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Teaching Specialty Courses Using Educational Applications: Five Teaching Scenarios from Technical Vocational Education
Get PDFThe main objectives of this study are to examine the teaching of specialty courses using educational applications and to assess technology-enhanced learning. More specifically, a unit of analysis of 25 teachers from five different subjects developed five teaching scenarios that utilize specific educational applications. Emphasis was placed on the targeted integration of these applications into the learning process and their framing with participatory and learner-centered educational techniques. According to the teachers participating in the research, the most important criteria for selecting an educational application are the relevance of the application to the teaching unit, the structure and content of the application, the ease of use, the possibility of assessing progress with quizzes and interactive tests, and the free access and use of the application by students. Concerning the benefits of using the apps, these focus on differentiating traditional teaching and providing new learning incentives, enhancing student interest, developing digital skills, enhancing collaborative learning, and lifting time and space constraints. The originality of this research lies in the use of specific educational applications for the development of teaching scenarios for specialty courses
Digital Communication and Preservation of Cultural Heritage in the Context of New Media: A Case Study of Anyang
Get PDFAnyang is rich in diverse cultural heritage, including the famous Yin Ruins, oracle bone script, Shang Dynasty culture, and divination beliefs. These heritages are core carriers of cultural transmission and important academic research areas. This study analyzes the adaptability of Anyang's cultural heritage amidst modern social changes, focusing on its integration with local economic development strategies. By activating the tourism market and image industry, it promotes economic growth and cultural transmission. The study also explores the digitization of literature and new media tools in modernizing educational content. Through visual media, Anyang's cultural heritage overcomes geographical barriers, connecting with a global audience. Visual narratives present Anyang's history and cultural stories, offering new paths for global recognition. Films, micro-dramas, online media, and other visual art forms transform Anyang's cultural narratives into symbols easily understood worldwide. The study encourages more film and television creators to explore Henan and Anyang, discovering the value of historical and cultural resources and landscapes through high-quality works
Intervention Reflecting Motivation to Achieve Long-term Goals
Get PDFThis study proposes a method to identify interventions appropriate to each motivation to achieve goals. People must stay motivated to engage themselves in working hard over a long time toward goals. Some kinds of intervention work well, while others fail. This method requests them to express their reflections on the engagement in daily behavior toward the goals. It converts the expression into a vector representing their motivational state using the word embedding technology. The method sends messages that reflect the motivational states to examine changes in the motivation when people receive messages. It identifies what types of messages encourage/discourage people with different motivations. In a 6-week experiment with 14 undergraduate and graduate students, intervention with messages is sent to their smartphones. The experiment results reveal messages improving/degrading motivation depending on the current motivational states of subjects, which enable us to provide more effective interventions for users trying to achieve a big goal in a long time
The Influence of Perceived Risk Factors on Emerging-Market Consumers’ Attitude Towards Shopping for Clothes Online
Get PDFEngagement in online shopping by specific emerging-market consumers in South Africa is on the rise. Nevertheless, the online usage rate remains low. Online retailers need to understand the perceived risk factors influencing consumers’ attitudes and intention in relation to online shopping for clothing products. To that end, an online survey was conducted among emerging-market consumers in Soweto, with 300 respondents being targeted and reached. Convenience sampling was adopted to collect data from the respondents. An independent research company collected data, and various statistical analyses were conducted. The findings revealed that perceived financial, convenience and security risks significantly influenced emerging-market consumers’ attitude towards online shopping. None of the perceived risks were found to influence consumers’ intention to shop online. The perceived financial, convenience and security risks were found to be mediated by attitude. The findings are significant for e-commerce merchants seeking to develop targeted online marketing strategies for emerging-market consumers
Culinary Authenticity and Diaspora: A Preliminary Enquiry
Get PDFFood has traversed across boundaries with the advent of globalization. Food from various countries is now accessible to people across the globe, irrespective of the vast difference in culture or taste. Exposure to new kinds of food has become commonplace since migration, food trade and marketing expanded. Diasporic groups who migrate for different reasons carry their culture along, that they either spread the same in the immigrant country or seek nostalgic relief through food, lifestyle, relationships etc. Nonetheless, the mother culture and corresponding food habits do travel with people, more so if their occupation is related to food. While that happens, there’s always the burning question of authenticity of food. Some believe that a dish cooked by a native of a particular cuisine is authentic, some others consider use of traditional ingredients makes a dish authentic. In the context of globalisation, culinary ways, recipes and ingredients are borrowed and integrated across cultures. Due to these transactions, presuppositions on culinary authenticity are plenty and dynamic among stakeholders of the food industry, be it an immigrant consumer, culinary expert, food critic or a restaurateur. This paper attempts to study the various aspects concerning culinary authenticity and diaspora, analysing viewpoints of the stakeholders
Dynamic Price Dispersion of Seasonal Goods in Bertrand–Edgeworth Competition
Get PDFThe primary distinguishing characteristics of various revenue management systems include fixed capacities, uniform products, and customers' sensitivity to pricing when making purchase decisions. Even with only two or three competitors, the competition remains intense. This study examines the sub-game perfect Nash equilibrium of price competition within an oligopoly market where goods are perishable assets. Each seller possesses a single unit of a non-replenishable good and competes by setting prices to sell their inventory over a finite sales period. Each period, buyers seek to purchase one unit of the good, and the number of buyers entering is random. All sellers' prices are visible to buyers, and there is no cost associated with searching for goods. Through stochastic dynamic programming methods, sellers' optimal responses can be determined by treating the competition as a one-time price-setting game, considering the remaining sales periods and the current demand pattern. Assuming a binary demand model, it is demonstrated that the duopoly model exhibits a unique Nash equilibrium. In addition, it is shown that the oligopoly model does not result in price dispersion based on a discussed metric. Moreover, when a generalized demand model is considered, the duopoly model features a unique Nash equilibrium with mixed strategies, whereas the oligopoly model exhibits a unique symmetric Nash equilibrium with mixed strategies
Developing Intercultural Competence of Educators: Self-Regulated Learning Perspective
Get PDFWith the increase in globalization, intercultural competence is considered a key proficiency for educators. While many theoretical frameworks of intercultural competence exist, none have explained the development of this competence from the perspective of a self-regulated learner. The self-regulated intercultural learning process capitalizes on the advantages of self-assessment, self-directed learning, and reflection on unique experience. In alignment with a research-based self-regulated learning model, a series of evidence based interconnected activities was developed to guide and assess the intercultural learning for educators. Each phase within the sequential self-regulated learning process is facilitated by purposefully selected readings and media and originally designed semi-structured activities that are subsequently augmented by guided reflections and self-evaluations. The adaptability and cost-consciousness of the series allows for integrating it as an efficient and effective component of intercultural pre-service coursework and/or in-service professional development, for both individuals and teams
Radio News in the Slovak Republic in the 21st Century
Get PDFThe present scientific study focuses on the issue of radio news in the 21st century. The ambition is to evaluate, at the time of writing this study, the current situation concerning news coverage in the most listened radio entities in the Slovak Republic. In this context, the basic characteristics of a public radio broadcaster and a private radio entity are also described. The results focus on the current state of radio news and its diverse interpretation in selected radio entities in Slovakia based on quantitative content analysis. The study details information on the nature of broadcast news in our research sample of the main news programmes of a public and a private radio broadcaster in Slovakia. It also sets out research questions and hypotheses focusing on the representation of news with a domestic and foreign focus, as well as which foreign countries dominate the foreign news coverage, and the themes in the foreign news coverage. The study summarizes the results of the research, generalizes the data, and also formulates conclusions that define radio news in the 21st century. The research section also includes interviews with executives from two selected media entities to support the results of the quantitative content analysis
The Validity of Generalized Modal Syllogisms with the Quantifiers in Square {most} and Square{no}
Get PDFOn the basis of the valid generalized modal syllogism £EM¯O-2 containing the quantifiers in Square{most} and Square{no}, this paper explores the validity of the other generalized modal syllogisms. The reasons of the reducibility between/among valid generalized modal syllogisms are: that there are transformational relationships between/among Aristotelian quantifiers in Square{no} or generalized ones in Square{most}, and that the necessary modality and the possible one are dual, and that the quantifiers some and no are symmetric. This method is universal, and helps to study the validity of other kinds of syllogisms. It is hoped that the above results can promote the development of related fields such as computational linguistics
Decisionmakers’ Assessment of Science Communication and Scientific Media Coverage. A Qualitative Study Focussing on Materials Science
Get PDFScience communication and media coverage of scientific topics have been extensively researched over the past few decades, yet gaps remain in terms of focus areas and study design. Here I examine the case of materials science based on data from 22 semi-standardised interviews with experts from the political-administrative field as well as from science and industry. Materials science plays a key role in the development towards a sustainable future and its public perception today might impact science policy. Therefore, I analyse how German decisionmakers position themselves towards science communication and what their views are on the media portrayal of materials science. Their main argument for enhancing communication practices is the maintenance of democracy and support for scientific work, which implies empowering the lay public to enter into a dialogue with scientists in the field, as postulated by the dialogue model. Most respondents are critical of the media coverage of science topics, though they acknowledge its role in shaping public opinion and, to some extent, influencing policymakers' agendas. However, the impact arises from the interplay of various factors, and direct media influence on decision-making processes is perceived only in particular situations