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The Trouble with Diversifying the Faculty

Author(s): Walter Benn Michaels / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2012

This article presents the problem of politics of di erence realized within the American educational system, with a special emphasis on higher education. This politics is according to the author based on putting in the center of all educational actions the idea of diversity, as well in creating academic institutions. This key idea becomes in the American context a special significance, regarding the fact that the American society is based on ideology that celebrates multiculturalism and diversity as such. This article presents also an important for the contemporary situation in the United States problem of combining cultural and ethnic diversity on the economical category of di erence between various classes. Furthermore, it seems to be more significant in the light of the economic crisis in recent years that affected also American education in the same extent.

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"Bermanov dosje", moje pripombe

Author(s): Janko Pleterski / Language(s): Slovenian / Issue: 1/2001

Če vzamemo v roke spomine akademika profesorja dr. Aleksandra Bajta, vidimo, da opisujejo, vsaj v delu, kjer zadevajo njegovo bivanje v Italiji od jeseni 1943 in v prvih mesecih 1944, pričakovano neobičajne doživljaje. Nakazal jih je namreč že v svoji biografiji univerzitetnega učitelja, objavljeni v letu 1957.2 V primerjavi s tistim, kar je o svojem pohajanju po italijanskih gričih napisal takrat, je veličanje sicer nekoliko skromnejše, toda opisi so vzlic temu zanimivi in lepo berljivi. Ni šlo za neuspešne diverzantske podvige v ta namen posebej zbrane skupine, ampak za veliko manjše ambicije, četudi ne za manj tvegane in manj mučne doživljaje. Mladi Aleksander Bajt takrat iz Ljubljane ni "emigriral" pred Nemci, pač pa zato, ker se je bal, da bi ga v domačih hribih partizani kar umorili, čeprav je bil le manj pomemben član Narodne legije. [...]

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"First in Line". Student Assessments of Pioneering Examples of Blended Learning

Author(s): Roderick Flynn / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

This paper presents a study of how a cohort of students respond when they encounter a single module delivered via a blended/flipped learning approach at a point when the rest of their learning occurs in more traditional face-to-face learning environments. The study is based on a case study at the School of Communications, Dublin City University where the author has pioneered online delivery of module content blended with F2F moderation of small-scale seminar sessions based on the online content. The paper introduces the practical difficulties – for both tutor and student – of “being first” in the sense of creating course content and learning to interpret/process content delivered in a non-traditional fashion.

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"UNIWERSYTET JEST NAJWAŻNIEJSZY”. Stefana Sawickiego idea katolickiej universitas studiorum

Author(s): Henryk Duda / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2017

The article discusses the publications by Stefan Sawicki (a scholar born in 1927) on the idea of the Catholic university. According to Sawicki, the most important issue in this fi eld is the relation between science and faith (ratio et fides), and the resulting question about the university’s identity, in particular about the marks of a Catholic university. The other issues, such as procedures of giving names to Catholic universities, their research fi elds, the proper size of a Catholic university, and the balance between the university’s openness to ‘others’ and its guarding its identity, stem directly from this crucial issue. While Stefan Sawicki’s writings will not provide a ready-made answer to the question of how a Catholic university should be structured or how it should function at a given time in history, they may inspire a “reflection and debate on what the university of this type should (and can) be like today, in particular in modernday Poland” (Stefan Sawicki, On the Catholic University, Lublin: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL, 2012, 8). Sawicki adds: “It might be commendable not to limit the debate in question to the general formulas of the Catholicity of a university, but rather to point how the Catholicity in question should be implemented in the academic practice” (ibidem). The questions raised by Sawicki pertain to an issue which cannot be disregarded also outside the scope of his work.

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"За" и "против" за развитието на общата търговска политика на Европейския съюз

Author(s): Irena Nikolova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2018

In recent years, the trade policy of various countries has become an important topic, both for administration and business. The present paper aims at presenting the EU trade policy and some of its advantages and challenges.

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(Nie)zależność doktoranta w kształtowaniu drogi badawczej na podstawie ustawy Prawo o szkolnictwie wyższym i nauce

Author(s): Izabela Florczak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 25/2020

Pursuant to the Act on higher education and science, PhD students are educated at a doctoral school. The PhD student prepares a dissertation under the supervision of a supervisor (sometimes also an auxiliary supervisor) leading his scientific path based on the training program and individual research plan. The research work of the doctoral student remains independent as it was in the previous legal reality. However, the degree of PhD students` impact on the research path is much greater. A PhD student remains part of the institutionalized system, in which he has to perform certain duties and through which he is evaluated for the progress of his research. The PhD students` dependence is also related to non-legal factors – individual personnel relations. The presented text covers the situation of the doctoral student on all the above mentioned criteria creating a coherent picture of his (in)dependence in shaping the research route.

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10 Key Criteria to Manage and Sustain e-Feedback in Written Assignments

Author(s): Teresa Guasch,Anna Espasa,Rosa M. Mayordomo / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

This paper proposal contributes research evidence to help unravel how to sustain and maintain online formative feedback in online learning environments from a dialogical perspective (Nicol, 2010; Beaumont, O’Doherty & Shannon, 2011; Carless, 2013). Feedback is not a static action of providing support to the learner in one direction; on the contrary, it is a complex process that includes how the feedback is received and utilised by the learner. Following Dysthe, Lillejord, Vines and Wason (2010), feedback is defined as a loop which includes the process of giving or delivering feedback (by teachers and/or peers), processing it and implementing it in an improved product. This paper will present different strategies focused on feedback when developing written assignments. It will suggest how to design, deliver and provide feedback to learners in online learning environments in order for feedback to become an effective support which contributes to implement changes into the final texts and consequently to students’ learning.

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10 Years of Learning Design at the Open University: Evolution, Findings and Future Direction

Author(s): Gerald Evans / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

Over the past 10 years The Open University has embedded an institutional approach to Learning Design, with use of the approach mandated as part of the curriculum design process.This paper will explore how that approach has developed over time, as practitioners have learnt from and developed the offering, and as requirements on the institution and on curriculum production have changed. This evolution has seen the approach develop into an end-to-end process of design and evaluation and brought to bear the power of learning analytics into curriculum design.The paper will also explore the various internal and external research outputs, synthesising these into some key lessons that have been learnt over the past ten years. Finally, the paper will look ahead, to see how the next ten years might look and how the role of Learning Design may adapt over this time.

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100 MOOC Project for SMES: What do They Need

Author(s): Sezin Esfer,Kursat Cagiltay,Nergis Gurel,Rafet Cevik / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

This learning needs analysis study has been conducted within the scope of a European Union funded Project that proposes to build up a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) portal to support the adaptability of employees and employers to new social and economic structures and increase adaptability of them via ICT tools in Turkey. In the scope of this Project which is called as Bilgeİş, it was planned to create 100 MOOCs (mainly ICT usage related) and a survey was conducted for specifying the training needs in determined sectors. The data were obtained from 585 employers/executives and 1030 employees of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). It is found that learning needs of the target group have occurred generally in equipment and tools used at the workplace, Office programs, accounting software etc. Also, a list has been created according to survey results and obtained six categories. Examining the current station of SMEs helped to shape the planning of MOOCs’ design and development process. The results of the current study are not only important for Bilgeİş MOOCs, but also for MOOC developers, ICT trainers, experts, policy makers, etc. can benefit from them.

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21. Yüzyılda Türkiye’nin Bilim İletişimi Uygulamaları Üzerine Bir Çalışma

Author(s): Dilara Nergishan Koçer,Şebnem Özdemir / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: Sp. Issue/2020

As science has been centrally located in the life of societies, it has become imperative that people have the knowledge and a scientific perspective on science and technology. Turkey's science communication has entered the academic agenda in the 1990s, it has been certified as an official policy, fully in 2004. The main objective of this study is to demonstrate concrete results of the current science communication policy of Turkey. For this purpose, firstly, science communication and related concepts, and the historical development process of science communication are briefly explained. Then summarized the history of science communication policies in Turkey, and then finally, print media, television, science centers, and museums are compiled as science communication forms that are being in practice as a result of public policies in the new millennium. The study shows that in Turkey, the pioneer of science communication as well as science is TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey). Regarding the training of science communicators, the course curriculum of 226 higher education institutions that enrolled students with central placement in 2018 was examined and it was tried to determine whether "science communication" education was given in universities; 10 similar content courses were found in 226 universities.

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360º e-Assessment: An Online Collaborative Process in the Scenario of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC)

Author(s): Montse Guitert Catasus,Teresa, Romeu,Marc Romero Carbonell / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

The incorporation of Information and Communication Technologies to learning processes promotes a reconsideration of assessment systems, fostering a change of the teacher’s role as a communicator of the student’s mark to that of an open system in which teachers and students get involved in the learning process and develop online assessment skills. Based on the theoretical principles of assessment in virtual environments, this paper approaches e-assessment (Rodríguez Gómez, 2012), defined as any assessment process in which ICT is used in order to introduce and carry out assessment activities and tasks, register the answers and evaluate them from different perspectives: learners, teachers, institutions (JISC, 2007). The variety of applications of e-assessment and its innovation and efficiency reaffirm its potential as a booster of the learning process and learner outcomes (Open University, 2006)

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A Benchmarking Study of K-Means and SOM Approaches Applied to a Set of Features of MOOC Participants

Author(s): Rosa Cabedo Gallén,Edmundo Tovar / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

MOOC format is characterized by the great diversity of enrolled people. This heterogeneity of participants represents a challenging opportunity in order to identify underlying relationships in the internal structure of features that make up participants’ profiles. This paper has the aim of identifying and analyzing a feasible set of MOOC participants’ profiles with the use of two unsupervised clustering techniques, K-Means as a partitional clustering algorithm and Kohonen’s Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs), hereinafter SOM, as a representative technique of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs).

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A Bookkeeper’s Honesty in Describing the World: On the Great Metaphor of Zbigniew Herbert, Recipient of a Master’s Degree in Economics

Author(s): Józef Maria Ruszar / Language(s): English / Issue: Sp. Issue/2019

In Herbert’s essays and poems we find not only a wide range of economic problems, but also a real passion with which the author describes the economic fundaments of all civilizations. In the apocrypha The Portrait in Black Flames and poem “Hakeldama,” Herbert creates a great metaphor of the Final Judgment as the Great Book of accounts. This is nothing unusual, as the poet held a master’s degree in economics from the School of Economics in Krakow, currently the Krakow University of Economics.

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A Case Study of Polysynchronous Learning in University Bioscience Education

Author(s): Barney Dalgarno,Lucy Webster / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

Contemporary university students are engaging in new ways with teachers, peers and content in and out of class capitalizing on the affordances of mobile devices and new kinds of synchronous and asynchronous online learning tools. The multiple ever-present communication streams that are emerging through these new tools and devices are leading to learning scenarios incorporating interaction patterns that have the potential to transform the learning process. The term ‘polysynchronous learning’ has been co-opted and adapted to capture these new learning scenarios. This paper draws on the findings from a case study of polysynchronous learning within a university Histology subject in order to illustrate some of the key aspects of these scenarios and the ways in which the student learning experience is changing as a result.

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A Case Study on Staff Development Program at a Private University in Cyprus

Author(s): Rüya Mert Altıncı / Language(s): English / Issue: 97-1/2019

The purpose of this qualitative case study is to determine both advantages and deficiencies of the staff development program at Foundation English department of one of the most known private universities in North Cyprus. The study is based on positive and negative aspects of the staff development program from the views of their own lecturers. The sample for this study consists of 14 volunteer staff members out of 30 lecturers. These volunteer lecturers consists of 10 female and 4 male lecturers of Foundation English school from different age ranges and nationalities. The data were gathered by using the interview method, including 7 interview questions which were developed by the researcher. The collected data were analyzed by identifying and categorizing the data. The results of this study claim that there are several problems within the staff development program of the private university. Along with the explanation of these problems, the study also presents the causes of these problems and possible solutions as well.

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A Collaboration & Learning Environment to Enable to be a University Leader in Education Innovation

Author(s): Willem Van Valkenburg / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2018

Delft University of Technology was founded 176 year ago as an engineering school. It is a traditional brick-and-mortar university in engineering, science and design with 24,000 students on campus.In 2014 the executive board embraced the online learning development and started the innovation programme on open and online education (TU Delft, 2014). The objectives of the programme are to educate the world and enhance the quality of education (for both the online and campus programmes).This new programme combined with the changing needs in campus education required a new learning management system (LMS) that is both flexible and stable in a rapidly changing world.

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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN THE PERCEPTIONS AND ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS IN TWO HIGH SCHOOLS WITH DIFFERENT STATUS REGARDING THE PHENOMENON OF BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

Author(s): Cosmin Goian / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Bullying is described as a set of aggressive actions, characterized by intent, repetition and an imbalance of forces. These characteristics refer to the fact that the aggressor chooses a weaker victim, who will be aggressively and repeatedly assaulted, usually in school. Wanting to explore this topic locally through the eyes of the students, we conducted a research to identify the differences in perception and attitude of the students from two different high schools (a national college and a technological high school), regarding this phenomenon. The main hypothesis is that tensions and difficulties in the school environment can affect the attitudes of students regarding violence. We applied a questionnaire to 72 students (36 from each high school) from Sighetu Marmatiei. The results show that the students from the technological high school, know more information about bullying, and they consider this phenomenon to be less frequent compared to the students from the national college, and the feeling of being safe at school is greater. Students from both high schools expressed pro-victim attitudes to a greater extent, but the attitude toward the aggressor was more negative in the case of students from the national college and more positive in the other school. We can conclude that if the academic standards of the students are higher, there is more tension is the school atmosphere, which can generate bullying situations and feelings of insecurity at school.

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A Comparative Study of Attitudes towards Entrepreneurship between Polish and British Students

Author(s): Michał Chmielecki,Robert Seliga / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

Background Entrepreneurship continues to gain momentum as a significant and relevant field of research. Policy makers in the rush to stimulate entrepreneurship in various countries, often rely on the success stories and prescriptions documented in the entrepreneurship literature in which most studies are set in the United States. Research aims The article present exploratory study addresses the subject of cross-cultural differences in attitudes towards entrepreneurship by focusing attention on two particular types of cultures of entrepreneurship British and Polish. Method The quantitative research (survey) was conducted in May 2014 among 153 Polish and 94 British graduate and postgraduate management students. Key findings The findings have some distinctive implications for government, policy makers and educators through determining the attitudes towards entrepreneurship among students.

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A Comparison of Social Learning Systems: Crochet Alongs and MOOCs

Author(s): Shirley Williams,E.J. Highwood / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Essentially social learning is a system where the learning occurs with and from others. Internet-based technologies have provided environments within which social learning can take place among very large groups covering various topics, ranging from academic to leisure.In general MOOCs are academic-related courses offered by educational institutions, following a model of formal education, however they also take advantage of the concept of social learning, encouraging participants to learn together and from each other.Crochet Alongs (CALs) are non-formal courses offered outside educational institutions. CALs give crocheters the opportunity to learn more about their craft within an Internet-based social learning system, while working independently on their own instantiation of a pattern released at intervals. Participants offer support to each other via social media, sometimes seeking help in overcoming problems and other times just to share success.There is a considerable body of research into the MOOC phenomena, there is no such body of research into CALs, or other Internet-based craft courses. There are a number of similarities between MOOCs and CALs with some CALs attracting thousands of participants to freely available online courses. Contrasting MOOCs and CALs offers educationalists to explore alternatives approaches to social learning.

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A CONTENT AND CITATION ANALYSIS OF THE STUDIES ON LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS AND SPECIAL EDUCATION

Author(s): Huseyin Uzunboylu,Gönül Akçamete / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

This study aims to review the studies on learning environments and special education and determine the trends in these studies. Content and citation analysis were used which is a qualitative research method. Data of the study were collected from Scopus with ‘learning environment’ and ‘special education’ keywords 180 documents were collected. For the analysis of the published documents, previously determined content analysis criteria were used and citation analysis of the published documents were carried out, in order to reveal the frequently cited documents. Documents were examined based on year of publication, name of the journals, authors, affiliations, countries, document type, subject area, keywords, language and citations. Data were presented and interpreted with tables and figures. Results were presented in detail with reference to the previous literature.

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