A case study on the development of our safety infographics, for our environmental / remediation projects abroad. With these infographics we try to bring our safety vision further
Train a Social Workforce: How AT&T Trained Thousands of Employee AdvocatesSocialChorus
In today’s modern workforce, providing social media training is no longer a nice-to-have — it’s a vital element of brands’ employee engagement and social media strategies.
For this presentation, Nolan Carleton, leader of AT&T’s Social Circle Employee Advocacy program, discusses how AT&T trained thousands of employee advocates to consume and share brand and relevant industry content.
You'll learn:
- The power Employee Advocacy has to engage the modern workforce
- Real training examples and results from AT&T’s Employee Advocacy program
- The steps to training your employee advocates today
- What results you can expect after the first 30, 90 and 180 days
This document discusses using infographics in outdoor advertising. It notes that infographics are mainly used online currently but could potentially be effective in outdoor contexts like billboards, bus shelters, and transport locations. The document considers how infographics may work well in places where people have to wait, like London transport platforms and train interiors, as they provide opportunities for an engaging distraction. Both benefits and challenges of using infographics outdoors are presented, such as the ability to reach many people but also difficulties in measuring effectiveness and high costs. Specific examples of using infographics in interactive kiosks and on intelligent digital displays that recognize users are also described.
Does your data tell a story and can you visualize it? We look at the history and thought processes behind data visualization and successful infographics.
Read the blog post at: http://blog.kurtosys.com/storytelling-data-visualization/
1) Dutch environmental consultancy Tauw had difficulty training local workers in multiple countries on safety hazards using traditional methods like PowerPoint presentations.
2) Tauw's safety manager came up with the idea of engaging art students to develop visual communication tools without words to convey hazard information universally.
3) The art students created a set of pictogram hazard warning cards that could be displayed on remote work sites with no electricity. These cards have since been used successfully on Tauw projects around the world to raise hazard awareness.
CV+ is a free online tool with a CV builder and interactive wall to help young people showcase their skills, interests, and experiences for job applications. It provides teachers with free classroom resources including a presentation, workbook, and lesson plan to teach students how to use the CV builder and wall. The resources are designed to be used in one-off or multi-session workshops to help motivate students, provide career guidance, and get them started on creating CVs and recording their experiences. Feedback from schools is sought to help improve the tool and resources for students. Future plans include adding more features like connecting students to opportunities, a business card builder, and video CV guide.
Train a Social Workforce: How AT&T Trained Thousands of Employee AdvocatesSocialChorus
In today’s modern workforce, providing social media training is no longer a nice-to-have — it’s a vital element of brands’ employee engagement and social media strategies.
For this presentation, Nolan Carleton, leader of AT&T’s Social Circle Employee Advocacy program, discusses how AT&T trained thousands of employee advocates to consume and share brand and relevant industry content.
You'll learn:
- The power Employee Advocacy has to engage the modern workforce
- Real training examples and results from AT&T’s Employee Advocacy program
- The steps to training your employee advocates today
- What results you can expect after the first 30, 90 and 180 days
This document discusses using infographics in outdoor advertising. It notes that infographics are mainly used online currently but could potentially be effective in outdoor contexts like billboards, bus shelters, and transport locations. The document considers how infographics may work well in places where people have to wait, like London transport platforms and train interiors, as they provide opportunities for an engaging distraction. Both benefits and challenges of using infographics outdoors are presented, such as the ability to reach many people but also difficulties in measuring effectiveness and high costs. Specific examples of using infographics in interactive kiosks and on intelligent digital displays that recognize users are also described.
Does your data tell a story and can you visualize it? We look at the history and thought processes behind data visualization and successful infographics.
Read the blog post at: http://blog.kurtosys.com/storytelling-data-visualization/
1) Dutch environmental consultancy Tauw had difficulty training local workers in multiple countries on safety hazards using traditional methods like PowerPoint presentations.
2) Tauw's safety manager came up with the idea of engaging art students to develop visual communication tools without words to convey hazard information universally.
3) The art students created a set of pictogram hazard warning cards that could be displayed on remote work sites with no electricity. These cards have since been used successfully on Tauw projects around the world to raise hazard awareness.
CV+ is a free online tool with a CV builder and interactive wall to help young people showcase their skills, interests, and experiences for job applications. It provides teachers with free classroom resources including a presentation, workbook, and lesson plan to teach students how to use the CV builder and wall. The resources are designed to be used in one-off or multi-session workshops to help motivate students, provide career guidance, and get them started on creating CVs and recording their experiences. Feedback from schools is sought to help improve the tool and resources for students. Future plans include adding more features like connecting students to opportunities, a business card builder, and video CV guide.
Implementation of Information and Communication Technologies in Primary Schoolsirjes
Implementation of modern media and information technology in primary schools has been
increasing. The use of ICT in education process brings better results: teaching is better, clearer and gives the
opportunity to every student to be actively involved. After having applied Microsoft tools in many projects, we
saw the benefits of them in preparation, organization and in the teaching process itself as well as in the fast but
high-quality feedback – students‟ knowledge. The most important conclusions are economy of time and proper
guidance of students in use of ICT and the constant training of teachers for lifelong learning. ICT in classroom
helps students to use the Internet - to find teaching materials, to store them and sort them into their own
documents on their computers, by themselves or with the help of their parents. Nowadays, teachers and students
have changed their roles. Teachers: guide students towards the goal by choosing teaching materials and by
giving the instructions during the working process, they form and develop the teaching materials of the
interactive content, they can use materails from other teachers, if there is a permission from them, there is the
possibilty of the individual approach to every student, they often check briefly the acquisition of the teaching
content through quizzes, presentations and finally, there is the possibilty of extracurricular communication with
students (via e-mail, facebook, twiter, SkyDrive, GeoGebra, Geometric Scatch Pade).
5th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2014 Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice 24-28 August 2014 in Davos, Switzerland
This document provides an overview of the "Know-4-drr" project which aims to enable knowledge sharing for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. It outlines the project consortium members and their roles. It then discusses the rationale for the project, including past failures in areas like land use planning that have increased disaster risks. It proposes several knowledge-sharing activities the project will undertake, such as workshops, seminars and "living labs" case studies to test knowledge development with stakeholders. The document summarizes discussions at workshops on challenges like coordinating agencies and assessing responsibilities under uncertainty. It describes the three living lab case studies in more detail: Vietnam, the Po River basin in Italy, and Lorca Municipality in Spain.
This document outlines a project to build a hydraulic model to educate young people about proper condom use. The goal is to prevent early pregnancy and transmission of STDs. It will apply electrical, hydraulic, technological and computing knowledge to construct a model penis that demonstrates how to properly place a condom. It aims to inform youth about STDs and prevention methods in an interactive, hands-on way since they are becoming sexually active at early ages without proper knowledge of risks.
The Picardie Region has invested some 20 Meuros/yr. since 2008 for research activities, as part of the regional programme for development
of higher education and research. With the regional universities, UTC and UPJV (Picardie Jules Verne) as the key institutions, the programme
is designed to bolster basic ‘sky blue’ research for the purpose of creating long term links between HE establishments and other regional
economic actors.
Designing access to audiovisual cultural heritage. The case of the CarrotMariana Salgado
This paper presents the design of an application
for engagement with audiovisual digital cultural heritage in
the classroom, called the Carrot. The aim of this interactive
tool is to make online cultural heritage accessible and
understandable for students in different levels of education.
In relation to this work we pose two research questions: Why
do we need to develop tools for contextualization of
audiovisual cultural heritage? And: How do we design and
develop such tools? The preliminary answers to these
questions come from our experiences in the design process,
which deepened our understanding of a tool in the context of
the classroom. We then relate this to the digital humanities
project, EUscreenXL. Initial conclusions suggest that tools
for contextualization of audiovisual cultural heritage can
engage students with cultural heritage, develop digital media
literacy, and support contemporary didactics. These tools
need to be developed across platforms, using nonproprietary
software and involving a multidisciplinary
group of experts.
Perspectives on project based teaching and “blended learning” to develop ethi...eLearning Papers
Author: Per Arne Godejord.
This paper describes a unique educational project that is being implemented in the undergraduate study of Computer Science and Teacher Education. Since 2002, Norway’s Nesna University College has been using the example of sexual abuse of children in the teaching of Social Informatics, and in the distance education course “ICT and Learning”.
In this paper I argue that the context for learning in the 21st Century has brought about the need to re-conceptualize or extend theories from the past if we are to develop an approach to learning design for the present and the future. Such an undertaking would appear to be timely as the nature of learning is being augmented and accelerated by new digital tools and media, particularly by mobile devices and the networks and structures to which they connect people.
Ref: 51. Cook, J. (2010). Mobile Phones as Mediating Tools Within Augmented Contexts for Development. Extended abstract in proceedings for workshop: Education in the Wild. Alpine Rendez-Vous, within the framework of the STELLAR Network of Excellence. December 3-4, 2009, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.
The Global Innovation Index Report - covering 143 countries with its 81 criteria,
and an uncontested leader in the field for the past 4 year, viz., Switzerland -
sets the stage every year setting out a benchmark reference for innovation
round the world. “It is a tool that can be readily understood both by public and
private persons and operators, adopting a stance between micro and macro
visions for innovation and its component parts”, says Bruno Lanvin, Executive
Director of INSEAD’s European Competitiveness Initiative (IECI) and co-author
of the report, which has been published since 2007 by Cornell University
(USA), INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) an
agency of the United Nations. The Global Innovation Index reviews the main
factors conducive to innovation and the performance figures for the 143
countries with respect to the criteria. Each year a special thematic is chosen:
the 2014 Edition focuses i=ion the role of human ‘capital’ resources in the
innovation process, throwing light on the increased level of interest shown
by enterprises and governments alike to identify and stimulate individual
innovator-creators and associate groups.
DESIGN OF A VIRTUAL LABORATORY FOR ANALYZING NANOSCALE MAGNETIC MATERIALSijma
As the advance of technology, the manufacturing process of materials has moved forward from the scale of
micrometer to sub-micrometer and nanometer. Combining nanotechnology and traditional magnetic
materials, nanoscale magnetic materials can be created for applications in biomedical examination and
therapy as well as data recording to increase the storage space of a computer. The topic of using the
magnetic force microscope (MFM) to exam a material’s magnetic field distribution can often be found in
nanotechnology courses. Due to the cost of equipment and difficulty of its operation, the teacher can only
teach students with an instructional video most of the time instead of using a real MFM to conduct
experiments. As a result, students may not fully understand its principle and operating procedure. In this
study, a virtual MFM laboratory was designed as an app for execution on tablet computers to increase
students’ learning interest and motivation. Without using expensive equipment, they can understand the
magnetic field distribution of materials by using the virtual MFM to examine different samples provided in
the virtual laboratory. A teaching experiment was also conducted to compare the learning effectiveness of
using an instructional video and the virtual MFM laboratory. The experimental results showed that using
the virtual MFM laboratory was more effective than using the instructional video; the questionnaire results
also revealed that most students had positive attitudes toward the virtual MFM laboratory and they thought
it could enhance their learning interest and motivation.
5th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2014 Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice 24-28 August 2014 in Davos, Switzerland
The International Hellenic University held preparedness training for students in Greece on dealing with natural disasters. Students from schools in Piraeus and Evia participated in a course teaching them to safely evacuate their school buildings in different emergency scenarios, using augmented reality technology and models of their schools. The training is part of the EU-funded RESISTANT project which aims to create a platform to help first responders assist citizens at risk from natural hazards.
Dialing up the danger: Virtual reality for the simulation of riskAlejandro Franceschi
There is a growing interest the use of virtual reality (VR) to simulate unsafe spaces, scenarios, and behaviours. Environments that might be difficult, costly, dangerous, or ethically contentious to achieve in real life can be created in virtual environments designed to give participants a convincing experience of “being there.” There is little consensus in the academic community about the impact of simulating risky content in virtual reality, and a scarcity of evidence to support the various hypotheses which range from VR being a safe place to rehearse challenging scenarios to calls for such content creation to be halted for fear of irreversible harm to users. Perspectives split along disciplinary lines, with competing ideas emerging from cultural studies and games studies, from psychology and neuroscience, and with industry reports championing the efficacy of these tools for information retention, time efficiency and cost, with little equivalence in information available regarding impact on the wellbeing of participants. In this study we use thematic analysis and close reading language analysis to investigate the way in which participants in a VR training scenario respond to, encode and relay their own experiences. We find that participants overall demonstrate high levels of “perceptual proximity” to the experience, recounting it as something that happened to them directly and personally. We discuss the impact of particular affordances of VR, as well as a participant’s prior experience on the impact of high-stress simulations. Finally, we consider the ethical mandate for training providers to mitigate the risk of traumatizing or re-traumatizing participants when creating high-risk virtual scenarios.
Design of a virtual laboratory for analyzing nanoscale magnetic materialsijma
As the advance of technology, the manufacturing process of materials has moved forward from the scale of
micrometer to sub-micrometer and nanometer. Combining nanotechnology and traditional magnetic
materials, nanoscale magnetic materials can be created for applications in biomedical examination and
therapy as well as data recording to increase the storage space of a computer. The topic of using the
magnetic force microscope (MFM) to exam a material’s magnetic field distribution can often be found in
nanotechnology courses. Due to the cost of equipment and difficulty of its operation, the teacher can only
teach students with an instructional video most of the time instead of using a real MFM to conduct
experiments. As a result, students may not fully understand its principle and operating procedure. In this
study, a virtual MFM laboratory was designed as an app for execution on tablet computers to increase
students’ learning interest and motivation. Without using expensive equipment, they can understand the
magnetic field distribution of materials by using the virtual MFM to examine different samples provided in
the virtual laboratory. A teaching experiment was also conducted to compare the learning effectiveness of
using an instructional video and the virtual MFM laboratory. The experimental results showed that using
the virtual MFM laboratory was more effective than using the instructional video; the questionnaire results
also revealed that most students had positive attitudes toward the virtual MFM laboratory and they thought
it could enhance their learning interest and motivation.
NIDM develops various awareness materials such as leaflets, booklets, posters and activity books to generate information and awareness about disasters and their management. These materials cover topics like do's and don'ts during different disasters, fire safety, earthquake preparedness, online courses on disaster management, and more. The materials are made freely available in both Hindi and English to disseminate disaster management knowledge as widely as possible.
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ISSN: 1130-3743 - e-ISSN: 2386-5660
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14201/teri.23451
DISTANCE TEACHING AND TEACHING ‘AS’ DISTANCE.
A CRITICAL READING OF ONLINE TEACHING
INSTRUMENTS DURING AND AFTER THE PANDEMIC
Enseñanza a distancia y enseñanza ‘como’ distancia.
Una lectura crítica sobre los instrumentos
de la enseñanza online durante y después de la pandemia
Annachiara GOBBI & Federico ROVEA
Università degli Studi di Padova. Italia.
[email protected]; [email protected]
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3478-2947; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4099-8963
Fecha de recepción:15/06/2020
Fecha de aceptación: 26/08/2020
Fecha de publicación en línea: 01/11/2020
Cómo citar este artículo: Gobbi, A. & Rovea, F. (2021). Distance teaching and teaching
‘as’ distance. A critical reading of online teaching instruments during and after the
pandemic. Teoría de la Educación. Revista Interuniversitaria, 33(1), 71-87. https://doi.
org/10.14201/teri.23451
ABSTRACT
This paper intends to read through a critical lens the digitalization of schooling
caused by the COVID-19 epidemic. The emergency has forced European governments
to close the schools and consequently, all the schooling activities have been transferred
online. Referring to some works of Giorgio Agamben, Paul Virilio and Walter Benjamin
the authors propose some critical remarks on the transformation of schooling space
and schooling time that characterizes the practice of distance learning. This transforma-
tion pertains not only to accidental aspects of schooling but affects the very identity
of the schooling experience. In a completely digitalized school, time is characterized
by instantaneousness: time as duration is replaced by the «time of exposure», as stated
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DISTANCE TEACHING AND TEACHING ‘AS’ DISTANCE. A CRITICAL READING
OF ONLINE TEACHING INSTRUMENTS DURING AND AFTER THE PANDEMIC
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by Paul Virilio. In addition, the school completely dematerialized, is reduced to the
two-dimensional space of the screen. The article aims to show that instantaneous
time and dematerialized space make the experience of «crossing» difficult. Therefore,
following some remarks by Jan Masschelein and Gert Biesta, it is maintained that the
experience of «crossing» endangered by the digitalization of schooling is essential to
an authentic experience of schooling. It is not intended to refuse the digital innova-
tions as such but to «put them on the table», in order to suspend their immediate use
and analyze them critically.
Key words: distance teaching; online schooling; ...
This document summarizes a climate change art project for primary school children in Wellington, New Zealand that was modeled after a similar successful project in Massachusetts. It discusses the purpose and methodology of engaging children and the public about climate change through a poster competition. A prototype was run with two school holiday programs to test aspects like categories, presentations, display locations, and potential sponsors. The summary evaluates methods for future iterations, such as collaborating with Enviroschools to integrate it into school curriculums and displaying posters on public transportation like trains to reach a wider audience.
Suggestion from the Elderly Person Facilities at the 2011 Great East Japan Ea...Global Risk Forum GRFDavos
6th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2016 Integrative Risk Management - Towards Resilient Cities. 28 August - 01 September 2016 in Davos, Switzerland
Rapisardi, Lanfranco, Dilolli, Lombardo (2011) web and mobile emergencies net...Massimo Lanfranco
1. The document discusses how web and mobile technologies can help manage information flow during disasters, improving preparedness and response. It argues these technologies allow geopositioning, video/photo sharing, and communication anywhere, integrating citizen input.
2. Recent disasters showed how crowdsourcing and social media mobilized volunteers worldwide to aggregate crisis data, rebuild maps, and aid response. This engagement of local communities represents a shift enabled by new communication technologies.
3. The authors analyze experiences in Italy using mobile apps and web mapping to engage citizens in preparedness, relief, and rebuilding efforts. They conducted exercises to test these tools and information sharing between responders and communities.
This document summarizes Daniela Petrillo's background and experience in design, research, and strategy. Some key points:
- She has an MSc in Interior Design from Politecnico di Milano and a PhD from the same institution, focusing on urban and social innovation.
- Her work involves design consulting, research projects, and academic roles focused on topics like urban safety, crime prevention, and community engagement.
- Examples of her projects include DesignAgainstCrime, Mapping San Siro, Human Library in Prison, and her PhD thesis Design for Urban Reassuring Scenario.
- Her approach emphasizes participatory methods, codesign, and temporary or iterative interventions to address social and
A review on techniques and modelling methodologies used for checking electrom...nooriasukmaningtyas
The proper function of the integrated circuit (IC) in an inhibiting electromagnetic environment has always been a serious concern throughout the decades of revolution in the world of electronics, from disjunct devices to today’s integrated circuit technology, where billions of transistors are combined on a single chip. The automotive industry and smart vehicles in particular, are confronting design issues such as being prone to electromagnetic interference (EMI). Electronic control devices calculate incorrect outputs because of EMI and sensors give misleading values which can prove fatal in case of automotives. In this paper, the authors have non exhaustively tried to review research work concerned with the investigation of EMI in ICs and prediction of this EMI using various modelling methodologies and measurement setups.
Implementation of Information and Communication Technologies in Primary Schoolsirjes
Implementation of modern media and information technology in primary schools has been
increasing. The use of ICT in education process brings better results: teaching is better, clearer and gives the
opportunity to every student to be actively involved. After having applied Microsoft tools in many projects, we
saw the benefits of them in preparation, organization and in the teaching process itself as well as in the fast but
high-quality feedback – students‟ knowledge. The most important conclusions are economy of time and proper
guidance of students in use of ICT and the constant training of teachers for lifelong learning. ICT in classroom
helps students to use the Internet - to find teaching materials, to store them and sort them into their own
documents on their computers, by themselves or with the help of their parents. Nowadays, teachers and students
have changed their roles. Teachers: guide students towards the goal by choosing teaching materials and by
giving the instructions during the working process, they form and develop the teaching materials of the
interactive content, they can use materails from other teachers, if there is a permission from them, there is the
possibilty of the individual approach to every student, they often check briefly the acquisition of the teaching
content through quizzes, presentations and finally, there is the possibilty of extracurricular communication with
students (via e-mail, facebook, twiter, SkyDrive, GeoGebra, Geometric Scatch Pade).
5th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2014 Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice 24-28 August 2014 in Davos, Switzerland
This document provides an overview of the "Know-4-drr" project which aims to enable knowledge sharing for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. It outlines the project consortium members and their roles. It then discusses the rationale for the project, including past failures in areas like land use planning that have increased disaster risks. It proposes several knowledge-sharing activities the project will undertake, such as workshops, seminars and "living labs" case studies to test knowledge development with stakeholders. The document summarizes discussions at workshops on challenges like coordinating agencies and assessing responsibilities under uncertainty. It describes the three living lab case studies in more detail: Vietnam, the Po River basin in Italy, and Lorca Municipality in Spain.
This document outlines a project to build a hydraulic model to educate young people about proper condom use. The goal is to prevent early pregnancy and transmission of STDs. It will apply electrical, hydraulic, technological and computing knowledge to construct a model penis that demonstrates how to properly place a condom. It aims to inform youth about STDs and prevention methods in an interactive, hands-on way since they are becoming sexually active at early ages without proper knowledge of risks.
The Picardie Region has invested some 20 Meuros/yr. since 2008 for research activities, as part of the regional programme for development
of higher education and research. With the regional universities, UTC and UPJV (Picardie Jules Verne) as the key institutions, the programme
is designed to bolster basic ‘sky blue’ research for the purpose of creating long term links between HE establishments and other regional
economic actors.
Designing access to audiovisual cultural heritage. The case of the CarrotMariana Salgado
This paper presents the design of an application
for engagement with audiovisual digital cultural heritage in
the classroom, called the Carrot. The aim of this interactive
tool is to make online cultural heritage accessible and
understandable for students in different levels of education.
In relation to this work we pose two research questions: Why
do we need to develop tools for contextualization of
audiovisual cultural heritage? And: How do we design and
develop such tools? The preliminary answers to these
questions come from our experiences in the design process,
which deepened our understanding of a tool in the context of
the classroom. We then relate this to the digital humanities
project, EUscreenXL. Initial conclusions suggest that tools
for contextualization of audiovisual cultural heritage can
engage students with cultural heritage, develop digital media
literacy, and support contemporary didactics. These tools
need to be developed across platforms, using nonproprietary
software and involving a multidisciplinary
group of experts.
Perspectives on project based teaching and “blended learning” to develop ethi...eLearning Papers
Author: Per Arne Godejord.
This paper describes a unique educational project that is being implemented in the undergraduate study of Computer Science and Teacher Education. Since 2002, Norway’s Nesna University College has been using the example of sexual abuse of children in the teaching of Social Informatics, and in the distance education course “ICT and Learning”.
In this paper I argue that the context for learning in the 21st Century has brought about the need to re-conceptualize or extend theories from the past if we are to develop an approach to learning design for the present and the future. Such an undertaking would appear to be timely as the nature of learning is being augmented and accelerated by new digital tools and media, particularly by mobile devices and the networks and structures to which they connect people.
Ref: 51. Cook, J. (2010). Mobile Phones as Mediating Tools Within Augmented Contexts for Development. Extended abstract in proceedings for workshop: Education in the Wild. Alpine Rendez-Vous, within the framework of the STELLAR Network of Excellence. December 3-4, 2009, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.
The Global Innovation Index Report - covering 143 countries with its 81 criteria,
and an uncontested leader in the field for the past 4 year, viz., Switzerland -
sets the stage every year setting out a benchmark reference for innovation
round the world. “It is a tool that can be readily understood both by public and
private persons and operators, adopting a stance between micro and macro
visions for innovation and its component parts”, says Bruno Lanvin, Executive
Director of INSEAD’s European Competitiveness Initiative (IECI) and co-author
of the report, which has been published since 2007 by Cornell University
(USA), INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) an
agency of the United Nations. The Global Innovation Index reviews the main
factors conducive to innovation and the performance figures for the 143
countries with respect to the criteria. Each year a special thematic is chosen:
the 2014 Edition focuses i=ion the role of human ‘capital’ resources in the
innovation process, throwing light on the increased level of interest shown
by enterprises and governments alike to identify and stimulate individual
innovator-creators and associate groups.
DESIGN OF A VIRTUAL LABORATORY FOR ANALYZING NANOSCALE MAGNETIC MATERIALSijma
As the advance of technology, the manufacturing process of materials has moved forward from the scale of
micrometer to sub-micrometer and nanometer. Combining nanotechnology and traditional magnetic
materials, nanoscale magnetic materials can be created for applications in biomedical examination and
therapy as well as data recording to increase the storage space of a computer. The topic of using the
magnetic force microscope (MFM) to exam a material’s magnetic field distribution can often be found in
nanotechnology courses. Due to the cost of equipment and difficulty of its operation, the teacher can only
teach students with an instructional video most of the time instead of using a real MFM to conduct
experiments. As a result, students may not fully understand its principle and operating procedure. In this
study, a virtual MFM laboratory was designed as an app for execution on tablet computers to increase
students’ learning interest and motivation. Without using expensive equipment, they can understand the
magnetic field distribution of materials by using the virtual MFM to examine different samples provided in
the virtual laboratory. A teaching experiment was also conducted to compare the learning effectiveness of
using an instructional video and the virtual MFM laboratory. The experimental results showed that using
the virtual MFM laboratory was more effective than using the instructional video; the questionnaire results
also revealed that most students had positive attitudes toward the virtual MFM laboratory and they thought
it could enhance their learning interest and motivation.
5th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2014 Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice 24-28 August 2014 in Davos, Switzerland
The International Hellenic University held preparedness training for students in Greece on dealing with natural disasters. Students from schools in Piraeus and Evia participated in a course teaching them to safely evacuate their school buildings in different emergency scenarios, using augmented reality technology and models of their schools. The training is part of the EU-funded RESISTANT project which aims to create a platform to help first responders assist citizens at risk from natural hazards.
Dialing up the danger: Virtual reality for the simulation of riskAlejandro Franceschi
There is a growing interest the use of virtual reality (VR) to simulate unsafe spaces, scenarios, and behaviours. Environments that might be difficult, costly, dangerous, or ethically contentious to achieve in real life can be created in virtual environments designed to give participants a convincing experience of “being there.” There is little consensus in the academic community about the impact of simulating risky content in virtual reality, and a scarcity of evidence to support the various hypotheses which range from VR being a safe place to rehearse challenging scenarios to calls for such content creation to be halted for fear of irreversible harm to users. Perspectives split along disciplinary lines, with competing ideas emerging from cultural studies and games studies, from psychology and neuroscience, and with industry reports championing the efficacy of these tools for information retention, time efficiency and cost, with little equivalence in information available regarding impact on the wellbeing of participants. In this study we use thematic analysis and close reading language analysis to investigate the way in which participants in a VR training scenario respond to, encode and relay their own experiences. We find that participants overall demonstrate high levels of “perceptual proximity” to the experience, recounting it as something that happened to them directly and personally. We discuss the impact of particular affordances of VR, as well as a participant’s prior experience on the impact of high-stress simulations. Finally, we consider the ethical mandate for training providers to mitigate the risk of traumatizing or re-traumatizing participants when creating high-risk virtual scenarios.
Design of a virtual laboratory for analyzing nanoscale magnetic materialsijma
As the advance of technology, the manufacturing process of materials has moved forward from the scale of
micrometer to sub-micrometer and nanometer. Combining nanotechnology and traditional magnetic
materials, nanoscale magnetic materials can be created for applications in biomedical examination and
therapy as well as data recording to increase the storage space of a computer. The topic of using the
magnetic force microscope (MFM) to exam a material’s magnetic field distribution can often be found in
nanotechnology courses. Due to the cost of equipment and difficulty of its operation, the teacher can only
teach students with an instructional video most of the time instead of using a real MFM to conduct
experiments. As a result, students may not fully understand its principle and operating procedure. In this
study, a virtual MFM laboratory was designed as an app for execution on tablet computers to increase
students’ learning interest and motivation. Without using expensive equipment, they can understand the
magnetic field distribution of materials by using the virtual MFM to examine different samples provided in
the virtual laboratory. A teaching experiment was also conducted to compare the learning effectiveness of
using an instructional video and the virtual MFM laboratory. The experimental results showed that using
the virtual MFM laboratory was more effective than using the instructional video; the questionnaire results
also revealed that most students had positive attitudes toward the virtual MFM laboratory and they thought
it could enhance their learning interest and motivation.
NIDM develops various awareness materials such as leaflets, booklets, posters and activity books to generate information and awareness about disasters and their management. These materials cover topics like do's and don'ts during different disasters, fire safety, earthquake preparedness, online courses on disaster management, and more. The materials are made freely available in both Hindi and English to disseminate disaster management knowledge as widely as possible.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.14201/teri.23451
DISTANCE TEACHING AND TEACHING ‘AS’ DISTANCE.
A CRITICAL READING OF ONLINE TEACHING
INSTRUMENTS DURING AND AFTER THE PANDEMIC
Enseñanza a distancia y enseñanza ‘como’ distancia.
Una lectura crítica sobre los instrumentos
de la enseñanza online durante y después de la pandemia
Annachiara GOBBI & Federico ROVEA
Università degli Studi di Padova. Italia.
[email protected]; [email protected]
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3478-2947; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4099-8963
Fecha de recepción:15/06/2020
Fecha de aceptación: 26/08/2020
Fecha de publicación en línea: 01/11/2020
Cómo citar este artículo: Gobbi, A. & Rovea, F. (2021). Distance teaching and teaching
‘as’ distance. A critical reading of online teaching instruments during and after the
pandemic. Teoría de la Educación. Revista Interuniversitaria, 33(1), 71-87. https://doi.
org/10.14201/teri.23451
ABSTRACT
This paper intends to read through a critical lens the digitalization of schooling
caused by the COVID-19 epidemic. The emergency has forced European governments
to close the schools and consequently, all the schooling activities have been transferred
online. Referring to some works of Giorgio Agamben, Paul Virilio and Walter Benjamin
the authors propose some critical remarks on the transformation of schooling space
and schooling time that characterizes the practice of distance learning. This transforma-
tion pertains not only to accidental aspects of schooling but affects the very identity
of the schooling experience. In a completely digitalized school, time is characterized
by instantaneousness: time as duration is replaced by the «time of exposure», as stated
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DISTANCE TEACHING AND TEACHING ‘AS’ DISTANCE. A CRITICAL READING
OF ONLINE TEACHING INSTRUMENTS DURING AND AFTER THE PANDEMIC
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by Paul Virilio. In addition, the school completely dematerialized, is reduced to the
two-dimensional space of the screen. The article aims to show that instantaneous
time and dematerialized space make the experience of «crossing» difficult. Therefore,
following some remarks by Jan Masschelein and Gert Biesta, it is maintained that the
experience of «crossing» endangered by the digitalization of schooling is essential to
an authentic experience of schooling. It is not intended to refuse the digital innova-
tions as such but to «put them on the table», in order to suspend their immediate use
and analyze them critically.
Key words: distance teaching; online schooling; ...
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- Her approach emphasizes participatory methods, codesign, and temporary or iterative interventions to address social and
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As digital technology becomes more deeply embedded in power systems, protecting the communication
networks of Smart Grids (SG) has emerged as a critical concern. Distributed Network Protocol 3 (DNP3)
represents a multi-tiered application layer protocol extensively utilized in Supervisory Control and Data
Acquisition (SCADA)-based smart grids to facilitate real-time data gathering and control functionalities.
Robust Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are necessary for early threat detection and mitigation because
of the interconnection of these networks, which makes them vulnerable to a variety of cyberattacks. To
solve this issue, this paper develops a hybrid Deep Learning (DL) model specifically designed for intrusion
detection in smart grids. The proposed approach is a combination of the Convolutional Neural Network
(CNN) and the Long-Short-Term Memory algorithms (LSTM). We employed a recent intrusion detection
dataset (DNP3), which focuses on unauthorized commands and Denial of Service (DoS) cyberattacks, to
train and test our model. The results of our experiments show that our CNN-LSTM method is much better
at finding smart grid intrusions than other deep learning algorithms used for classification. In addition,
our proposed approach improves accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score, achieving a high detection
accuracy rate of 99.50%.
TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING TECHNIQUE FOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMHODECEDSIET
Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) is a method of transmitting multiple signals over a single communication channel by dividing the signal into many segments, each having a very short duration of time. These time slots are then allocated to different data streams, allowing multiple signals to share the same transmission medium efficiently. TDM is widely used in telecommunications and data communication systems.
### How TDM Works
1. **Time Slots Allocation**: The core principle of TDM is to assign distinct time slots to each signal. During each time slot, the respective signal is transmitted, and then the process repeats cyclically. For example, if there are four signals to be transmitted, the TDM cycle will divide time into four slots, each assigned to one signal.
2. **Synchronization**: Synchronization is crucial in TDM systems to ensure that the signals are correctly aligned with their respective time slots. Both the transmitter and receiver must be synchronized to avoid any overlap or loss of data. This synchronization is typically maintained by a clock signal that ensures time slots are accurately aligned.
3. **Frame Structure**: TDM data is organized into frames, where each frame consists of a set of time slots. Each frame is repeated at regular intervals, ensuring continuous transmission of data streams. The frame structure helps in managing the data streams and maintaining the synchronization between the transmitter and receiver.
4. **Multiplexer and Demultiplexer**: At the transmitting end, a multiplexer combines multiple input signals into a single composite signal by assigning each signal to a specific time slot. At the receiving end, a demultiplexer separates the composite signal back into individual signals based on their respective time slots.
### Types of TDM
1. **Synchronous TDM**: In synchronous TDM, time slots are pre-assigned to each signal, regardless of whether the signal has data to transmit or not. This can lead to inefficiencies if some time slots remain empty due to the absence of data.
2. **Asynchronous TDM (or Statistical TDM)**: Asynchronous TDM addresses the inefficiencies of synchronous TDM by allocating time slots dynamically based on the presence of data. Time slots are assigned only when there is data to transmit, which optimizes the use of the communication channel.
### Applications of TDM
- **Telecommunications**: TDM is extensively used in telecommunication systems, such as in T1 and E1 lines, where multiple telephone calls are transmitted over a single line by assigning each call to a specific time slot.
- **Digital Audio and Video Broadcasting**: TDM is used in broadcasting systems to transmit multiple audio or video streams over a single channel, ensuring efficient use of bandwidth.
- **Computer Networks**: TDM is used in network protocols and systems to manage the transmission of data from multiple sources over a single network medium.
### Advantages of TDM
- **Efficient Use of Bandwidth**: TDM all
Using recycled concrete aggregates (RCA) for pavements is crucial to achieving sustainability. Implementing RCA for new pavement can minimize carbon footprint, conserve natural resources, reduce harmful emissions, and lower life cycle costs. Compared to natural aggregate (NA), RCA pavement has fewer comprehensive studies and sustainability assessments.
A SYSTEMATIC RISK ASSESSMENT APPROACH FOR SECURING THE SMART IRRIGATION SYSTEMSIJNSA Journal
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Redefining brain tumor segmentation: a cutting-edge convolutional neural netw...IJECEIAES
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Case study
Words: STEPHEN MARRIOTT
Dutch art students have helped an environmental
consultancy raise hazard awareness among site
workers worldwide
Universal
language
W
hat would you do if you had to alert local workers in
multiple countries, many of them unable to read even
their native languages, to serious safety and health
threats on remote sites? If you were imaginative and
watched the right TV shows, you might come up with a suite of visual
instructions like those on the following pages that are as striking as
they are functional.
The man who did just that is Daan van Wieringen, safety manager
at Dutch environmental consultancy Tauw.
Tauw’s specialisms include water and soil remediation projects in
former war zones and contaminated industrial sites, operating at as
many as 50 locations a year around the globe.
“There are small projects with ten local workers and a Tauw
project manager,” says Amsterdam-based van Wieringen, “ranging
up to a major European construction project where there were almost
1,000 people on site.”
One recent example he offers involved 30 local workers in
Vietnam cleaning soil contaminated by pesticide dumps left from the
Vietcong’s attempts to control rampant mosquito-borne malaria in
the 1970s.
“Our pesticides projects are sometimes in the same areas as
ammunition stockpiles left over from the war buried in the soil,” he
says, “so we have to train people in multiple hazards. There’s a big
overlap between those two environmental issues.”
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Case study
Workers receive a site
induction with the
pictograms in São Tomé
and Principe
Off the telly
Until recently, Tauw would supply local workers with
personal protective equipment (PPE) and train them to
use it but with only limited success.
“We had traditional Powerpoint decks of 50 or
60 slides and it was difficult to keep the workers’
attention,” says van Wieringen. It was also difficult to
run the presentations on remote sites with no rest room
or electricity and everyone was sitting round one laptop.
“We thought there must be something else we
could do; some way to make it more practical.” While
he was pondering the problem in 2013 he watched a
TV quiz that featured short animated sequences from
students at Utrecht’s University of the Arts.
“I thought ‘that’s it!’,” he recalls. “If there’s
anybody who could transmit our message in a different
way it could be art students. They would have a fresh
approach.”
He contacted the university and explained his idea
to the teaching staff who enlisted a group of art and
design students with a broad brief to come up with a
new form of hazard communication.
“We didn’t ask for infographics,” he says. “It was
a process. We gave them the basic conditions: remote
locations, no electricity, people who don’t read English,
some can’t read at all; a variety of hazards.
“I gave them photos of our projects and they began
to think of communication tools. We provided technical
details on all the hazards.”
Part of the brief was to create messages that were
not dictatorial but showed the consequences of unsafe
behaviour and exposure to hazardous materials, to
encourage workers to want to avoid them.
Tauw also had strong links with the International
Environmental University in Kampf Lintfort, Germany
where one of the professors had previously worked for
the company. “Some of their students do internships
with us,” says van Wieringen. “So we thought it would
be a good idea to get them involved too, both the
environmental students and some from the psychology
department.”
The two groups of students worked from the end of
2013 into 2014.
Brief reminder
“They struggled at first,” admits van Wieringen,
referring to the Utrecht group. “They are art students
and wanted to make art. They didn’t recognise the
limitations immediately.”
One student created beautiful designs using paper
collage, he says, but they would have been impossible
to reproduce and too delicate to transport to the
remote sites.
A reminder from Tauw of the restrictions refocused
their attention and the idea of printed boards with
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Wieringen says. To reinforce the messages, copies with
magnetic backing were put up on the fencing next to
the site entrance.
Since then the cards have been used on projects in
the former Soviet countries and Africa’s smallest state
São Tomé and Principe.
Van Wieringen says it is difficult to measure
precisely the effect of the infographics. “But it’s clear
that people were more focused.”
Well covered
“One of the big issues is secondary exposure,” he
says. “If workers don’t dispose of their PPE properly
after working around pesticides, they can expose their
families.
“We believe the messages on the infographics
about not taking dirty clothes home has reduced that
exposure.”
“It’s about creating awareness,” he adds. “We had
anecdotes from our African projects about the coveralls
we give the workers. At the end of the project those
are effectively chemical waste and should be burned.
We heard that the disposal bags were being reopened
and the elders in the villages were wearing them; they
became a kind of status symbol.
“We are trying with the infographics to cut
that kind of reuse of PPE. So some of the pictures
are deliberately shocking, showing a sick child or
mother.”
One picture shows a young boy carrying a soil
auger. “It’s to warn against using child labour,” van
Wieringen explains. “In the first version the man
standing next to the boy was a white man, because it
made better graphic contrast. But it’s not good to have
a white man saying a child cannot work, because then
hazard control pictograms emerged, that could be
carried in a bag to sites and displayed to workers.
The students were keen to expand the graphics into
various media including animation, but van Wieringen
says he kept them focused on the most useful format.
“I said let’s do one thing very well rather than four
things not so well.”
As the infographics took shape, the students began
to develop a visual shorthand that carries through
the finished images, with coloured blotches to
represent contamination on skin or clothing and the
soil sampling auger, a common tool on Tauw sites, to
represent hazardous equipment.
The messages they convey explain everything
from the necessity to wear PPE – the issue that had
first exercised van Wieringen – and food hygiene to
electrical isolation and correct disposal of hazardous
waste.
The German group of psychology and
environmental students was experimenting separately
with ideas including a card game to alert workers
to hazards, but these never really worked, says van
Wieringen. “They were difficult to understand and
needed a lot of explanation, and people wouldn’t have
understood.”
Two weeks after the students made their final
presentation to Tauw, the pictogram boards, covering
28 main hazards, were printed A3 size
and taken to the remediation
project in Vietnam.
“We used them as part
of train-the-trainer
sessions, so people
could carry out site
inductions,” van
Daan van Wieringen
Tauw safety manager
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Case study
The pictograms
displayed on a site
fence in Vietnam
it’s white men telling everybody how to behave. It’s
little details that are important.”
Some of the early cards had multiple messages but
now they have only one per card, “which makes the
tool easier to use”.
“You can ask the workers to combine several info
graphics into one scenario, so you get an interactive
element.”
He says in a presentation to a meeting of the Dutch
OSH professionals body, groups of practitioners
became really engaged in sequencing the boards and
discussing their impact.
The infographics were included in the Vietnamese
national environmental safety standard for the
clean-up of persistent organic pollutants. Now, one
of Tauw’s largest clients, a major chemicals concern,
has asked it to use the visual standards on a large
project in Africa this year.
A second group of German students, working
after the Utrecht group developed the infographics,
researched ways to put the pictures on something
that could be given to workers on the projects to take
home. Initially, as with the art students, their grasp
of the conditions in some of the countries was loose.
“They wanted to produce them on a USB memory
stick,” says van Wieringen, “but since nobody has
computers there, that wouldn’t have worked.”
Eventually they decided to print the images on
towels that could be compressed into pellet form and
expand in water. “That’s very convenient to transport
and very useful to the people who are given them,” he
says. “It reinforces the site messages at home.”
The towels are now being produced and he hopes to
use them on a couple of World Bank-funded projects
Tauw is due to work on to remove pesticide stockpiles
in Africa.
For van Wieringen, the experience of tasking
young creatives with a technical challenge has been
overwhelmingly positive. “I’d recommend it to anyone
who gets the chance,” he says. “Working with the
students brought such a fresh perspective.” ●