Knowledge in the Shrinking Commons

2016 ◽  
pp. 358-379
Author(s):  
Luke Bassuener
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Economic Environment ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Face ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Market Driven

Libraries and Open Access function in a variety of ways to make information freely available to the public, but the current era of market-driven globalization has reshaped the economic environment, and threatens to undermine their principle mission. The defining characteristic of this threat is the treatment of knowledge as a commodity. The idea of open access and the institution of the library exist as sources of self-directed learning and as representatives of the shrinking commons in the face of encroaching market forces. Libraries face challenges of relevance in regard to technology, budgets, privatization, and physical space. Open Access must find ways to define itself coherently—as publishers, researchers, libraries and businesses all try to manipulate the concept to fit their needs. This chapter looks at the shared obstacles and objectives of libraries and the open access movement, and analyzes some of the efforts being made to address current challenges and work toward a future of collaboration and continued relevance.

Promoting self-directed learning using a menu of assessment options: the investment model

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 181-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. K. Rangachari
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Investment Model ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Science

Undergraduate science students took an Inquiry course in their second (sophomore) year. The course was designed to explore the social life of scientific knowledge. They were given a set of eight assessment options: personal logs, targeted oral examinations, commentaries, mini-lectures, individual explorations, research proposals, book reviews, and problem-solving exercises. Each option had a specific maximum mark (percentage or grade point) associated with it. Students were permitted to select any set of options to obtain their total grade for the course. From the student’s perspective, the course provided a valuable learning experience and enabled them to recognize the complexities involved in the process of generating scientific information and making it useful and relevant to the public. The opportunity given to select their own assessment options enhanced their learning. For me, as the sole instructor managing 51 students, the experience was rewarding.

Neurobiology of Navigation and Learning: Fourth Dimension Cartography

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.19) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Agustín Sepúlveda-Sariego ◽  
Sandra Meza-Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
Fourth Dimension ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
The World ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
New Perspective

The present article sheds light on new representations of learning. The proposition deals with a representation of learning in four dimensions, in which the highlight is on the navigation across space as a new perspective on the phenomenon of learning. This perspective allows for some aspects of the phenomenon and attempts to show experimental proposals on the matter. Three of the dimensions are based on learning theories: Vigotsky’s Meaningful learning; Piaget’s self-directed learning through discovery; and Vigotsky’s Social Learning. A fourth dimension would be the physical space itself. Animals navigate in different ways through the world. Navigation: the process of being in this world is the basis of learning.  

scholarly journals Information Retrieval, Self Directed Learning and Academic Performance among Facebook Users

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noorriati Din ◽  
Shireen Haron
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Online Social Networking ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
The Public ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
International Publishing

Online social networking refers to social network sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Meetup, Tribe and MySpace. Since the inception, the number of online social networking is being created rapidly with many sophisticated features being developed ever since.  The Facebook has gained much popularity among the public mainly for interactions as well as for exchanging information. This study intends to investigate the information retrieval that occurs in the Facebook platform and if the process of retrieving information on the Facebook support academic performance.  Fifty-nine self-directed adult learners participated in this research. Keywords: Information retrieval; academic performance; self-directed learning; Facebook eISSN 2514-7528 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.    

scholarly journals How do Learners Make Use of a Space for Self-Directed Learning? Translating the Past, Understanding the Present, and Strategizing for the Future

2016 ◽  
pp. 168-181
Author(s):  
Yoshio Nakai
Keyword(s):  
Physical Space ◽  
Autonomous Learning ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Learning Session ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
The Future ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Economic Partnership ◽  
Partnership Agreement ◽  
Past Experiences

This article aims to reveal how learners make use of a space for self-directed learning to promote collaborative autonomous learning, drawing on data collected at a Japanese language institution for the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) care worker candidates in Osaka. The data analysis shows that, through the activities the learners chose and organized, they imagined an ideal L2 self and created their own L2 world. As soon as the self-directed learning session had started, they created their own group on Facebook and promoted learning activities which were related with their real lives in Japan. These activities on Facebook created a learning space beyond the classroom. These online activities they engaged in eventually returned to the classroom space and led to them increasingly taking ownership of the physical space. This research reveals that an important factor for self-directed learning is providing learners spaces and allowing them to explore the boundaries and possibilities of that space. The learners in this case study used the space to translate their past experiences and present emotions into the second language context, and moreover, to strategize for the future. To encourage collaborative autonomous learning, the activities must be organized around learners’ inner worlds where their emotions, experiences and futures exist.

scholarly journals Can Unscrewed be unskewed? Television coverage of the Internet

First Monday ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha McCaughey
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Talk Show ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cable Network ◽  
Late Night ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Online Culture ◽  
Television Coverage

This paper documents one way the Internet is presented to the public by analyzing a late–night TV talk show about the Internet called Unscrewed on the TechTV cable network. I gained the opportunity to study Unscrewed, and attempt to influence its focus, when I was invited to appear as a guest on their show after having e–mailed them a criticism of their sexist coverage of the Internet — specifically their positioning of women as pretty objects to be ogled online rather than as creative participants in online culture and as authors of a diversity of Web sites. Though I liked the program’s potential to challenge some aspects of an increasingly market–driven Internet, I was unable to unskew the sexist focus of Unscrewed precisely because market forces demanded the show remain male–centered.

Explaining High Performance Among Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Officers: A Job Demands-Resources Perspective

2022 ◽  
pp. 0734371X2110624
Author(s):  
Surya Prakash Pati ◽  
Ram Kumar Kakani
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Personal Resources ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
High Performing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Service ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Policymaking And Implementation

Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers are careerist senior civil servants (SCS) in the world’s largest democracy, holding senior roles of policymaking and implementation. Therefore, identifying exceptionally performing SCS to unravel their “job demands” along with “personal resources” should help with understanding how best to manage these critical human resources. Employing a qualitative approach, we interviewed 11 high performing IAS officers identified through a unique career progression index. Our data analysis revealed that the IAS suffers from the following job demands: difficulty in coordination with other departments and stakeholders, financial inadequacy, and dishonest subordinates or coworkers. This study also found that self-directed learning, personal reputation, empathy, and service orientation are essential personal resources for high-performing SCS. While expanding the list of job demands and personal resources in the public administration context, our research provides a deeper insight into the challenges confronting careerist SCS in lower-middle income developing countries.

scholarly journals Open-Inquiry Course Design in the Public Policy Classroom

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 793-801
Author(s):  
Andrew Pennock
Keyword(s):  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Quality Work ◽  
Open Inquiry ◽  
The Public ◽  
Metacognitive Reflection ◽  
Students First ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Class Period

ABSTRACTThis article describes a variant of experiential course design—open inquiry—that has learning-how-to-learn (or metacognition about learning) as a primary course goal. In open-inquiry designs, students first choose the problems that they will study during the course. They then co-create each class period as the semester progresses. They recognize deficiencies in their own content knowledge, skills, and learning processes and take actions to remedy them. By reflecting on their successes and failures, students practice the skill of self-directed learning. This process of metacognitive reflection is a crucial skill that they will need when they face novel problems after graduation. In open-inquiry courses, students have produced high-quality work by learning about substantive policy areas that they choose to study, developing the policy skills that they deem important, and growing in their understanding about how they learn effectively.

scholarly journals Media Daring sebagai Self Directed Learning Materi PAI SD Pada Masa Pandemi Covid-19

FIKROTUNA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Misbahul Munir ◽  
Triyo Supriyatno
Keyword(s):  
Learning Theory ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Independent Learning ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
The Public ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Directed Learning

The purpose of this research is to offer alternative media based on independent learning during the pandemic covid 19. The first objective is to explore information on online network-based media that is widely used in Indonesia as a support for learning; Second, to search a model of self-directed learning theory that has characteristics according to research needs; Third, to provide an overview of the alternative characteristics of online-based learning media offered. The data in this study were taken through google schoolar, semantic scholar, elsevier, researchgate, online seminars via youtube, zoom. The results of this study the most widely used media in Indonesia are Youtube, Facebook, WhatsApp, Zoom, Google Classroom. While the theory taken related to self directed learning according to Song and Hill’s, The typology of youtube, facebook, whatsapp, zoom, and google classroom media is found to be opened, closed, open and closed combination for the public. All media have in common can share files in the form of video, word, pdf. Except youtube and zoom. The benefit of Youtube is the flexibility of time and content developed with audio visual, while zooming does not have the flexibility of time, learning can be presented interactively between teachers and students.

From Insight to Successful Behavior Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 175-192
Author(s):  
Kenneth M. Nowack
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Change ◽  
Change Model ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Individual Change ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
360 Feedback ◽  
The Face ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Feedback Interventions ◽  
Change Framework

This chapter provides an integrated and theoretically derived individual change framework within strategic 360 Feedback interventions to facilitate successful behavioral change in the face of realistic issues and potential challenges. A brief description of a new individual change model is introduced and issues specific to each stage are discussed. The importance of this individual behavior change model is that it highlights the diverse roles of the practitioner, employee, and organization that appear throughout the 360 Feedback literature to facilitate accurate self-awareness, self-directed learning, goal setting processes, deliberate practice, and evaluation. Practitioners are provided with practical tips and suggestions to maximize understanding, acceptance, motivation, and successful goal accomplishment—the real impact of strategic 360 Feedback interventions that also has a development component.

scholarly journals Medical students’ pattern of self-directed learning prior to and during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic period and its implications for Free Open Access Meducation within the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Jack Barton ◽  
Kathrine Sofia Rallis ◽  
Amber Elyse Corrigan ◽  
Ella Hubbard ◽  
Antonia Round ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Study Time ◽  
Independent Study ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Directed Learning

Purpose: Self-directed learning (SDL) has been increasingly emphasized within medical education. However, little is known about the SDL resources medical students use. This study aimed to identify patterns in medical students’ SDL behaviors, their SDL resource choices, factors motivating these choices, and the potential impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on these variables.Methods: An online cross-sectional survey comprising multiple-choice, ranked, and free-text response questions were disseminated to medical students across all 41 UK medical schools between April and July 2020. Independent study hours and sources of study materials prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic were compared. Motivational factors guiding resource choices and awareness of Free Open Access Meducation were also investigated.Results: The target sample was 75 students per medical school across a total of 41 medical schools within the United Kingdom (3,075 total students), and 1,564 responses were analyzed. University-provided information comprised the most commonly used component of independent study time, but a minority of total independent study time. Independent study time increased as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic (P<0.001). All sub-cohorts except males reported a significant increase in the use of resources such as free websites and question banks (P<0.05) and paid websites (P<0.05) as a result of the pandemic. Accessibility was the most influential factor guiding resource choice (Friedman’s μrank=3.97, P<0.001).Conclusion: The use of learning resources independent of university provision is increasing. Educators must ensure equitable access to such materials while supporting students in making informed choices regarding their independent study behaviors.

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