A conceptual framework for analysing the impact of influences on student engagement and learning

Tertiary Education and Management - The notion that ‘customer satisfaction’ should be the ultimate measure of quality provision of any service organization is often accepted in the...     

Bildung im Alter in sozialen Welten – diesseits und jenseits von Dichotomien

The debates on ageing in educational sciences have neglected processes of standstill and loss in the past. The focus was instead on development based on activation and progression. The study presented here approaches the question of individual and institutional treatment of loss and constraints during the ageing process from an educational perspective (using the example of age-related visual impairment). An investigation of this subject requires a theoretical concept, which considers the individual’s life-worlds as well as the institutional and socially structured infrastructure they are embedded in. For this aim this study, working with a qualitative approach, uses the heuristic of “social worlds”. These worlds encompass a multitude of pedagogic forms, to which the respondents relate differently. Considering such relations within the framework of social worlds from an actor-perspective demonstrates that it is not possible to deal with age-related loss of competences by linear conceptions of pedagogic action as progression. Furthermore, it can be shown that the pedagogic actions are institutionalized in social forms, which are closely linked to non-pedagogic forms of action.     

Fleeing through the globalised education system: the role of violence and conflict in international student migration

ABSTRACT

This article connects directly to the globalisation of both education and conflict, and attends to the intersection between these phenomena, by focusing on conflict-induced student migration, an area, which has until recently been neglected in studies of higher education and migration, and peace and conflict research. The focus is on the very intersection of these research traditions in trying to understand how increasing globalised student migration is intertwined with the internationalisation of higher education and violent conflicts. The research on which this article is based was carried out at Malmö University, Sweden. The focus is on mapping the linkages between violent conflicts and student migration, using a mixed methods design.     

The Impact of Access on Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Computers: An International Study

This international and interdisciplinary study investigated and compared computer access, attitudes and perceptions towards computers, and preferred settings for computer learning among college freshmen in Australia, China, Ghana, Puerto Rico and the US. The authors discuss implications for computer training in teacher preparation and international business management education. This paper also presents conclusions regarding the development of technological competency within the framework of the computer culture and socio-political circumstances. L'impact de 1'accès sur les perceptions et attitudes envers les ordinateurs: une étude internationale. Cette étude internationale et interdisciplinaire a recherché et comparé les possibilités d'accès À l'ordinateur, les perceptions et attitudes envers les ordinateurs et les environnements préférés pour l'apprentissage par ordinateur parmi les étudiants de première année de collège en Australie, Chine, Ghana, Puerto Rico et USA. Les auteurs discutent les implications de la formation par ordinateur pour la préparation des enseignants et l'éducation dans le management du business international. Cet article présente aussi des conclusions concernant le développement des compétences en matière de technologie dans le cadre d'une culture de l'ordinateur et de circonstances socio-politiques. Die Möglichkeit des Informationszugangs und ihr Einfluss auf Wahrnehmung und Einstellung zu Computern: eine internationale Studie. Diese internationale und interdisziplinäre Studie untersucht and vergleicht die Zugangsmöglichkeiten zu Computern, sowie die Einstellung zu ihnen and Umgang mit ihnen and bevorzugte Plätze für Computer gestütztes Lernen bei College Studenten des Erstsemesters in Australien, China, Ghana, Puerto Rico und den USA. Die Autoren besprechen Implikationen für die Computerausbildang bei Lehrern und die Ausbildang im internationalen Business Management. Die Studie veröffentlicht Ergebnisse and Beschlüsse zur Erlangung technologischer Kompetenz im Rahmen der Computerkultur und der soziopolitischen Umstände.     

Teachers’ information processing and judgement accuracy: effects of information consistency and accountability

European Journal of Psychology of Education - Research has shown that teachers are able to adapt their processing strategy of student information to situational demands, whereby they flexibly use...     

Quality markers and use of electronic journals in an academic health sciences library.

OBJECTIVES: Patterns of use of electronic versions of journals supplied by an academic health sciences library were examined to determine whether they differed from patterns of use among corresponding print titles and to relate the applicability of print collection development practices to an electronic environment. METHODS: Use data supplied by three major vendors of electronic journals were compared to reshelving data for corresponding print titles, impact factors, and presence on Brandon/Hill Lists. RESULTS: In collections where one-click access from a database record to the full text of articles was possible, electronic use correlated with print use across journal pairs. In both versions, Brandon/Hill titles were used more frequently than non-Brandon/Hill titles, use had modest correlations with journals' impact factors, and clinical use appeared to be higher than research use. Titles that had not been selected for the library's print collections, but which were bundled into publishers' packages, received little use compared to electronic titles also selected in print. CONCLUSIONS: Collection development practices based on quality and user needs can be applied with confidence to the electronic environment. Facilitating direct connections between citation databases and the corresponding journal articles regardless of platform or publisher will support scholarship and quality health care.     

Digital service teams in government

National governments are setting up digital service teams (DST) – IT units outside the centralized CIO's office – to respond to complex governmental and societal challenges in a responsive and agile manner. DSTs emerge as a third space between centralized and decentralized IT departments that are triggered by large-scale IT failures and the need to abandon black swan IT projects - tasks that traditional CIO offices were not able to handle so far. DSTs design principles have been replicated from the initial idea of the UK's Government Digital Service team and implemented in other countries, such as the U.S., Canada, Italy, or Finland. For this article, a qualitative interpretative approach was chosen to understand external and internal context factors that contribute to the emergence of these digital service teams. The article brings initial clarity of the composition and tasks of DSTs and extends the existing theory of context by providing insights about this third space between centralized and decentralized IT departments to organize IT Governance in public sector organizations.