scholarly journals Conflict Resolution Through Effective Communication

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-24
Author(s):  
Binod Prasad Bista
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
English Language ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Warning System ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Economic Competition ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Views And Perceptions

Freedom of expression has surfaced in large parts of the world, particularly the newly independent nations and the countries that remained in isolation, along with the spread of democracies in those countries. With the rise of free expression of views often contesting with one another, conflicts of different kinds that were under suppression earlier, also emerged. Conflict in itself is considered neither good nor bad but it is judged by its outcome. Study of conflict, specifically the causes behind it relating to power struggle, economic competition, is important for achieving peace. One of the important tools for resolving conflicts is effective communication. Despite the stupendous advancement of information and communication technologies (ICTs), existence of digital divide has presented serious constraints in the application of available technologies. Potential of ICTs in conflict resolution is being increasingly recognized as it assists in promoting peace, preventing conflict through the use of early warning system. While the mobile technology generated SMS is credited for success of 'Arab Spring', considered as a non-violent method for regime change, there are also problems associated with it in fueling conflicts. It is, thus, necessary for communication, particularly media, to become transparent, reliable and ethical. Use of English language in doing business today cannot be overemphasized. Sometimes it requires more than language to resolve conflicts arising out of national interest related issues of the countries concerned. Sustainable peace demands intervention of a non-violent nature with consideration given to social justice and human rights. Effective communication in not merely an act of entering into dialogue and relaying views and perceptions to conflicting parties but also securing their trust and confidence in order to arrive at a mutually agreeable agreement for securing peace.

Lecturers’ Role in Design and Implementation of E-Learning Processes

2020 ◽  
pp. 287-298
Author(s):  
Mārtiņš Spridzāns
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The State ◽  
Ict In Education ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
E Learning

The potential of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is playing increasing role in various pedagogical contexts. The necessity to integrate technologies in learning enhances educators’ digital competences is constantly highlighted in education policy documents European Union and national strategic documents and recommendations. Following the advance of digital technologies, the State Border Guard College of Latvia is constantly looking after innovations in ICT and education contexts. Since 2011 Specialized English language e-learning course for border guards is being implemented, other professional e-learning courses are being systematically introduced, currently 8 specialised qualification courses are available, on average 300 border guards graduate e-learning courses annually. Having in mind the continuous advancement of ICT in education contexts as well as the strategic approach of the State Border Guard College to continue the development of e-learning systems author of this article intends to describe the system of e-learning used in border guards’ training, explore and summarize the theory and best practices on using ICT in pedagogical context, educators’ roles in development and implementation of e-learning courses.

ICT Policies Favouring Human Rights

2014 ◽  
pp. 21-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf H. Weber
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Right To Development ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict Infrastructure

The tremendous developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) over the last 20 years have substantially changed communication practices across the world. The Internet and mobile phones help to open new horizons for connections between people, leading to a global network for the sharing of information and ideas. In this new environment, human rights need to have a place, and traditional notions related to mass media need to be adapted to the needs of civil society. Freedom of expression has become much more individualistic, with information exchanges no longer relying on the traditional intermediaries (mass media) but on the exchange of ideas on social networking and other platforms. Civil society participation in the information world requires the necessary infrastructure however. And since states have an obligation to see to it that human rights are realized in practice, this may mean the facilitation of private investments to improve the ICT infrastructure. In this context, ICT policies favoring human rights must encompass a right to development.

Application of Advanced Information and Communication Technologies in a Local Flood Warning System

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 1516-1535
Author(s):  
Ivan Mrnčo ◽  
Peter Blštak ◽  
Peter Hudec ◽  
Matej Kochan ◽  
Tomáš Gibala ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Warning System ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Flood Warning ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Flood Warning System

scholarly journals Teacher Candidates’ Views about the Effects of Information and Communication Technologies on Human Rights and Freedoms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazike Karagözoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Information And Communication

The recent rapid developments in technology have caused great changes in all areas of human life. This study aimed to determine the views of teacher candidates on the rights and freedoms affected by information and communication technologies (e.g., telephone, computer, and internet). The study was carried out in the spring term of the 2020-2021 academic year, and the sample consisted of 100 volunteer teacher candidates studying the "Human Rights and Democracy Course" at the Faculty of Education of Yozgat Bozok University. The data of this qualitative research were collected through teacher candidates’ compositions and were analyzed using content analysis. According to the results of the research, the rights and freedoms that are thought to be positively affected by the use of information and communication technologies are as follows: freedom to obtain and disseminate information, freedom of communication, right and duty of education, right to congregate / right of organization, right to legal remedies, freedom of expression and dissemination of thought, and right to enter public services. The negatively affected rights and freedoms are determined as privacy of private life, right to request the protection of his/her personal data, personal liberty and security, freedom of information and dissemination, and right to health. To minimize the negative impact of information and communication technologies on rights and freedoms, teacher candidates expressed some suggestions such as information and communication technologies education, human rights education, sanction/punishment, personal security measures, and increasing supervision.

scholarly journals Technological innovations in teaching foreign languages – from connectivism to hyperconnectivity

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-22
Author(s):  
Karina Alekseevna Melezhik ◽  
Aleksandr Dem'yanovich Petrenko ◽  
Danuta Mikhailovna Khrabskova
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
English Language ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Information And Communication

The subject of this research is the influencing factors of information and communication technologies upon the theory and practice of teaching English language in the institutional and noninstitutional environments. The object of this research is the analysis of structure and content of Android and iPhone applications. Special attention is given to the development of mobile services as a prevalent model of using information and communication technologies, which open the possibility for individualized range of hyperconnectivity regulated by resource of a personal phone. The authors examine distance learning, which allows implementing innovations and creativity, employs new technologies, performs social task on expansion of technologically uniform educational space. The main conclusions are as follows: 1) of e-learning pedagogy requires the results of pedagogical practice in both, institutional and noninstitutional programs and courses; 2) the modern online learning of English language features new methods of implementation of hyperconnectivity in the Internet on the basis of technological and pedagogical innovations, active interactions and common culture. The scientific novelty consists in the statement that the use of distance learning is especially relevant on the current stage of modernization of education system, as it incorporates innovation technologies of teacher-student interaction. The current situation is characterized by the long-term trends associated with globalization socioeconomic relations, as well as by COVID-19 pandemic that requires taking immediate and radical measures in order to ensure protection of educational community from possible disastrous consequences in record time. The primary task of the authors consists in the analysis of relevant aspects of using information and communication technologies of teaching foreign languages, namely mobile applications, as well as in substantiation of the thesis on transition from collective connectivism towards individual hyperconnectivity in the educational process.

ICT Policies Favouring Human Rights

2015 ◽  
pp. 35-49
Author(s):  
Rolf H. Weber
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Right To Development ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict Infrastructure

The tremendous developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) over the last 20 years have substantially changed communication practices across the world. The Internet and mobile phones help to open new horizons for connections between people, leading to a global network for the sharing of information and ideas. In this new environment, human rights need to have a place, and traditional notions related to mass media need to be adapted to the needs of civil society. Freedom of expression has become much more individualistic, with information exchanges no longer relying on the traditional intermediaries (mass media) but on the exchange of ideas on social networking and other platforms. Civil society participation in the information world requires the necessary infrastructure however. And since states have an obligation to see to it that human rights are realized in practice, this may mean the facilitation of private investments to improve the ICT infrastructure. In this context, ICT policies favoring human rights must encompass a right to development.

scholarly journals Newwave in English Language Teaching

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 426-430
Author(s):  
K. Ergashev
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Personal Skills ◽  
Educational Field

In recent years, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have been gaining ground in the educational field. Their use in the class of English as a foreign language presents great advantages, not only in terms of linguistic learning — as numerous studies have clearly demonstrated — but also as regards personal skills — since students experience the learning of English from new and novel perspectives. This article offers an analysis of some of the most innovative methodologies nowadays making use of ICTs for the teaching of English.

scholarly journals СИНТЕТИЧНЕ НАВЧАЛЬНЕ СЕРЕДОВИЩЕ – КРОК ДО НОВОЇ ОСВІТИ

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Olga P. Pinchuk ◽  
Svitlana G. Lytvynova ◽  
Oleksandr Yu. Burov
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Artificial Environment ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Individual

The article studies the problems of introducing a synthetic learning environment in the practice of education. The modern views on the essence of the learning environment and its new forms based on information and communication technologies are analyzed. Particular attention is paid to a range of issues that are united in the English-language publications as a "synthetic environment", which is considered in two aspects – artificial environment and synthetic as is formed due to the synthesis of the real physical world and the results of simulation and modeling. There are considered issues of trends in usage of game-based learning and modeling as cognitive technologies, as well as of social networks as a synthetic environment of social development. Conclusions are drawn: synthetic learning environment becomes an independent subject of learning through the expansion of its content and didactic power, transformation of the individual as a recipient of knowledge into the synthesizing element of the educational process in the metaverse.

scholarly journals European Experience of the Use of Information and Communication Technologies In Initial Education of the English Language Teachers

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleh Komar
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
Online Technologies ◽  
European Experience ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
English Language Teachers

The article deals with the analysis of the peculiarities of the use of information and communication technologies in the process of initial education of future English language teachers in the countries of the European Union. The topicality of the problem is based on the current trends in the development of education, in the particular extensive use of online technologies and tools in the process of English language learning and English language teacher education.The purpose of the article is to study the European experience of the use of information and communication technologies in the initial education of the English language teachers and single out the most important and topical of them in order to outline the possibilities of their use in the initial education of teachers of English in a broader context.The methodology of the research is realized with the use of such methods as analysis, synthesis, generalization, analogy and interpretation of empirical data and theoretical concepts; observation and study of practical experience of higher educational institutions in Poland and Portugal as well as an interview with teachers and students of the above-mentioned institutions.As a result, the importance of the development of information and technological competencies in future teachers of English is grounded, the role of information and communication technologies in initial teacher education is determined. Various information and communication technologies used in the educational process, in particular offline technologies and tools as well as online technologies and resources, are presented and analyzed. Attention is also given to the use of E-learning and the implementation of massive open online courses into the initial teacher education of the English language teachers.The conclusion about the variability of information and communication technologies is made.

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