The First EdTech Winter School: Methodological Contributions  for Digital Inclusion with Ascending Pedagogical Sense

This review presents the First EdTech Winter School: “Emerging trends and new horizons in the study of education and technology”, organized by Fundación Ceibal in 2017, and its contributions to the conceptualization of teacher training in Argentina and Uruguay. In this three-dimensional approach, the characteristics of teacher education in these countries are first described. Next, the provocation methodology, presented at the event by one of the invited researchers, is discussed and explained in detail. Finally, the possibilities and challenges that this methodology offers for the regional projects of educational technology inclusion are outlined.

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Assessing the emotional impact of virtual reality-based teacher training

International Journal of Information and Learning Technology ◽

10.1108/ijilt-11-2018-0127 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 36 (3) ◽

pp. 192-217 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Kalliopi Evangelia Stavroulia ◽

Maria Christofi ◽

Evangelia Baka ◽

Despina Michael-Grigoriou ◽

Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann ◽

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Keyword(s):

Teacher Education ◽

Virtual Reality ◽

Teacher Training ◽

School Environment ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

Real Life ◽

Mood States ◽

Stressful Situation ◽

Content Type ◽

The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose the use of a virtual reality (VR)-based approach to improve teacher education and life-long professional development. Through constant training in real-life based situations but within a safe three-dimensional virtual school environment, teachers are given the opportunity to experience and learn how to react to different types of incidents that may take place in a school environment. Design/methodology/approach The current paper presents the design cycle that was followed for the implementation of the VR teacher training system. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated with a case study that aimed to promote teachers’ understanding of student’s problematic situations related to substance use. As part of the experimental investigation, the impact of the VR system on participants’ emotions and mood states is evaluated through Electroencephalogram (EEG) measurements, heart rate (HR) recordings and self-reported data. Findings Results indicate significant changes to participant’s negative emotional and mood states, suggesting that the scenario and the VR experience had a strong impact on them. Moreover, participants’ HR was increased during the experiment, while the analysis of the EEG signal indicated that the participants experienced a stressful situation that could justify the change in their negative emotions and mood states. Originality/value The proposed VR-based approach aims to provide an innovative framework to teacher education and the related training methodology. In the long-term, the proposed VR system aims to form a new paradigm of teacher training, an alternative safe method that will allow user-teachers to learn through trial and error techniques that reflect real-life situations within a three-dimensional school space and without the risk of harming real students. To the best of our knowledge this is one of the first systematic attempts to use a VR-based methodology to address real teachers’ needs. The development of the VR application is linked to both strong theoretical foundations in education derived from the literature but also from real teachers’ problems and requirements derived from an extensive literature analysis, survey and interviews with experts including teachers, school counselors and psychologists. The VR tool addresses specific teachers’ competences as outcome, after an extensive documentation of existing Teachers’ Competence Models and significant guidance by experts who pointed specific competencies of primary importance to teachers.

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Shifting perspectives: method, media and the complex image

History and Computing ◽

10.3366/hac.1998.10.1-3.100 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 10 (1-3) ◽

pp. 100-108 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alicia Colson ◽

Ross Parry

Keyword(s):

Image Processing ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

Geographical Location ◽

Spatial Relationship ◽

Two Dimensional ◽

Dimensional Approach ◽

Complex Image ◽

Cultural Resonance

This article argues that the analysis of a threedimensional image demanded a three-dimensional approach. The authors realise that discussions of images and image processing inveterately conceptualise representation as being flat, static, and finite. The authors recognise the need for a fresh acuteness to three-dimensionality as a meaningful – although problematic – element of visual sources. Two dramatically different examples are used to expose the shortcomings of an ingrained two-dimensional approach and to facilitate a demonstration of how modern (digital) techniques could sanction new historical/anthropological perspectives on subjects that have become all too familiar. Each example could not be more different in their temporal and geographical location, their cultural resonance, and their historiography. However, in both these visual spectacles meaning is polysemic. It is dependent upon the viewer's spatial relationship to the artifice as well as the spirito-intellectual viewer within the community. The authors postulate that the multi- faceted and multi-layered arrangement of meaning in a complex image could be assessed by working beyond the limitations of the two-dimensional methodological paradigm and by using methods and media that accommodated this type of interconnectivity and representation.

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Changes in the Teacher Training and Qualification in Bulgaria

Педагогически форум ◽

10.15547/pf.2019.016 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 3-23

Author(s):

Viara Gyurova

Keyword(s):

Teacher Education ◽

Teacher Training ◽

20Th Century ◽

Future Development ◽

Training System ◽

Development System ◽

The Past ◽

Teacher Qualification

Since the beginning of the last decade of the past 20th century, Bulgaria has entered a new, complex stage of its development, with many reforms. Education and teacher training reforms are influenced by the global and European trends, as well as by the national changes (political, economical, social, and technological). The author analyses the main characteristics of the changed teacher training system and teacher qualification and development system. Some of the challenges and directions of the transformation and future development of the teacher education and qualification in Bulgaria are discussed.

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About Innovative Content of Subject-Oriented Pedagogical Education

Высшее образование в России ◽

10.31992/0869-3617-2019-28-10-106-117 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 28 (10) ◽

pp. 106-117

Author(s):

R. M. Asadullin

Keyword(s):

Teacher Education ◽

Teacher Training ◽

Educational Process ◽

Professional Activity ◽

Subject Knowledge ◽

Technological Structure ◽

State Pedagogical ◽

High Level ◽

Competencies Development

The continuous modernization of the education system makes the problems of the quality of teacher training increasingly relevant. Moreover, the measures taken to improve the system of teacher education are largely confined to the introduction of new organizational and managerial mechanisms and practically do not affect the internal content and technological structure of the teacher training process.Modern pedagogical universities are constantly looking for innovative models of training teachers that will be able to solve non-standard social and professional tasks. However, recent studies in this area do not fully take into account the nature of pedagogical activity and conditions of its formation. Thus, the need arises for a special study of the processes and means of updating the content and technologies of teacher training in order to control the level of students’ professional competencies development, as required by educational and professional standards. This means the creation of a special educational system in a pedagogical university, which can provide a harmonious and synchronous mastering by future specialists of both subject knowledge and methods of pedagogical activity.The article provides a theoretical study aimed at identifying key patterns of designing a new content for teacher education, the basis of which is the formation of a future teacher as a subject of his own professional activity. The author describes the experience of using a subject-oriented model of education, implemented at Bashkir State Pedagogical University n.a. M. Akmulla. The effectiveness of this model is confirmed by the high level of students’ mastery of designing methods and constructing the educational process, as well as their positive experience in the implementation of educational activities.

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Editorial

Relay Journal ◽

10.37237/relay/020201 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 251-256

Keyword(s):

Professional Development ◽

Teacher Education ◽

Action Research ◽

Teacher Training ◽

Language Learners ◽

Learner Autonomy ◽

Service Professional ◽

Research Institute

We are excited to present you Volume 2 Issue 2 of Relay Journal published by the Research Institute of Learner Autonomy Education at Kanda University (KUIS), Japan. The Relay Journal aims to foster a dialogue spanning the globe discussing topics related to learner autonomy. This issue of Relay Journal is dedicated to teacher and advisor education for learner autonomy. The topic is particularly important, since –– apart from some exceptions –– autonomy is not always integrated into curricula for teacher education, and in addition, very few programmes exist for advisor education. Therefore, it is crucial to include opportunities for in-service professional development and reflection on how to foster autonomy and how to support language learners as teachers or as advisors. This can be done in the form of teacher training, mentoring and/or tutoring programmes, action-research, or reflection in- and on-practice.

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Gum Tragacanth (GT): A Versatile Biocompatible Material beyond Borders

Molecules ◽

10.3390/molecules26061510 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 26 (6) ◽

pp. 1510 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mohammad Ehsan Taghavizadeh Yazdi ◽

Simin Nazarnezhad ◽

Seyed Hadi Mousavi ◽

Mohammad Sadegh Amiri ◽

Majid Darroudi ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Tissue Engineering ◽

Food Packaging ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

Great Promise ◽

Anionic Polymer ◽

Gum Tragacanth ◽

New Horizons ◽

Tissue Healing ◽

The Stability ◽

Therapeutic Substance

The use of naturally occurring materials in biomedicine has been increasingly attracting the researchers’ interest and, in this regard, gum tragacanth (GT) is recently showing great promise as a therapeutic substance in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. As a polysaccharide, GT can be easily extracted from the stems and branches of various species of Astragalus. This anionic polymer is known to be a biodegradable, non-allergenic, non-toxic, and non-carcinogenic material. The stability against microbial, heat and acid degradation has made GT an attractive material not only in industrial settings (e.g., food packaging) but also in biomedical approaches (e.g., drug delivery). Over time, GT has been shown to be a useful reagent in the formation and stabilization of metal nanoparticles in the context of green chemistry. With the advent of tissue engineering, GT has also been utilized for the fabrication of three-dimensional (3D) scaffolds applied for both hard and soft tissue healing strategies. However, more research is needed for defining GT applicability in the future of biomedical engineering. On this object, the present review aims to provide a state-of-the-art overview of GT in biomedicine and tries to open new horizons in the field based on its inherent characteristics.

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