past two decades. This has led to the development of evidence and views that have become more advanced, diverse and, possibly, contentious. These include the effects of standing, the breaking up of prolonged sitting and the role of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in the association between sedentary behaviour and health outcomes. The present aim is to report the views of experts (n = 21) brought together (one-day face-to-face meeting in 2018) to consider these issues and provide conclusions and recommendations for future work. Each topic was reviewed and presented by one expert followed by full group discussion, which was recorded, transcribed and analysed. The experts concluded that (a). standing may bring benefits that accrue from postural shifts. Prolonged (mainly static) standing and prolonged sitting are both bad for health; (b). ‘the best posture is the next posture’. Regularly breaking up of sitting with postural shifts and movement is vital; (c). health effects of prolonged sitting are evident even after controlling for MVPA, but high levels of MVPA can attenuate the deleterious effects of prolonged sitting depending on the health outcome of interest. Expert discussion addressed measurement, messaging and future directions.

scholarly journals The role of real humanism in the digitalization of schools: methodological aspects

2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 12097
Author(s):  
Tatyana Eroshenko ◽  
Anastasia Melnik
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Main Type ◽  
School Conditions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Entire Society ◽  
Methodological Aspects ◽  
Out Of School

The introduction of digitalization in the educational space causes anambiguous reaction. Some consider it a tool for solving the problems accumulated in school, while others openly define it as a factor in the school dehumanization. In order to understand what digitalization brings to the schools, you need to know the goal of implementing it. The author believes that in the broadest sense school and society form a single whole. In connection with the rapid update of technologies in the production and non-production spheres, there is a need to add managerial relations in the labor sphere with pedagogical ones. Complicated out-of-school conditions for younger generationeducation force the school itself to work more closely in synergy with society, and for this a democratic public schoolmust exist. A school that uses the “digitalization of the educational space” tool will have to implement the function of connecting with the past, determining its place in the present and future. Consequently, the school also performs the function of spiritual confrontation in hybrid wars. Skilful use of the “digitalization of the educational space” will create conditions in which the school can be useful for production and vice versa. The role of school in interaction with society is increasing due to the transformation of the cognition process into the main type of human activity. The tool of digitalization should be used in the environmental education and the entire society, since ecology currently includes all the pressing problems of humanity.

scholarly journals What Kind of Blending Makes Blended Learning?

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.A. Margolis
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Current Model ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Past ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Face To Face Instruction ◽  
K 12

The paper focuses on blended learning which is now quite common both in basic and in higher education and which is usually defined as a combination of e-learning and face-to-face instruction. The author explores the main models of blended learning in basic education (K-12), evaluates their benefits and limitations, and reflects on the changes in the current model of teaching activity and standards for teachers. The paper also presents a review of modern studies on the effectiveness of blended learning as compared to distance learning and traditional in-class education. As it is revealed, the role of blended learning is that of a ‘hybrid’ educational innovation which interlocks the past and the future in education.

scholarly journals USING THE GEOSPATIAL WEB TO DELIVER AND TEACH GISCIENCE EDUCATION PROGRAMS

2015 ◽  
Vol XL-6/W1 ◽  
pp. 17-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Veenendaal
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Geographic Information Science ◽  
Joint Learning ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Past ◽  
Real World Learning ◽  
Geospatial Web Services ◽  
The Web

Geographic information science (GIScience) education has undergone enormous changes over the past years. One major factor influencing this change is the role of the geospatial web in GIScience. In addition to the use of the web for enabling and enhancing GIScience education, it is also used as the infrastructure for communicating and collaborating among geospatial data and users. The web becomes both the means and the content for a geospatial education program. However, the web does not replace the traditional face-to-face environment, but rather is a means to enhance it, expand it and enable an authentic and real world learning environment. This paper outlines the use of the web in both the delivery and content of the GIScience program at Curtin University. The teaching of the geospatial web, web and cloud based mapping, and geospatial web services are key components of the program, and the use of the web and online learning are important to deliver this program. Some examples of authentic and real world learning environments are provided including joint learning activities with partner universities.

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