scholarly journals Visualisation of Perception of Experiential Activities in Business and Administration and Economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 283-292
Author(s):  
Rosaura Fernández-Pascual ◽  
Ana Marín Jiménez ◽  
María Pilar Fernández- Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Information Visualization ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Underlying Structure ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Word Analysis ◽  
Visualization Tools ◽  
Visualization Techniques ◽  
The University ◽  
Structure Of Knowledge

This paper explores how to incorporate information visualization tools into qualitative studies to represent the underlying structure of knowledge. Information visualization plays a key role in many areas such as decision-making, data mining, market studies, or knowledge management. A case of experiential learning was developed for Quantitative Techniques in Business and Administration and Economy Degrees at the University of Granada, Spain. The goal is to analyze the opinion of students (n = 227) on the development of the activity through information visualization techniques. The gathered information was subjected to a categorization process to unify and homogenize the responses. After a term-clumping process, a co-word analysis using the VosViewer software is used to analyze the relationships among terms and provide the network maps. Results display the main associations and clusters of terms used when assessing the experiential activity, using qualitative techniques. In conclusion, the strengths of data visualization enabling a better understanding of data for qualitative studies are established. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Experiential Learning in Graduate Archival Education at the University of Botswana

Mousaion ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olefhile Mosweu
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Archival Theory ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
The Real ◽  
The University

Most curriculum components of archival graduate programmes consist of contextual knowledge, archival knowledge, complementary knowledge, practicum, and scholarly research. The practicum, now commonly known as experiential learning in the global hub, is now widely accepted in library and information studies (LIS) education as necessary and important. It is through experiential learning that, over and above the theoretical aspects of a profession, students are provided with the opportunity to learn by doing in a workplace environment. The University of Botswana’s Master’s in Archives and Records Management (MARM) programme has a six weeks experiential learning programme whose purpose is to expose prospective archivists and/or records managers to the real archival world in terms of practice as informed by archival theory. The main objective of the study was to determine the extent to which the University of Botswana’s experiential learning component exposes students to real-life archival work to put into practice theoretical aspects learnt in the classroom as intended by the university guidelines. This study adopted a qualitative research design and collected data through interviews from participants selected through purposive and snowball sampling strategies. Documentary review supplemented the interviews. The data collected were analysed thematically in line with research objectives. The study determined that experiential learning does indeed expose students to the real world of work. It thus helps to bridge the gap between archival theory and practice for students without archives and records management work experience. For those with prior archival experience, experiential learning does not add value. This study recommends that students with prior archives and records management experience should rather, as an alternative to experiential learning, undertake supervised research, and write a research essay in a chosen thematic area in archives and records management.

Book review: Jansen, J. 2017. As by Fire: The End of the South African University. Cape Town: Tafelberg.

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Jared McDonald
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
The South ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The University

Dr Jared McDonald, of the Department of History at the University of the Free State (UFS) in South Africa, reviews As by fire: the end of the South African university, written by former UFS vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen.    How to cite this book review: MCDONALD, Jared. Book review: Jansen, J. 2017. As by Fire: The End of the South African University. Cape Town: Tafelberg.. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, [S.l.], v. 1, n. 1, p. 117-119, Sep. 2017. Available at: <http://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=18>. Date accessed: 12 Sep. 2017.   This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

EXPERIENCE ONE: ANALYSIS OF A DECADE OF IMMERSION SCHEDULING AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA WESTERN

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Thomas ◽  
◽  
Rebekah Levine ◽  
Sheila M. Roberts ◽  
Spruce W. Schoenemann
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
University Of Montana ◽  
The University

STM3: a chemistry visualization platform

2005 ◽  
Vol 220 (5/6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Valle
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Software Platform ◽  
Visualization Tools ◽  
Visualization Techniques

AbstractTo support CSCS research users we built STM3, a software platform on which advanced chemistry visualization techniques can be integrated. Its main goal is not to replace existing tools, but to provide functionalities not covered by them. STM3’s unusual characteristic among chemistry visualization tools is its ability to combine chemistry and general visualization techniques in the same view. STM3 is built on top of a proven visualization environment (AVS/Express) that lets CSCS’s visualization staff concentrate its efforts on developing new technologies rather than investing time on graphical and user interface implementation issues.

scholarly journals Academic Orientation Programme 2021. Researcher Visibility & Sharing our work beyond the University

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debbie Martindale
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Academic Orientation ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Research Data Management ◽  
The University ◽  
Researcher Identity

<p>This presentation introduces academics and researchers to the value of formal and informal technologies in promoting the visibility and discoverability of their online researcher identity. Topics covered in the presentation include Open Access, Creative Commons licensing, Institutional Repositories, Research Data Management, ORCID, Research Collaboration & Social Scholarship, Researcher impact &citation analysis, Social Media, and Altmetrics.</p>

scholarly journals Using Data Mining for Improving Education of University Students – A Survey

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 78-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. P. S. D. Kumarapathirana
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Student Retention ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Academic Behavior ◽  
System Logs ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Visualization Techniques ◽  
The University

Data mining combines machine learning, statistical and visualization techniques to discover and extract knowledge. Student retention is an indicator of academic performance and enrolment management of the university. Poor student retention could reflect badly on the university. Universities are facing the immense and quick growth of the volume of educational data stored in different types of databases and system logs. Moreover, the academic success of students is another major issue for the management in all professional institutes. So the early prediction to improve the student performance through counseling and extra coaching will help the management to take timely action for decrease the percentage of poor performance by the students. Data mining can be used to find relationships and patterns that exist but are hidden among the vast amount of educational data. This survey conducts a literature survey to identify data mining technologies to monitor student, analyze student academic behavior and provide a basis for efficient intervention strategies. The results can be used to develop a decision support system and help the authorities to timely actions on weak students.

scholarly journals Publisher's Comments

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Schnitz
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
The University

Journal of Biocommunication 41-1 represents the second issue of the JBC published within the University of Illinois Chicago's Open Journal System. This issue combines traditionally licensed and copyrighted content with other content published under open-access (OA) Creative Commons licensing.

scholarly journals YAIR (Yeshiva Academic Institutional Repository): How rethinking an open-source institutional repository is changing the visibility of faculty, students, and administration

2021 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Stephanie L. Gross
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Faculty Development ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Opt Out ◽  
Cost Effective Alternative ◽  
Strategic Imperative ◽  
The University

The director of libraries conceived of Yeshiva University’s institutional repository (IR) in 2018 in part as a cost-effective alternative to Digital Measures, a scholarly productivity tracking program used to determine faculty eligibility for tenure. It was mandated in Yeshiva University’s first Strategic Plan 2016-2010, under Strategic Imperative 2: Advance Faculty Development and Excellence in Teaching and Research. The IR would be a secure, prestigious, university-sanctioned platform for showcasing, documenting, and sharing intellectual output across the globe. It was important that most of the work would be open access, with accompanying Creative Commons Non-Commercial No-Derivatives licenses. In addition to faculty, undergraduate and graduate students would be given a platform to self-archive their intellectual output. Both faculty and students would have the option to opt-out from making their work public, or at least limiting the visibility to the university public only.

Visual Storytelling as Generative Strategy for Social Educators

2019 ◽  
pp. 18-35
Author(s):  
Laura Fedeli
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
The Other ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Visual Storytelling ◽  
The Third ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
The University ◽  
Professional Contexts

The chapter deals with the discussion of the results of an experimentation run in two consecutive academic years within the classes of the graduate course “Instructional Technology” in the graduate course “Science of Education” at the University of Macerata, Italy. The IT course is programmed in the third year of the curriculum for “Social Educators” and the contribution reports the results of a case study related to a workshop activity in which students could find a further opportunity to identify different dimensions of relation among theoretical aspects and the potential practical/applied connotations in professional contexts. The workshop was structured as an experiential learning process in which the value of the digital storytelling as educational approach was a strategy adopted to foster the students' understanding toward the intercultural issues in terms of improvement of relationship by taking a prospective position oriented to the other.

Assessment of Challenges of Teaching and Learning Computer Programming in Tanzanian Higher Education

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Baraka M. Kagombe ◽  
Michael P. J. Mahenge ◽  
Sotco Claudius Komba ◽  
Safari Timothy Mafu ◽  
Camilius Aloyce Sanga
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Computer Programming ◽  
Experiential Learning Theory ◽  
The University

This chapter emanates from a study which sought to investigate challenges of teaching and learning computer programming in higher education. The study was conducted at Sokoine University of Agriculture. The study had three specific objectives: first, to identify learners' prior knowledge on computer programming at the time of joining the university; second, to investigate learners' self-efficacy in computer programming course; the third objective was to evaluate the learning styles used by learners in the computer programming course. The study adopted a quantitative research method, grounded in experiential learning theory. The data was collected from respondents using questionnaires and the analysis of the data was done using statistical software. The findings indicate that inadequate computer laboratories, lack of competent staff in ICT-based instructional design, inadequate teaching and learning materials, and students' lack of prior knowledge on computer programming at the time of joining the university are the main challenges.

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