scholarly journals Remediation of print: On the current restructuration of higher education

2014 ◽  
pp. 207-226
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Knowledge Work ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Educational Mission ◽  
Educational Establishment ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
Grammar Of Schooling ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The Cost

The educational establishment was built and structured on a communication pattern at the core of the Gutenberg Galaxy that combines the spoken word with printed and handwritten resources. The current digitization of text is a pacesetter for retooling the workplace in the "industries of signs", for replacing skills on a broad scale and for developing new formal and informal social relationships. In addition to technological developments, a strong driver of this process is the cost of the mainly manual modes of academic operation. Core inhibitors to change are century-old traditions embedded in brick-and-mortar institutions, the impossibility of enforcing industrial-type organization on knowledge work and an elitist and scholastic bent in the academic concept of self. The field is thus in need of a new Grammar of Schooling that reflects technologically and socially driven participation modes that better address educational needs and cost considerations. The educational institution is challenged to develop a new logic of production in its educational mission.

scholarly journals Requirements for a global lidar system: spaceborne lidar with wall-to-wall coverage

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Hancock ◽  
Ciara McGrath ◽  
Christopher Lowe ◽  
Ian Davenport ◽  
Iain Woodhouse
Keyword(s):  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Unit Area ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Lidar System ◽  
Continuous Map ◽  
Airborne Laser ◽  
Readiness Level ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Global Coverage ◽  
The Cost

Lidar is the optimum technology for measuring bare-Earth elevation beneath, and the structure of, vegetation. Consequently, airborne laser scanning (ALS) is widely employed for use in a range of applications. However, ALS is not available globally nor frequently updated due to its high cost per unit area. Spaceborne lidar can map globally but energy requirements limit existing spaceborne lidars to sparse sampling missions, unsuitable for many common ALS applications. This paper derives the equations to calculate the coverage a lidar satellite could achieve for a given set of characteristics (released open-source), then uses a cloud map to determine the number of satellites needed to achieve continuous, global coverage within a certain time-frame. Using the characteristics of existing in-orbit technology, a single lidar satellite could have a continuous swath width of 300 m when producing a 30 m resolution map. Consequently, 12 satellites would be needed to produce a continuous map every 5 years, increasing to 418 satellites for 5 m resolution. Building 12 of the currently in-orbit lidar systems is likely to be prohibitively expensive and so the potential of technological developments to lower the cost of a global lidar system (GLS) are discussed. Once these technologies achieve a sufficient readiness level, a GLS could be cost-effectively realized.

scholarly journals Learning Never Ends... Spaces of Adult Education: Central and Eastern European Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Knowledge Work ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Social Commitment

This monograph is a collection of texts written by researchers, practitioners and theoreticians of adult education from Central and Eastern Europe (Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia). Its focus is on areas of contemporary adult education. The key issue is informal-learning space, where we can see the shift towards positive valuation of the ideas of localism and social commitment and to learning through (auto)reflection shaped by currents of information and individual experience. Another significant matter is the non-formal area of education, where intensive changes are taking place. The activities of associations and foundations, the dissemination of knowledge, work within open-education institutions, the non-governmental educational institution sector, citizenship – all are important areas of research, comparison and analysis that can be used to increase andragogical knowledge.

scholarly journals STUDY OF EDGE PROTECTING ANCHORS INFLUENCE ON SOIL HEAVING OF THE MINE WORKING

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (443) ◽  
pp. 71-80
Author(s):  
Demin Vladimir, ◽  
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Mussin Ravil, ◽  
Demina Tatiana, ◽  
Zhumabekova Aila, ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mine Working ◽  
Economic Effect ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Maintenance Costs ◽  
Technical Result ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Mine Workings ◽  
Anchor Bolts ◽  
Sectional Shape ◽  
The Cost

To achieve the objective with the claimed technical result, a method of fastening mine workings of predominantly rectangular cross-sectional shape with anchor bolts was used, while the applied task of reducing the heaving of soil rocks is to increase the efficiency of mine workings by ensuring that the mine workings. Ensuring the possibility of reliable and of good quality fortified rocks along the contour of making within the boundaries of the zone of possible collapse of rocks. The length of the soil anchors did not significantly affect the condition of the soil rocks. Consequently, that on the deformations and stresses both in the lateral and in the soils are not soil, but lateral anchors. The use of these technological developments will reduce the cost of conducting and maintaining workings by 7–10% with soil anchors (reducing maintenance costs by 7–10%) and will provide an economic effect of 10–15 thousand tenge per running meter of output.

scholarly journals Influencing Factors to Stay Off-Campus Living by Students

2018 ◽  
pp. 40-44 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Advanced Education ◽  
Infrastructural Development ◽  
Analysis Strategy ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Transportation Facilities

The advanced education framework has quickly changed on the planet. In these days, individuals are continually endeavoring to accomplish the higher education. Hence, the demand for the educational institution, leaving spaces, infrastructural development is expanding step by step. This investigation has been embraced to perceive the components that impact an understudy in considering the choice to remain in off-grounds living in the season of advanced education. This investigation has been done through an organized survey & finished by factor analysis strategy. The discoveries demonstrated that maximum understudies pick off-grounds living to guarantee their solace, accommodation, and wellbeing in a peaceful perusing condition. Off-grounds living understudies need to endure enormous challenges regarding cost, transportation, connecting with social activities, and so forth. Government and University experts can take some preventive ways like building lobbies, expanding transportation facilities, diminishing the cost of nourishment, and so forth to minimize the problems of off-grounds livings students.

Inception to Dissolution

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamna Malik
Keyword(s):  
Educational Institution ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
First Year ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Faculty Involvement ◽  
Technology Infrastructure ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Set Up

Literature provides many success and failure stories of technology adoption in business that are often analyzed and discussed in the classrooms. However, when it comes to actual implementation, even academic institutions seem to be committing the same mistakes. This case presents the plan, action, and challenges involved in the e-learning initiative of a newly established institute of higher learning in India. The Institute under discussion partnered with a European university to bring in international standard of education. Its plan was to adopt technology for all its regular courses as well as to launch a fully online Master’s degree within the first year of its operation. A team was gathered to set up e-learning in the Institute, which worked with full enthusiasm during the initial months. However, lack of vision and top management support, absence of institutionalized agenda, skeletal team structure and coordination, weak project planning, technology infrastructure, as well as lack of faculty involvement, became the bottlenecks for the e-learning adoption. Gradually, the team got scattered and there after the whole initiative was shattered. The case brings out the critical situations and factors that a brick and mortar educational institution needs to manage when moving on to the e-learning space.

Bridge Inspection Decision Making Based on Sequential Hypothesis Testing Methods

2000 ◽  
Vol 1697 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samer Madanat ◽  
Da-Jie Lin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Hypothesis Testing ◽  
Mathematical Formulation ◽  
Bridge Management ◽  
Statistical Decision ◽  
Sequential Hypothesis ◽  
Bridge Structures ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Sequential Hypothesis Testing ◽  
The Cost

A bridge management system (BMS) is a decision support system used by a highway agency in selecting appropriate maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R) activities and in allocating available resources effectively among facilities. BMS decision making is based on the condition of bridge components, their predicted deterioration, and the cost and effectiveness of M&R activities. Traditionally, bridge condition assessments have relied mainly on human inspectors; their results have generally been qualitative and subjective. More detailed inspections requiring some degree of destruction of the bridge, like drilling the deck to inspect for chloride contamination, have also been used. With recent technological developments, methods have been developed to evaluate the condition of bridge structures in a quantitative and objective manner. Associated with the use of these technologies are questions relating to inspection frequency, sample size, and the integration of data from the various technologies and human inspections. The application of a statistical decision-making method, sequential hypothesis testing, to these questions is presented. The mathematical formulation of the sequential hypothesis testing model, the derivation of optimal inspection policies, and the implementation of these policies in the context of bridge component inspection are discussed. A parametric analysis illustrates the sensitivity of the method to the cost structure of the problem, the precision of the technologies used, and the historical information or expert judgment regarding the condition of bridge components.

scholarly journals Prospects and Challenges of E-banking in Nepal

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amrit Banstola
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Internet Banking ◽  
Business Studies ◽  
Banking Policy ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
Narrow Space ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Surge Protection ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Electronic Delivery

Financial Institutions are slowly moving from Brick and Mortar (Physical branches) to click and Brick (E-banking). ATM's are the most popular electronic delivery channel for banking services in Nepal. Only few customers are using internet banking facilities. Nepalese financial institutions till date have not faced any kind of electronic fraud or risk. Banks have basic security tools like firewall, lightening/power surge protection. But it is found that the some banks are in lack of having regular back up of website information and E-banking policy. Nepalese banks are using E-banking for their own convenience and for the purpose of retaining exiting customers. The cost analysis of most of the banks in Nepal is seems to be either inadequate or not applied due to their narrow space of business transaction or lack of sufficient tools. No significant correlation was found between use of E-banking and gender, marital status or salary of customer. However, Use of E-banking signification association was found with age and education. The Journal of Nepalese Business Studies Vol. IV, No.1(2007) pp. 96-104

COMPONENTS OF PEDAGOGICAL TECHNOLOGY FORMING THE PROFESSIONAL REFLEXION OF FUTURE SOCIAL PEDAGOGES IN THE HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

2018 ◽  
pp. 68-73
Author(s):  
M. Vasylieva-Khalatnykova
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Training ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Definite Integral ◽  
Integral System ◽  
Organizational Unit ◽  
Educational Establishment ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Professional Formation

In the article the characteristics and peculiarities of pedagogical technology of formation of professional reflection of future social educators in the higher educational institution is a clear scientific and theoretical basis for the optimal realization of the tasks of vocational training. The developed pedagogical technology was considered as a collection of regular, functionally related components, constituting a definite integral system. The allocation of components in pedagogical technology has allowed it to be divided into blocks (target, functional, informative, organizational, productive) that provided the opportunity to more clearly represent the purposeful process of forming professional reflection of future social educators in the higher educational institution. The formation of a professional reflection of future social educators in a higher educational institution will be successful in the presence of appropriate pedagogical conditions. Moreover, it is necessary to identify, analyze and generalize in a systematic way those pedagogical conditions, to effectively influence this process and the professional formation of future social educators. The introduction of pedagogical technology for the formation of professional reflection of future social educators in a higher educational establishment is impossible without taking into account the pedagogical conditions for its implementation. In spite of the fact that they acted as part of the organizational unit of sound and developed pedagogical technology, in essence they were a kind of "core" that allowed it to function and be effective.

Harnessing information and communication technologies for effective knowledge creation

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 831-855 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vikas Gupta ◽  
Namita Jain
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Future ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Future Of Education

Purpose Education is subject to the same pressures as a business, it has to spur innovation, improve customer service and achieve operational excellence. Education is expected to solve intricate problems that heralded the twenty-first century. Niche areas emerged in education that need further study and research. The authors postulate such demands may be met by information and communication technologies (ICTs) that opened up the avenue for innovation and experimentation in education. One such innovation is online learning and massive open online courses (MOOCs) that represent immense opportunities in education. With their advent, even the permanent relevance of physical classrooms has been questioned. The purpose of this paper is to answer to all these questions and attempts to fill gaps in the understanding of the future of education. Design/methodology/approach The paper came into being after a review of literature pertaining to the changing ecosystem of education and an analysis of newer platforms like MOOCs. The paper surveyed books, scholarly articles, reports, conference proceedings and online databases in the area of education and related technological developments. Findings The existence of MOOCs in the education landscape cannot be ignored. This is proven by the fact that MOOC enrollment surpassed 35 million users in 2015. MOOCs were considered a popular concept in the developed world to start with. But, today MOOCs are being offered by universities in developing nations too. As the number of participant countries increases, MOOCs in vernacular languages are being developed to overcome the language barrier. The paper found that the online model cannot replace the brick and mortar model completely. Rather, it will complement it by providing an enriching experience to various stakeholders, including the learner and the instructor. In the future, students will have the advantage of a blended classroom where the best of online and offline models converge into an optimal experience. Research limitations/implications As the theme of the paper is new and the educational landscape continues to evolve, it is very difficult to determine the pace of transformation of education. However, the authors have tried to suggest a conceptual framework for the future in education, subject to empirical validation. Practical implications This paper helps us understand that we are in a rapidly evolving scenario where innovations have the potential to disrupt the existing model. Such disruptions can have behavioral, economical and social ramifications. A better understanding of such alterations will help academicians equip themselves for evolving classrooms and the changing nature of their jobs. The new ICT enabled ecosystem will also try to overcome issues related to the quality of education and knowledge dissemination. Originality/value The present paper is a comprehensive study of the opportunities and challenges posed by emerging classrooms.

Wearable Training-Monitoring Technology: Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (s2) ◽  
pp. S2-55-S2-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Cardinale ◽  
Matthew C. Varley
Keyword(s):  
External Load ◽  
Training Load ◽  
Internal Load ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Technology Applications ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Training Activities ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Longitudinal Observational Studies ◽  
Subjective Reports

The need to quantify aspects of training to improve training prescription has been the holy grail of sport scientists and coaches for many years. Recently, there has been an increase in scientific interest, possibly due to technological advancements and better equipment to quantify training activities. Over the last few years there has been an increase in the number of studies assessing training load in various athletic cohorts with a bias toward subjective reports and/or quantifications of external load. There is an evident lack of extensive longitudinal studies employing objective internal-load measurements, possibly due to the cost-effectiveness and invasiveness of measures necessary to quantify objective internal loads. Advances in technology might help in developing better wearable tools able to ease the difficulties and costs associated with conducting longitudinal observational studies in athletic cohorts and possibly provide better information on the biological implications of specific external-load patterns. Considering the recent technological developments for monitoring training load and the extensive use of various tools for research and applied work, the aim of this work was to review applications, challenges, and opportunities of various wearable technologies.

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