scholarly journals Open Badges in Education and Training in Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferencz Tátrai ◽  
Kriszta Mihályi
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Adult Learning ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Education System ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Know How ◽  
Formal And Informal Learning ◽  
And Training

The article gives an overview of open badges, a type of micro-credentials spreading lately in Europe applied to recognize non-formal and informal learning actions and outcomes. Open badges are viewed by many experts as the greatest potential for a reliable presentation of skills gained outside the formal education system, in many cases in adult learning. Specifically, open badges very often record and prove the acquisition of so called 21st century skills (i.e. communication, creativity, cooperation and critical thinking) considered by a large majority of the employers as a significant aspect of selection.What exactly digital open badges are? How, by whom and to whom are they awarded? How is the validity of information and the quality of content represented by the badges assured? To what extent are the employers aware of the value of open badges, and how much individuals know how they can capitalize on the collection of their badges?The article attempts to offer some views on the above questions by structuring the relevant findings and outcomes of the Open Badge Network and the ReOpen projects.

America's economic competitiveness

1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 195-200
Author(s):  
Lawrence P. Grayson
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Education System ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
Economic Competitiveness ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
And Training

If the USA is to retain its preeminent economic position in the world it must improve the quality of its education and training. This article discusses the contribution of education to a nation's well-being, examines the current education system in the USA and analyses education and training needs for the 21st century.

scholarly journals Affective Characteristics for 21st Century Learning Environments: Do They Matter?

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
Su Luan Wong
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Education System ◽  
Student Behavior ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
21St Century Learning ◽  
First Century ◽  
Affective Characteristics

<p class="0abstract">Twenty-first century learners are media-centric and heavily reliant on technology. Internet-accessible resources are always at the students’ finger-tips and they learn through such resources anywhere, anytime. Unfortunately, formal education in most part of Asia remains largely examination focused given the immense pressure to obtain paper qualifications. Our challenge today is how do we make students learn on their own volition? How do we then sustain learning when the education system is still very much examination-centric? Success in learning is not always dependent on the ways students are taught in the classroom or the tools they use to learn but can be very much affected by the learners’ affective characteristics. This paper highlights two selected affective characteristics — attitudes and interest, as previous and current literature continue to suggest their positive impact on student behavior including learning.</p>

How to become a beekeeper: learning and skill in managing honeybees

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Caroline Adams
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Informal Learning Environments ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Formal And Informal Learning

Beekeeping is a highly skilled form of animal husbandry that dates back to centuries. It has become a popular hobby in the United Kingdom, but as an activity has rarely featured in geographical research. In this article, I present beekeeping as an interesting site of study for cultural geographers interested in enskilment processes, education and expertise. This article draws on in-depth ethnographic research with a community of hobby beekeepers in Lancashire, United Kingdom, to give a detailed analysis of the enskilment process of novice beekeepers, how this process is being shaped and influenced by a trend towards increasingly formal education tools within the community, and what this means for those interested in the power of skilled practice and expertise. In doing so, it explores issues around formal and informal learning environments, the role of social context in shaping learning, the power of government advice, and it illustrates the complexity introduced by close engagement with an insect.

scholarly journals Developing students’ practical competence in teaching natural science for 8th graders using STEM education orientation

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 33-42
Author(s):  
Hoang Huy Le ◽  
Giang Truong Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
General Education ◽  
Stem Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
8Th Graders ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
And Training

STEM education is a direction chosen by the Ministry of Education and Training in recent years to train learners with the necessary skills of the 21st century, which helps learners meet the increasing demand for human resources. In the 4.0 era, the problem of developing students’ abilities is an urgent matter. The competencies that students need to develop include general and specialized competencies. In the specialized competencies, the capacity to practice has a particularly important role. Developing the capacity to practise natural sciences of 8th graders is an urgent issue to improve the quality of current education in Vietnam to meet the reform’s requirements of the general education program.

scholarly journals Utilization Of Frozen Goat Semen With Addition Sweet Orange Essential Oil To Improve Genetic Quality in Ujung Teran Village

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-174
Author(s):  
Sukma Aditya Sitepu ◽  
Julia Marisa
Keyword(s):  
Essential Oil ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Artificial Insemination ◽  
Sweet Orange ◽  
Genetic Quality ◽  
Know How ◽  
Frozen Semen ◽  
And Training ◽  
Orange Essential Oil

One of the causes of underdeveloped goats is low genetic quality. The way that can be done to improve the genetic quality of goats is to do cross-breeding with superior goats through Artificial Insemination. The community service aims to increase the knowledge of goat farmers in Ujung Teran Village, Langkat Regency on how to make goat frozen semen using tris yolk extender plus sweet orange essential oil for Artificial Insemination program along with the benefits that can be obtained. The method of service is by giving lectures and training to goat farmers. The results obtained from the implementation of this program are that farmers know how to make frozen semen of goat using sweet orange essential oil on the tris yolk extender and are willing to make Artificial Insemination in their goat cattle.

scholarly journals Sistem Pendidikan Pesantren Salafiyah Syafi’iyah Sorong

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Agus Yudiawan
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Social Program ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
General Science ◽  
Traditional System ◽  
Inhibiting Factor ◽  
The Social

Salafiyah Syafi'iyah Islamic Boarding School is a combination of Religion and general science. This Islamic boarding school still maintains its traditional system by using the method of sorogan and wetonan in carrying out the process of its education system especially in the study of classical books while the quality of education in the Salafiyah Syafi'iyah Islamic Boarding School is quite good. Educational programs in the Salafiyah Syafi'iyah Islamic Boarding School, namely formal education programs including Madrasah Ibtidaiyah (MI) and Madrasah Tsanawiyah (MTs), non-formal education in the form of diniyah education for 6 years for SD/MI graduates and 3-year program for graduates MTs. The social program includes preaching and social activities of students. One of the factors supporting the implementation of the education system in the Salafiyah Syafi'iyah Islamic Boarding School which is urgent and important is the building. From year to year, Salafiyah Syafi'iyah Islamic Boarding School experienced a development starting with buying land or land until now it has become a building that can be occupied and to study Islam. The inhibiting factor in the implementation of the Salafiyah Syafi'iyah Islamic Boarding School is the most urgent matter in terms of dormitory because, with the increasing number of students, a large place for students to live or live is needed.

scholarly journals TRANSFORMATION NEEDS IN AYURVEDA EDUCATION: WHERE & HOW

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 4761-4765
Author(s):  
Nitesh Gupta ◽  
Rashmi Tiwari
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Pharmaceutical Chemistry ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Important Concern ◽  
Technological Tools ◽  
Institu Tions ◽  
And Training ◽  
Scientific Framework

The students with different backgrounds having habituated to different type of teaching methods and ter-minologies are joining Ayurveda education and there is big mismatch between their expectation, perception and actual teaching and training. Teaching and learning process in Ayurveda colleges has not much changed in spite of availability of technological tools. There will be need of dynamic continuum between research, education and practice. Better teaching techniques and modernization of Ayurveda education will improve the clinical and academic output, which in turn make them able to be presentable for ayurvedic principles. So, in order to convert Ayurveda to global level from the traditional way, it is necessary to adopt the latest technological tools and scientific framework in Ayurveda education. There will be urgent need to update and modernize the education system of Ayurveda and make the curriculum which is student centric and teacher should be facilitator. A multi-disciplinary approach in education system will be better for Indi-an system of medicine where some teachers from pharmaceutical chemistry, analytical chemistry, botany, phyto chemistry etc. will be appointed in institutions to provide the required trainings. Quality of institu-tions are very important concern in Ayurveda education sector. Quality of teachers also play very im-portant role in providing quality education to students because only through good education a relatively permanent change in personality of individuals is achieved in cognitive, psychomotor and affective do-mains. There is need to involve many other modern research methods in Ayurveda such as PIP and EIS. Medical informatics, Cyber medicine, Computerized Ayurveda studies will be brought revolutionary changes in the background of Ayurveda professionals.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial Learning in Higher Education: Perceptions, Realities and Collaborative Work from the Stakeholder Point of View

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 255
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Marques ◽  
Ana Isabel Couto ◽  
Paula Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Entrepreneurial Learning ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Formal And Informal Learning

In recent years, Portuguese universities have diversified their strategies for the promotion of entrepreneurial education among (under/post) graduates, both through formal education and non- formal and informal activities. Indeed, Higher Education Institutions can provide entrepreneurial learning opportunities for students, stimulating new attitudes and behaviours towards entrepreneurship. In terms of non-formal and informal learning, various types of activity are of particular significance, and include entrepreneurship promotion and skills-based training, as well as monitoring of the development of ideas and projects. These activities are undertaken by various higher education stakeholders and key-actors, who contribute to the construction of an entrepreneurial ecosystem, and increase entrepreneurial spirit in (under/post) graduates. The research reported here is based on the main findings gathered from the ongoing project "Entrepreneurial Learning, Cooperation and the Labour Market: Good Practices in Higher Education (POAT-FSE)", focusing particularly on the results of a survey questionnaire completed by a diverse sample of entities linked to Portuguese public Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and working to promote non-formal and informal entrepreneurial activities, as well as a set of case studies carried out regarding examples of best practice in Portuguese Higher Education. In doing so, this paper aims to highlight the importance of non-formal and informal learning, and to contribute to reflection on the added value of inter-organizational cooperation and collaborative work.

scholarly journals Faktor-Faktor yang mempengaruhi Petani dalam Penggunaan Benih Berlabel Bahasa Asing (BBBA)

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Bekti Wahyu Utami ◽  
Suminah Suminah
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Linear Regression ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
External Factor ◽  
Free Variable ◽  
Related Factor ◽  
Internal Factor ◽  
Random Data ◽  
Know How

<p>To increase product need the existence of preeminent seed, because seed represent one of the crop conducting medium having role which very determine in the effort increase product and quality of crop conducting result. Seed claimed to be gilt edged where usage of seed with quality for supported by technological medium going forward other will be able to yield maximal productive crop. The farmers often loss their energy and also time in usage of seed which its unfavorable quality.</p><p>The aimed of this research is to know how accurate factors such as wide of farm, education, seed price, and manure to influence farmer using BBBA (seed in foreign language’s label) at Sukoharjo District. Framework idea in this research is at taking an action, to buy and also use something, farmer will influence by immeasurable of factor, internal and external factor. Internal factor is direct related factor in accurate matter, and external factor related to BBBA consumer. In this research which the included in internal factor is BBBA it self price and usage of manure, while external factor of wide of farm mastered by farmers cultivated melon, formal education and of them.</p><p>Sample area was selected by purposive pursuant to usage of farm many by farmer for the conducting of melon. Sample taken by counted 60 person who is taken at random. Data analysis is doubled linear regression.</p><p>Result of regresi analysis mention that at confidence level 95% passing Test F obtained that accurate variable-variable by together mount usage of BBBA, where R<sup>2</sup> value equal to 0,601 meaning that variation of usage BBBA influenced by free variable in model equal to 60,1%. And through Test T variable having an effect on wide of farm, Manure anad education with biggest influence sequence is usage of manure, later than education and wide of farm. While BBBA itself price in the reality do not influence farmer in using the BBBA product.</p>

Practice of Concrete Production in Gaindakot Municipality, Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 05 (1&2) ◽  
pp. 8-16
Author(s):  
Anjay Kumar Mishra ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Concrete Production ◽  
Local Municipality ◽  
Intensive Observation ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
And Training ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Concrete is one of the most used construction materials. Quality of concrete depends upon its ingredients and workmanship. The paper aims to assess the practice of concrete production and knowledge among practitioners regarding concreting at Gaidakot municipality which relies on manual concrete production. Only 30 under-construction houses in 10 wards of the Municipality were selected purposively for observation of concrete practice as field-based empirical research. A structured questionnaire was surveyed as scheduled with 30 practitioners (10 mixer operator, 10 ingredients pourer and 10 vibrator operator) and intensive observation by the researcher were recorded to analyze the practice for concrete production. It was found none of the respondents was aware of concreting code of NBC. They had not attended any training to practice NBC of Nepal. Similarly, the majority of practitioners learned about the method of concreting through experience or coworkers by observing at sites during work. However, 77% of them responded that the process of concreting was good. Similarly, there were a lot of problems in workmanship. Quality in ingredients was not taken in due consideration and dosage of ingredients varies from batch to batch and placement was done in segment wise for slab and beam. Compaction as well as curing was inadequate. Lack of formal education, inadequate guidance and training, proper skill and knowledge about NBC of Nepal among the workers involved directly in concrete production was making concrete production inconsistent and uncontrolled. The study will be significant for quality resident building construction by ensuring the effective implementation of building code, which is the minimum standard, the skill-oriented training and continuous supervision from the concerned local municipality.

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