scholarly journals Enabling Basic Medical Training for Refugees via Collaborative Blended Learning in Kakuma Refugee Camp (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul O'Keeffe ◽  
Thibault Lovey ◽  
Ianis Petignat
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
High Level ◽  
Basic Medical

BACKGROUND The world is currently witnessing its highest rates of refugees and displaced persons, with more than 68.5 million people worldwide forced to leave their homes due to persecution, conflict, violence and other human rights violations. International emergency responses have mostly focused on ensuring basic needs such as health, nutrition, and basic education are met. With little end in sight to the majority of refugee crises, there is an increasing realization that longer term solutions are needed to empower young people caught up in these protracted situations. As refugee camps across the world grow exponentially, tertiary education has the potential to provide a solution that could empower refugees and help fill qualified staff shortages in camps, especially in camp health services that aim to satisfy some basic needs of their populations. OBJECTIVE With the advancement of new technologies and easier access to the Internet, higher education has evolved to become a more attainable goal than ever before. Many across the world can now access online and blended learning courses, in situations, such as refugee camps, where brick and mortar higher education is not an option. With this in mind, the University of Geneva’s InZone–Raft project has implemented a blended learning course in Kakuma refugee camp to train 16 students in basic medical studies. METHODS This study focuses on the implementation, pedagogical evolution and impact of this project by looking at factors that influence the students’ knowledge acquisition, the amount of knowledge they acquired, and comparing student outcomes in the course with a previous course in Kakuma. RESULTS Of the 16 students who started the course, 10 received 6 ECTS for successful completion of the course. Overall, it was found that new knowledge was well received by the students, who scored higher in all learning modalities compared to students who took part the previous course. Pedagogical adjustments were also found to improve student involvement in the course, with higher participation rates and better overall satisfaction observed. CONCLUSIONS This project has provided refugees with high-level basic medical training in a challenging environment. This student cohort reached a high level of medical knowledge and was able to develop complex questions on medical topics. In addition, their excellent results in the quizzes and final exams prove that their new knowledge has been well received. This training allows refugees to integrate into the health services in the camp and will have a positive impact on the shortage of staff in the region. In addition, implementation in other refugee camps should be undertaken CLINICALTRIAL NA

Sensory Perceptual Experience in Balata Refugee Camp

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Shahd Adnan M. Qzeih ◽  
Rafooneh Mokhtarshahi Sani
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Mental Image ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
The West ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
The World

Wars and conflicts have caused millions of people to seek asylum outside their homelands and the issue of refugee camps has become a pressing subject in international policy discussions. Conflicts continue to escalate in different parts of the world, especially in Middle Eastern countries. In 1948, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict forced displacement of many Palestinian people. The resulting camps have developed into cluster camp shelters of three to four stories in the West Bank, Gaza, and other regions around historical Palestine; some are perceived to be like gated communities. Being self-sufficient environments, refugee camps have rarely been approached from the perspective of urban psychology. This research deals with sensory perceptual analysis of Balata, the largest refugee camp in the West Bank of Palestinian Territories. Balata is situated in Nablus and has raised four generations of refugees since its establishment. In order to explore the spatial characteristics of such specific environmental experiences, the research adopted a mixed-method approach – systematically evaluating the related literature on sensory perceptual spaces and applying content analysis methods. The study modified the sensory slider tool of Malnar and Vodvarka according to the framework matrix based on the content analysis. Moreover, the case study analysis consisted of observation of the chosen area and 30 in-depth interviews with refugees who were forced out of their homes and settled in the camp as well as some who were born in the camp. The research results show that investigating what camp residents perceive of the five senses can capture meaningful sensory perceptual experiences and can generate a holistic mental image of the refugee camp. Particularly, perceptions of the built environment reflect the difficulty of life experiences. The study concludes that the characteristics of camps in this seventy-year-old conflict environment may not be found in other parts of the world.

Blended Learning in Higher Education 4.0

2019 ◽  
pp. 70-84
Author(s):  
Arumugam Raman ◽  
Mohan Rathakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Education System ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Technology Advancement ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Learning ◽  
Automation Technology

Rapid technology advancement in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR) has undoubtedly posed a great challenge to the education system in higher education institutes and changed every aspect of our lives including education. Higher education institutions across the world are amalgamating technology in modern learning and teaching approaches such as blended learning so that future teachers are equipped with the latest 21st century knowledge for further innovations and creations. This chapter covers definition, design, and implementation of blended learning in higher education. Further it also discusses blended learning models and assessment tools in recent education setting around the world. The education system worldwide has to transform for the imminent FIR as the job market will be largely prompted by the advancement of digital economy, robotics, artificial intelligence, and automation technology.

Medical Tourism

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-42
Author(s):  
Oğuz Doğan
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Market Shares ◽  
Global Demand ◽  
The World ◽  
High Level ◽  
Demand For Health

The number of travels around the world to benefit from health services provided abroad is increasing every year. The high level of global demand for health services has influenced the rapid development of the medical tourism industry. Due to these developments in the industry, a global market has emerged, the medical tourism market. Countries operating in the industry are also striving to gain share from this large market or to increase their existing market shares. In this study, different perspective on global phenomenon, medical tourism, medical tourism market, and leader destinations in the industry are examined in detail.

scholarly journals Training of Adult Trainers: Implementation and Evaluation of a Higher Education Program in Greece

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Azarias A Mavropoulos ◽  
Aikaterini Sipitanou ◽  
Anastasia Pampouri
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Educational Material ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Implementation Methodology ◽  
High Level

This article presents the implementation and the evaluation of the blended learning program Training of Lifelong Learning Adult Trainers, which was organized by the Center of Training and Lifelong Learning of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, during the last two years (2016-2017). The aim of the training program was to give the opportunity to adult trainers to certify their educational competence and update their knowledge in the field of adult education, enhancing their employability. After the completion of the program, the trainees assessed the implementation methodology, the educational content, the microteachings, the quality, and the organization of the program. The results of the evaluation showed that the program was of a high level, flawlessly organized, and with excellent educational material, while the blended learning model worked effectively, receiving positive reviews by the participants. It was concluded that blended learning is indeed adequate in adult educational programs increasing the participation and facilitating adult trainees to better integrate their learning experiences.

REFUGEE CAMPS AND GATED COMMUNITIES AS A SOLUTION FOR HOUSING

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Büşra Özaydin Çat
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Gated Communities ◽  
Gated Community ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
World War ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

Today the World has a biggest crisis of refugee since The World War II. Refugee is a person who is depressed due to his/her religion, race and ideas or who defect to another country with fear of being oppressed. The refugee camps are high intensity places which provide refugees housing and other social and physical needs. On the other hand today in the capitalist and global cities the most important places for housing are gated communities. The scope of this study is to examine the social and physical similarities of refugee camps and gated communities. Within this framework when we look at some definitions of the concept of gated community, we can see the imitation of refugee camp. In this study, firstly the concept of housing/dwelling and the concept of security which is the most important reason of emerging of gated communities and refugee camps will be analyzed. Then physical and social resemblances of gated communities and refugee camps will be examined. For identifying physical similarities being surrounded by wall or fence, location of the gated communities and refugee camps in the city, their outbuildings like market, pharmacy and their intensity will be analyzed. For social similarities the sense of belonging of refugees and residents and their relations with city will be examined. The results of these will be summarized and evaluated.

scholarly journals TYPES OF A HIGHER EDUCATION TEACHER’S PERSONALITY ORIENTATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC AND PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (36) ◽  
pp. 18-24
Author(s):  
A. Voznyuk ◽  
A. Dubasenyuk ◽  
V. Kopetchuk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
General Systems Theory ◽  
Professional Orientation ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Creative Productivity ◽  
General Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
High Level

The proposed article analyzes the types of personality and scientific-professional orientation of higher education institutions teachers, characterized by a high level of competence and creative productivity. The relevance of this study stems from the fact that teachers’ scientific and pedagogical activities are connected with their creative developmentandprofessionalself-improvement. Therefore, theobjectives of thearticle are tostudythepersonality and psychological characteristics of the relevant cohort of high school teachers, the leading types of personality orientationandscientificandpedagogicalactivitiesoftheseteachers. Inaddition, animportanttaskofourresearch is to analyze the relevant types in the context of systems research, which allows to deepen the understanding of this scientific problem. With the help of Yu.A. Urmantsev’s general systems theory the systematic correlation of the main categories of pedagogy in the context of the scientific orientation of the teacher is clarified. It is shown that the personality-oriented, subjective orientation of the teacher is realized in the context of the interaction of epistemological and axiological ways of mastering the world by man and humanity. Acmeological orientation is realized in the system-functional plane of interaction of epistemology and praxeology. Creative innovation orientation is realized in the focus of combination of axiological and praxeological ways of mastering the world by a man.

Information Technology and Economic Development in Developing Countries

2011 ◽  
pp. 14-30
Author(s):  
Muhammed Karatas ◽  
Selahattin Bekmez
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Technological Gap ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
High Level ◽  
Very High

Within last decades, there were very high level of increase of information technology production. This production successfully speeds up technological changes in only developed countries. Such a situation results use of existing knowledge as input in production of new knowledge in monopoly of developed countries. Developing countries are, however, still struggling with their own socio-politic and/or socio-economic problems. This process create a bigger technological gap between developed and developing countries. One of the reasons for that is lack of physical and human capital in developing countries. This is common problem in the world and necessary precautions should be taken in timely manner. This study discusses the problematic issues of information technology creation in both developed and developing countries and suggest some solutions.

scholarly journals Virtual attendance: Analysis of an audiovisual over IP system for distance learning in the Spanish Open University (UNED)

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esteban Vázquez ◽  
Javier Fombona ◽  
Alberto Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Open University ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
New Model ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The World ◽  
European Higher Education

<p>This article analyzes a system of virtual attendance, called “AVIP” (AudioVisual over Internet Protocol), at the Spanish Open University (UNED) in Spain. UNED, the largest open university in Europe, is the pioneer in distance education in Spain. It currently has more than 300,000 students, 1,300 teachers, and 6,000 tutors all over the world, besides Spain. This university is redefining, on the lines of other universities, many of its academic processes to meet the new requirements of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Since its inception, more than 30 years ago, the methodology chosen by UNED has been blended learning. Today, this university combines face-to-face tutorial sessions with new methodological proposals, mediated by ICT. Through a quantitative methodology, the perception of students and tutors of the new model of virtual tutoring, called AVIP Classrooms, was analyzed. The results show that the new model greatly improves the orientation and teaching methodology of tutors. However, it requires training and new approaches to provide a more collaborative and participatory environment for students.</p>

scholarly journals Mental health in Somalia

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 89-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca J. Syed Sheriff ◽  
Massimiliano Reggi ◽  
Abdirizak Mohamed ◽  
Farhan Haibe ◽  
Susannah Whitwell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
High Mortality ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
The World ◽  
Short And Long Term

Somalia, in the Horn of Africa, suffers violence, political instability and high mortality rates. The recent major drought in Somalia led to what was termed the worst humanitarian disaster in the world. In July 2011 it was reported that nearly 60 000 people had entered into Kenya from Somalia already that year, including 1300 new arrivals every day to the Dadaab refugee camp, described as ‘the largest, most congested and one of the most remote refugee camps in the world’ (see http://www.unhcr.org/4e204b1e9.html). The drought along with mass migration into such poor conditions are likely to have significant short- and long-term mental health consequences for the populations involved.

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