Learning in the Age of Digital and Green Transition

Learning in the Age of Digital and Green Transition
Author: Michael E. Auer
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1085
Release: 2023-02-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3031261909

We are currently witnessing a significant transformation in the development of education on all levels and especially in post-secondary education. To face these challenges, higher education must find innovative ways to quickly respond to these new needs. These were the aims connected with the 25th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2022), which was held in Vienna, Austria, from September 27 to 30, 2022. Since its beginning in 1998, this conference is devoted to new approaches in learning with a focus on collaborative learning in higher education. This book contains papers in the fields of: • New Learning Models and Applications• Project-Based Learning• Engineering Pedagogy Education• Research in Engineering Pedagogy• Teaching Best Practices• Real World Experiences• Academia-Industry Partnerships• Trends in Master and Doctoral Research. Interested readership includes policymakers, academics, educators, researchers in pedagogy and learning theory, school teachers, the learning industry, further and continuing education lecturers, etc.

Educational Research and Innovation Education in the Digital Age Healthy and Happy Children

Educational Research and Innovation Education in the Digital Age Healthy and Happy Children
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9264706496

The COVID-19 pandemic was a forceful reminder that education plays an important role in delivering not just academic learning, but also in supporting physical and emotional well-being. Balancing traditional “book learning” with broader social and personal development means new roles for schools and education more generally.

Developing Skills and Competencies for Digital and Green Transitions

Developing Skills and Competencies for Digital and Green Transitions
Author: Ordóñez de Pablos, Patricia
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2023-08-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1668490900

In today's rapidly changing digital world, the need for education to keep pace with technology has never been more important. However, the traditional education system is struggling to adapt to these changes, and many students are not acquiring the digital skills and competencies needed to thrive in the current job market. At the same time, there is a growing need for sustainability and green education to address the pressing issues of climate change and create more resilient and inclusive societies. Developing Skills and Competencies for Digital and Green Transitions provides a persuasive solution to these pressing problems. By exploring the intersection of green education and digital technologies, this book offers a comprehensive approach to transforming education in the digital era. Through its innovative topics and methodologies, this book provides a platform for international collaboration, fostering the development of new digital technologies for education and accelerating innovation in educational technologies. It offers insights into how green education and advanced information technologies can be applied in the education sector to create more resilient, climate-neutral, and green economies and societies. With its focus on inclusiveness and sustainability, this book is a valuable resource for students, academics, policymakers, and other stakeholders looking to build a more sustainable future.

22nd European Conference on e-Learning

22nd European Conference on e-Learning
Author: Shawren Singh
Publisher: Academic Conferences and publishing limited
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2023-10-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 191458791X

These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 22nd European Conference on e-Learning (ECEL 2023), hosted by University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa on 26-27 October 2023. The Conference Co-Chairs Associate Professor Sarah Jane Johnston and Associate Professor Shawren Singh both from University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. ECEL is now a well-established event on the academic research calendar and now in its 22nd year the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share ideas and meet the people who hold them. The scope of papers will ensure an interesting two days. The subjects covered illustrate the wide range of topics that fall into this important and ever-growing area of research. It is especially relevant that the conference is being hosted by UNISA this year as the university celebrates its 150th anniversary. UNISA has been a pioneer in first distance and now e-Learning. The conference will also host the final round of the 9th e-Learning Excellence Awards where innovate case histories will be presented. The opening keynote presentation is given by Professor Thenjiwe Meyiwa, Vice Principal for the Research, Postgraduate Studies, Innovation and Commercialisation at University of South Africa who will speak on, “The Role of African Feminisms in Shaping a Sustainable Future of Being and Learning”. An afternoon keynote on Thursday will be made by Dr Zolile Martin Mguda, University of South Africa on the topic of “ChatGPT: The first year”. The second day of the conference will open with an address by Dr Isabel Tarling, MD, Limina, South Africa with the title “Developing Digital Standards for Learning and Teaching in South Africa’s Schools”. With an initial submission of 100 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 45 Academic research papers, 3 PhD research papers and 1 Masters Research paper published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Belgium, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Mozambique, Norway, Oman, Perú, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

Books in the Digital Age

Books in the Digital Age
Author: John B. Thompson
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2005-03-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0745634788

The book publishing industry is going through a period of profound and turbulent change brought about in part by the digital revolution. What is the role of the book in an age preoccupied with computers and the internet? How has the book publishing industry been transformed by the economic and technological upheavals of recent years, and how is it likely to change in the future? This is the first major study of the book publishing industry in Britain and the United States for more than two decades. Thompson focuses on academic and higher education publishing and analyses the evolution of these sectors from 1980 to the present. He shows that each sector is characterized by its own distinctive ‘logic’ or dynamic of change, and that by reconstructing this logic we can understand the problems, challenges and opportunities faced by publishing firms today. He also shows that the digital revolution has had, and continues to have, a profound impact on the book publishing business, although the real impact of this revolution has little to do with the ebook scenarios imagined by many commentators. Books in the Digital Age will become a standard work on the publishing industry at the beginning of the 21st century. It will be of great interest to students taking courses in the sociology of culture, media and cultural studies, and publishing. It will also be of great value to professionals in the publishing industry, educators and policy makers, and to anyone interested in books and their future.

Parenting for a Digital Future

Parenting for a Digital Future
Author: Sonia Livingstone
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2020
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0190874694

"In the decades it takes to bring up a child, parents face challenges that are both helped and hindered by the fact that they are living through a period of unprecedented digital innovation. Drawing on extensive research with diverse parents, this book reveals how digital technologies give personal and political parenting struggles a distinctive character, as parents determine how to forge new territory with little precedent, or support. The book reveals the pincer movement of parenting in late modernity. Parents are both more burdened with responsibilities and charged with respecting the agency of their child-leaving much to negotiate in today's "democratic" families. The book charts how parents now often enact authority and values through digital technologies-as "screen time," games, or social media become ways of both being together and setting boundaries. The authors show how digital technologies introduce both valued opportunities and new sources of risk. To light their way, parents comb through the hazy memories of their own childhoods and look toward varied imagined futures. This results in deeply diverse parenting in the present, as parents move between embracing, resisting, or balancing the role of technology in their own and their children's lives. This book moves beyond the panicky headlines to offer a deeply researched exploration of what it means to parent in a period of significant social and technological change. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative research in the United Kingdom, the book offers conclusions and insights relevant to parents, policymakers, educators, and researchers everywhere"--

OECD Skills Outlook 2023 Skills for a Resilient Green and Digital Transition

OECD Skills Outlook 2023 Skills for a Resilient Green and Digital Transition
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2023-11-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9264807128

Skills are vital for building resilient economies and societies. By helping individuals develop a diverse range of skills and empowering them to apply these skills effectively, skills policies play a crucial role in responding to emerging threats, such as environmental degradation and harmful applications of technologies used to collect, generate, and exchange information. This edition of the Skills Outlook highlights the importance of supporting individuals in acquiring a wide range of skills, at varying levels of proficiency, to promote economic and social resilience. Additionally, the report acknowledges the role of attitudes and dispositions in enabling skills development and effective skills use. It also emphasises the need for policy makers to monitor the costs associated with policies aimed at promoting the green and digital transition, and how the transition affects inequalities. Training opportunities that respond to emerging labour market needs and efforts to facilitate their uptake can promote a just and inclusive green and digital transition. In turn, education systems that equip young people not only with skills but attitudes to manage change can ensure that the green and digital transition is sustainable in the longer term.