Spatial proximity matters: A study on collaboration

As scientific research becomes increasingly cross-disciplinary, many universities seek to support collaborative activity through new buildings and institutions. This study examines the impacts of spatial proximity on collaboration at MIT from 2005 to 2015. By exploiting a shift in the location of researchers due to building renovations, we evaluate how discrete changes in physical proximity affect the likelihood that researchers co-author. The findings suggest that moving researchers into the same building increases their propensity to collaborate, with the effect plateauing five years after the move. The effects are large when compared to the average rate of collaboration among pairs of researchers, which suggests that spatial proximity is an important tool to support cross-disciplinary collaborative science. Furthermore, buildings that host researchers working in the same or related fields and from multiple departments have a larger effect on their propensity to collaborate.

Raccontare con le immagini. Lo Stop-motion come strumento per l’apprendimento collaborativo

The purpose of this paper is to describe the activities carried out in a class with children of the third year of primary school (Istituto Sant’Anna, Torino) school year 2019/2020 and to test the potentialities of audiovisual and technological language in the development of knowledge and skills, like the management of a collaborative activity, the correct use of technological tools and the awarness of the project’s path.Thissperimental activity starts from the hypothesis that creating a stop-motion video, focused on a disciplinary subject, can give good results both from a learning point of view and the acquisition of social and relational skills thank to the type work, mainly carried out in groups.

PEMETAAN POTENSI DAN PENYUSUNAN PAKET WISATA DI KABUPATEN BANGKA SELATAN

The Bangka Belitung Islands are known as one of the largest tin producers in Indonesia. Since the last few years, tin mining activities are no longer the primary economic source, but have shifted towards tourism. Especially since the introduction of the novel and movie Laskar Pelangi, making Belitung one of the most visited tourist destinations and affecting the number of visits to Bangka Island. So far, the center of tourism activities on Bangka Island only revolves around Sungailiat and its surroundings, not yet reaching South Bangka. Whereas in the South Bangka area there are also many exciting potentials to be developed. For this reason, it is necessary to develop a strategy so that South Bangka can also be developed into an alternative tourist destination other than Sungailiat. One of the methods used is mapping tourism potential and compiling travel patterns to become tour packages to be promoted. FGDs were conducted by involving tourism actors, professional associations, and the local Tourism Office. This community service activity is also a collaborative activity between the Deputy for Destination Development at the Ministry of Tourism of the Republic of Indonesia and the Tourism Office of the Province of Bangka Belitung. This activity resulted in the design of tour packages for the South Bangka area. There are two kinds of tour packages produced named ‘Kelapan Snorkeling’and ‘Bangka Energic Underwater’; both equipped with an itinerary map. Kepulauan Bangka Belitung selama ini dikenal sebagai salah satu penghasil timah terbesar di Indonesia. Sejak beberapa tahun terakhir, kegiatan penambangan timah bukan lagi menjadi sumber ekonomi utama, namun sudah bergeser ke arah pariwisata. Apalagi sejak dikenalnya novel dan film Laskar Pelangi, mejadikan Belitung sebagai salah satu destinasi wisata yang banyak dikunjungi, dan berpengaruh juga pada angka kunjungan ke Pulau Bangka. Selama ini pusat kegiatan wisata di Pulau Bangka hanya berkisar di Sungailiat dan sekitarnya, belum sampai merambah ke Bangka Selatan. Padahal di kawasan Bangka Selatan ini juga banyak potensi yang menarik untuk dikembangkan. Untuk itu perlu disusun strategi agar Bangka Selatan juga bisa dikebangkan menjadi destinasi wisata alternatif selain Sungailiat. Metode yang dipakai salah satunya dengan pemetaan potensi wisata dan penyusunan pola perjalanan hingga menjadi paket wisata untuk dipromosikan. FGD dilakukan dengan melibatkan para pelaku wisata, asosiasi profesi dan Dinas Pariwisata setempat. Kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat kali ini sekaligus merupakan kegiatan kerjasama antara Deputi Bidang Pengembangan Destinasi Kementerian Pariwisata RI dan Dinas Pariwisata Provinsi Bangka Belitung. Kegiatan ini menghasilkan rancangan paket wisata ke kawasan Bangka Selatan. Paket wisata yang dihasilkan ada 2 macam yaitu ‘Kelapan Snorkeling’ dan ‘Bangka Energic Underwater’, dengan masing-masing dilengkapi dengan peta alur perjalanannya.

Method for Directing Collaborative Study Guide Construction by Undergraduate Student Groups

Students often request study guides; however, the impact of study guides on student learning is mixed. Here, some evidence on student study guide usage and collaborative learning is briefly reviewed. This information helped to shape the development of a collaborative activity where student groups create their own study guide questions based on the chapter learning outcomes. Requiring students to collaborate and create their own study guides may encourage a higher engagement with and deeper processing of the course content.

Sociologia del Dissenso

The theme of this article is epistemological: Defining the logical and epistemological statute of Dissent as a sociological act ofinnovation and change in international law by social groups in opposition to the establishment, sovereign states and theirgeopolitical alliances. The sociological theory of the loop as an object of study and ontological unity is, therefore, applied to thecase of Dissent, to try to explain the paradox of this social function that makes its way, every day, in a world originally dominatedby the Force (of military, police, hooliganism, terrorist, antisocial nature, etc.). We try to answer the problem of how Dissent(political-democratic, human rights, civil disobedience, etc.) can be a practice of peaceful contrast to violence and the Force,which can even create such beautiful and fragile buildings as state law, international law, human rights and peace itself. In doingso, it is assumed that international human rights regimes cooperate with Dissent (operating within them, and viceversa) toimpose international legal obligations, in the field of human rights, which are fully effective and sanctioned, even in the absenceof a police and/or centralized jurisdiction and/or a deterrent system of military sanctions. This concurrent, complementary andquasi-collaborative activity with the States, on the one hand, challenges the "local and nationalized" Force, on the other, "tosome extent", follows a "loop" logic making use of them.The conjecture formulated by this article is that the sociological theory of the loop, applied to the case of dissent, can explainthe paradox of dissent (political-democratic, in human rights, in civil disobedience, etc.). Indeed, it is aporetic how peacefulpractice can contribute to establishing international law, human rights and peace itself without being Force and violence itself.The aporia would be resolved, by conjecture, by arguing that Dissent "is" Strength to a certain extent, that is, that it is logicallyand ontologically "vague" related to the practice of States and by asserting that the International Regimes of Human Rights aresketches of the future international law (or the future legal systems of the Sovereign States or their, for now, unknown successor).Such an outcome, however, requires a reformulation of the implicit presuppositions of the sociology of Dissent, affecting itslogical and ontological foundations, with a new thesis of deontic logic, which resorts to an attenuation of the principle of non contradiction,in the particular field of praxis of Dissent. This allows us to conceptualize the ontological and logical theory thatDissent would be "almost" an act of Force.

O impacto da Autoria em Rede e das Produções Colaborativas no processo de aprendizagem para além da transmidiação

RESUMO O presente projeto tem como finalidade propor uma aproximação teórica e prática a respeito da autoria em rede e das produções colaborativas no espaço on-line enquanto fatores promissores no processo de aprendizagem despertado por um teor transmidiático. Consideram-se como aporte teórico discussões acerca da autoria em rede, da atividade colaborativa, do cenário da cibercultura, bem como convergência midiática e narrativa transmidiática. Para tanto, parte-se do método qualitativo, a partir da leitura bibliográfica e finalidade exploratória e descritiva para destacar a discussão e possíveis resultados por meio dos dados analisados. Buscando assim, observar a relevância e caminhos possíveis na educação a partir de tais exercícios. ABSTRACT The purpose of this project is to propose a theoretical and practical approach regarding networked authorship and collaborative productions in the online space as promising factors in the learning process triggered by a transmedia content. We consider as theoretical basis discussions about networked authorship, collaborative activity, the cyberculture scenario, as well as media convergence and transmedia narrative. For this, the qualitative method is used, based on bibliographical reading and exploratory and descriptive purposes to highlight the discussion and possible results through the analyzed data. Thus, we seek to observe the relevance and possible paths in education from such exercises.

Getting Cozy, or How the European Commission Produces Legitimacy in the EU

International organizations increasingly resort to strategies of legitimation in order to justify their authority and policies. This article explores one such strategy of the European Commission that targets organized interest groups with the aim to build a legitimating constituency. The members of this constituency not only contribute expertise to a policy, but also benefit from that policy and, therefore, participate in the development and confirmation of a claim to the policy's legitimacy that is put forward by EU officials. As a consequence, the agents seeking legitimacy and the addressees granting it become closely associated and “get cozy” with each other. EU officials address their claim to legitimacy to a community of co-opted elites who are likely to confirm this claim and in whose own interests it is to do so. The result is legitimation as a collaborative activity with preordained outcomes. Taking the case of the European Commission's research and innovation policy, and building in part on an ethnographic practitioner's account, the article provides an original insight into how this legitimation strategy works in everyday EU policymaking.