scholarly journals Introduction to the Special Issue on Visual Learning in Higher Education

Seminar.net ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett Bligh ◽  
Rolf Wiesemes ◽  
Roger Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Visual Learning ◽  
Processes Of Change ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
The World ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Do So

Higher education throughout the world is undergoing various processes of change, pressurised by demands to provide education for greater numbers of students and to do so using a variety of models of increasing number and diversity. Among these changes, the use of new technologies to support learning is attracting significant amounts of attention as university teachers and students seek to make the best use of the opportunities which they provide to both modernise learning methods and make learning and teaching more effective.

scholarly journals Covid-19 (in) a Class of Its Own: Student and Teacher Musings Regarding Their Learnings and Well-Being when Moving a Large Blended First Year Class Virtually Overnight

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Trafford ◽  
Ailsa Haxell ◽  
Kelvin Lau ◽  
Gema Carlson ◽  
Ana Patricia Rebelo da Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Year ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Multiple Voices ◽  
Higher Education Pedagogy ◽  
Teachers And Students

Covid-19 is (in) a class of its own in its influence on human lives and livelihoods globally, precipitating steep learning and psychological well-being curves for university teachers and students. This has impacted dramatically on the conditions under which higher education has had to function in regard to research and what is now referred to as ‘emergency online education’. As staff face unprecedented challenges, so too do students. Given that the consequences of these times are likely to be felt well into the future, it is important to capture what is happening now. We therefore present this perspective piece comprising 13 musings co-authored by students and educators regarding our experiences of two lockdowns within Aotearoa New Zealand in 2020 representative of the disrupted university in its adjustment to learning and teaching. In contributing to calls to develop a post-pandemic pedagogy for higher education, and better support staff and student well-being, we draw on methods that would multiply questions and invoke possibilities, as an impetus for reimagining higher education. Making use of a cogenerative dialoguing process, these musings enable multiple voices to be heard and considered. A non-representational lens enables us to explore the what and how of Covid-19 creating disruption and uncertainty for students’ and educators, influencing their psychological well-being and higher education pedagogy and practices, and becoming a contextually relevant taonga (treasure) of experiences that might inform future educational activities.

scholarly journals Exploring visual representation of concepts in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Buckley ◽  
Chrissi Nerantzi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Doctoral Level ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The World ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education ◽  
Access Issue

This Special Issue aims to go deeper in exploring the potential uses of visual representation in teaching and learning and the implications for practice in the context of higher education while showcasing the emerging work and research in this area from around the world. We welcome articles from new and more experienced academic writers, practitioners and researchers who have been creating, using and adapting various forms of visual representation across the disciplines and professional areas. We also invitestudents who are using them for their learning at undergraduate, postgraduate or doctoral level, from around the world and would like to share their work with a wider audience through an open access issue to help us all gain new insights and deepen our understandings in this area.

scholarly journals Balancing Technology, Pedagogy and the New Normal: Post-pandemic Challenges for Higher Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrysi Rapanta ◽  
Luca Botturi ◽  
Peter Goodyear ◽  
Lourdes Guàrdia ◽  
Marguerite Koole
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Expert Advice ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Science And Education

AbstractThe Covid-19 pandemic has presented an opportunity for rethinking assumptions about education in general and higher education in particular. In the light of the general crisis the pandemic caused, especially when it comes to the so-called emergency remote teaching (ERT), educators from all grades and contexts experienced the necessity of rethinking their roles, the ways of supporting the students’ learning tasks and the image of students as self-organising learners, active citizens and autonomous social agents. In our first Postdigital Science and Education paper, we sought to distil and share some expert advice for campus-based university teachers to adapt to online teaching and learning. In this sequel paper, we ask ourselves: Now that campus-based university teachers have experienced the unplanned and forced version of Online Learning and Teaching (OLT), how can this experience help bridge the gap between online and in-person teaching in the following years? The four experts, also co-authors of this paper, interviewed aligning towards an emphasis on pedagogisation rather than digitalisation of higher education, with strategic decision-making being in the heart of post-pandemic practices. Our literature review of papers published in the last year and analysis of the expert answers reveal that the ‘forced’ experience of teaching with digital technologies as part of ERT can gradually give place to a harmonious integration of physical and digital tools and methods for the sake of more active, flexible and meaningful learning.

scholarly journals Laws and Emerging Technologies

Laws ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Esther Salmerón-Manzano
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Legal Challenges ◽  
The World ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Way

New technologies and so-called communication and information technologies are transforming our society, the way in which we relate to each other, and the way we understand the world. By a wider extension, they are also influencing the world of law. That is why technologies will have a huge impact on society in the coming years and will bring new challenges and legal challenges to the legal sector worldwide. On the other hand, the new communications era also brings many new legal issues such as those derived from e-commerce and payment services, intellectual property, or the problems derived from the use of new technologies by young people. This will undoubtedly affect the development, evolution, and understanding of law. This Special Issue has become this window into the new challenges of law in relation to new technologies.

scholarly journals Leviathan, or the Rudder of Public Health

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (Suppl. 1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Denis Horgan ◽  
Walter Ricciardi
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Big Data ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Personalised Medicine ◽  
Member States ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Do So

In the world of modern health, despite the fact that we've been blessed with amazing advances of late - the advent of personalised medicine is just one example - “change” for most citizens seems slow. There are clear discrepancies in availability of the best care for all, the divisions in access from country to country, wealthy to poor, are large. There are even discrepancies between regions of the larger countries, where access often varies alarmingly. Too many Member States (with their competence for healthcare) appear to be clinging stubbornly to the concept of “one-size-fits-all” in healthcare and often stifle advances possible through personalised medicine. Meanwhile, the legislative arena encompassing health has grown big and unwieldy in many respects. And bigger is not always better. The health advances spoken of above, an increased knowledge on the part of patients, the emergence of Big Data and more, are quickly changing the face of healthcare in Europe. But healthcare thinking across the EU isn't changing fast enough. The new technologies will certainly speak for themselves, but only if allowed to do so. Acknowledging that, this article highlights a positive reform agenda, while explaining that new avenues need to be explored.

scholarly journals O Fórum dos Coordenadores do Programa Institucional de Bolsa de Iniciação à Docência no contexto de luta pela valorização dos professores da educação básica

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 06
Author(s):  
Alessandra ASSIS ◽  
Jaqueline Barbosa da SILVA
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High Education ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
The Other ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Teachers And Students

Este artigo intenciona socializar a trajetória do Fórum dos Coordenadores do PIBID (FORPIBID), enfatizando o percurso histórico do Programa no âmbito nacional. O diálogo paritário entre docentes e discentes, da Educação Básica e do Ensino Superior, evidencia o processo aprendente e ensinante que tem impulsionado a relação entre o FORPIBID, os órgãos financiadores e a rede interinstitucional de instituições de Ensino Superior brasileiras, consolidando a luta pela permanência e aperfeiçoamento do programa, bem como sua organicidade em relação a outros programas voltados para a valorização da formação de professores para a Educação Básica, a exemplo do PARFOR, LIFE, PRODOCÊNCIA, NOVOS TALENTOS, PNAIC. FORPIBID. PIBID Diversidade. Educação Básica. Ensino Superior. ABSTRACTThis article intends to socialize the trajectory of the Fórum dos Coordenadores do PIBID (PIBID Coordinators Forum - FORPIBID), emphasizing the historical way of the program in the national scope. The dialogue between peers of the teachers and students, from the basic education and the higher education, evidences the learning and teaching process that has boosted the relation between the FORPIBID, the financiers agencies and the inter institutional net of the Brazilians high education institutions, consolidating the fight for the permanence and the improvement of the program, as well as its organization concerning the other programs direct toward the appreciation of the teachers education to the basic education, as it has been seen in PARFOR, LIFE, PRODOCÊNCIA, NOVOS TALENTOS, PNAIC. FORPIBID. PIBID Diversidade. Basic Education. Higher Education.The Forum of the Institutional Program of the Initiation to Teaching Scholarship in the context of the struggle for the valuation of primary education teachers

scholarly journals Mobile Learning Technologies

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 298
Author(s):  
Khalil Alsaadat
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The World ◽  
Good Environment

<p>Technological development  have altered the way we communicate, learn, think, share, and spread information. Mobile technologies are those that make use of wireless technologies to gain some sort of data. As mobile connectedness continues to spread across the world, the value of employing mobile technologies in the arena of learning and teaching seems to be both self-evident and unavoidable The fast deployment of mobile devices and wireless networks in university campuses makes higher education a good environment  to integrate learners-centered m-learning . this paper discusses mobile learning technologies that are being used for educational purposes and the effect they have on teaching and learning methods.</p>

scholarly journals Use of Augmented Reality to Create an iOS App with Watson Studio

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 98-100
Author(s):  
Semen Gorokhovskyi ◽  
Yelyzaveta Pyrohova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
The Real ◽  
The World

With the rapid development of applications for mobile platforms, developers from around the world already understand the need to impress with new technologies and the creation of such applications, with which the consumer will plunge into the world of virtual or augmented reality. Some of the world’s most popular mobile operating systems, Android and iOS, already have some well-known tools to make it easier to work with the machine learning industry and augmented reality technology. However, it cannot be said that their use has already reached its peak, as these technologies are at the stage of active study and development. Every year the demand for mobile application developers increases, and therefore more questions arise as to how and from which side it is better to approach immersion in augmented reality and machine learning. From a tourist point of view, there are already many applications that, with the help of these technologies, will provide more information simply by pointing the camera at a specific object.Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that allows you to see the real environment right in front of us with a digital complement superimposed on it. Thanks to Ivan Sutherland’s first display, created in 1968 under the name «Sword of Damocles», paved the way for the development of AR, which is still used today.Augmented reality can be divided into two forms: based on location and based on vision. Location-based reality provides a digital picture to the user when moving through a physical area thanks to a GPS-enabled device. With a story or information, you can learn more details about a particular location. If you use AR based on vision, certain user actions will only be performed when the camera is aimed at the target object.Thanks to advances in technology that are happening every day, easy access to smart devices can be seen as the main engine of AR technology. As the smartphone market continues to grow, consumers have the opportunity to use their devices to interact with all types of digital information. The experience of using a smartphone to combine the real and digital world is becoming more common. The success of AR applications in the last decade has been due to the proliferation and use of smartphones that have the capabilities needed to work with the application itself. If companies want to remain competitive in their field, it is advisable to consider work that will be related to AR.However, analyzing the market, one can see that there are no such applications for future entrants to higher education institutions. This means that anyone can bring a camera to the university building and learn important information. The UniApp application based on the existing Swift and Watson Studio technologies was developed to simplify obtaining information on higher education institutions.

Thanatopography

Dismantlings ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 139-159
Author(s):  
Matt Tierney
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Ethical Codes ◽  
The World ◽  
Mutual Obligation ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Communal Responsibility ◽  
Do So

This chapter describes thanatopography as the drawing of a map of death, not the writing of a death. When new technologies respatialize the world, thanatopography teaches that they do so not because they construct a communicative network but instead because they build and distribute sites of machinic killing. In discussing Norbert Wiener's insistence on seeing the planet as a world of Belsen and Hiroshima, thanatopography pares back the presumed connection between technology and humanity, exposing something quite frightening underneath the network. A vision of the world that presumes no common similarities among people and peoples is a vertiginous vision that must see shared connections among extant technologies, not only telecommunication and computation but also war, racism, and dehumanizing labor. Communal responsibility and mutual obligation survive amid such technologies as ethical codes that negotiate difference rather than attempting to transcend it. But they also require a reckoning with very real legacies of twentieth-century machines. In place of the smooth-functioning global network, thanatopography offers a spatio-temporal figuration of mass death.

Blended Learning in Higher Education 4.0

2019 ◽  
pp. 70-84
Author(s):  
Arumugam Raman ◽  
Mohan Rathakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Education System ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Technology Advancement ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Learning ◽  
Automation Technology

Rapid technology advancement in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR) has undoubtedly posed a great challenge to the education system in higher education institutes and changed every aspect of our lives including education. Higher education institutions across the world are amalgamating technology in modern learning and teaching approaches such as blended learning so that future teachers are equipped with the latest 21st century knowledge for further innovations and creations. This chapter covers definition, design, and implementation of blended learning in higher education. Further it also discusses blended learning models and assessment tools in recent education setting around the world. The education system worldwide has to transform for the imminent FIR as the job market will be largely prompted by the advancement of digital economy, robotics, artificial intelligence, and automation technology.

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