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A Methodological Framework to Monitor the Performance of Virtual Learning Communities
No full textThis article presents a methodological framework developed to monitor the evolution of virtual learning communities intended as open communities of peers, tutors, and mentors from industry and academia. The proposed framework is described through an explorative case. It has been applied to observe and supervise a virtual learning community built around aMaster’s program intended to create “e-Business Solutions Engineers.” The framework is based on two dimensions of analysis: individual growth and team growth. The first is a function of personal development and satisfaction, and the second depends on social networking dynamics and cooperative content creation. The analysis of data, collected during 10 months of exchanged e-mails and five monthly Web surveys, has been validated through interviews with key informants and through the involvement of academic and industrial partners in the formal assessment of the learners’ performance
Design of a web 2.0 learning laboratory for developing managerial competencies
No full textThis article describes the Applied Learning Laboratory (ALL), a
model-based on a learner-centered approach for developing Managerial
Competencies that takes advantage of the benefits of web 2.0 technologies.
Within the ALL, a collaborative platform including blogs, wikis, Really
Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds and folksonomy, supports cooperative
learning, project-based learning and problem-based learning within the more
general framework of the case-based method. Our interest is in understanding
how to combine the effectiveness of the case-based method – a powerful way
to learn the skills and attitudes required to manage and to lead – with the
benefits deriving from web 2.0 technologies. The ALL enables a community of
mentors and learners to learn new perspectives on the analysis of real business
cases aided by web 2.0 technologies that serve as facilitators of
communication, virtual collaboration and problem solving development
Discovering The Hidden Dynamics of Learning Communities
No full textThis paper presents a framework developed to monitor the evolution of learning communities intended as open communities of peers, tutors, and mentors from industry and academia. The proposed framework is described through a case study that provides empirical evidence of the benefits of studying learning communities by observing group dynamics and detecting individual trends. It has been applied to observe and supervise a learning community built around a Master’s Program intended to create e-Business Solutions Engineers. The framework is based on two dimensions of analysis: the individual growth and the team growth. The first is function of personal development and satisfaction, while the second depends on social networking dynamics and cooperative content creation. The analysis of data, collected through ten months of exchanged e-mails and five monthly web-surveys, has been validated through interviews to the Program’s coordinator and the Program Director, as well as through the involvement of academic and industrial partners in the formal assessment of the learners’ performance
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Soggetti, tendenze, strumenti e caratteristiche delle politiche industriali in Italia
No full textQuesto capitolo è destinato all’analisi dei principali soggetti e strumenti che intervengono nell’ambito delle politiche industriali in Italia. Il quadro è estremamente articolato, e soggetto a cambiamenti, nel recente passato e in corso: per cui questo lavoro non ha caratteristiche di esaustività, e si configura come un contributo soggetto a integrazioni, miglioramenti e aggiornamenti.Il capitolo è suddiviso in quattro parti. La prima è dedicata ad un’analisi della dimensione e delle tendenze delle politiche. La seconda è dedicata ad alcuni aspetti della programmazione dei fondi strutturali comunitari (2007-13 e 2014-20) che riguardano le politiche industriali, nonché all’illustrazione di alcuni ambiti di intervento delle regioni. La terza è dedicata all’illustrazione dei principali strumenti di politica industriale a livello nazionale. La quarta è dedicata all’azione della Cassa Depositi e Prestiti
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