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Building professional capabilities : ePortfolios as developmental ecosystems
No full textIn this final chapter we explore the concept of the portfolio ‘ecosystem’ in relation to student professional identity development. Evidence of how creating an electronic portfolio contributes to a complex relationship with students’ learning and development is provided through students’ comments. In addition, we propose a model that indicates a building of desirable graduate capabilities through students’ experience of developing their ePortfolio incrementally throughout their degree – thus supporting students’ learning and identity development. Within the context of the broader teaching and learning literature, the chapter draws together the previous 11 chapters into a conceptual theoretical framework across relevant fields to reflect aspects of portfolio use in Higher Education. This concluding chapter critically assesses the students’ voice in the development of a professional identity and draws on recent data from students engaging in creative ePortfolio development across disciplines. We propose that educator engagement with ePortfolio development can help refi ne our understanding of some of the fundamental commitments and dynamics of learning. The chapter concludes by highlighting a number of learning pathways that may enhance the sense of self-efficacy for Higher Education students and life-long learners
Striving for sustainability: ePortfolio pedagogy in Australian higher education
No full textThe purpose of this chapter is to inform sustainable, regenerative <i>ePortfolio</i> learning approaches in Australian higher education as well as contribute to this conversation internationally. Through professional narrative the context of <i>ePortfolio</i>development and maturity at <i>QUT</i> is detailed in scenario form with commonly recognised issues, barriers and enablers discussed in terms of the user-experience at QUT and with reference to the body of literature. The use cases detail the embedding of the <i>QUT Student ePortfolio (QSeP)</i> across the Science and Engineering Faculty and the Faculties of Law and Health. The examples detailed provide insight into the barriers and enablers and suggest factors critical to sustainability of the programme, giving a sense of the purpose for engaging students in <i>ePortfolio</i> creation and curation. The chapter then looks at recognised critical success factors for sustained embedding of critical reflective pedagogy through <i>ePortfolio</i> pedagogy at <i>QUT</i>
Leadership as an Essential Graduate Attribute for Musicians
No full textThis chapter draws on complexity theory to probe the theoretical and practical perspectives of leadership development and musician identities. It does so within the context of an internship programme designed to offer student musicians authentic workplace experiences. Complexity theory suggests that across multiple domains there are often three elements that enable the diverse situations to cohere. In this case, student musicians’ movement through multiple domains exposed three connective elements: namely, bridging the gap between theory and practice; flexibility; and reorienting learning as career relevance is realised. The inclusion of experiential learning in the education of professional musicians enabled the student musicians to develop essential, transferable skills such as leadership, communication, teamwork, workplace negotiation and problem-solving. Moreover, students learned to reimagine what their musical world might mean and how their own capabilities and creativity might come to the fore as leaders. This learning was evidenced in students’ reflections on this important professional experience. The skills identified by students are the same skills identified by recruiters and employers as vital to graduate transition, and the same skills identified by practising musicians as vital to leading complex careers within and beyond the music industry. The chapter reveals how students experience the liminal space between formal music study and internship work experiences and how, in turn, they transform their thinking from situation to situation
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
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No full textVariations 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
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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
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