scholarly journals Podcasting In Higher Education: Does It Make A Difference?

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 7-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Baker ◽  
Jeffery Harrison ◽  
Barry Thornton ◽  
Rhett Yates
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Education Major ◽  
Software Companies ◽  
Course Material ◽  
Supplemental Course ◽  
University Course ◽  
College Or University

Podcasting is a growing trend in higher education. Major software companies, such as Apple, have dedicated entire websites to podcasting. These podcasts are available to college students to be used as supplemental material for specific coursework at their particular college or university. Unfortunately, due to the new and progressive nature of the technology, empirical studies of the effectiveness of this pedagogical device are rare. This paper presents an empirical study of the effectiveness of podcasting when incorporated as supplemental course material in a university course.

scholarly journals Knowledge-sharing and collaborative behaviour: An empirical study on a Portuguese higher education institution

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 630-647
Author(s):  
Marcello Chedid ◽  
Ana Caldeira ◽  
Helena Alvelos ◽  
Leonor Teixeira
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Reasoned Action ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Portuguese Higher Education ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Conceptual Research

Collaboration has been considered a way to address the challenges of the 21st century, fostering the necessary innovation, growth and productivity for all parties involved. Several studies reveal that collaboration can be strongly influenced by knowledge sharing. The literature suggests that this topic is quite relevant and that there is an evident lack of empirical studies that properly investigate the relationship between knowledge-sharing and collaborative behaviour in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). In this context, the purpose of this work is to examine whether knowledge-sharing intention has a positive relationship with collaborative behaviour among professors and researchers in a public Portuguese HEI, taking into account other constructs that can have effect on the knowledge-sharing intention. In order to reach this objective, a conceptual research model was developed based on the theory of reasoned action. The empirical study was conducted based on a questionnaire, and the data analysis was performed using partial least squares. The results indicate that intrinsic motivation and networking are the factors that positively affect the attitude towards knowledge sharing. Nevertheless, it is concluded that trust is the variable that more strongly affects the knowledge-sharing intention. Finally, the study identified that knowledge-sharing intention has a positive influence in collaborative behaviour. It is considered that this study can contribute to support institutions’ management in defining strategies and developing actions in order to promote an organisational culture based on knowledge management that significantly leads to knowledge-sharing and collaboration relationships.

Communicative Installations of Future Lawyers of Social Sphere as a Factor of the Development of Professional Information Culture of Their Personality

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
Т. Бонкало ◽  
T. Bonkalo ◽  
И. Тузов ◽  
I. Tuzov ◽  
С. Бонкало ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Information Culture ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Middle Tier ◽  
Professional Information ◽  
The Relationship

The article is devoted to the problem of the formation of future social lawyers in colleges of a professional information culture. The article contains the results of empirical studies aimed at identifying the relationship between the level of formation of future lawyers of the middle tier of the professional information culture and the degree of expression of their negative communicative attitudes. The study was carried out on the basis of Moscow colleges, implementing programs of secondary vocational education in the direction of training 40.02.01 “The Law and Organization of Social Security” (a program for in-depth training of middle-level specialists of the APSP). In the empirical study was attended by 225 college students enrolled in graduate courses relevant training. In the article, the authors reveal the essence and content of the professional information culture of future lawyers as a psychological and pedagogical phenomenon, determines ways of measuring the level of its formation, conducts an empirical study, as a result of which it comes to a conclusion about the importance and significance of correcting communicative attitudes spheres.

Possibilities of Wolfram-Technologies in Training in Elements of Probability Theory of Students of an Economic Bachelor Degree

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-67
Author(s):  
Дмитрий Власов ◽  
Dmitriy Vlasov ◽  
Александр Синчуков ◽  
Aleksandr Sinchukov
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Probability Theory ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Information Culture ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
Middle Tier ◽  
Professional Information ◽  
The Relationship

The article is devoted to the problem of the formation of future social lawyers in colleges of a professional information culture. The article contains the results of empirical studies aimed at identifying the relationship between the level of formation of future lawyers of the middle tier of the professional information culture and the degree of expression of their negative communicative attitudes. The study was carried out on the basis of Moscow colleges, implementing programs of secondary vocational education in the direction of training 40.02.01 “The Law and Organization of Social Security” (a program for in-depth training of middle-level specialists of the APSP). In the empirical study was attended by 225 college students enrolled in graduate courses relevant training. In the article, the authors reveal the essence and content of the professional information culture of future lawyers as a psychological and pedagogical phenomenon, determines ways of measuring the level of its formation, conducts an empirical study, as a result of which it comes to a conclusion about the importance and significance of correcting communicative attitudes spheres.

scholarly journals How diverse is your team? Investigating gender and nationality diversity in GitHub teams

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Ortu ◽  
Giuseppe Destefanis ◽  
Steve Counsell ◽  
Stephen Swift ◽  
Michele Marchesi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Complex Task ◽  
Software Companies ◽  
Open Source Communities ◽  
Nationality Diversity

Building an effective team of developers is a complex task faced by both software companies and open source communities. The problem of forming a “dream” team involves many variables, including consideration of human factors, and it is not a dilemma solvable in a mathematical way. Empirical studies might provide interesting insights to explain which factors need to be taken into account in building a team of developers and which levers act to optimise collaboration and productivity among developers. In this paper, we present the results of an empirical study aimed at investigating the link between team diver- sity (i.e., gender, nationality) and productivity (issue fixing time). We consider issues solved from the GHTorrent dataset inferring gender and nationality of each team’s members. We also evaluate the politeness of all comments involved in issue resolution. Results show that higher gender diversity is linked with a lower team average issue fixing time and that nationality diversity is linked with lower team politeness.

scholarly journals How diverse is your team? Investigating gender and nationality diversity in GitHub teams

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Ortu ◽  
Giuseppe Destefanis ◽  
Steve Counsell ◽  
Stephen Swift ◽  
Michele Marchesi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Complex Task ◽  
Software Companies ◽  
Open Source Communities ◽  
Nationality Diversity

Building an effective team of developers is a complex task faced by both software companies and open source communities. The problem of forming a “dream” team involves many variables, including consideration of human factors, and it is not a dilemma solvable in a mathematical way. Empirical studies might provide interesting insights to explain which factors need to be taken into account in building a team of developers and which levers act to optimise collaboration and productivity among developers. In this paper, we present the results of an empirical study aimed at investigating the link between team diver- sity (i.e., gender, nationality) and productivity (issue fixing time). We consider issues solved from the GHTorrent dataset inferring gender and nationality of each team’s members. We also evaluate the politeness of all comments involved in issue resolution. Results show that higher gender diversity is linked with a lower team average issue fixing time and that nationality diversity is linked with lower team politeness.

The (Mis)Uses of Race in Research on College Students: A Systematic Review

JCSCORE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-41
Author(s):  
Marc P. Johnston-Guerrero
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Student Affairs ◽  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Higher Education Journals ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

Race has been one of the most controversial subjects studied by scholars across a wide range of disciplines as they debate whether races actually exist and whether race matters in determining life, social, and educational outcomes. Missing from the literature are investigations into various ways race gets applied in research, especially in higher education and student affairs. This review explores how scholars use race in their framing, operationalizing, and interpreting of research on college students. Through a systematic content analysis of three higher education journals over five years, this review elucidates scholars’ varied racial applications as well as potential implicit and explicit messages about race being sent by those applications and inconsistencies within articles. By better understanding how race is used in higher education and student affairs research, scholars can be more purposeful in their applications to reduce problematic messages about the essentialist nature of race and deficit framing of certain racial groups.

Moving Up without Losing Your Way

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Morton
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
College Experience ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Community Finding

Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Measuring the true cost of higher education for those from disadvantaged backgrounds, this book looks at the ethical dilemmas of upward mobility—the broken ties with family and friends, the severed connections with former communities, and the loss of identity—faced by students as they strive to earn a successful place in society. The book reframes the college experience, factoring in not just educational and career opportunities but also essential relationships with family, friends, and community. Finding that student strivers tend to give up the latter for the former, negating their sense of self, the book seeks to reverse this course. It urges educators to empower students with a new narrative of upward mobility—one that honestly situates ethical costs in historical, social, and economic contexts and that allows students to make informed decisions for themselves. The book paves a hopeful road so that students might achieve social mobility while retaining their best selves.

Students' Independent Professional Activity in Pedagogical Practice

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-58
Author(s):  
Aina Strode
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Criteria And Indicators ◽  
Study Process

Students' Independent Professional Activity in Pedagogical PracticeThe topicality of the research is determined by the need for changes in higher education concerned with implementing the principles of sustainable education. The article focuses on teacher training, highlighting the teacher's profession as an attractive choice of one's career that permits to ensure the development of general and professional skills and an opportunity for new specialists to align with the labour market. The empirical study of students' understanding of their professional activity and of the conditions for its formation is conducted by applying structured interviews (of practice supervisors, students, academic staff); students and experts' questionnaire. Comparative analysis of quantitative and qualitative data and triangulation were used in case studies. As a result, a framework of pedagogical practice organisation has been created in order to form students' independent professional activity. The criteria and indicators of independent professional activity have been formulated and suggestions for designers of study programmes and organisers of the study process have been provided.

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