How Technologies Can Localize Learners in Multicultural Space

2013 ◽  
pp. 103-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert Ahamer
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Team Teaching ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Global Studies ◽  
Global Learning ◽  
Umbrella Organisation ◽  
Innovative Curriculum ◽  
Web Platform ◽  
The Web

Technological innovations can be used in many ways to enhance the suitability of global learning. A newly developed online-supported curriculum “Global Studies” takes account of the necessities of interdisciplinary, intercultural and interparadigmatic learning. The history and genesis of such an innovative curriculum is embedded in a national umbrella organisation focusing on development studies. As the interdisciplinary core, a new lecture on the fundamentals of Global Studies has been implemented in 2010/11 that envisions team teaching and interdisciplinary perspectives. The web platform allows students to present their professional views and discuss them in a peer review. Dialogue and discourse are enhanced by repeated change of roles which is enriched by the broad international and intercultural backgrounds of the participating students. Cultures of understanding are generated and widened as a prerequisite for future careers in development cooperation, diplomacy and transnational organisations.

How Technologies Can Localize Learners in Multicultural Space

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert Ahamer
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Team Teaching ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Global Studies ◽  
Global Learning ◽  
Umbrella Organisation ◽  
Innovative Curriculum ◽  
Web Platform ◽  
The Web

Technological innovations can be used in many ways to enhance the suitability of global learning. A newly developed online-supported curriculum “Global Studies” takes account of the necessities of interdisciplinary, intercultural and interparadigmatic learning. The history and genesis of such an innovative curriculum is embedded in a national umbrella organisation focusing on development studies. As the interdisciplinary core, a new lecture on the fundamentals of Global Studies has been implemented in 2010/11 that envisions team teaching and interdisciplinary perspectives. The web platform allows students to present their professional views and discuss them in a peer review. Dialogue and discourse are enhanced by repeated change of roles which is enriched by the broad international and intercultural backgrounds of the participating students. Cultures of understanding are generated and widened as a prerequisite for future careers in development cooperation, diplomacy and transnational organisations.

Intensified telematic treatment for obesity using the web platform PREDIRCAM2, descriptive basal characteristics and preliminary results

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeria Alcantara-Aragon ◽  
Susana Rodrigo-Cano ◽  
Maria Jose Martinez ◽  
Carmen Martinez ◽  
Jose Tapia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Web Platform ◽  
The Web

scholarly journals Assessment of riparian environments through semi-automated procedures for the computation of eco-morphological indicators: Preliminary results of the WEQUAL project

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raimondo Gallo ◽  
Gianluca Ristorto ◽  
Alex Bojeri ◽  
Nadia Zorzi ◽  
Gabriele Daglio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Unmanned Aircraft ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Shared Environment ◽  
Surface Model ◽  
Riparian Areas ◽  
Raw Data ◽  
Ecological Criteria ◽  
Web Platform ◽  
The Web

Summary The aim of WEQUAL project (WEb service centre for QUALity multidimensional design and tele-operated monitoring of Green Infrastructures) is the development of a system that is able to support a quick environmental monitoring of riparian areas subjected to the realization of new green infrastructures (GI). The Wequal’s idea is to organize a service center able to manage both the Web Platform and the whole data collection and analysis processes. Through a personal account, the final user (designer, technician, researcher) can get access to the service and requires the evaluation of alternatives GI projects. On the Web Platform, a set of algorithms runs in order to calculate, through automatic procedures, all the ecological criteria required to evaluate a quality environmental index that describes the eco-morphological value of the monitored riparian areas. For this aim, the WEQUI index was developed, which uses 15 indicators that are easy to monitor. In this paper, the approach for environmental data collection and the procedures to perform the automatic assessment of two of the ecological criteria are described. For the computation, the implemented algorithms use data including the vegetation indexes, Digital Terrain Model (DTM), Digital Surface Model (DSM) and a 3D point cloud classification. All the raw data are collected by UAVs (Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle) equipped with a 3D Lidar, multispectral camera and RGB camera. Interpreting all the raw data collected by these sensors, using a multi-attribute approach, the WEQUI index is assessed. The computed ecological index is then used to assess the riparian environmental quality at ex-ante and ex-post river stabilization works. This index, integrated with additional not-technical or not-ecological indicators such as investment required, maintenance costs or social acceptance, can be used in multicriteria analyses in order to evaluate the intervention from a wider point of view. The platform is expected to be attractive for GI designers and policy makers by providing a shared environment, which is able to integrate the method of detection and evaluation of complex indexes and a multidimensional evaluation supported by an expert guide.

Designing and Implementing Online Collaboration Tools in West Africa

2012 ◽  
pp. 33-60
Author(s):  
Caitlin M. Bentley
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Online Collaboration ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
West African ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Implementation Processes ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
The Web

This chapter explores how the Web 2.0 principle of the Web as a platform was applied in the context of a development aid-funded project aimed to enhance online collaboration capacities of 17 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in five West African Nations. The main issues confronted in the project related to the linear project design and a misconceptualisation of technology as an input, thus separating the design and implementation processes from the ultimate collaboration aims that are desired outcomes. It is therefore argued that technology-mediated collaboration initiatives within development cooperation contexts can draw from underlying Web 2.0 principles, but that these principles could more usefully be linked to development concepts in order to further enable critical reflection by primary stakeholders, so as to include them in all aspects of technology design. By focusing less on technology provision and more on the capacity of users to assess their own emergent needs has potentially more important long-term collaboration impacts.

The World Has Been Naked

2021 ◽  
pp. 306-319
Author(s):  
Ismail Noori Msser
Keyword(s):  
Decision Maker ◽  
Human History ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Historical Times ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Web Platform ◽  
The Web

After the WikiLeaks incident, the world today is under the shock of the document. Since the moment of the invention of writing and the entry of man in historical times, the document has remained in the context of the closeness of holiness. Yes, human history is witnessing the leaking of more documents of the utmost importance, but the disclosure of this speed and free and direct and defamation only besieged the documents and stamps them with the symbolism missing, after the overthrow of the status of dear and beloved, and disperses prestige on the web platform. It is a departure from the meaning for which the document was historically designed. What was private became commonplace in a confusing way, and it was a secret exposed, and what was stored for 30 years or more, according to the value of the document and its effects, was public before reaching the decision-maker.

OPTIMAL DESIGN OF HOUSING ATTICS WITH INTEGRATED SOLAR COLLECTORS

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Rodrigo García Alvarado ◽  
Pedro G. Campos ◽  
Paulina Wegertseder
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Optimal Design ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Parametric Modeling ◽  
Solar Collectors ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Design Assessment ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Web Platform ◽  
The Web

In order to reduce the increasing energy consumption for the domestic demands of existing single-family housing and take advantage of frequent building enlargements, this paper presents a methodology and supporting software tool for determining the optimal design configuration of an attic with integrated solar collectors. The analysis procedure is based on parametric modeling, energy simulation and the use of evolutionary algorithms for finding optimal designs. It has been implemented as a Web-platform for public use that provides users with a proposal of an attic shape with maximum solar energy collection, maximum living space and minimum construction envelope for each house according its size and orientation. The attic integrates PV, thermal and hybrid solar panels on one side of the roof. This paper describes the methodology and software design, assessment of the Web-platform usage and case-studies to verify its behavior. In a matter of minutes, the Web-platform enables users to select a specific attic design for each house that has integrated solar collectors that can produce energy to cover almost 100% of domestic energy consumption. The attics designed provide a nearly 30% increase in living space through the extension of one to four rooms, and the construction cost of the envelope is similar to that of a standard housing extension.

Management & Delivery of Digital Print via the Web

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Savvas Papagiannidis ◽  
Feng Li
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Digital Print ◽  
The Web ◽  
Print On Demand

In this article, we use the experience of Gaia Fulfilment to demonstrate the challenges of developing and deploying collateral fulfillment, i.e., short-run print on demand via the Web. By discussing the technological innovations that Gaia achieved we will outline their product development steps and the solutions the technology enabled. We also show the benefits of collateral fulfillment by presenting two examples of customers that use Gaia’s technology. The paper concludes with the challenges that Gaia faced and ways they attempted to resolve them.

Archives on the Web: Unlocking Collections While Safeguarding Privacy

First Monday ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara S. Hodson
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Proprietary Information ◽  
The Web

Privacy has become an increasingly worrisome issue in modern life. Technological innovations, especially the Internet, expand and enhance the manner and extent by which private or sensitive information is collected and shared, leaving all of us more vulnerable to the invasion of our privacy. As archival information, both original materials themselves and the descriptions of these materials, increasingly appears on the Internet, archivists and information specialists must ensure that they do not inadvertently or thoughtlessly make available private, sensitive or proprietary information.

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