NZ school librarians, technology leaders?

<p>The purpose of this qualitative research study is to examine what role and views New Zealand school librarians currently have within their schools as technology leaders. At a time of technological developments in education, with both access to and implementation of ICT within school curriculums, what aids and hinders school librarian’s position as a technology manager? A variety of Auckland secondary schools were approached requesting a 30-60 minute interview with one of their librarians. Of the ones that agreed eight semi-structured interviews took place. The librarians were asked 14 open ended questions, some which were investigated further when necessary, and their answers were recorded, transcribed and results were drawn from their information. My results found that the majority of librarians felt well supported by their colleagues. Each school, had its own distinct hierarchy that effected the way librarians conducted their jobs and the place they had. Most librarians felt that their role was not meant to be a “technology leader” per-say, but rather someone that would incorporate it within the library to make the library a useful resource. Some schools had specific positions for their librarians to partake in technology leadership. This made the library more of an ICT focus for the school. Overall the librarians all had a variety of experiences, mostly stemming from the hierarchical dynamics within the schools and their own education in the library field. The implication for schools and their librarians, from this research may aid in considering the hierarchical set up their school currently has, how librarians view their role and what is a ‘norm’ versus alternative ideas. I think the discovery also reveals the various attitudes towards technology. This research may also increase awareness of the possible roles for school librarians in the future.</p>

NZ school librarians, technology leaders?

<p>The purpose of this qualitative research study is to examine what role and views New Zealand school librarians currently have within their schools as technology leaders. At a time of technological developments in education, with both access to and implementation of ICT within school curriculums, what aids and hinders school librarian’s position as a technology manager? A variety of Auckland secondary schools were approached requesting a 30-60 minute interview with one of their librarians. Of the ones that agreed eight semi-structured interviews took place. The librarians were asked 14 open ended questions, some which were investigated further when necessary, and their answers were recorded, transcribed and results were drawn from their information. My results found that the majority of librarians felt well supported by their colleagues. Each school, had its own distinct hierarchy that effected the way librarians conducted their jobs and the place they had. Most librarians felt that their role was not meant to be a “technology leader” per-say, but rather someone that would incorporate it within the library to make the library a useful resource. Some schools had specific positions for their librarians to partake in technology leadership. This made the library more of an ICT focus for the school. Overall the librarians all had a variety of experiences, mostly stemming from the hierarchical dynamics within the schools and their own education in the library field. The implication for schools and their librarians, from this research may aid in considering the hierarchical set up their school currently has, how librarians view their role and what is a ‘norm’ versus alternative ideas. I think the discovery also reveals the various attitudes towards technology. This research may also increase awareness of the possible roles for school librarians in the future.</p>

Impact of Technology on School Leadership at Jakar Higher Secondary School, Bumthang

Technology is indispensable in today's era and we have to think about how we can utilize it to create and impart effective leadership and learning in the schools. The essence of technology is strongly felt in education than ever before. The school leader who harnesses technology advances in every aspect and becomes a technology leader. Technology advancement is professional growth and it affects school leadership. The purpose of this action research was to find out the impact of technology on school leadership. The pre-test and post-test were carried out and data were analyzed accordingly. The questionnaire was categorized into three aspects such as communication, student learning, and administrative and managerial. The pre-test and post-test data showed a change in responses and the rating score on the questionnaire indicated the effectiveness of intervention strategies and the impact of technology on school leadership. The findings also show a significant positive correlation between technology and school leadership. It was found out that technology has a greater impact on school leadership, student learning and also amplifies communication skills.

A Novel Approach to Drill Stem Selection for Drilling in Sour Fields

For years the drilling industry has used sour service drill pipe within a narrow set of specifications and industry guidelines. That left room for original equipment manufacturers (OEM) to have customization on an iterative basis, which resulted in a wide product offering to fulfill operator needs. While this method worked, it did not lead to building the product in the most efficient and economical manner. As a result of this product diversity, drilling engineers could specify the best product to deliver their projects when running drilling models, only to have to redesign it around what is effectively available on rigs or for rental. This disconnect puts pressure on the industry players and is the result of a lack of standardization. We wiped the board to provide a simple solution that is more suited to allow alignment between operators, contractors, and rental companies. The new philosophy is based on the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) MR0175-2015 severity diagram, where environmental severity is defined in regions (1, 2, and 3), which have been used by oil companies’ engineers for their oil country tubular goods (OCTG) product selection. Even though the drill string will not be exposed to the well fluid for the same extended time and is surrounded by a more forgiving medium, the drilling fluid, the diagram allows a segmentation of customer's needs. This framework helped define targeted product properties. A research and development (R&D) and industrialization test campaign could then be started to confirm that sound product configurations could be offered with targeted properties. The study also explored the limitations imposed on connection make-up torque in a sour gas environment relative to the NACE severity diagram. Emphasis was given on methods to increase the make-up torque, which is needed to deliver the most extended reach wells that are now commonplace. The result of this two-year development campaign is a short list of grades with an optimized balance between pipe subcomponents strength and sulfide stress cracking (SSC) resistance. Region 1 (mild severity) products will offer as much tension and torque as possible, matching or exceeding these of API products, including excellent resistance to SSC, thus making drilling operation safer. Region 2 (medium severity) will offer products with medium to high strength and enhanced SSC resistance. Finally, region 3 (high severity) products will be aligned with the industry specifications for maximized SSC resistance and lower strength. This paper discusses a proactive approach that contrasts with a historical, more reactive one. As the drill stem technology leader, we saw an opportunity to drive this initiative that will benefit the drilling industry by offering a more natural way to select drill stem products. For the first time a sour service product range aligns with the needs of drilling engineers and the inventory of their selected service companies.

Determinants of Leadership and Organizational Culture in Implementing Business Strategies

Leadership and organizational culture are essential factors in the sustainability of a business. The two things' strategy becomes a concept that is often used as a foundation by various companies in running their activities. This article aims to discuss the role of leadership and organizational culture in implementing business strategy. Societal, cultural norms influence leader attributes and behaviors. Leader attributes and actions can be affected by the organization's corporate environment, size, and technology. Leader attributes and behaviors can determine the organizational form and organizational culture, and vice versa.

Regional Economic Integration and Productivity Convergence: Empirical Evidence from East Asia

The study attempts to seek evidence on regional economic integrationin driving labor productivity convergence in low-and middle-income East Asian states towards Japan, the country assumed to be the regional technology leader. The labor productivity convergence of low-and middle-income East Asian countries towards their rich neighbor is modelled against their national levels of innovation, technology spill-oversfrom the regional economic leader and their productivity differential with the frontier country. The hypothesized relationship is empirically verified for seven East Asian states, using a robust econometric approach. The time-series test estimates under Error Correction Representation yield absolute support in favor of valid productivity convergence occurring between Japan and its low-and middle income neighbors. However, panel data estimates generated with better statistical power outperform the time-series test findingsand these results reject the significance of Japan as the regional productivity growth driver for its regionaldevelopingstates.

Formula for Success

The article is devoted to the 90th anniversary of the Volgograd State Technical University (VSTU). The author views the components of the success formula of the University as a flagship University of the Volgograd region, and dwells on the historical facts of the creation of the Stalingrad tractor-building Institute at the beginning of the country’s industrialization and its development to a flagship University, which is a modern multi-campus University with a promising educational, scientific and industrial infrastructure. The article also presents the scientific schools of well-known scientists of the University that carry out fundamental and applied scientific research as well as the international activities of the University, including international cooperation in research, creation and modernization of educational programs, and export of educational services. In its multi-faceted activities, the flagship University focuses on solving urgent problems of socio-economic development of the region. The hybrid model of the flagship University is focused mainly on two typical models: «multi-disciplinary regional University» and «technology leader in the region». The article considers a number of systemic and structural transformations of the University in the framework of a hybrid model: an effective management system for supporting innovation, including socio-psychological attitudes and infrastructure changes; the development of additional education and the creation of conditions for business development.

REALTIME PLANETARY-SCALE DATACUBE FUSION

The datacube model has rapidly gained acceptance as a cornerstone for analysis-ready data, and also the corresponding service model which is more powerful, but easier to use than existing API-based interfaces. Mature and widely adopted datacube standards show the way how datacube functionality can be presented to clients, be they human or m2m connections. Specifically, the OGC Coverage Implementation Schema (CIS) data model and the Web Coverage Service (WCS) service model suite define a framework adopted by the main opensource as well as proprietary tools, including MapServer, GeoServer, GDAL, QGIS, ArcGIS, and python/OWSlib.In this contribution we present federation methods implemented in the rasdaman datacube engine which is accepted technology leader, standards driver, and reference implementation for datacubes.In summary, rasdaman allows federated processing of declarative queries whereby complete location transparency is given: any federation member can receive the query, and the federation will dynamically orchestrate each query individually for optimized processing.

EVALUATION OF THE STUDIES ON TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP: A CONTENT ANALYSIS

A technology leader is the person who establishes the relationship between technology and leadership by trying to reconcile human and information technology components as the most important in this process by taking an active role in executing the technology. This study aims to determine the current trends in the published articles on technology leadership in order to provide a review on these studies. Data of the study were obtained from ERIC database by searching “technology leadership” and a total number of 53 articles were obtained. The obtained data were examined based on content analysis criteria including year of publication, country, research method, subject, sample, data collection tool and data analysis method. Data were analyzed and provided with frequency and percentages and shown with tables and figures. Results are discussed with relevant literature and recommendations for further research and practices are provided. Keywords: technology leadership, technology, content analysis

Imprints from idea origin on innovation and the development environment

This study builds on the evolutionary and organization literatures to explore how the nature of innovation outcomes was influenced by the innovation’s original idea and the environment in which it was developed. We use data from a survey of inventors on the development processes of three types of innovations: market success innovations, technologically novel innovations, and innovations that are both technologically novel and of market success. Our results suggest that the environment in which the project is developed erodes the effect of the original knowledge sources on the innovation outcome. Specifically, a stronger imprinting effect of knowledge sources is found for independent inventors, while ideas are more likely to be eroded in projects undertaken by inventors at technology leader firms.