scholarly journals Metamorphoses Creative-Developmental Fairy Tale Therapy Against the Dangers of the Internet. A Series of Activities for Young Undergraduate Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Irén Godó
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Therapy Session ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Media ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
The University

This paper is about the practical application of Metamorphoses creative-developmental fairy tale therapy, which is presented based on a three-session Metamorphoses creative-developmental fairy tale therapy session. The sessions were conducted between April and May 2021, among students (n=24) of the University of Debrecen, who were previously not familiar with fairy tale therapy, nor with the works of Ildikó Boldizsár. Through the media environment of the session, we also reflected together on the effects of internet consumption and the dangers of the internet. The study highlights the students' attitudes towards this method and their participation and activity in the online space. The experiences gained during the 3 sessions and the feedback of the students appear as a guideline to conclude the study. The practical application of the Metamorphoses creative-developmental fairy tale therapy will show whether this methodology has a role to play in higher education.

scholarly journals Academic Misconduct: An Investigation into Male Students’ Perceptions, Experiences & Attitudes towards Cheating and Plagiarism in a Middle Eastern University Context

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bilal M. Tayan
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Dishonesty ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Academic Misconduct ◽  
The Internet ◽  
First Year ◽  
Male Undergraduate ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
The University

Academic misconduct in many educational institutions in the Middle East is an inherent problem. This has been particularly true amongst the university student population. The proliferation of the Internet and the ownership of mobile and electronic devices, have, in part, witnessed rates of cheating, plagiarism and academic misconduct cases steadily increase across higher education contexts. Though the growth of the Internet as an information source and gateway to knowledge has increased substantially in recent years, it has, however, opened up a plethora of varying forms and rates of academic dishonesty. This study was conducted through an online Likert scale questionnaire. Its purpose was to investigate first year male undergraduate students’ attitudes, experiences and perceptions towards plagiarism and cheating in a university located in Saudi Arabia. The study aimed at addressing themes in relation to the meaning, forms, source, frequency and reasons of cheating and plagiarism. The study indicates that cheating and plagiarism is common among students, while a need to address student awareness and clarify student expectations towards academic integrity was also identified. The study also proposes several recommendations to alleviate the levels of academic misconduct, be it cheating in exams or plagiarising content, in the Saudi university context.

A Taxonomy Approach to Fake News

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Valchanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Communication Channels ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Media Corporations

The development of the Internet and social media and networks as a media environment and communication channels combined with the specificity of the journalistic profession in the online environment are a factor which contributes to the emergence and proliferation of fake news. The lack of reliable fact checking by the media and the fast news consumption by the public lead to mass disinformation about certain issues or subjects. The current paper examines fake news from several points of view and describes the models of their use – as harmless jokes, as lack of journalistic competence or professionalism and as means of manipulation and intentional misleading of public opinion. The attempts of big media corporations to fight fake news are also described.

Students’ Privacy Concerns on the Use of Social Media in Higher Education

2014 ◽  
pp. 54-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Aymerich-Franch ◽  
Maddalena Fedele
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The University ◽  
Video Calling ◽  
Correct Implementation

Social media is principally used by students in the private sphere. However, its implementation for educational purposes in higher education is rapidly expanding. This chapter looks into undergraduate students’ perceptions of using social media in the university context. In particular, it examines students’ privacy concerns regarding faculty use of social networks to support classroom work and video calling or online chats to meet for work discussion. Two-hundred-forty-four undergraduate students completed a survey and four focus groups were carried out. The results reveal that although students generally accept using social media in the instructional arena, privacy concerns can easily emerge. Educational institutions are encouraged to take these concerns seriously. Using applications specifically created for learning purposes and developing some guidelines for a correct implementation of these resources for the faculty to follow might contribute to alleviate these concerns.

Social Media in Higher Education

2019 ◽  
pp. 898-922
Author(s):  
Laura Aymerich-Franch
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
American University ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Spanish Universities ◽  
The University

This chapter analyses privacy concerns of students and faculty resulting from the adoption of social media as teaching resources in higher education. In addition, the chapter focuses on privacy concerns that social media can cause to faculty when they are used for social networking. A trans-cultural study was carried out which involved three Spanish universities, a Colombian university, and an American university. A focus group was organized with PhD students to brainstorm the topic. Afterwards, 94 undergraduate students completed a survey and 18 lecturers participated in a written interview. Results indicate that social media are widely adopted in the university and are perceived as valuable resources for teaching. However, privacy concerns can easily emerge among students and faculty when these applications are used for this purpose. Concerns may appear when social media are used for social networking as well. The text also offers some guidelines to overcome them.

Architectural Web Portal and Interactive CAD Learning in Hungary

2010 ◽  
pp. 191-201
Author(s):  
Attila Somfai
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Standards ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Foreign Study ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Online Lecture ◽  
Architectural Modeling ◽  
The University ◽  
Teaching Modality

It is the aim of this case to show the teaching web portal of the Faculty of Architecture at “Széchenyi István” University (www.arc.sze.hu/indexen.html) and its many uses. Nowadays, the Internet helps us to look into Hungarian and foreign study aids, and architectural websites. The Internet has created potential new and effective ways of cooperation between lecturers and students of the university and other institutions of higher education. The teaching web portal mentioned above realizes diversity and complexity of architecture, with efficient grouping of information, while being attentive to high professional standards. Computer Aided Architectural Modeling (www.arc.sze.hu/cad) is one of the new types of online lecture notes, where many narrated screen captured videos show the proper usage of cad software instead of texts and figures. This interactive type of learning assists students to become more independent learners. This type of teaching modality provides the opportunity for students who need more time to acquire subject matter through viewing video examples. The success of our departments’ common web initiations can be measured through Internet statistics and feedback of the students and external professionals.

Thoughts and Highlights Involving an Urban Museum Education Partnership and a University

2021 ◽  
pp. 186-204
Author(s):  
Bryna Bobick
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Elementary Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Museum Education ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Urban Art ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Museum Professionals ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University

This chapter examines the partnership between an urban art museum and a university. It involves museum educators, art education faculty, and undergraduate students. It specifically explores the development of hands-on museum activities for elementary students created by the university participants. The chapter is written from a higher education perspective. It provides a description of all facets of the partnership from its planning to the completion of the museum activities. The partnership provided the university students authentic museum experiences and ways to make professional connections with museum professionals. Recommendations for those who wish to develop university/museum partnerships are shared.

On Not Believing What You Read

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Rose
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
College Admissions ◽  
Reading Strategy ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Gallup Poll ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Life ◽  
The Media ◽  
The University

Every student should, before graduating, see the 2006 teen-comedy movie Accepted. It’s a broad satire built around some high-school misfits whom no college admissions officer in his right mind would accept, not even in this economy. So they commandeer an abandoned mental asylum and construct their own college based on Marxism (Groucho), and they do to higher education what A Night at the Opera did to Il Trovatore. To a flabbergasted visitor, the teenage president of the college recommends the school newspaper, The Rag. “There’s a great op-ed piece in there about not believing everything you read,” he explains. Like all absurdist comedy, Accepted poses that subversive question, “Who’s absurd here?” It stands upside-down all the pretenses of university life, including its most fundamental pretense, that if we spend years here reading, we will get closer to the truth. Is there, though, any necessary relation between reality and what we find on the printed page? It’s a question that has become particularly acute today, when it seems that every man is his own deconstructionist. When Paul Ricoeur coined the phrase “hermeneutic of suspicion,” he was only recommending this reading strategy to literary theorists, but his students took it quite seriously and in 1968 turned the University of Nanterre into, well, something like the campus in Accepted. And today that skepticism is thoroughly mainstream. According to the Gallup Poll, only 32 percent of Americans in 2016 have confidence in the media, down from a high of 72 percent in 1976, post-Woodward and Bernstein. Among millennials (18-to-29-year-olds), just 11 percent trust the media. In Britain, back in 1975, only about a third of tabloid readers and just 3 percent of readers of “quality” broadsheets felt that their paper “often gets its facts wrong.” But by 2012 no British daily was trusted by a majority of the public “to report fairly and accurately.” In something of a contradiction, the Sun enjoyed both the largest circulation and the lowest level of trust (just 9 percent).

scholarly journals Programa Globalizando: Extensão Universitária em Relações Internacionais | Programa Globalizando: University Extension in International Relations

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. e39146
Author(s):  
Mario Tito Barros Almeida ◽  
Bruna Ferreira Pinheiro
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The South ◽  
Radio Program ◽  
The Media ◽  
The University

Neste artigo, visa-se apresentar e analisar a experiência de cinco anos do Programa Globalizando, programa de rádio universitária produzido pelos alunos e professores do curso de Relações Internacionais da Universidade da Amazônia/PA. Este programa discute temas de Relações Internacionais e é transmitido via Rádio UNAMA FM 105.5 de Belém do Pará, bem como pela internet. Esta experiência universitária é analisada a partir do pensamento de Boaventura de Sousa Santos, em sua perspectiva sobre a Universidade à luz da teoria crítica e da epistemologia do Sul. Para tal, metodologicamente, realizou-se uma revisão bibliográfica sobre a importância da extensão universitária e a utilização de meios de comunicação. Para viabilizá-la, apresenta-se organização e experiência do Programa Globalizando e, analisa-se estas questões a partir do referencial teórico proposto. Palavras-chave: Programa Globalizando; Relações Internacionais; Extensão Universitária.ABSTRACTIn this article, the objective is to present and analyze the five years’ experience of Programa Globalizando, a university radio program produced by the students and professors from the course of the University of Amazonia / PA. This program discusses topics of International Relations and is transmitted via Radio UNAMA FM 105.5 of Belém do Pará, as well as through the internet. This study is analyzed from the theorical thinking of Boaventura de Sousa Santos, in his perspective on the University in the light of the critical theory and the epistemology of the South. To this end, a bibliographical review was carried out on the importance of university extension and the use of the media. To make it feasible, the organization and experience gained by the Globalizing Program over the years is presented, and these questions are analyzed based on the proposed theoretical framework. Keywords: Programa Globalizando; International Relations; University Extension.Recebido em: 09 dez. 2018 | Aceito em: 05 mai. 2019

scholarly journals Understanding Academic Misconduct

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia M. Christensen Hughes ◽  
Donald L. McCabe
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Academic Misconduct ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Canadian Higher Education ◽  
Institutional Strategies ◽  
The University

Research suggests that the majority of U.S. undergraduate students have engaged in some form of misconduct while completing their academic work, despite knowing that such behaviour is ethically or morally wrong. U.S.-based studies have also identified myriad personal and institutional factors associated with academic misconduct. Implicit in some of these factors are several institutional strategies that may be implemented to support academic integrity: revisiting the values and goals of higher education, recommitting to quality in teaching and assessment practice, establishing effective policies and invigilation practices, providing educational opportunities and support for all members of the university community, and using (modified) academic honour codes. There is a dearth of similar research in Canada despite growing recognition that academic misconduct is a problem on Canadian campuses. This paper suggests that Canadian higher education can learn much from the U.S. experience and calls for both a recommitment to academic integrity and research on academic misconduct in Canadian higher education institutions.

scholarly journals Access and use of the internet among undergraduate students in the Faculty of Arts, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 19-31
Author(s):  
Md. Anwarul Islam ◽  
Muhammad Jaber Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Access Point ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Computer Center ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The University ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
Computer Labs ◽  
And Training

The study surveyed the use of Internet among undergraduate students in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. 240 questionnaires were distributed using a stratified sampling method. A total of 190 questionnaires were returned and all were usable. The access point for using Internet among the undergraduates was mostly the computer center of Dhaka University. Findings revealed that a high percentage of the Internet was used among the undergraduates. Some problems they face in their use of the Internet include slow speed of the connection, limited number of PCs and other related issues of using Internet. The study recommends that the university and arts faculty should provide more access points for the students. Departmental computer labs, Internet facilities and incorporating ICT courses in the academic syllabi should be started to those departments where it is needed to overcome the problems. Moreover, modern net connection technologies need to be used and training program needs to be started for the undergraduates.

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