scholarly journals Black, White, and Grey

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian (Jill) D Ellern ◽  
Laura Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Technology Diffusion ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
The Future ◽  
Similar Unit ◽  
And Training

This study seeks to extend wicked problems analysis within the context of a library’s support for virtual reality (VR) and the related extended reality (XR) emerging technologies. The researchers conducted 11 interviews with 13 librarians, embedded IT staff, and/or faculty members who were involved in administering, managing, or planning a virtual reality lab or classroom in a library (or similar unit) in a higher education setting. The qualitative analysis of the interviews identified clusters of challenges, which are categorized as either emergent (but solvable) such as portability and training; complicated (but possible) such as licensing and ethics: and/or wicked (but tameable). The respondents framed their role in supporting the wickedness of VR/XR in three basic ways: library as gateway, library as learning partner, and library as maker. Five taming strategies were suggested from this research to help librarians wrestle with these challenges of advocating for a vision of VR/XR on their respective campuses. This research also hints at a larger role for librarians in the research of technology diffusion and what that might mean to their role in higher education in the future.

Evidence-based training approach for higher education faculty: brief model of inclusion and training of the disabled

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gulnaz Zahid
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Training Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Action Model ◽  
And Training

PurposeThis interventional study aims to test the effectiveness of thek training approach for higher education faculty members to facilitate students with disabilities (SwD) to promote inclusion in higher education by operationalising approaches on the basis of the social action model. It presents an evidence-based training model created on recognised theories and strategies in the field of disability.Design/methodology/approachThe study follows a single-case pre/post-test intervention design in which data were analysed quantitatively, followed by a thematic analysis of participants' feedback and trainer's reflections. Training sessions were aligned to the social action model, the perspective of reasonable accommodations and introduction to technological support for teaching-learning and policy issues. Eighty faculty members from different schools of a multi-disciplinary Pakistani university participated in these sessions. Data from only 63 faculty members were available for analyses.FindingsTeacher Perceptions of Facilitating Students with Disabilities (TP-FSD) scale served as a pre- and post-test measure. The quantitative assessment revealed knowledge and attitudinal gains after brief trainings. However, when findings were interpreted considering effect sizes and supported by qualitative findings, moderate effectiveness level was evident. Effectiveness can be interpreted by the internal and external validity checks and findings of multiple assessments.Practical implicationsThis study can be replicated by adapting the training approach and by considering its strengths and shortcomings mentioned in detail in the discussion section.Originality/valueThe study tested the effectiveness of brief faculty training to support SwD in a multi-disciplinary university having faculty with varied education and training experience.

Innovative Technologies to Support Education and Training: Researches by LabTEVE

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliane Machado ◽  
Ronei Moraes
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Educational Content ◽  
Innovative Technologies ◽  
Training Systems ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Training

Training systems based on virtual reality, serious games, assessment methods, systems to support learning, assessment methodologies and technologies to extend interaction with educational content have been the focus of researches at LabTEVE. The interdisciplinarity can be observed in each project, highlighting the need for dialogue between areas for the production of solutions and technologies that can be used today as well as prospected for the future.

The Changing Role of Salespeople and the Unchanging Feeling Toward Selling: Implications for the HEI Programs

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Vincenzo Ballestra ◽  
Silvio Cardinali ◽  
Paola Palanga ◽  
Graziella Pacelli
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Career Choice ◽  
European Country ◽  
Work Readiness ◽  
The Past ◽  
Program Content ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
And Training

Over the past five decades, several studies have shown that students’ reticence toward choosing a sales career has remained constant. Their lack of awareness and misconceptions regarding a sales job are two reasons behind this negative perception and lack of students’ “work readiness.” Using a conceptual model on student intention to pursue a sales career, this study has two goals: (a) to understand whether students recognize the changes in the salesperson’s role and (b) to investigate whether new understanding of these changes has any impact on students’ feelings and perceptions regarding selling as a career choice. After a preliminary qualitative analysis, a survey was carried out in a European country (Italy). Findings suggest that students are partly aware of the salesperson’s role, but they have a limited understanding of the evolution that has taken place in that role. In addition, there emerges a new antecedent, Understanding the salesperson role, that has had a significant impact on students’ Feelings toward selling. This new antecedent stresses the relational aspects of the salesperson’s job, highlighting how that aspect has never been considered in previous studies. Different explanations are offered, along with educational and training implications for curricula, program content, and handbooks in HEI (Higher Education Institutes).

scholarly journals The speech therapy system for the formation of the phonemic processes of the junior pupils in the conditions of inclusion: the experience of teaching the students of the specialty of defectology

2021 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 00065
Author(s):  
E.V. Matvienko ◽  
T.A. Savelyeva ◽  
A.S. Yarovaya
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Speech Therapy ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The Future ◽  
Professional Formation

The article presents a detailed description of one of the areas of teaching the students of defectology receiving higher education - the study of the correctional technologies. The implementation of this direction plays an important role in the professional formation of the future specialists, as it contributes to the formation of students’ general and special competences and the abilities to interact in the actual educational process. The presented system of the work aimed at the formation of the prerequisites for the formation of the processes of writing and reading of junior pupils, tested on the basis of the secondary schools in Krasnodar, implementing a system of the inclusive education. The effectiveness is confirmed by the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the data of the experiment with junior pupils.

scholarly journals Transformation of Higher Education into New Normal

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Osman Ferda Beytekin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Teaching Style ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Experience Teaching ◽  
The Future ◽  
University Support ◽  
First Time

The purpose of this qualitative study was to get a better understanding of faculty members' views on the future of higher education by their first-time online teaching experiences during the Fall 2021 academic semester, which was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the outbreak's rapid and widespread dissemination, it created a unique phenomenon that had a significant impact on faculty members who had no prior experience teaching courses entirely online. In order to conduct this qualitative research, purposive sampling was used to choose ten faculty members from a variety of disciplines who had at least ten years of experience teaching in a traditional classroom setting at a public university in Izmir, Turkey. Faculty members were asked about the future of higher education in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Apart from that, each faculty member was asked to discuss how the mandatory shift to online education altered their teaching style and how institutional help impacted their experiences throughout the pandemic. As a consequence of their observations and statements of their perspectives on events they witnessed and personally experienced, the key issue of "transformation of higher education with hybrid perspective" developed as a central theme. The data analysis revealed the following subthemes: "educators on the internet," "sustain and evolve," and "university support". These findings may be applied in a variety of contexts, including educational leadership and the design of hybrid and online courses, among other applications in higher education.

scholarly journals Introducing 360-Degree Video in Higher Education: An Overview of the Literature

2020 ◽  
pp. 345-353
Author(s):  
Maria Ranieri ◽  
Isabella Bruni ◽  
Damiana Luzzi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
International Research ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Immersive Environments

According to international research and institutions, the Higher Education sector needs to deeply innovate his didactic methodologies. In this sense, the integration and use of ICTs have been seen as a possible driver for the improvement of education’ quality, and showed good affordances for teaching and learning in terms of engagement, communication and collaboration. New emerging technologies are now under experimentation, especially as for immersive environments from augmented to virtual reality. In this paper we will focus on 360-degree video, offering a first overview of its potential in educational contexts, as they emerge from a systematic literature review.

Transhumanism, Posthumanism, and the Catholic Church

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 369-396
Author(s):  
Alcibiades Malapi‑Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One ◽  
The Catholic Church

In this essay, I engage the foreseeable consequences for the future of humanity triggered by Emerging Technologies and their underpinning philosophy, transhumanism. The transhumanist stance is compared with the default view currently held in many academic institutions of higher education: posthumanism. It is maintained that the transhumanist view is less inimical to the fostering of human dignity than the posthuman one. After this is established, I suggest that the Catholic Church may find an ally in a transhumanist ethos in a two‑fold manner. On the one hand, by anchoring and promoting the defense of “the human” already present in transhumanism. On the other, rethinking the effectiveness of the delivery of sacraments in a humanity heavily altered by these technologies.

scholarly journals Relationships Among Economy, Industry, Vocational Education and Training and Higher Engineering Education – The Trefort Project Editorial

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Istvan Simonics
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Vocational Education And Training ◽  
Vocational Schools ◽  
The Future ◽  
Engineering Pedagogy ◽  
And Training

It is a great pleasure to contribute some words to the debate about Engineering Education as well as to broaden the discussion about the future evolution of this discipline. Thanks to the International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP) and its editor-in-chief, Matthias Utesch, as well as to the collaboration between the IGIP (International Society for Engineering Pedagogy), we have received a possibility to collect the best papers of our 9th Trefort Ágoston Conference on Vocational Education and Training and Technical Teacher Training at Óbuda University (ÓE) Electrical Engineering Faculty in Budapest, in Hungary. The Conference was organized as an IGIP Regional Conference for the third time. Before introducing the articles, I summarize the main important elements influencing the Higher Engineering Education in Hungary. The Fourth Industrial Revolution unfolds, companies are seeking to harness new and emerging technologies to reach higher levels of efficiency of production and consumption, expand into new markets, and compete on new products for a global consumer base composed increasingly of digital natives. There are several requirements for qualified engineers: they have to be creative, critical thinking, complex program solvers and have to have competencies of cognitive flexibility, high-level communication, teamwork, and application of foreign languages. At our university, we have recognized several problems according to SWOT analyses. Not enough number of students would like to select STEM faculties. The rate of early school leaving (ESL) is too high in the STEM area. Requests of the Labor market have not appeared in Training curricula. The candidate students do not know the future carrier and the content they have to learn. In secondary schools, the development of basic competencies and STEM subjects is not effective e.g. teaching Math is not practice-oriented, this is why the results of students on PISA tests are weaker. The preparation for higher education is not enough, which leads to ESL by the end of the first year in higher education. The quality of knowledge of secondary education pupils is an important input for engineering higher education. The vocational secondary schools can provide the majority of starting engineering studies at technical universities. The technical teacher training prepares the vocational teachers for secondary vocational schools. The quality of technical teacher training, the adequacy of curricula to professional needs can be key questions for the future of engineering education. The practice of vocational teacher-students is a basic element of their studies. These practices are organized in secondary vocational schools. But realizing these practices needs a mentor teacher. In this Trefort Project, we selected 6 presentations and asked the authors to submit their articles for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP).

The Present Scenario of Enrolling in LIS Education System in India during 2010-2017

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-95
Author(s):  
Sukanya Mandal ◽  
Barun Naskar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Training

This paper makes an attempt to present a comprehensive review of enrolling within the library and information science (LIS) discipline in India during 2010–20017. The article provides latest information relating to enrolment in universities, institutions and colleges. The objective of this study is to identify the growth and development of LIS education and training in India. The analysis is predicted on the report of ‘All India Survey on Higher Education’. In this study the situation of the future in LIS is analyzed.

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