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The Digital Transformation of European Higher Education: Technological, Ecological, and Social Challenges
No full textIn the last twenty years, higher education institutions have undergone a series of waves of reform, driven by the need to adapt traditional organisational models to radical changes in global and local contexts, characterised by a loss of borders, turbulence, instability, a progressive lack of resources and epochal challenges. Within a triple polarity system, driven on one side by supranational regulatory pressures, on another by the rapidly obsolescent labour market and on the third side by a three-pointed transition (digital, ecological and social), universities are at the centre of complex processes of change that increasingly characterise them as complex organisations. The project was designed to help universities develop strategic approaches to digital transformation. It provided multiple case studies aimed at exploring Digital Technologies in HE: from the European vision to the university governance; a training pilot test for improving Online teaching in HE and the Engagement tools for HE online learning environment; the sharing of the Symbiotic Learning Paradigm (SLP): Teacher Competences, Methods & Approaches in HE and Recommendation and guidelines for Academic Bodies.
The most important outcomes of the ERASMUS + ECOLHE project summarised in this volume explore the complex process of building an EHEA through a theoretical, empirical and multilevel comparative perspective. Its main goal is to reconstruct both the interpretation between the supranational and local dimensions, and the space of action that is always open, and never completely overdetermined, between the subjective action activated by a person's “responsible freedom” and the influence exercised by social structures on courses of action.
ECOLHE was a three-year Erasmus+ co-funded project launched in September 2020, as a partnership between the Digital Technologies, Education & Society Research Centre, Link Campus University Foundation (as Applicant), Roma Tre University (Italy), University College Cork (Ireland), Universitat Obert de Catalunya (Spain), University of Patras (Greece), Laurea University of Applied Sciences (Finland), European Association Erasmus Coordinator (Cypro)
Les lois et le changement culturel: le handicap en Italie et en France
No full textThis research proposes integration between psychology and sociology. A psychological theoretical model conceiving behaviors and social relationships as the product of the social unconscious processes was used to study a social phenomenon: the cultural change produced by the enactment of laws. In particular, the cultural change occurred following the enactment of laws for people with disabilities was studied in Italy and in France. To this end, a text analysis procedure to study social phenomena was developed, tested and used to understand how the enactment of laws on disability produced a cultural change on a national scale, in university training and on the labour market. Results show that the analysis procedure produces a significant gain in terms of time and resources, allowing to connect the unconscious categories with social actors’ behaviors. They also highlight the differences between the current representation of disability and that of the past described in literature. Therefore, the enactment of laws seems to enable a cultural change producing innovative practices that are associated with peculiar forms of culture. In conclusion the use of the concept of social unconscious to study social phenomena, seems to facilitate the understanding of the actors’ behaviors.Ce travail de recherche propose une intégration de la psychologie dans la sociologie. Un modèle théorique de la psychologie, qui interprète les comportements des acteurs sociaux et les relations sociales comme le produit des processus inconscients collectifs, a été utilisé afin d’étudier un phénomène sociale: le changement culturel face à la promulgation des lois. En particulier, le changement culturel survenu suite à la promulgation des lois en faveur des personnes ayant un handicap en Italie et en France a été étudié. Dans ce but, une procédure d’analyse textuelle afin d’étudier les phénomènes sociaux a été développée, testée et utilisée pour comprendre de quelle manière la promulgation des lois sur le handicap a produit un changement culturel au niveau national, de la formation universitaire et du marché du travail. Les résultats indiquent que la procédure développée offre un gain notable en termes de temps et de ressources, permettant de mettre en relation les catégories inconscientes avec les comportements des acteurs sociaux. Ils mettent aussi en évidence les différences entre l’actuelle représentation du handicap et celle du passée décrite en littérature. Les lois semblent, donc, activer un changement culturel produisant des pratiques innovantes qui s’associent à des formes de culture caractéristiques. En conclusion l’utilisation du concept d’inconscient social afin d’étudier les phénomènes sociaux semble permettre une meilleure compréhension des comportements des acteurs sociaux
Chapter 4 Students’ perspective of digital technologies in higher education
No full textThis research is based on data collected through the online survey for students of the ECOLHE project's first intellectual output - Comparative Research Report on Digital Technologies in higher education: from the European Vision to the University17. ECOLHE - Empower competences for online learning in higher education - examined the “translation into practice” of the idea of e-learning in European higher education (Latour, 2005; Freeman; 2009) at a national level by academic bodies. Universities involved were E-Campus University (IT), Roma Tre University (IT), University Oberta de Catalunya (ES), University College of Cork (IR), University of Patras (GR) and Laurea University (FI). The project aimed to highlight the experiences, practices and competencies of teachers, researchers and university staff members active in the digital field in order to promote the dissemination of good practices in training and skills development for “online” learning in Higher Education (HE). For this reason, the main scope of the questionnaire built for the present research was to investigate students’ perception of the ability to integrate digital technologies into organisational and training processes supporting teaching/learning activities. The research started from the idea that it was possible to analyse the dimensions of students’ digital maturity18 by studying their perceptions of the university’s capability to carry out good processes and services for the digital learning experience. The paper is organized into three sections. Initially, we have illustrated the four research questions that guided the entire study. In the following sections, the methodology adopted and the main techniques used to answer these questions will be explained. Then, we present the sample and the method of data collection. Work will be organised by dividing the presentation and the comment on the results according to the response given to the four research questions. Finally, the last section is devoted to concluding reflections about the main results obtained
Digital Transformation in Europe
No full textThis chapter focuses on the challenge of lifelong learning and guidance of new paradigms for higher education institutions. Universities are expected to play a new important role in providing innovative teaching, learning processes, and counselling services to help people navigate the recurrent transitions throughout their lives. Based on these assumptions, this chapter aims to provide: (a) a theoretical framework which illustrates the recent evolutions of organizational models and the implications of digital transformation on them, with particular reference to universities;
(b) an overview of the state-of-play of European policies and initiatives related to HE, with particular attention to the evolution, progress, and development of the HE field in terms of digitalization (online as well as blended teaching and
learning); (c) a focus on the role of digital skills concerning competences for life, with the presentation of the main European competences frameworks
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
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