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The role of educational technology in design and delivery of curricula programmes: A case of STEPS at a University of Technology
Get PDFPublished ArticleWhile Universities of Technologies (UoTs) regard the adoption of educational technology for the
creation of effective learning environments as one of their defining features, there is limited research on
these universities’ innovative use of technologies to transform their curricula design and delivery. This
research explores the extent to which educational technology has been integrated into the
implementation of new and revised educational programs under the Strategic Transformation of
Educational Programs and Structures (STEPS) at a UoT. The research employed document analysis and
interview data from middle level managers (deans), curriculum designers and educational technologists.
The findings suggest that, except for one faculty where educational technology was an enduring feature
of the design and delivery of curricula programs, technology played a peripheral role in the design and
reorganization phases although it featured more in the implementation of curricula programs under
STEPS. The paper concludes that the innovative use of technology, a holistic teaching and learning
strategy, and training of educators on technology integration are critical in achieving total integration of
educational technology into curricula programs
The impact of using social networking sites on academic relations and student learning in University setting
No full textThis study investigates academic relations of educators, tutors, and students in university settings. Academic relations refer to the controlling and productive relations of power that operate at both societal and interpersonal level between academic actors and through them, knowledge is produced and identities are constructed. From a Critical theoretical point of view, power is unequally distributed in society and psychological development is fundamentally mediated by power relations which are socially and historically constituted. Given the capacity of power configurations to influence learning coupled with the fact that such relations are both relational and psychological, the notion of unequal social power is critical to understanding academic relations in university settings. The psychological and relational aspects of power suggest that underprepared students from disadvantaged academic backgrounds may suffer a sense of powerlessness and social domination as they interact with academics and more capable peers from privileged academic backgrounds. Research suggests that students (especially the previously disadvantaged) form peer-based knowledge sharing clusters (for example, study groups) to augment their intellectual potential and resource limitations. Mindful of these underprepared students' social domination (social and psychological) by high achieving peers and academics, and the capacity of peer-based clusters/ relations to democratise academic relations through presenting opportunities for exchange of perspectives, these peer-based relations present viable proxies for unpacking academic relations. The problem, therefore, is that while academic relations (lecturer-student, tutor-student, and student-peer) in face-to-face contact are quite central to student meaningful learning and transformation, capturing and studying these relations is complex. This complexity is explicated by the incapacity of traditional classrooms to capture and sustain academic relations due to: 1) The temporality, time and spatially bounded nature of academic relations in class, 2) Class sizes, academics' huge workloads and time constraints that limit one-on-one lecturer-student engagements especially at undergraduate level 3) Transmission pedagogy and classroom space configuration that mute lateral discourses, and 4) Student complex histories and cultural diversity. Research suggests that student knowledge sharing clusters are shifting from face-to-face to social networking sites (SNS), that is, online social networks that support group collaboration vii and support. The persistence of these online interactions, opportunities for peer-based discourses, peer-generation of artefacts on SNS challenge the limitations of traditional classrooms, making SNS essential for unpacking classroom lecturer-student and student-peer relations by proxy (if academics participate). These opportunities, and computer-mediated communication theory' suggestion that computer-mediated nature of textual interaction has potential to undermine status, gender and power asymmetries built in face-to-face interaction inform my thesis that SNS interaction has potential to equalise power relations of academic actors. The goal of this study was therefore, to use lecturer-student, student-peer interaction on SNS as proxies for unpacking academic relations and learning that unfold in traditional academic settings (classrooms, computer laboratories). The research question instigated the impact of lecturer-student, student-peer interaction on the academic /power relations and learning of academics and students in formal university settings. Using a Critical ethnographic approach, the research investigated power relations and learning manifested in: 1. academics and student text-based messages posted on SNS (Facebook), 2. lecturer and student experiences of using Facebook and its influence on classroom interactions, and 3. Lecturer-student and student peer interactions in class. Mindful of the democratisation potential of computer-mediated communication (CMC) on previously disadvantaged learners, the relational nature of power, the influence of structural forces on mediated interaction and higher mental development, this research was informed by three theories namely, Critical Theory of Technology (CTT), Critical Theories of Power (CTP), and Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), respectively. As a participant observer in online ethnography, the researcher employed CTT to examine the democratisation potential and constraints of computer-mediated communication (that is SNS) on learning and academic relations. While CTT was useful for examining the technological effects on mediated learning, the theory was less insightful for unpacking the power contestations in text-mediated discourses. To this end, Critical Discourse Analysis' (CDA) (which draws on CTP) was employed to examine how vertical and horizontal relational power were articulated and contested via textual messages, to complement CTT in its limitations. Although CTP was insightful for the examination of power manifested in lecturer-student, and peer-based interaction, CTP equally proved inadequate for the examination of mediated learning, that is, the role of artefact-mediated action on psychological development. Mindful viii of CHAT's focus on the influence of symbolic mediation on psychological development, CHAT offered a rational complement to CTP for the examination of mediated learning. This was important given that this research on academic/power relations and student learning unfolded in a technology-mediated learning environment (that is SNS). CHAT was adopted as a theoretical and methodological approach to examine how mediated interaction and the interplay of different elements of the lecture activity system impacted on student psychological development and lecturer's teaching practices. In summary, the study examined these empirical materials: text-based interactions (lecturer and student Facebook postings), lecturer and student narratives of lectures and Facebook interactions (interview transcripts, lecturer debriefings after classroom observations), in-class actions and discourses (lecture observations and focus group discussions). The findings of this study are that SNS democratized academic relations and communication for academically inclined students through: widening the academic networking space, breaching lecturer-student social boundaries that often hindered student access to knowledge resources, and offering 'safe haven' for student contestation of unpopular academic practices. Facebook also allowed shy and timid students to be more assertive in requesting academic support. The unintended effect of SNS was that it reconfigured peer-based relations as high achievers assumed additional vertical, 'super tutor' roles of advising peers. Facebook also regulated in-class interaction by hiving off mundane questions on course administration and practicals from the class. SNS thus augmented classroom interaction as online and classroom learning cross fertilised each other. The practical contribution of this work is in the insight into how student informal academic and social support online networks could be drawn upon in student in-class learning. The study proposed a 'best practice' pedagogical model/ strategy that draws on: 1) Informal peer-based and lecturer-student knowledge sharing on Facebook and associated SN tools, 2). Student reflexivity on self-generated and peer-generated content, and 3). Self and peer-based evaluation as a basis for academic empowerment. The theoretical contribution lies in the methodology or approach for analysing the interplay between academic relations and student learning using SNS as proxy. In particular, this work contributes a new body of knowledge through the integration of Critical Theories (Critical Theories of Power and Critical Theories of Technology) and CHAT
Private Financing and Human Resource Practices of Small Local and Foreign-Owned Cosmetological Businesses
Get PDFThere exists a growing body of empirical studies that explore both the sources of small, micro and medium enterprises (SMME) funding, and the quality of their human resource practices. However, there is paucity of literature that interrogates the impact of private funding of local and foreign SMMEs on the quality of human resources. Nevertheless, the wide recognition of the economic significance of SMMEs in emerging economies and the pivotal role that funding plays in the growth of such firms suggest that the nexus between SMME private funding and human resourcing is integral to this condition and growth. As a result, the current study examined the influence of private financing of local and foreign-owned hair salon SMMEs on the quality of their human resources, in an attempt to bridge the aforementioned research gap. The study, which drew on a quantitative approach, is based on a survey conducted on 150 South African and foreign immigrant-owned hair salon businesses. The findings suggest that the private financing structure was dominated by a combination of debt and equity financing, followed by debt financing, with equity financing as the least employed funding model. The study established the significant impact that access to private equity financing has on recruitment, selection and compensation. However, the level of private debt financing, attractiveness of interest rates for private debt financing and financial value of funding from private institutions (banks) do not have any impact on human resources management practices. A major observation from the results is that, some aspects of private financing impact negatively on human resources management albeit a small effect size, which somehow raises critical questions about the popular claims that financing, contributes positively to the quality of human resources of firms
Understanding factors affecting technology entrepreneurship of university-incubated firms
No full textThesis (Ph.D.(Business Managment))--University of the Free State, 2022Despite the consensus in entrepreneurship literature on the significant contribution of technology business incubation to the realisation of technology entrepreneurship, the range of factors that merge with technology business incubation to shape technology entrepreneurship remains highly contentious. For instance, some studies have placed exclusive emphasis on individual psychological and cognitive factors (e.g., poor business knowledge, limited experience and perceived entrepreneurship capabilities) as explanations for low technology business incubation and poor technology entrepreneurship outcomes. Yet, other studies have concentrated on institutional levels factors such as inadequate incubation support (e.g., the lack of physical capital, social capital and intellectual capital) as critical explanations for suboptimal technology business incubation and technology entrepreneurship outcomes. To further compound the puzzle on key drivers of these business outcomes, other scholars have foregrounded systemic level factors (e.g., national entrepreneurship policy, regional innovation culture, regional SMME funding, the legitimacy of incubators’ mediation of business networks, and system-wide partnerships and collaborations) as contributing to technology business incubation and technology entrepreneurship. The emphasis on the aforesaid different layers of analysis (i.e., individual, institutional and environmental factors) precludes entrepreneurship scholars from developing an integrated picture of these factors to provide a more nuanced and holistic account of factors affecting technology business incubation and technology entrepreneurship.
The scientific gap this study explores, therefore, is the varying, hierarchical but partial explanations for low technology business incubation and suboptimal technology entrepreneurship outcomes (i.e., few commercialised applications, low business growth and financial sustainability), which complicate the creation of synergy from individual, institutional and environmental factors affecting technology business incubation to generate technology entrepreneurship, when these factors are considered individually and selectively. The study draws on a humanist perspective and interpretive phenomenology involving two cases of university-based incubation ecosystem actors drawn from a population of 65 participants to provide a comprehensive account of the diverse factors that coalesce around technology business incubation to influence technology entrepreneurship. The phenomenological study which covered 30 in-depth semi-structured interviews, 2 focus group discussions and an extensive review of documents revealed that, scripts, intuition, physical capital, social capital, intellectual capital, national entrepreneurship policy and regional innovation culture were the main individual, institutional and environmental factors that merge with technology business incubation to influence technology entrepreneurship. Moreover, the study established that, at technology business incubation level, gut feelings were critical in incubation decisions such as investment deals, procurement decisions, concluding sales deals, determining product prices, investigating reasons for cancelling of product purchases and managing partnerships. Regarding the realisation of technology entrepreneurship, gut feelings were instrumental in optimising opportunity exploitation in the innovation ecosystem, especially locating new customers, new investment and funding opportunities, which culminated in increased revenue base, return on investment and profit margins of technology startups. Scripts were instrumental in navigating the entrepreneurial stages, especially ascertaining the value proposition, prototype development, securing client feedback during product tests, launching new technology innovation products and ascertaining perceived risks for products in the market.
Concerning the advancement of technology entrepreneurship, when the lean canvas business model was applied as a script, the script enabled incubatees to develop an innovative lens to the entire technology business development process – optimising the pricing of products, revenue generation and sustainable technology innovation for startups. From a technology entrepreneurship perspective, the provision of physical capital to incubatees provided a central nodal point for incubatees to access new customers, augmenting opportunities for concluding more sales of technology products and services and increasing the revenue base for these tenants. Incubation sponsors’ availing of social capital through the creation of an innovation platform for promoting incubation sponsor-incubatee networking enabled incubatees to hone their innovative ideas, perfect their technology products and solutions leading to more effective commercialisation of their innovations. The provision of human capital training in legal matters, technical and advisory services, grant proposal development, and accessing venture capital catalysed incubatees to develop a more sophisticated view of the venture development process, enabling them to better identify and exploit new scientific and technology innovations, which created avenues for firm expansion and financial growth. From a technology business incubation perspective, national policy shaped the regional innovation development programmes that strengthened the formation of the regional innovation ecosystem, which influenced the localisation of technology innovations at the grassroots. Regional innovation culture enabled knowledge spillovers that unfolded among universities, industry and firms in the incubation ecosystem, allowing business startups to leverage the intellectual property created by or through universities, even though a dearth of technology innovations persisted outside university contexts. Regarding its contribution to technology entrepreneurship, national entrepreneurship policy directed universities to identify academics and students that possess innovative ideas with potential for commercialisation to form technology startups and emphasised the creation a cohort of entrepreneurs who could generate patents, startups and spinouts that create jobs, fuelling economic growth and national wealth creation. The study contributes to theory, model development, methodology, policy and practice. The study contributes to theoretical knowledge on university technology business incubation by illustrating the combination of individual, institutional and environmental factors that merge to shape technology business incubation in ways that contribute to the realisation of technology entrepreneurship.
The study draws on complementarities of institutional theory and resource-based view to demonstrate how incubation rules and norms shape incubatees’ venture development behaviours and how the superiority of resources served as a differentiating factor in incubatees’ decisions to join private technology business incubators or remain in their incumbent university-based incubators. The study employed contextual embeddedness and resource differentiation as concepts that integrate the resource-based view and institutional theory in showing how different incubatees at various stages of their entrepreneurial journeys need distinct types of resources and forms of support to realise technology incubation and technology entreprepreneurship. The study also employed policy diversity and strategic alignment of institutional stakeholders and incubation processes to the resource endowments and situated contexts of these actors to establish entrepreneurial and incubation ecosystems germane to the level of entrepreneurial maturity, resource affordances and capabilities of these stakeholders in that ecosystem. The study developed a conceptual model based on the combination of individual, institutional and environmental factors whose synergy with technology business incubation contributed to the realisation of technology entrepreneurship. Methodologically, the study develops an integrated approach that merged the supply-side approach (technology business incubator perspectives) with demand-side approach (technology business incubatees perspectives) thereby providing a more inclusive, comprehensive perspective on the dynamics of business incubation and technology entrepreneurship. The study makes some policy recommendations concerning the development of resource mobilisation strategy for incubatees well aligned to their preferred funding mechanisms, development of comprehensive policies explaining different funding models, mechanisms, and instruments and their trade-offs. It also recommends the development of a context-embedded approach to modelling and implementing regional innovation ecosystems to improve the effectiveness of innovation ecosystems and developing an ecological policy framework for incubation ecosystems framed around the prioritisation and ranking of incubation factors in terms of their importance, relevance and socio-economic impact.
___________________________________________________________________Ten spyte van die konsensus in entrepreneurskapliteratuur oor die beduidende bydrae van tegnologie-besigheidsinkubasie tot die verwesenliking van tegnologie-entrepreneurskap, bly die reeks faktore wat saamsmelt met tegnologie-besigheidsinkubasie om tegnologie-entrepreneurskap te vorm hoogs omstrede. Sommige studies het byvoorbeeld eksklusief die klem geplaas op individuele sielkundige en kognitiewe faktore (bv. swak besigheidskennis, beperkte ondervinding en waargenome entrepreneurskapvermoëns) as verduidelikings vir lae tegnologie besigheidsinkubasie en swak tegnologie entrepreneurskap uitkomste. Tog het ander studies gekonsentreer op faktore op institusionele vlak, soos onvoldoende inkubasie-ondersteuning (bv. die gebrek aan fisiese kapitaal, sosiale kapitaal en intellektuele kapitaal) as kritieke verklarings vir suboptimale tegnologiebesigheidsinkubasie en tegnologiese entrepreneurskapuitkomste. Om die legkaart oor sleuteldrywers van hierdie besigheidsuitkomste verder te bemoeilik, het ander vakkundiges sistemiese vlak faktore (bv. nasionale entrepreneurskapbeleid, streeksinnovasiekultuur, streeksbefondsing van KMMOs, die legitimiteit van leerskole se bemiddeling van besigheidsnetwerke, en stelselwye vennootskappe) op die voorgrond geplaas, dat dit bydra tot tegnologie-besigheidsinkubasie en tegnologie-entrepreneurskap. Die klem op die voorgenoemde verskillende lae van analise (d.w.s. individuele, institusionele en omgewingsfaktore) verhinder entrepreneurskapstudente om 'n geïntegreerde prentjie van hierdie faktore te ontwikkel om 'n meer genuanseerde en holistiese weergawe van faktore te verskaf wat tegnologie-besigheidsinkubasie en tegnologie-entrepreneurskap beïnvloed. Die wetenskaplike leemte wat hierdie studie ondersoek, is dus die wisselende, hiërargiese maar gedeeltelike verklarings vir lae tegnologie besigheidsinkubasie en suboptimale tegnologie entrepreneurskap uitkomste (d.w.s. min gekommersialiseerde toepassings, lae besigheidsgroei en finansiële volhoubaarheid), wat die skepping van sinergie van individuele, institusionele en omgewingsfaktore bemoeilik om tegnologie-besigheidsinkubasie te beïnvloed om tegnologie-entrepreneurskap te genereer, wanneer hierdie faktore individueel en selektief oorweeg word.
Die studie steun op 'n humanistiese perspektief en interpretatiewe fenomenologie wat twee gevalle van universiteitsgebaseerde inkubasie-ekosisteemakteurs betrek wat uit 'n groep van 65 deelnemers getrek is om 'n omvattende weergawe te verskaf van die diverse faktore wat saamsmelt rondom tegnologiebesigheidsinkubasie om tegnologie-entrepreneurskap te beïnvloed. Die fenomenologiese studie wat 30 in-diepte semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude, 2 fokusgroepbesprekings en 'n uitgebreide hersiening van dokumente gedek het, het aan die lig gebring dat skrifte, intuïsie, fisiese kapitaal, sosiale kapitaal, intellektuele kapitaal, nasionale entrepreneurskapbeleid en streeksinnovasiekultuur die belangrikste individuele, institusionele en omgewingsfaktore was wat saamsmelt met tegnologiebesigheidsinkubasie om tegnologiese entrepreneurskap te beïnvloed. Verder het die studie vasgestel dat, op tegnologiese sake-inkubasievlak, instink instrumenteel was in inkubasiebesluite soos beleggingstransaksies, verkrygingsbesluite, die sluiting van verkoopstransaksies, die bepaling van produkpryse, die ondersoek van redes vir die kansellasie van produkaankope en die bestuur van vennootskappe. Wat die verwesenliking van tegnologie-entrepreneurskap betref, was instink instrumenteel in die optimalisering van geleentheidsuitbuiting in die innovasie-ekosisteem, veral die opspoor van nuwe kliënte, nuwe beleggings- en befondsingsgeleenthede, wat bygedra het tot ’n verhoogde inkomstebasis, opbrengs op belegging en winsmarges van nuwe tegnologie-ondernemings. Voorskrifte was instrumenteel in die navigasie van die entrepreneuriese stadiums, veral om die waardeproposisie en prototipe-ontwikkeling te bepaal, asook die terugvoer van kliënte tydens produktoetse te verseker, nuwe tegnologie-innovasieprodukte bekend te stel en waargeneemde risiko's vir produkte in die mark vas te stel.
Met betrekking tot die bevordering van tegnologie-entrepreneurskap, toe die “lean canvas”-besigheidsmodel as 'n voorskrif toegepas is, het die voorskrif inkubate in staat gestel om 'n innoverende lens vir die hele tegnologie-besigheidsontwikkelingsproses te ontwikkel – die prysbepaling van produkte, inkomstegenerering en volhoubare tegnologie-innovasie vir nuwe ondernemings geoptimaliseer het. Vanuit 'n tegnologie-entrepreneurskapperspektief het die voorsiening van fisiese kapitaal aan inkubate 'n sentrale aanknooppunt vir inkubate gebied om toegang tot nuwe kliënte te kry, geleenthede aangevul het om meer transaksies van tegnologiese produkte en dienste te beklink en die inkomstebasis vir hierdie huurders te vergroot. Inkubasieborge se benutting van sosiale kapitaal deur die skepping van 'n innovasieplatform vir die bevordering van netwerke het inkubate in staat gestel om hul innoverende idees te slyp, hul tegnologieprodukte en oplossings te vervolmaak wat lei tot meer effektiewe kommersialisering van hul innovasies. Die verskaffing van mensekapitaalopleiding in regsaangeleenthede, tegniese en adviesdienste, ontwikkeling van toekenningsvoorstelle, en toegang tot waagkapitaal, het inkubate aangemoedig om 'n meer gesofistikeerde siening van die ondernemingsontwikkelingsproses te ontwikkel, wat hulle in staat stel om nuwe wetenskaplike en tegnologiese innovasies beter te identifiseer en te ontgin, wat uitbreidings- en finansiële groeigeleenthede geskep het. Vanuit 'n tegnologie-besigheidsinkubasie-perspektief, het nasionale beleid die streeksinnovasie-ontwikkelingsprogramme gevorm wat die vorming van die streeksinnovasie-ekosisteem versterk het, wat die lokalisering van tegnologie-innovasies by die voetsoolvlak beïnvloed het. Streeksinnovasiekultuur het kennisuitvloeisels moontlik gemaak wat onder universiteite, nywerhede en firmas in die inkubasie-ekosisteem ontvou het, wat sakeondernemings in staat gestel het om die intellektuele eiendom wat deur of via universiteite geskep is, te benut, selfs al het 'n gebrek aan tegnologie-innovasies buite universiteitskontekste voortgeduur. Met betrekking tot sy bydrae tot tegnologie-entrepreneurskap, het nasionale entrepreneurskapbeleid universiteite gelas om akademici en studente te identifiseer wat oor innoverende idees beskik met potensiaal vir kommersialisering om nuwe tegnologie-ondernemings te vorm, en het klem gelê op die skepping van 'n groep entrepreneurs wat patente, beginondernemings en voortspruitende idees kan genereer wat werk skep, wat ekonomiese groei en nasionale welvaartskepping kan aanvuur. Die studie dra by tot teorie, modelontwikkeling, metodologie, beleid en praktyk. Die studie dra by tot teoretiese kennis oor universiteitstegnologiebesigheidsinkubasie deur die kombinasie van individuele, institusionele en omgewingsfaktore te illustreer wat saamsmelt om tegnologiebesigheidsinkubasie te vorm op maniere wat bydra tot die verwesenliking van tegnologiese entrepreneurskap.
Die studie maak gebruik van aanvullings tot die institusionele teorie en hulpbron-gebaseerde siening om te demonstreer hoe inkubasiereëls en -norme inkubatees se ondernemingsontwikkelingsgedrag vorm en hoe die superioriteit van hulpbronne gedien het as 'n onderskeidende faktor in inkubate se besluite om by private tegnologiebesigheidsleerskole aan te sluit of in hul gevestigde universiteitsgebaseerde leerskole te bly. Die studie het kontekstuele inbedding en hulpbrondifferensiasie gebruik as konsepte wat die hulpbrongebaseerde siening en institusionele teorie integreer om te wys hoe verskillende inkubate op verskeie stadiums van hul entrepreneuriese reise verskillende tipes hulpbronne en vorme van ondersteuning nodig het om tegnologie-inkubasie en tegnologie-entrepreneurskap te verwesenlik. Die studie het ook beleidsdiversiteit en strategiese belyning van institusionele belanghebbendes en inkubasieprosesse tot die hulpbrontoekeninge en gesitueerde kontekste van hierdie deelnemers aangewend om entrepreneuriese en inkubasie-ekosisteme te vestig wat gepas is op die vlak van entrepreneuriese volwassenheid, hulpbronbeskikbaarheid en vermoëns van hierdie belanghebbendes in daardie ekosisteem. Die studie het 'n konseptuele model ontwikkel wat gebaseer is op die kombinasie van individuele, institusionele en omgewingsfaktore wie se sinergie met tegnologie-besigheidsinkubasie bygedra het tot die verwesenliking van tegnologie-entrepreneurskap. Metodologies ontwikkel die studie 'n geïntegreerde benadering wat die aanbodkant-benadering (tegnologie-besigheidsinkubatorperspektiewe) saamgesmelt het met die vraagkantbenadering (tegnologie-besigheidsinkubateesperspektiewe) en sodoende 'n meer inklusiewe, omvattende perspektief op die dinamika van besigheidsinkubasie en tegnologie-entrepreneurskap. Die studie maak 'n paar beleidsaanbevelings rakende die ontwikkeling van hulpbronmobiliseringstrategie vir inkubate wat goed in lyn is met hul voorkeurbefondsingsmeganismes, ontwikkeling van omvattende beleidstellings wat verskillende befondsingsmodelle, -meganismes en -instrumente en hul gevolge verduidelik. Dit beveel ook die ontwikkeling van 'n konteks-geïntegreerde benadering tot modellering en implementering van streeksinnovasie-ekosisteme aan om die doeltreffendheid van innovasie-ekosisteme te verbeter en die ontwikkeling van 'n ekologiese beleidsraamwerk vir inkubasie-ekosisteme wat rondom die prioritisering en rangskikking van inkubasiefaktore in terme van hul belangrikheid, relevansie en sosio-ekonomiese impak gerangskik is..
___________________________________________________________________Le ka ntle ho tumellano ya bohle ho dingolwa tsa boithuti ba kgwebo mabapi le seabo sa bohlokwa sa tshireletso ya kgwebo ya theknoloji bakeng sa phihlello ya boithuti ba theknoloji, dintlha tse ngata tse hlahellang malebana le tshireletso ya kgwebo ya theknoloji e sa ntse e le sesosa se seholo sa ngangisano. Ha re tea ka mohlala, tse ding tsa diphuputso di ile tsa hatella haholo tshebetso ya monahano wa motho ka mong esita le dintlha tsa monahano (mohlala, tsebo e fokolang ya kgwebo, boiphihlelo bo haellang le bokgoni bo lebeletsweng ba boithuti ba kgwebo) e le ditlhaloso tsa bofokodi ba tshireletso e tlase ya kgwebo ya theknoloji esita le diphetho tse fokolang tsa boithuti ba kgwebo ka theknoloji. Leha ho le jwalo, diphuputso tse ding di tobokeditse haholo hodima dintlha tsa boemo ba institjushene tse kang tshehetso e fokolang ya tshireletso (mohlala, tlhoko ya disebediswa, setjhaba le bokgoni ba monahano kapa bofokodi ba kelello) e le ditlhaloso tsa bohlokwa bakeng sa tshireletso e sa atlehang ya kgwebo ka theknoloji esita le diphetho tsa thuto ya kgwebo. E le ho eketsa hodima dintlha tsena tsa motheo tsa diphetho tsa kgwebo, baithuti ba bang ba hateletse dintlha tsa boemo ba tshebetso (mohlala, leano la naha la boithuti ba kgwebo, moetlo wa lebatowa wa boitshimollelo, tshehetso ya ditjhelete tsa lebatowa la SMME, tokelo ya bonamodi ba basireletsi ba maranrang a kgwebo, le tshebedisanommoho kapa ditshebeletsano) di na le seabo bakeng sa tshireletso ya kgwebo ka theknoloji le boithuti ba theknoloji. Toboketso ya mekgahlelo ena e boletsweng ka hodimo ya tshekatsheko (e leng, motho ka mong, institjushene le tikoloho) e thibela baithuti ba kgwebo ho theha setshwantsho se hokahaneng sa dintlha tsena e le ho fana ka tlhakisetso e ntjha empa e akaretsang ya dintlha tse amang tshireletso ya kgwebo ka theknoloji esita le boithuti ba kgwebo ka theknoloji.
Sekgeo sa tsebo seo diphuputso tsena di se sibollang, ka tsela e jwalo, ke ho fapana ho latelana ka maemo a bophahamo empa ka ditlhaloso tse sa fellang bakeng sa tshireletso e tlase ya kgwebo le diphetho tse haellang tsa boithuti ba kgwebo ka theknoloji (ke ho re, tshebetso tse mmalwa tsa moruo, kgolo e fokolang ya kgwebo le tshwarello ya tjhelete), e leng tse sitisang kgokahano dintlha tsa motho ka mong, institjushene le tsa tikoloho tse amang tshireletso ya kgwebo ka theknoloji ho hodisa boithuti ba kgwebo ka theknoloji, ha dintlha tsena di tadingwa ka bonngwe le ka ho kgethwa. Diphuputso tsena di sebedisa katamelo ya botho le tjhadimo ya kutlwisiso e amang diketsahalo tse pedi tsa baphethahatsi ba university-based incubation ecosystem tse theilweng ho bankakarolo ba 65 e le ho fana ka tlhahiso e qaqileng ya dint
Using digital storytelling to externalise personal knowledge of research processes: the case of a knowledge audio repository
No full textWhile articulation gap describes skill deficiencies displayed by university entrants emerging from underperforming schools, the high attrition and articulation gap at postgraduate levels demonstrate inadequacies of the entry-level intervention programmes implemented to address these challenges. Since inadequate socialization into postgraduate research and limited supervisor support contribute to the articulation gap and attrition rates at South African universities, digital storytelling (DST) potentially addresses these challenges. DST tends to foreground rigorous research, script writing, collective engagement and public expression of subdued voices to ensure effective participation in higher education. The research explores the potential of DST to externalize personal knowledge among postgraduate students at a South African university. It employs a Knowledge Audio Repository (KAR) for the generation and archiving of knowledge for future access and reuse. Findings suggest that DST is ideal for information generation, collaborative engagement and tracking of the developmental trajectory of postgraduates involved in cognitively-demanding research activities
Reconciling Business Social Responsibility Goals, Activities and Practices in Hospitality SMMES in an Emerging Economy
Get PDFPublished ArticleDespite the prominence of business social responsibility (BSR) studies in advanced economies and their gradual maturation in emerging economies, no systematic attempt has been made to reconcile BSR goals, activities and entrenched practices that support them. In emerging economies where BSR is gaining currency but remains vaguely understood, the pernicious effect of small, micro and medium enterprises‘ (SMMEs) casual approach to BSR is sheer reductionism that narrows down BSR goals, activities and practices exclusively to philanthropy. This ideological illusion often precludes SMMEs from leveraging their competitive advantage due to their negation of paramount ethical, legal, and economic considerations. Drawing on quantitative approach, a survey was conducted on 92 owner/managers of hospitality SMMEs in the Free State province, South Africa to explore the relationship between BSR goals, activities and practices. Evidence suggests that hospitality SMMEs‘ goals are crystallised in conformity to laws and regulations and in what society conceives as legitimate norms. While their BSR activities are concentrated predominantly in philanthropy, they also extend to other economic and social concerns like giving discounts to long term customers, combating crime in local
communities, maintaining employee satisfaction and conducting business
ethically. When BSR goals and activities are reconciled, BSR economic activities
and BSR-based economic growth will be positively affected as these variables
are significantly correlated to the latter. The other BSR goals and activities are
not significantly correlated with the BSR practices. Recommendations for
leveraging economic dimensions of BSR should be considered to improve
SMME competitiveness
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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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