DIGITALIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION AS A NEW SOCIAL REALITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 30-44
Author(s):  
M.V. ARTAMONOVA ◽  
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S.V. RADCHENKO ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Essential Change ◽  
Network Technologies ◽  
Value Model

The article substantiates the thesis that digitalization of higher education leads to an essential change of educational paradigms, transformation of the value model of the professional community. The contradiction in the value attitudes of university staff, in particular, teachers and administrators, gives rise to many conflict situations and is the cornerstone of failure, a brake on the reform of higher education (digital mimicry). The purpose of the article is to identify the causes and consequences of institutional changes in higher education in the context of the introduction of digital technologies from the standpoint of a sociological explanatory model. The subject of the research is the processes of digitalization of higher education. As a result of theoretical and empirical studies, the authors proved that conflicts in the university community lead to the emergence of a new social reality – to the division of the academic community into rationalists and traditionalists, and the formation of a value model of professional rationality. And if network technologies do not seriously affect the everyday life of modern students and schoolchildren, for teachers they create a new, unstable socio-cultural environment that has a convergent, mixed nature of social interactions. The prestige of the teaching profession now directly depends on the ability to respond to the requests and needs of the network personality.

scholarly journals Master′s Programs: Key Issues of Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 532-540
Author(s):  
Daria Khlebovich
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Product Portfolio ◽  
Master's Program ◽  
Master's Programs ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Tactical Decisions

The article provides an overview of the Russian Master's program trends with an emphasis on the evolution of the curricula and the achievement of their new quality. Based on the secondary data analysis, the dynamics of the processes was assessed and the landscape of empirical studies of the second level of higher education was presented. A number of discussion issues related to the understanding of the present and future of Master's programs was outlined. The conclusion is made about the growth of interest in involvement in the Master`s programs. It was revealed that the development of different types and formats of curriculum with a focus on both foreign practices and Russian experience can be observed. It was proved that the most important decisions related to educational programs are focused on the formation of the Master's program product portfolio, the determination of strategic alternatives for its development, the choice of program management models and the development of external partnerships of universities to create new generation programs. It is becoming important for the academic community to find an answer to the question of new emphasis and approaches to the design of the educational process for the second level of higher education. The author comes to the conclusion that the efforts to develop Master's programs should be supported by «targeted» research, the results of which should form an information basis for making strategic and tactical decisions.

Sociological Analysis of Attitudes of Professional Growth and Career in the Context of Digital Economy and Knowledge Society

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-24
Author(s):  
O. Ya. Gelikh ◽  
A. N. Levitskaya ◽  
N. N. Pokrovskaia
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Working Age ◽  
The Media

A sociological analysis of the factors of integration of young generations into active economic life is based on a study of the values of young people in relation to employment and professional growth. The information society has two key parameters that influence the construction of the trajectory of educational, professional, labor or entrepreneurial activity — the significant role of knowledge in creating value and the digital space as a source of information and the place for individuals to fulfill themselves in society and the social and professional community. A theoretical analysis of labor socialization allows researchers to move on to the results of empirical studies carried out with the participation of authors in 2017 and 2019-2020. The data obtained are evaluative in nature and allow authors to draw conclusions about the influence of the media space on young people entering working age taking decisions on choosing a profession and a form of economic activity, planning employment and career growth.

scholarly journals Evolution of university governance in Morocco: Which impacts?

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Khalid Ayad ◽  
Khaoula Dobli Bennani ◽  
Mostafa Elhachloufi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
University Governance ◽  
General Review ◽  
Theoretical Literature ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

The concept of governance has become ubiquitous since it is recognized as an important tool for improving quality in all aspects of higher education.In Morocco, few scientific articles have dealt with the subject of university governance. Therefore, we will present a general review of the evolution of governance through laws and reforms established by Moroccan Governments from 1975 to 2019. The purpose of the study is to detect the extent of the presence of university governance principles in these reforms.This study enriches the theoretical literature on the crisis of Moroccan university and opens the way to new empirical studies to better understand the perception of university governance concept in the Moroccan context and to improve the quality of higher education and subsequently the economic development of the country.The findings of this study show an increasing evolution of the presence of university governance principles in reforms and higher education laws.

scholarly journals Organizational Change Management in Higher Education through the Lens of Executive Coaches

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 269
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Vlachopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Change ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Organizational Change Management ◽  
Executive Coaches ◽  
Leadership In Higher Education ◽  
Education Leaders ◽  
Higher Education Leaders

This study investigated perceptions of organizational change management among executive coaches working with British higher-education leaders and factors that make leaders effective when managing change. This basic qualitative research used semi-structured interviews with eight executive coaches selected through purposeful sampling. As main challenges to efficient, inclusive change management, participants mentioned leaders’ lack of a strategic vision or plan, lack of leadership and future leader development programs, and lack of clarity in decision-making. They recognized that leaders’ academic and professional profiles are positively viewed and said that, with coaching and support in leadership and strategic planning, these people can inspire the academic community and promote positive change. Additional emphasis was given to the role of coaching in the development of key soft skills (honesty, responsibility, resiliency, creativity, proactivity, and empathy, among others), which are necessary for effective change management and leadership in higher education. The paper’s implications have two aspects. First, the lessons of the actual explicit content of the coaches’ observations (challenges to efficient change management and views of leaders); second, the implications of these observations (how coaching can help and what leaders need).

Forschungsmoral in der qualitativen Sozial- und Gesundheitsforschung

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birgit Panke-Kochinke
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Moral Decision ◽  
Heuristic Model ◽  
Science And Society ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Central Elements ◽  
Training Concept

In the research process, researchers are repeatedly confronted with situations in which they have to make a moral decision about how they should deal with their research counterparts, but also with the ethical requirements of science and society. This leads to conflicts. In the analysis of qualitatively oriented empirical studies, central elements for solving these conflict situations are recorded against the background of a heuristic model of research morality. First didactically based considerations for a training concept are presented. In her research, the author herself has dealt with these questions for many years in her studies on people with dementia.

POWERPOINT IN HIGHER EDUCATION: DEVELOPMENT, TRANSFORMATION AND THE PRESENT STATE

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-103
Author(s):  
Alexander R. Polyanin ◽  
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Sergey N. Korotun ◽  
Dmitry A. Baranov ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Present State ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Technical Application ◽  
Higher Education Development ◽  
Marketing Environment ◽  
Classroom Time ◽  
Education Process

PowerPoint appeared over 35 years ago and has taken a firm place in education. The massive use of the program began in the mid-90s. The program has gone from an interesting technological novelty to an irreplaceable element of a modern lecture. Such a rapid introduction into ed-ucation took place without extensive empirical studies of a positive impact of this program, the initial scope of which was the marketing environment, on the education process. The article in-dicates that PowerPoint already in the late 1990s was subjected to certain criticism, the initial reasons for which were its technological imperfection, problems of its technical application. Over the decades, the program has undergone a number of modernizations, which, together with the development of demonstration technologies, has brought it today to a qualitatively new level. However, even today PowerPoint continues to raise questions from researchers. A sepa-rate problem was the question of the expediency of such massive use of the program, which today seeks to fill 100% of the classroom time. Most of the guides for using the program do not take into account the specifics of the use of slides and are aimed at the implementation of design rather than pedagogical tasks. The problem of stimulating audience activity at lectures using this program has not been solved yet.

THE HOUSE OF SCHOLARSHIP, THE SEEDS OF KNOWLEDGE, THE TREASURY OF SCIENCE: RHETORICAL IMAGERY AND SOCIAL METAPHORS OF 13TH AND 14TH CENTURIES WESTERN EUROPEAN ACADEMIC COMMUNITIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-34
Author(s):  
Alexandr Rusanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
Academic Communities ◽  
University Communities ◽  
The Status ◽  
Western European ◽  
Ars Dictaminis ◽  
Legal Concepts

The article scrutinizes the ideas about the academic communities typical for the Latin world of the 13th and 14th centuries. It focuses on the ‘metaphorical vocabulary’ of academic corporations that was formed at that time within the framework of the Ars Dictaminis and was widely used to substantiate the status of university communities. These metaphors significantly supplemented the vague legal concepts that described academic communities (studium/studium generale, universitas). The most widespread metaphors of higher education institutions included such images as house of scholarship, seeds of knowledge, and treasure. All of them had deep roots in the Holy Scripture, but became widespread thanks to ‘exemplary’ texts included in rhetorical manuals and summae. With their help, social reality was interpreted within the framework of rhetoric as an epistemic system, often overlapping with the spheres of law and theology. The paper considers these metaphors in the context of their distribution, within the networks of local political and cultural ties drawing on cases of two Iberian universities – those of Lisbon (founded between 1288 and 1290) and Lleida (founded in 1300).

English medium of instruction in Chinese higher education: a systematic mapping review of empirical research

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Reka R. Jablonkai ◽  
Jie Hou
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Perception ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Chinese Higher Education ◽  
Undergraduate Teaching ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Depth Analysis

Abstract In 2001, the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China issued guidelines to promote the quality of higher education and to advocate the expansion of the use of English (Ministry of Education (MoE). 2001. Guanyu jiaqiang gaodeng xuexiao benke jiaoxue gongzuo tigao jiaoxue zhiliang de ruogan yijian [Guidelines for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Teaching at Higher Education Institutions]. Available at: http://old.moe.gov.cn/publicfifiles/business/htmlfifiles/moe/moe_309/200412/4682.html). This paper reviews empirical studies in English and Chinese on EMI in Chinese higher education published from 2001 to 2019, during the last two decades since these guidelines were released. The review contributes to the field of EMI by documenting, analysing and synthesising empirical evidence and by situating EMI studies in China in the global trends of EMI research. The review aims to give an overview of studies targeted at both global and local audiences, therefore, publications in both English and Chinese were included. To select the Chinese articles the core journals indexed by CNKI were searched, and for the English articles, we used ERIC, IBSS, SCOPUS and WOS databases. After excluding theoretically oriented studies, literature reviews and commentaries, 42 articles remained. The in-depth analysis revealed that the main topics of these studies included the student perception, implementation and educational practices, and the role of language. We conclude that in general there are insufficient empirical studies, especially about EMI teachers’ perspectives to inform policies and practices at the micro, meso and macro level. Based on the findings, directions for further research are identified and recommendations for methodological approaches for future studies are also made.

scholarly journals Forgery Protection of Academic Certificates through Integrity Preservation at Scale using Ethereum Smart Contract

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 673-688
Author(s):  
Auqib Hamid Lone ◽  
Roohie Naaz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Regulatory Body ◽  
Signature Scheme ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
Smart Contract ◽  
Reliable Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Multi Level

Academic credentials are precious assets as they form an evidence for one’s identity and eligibility. Fraud inissuance and verification of academic certificates have been a long-standing issue in academic community. Due to lack of antiforgery mechanisms there has been substantial increase in fraudulent certificates. The need of the hour is to have a transparent and reliable model for issuing and verifying academic certificates to eliminate fraud in the process. Decentralized, Auditable and Tamper-proof properties of Blockchain makes it possibly the best choice for issuing and verifying academic certificates. In this paper we propose a model, where regulatory body authorizes higher education Institutes (universities and colleges) for issuing academic certificates to students in a decentralized way. Anyone in the world can verify the authenticity of the certificate by triggering appropriate smart contract functions, thus eliminating any possibility of fraud in the process. In addition we used multi signature scheme where certificates are required to be signed by designated authority from Higher Education Institutes, thus allowing for multi-level checks on certificate contents before being successfully deployed on Blockchain. We have also provide Proof of Concept in Ethereum Blockchain and evaluated its performance in terms of cost, security and scalability.

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