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Revitalizing Pedagogy in a Medical Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Curriculum: Findings, Methodology, and Recommendations from a Systematic Self-Assessment
Get PDFThe Medical Programme at Linköping University, committed to Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and interprofessional education, confronted the necessity for pedagogical revitalization due to an upsurge in student numbers, alterations in national physician licensing criteria, and an organizational framework shift. In response to these challenges, stakeholders conducted a comprehensive systematic self-assessment to navigate a course toward a sustainable and contemporary pedagogical transformation.
The methodology employed in this assessment involved a systematic examination of scientific pedagogical literature, policy documents, educational materials, and schedules. Additionally, valuable insights were gathered through teacher and student surveys. Key findings underscore the importance of a balanced approach that grants students more time for self-study and reflection. Enhancing tools and methodologies for constructive alignment is crucial to achieve equilibrium in both theoretical and practical training settings. Moreover, establishing seamless collaborations between the university and teaching hospitals is deemed essential for faculty development and the long-term competence within both organizations.
The self-assessment underscored the critical importance of continuous evaluation in medical educational settings. The approach not only ensures the ongoing relevance of the curricula but also cultivates an environment conducive to student-centred teaching and learning. This, in turn, prepares students for lifelong learning and the diverse challenges in their future medical profession
Transition towards Positive Energy District: a case study from Latvia
Get PDFThe transition from a fossil fuel-based energy system to renewable energy sources has become a crucial consideration in both national-scale planning processes and local-scale energy system planning. Research has been conducted to seek technical solutions for a specific district of a university campus located on the peninsula of Riga to implement a smart energy system with multiple energy sources, storage systems, and energy efficiency measures. The solutions for the transformation of Energy Island to an Energy Community include power generation by building integrated solar panels with different power storage alternatives, such as thermal storage, batteries, hydrogen, and fuel cells. The simulation also evaluates the potential for heat recovery and waste heat integration from the data center and cooling systems to cover the heat demand. The interlinkage with energy efficiency improvements through improved building management systems provides an opportunity to increase RES utilization rates and improve overall energy efficiency. To provide a holistic overview of the future development of the urban area, the research also compares the connection to the district heating network.
Results show that the analyzed energy community can achieve up to 80% of the RES self-consumption level as cost-optimal solutions by combining off-site wind turbine, solar PV panels, water source heat pumps, waste heat recovery and adjusted power storage
Ten years of sustainable energy planning and management
Get PDFWith this volume 40 the International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management can celebrate its 10 years anniversary. In this editorial we take a closer look at the journals impact over its first 10 years of existence and highlight the articles that have made the largest impacts in the scientific community from a citation perspective. The topic of the journal – sustainable energy planning and management – has not decreased in importance over the first ten years of the journal’s existence – and fortunately the results published in the journal has garnered interest and the impact of the journal has significantly increased. In terms of citation, the journals 275 published articles, has received 1484 citations as per March 2024 and nine articles have 40 or more citations in Scopus. CiteScore ranks the journal in the top 10% out of 700+ journals within the topic of Geography, Planning and Development
Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) Generative Technologies For Business Model Design with IDEATe Process: A Speculative Viewpoint
Get PDFPurposeArtificial Intelligence (AI) and the more recent generative technologies are disrupting many activities related to strategy and operations within organizations. Business model design is no exception. We define business model design as an iterative process involving a combination of creativity, decisions, and tests, consisting of envisioning and creating a business model (for a brand-new activity) or a new business model (for an existing activity), to change an existing situation into a preferred one. In this paper, we discuss the potential impact of generative technologies on the business model design process, highlighting the opportunities and challenges that these technologies present and suggesting some methods for using generative technologies for business model design.
Design/Methodology/ApproachWe build on knowledge about business model design and on documentation from forums, social networks, and media about generative technologies. We also used generative AI platforms to test dozens of prompts related to business model design.
FindingsWe propose the IDEATe process for business model design and identify six major changes in the process or the outcome of business model design that generative technologies can trigger. We also discuss blind spots and risks associated with the use of generative technologies for business model design. Finally, we advance some functions of generative technologies that may support this process.
Originality/ValueInstead of focusing on how generative technologies could change business models, we investigate how these technologies could impact the design of business models. We make propositions to use these technologies properly for business model design
The impact of documentary filmmaking: Academics as agents of social and political change
Get PDFIn this article, I draw on three documentaries I have made (Growing Up Married [2016], Lifeline [2020], and Left Behind [2023]) on different forms of gendered violence. I use these as examples to discuss ways in which films made within academic contexts can inform and influence policy. While doing so I reflect on how I built a network of policy makers and charities and used film as a potentially useful tool for partnership development. I explore how scholars can consider filmmaking as a form of activism while arguing that strategies developed within the frame of creative practice afford us alternative ways of promoting social, cultural and political change. I examine the relationship between academic research and activism and the specific role that filmmaking can play in enhancing/problematising this relationship, and argue that the cultivation of impact (as activism) goes beyond institutional, and funding imperatives.
 
Citizen science as interdisciplinary working
Get PDFCitizen science is a growing trend in involving the public in different types of collaboration with scientists. The growth of this activity has consequences for data collection, data analysis and the way in which science is carried out. It also has a potential impact on what, and how, citizen scientists learn about science when engaged in such activities. The purpose of this research is to explore the practices adopted by participants in citizen science projects, and in particular the influence on learning for the participants in these projects which rely on technology to support collaboration. The growth of citizen science projects is occurring at the same time as a growth of interest in informal learning and both are supported by technology enhanced learning. To make best use of the rapidly growing area of citizen science in the development of learning, it needs to be studied as a newly developing interdisciplinary area, with the consequence of unravelling the mechanisms by which interdisciplinary collaboration takes place in these settings, and the identification of conditions which encourage or thwart learning
Enactivism and Digital Learning Platforms
Get PDFWithin the field of education, the concept of active learning building on constructivism has emerged as a dominant framework of the past three decades. This perspective is critical to the objectivist idea that knowledge is something static, as an object to be acquired from the external world. Instead, it states that the learner is responsible for the knowledge construction, and therefore shall become autonomous towards this goal. From an epistemological point of view, despite the important shift of assumptions that this viewpoint has brought to education, constructivism still presents some shortcomings in terms of a change of the instructional paradigm. This paper takes a step forward and explores enactivism, as an alternative philosophical and educational worldview. It presents a theoretical discussion of the enactivist perspective and its differences from objectivism and constructivism. Enactivism proposes a more radical alternative to dualistic and objective approach, as it focuses on the intertwined and multiple interactions between mind, body and the environment. The two main perspectives of enactivism, which we grouped into the categories of “embodied cognition” and “situated cognition”, are present in the field of education. The paper relates them to the two core concepts of reflection and intentionality. Drawing on these theoretical considerations, the paper applies the framework of enaction to a fieldwork research in a Danish school discussing how this concept may provide some new lenses to understand the potential of participatory approaches to the implementation of a digital learning platform. The intervention was organised through two workshops. The first workshop use the technique of the future workshop (Jung & Müller, 1984), which includes a critique phase and a fantasy phase. The second workshop (14 days later) was a design-workshop. This intervention is an example of how to understand enactive modelling, considering the relations between the participants and the environment as a dynamic and emerging relation of autonomy-dependency, a symbiosis. The analysis shows that the implementation takes place into an ecological living system made up of humans, non-humans, things, and societal entities. For the teachers (and more general the humans) to possibly accept, appropriate, act and re-enact such a learning infrastructure, it is of great importance to establish spaces for reflections, which e.g. a future workshop provides, and to support and facilitate (alternative) enactments of some of the more hidden affordances of the digital learning platform
Somaesthetics and Methodology: A Dialogue
Get PDFThe article's form is a dialogue among five scholars of somaesthetics. The dialogue's topic is somaesthetics and methodology, addressing questions such as: What are the relevant methods for somaesthetic inquiries and practices? What are the methodological difficulties? Which important dimensions do methods and methodologies exclude? The article consists of five pieces, each addressing questions and propositions presented by other authors. The contributing authors are Falk Heinrich, Max Ryynänen, Stefano Marino, Aurosa Alison, and Elena Romagnoli
The Nonbinary Orientation of Somaesthetics
Get PDFTo my lights, somaesthetics is already queer in its interdisciplinary orientation and pluralist mode of inquiry. It was from this theoretical position that inspired Shusterman himself to shed new light on pre-modern cultures of sexual arts in Ars Erotica and played a part in the performance art piece with Yann Toma called The Adventures of the Man in Gold. I want to explicate this basic queer orientation of somaesthetics by first developing from Sara Ahmed’s pioneer work in “queer phenomenology” with reference to Merleau-Ponty. I argue somaesthetics is more inclusive of the lived experience of queer bodies than Ahmed’s reconstruction allows. From there, I push the implications of queer somaesthetics through the idea of countersexuality to expose its radical, deviant potential
Accounting for modern slavery risk transparency in Nigerian businesses: Institutional context, disclosure and the way forward
Get PDFThis paper examines the state of engagement of Nigerian companies with modern slavery risk and how current accounting and reporting might be better enabled to contribute towards ending modern slavery practices. Crane's (2013) theoretical framework is used to guide understanding of the contexts behind modern slavery risk disclosure in Nigeria, including industry, socioeconomic, regulatory, cultural and geographic factors. Cross-sectional content and thematic analysis are undertaken, as published in the annual reports, sustainability reports and websites of top companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. In line with Crane (2013), supply chain codes of conduct and collaboration are identified as a possible first-stage intervention moderator between industry context and ending modern slavery in Nigeria. However, a second moderator, affordable micro-credit, is notably absent from disclosures, and a third moderator, private or civil regulators, as a substitute for government, is considered ineffective. Management capability mediators as circuit breakers, reducing accounting opacity, require further research. This is the first paper to present evidence about modern slavery supply chain risk disclosures in Nigeria and to develop possible contextual, moderating and mediating variables aimed at policies and actions to end modern slavery practices in Nigeria