Crowdsourced Knowledge in Organizational Decision Making

Inefficiencies naturally form as organizations grow in size and complexity. The knowledge required to address these inefficiencies is often stove-piped across different organizational silos, geographic locations, and professional disciplines. Crowdsourcing provides a way to tap into the knowledge and experiences of diverse groups of people to rapidly identify and more effectively solve inefficiencies. We developed a prototype crowdsourcing system based on design thinking practices to allow employees to build a shared mental model and work collaboratively to identify, characterize, and rank inefficiencies, as well as to develop possible solutions. We conducted a study to assess how presenting crowdsourced knowledge (votes/preferences, supporting argumentation, etc.) from employees affected organizational Decision Makers (DMs). In spite of predictions that crowdsourced knowledge would influence their decisions, presenting this knowledge to DMs had no significant effect on their voting for various solutions. We found significant differences in the mental models of employees and DMs. We offer various explanations for this behavior based on rhetorical analysis and other survey responses from DMs and contributors. We further discuss different theoretical explanations, including the effects of various biases and decision inertia, and potential issues with the types of knowledge elicited and presented to DMs.

Peculiarities of teaching the students of the specialty international relations, low and history professional disciplines

The paper highlights the peculiarities of teaching the students of the specialty International Relations, Law and History professionally oriented disciplines when the attention is paid to the study of professional disciplines. After mastering the core materials of the discipline, the students should know all the components of these disciplines and be able to apply their knowledge in practice. We have confirmed by our research that for the modern student to be able to master all knowledge and skills, modern lecturers at their lectures and seminars should change the teaching methods, tending more to the use of interactive methods, which, compared to the traditional ones, are much more efficient for providing the educational process. Among the modern interactive teaching methods, such methods as Circle of Ideas, Aquarium, Microphone, and Role Play, Imitation deserve special attention, and their use promotes students' cognitive abilities, creative thinking, quick decision making, work in groups, thus stimulating the development of communication skills, and mainly the interest of the student in learning. In the conditions of a pandemic (2020-2021), as the experiment showed, it is also possible for teachers to use interactive methods in teaching professional disciplines for students of the above specialties.

Professional Preparedness and Psychosocial Beliefs as Predictors of Quality Physical Education and Recreation Services to Students with Disabilities

The purpose of this study was to examine how professional preparedness and psychosocial beliefs affected behavioral intentions and quality service behaviors in providing physical education (PE) and recreation services to students with disabilities (SWD). Participants of an online survey included New Mexico adapted physical education (APE) teachers (N=42) and recreational therapists (RT; N=13) and a sample of PE teachers (N=63). Analyses revealed significant differences between PE teachers and personnel in specialty professional disciplines. APE and RT personnel reported greater positive attitudes, higher self-efficacy, greater behavioral intention, and more engagement in quality service behaviors than PE teachers. The results have implications for the selection and training of school personnel hired to provide PE and recreation services to SWD.

Informationisation construction of pharmacology continuing education – a case study on big data analysis of the aetiology of rheumatoid arthritis

The goal of promoting Information and Communication Technology of continuing education in colleges and universities is to standardise the process of teaching and scientific research, make the process more scientific and refined, so as to facilitate and improve the quality of teaching and scientific research, as well as professional disciplines. Rheumatoid arthritis is a disease with chronic, symmetrical and non-specific inflammation of the synovium of the joints (subcutaneous nodules, pericarditis, pleurisy, pneumonia, peripheral neuritis etc.) as the main clinical manifestations. The analysis of pharmacological big data information helps to understand its aetiology and pathological mechanism, which is complex and involves various pathogenic factors.

INNOVATIVE METHODS OF DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTH-PRESERVING COMPETENCE OF FUTURE BACHELORS IN PHYSICAL THERAPY

The article represents methodical and practical aspects of the problem of development of health-preserving competence of future bachelors in physical therapy, characterizing the content and methods of pedagogical activity during studying professional disciplines. The value principles and social dimensions of the problem of designing and application of innovative teaching methods in higher education are analyzed. The thematic blocks of classes in the content of professional disciplines of future bachelors in physical therapy are characterized according to the purpose - formation of health-preserving competence of future bachelors in physical therapy. Peculiarities of innovative methods application of teaching professional disciplines in health-preserving competence development of future bachelors in physical therapy are revealed. Innovative methods of teaching professional disciplines are classified into three major groups depending on the learning objectives, expected results and features of the educational activities organization (dialogue, game and practice-oriented). The content and goals of each group of methods are determined, examples of their application in the professional training practice are given. The conclusion is formulated that the division of methods into dialogue, game and practice-oriented is conditional because each method presented can potentially solve integrated problems and functions. Their effectiveness depends on the teacher's facilitation of learning and youths’ development.

CRITERION-ORIENTED TEST BASED ON THE USE OF COMPUTERS AS A MEANS OF EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE

The article considers new approaches to assessing student achievement in higher education. Modern priorities in education are considered, one of which is quality control of knowledge of future specialists. In general, mastering professional disciplines during training involves studying issues of application: designing tests of different levels of application, control material for use, interpretation of test results, interpretation of its results and drawing conclusions about its compliance with the purpose, objectives , understanding of the main quality characteristics of control material and the possibility of using computer technology in creating, conducting and processing test results. The article experimentally proves that assessing the quality of knowledge of futur e professionals using criterion-based testing based on the use of computers is one of the most effective means of pedagogical control.

Carpal Tunnel Treatment Options: Developing Consolidated Guidelines for Best Practice—A Meta-Synthesis

Date Presented Accepted for AOTA INSPIRE 2021 but unable to be presented due to online event limitations. OTs have a major role in the conservative care of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) before surgery; however, best treatment practices are unclear as a result of conflicting recommendations among professional disciplines. We collected and analyzed professional guideline recommendations to construct a consolidated guideline with clear ratings for the available treatments. This guideline will inform treatment procedures and develop more universal best practices for remedying CTS. Primary Author and Speaker: Julianna E. Dole Contributing Authors: Nancy Baker, Shawn C. Roll

Politics of the Blessed Lady: Catholic Art in the Contemporary Hungarian Culture Industry

I examine Hungary’s Catholic arts industry and its material practices of cultural production: the institutions and professional disciplines through which devotional material objects move as they become embedded in political processes of national construction and contestation. Ethnographic data come from thirty-six months of fieldwork in Hungary and Transylvania, and focuses on three museum and gallery exhibitions of Catholic devotional objects. Building on critiques of subjectivity- and embodiment-focused research, I highlight how the institutional legacies of state socialism in Hungary and Romania inform a national politics of Catholic materiality. Hungarian cultural institutions and intellectuals have been drawn to work with Catholic art because Catholic material culture sustains a meaningful presence across multiple scales of political contestation at the local, regional, and state levels. The movement of Catholic ritual objects into the zone of high art and cultural preservation necessitates that these objects be mobilized for use within the political agendas of state-embedded institutions. Yet, this mobilization is not total. Ironies, confusions, and contradictions continue to show up in Transylvanian Hungarians’ historical memory, destabilizing these political uses.

Use of storytelling method in the process of teaching professional disciplines for bachelors of information, library and archive science

Practical significance. Storytelling is now a tool for information transmitting, a form of organization of cognitive activity in the process of which conditions are created for the comprehensive development of the student’s personality and an influential method of achieving results. The aim is to study previous experience and analyze the features and ways of implementing storytelling strategies in the teaching of professional disciplines for bachelors of information, library and archive science. Methodology. The methodology consists in the application of theoretical methods (documentary analysis, analytical and synthetic information processing, comparison), which allows to identify and generalize the features of storytelling in the educational process of bachelors of information, library and archive science, change the content of vocational education. Novelty. There was no use of the storytelling method in the teaching of professional disciplines for bachelors of information, library and archive science. The results prove that storytelling is now an important tool for information transmitting, a form of organization of cognitive activity in the process, which creates conditions for the comprehensive development of the student’s personality and an influential method of achieving results. The practical significance of the introduction of storytelling in the development of courses in disciplines (“Information and analytical activities”, “Visual analytics”, “Information monitoring”, “Information management”), given the latest technologies in revealing the application of elements of virtual reality and augmented reality during training of future bachelors in information, library and archive science. Conclusions. Thus, on the basis of theoretical research, the method of storytelling allows the most effective presentation of educational material, which causes positive motivation to know the subject in students, develops critical thinking, promotes the formation of their own opinions, allows discussions of different views, encourages to find different options of problem solving and use of interactive forms of work. It is noted that the main difference of storytelling is the lack of obsessive suggestions, simplicity, listening or reading such a story, the audience will draw the right conclusion and remember a much larger amount of information. Theoretical developments of scientists on the application of storytelling in the practice of modern higher education are considered. In the current conditions, modern students of Generation Z and higher school professors must apply the latest trends and modern techniques in their work, use modern educational tools, as well as develop their abilities.

Integration of Ignatian Principles in Emergency and Disaster Management Education

This study seeks to explore, understand, and develop a comprehensive application of Ignatian principles into academic emergency and disaster management programs. The research focuses on relevant work discussing Ignatian principles, Ignatian pedagogy, and emergency management training and education. This exploratory and novelistic research approach utilizes document analysis as the strategy for inquiry on how Ignatian principles and pedagogy interact with emergency and disaster management. The document analysis conducted presented limitations due to constraints in the amount of literature available. The study is original; no direct research associating the fields involved is available. The research identified the use of Ignatian principles in several professional disciplines. There is a focus on the application of a modern version of the spiritual exercises, discernment, reflection, and contemplation as tools for improvement of critical thinking, academic excellence, ethics, social analysis, and justice as they apply to emergency and disaster management.