Domestic and Foreign Experience of Pedagogical Convergence Analysis

The article introduces the phenomenon of pedagogical convergence. It appeared as a result of global changes that convergent technologies triggered in science, technology, economy, society, and culture. The research objective was to identify the basic principles and conditions for the formation and implementation of pedagogical convergence in domestic and foreign higher education. The authors analyzed domestic and foreign approach to convergence in pedagogical theory and practice, as well as developed an interdisciplinary methodology for studying this phenomenon. Pedagogical convergence outstrips the needs of society in training highly qualified specialists able to deal with technological convergence in all aspects of human activity. Therefore, higher education institutions need to teach their students to develop, borrow, and adapt convergent technologies. This study contributes to the development of pedagogical science in terms of theoretical comprehension of the phenomenon of pedagogical convergence. The new methodology can help to train university graduates who are familiar with the latest achievements of global science and are able to borrow new convergent technologies and adapt them for the needs of their professional activity.

On Developing Convergence Subject for Digital Literacy and That Effect

As it enters into a hyper connected society, we are requesting a new technological convergence. Also, these days are a convergent society based on IoT, AI in earnest. We need to build up ‘digital literacy’, that is the ability to critically watch digital information to choice the correct and right information in the flood of information in these days.This paper is for sharing our research process and conclusion about the convergence subject for cultivating a digital literacy. The subject “Comprehension of digital literacy” is made for fostering students who to be great talents can be critical, integrating, problem-solving, creative. This subject was managed by three professors who are consist of a humanities major, a social science major, an engineering major. For this, Three teachers shared AI knowledge based on expert knowledges per major, and based on this, this subject was developed for cultivating students who get a critical comprehension about digital information and a creative solve-problems with digital tools. This subject consists of four parts; in the first part, students have recognized the necessity of digital literacy and main conception of digital literacy. In the second part, students have recognized ethical manner and ethical mind as digital literacy. Next, they have learned various tools of digital and could use those tools. Lastly, students have fulfilled a critical project with digital tools.The survey at the end of this class shows positive effects of our subject to students getting abilities in many domains: solving problem, thinking integrated, creating knowledge, digital ethics, team teaching, self-efficacy. This integrating subject is judged that cultivating student of various major to get basic knowledge of digital literacy by changing of existing cognition and this is can be leading case jumping over academic boundary.

Types of open models for high-tech innovation creation and intellectual property protection

The research aims to confirm the working hypothesis, identify the features of high-tech products of civilian use and analyze real “acting” projects implemented within the OI strategy. The analysis was carried out based on the information and systematic understanding of ideas presented in scientific articles, book chapters, etc., using induction and deduction (as a case study of Xerox, Fuji Xerox, Cisco, and Siemens companies), methods of formal and dialectical logic to understand the benefits from network cooperation and OI strategy. Thus, for example, it is shown that the OI concept in company strategies takes on the character of either institutional cooperation in the form of technological convergence or networking with the involvement of a wide range of participants in the latter: from students and university professors to companies and their employees, including foreign centers established by the interested parties, etc.

Which Way to Cope with COVID-19 Challenges? Contributions of the IoT for Smart City Projects

Many activities and sectors have come to a halt due to the COVID-19 crisis. People and workers’ habits and behaviors have changed dramatically, as the use of technologies and connections, virtual reality, and remote support have been enhanced. Businesses and cities have been forced to quickly adapt to the new challenges. Digital technologies have allowed people to have better access to public services due to improved use of resources. Smart cities have significant potential for linking people to work and services as never done before. Additionally, the technological convergence produces data that can enhance interactions and decisions toward the “new normal”. In this paper, the aim is to assess how Portugal is prepared to respond to the accelerated process that this context demands from cities. Portuguese SMEs have developed a good capacity for entrepreneurship and innovation; however, they are still behind in converting the knowledge acquired in sales and exports and there is still limited collaboration at the public-private level. The acceleration of smart cities through the Internet of Things (IoT) may encourage changes in these issues. A more assertive alignment between the emergent technologies and the digitization goals of companies is required. This paper opens a discussion around major needs and trends of IoT (and related technologies) since the pandemic has leveraged them. The relationship between innovation and city smartness is approached to assess main contributing and limiting variables (through the European Innovation Scoreboard), to clarify future directions toward smarter services. The tourism sector, as the largest export economic activity in the country, is addressed in this matter. An analytical framework (using, for example, Power BI and Azure IoT Hub) around this approach can choose and support the most suitable areas of development in the country.

Research on the Evolution of Textile Technological Convergence in China

Technological convergence (TC) plays a vital role in leading the next generation of technological innovation. Research in this field has practical significance for its ongoing deployment as an innovation-driven strategy in the sustainable development of the textile industry. However, there are few relevant studies, with most of them carried out on only one level, whether from a micro or macro perspective. This study analyses the evolution of TC from both macro (industry) and micro (technical field) levels. A patented co-occurrence method is employed to measure TC and various social network indicators, including density, node strength and the Jaccard coefficient, to measure the evolution of the network and its nodes and edges. The results present that the density of the macro TC network has been increasing and that the industrial technologies that are closely associated with the textile industry include chemical engineering technology, pharmaceutical technology and material technology. Meanwhile, the micro TC network manifests high dependence on proprietary technology, whilst the convergence degree between the core technologies is relatively high. This study proposes that the government should continue to encourage textile enterprises to strengthen TC, particularly their integration with leading technologies, and should strengthen the integration of emerging industrial textiles with national defence, medicine and other related fields to improve innovation speed.