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Condividere domande per valutare la qualità nei servizi di educazione ambientale
Get PDFValutare la qualità nei servizi di educazione ambientale è compito complesso, collocabile tra “controllo” e “sviluppo “ della qualità stessa: esso richiede l’attivazione di processi integrati nei quali i diversi soggetti istituzionali possano “imparare a vedersi” costruendo insieme il senso del processo, le sue finalità, le modalità e gli strumenti operativi. È perciò necessario che tutti gli stakeholders apprendano a condividere domande, adottando uno stile organizzativo orientato al confronto, all’assunzione di responsabilità, al dialogo tra pensiero e azione. Sono esposti come casi di studio i percorsi di due Regioni: il Veneto e la Toscana
A Smart University for a Smart City
No full textThe use of technological devices has changed the way individuals interact with their university environment and lives within it. This contribution focuses on the use of a smart context as a link between individuals and their university environment through an exemplification of the most urgent problems deriving from the different domains and technological systems, as well as of information and communication devices employed in university teaching-learning contexts, in order to improve the quality of higher education and individuals' cultural life. When the university becomes “smart”? The reply to this question must be supported by a rigorous critique studies. It is not sufficient that universities define themselves as smart places to underline the main challenges they must face in their efforts to become and remain smart. The article starts a reflection on what "being smart" means for universities and recognizes a university as a "smart" institution when it has its roots in the understanding and critical awareness of the basic knowledges, in the identification of the stronger and more realistic competencies and in the search for the meanings of a “smart university community” that pursues high quality. A smart learning, research and lifelong learning able to build quality policies promising an “interpretative framework” and a "smart context" for a funded learning to smart growth principles that may be helpful in suggesting the purchase of equipments, resources and investments usage and for the creation of more effective instructional methods, suitable for students and their needs to better integrate them into the community and society. However, this requires an extremely qualified empirical research, methodologically robust and inter-disciplinary, in order to understand the central traits and the real benefits of a smart university capable to pursue a high quality and able to sustain local university policies to satisfy the main territorial requests, but that at the same time is not neglecting the national and international dimensions, and can undertake appropriate decision-making processes as well as applying virtuous procedures to identify proper political instruments to positively influence the achievement of cultural objectives. This is clearly highlighting innovative perspectives and putting into play the building of a new culture at the core of a “smart university” and its cultural principles. The paper concludes with an account of the experience of the ICT Centre of the University of Ferrara, who try to achieve these goals. This implies the adoption of innovative perspectives and discuss the building of a new culture putting in the middle a "smart university" and its cultural principles. The contribution ends with the description of the ICT Centre at the University of Ferrara that is trying to pursue those goals
Media Education and Audiovisual Creative Practices Between Formal and Non-Formal Education: The Proposal for a Teaching Model for High Schools
No full textObiettivo dell'articolo è riflettere sul tema dell'educazione visiva attraverso l'analisi di pratiche di digital storytelling nate in ambiente non formale e successivamente svolte in territori misti formali/non formali. La riflessione parte da progetti educativi e di ricerca che hanno coinvolto una comunità intera all'interno della
quale è stato costruito un ambiente educativo integrato (scuola, territorio, istituzione comunale, università).
Tale ambiente sulla base di specifici progetti è stato utile alla messa in pratica di un processo educativo/formativo dinamico, grazie alla presenza, nel setting didattico formale, di pratiche formative proprie del contesto non formale. Tale percorso è stato utile alla creazione di un modello didattico funzionale allo
svolgimento di attività di educazione mediale, incentrate sulle potenzialità didattiche del fare. Il modello si
fonda sul classico processo produttivo di un audiovisivo che intreccia una serie di indicazioni provenienti
dai paradigmi della media education, dalle indicazioni del curriculum di educazione civica digitale, dal piano
cinema nazionale per la scuola, dal digComp2.2. Tutte le indicazioni utili al mondo della scuola (ma anche
dell'extrascuola) alla luce del recente piano nazionale Cinema per la scuola.The aim of the article is to reflect on the theme of visual education through the analysis of digital storytelling practices conceived in a non-formal environment and subsequently carried out in mixed formal/non-formal areas. The reflection starts with educational and research projects involving an entire community within which an integrated educational environment was built (school, local area, municipal institution, university).
On the basis of specific projects this environment was useful for the implementation of a dynamic educational/training process, thanks to the presence, in the formal didactic setting, of training practices specific
to the non-formal setting. This path allowed the creation of an educational model useful for carrying out media education activities, focused on the educational potential of “doing”. The model is based on the classic
audiovisual production process combining a series of indications coming from the paradigms of Media education,from the indications of the Digital civic education curriculum, from DigComp2.2, all the useful information
for the world of schools in light of the recent National Cinema Plan for Schools
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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