scholarly journals Metastable Coordination Dynamics of Collaborative Creativity in Educational Settings

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2696
Author(s):  
Carlota Torrents ◽  
Natàlia Balagué ◽  
Robert Hristovski ◽  
Maricarmen Almarcha ◽  
J. A. Scott Kelso
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Coordination Dynamics ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Collaborative Creativity ◽  
Competitive Environments ◽  
Fostering Creativity ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Design Of Learning Environments

Educational systems consider fostering creativity and cooperation as two essential aims to nurture future sustainable citizens. The cooperative learning approach proposes different pedagogical strategies for developing creativity in students. In this paper, we conceptualize collaborative creativity under the framework of coordination dynamics and, specifically, we base it on the formation of spontaneous multiscale synergies emerging in complex living systems when interacting with cooperative/competitive environments. This conception of educational agents (students, teachers, institutions) changes the understanding of the teaching/learning process and the traditional roles assigned to each agent. Under such an understanding, the design and co-design of challenging and meaningful learning environments is a key aspect to promote the spontaneous emergence of multiscale functional synergies and teams (of students, students and teachers, teachers, institutions, etc.). According to coordination dynamics, cooperative and competitive processes (within and between systems and their environments) are seen not as opposites but as complementary pairs, needed to develop collaborative creativity and increase the functional diversity potential of teams. Adequate manipulation of environmental and personal constraints, nested in different level and time scales, and the knowledge of their critical (tipping) points are key aspects for an adequate design of learning environments to develop synergistic creativity.

scholarly journals Technology-enhanced assessment visualization for smart learning environments

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiran Ferreira ◽  
Guilherme P. de Oliveira ◽  
Rafael Araújo ◽  
Fabiano Dorça ◽  
Renan Cattelan
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Smart Learning Environment ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Smart Learning ◽  
Smart Learning Environments ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Student Models ◽  
Level Of Knowledge

AbstractIn Smart Learning Environments, students need to be aware of their academic performance so they can self-regulate their learning process. Likewise, the teaching process can also be improved if instructors are able to supervise the progress of students, both individually and globally, and anticipate proper pedagogical strategies. Thus, effective Student Models, capable of identifying and predicting the level of knowledge of students, are a key requirement in modern educational systems. In this article, we revisit OSM-V, an Open Student Model with Information Visualization capabilities that allow students and instructors to assess performance-related information in educational systems. We detail its architecture and how it was integrated into Classroom eXperience, a Smart Learning Environment with multimedia capture capabilities. We also present extended results from experiments that evaluate both the perception of utility and behavioral changes in students who used OSM-V, showing that it can positively impact students’ learning and positively influence their study habits.

scholarly journals Perceptions about Teaching in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience of Secondary Education in Chile

2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 457-467
Author(s):  
Alejandro Almonacid-Fierro ◽  
Andrew Philominraj ◽  
Rodrigo Vargas-Vitoria ◽  
Manuel Almonacid-
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
School Students ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Sudden Appearance ◽  
Learning At Home ◽  
Teaching Learning

<p style="text-align: justify;">The following article is a qualitative study that analyses the perception of parents and high school students regarding teaching in times of Coronavirus disease COVID-19, with the idea of recognizing the facilitators and barriers for the teaching-learning process in the pandemic. The above, in the understanding that due to the sudden appearance of SARS-CoV-2, educational systems around the world had to adapt to virtual teaching, as a result of the confinement to which the population has been subjected during the year 2020 and a good part of the year 2021. The research is based on the interpretative-comprehensive paradigm, with a qualitative methodology, which considered the realization of four focus groups with students and four focus groups with secondary school parents, from two public high schools located in the province of Talca, Maule region, Chile. The findings of the study are related to the adverse effects of the pandemic on student learning, as a result of connectivity difficulties, and the emotional impact on the quality of life of young people and their families. On the other hand, learning at home is related to limited pedagogical strategies and evaluative aspects that do not allow verifying the real learning of the students.</p>

Immersive Learning Environments at Scale: Constraints and Opportunities

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 1165-1169
Author(s):  
Robert F. Siegle ◽  
Rod D. Roscoe ◽  
Noah L. Schroeder ◽  
Scotty D. Craig
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Traditional Classroom ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Virtual Reality Technology ◽  
Immersive Learning ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Theoretical Paper

The expansion of online education into massive open online courses (MOOCs) and equipment have created a unique opportunity for delivering immersive learning experiences at scale. However, although the inclusivity of the MOOC ecosystem can be commended, many online courses lack key benefits associated with traditional classroom environments: immersive, engaging, and team-driven learning opportunities. Immersive learning environments (ILEs) address these educational gaps but has not been able to operate at the broad scale that MOOCs offer. Importantly, ILEs address opportunities missing from MOOC systems, they add unique learning opportunities that would also be missing in a traditional classroom. The inclusion of this virtual reality technology is pivotal topic for educational research. This theoretical paper will briefly define immersive learning environments and the potential benefits of incorporating immersive learning environments into scalable educational systems. We will also consider developers constraints on creating these online ecosystem and suggested strategies for overcoming them.

scholarly journals Data-Texts in the Sciences

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Duschl ◽  
Lucy Avraamidou ◽  
Nathália Helena Azevedo
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Data Transformation ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
Construction Of Knowledge ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Current Reform ◽  
Design Of Learning Environments ◽  
Collective Construction

AbstractGrounded within current reform recommendations and built upon Giere’s views (1986, 1999) on model-based science, we propose an alternative approach to science education which we refer to as the Evidence-Explanation (EE) Continuum. The approach addresses conceptual, epistemological, and social domains of knowledge, and places emphasis on the epistemological conversations about data acquisitions and transformations in the sciences. The steps of data transformation, which we refer to as data-texts, we argue, unfold the processes of using evidence during knowledge building and reveal the dynamics of scientific practices. Data-texts involve (a) obtaining observations/measurements to become data; (b) selecting and interpreting data to become evidence; (c) using evidence to ascertain patterns and develop models; and (d) utilizing the patterns and models to propose and refine explanations. Throughout the transformations of the EE continuum, there are stages of transition that foster the engagement of learners in negotiations of meaning and collective construction of knowledge. A focus on the EE continuum facilitates the emergence of further insights, both by questioning the nature of the data and its multiple possibilities for change and representations and by reflecting on the nature of the explanations. The shift of emphasis to the epistemics of science holds implications for the design of learning environments that support learners in developing contemporary understandings of the nature and processes of scientific practices.

scholarly journals Analysis of Brazilian publications on distance education in nursing: integrative review

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 214-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Cardoso Tavares ◽  
Bruna Silva Leite ◽  
Isabelle Andrade Silveira ◽  
Thayane Dias dos Santos ◽  
Willian de Andrade Pereira de Brito ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Virtual Learning Environments ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Teaching Learning

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the publications that focus on distance education in nursing in Brazil from 2010 to 2016. Method: Integrative review of the literature with data collection in June 2016 in the following databases: LILACS, MEDLINE via PUBMED, CINAHL and SCOPUS. For the data analysis and interpretation, the thematic categorization was chosen. Results: We selected 18 articles for discussion, whose textual analysis permitted the construction of three thematic categories: use of virtual technologies for distance education in nursing; construction of virtual learning environments with the aid of virtual technologies for distance education in nursing; and evaluation of the learning process through virtual technologies for distance education of nurses. Conclusion: Distance Education stands out as an effective teaching-learning strategy in this type of education in Brazilian nursing, focused mainly on the improvement and complement of traditional teaching.

scholarly journals Universidad en tiempos de Covid-19: tecnologías que acortan distancias

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
pp. 91-97
Author(s):  
Gloria María Pérez Montero
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Communication Course ◽  
The World ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Epidemiological Situation

The presence in the world of the pandemic known as Covid-19 has brought with it challenges and challenges in all areas, but especially in the educational context. The University of Granma responds to the intention of promoting the use of technologies in the improvement of Higher Education and in current times has had to enhance this aspect due to the need for social distancing. This work presents some of the alternatives that have been adopted in the House of Higher Studies and how young people have assimilated them, based on the experiences obtained in the teaching of the Communication course, which belongs to the Sociocultural Management for Development career from the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences. The epidemiological situation has not prevented the training of comprehensive and competent professionals, on the contrary, it has enabled students to achieve self-management of knowledge and meaningful learning, using virtual teaching- learning environments.

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