Developing Online Learning Portals in Low Bandwidth Communities

2011 ◽  
pp. 228-234
Author(s):  
Mae van der Merwe ◽  
Lorna Uden
Keyword(s):  
Relevant Information ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Interfaces ◽  
Front End ◽  
Present Information ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
The Web

University portals are emerging all over the world. Portals have been perceived by many people as the technologies that are designed to enhance work and learning processes at university by making workflows simpler and information more readily available in a form in which it can be processed (Franklin, 2004). There are many benefits for having a portal in a university. First, the portal makes it easy for people to find university information targeted specifically at them. Instead of the user searching the Web for information, a person identifies himself or herself to the portal, and the portal brings all relevant information to that person. Secondly, the portal uses a single consistent Web-based front end to present information from a variety of back-end data sources. Although information about people is stored in many different databases at a university, the role of a portal is to put a consistent face to this information so that visitors do not have to deal with dozens of different Web interfaces to get their information. Usability is an important issue when designing the university portal. Principles from human computer interaction must be included in the design of portals.

ORISS

2005 ◽  
pp. 260-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Giesecke ◽  
Gerriet Reents
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Project Group ◽  
The University ◽  
The Web

In this chapter, we present the Web-based carpooling system ORISS, which was initially developed by a student project group at University of Oldenburg. It is currently being deployed at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg with support of the DBU (Federal German Foundation for the Environment). We describe the role of carpools in traffic, particularly in commuter traffic, and show perspectives of an increased usage of carpools. A significant impact on the eco-balance of the university can be expected. We explain how Internet technologies and geographic information systems can be used for the arrangement of carpools, and show advantages over traditional methods of carpooling. The concrete architecture of ORISS and the algorithms used are outlined. We conclude the chapter by describing the circumstances of deployment and propose possible future extensions of the system.

ACM Web Science Conference 2021

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Wendy Hall ◽  
Noshir Contractor ◽  
Jie Tang
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The People ◽  
Web Science ◽  
The World ◽  
Science Conference ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Web

The 13 th ACM Web Science Conference was hosted online by the University of Southampton from 21--25 June, 2021. The annual event is inherently interdisciplinary, integrating computer and information sciences with a multitude of disciplines including sociology, economics, political science, law, management, language and communication, geography and psychology. It is unique in the way it brings these disciplines together in creative and critical dialogue. It focuses on the full scope of socio-technical relationships that are engaged in the World Wide Web, based on the notion that understanding the Web involves not only an analysis of its architecture and applications, but also insight into the people, organisations, policies, and economics that are affected by and subsumed within it. Since it was first held in Athens in 2009, the conference has been hosted in six countries around the world.

Striving ‘Against All Odds’ to Reduce Prejudice toward Immigrants and Refugees

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad Michael Wertley ◽  
Jordan Soliz
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Migrant Populations ◽  
Political Response ◽  
The World ◽  
Societal Problem ◽  
The Media ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
The Web

The recent public and political response to immigration and refugee asylum around the world reveals that prejudice toward migrants remains a preeminent societal problem. In response to the growing political unrest towards migrants, The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) developed the web-based video game, Against All Odds, which has players take on the role of a refugee and experience the struggles they go through. Thus, the purpose of the current study is to investigate the potential of intergroup contact using a video game (i.e., Against All Odds) in changing attitudes toward migrant populations—specifically, refugees. In addition, this study explores four potential affordances of the media in the contact space that may mediate the change.

COVID-19: implications for NHS Staff

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 193-197
Author(s):  
Alan Glasper
Keyword(s):  
World Health ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
The World ◽  
Clinical Environments ◽  
Public Health Institutions ◽  
Health Institutions ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The University

In light of the emergence in China of COVID-19, the novel corona virus, emeritus professor Alan Glasper, from the University of Southampton discusses the role of the World Health Organization and other public health institutions in responding to potential new global pandemics and deliberates on the role of NHS staff in coping with infectious disease in clinical environments.

scholarly journals The university-industry relationship under diferent approaches: the entrepreneurial university to academic capitalism

Educação ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Evandro Coggo Cristofoletti ◽  
Milena Pavan Serafim
Keyword(s):  
Academic Capitalism ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Entrepreneurial University ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Industry Relationship ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
University Industry

The economic and political changes in the world, from the 1970s, changed the political education of the Public Institutions of Higher Education in the world. The direction of these changes was clear: the university approachedthe market and the company and created interaction mechanisms that did not exist. The article therefore reviews the academic literature that interprets the relationship between university and market/company from two perspectives: approaches that positively position of interactions, exposing their motivations, interests and forms of interaction, especially the notions on Knowledge Economy and Entrepreneurial University; approaches that observe this interaction critically and reflectively, exposing the problems of interaction, its negative aspects and the reflection of the true role of the public university from the perspective of Academic Capitalism.

scholarly journals Beyond the academic’s dilemma: Transdisciplinary and existential perspectives of re-enchantment

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rennie Naidoo
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Dialectical Tensions ◽  
Dialectical Approach ◽  
Sustainable Future ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

The purpose of this article is to stimulate debate about the developing paradoxes and dilemmas facing the university academic. This article argues that academics are increasingly being steeped in an inauthentic existence due, at least partly to, egocentrism and sociocentrism. A modest transdisciplinary- existential analytical framework is applied as an intellectual method to reflect on the prevailing monological perspectives stifling the role of academics, in working towards building a more sustainable future. Using concepts such as the subject, facticity and transcendence, the article investigates the dialectical tensions between some of these monological perspectives and proposes avenues to create new possibilities to progress the role of the academic. The article argues that the multilogical perspectives of transdisciplinary thinking and the empowering perspectives of existential thinking can provide academics with the necessary conceptual tools to transcend egocentrism and sociocentrism. While it is likely that new contradictions will emerge as a result of this synthesis, open-minded academics are urged to ignite their imaginative powers and take up the challenge of creating and acting on new possibilities. A transdisciplinary-existential dialectical approach can provide a richer understanding of present dilemmas in academia and the world, and suggest more satisfying paths to a sustainable future.

USE OF BLOGGING TO INCREASE WRITING, READING AND DIGITAL SKILLS IN PRIMARY SCHOOL

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 158-165
Author(s):  
Rumyana Karadimitrova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
The Web

In recent decades, more and more web-based solutions are being integrated into the learning and teaching process in schools around the world. One of the most used among them for creating, storing and managing information flow is blogging. The combination of blogging in BEL (Bulgarian Language and Literature) classes is key to the development of digital and communicative speech competencies at all educational stages. There is a significant amount of research that proves that with the use of blogging a significant part of students are motivated and become better writers and readers. The article presents some of the results of a developed and tested system of BEL lessons in two experimental classes from the initial stage. For two months, students used student blogs to introduce texts from assigned tasks to literature. The web-based technology has increased students’ interest in learning, their writing and reading skills.

Higher Education, Social Welfare, and Corruption

2019 ◽  
pp. 54-78
Author(s):  
Marlene M. Mendoza-Macías
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Wealth Distribution ◽  
Sustainable Human Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The University ◽  
Social Management

The world is facing multiple changes and challenges; the environment shows inequalities, poverty, and corruption. Ecuador is not the exception. The man is declared the primary focus of the Ecuadorian Constitution to meet such changes. The objective of decreasing poverty, improving wealth distribution, and contributing to sustainable human development is unavoidable. In that context, the university has the pivotal role in generating interaction with society and its reality, to train professionals social and humanly responsible towards such facts, to promote the social management of knowledge from different action fields. The goal of this chapter is to specify the role of higher education institutions (HEIs) in a society where they take part, to draw up social responsibility of universities in Guayaquil and the challenges they face, as well as actions that contribute to the eradication of corruption and greater wellbeing of the society.

Students' Creativity and Entrepreneurial Learning for Developing Corporate Entrepreneurship

2017 ◽  
pp. 89-116
Author(s):  
Giustina Secundo ◽  
Pasquale Del Vecchio ◽  
Giuseppina Passiante ◽  
Mirco Paoletto
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Corporate Entrepreneurship ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Entrepreneurial Learning ◽  
Italian Association ◽  
Entrepreneurship Development ◽  
University Colleges ◽  
The University

The chapter aims to contribute at the discussion on the role of creativity in sustaining corporate entrepreneurship development by focusing on entrepreneurial learning in the context of incumbent enterprises. Empirical evidences coming from the case study of “Mimprendo” project (www.mimprendo.it), an initiative promoted by the Italian Conference of the University Colleges and the Italian Association of Young Entrepreneurs, are presented. Findings provides insights about the collaborative entrepreneurial learning as happening in the community composed by University students, entrepreneurs, and researchers to solve relevant managerial and entrepreneurial innovation's needs. Those evidences are at the basis of an integrated framework aimed to provide a coherent and a systematic view on the collaborative entrepreneurial learning processes to nurture, select, and implement creative ideas of universities students for sustaining the corporate entrepreneurship in incumbent companies.

Designing Web-Based Educational Virtual Reality Environments

2010 ◽  
pp. 157-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kosmas Dimitropoulos ◽  
Athanasios Manitsaris
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Virtual Learning Environments ◽  
Virtual Reality Technology ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Learning Content ◽  
The Web

This chapter aims to study the benefits that arise from the use of virtual reality technology and World Wide Web in the field of distance education, as well as to further explore the role of instructors and learners in such a network-centric mode of education. Within this framework, special emphasis is given on the design and development of web-based virtual learning environments so as to successfully fulfil their educational objectives. In particular, the chapter includes research on distance education on the Web and the role of virtual reality, as well as study on basic pedagogical methods focusing mainly on the efficient preparation, approach and presentation of the learning content. Moreover, specific designing rules are presented considering the hypermedia, virtual and educational nature of this kind of applications. Finally, an innovative virtual reality environment for distance education in medicine, which reproduces conditions of the real learning process and enhances learning through a real-time interactive simulator, is demonstrated.

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