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Advances toward digital learning:A scoping review of research and practices from East Africa
Full text linkThe aim of this scoping review is to identify the extent and nature of the use of digital technologies and new pedagogies In East African higher education. That is, which technologies are in use, how are they used and how is the relation between student-centred pedagogies and digital technologies described and accounted for. The review covers the period from 2009 to 2024. Three main areas appeared from the analysis: professional development, supporting the digital learning process, and community learning. Within professional development emphasis is on context specific approaches and institutional support; the papers on supporting the digital learning process stress the importance of addressing technological barriers, enhancing resource sharing and adapting pedagogical strategies to improve educational practice, and papers from the community learning category illustrate innovative approaches to education and community engagement. The analysis also revealed that the use of mobile phones and Moodle is widespread, that the main use is for sharing of content such as course outlines, slides and readings, and that there is a general agreement that use of digital technologies promote collaboration, self-regulated and student-centred learning. Cross-cutting challenges were identified, and implications of our findings for practice and policies are discussed.</p
Towards transforming Higher Education
Full text linkThe importance of education and quality learning for all is evident in the Sustainable Development Goal framework that aims at ending poverty, ensuring equality and providing decent work for all. Social reformers across the world have worked towards this widely shared aspiration for a long time; however, it has turned out to be a goal that has met many challenges. Situated in the Acoli Sub-Region, a rural poverty-ridden area in Northern Uganda, Gulu University has made a commitment towards this goal by preparing students for employability in future jobs through community engagement. The focus of the reform is on student-based learning assisted by the teacher, and hybrid learning with critical input from problem-based learning. However, educational reform requires deeper reflection on the design and implementation of education systems in search of qualified solutions to problems concerning teaching and learning performance in higher education. In this introduction we contribute to the discussion by critically exploring how to transform teaching and learning to accomplish the goal of community engagement. Methodologically, we draw on literature from within the higher education sector with a specific focus on how scholars have worked to address challenges of current systems. We also draw on our research and experience in implementing 10 years of teaching and research capacity building at Gulu University as documented in articles in this volume
Introducing Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in MA Programmes at Gulu University for Community Transformation: Reflections and Lesson
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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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