Augmented Reality Application for Handheld Devices     

Falomo Bernarduzzi  Lidia  Bernardi  Ester Maria  Ferrari  Alberto  Garbarino  Maria Carla  Vai  Andrea 《Science & Education》2021,30(3):755-773

Science & Education - The Pavia University History Museum, which houses historic items mainly connected to the physics and medicine fields, has focused in the past years on new ways to involve...  相似文献   

Outreach initiatives operated by universities for increasing interest in science and technology     

Lena Gumaelius  Monica Almqvist  Anna Árnadóttir  Anders Axelsson  J. Alberto Conejero  José P. García-Sabater 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2016,41(6):589-622

ABSTRACT

Since the 1990s, the low number of students choosing to study science and technology in higher education has been on the societal agenda and many initiatives have been launched to promote awareness regarding career options. The initiatives particularly focus on increasing enrolment in the engineering programmes. This article describes and compares eight European initiatives that have been established and operated by universities (and in some cases through collaboration with other actors in society). Each initiative is summarised in a short essay that discusses motivation, organisation, pedagogical approach, and activities. The initiatives are characterised by comparing the driving forces behind their creation, how the initiative activities relate to the activities at the university, size based on the number of participants and cost per participant and pedagogical framework. There seem to be two main tracks for building outreach activities, one where outreach activities are based on the university's normal activities, and one where outreach activities are designed specifically for the visiting students.  相似文献   

Book reviews     

Candido Alberto Gomes  Anita Dighe  Albert K. Amedzro  Ruhama Even  Toru Umakoshi 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》1994,40(1):81-88

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Relational marketing in knowledge-intensive business services: an analysis of the computer services sector     

Ettore?Bolisani  Alberto?Donò  Enrico?ScarsoEmail author 《知识管理研究与实践》2016,14(3):319-328

This paper addresses the marketing approaches adopted by Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) companies, whose main production factor and outcome is knowledge. Given the key role that client-provider cognitive interactions play in the provision of such services, the study adopts the conceptual framework of Service-Dominant (S-D) logic, that the recent literature considers being fully in line with the core characteristics of KIBS companies. Starting from the assumption that service is the fundamental basis of any economic exchange, this logic suggests a shift from the traditional ‘market to’ approach, which has been developed for tangible goods, to a ‘market with’ approach, where customers and providers collaborate along the whole marketing process. The research was carried out by means of a multiple case study of 20 small computer services companies in Italy, and aimed to understand if (and to what extent) the marketing initiatives of such companies are consistent with the S-D logic, and to discuss the major challenges that they have to face in order to follow the new logic.  相似文献   

Modeling imitation and emulation in constrained search spaces     

Acerbi A  Tennie C  Nunn CL 《Learning & behavior》2011,39(2):104-114

Social transmission of behavior can be realized through distinct mechanisms. Research on primate social learning typically distinguishes two forms of information that a learner can extract from a demonstrator: copying actions (defined as imitation) or copying only the consequential results (defined as emulation). We propose a decomposition of these learning mechanisms (plus pure individual learning) that incorporates the core idea that social learning can be represented as a search for an optimal behavior that is constrained by different kinds of information. We illustrate our approach with an individual-based model in which individuals solve tasks in abstract “spaces” that represent behavioral actions, results, and benefits of those results. Depending on the learning mechanisms at their disposal, individuals have differential access to the information conveyed in these spaces. We show how different classes of tasks may provide distinct advantages to individuals with different learning mechanisms and discuss how our approach contributes to current empirical and theoretical research on social learning and culture.  相似文献   

More students and more diverse: new trends in international mobility to Portugal     

Sin  Cristina  Tavares  Orlanda  Aguiar  Joyce  Amaral  Alberto 《Tertiary Education and Management》2022,28(2):135-153

Tertiary Education and Management - Growing numbers of students from non-Portuguese speaking countries, designated as ‘non-Lusophone students’, signal the diversification of the...  相似文献   

Promoting Equity,Diversity and Social Justice Through Faculty-Led Transformative Projects     

Rodriguez  Alberto J.  Ciftci  Ayse  Howell  Kathleen  Kokini  Klod  Wright  Brittany  Nikalje  Ankita 《Innovative Higher Education》2022,47(2):201-222

Innovative Higher Education - We present a transformative professional development project with a focus on equity, diversity and social justice (EDSJ) to raise cultural awareness among faculty,...  相似文献   

Erratum     

Rui Santiago  Teresa Carvalho  Alberto Amaral  V. Lynn Meek 《Tertiary Education and Management》2006,12(2):197-197

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Academics’ perceptions of the impact of internal quality assurance on teaching and learning     

Orlanda Tavares  Cristina Sin  Pedro Videira  Alberto Amaral 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2017,42(8):1293-1305

Internal quality assurance systems are expected to improve the institutions’ core mission of teaching and learning. Using data gathered through an online survey, distributed in 2014/2015, to the teaching staff of all Portuguese private and public higher education institutions, this paper examines the impact of internal quality assurance systems on teaching and learning from the perspective of academics. Findings suggest that Portuguese academics feel that, despite the positive contribution of internal quality assurance towards an increased awareness of teaching quality issues at their institutions, the practical effects of these systems have been more related to increasing bureaucracy than to substantive improvements in teaching and learning. The use of information with a view to improvement and teaching staff involvement in the development of quality assurance were found to induce positive changes in teaching and learning, in academics’ perceptions. Based on the findings, the paper makes recommendations for institutional practice.  相似文献   

Internal quality assurance systems in Portugal: what their strengths and weaknesses reveal     

Orlanda Tavares  Cristina Sin  Alberto Amaral 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2016,41(7):1049-1064

In Portugal, the agency for assessment and accreditation of higher education has recently included in its remit, beyond programme accreditation, the certification of internal quality assurance systems. This implies lighter touch accreditation and aims to direct institutions towards improvement, in addition to accountability. Twelve institutions have already undertaken the certification, and both self-assessment and external assessment reports are available. Based on the qualitative analysis of the nature of institutional strengths and weaknesses highlighted in these evaluation reports, the paper aims to understand whether the identified strengths and weaknesses are related to procedural and organisational matters or to cultural change (values and beliefs), in turn offering an insight into the quality culture(s) which characterise higher education institutions in Portugal. Findings suggest that the quality culture of the analysed institutions is somewhere between responsive and reactive. Overall, all reports dwell more on the prioritisation of formal and structural procedures, both regarding strengths and weaknesses. External reports point towards more weaknesses related to stakeholders’ participation. Both aspects are more frequent in polytechnics than in universities. These findings suggest that polytechnics are more reactive, whereas universities are more responsive. Therefore, accountability apparently continues to be, for the time being, a more pressing concern than improvement.  相似文献