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A Networked Learning Disposition?
Get PDFProductive networked learning is somewhat contingent on the learner’s disposition. This round table discussion will explore, evaluate and determine this proposition and any implications for networked learning design, research and practice.
Introductory questions –
What is disposition?
What is a networked learning disposition?
What are the practical implications of this for design, research and practice
Networked Learning and PBL Future – an institutional development project
Get PDFIn 2018, an ambitious cross-faculty research project titled “PBL future” was launched within Aalborg University (AAU). The aim of “PBL Future” is to develop research-based directions for problem- and project-based learning (PBL) and networked learning in AAU. In AAU PBL has been implemented as an institution-wide pedagogy since AAU’s inauguration in 1974 (Kolmos, Fink, & Krogh, 2004). The project aims to re-conceptualise how PBL and networked learning could operate in new formats, based on the core principles of PBL, while exploring and developing new digital approaches that operate in and open up for new hybrid PBL and networked learning models. In the project, there are five sub-projects addressing particular aspects in relation PBL and networked learning. In this round table we will discuss three of these in more depth:
Scenarios and future development in organisational change processes – methodologies and theoretical reflection
Emerging PBL Collaboration Skills for a Digital Age – students’ use of networked technologies in hybrid environments
PBL competence development of individual students (working with portfolio methods and digital tools)
Within each of these three themes we shall discuss current findings, thinking, theories, questions, methodologies, but more importantly co-developing with the participant richer pictures of current knowledge and state-of-the-art in relation to the three themes. More concretely, this co-development will manifest itself as the production of rich-media posters to support and reify the discussion taking place in sub-groups
The Role of Project Based Learning at the Core of Curriculum Development
Get PDFThis paper will present the argument that while Problem Based Learning (PBL) (or its variant Project Based Learning, PjBL) provides significant benefits and advantages to student learning in of itself, the full benefit of PBL is only completely realised as part of an “integrated” curriculum that provides a variety of learning opportunities and instructional support. We propose that PBL should be more widely considered and used as the key integrative feature within a curriculum to enable programmes to connect theory, practice, societal context, values and skills as well as to break the mentality that comes with modularisation. To do this, we suggest that a coherent thread of PBL should be enacted that is stratified to progress students through increasingly open problems and projects, each connected to other aspects of the taught curriculum while enabling skills development and the formation of professional and responsible attitudes and attributes. We provide some examples from our own experience in Engineering but advocate that this approach is much more widely applicable within higher education
On the Uniqueness of “Good” in PBL: Reading Dewey’s Human Nature and Conduct
Get PDFIn this short piece, I will dwell on two passages from John Dewey’s book Human Nature and Conduct (1922): the section entitled “Deliberation and Calculation” and the following section “The Uniqueness of Good.” In these passages, Dewey explains the crucial differences between utilitarianism and his own philosophy, and he elucidates how and why what is “good” happens only once: “In quality, the good is never twice alike. It never copies itself. It is new every morning, fresh every evening” (p. 146). I wish to dwell on these passages because they, as I see it, represent a major challenge to the utilitarian impulse in normativizing PBL and related approaches for the sake of learning or for some societal good. Dewey’s problem-based philosophy, while central to PBL, is also a critical resource for critiques of how we implement PBL programs and practice PBL pedagogies. In these passages, Dewey reveals his belief in the educational event as a unique situation, a happening, which purposefully imagines an outcome but in a fundamentally different way than what we today call outcomes-directed or evidence-based education
The Letter of the Law : Insights from Italy’s Anti-Poverty Measures About Managing in Social Services
Get PDFThis study aims to reconstruct the organizational processes involved in managing the uncertainty surrounding the implementation of a new anti-poverty measure in Italy. In 2024, a reform of the minimum income scheme significantly redefined the role of social services in assessing and supporting the social inclusion of beneficiaries. Using an Activity Theory framework, this paper analyses a case study from a suburban area in Milan, focusing on the turb
Academic Filmmaking in the New Humanities. Articles. Introduction to the special issue.: Libertad Gills, Catherine Grant and Alan O’Leary
No full textThe article provides an introduction to the first of a pair of special issues devoted to academic filmmaking, which, apart from this introduction, contains eleven prose articles. The article describes the variety of filmmaking practice in the academy, and some of the venues where examples of the practice are published or exhibited. It gestures at the multiple origins of academic filmmaking with special reference to the tradition of the essay film, and finds a key reflexive moment in Eric S. Faden’s (prose) “Manifesto for Critical Media” (2008), which articulated the challenge of using “image, voice, pacing, text, sound, music, montage, rhythm” to create scholarly audiovisual work. The introduction goes on to set out the aims for the special issues, and to describe the contents of the eleven articles in the first issue and some of the features, concerns or approaches shared between and across those contents. The eleven articles deal with themes raging from academic filmmaking as activism, to vulnerability and embodiment, to the challenges of production and publishing and of institutional legitimization.
 
Against Illustration: Spatiotemporal principles and mimetic rhetorical functions in videographic criticism
Get PDFAgainst Illustration advocates for a methodology of purposeful difficulty in video essaying, in search of new critical entrances into their objects of study. The field of videographic criticism encompasses a broad variety of formal approaches that often differ in their invocation of root objects. Where the dominant ideology of cinema has been perpetuated through common systems of visual codes, and tends to invite an evidentiary approach, videographic criticism has often sought, as a symptom and practice of empowered, post-modern cinephilia, to develop subjective and intimate transformations of objects. In this they enrich, celebrate, and just as often, trouble the themes, iconographies and histories of cinema. Against Illustration suggests for a reconciliation between the purposeful difficulty of experimental cinema and the promise of such an approach in videographic essaying. To do so, the author explores George Steiner’s typology of difficulty in poetry (and in particular its tactical and ontological manifestations), Steiner’s suggestions for creative reading/spectatorship, and his pursuit of a critical entrance into an art steeled against easy perception and ready interpretation
Identifying future district heating potentials in Germany: a study using empirical insights and distribution cost analysis
Get PDFDistrict heating will play an important role in the transition towards climate-neutral heating. Various studies on modelling the energy system show that district heating and the related expansion of the networks can have different levels of importance. A main reason is that the costs for distribution grid expansion are not well or not at all considered and empirical evidence for a threshold for cost-effective distribution costs is missing in such studies. In this paper, we aim to improve empirical evidence allowing to improve the representation of future district heating expansion in energy systems models. For that, the current status of district heating is analysed in high spatial resolution for Germany. The results show that with the currently accepted average costs, a large range of the possible future market share of district heating for buildings between 17 - 52% is possible by 2050, with the parameters of the connection rate and the renovation rate of the building stock. We conclude that the district heating share could be increased by the factor of 2 to 5 in the future, proving the importance of climate-neutral district heating in the transition
The Optimization of Power Generation Mix To Achieve Net Zero Emission Pathway in Indonesia Without Specific Time Target
Get PDFIndonesia is committed to achieving Net Zero Emission (NZE) conditions by the year 2060, with policy adjustments and constraints being necessary to realize this goal. The aim of this study is to achieve NZE conditions using a least-cost optimization method for various power plants that rely on fossil and non-renewable energy sources, without specifying a target year. Two scenarios, Business as Usual (BAU) and NZE, were developed for comparison in the optimization analysis. Through the utilization of LEAP and NEMO software, the optimization results suggest that optimal NZE conditions in Indonesia could be attained by 2075, with solar-based electricity generation playing a crucial role in meeting basic electricity demands. The NZE scenario predicts a 28% rise in electricity demand by 2100 compared to the BAU scenario. In 2075, PV will contribute 32.8% (224.3 GW) to total power supply, while BESS will provide 198.8 GW according to the NZE scenario. This study aims to assist the Indonesian government and stakeholders in reaching the NZE goal, while maintaining current efforts to avoid new efficiency and financial challenges. Achieving this goal will involve using a cost-effective optimization approach and implementing energy-efficient technologies and conservation programs
Increased data use in Danish municipalities may be the key to better welfare: Data use is growing, but the residual potential is still large
No full textI en ny undersøgelse af de danske kommuners brug af borgerrelaterede data tager vi temperaturen på den dataunderstøttede forvaltning og ser på potentialer, perspektiver og løsninger.
60% af kommunale dataanvendere mener, at brugen af data i opgaveløsningen af vokset det seneste år. 78% mener, at der er potentiale for yderligere databrug i deres kommune.In a new study of the Danish municipalities' use of citizen-related data, we take the temperature of data supported administration and look at potentials, perspectives, and solutions.
60% of municipal data users believe that the use of data in task solving has grown in the past year. 78% believe that there is a potential for further data use in their municipality