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Scenari della formazione nel turismo. Le eccellenze italiane ed europee
No full textNell’ambito del settore turistico la ricerca ha preso in considerazione le opportunità formative riferibili alla gestione, promozione e valorizzazione dell’offerta turistica sul territorio della regione Lazio. In sintesi, sono stati esaminati e sono stati oggetto d’analisi tutti i percorsi formativi relativi al settore turistico comprendenti gestione e management dell’offerta turistica, ospitalità, organizzazione tour, percorsi enogastronomici, uso delle nuove tecnologie nella promozione e valorizzazione di prodotti e servizi, ecc
Gli scenari evolutivi per la valutazione della qualità del Blended Learning
No full textThe issue is quality assurance in Blended Learning. Contrary to the widely approved definition of e–Learning, which is scientifically documented and indicated certain standards of quality, “Blended Learning” is still self–explanatory. Gradually, in e–Learning “classic” courses (time–independent learning, simultaneously distributed learning) a tendency to integrate
the paths has increased, leaving more autonomy to learners (Independent Study), encouraging interaction in real time, and using new technologies, in various ways, with different instruments and methods. However, crucial differences between e–Learning and Blended Learning concern “in depth” the educational models. Digital media have been enhancing “constructivist” tendencies: as the changed structure of communication cannot be anymore based on the
centrality of a closed text, the educational process is generally built hrough a network of relations, annotations, explanations, “commentaries” and referrals to many texts and experiences. Finally, time and ays of learning must be customized, acquiring the advantages of hared environments, where individual construction is enhanced though exchanges among learners. As result, methods and standards evaluating e–Learning, which have so far been based on the evauation of the infrastructure, are also changing. How to develope appropriate quality framework, as well as tools to evaluate the quality of Blended Learning? The European Union Project “Blended Learning Quality — Concepts Optimized for Adult Education " coordinated by the DigiLab of the Sapienza – University of Rome has been n important opportunity to develop research and discussion on this issue
Evaluation and emerging scenarios in Blended e-Learning
No full textThe evolution of blended e-learning it is influenced by the more general evolution of the field of education. Education systems in Europe - in a time of economic suffering and welfare crisis - must now face difficult challenges: they need to maintain high quality while they containing costs; they need to improve the design of the educational system and educational routes; enlarge the mission of lifelong learning systems to cooperation with business and to communication and dissemination of scientific knowledge;
There is a need to answer, in the not Anglophone Europe, to the American and English massive offer of online education; there is the need to meet the demand for more vocational training and related to the profession; and there is a need to meet the demand for quality assurance and customization and flexibility in building individual learning pathways
For this combination of problems, the development of learning and of courses in blended e-learning it is strategic, as it allows:
- To incorporate updated contents of research or collaborative tools with communities of research or research / action, and user generated contents;
- To reuse such contents and experiences for flexible reorganisation of educational systems;
- To reuse such contents and experiences for the Life Long Learning and the dissemination;
- To create systems, contents and multilingual services, suitable for non-English speaking Europe
- To meet the demand for vocational training based on “learning by doing”
- To better respond to the requirements and practices of quality assessment
- To respond to the increase of the skills of digital natives without sacrificing the dialogue between generations
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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