THE USE OF INSTAGRAM ON EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL: A CASE STUDY ON THE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SUBJECT BELONGING TO THE INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING DEGREE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Andres ◽  
Francisca Sempere ◽  
Alejandro Rodríguez-Villalobos ◽  
Ana Mengual
Author(s):  
Somboon Watana, Ph.D.

Thai Buddhist meditation practice tradition has its long history since the Sukhothai Kingdom about 18th B.E., until the present day at 26th B.E. in the Kingdom of Thailand. In history there were many well-known Buddhist meditation master teachers, i.e., SomdejPhraBhudhajaraya (To Bhramarangsi), Phraajarn Mun Puritatto, Luang Phor Sodh Chantasalo, PhramahaChodok Yanasitthi, and Buddhadasabhikkhu, etc. Buddhist meditation practice is generally regarded by Thai Buddhists to be a higher state of doing a good deed than doing a good deed by offering things to Buddhist monks even to the Buddha. Thai Buddhists believe that practicing Buddhist meditation can help them to have mindfulness, peacefulness in their own lives and to finally obtain Nibbana that is the ultimate goal of Buddhism. The present article aims to briefly review history, and movement of Thai Buddhist Meditation Practice Tradition and to take a case study of students’ Buddhist meditation practice research at the university level as an example of the movement of Buddhist meditation practice tradition in Thailand in the present.


Author(s):  
Thomas Lagoarde-Segot ◽  
Laurence Le Poder

The goals of the Agenda 2030 require a significant effort to educate and train new generations on sustainability issues. This article presents an initiative in favor of the evolution of the contents and the pedagogy of economics at the University level. We present the new “Ecological Money and Finance” textbook developed by SDSN France. We detail the assumptions, contents and learning objectives proposed in this new textbook. Then, we describe how it can be used in the framework of an experiential pedagogy of economics, taking as a case study the fundamental economics course of the Grande Ecole program at KEDGE BS.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Gusc ◽  
Coen Heijes

Although sustainability has become a strategic topic at many universities, working towards a learning approach in which sustainability is the fundament underlying and permeating the entire course is hardly straightforward. This paper is a case study on the development, the teaching, and the evaluation of one specific course that aims to achieve this. Based on (participant) observation, documents, and discussion with students and other stakeholders, we describe and analyze the results of the transformation of the course ‘advanced management accounting techniques’ for Masters students at the University of Groningen, in the academic year 2017–2018. We show how the course was transformed in a way to increase both a general, a business, and an accounting awareness of the importance of sustainability, while also applying a new teaching approach, namely lemniscate learning, to support this. Our course was the first in the faculty to make this transformation, and although the majority of the students were enthusiastic, the faculty staff was cautiously positive. In presenting our findings, we aim at supporting educators and other stakeholders at universities, by supplying a case study on the transformation of our course, and by scrutinizing the problems that we encountered, the feedback, both positive and negative, that we received, and the challenges that still face us, both on a course and a university level. Thus, we hope to be a source of inspiration and advice for others and to further advance our understanding of the dilemmas, practicalities, and challenges in working towards sustainability in teaching.


Author(s):  
Kazi Nazmul Huda

The concept of sustainopreneurship demands entrepreneurial actions to promote sustainable development goals and principles in business activities. The study understands the necessity of an academic curriculum that aids the business gradates to enhance their entrepreneurial skills in the light of sustainopreneurship development concepts. Key objective of the study is to propose an action-oriented model of sustainopreneurship that may enrich the existing curriculum of entrepreneurship development courses taught at the university level. The current study is based on classroom experiences at Southern University Bangladesh. The paper tries to offer a potential model of embedding sustainopreneurship in the entrepreneurship development curriculum that opens the possibility in attaining the goals of the said concept. The methodology of the study is based on qualitative research conducted through exploratory analysis. Results of the study are based on observation and the opinions of the direct stakeholders specially the students, faculties, and the management of the university. 


Author(s):  
Scott Flemming

In recent years the CEAB has ben communicating to Engineering Faculties in Canada that “Engineering Design” is a key attribute that graduates should have when they finish their undergraduate degree. It hasalso been suggested that producing engineers with significant design skills is important for the Canadian economy as a whole and, in Dalhousie University’s context, Nova Scotia. Unfortunately “Design” is adifficult skill to teach or transfer; a recent article in Maclean’s suggests many engineering graduates around the country are leaving the university with an uneasy feeling that all they have been taught to dois “plug and chug.” How do we respond to this need? This paper offers a case study of how a third-year Industrial Engineering course shifted from a mainly book-and-formula based course to an offering which incorporated significant open-ended design content (25%) intended to both satisfy CEAB requirements and address the need for students to exercise their creative, hands-on problem-solving skills. Student project outcomes as well as anecdotal and SRI data suggest the shift to a design-focussedcourse was a success.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-109
Author(s):  
Tomaž Grušovnik ◽  
Ana Arzenšek

Recent research shows that ‘environmental denial’ (the denial of anthropogenic impact on the natural world) plays an important role in environmental education. The difficulty in changing our detrimental habits stems from the fact that identities in our societies are bound up with consumerist practices. Because we cannot simply give up practices that shape our identity, environmental education has to fi nd ways of substituting unhealthy habits with environmentally acceptable ones. One method of achieving this is through experiential education based on experiences with the natural world and their importance for identity formation. The paper presents a case study involving experiential education in environmental ethics, implemented at the university level. Findings show that the implementation of experiential education technique (fi eld trip) yielded positive results in connection with students’ overcoming of environmental denial and consequential change of their environmental outlook.


1979 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
B. Mokoatle ◽  
H. L. Prekel

Economic problems and threatening food and energy shortages, together with the contrast and polarization between the developed and underdeveloped countries, have brought the world to the brink of a crisis. The development of self-reliance and entrepreneurship among the poorer communities could contribute to solving the above problems. Several barriers need to be overcome to stimulate black entrepreneurship in South Africa, one being the need for specialized business management training. The paper describes as a case study the Small Business Management Programme introduced in 1975 by the School of Business Leadership of the University of South Africa. A progress report on the course is given, with fairly high success rates in terms of both academic and business achievement. Of particular interest is the wide range of projects (business viability studies) investigated by students as a course requirement, several of which have been implemented as successful business ventures.Ekonomiese probleme en dreigende voedsel- en energietekorte, saam met die kontras en polarisering tussen die ontwikkelde en onderontwikkelde lande, het die wereldgemeenskap tot op die rand van 'n krisis gebring. Die ontwikkeling van selfstandigheid en entrepreneurskap onder die armer gemeenskappe kan grootliks bydra tot die oplossing van bogenoemde probleme. Verskeie struikelblokke moet oorkom word om swart entrepreneurskap in Suid-Afrika te stimuleer. Een hiervan is die behoefte aan gespesialiseerde sakebestuursopleiding. Die artikel beskryf as 'n gevallestudie die Kleinbesigheidbestuursprogram wat die Skool vir Bedryfsleiding van die Universiteit van Suid-Afrika in 1975 ingestel het. 'n Vorderingsverslag word oor die program gegee, waarin redelike hoe akademiese sowel as sakeprestasies aangedui word. Veral van belang is die wye reeks projekte (uitvoerbaarheidstudies van sakeondernemings) wat studente as 'n kursusvereiste ondersoek het; verskeie van hierdie projekte is intussen as suksesvolle ondernemings in bedryf gestel.


Author(s):  
Rajae Berkane

The students' comprehension of listening texts in different types of discourse is mandatory at the university level. However, Moroccan university students still find difficulties when listening to some types of discourse, especially the argumentative and the descriptive ones. Admittedly, knowing about the hindrances that students face while listening to different types of discourse will pave the way for teachers to improve their teaching methods concerning listening skills. The objective of this study is to measure the Moroccan university students' ability to comprehend argumentative and descriptive listening texts and whether there is a correlation between the two types of discourse. Tests are used as data collection instruments that were assigned to 92 Moroccan Semester 4 students studying in education professional BA degree in the school of Art and Humanities Moulay Ismail University in Meknes, Ibn Tofail University in Kenitra as well as ENS (Ecole National Supérieure) in Meknes. The findings state that there is a significant difference between descriptive and argumentative listening ability as well as a significant positive correlation between the two sets of data.


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