Search results for " Communication"

Intercultural communication experiences of foreign students with a focus on their perspectives of national, cultural and ethnic identity : case of ex…

2011

The aim of the study is to learn about intercultural communication experiences of foreign Exchange and Master degree students in Jyväskylä, Finland with a particular attention to the perspective of national, cultural and ethnic identity concepts. The study is qualitative in nature. The goal in creating the interview themes was to cover a variety of topics to allow the informants to speculate on different situations related to intercultural communication experiences in Jyväskylä, their country of origin and their national, cultural and ethnic identity. To reach the diverse perspectives on the subject individuals of different cultural origin were interviewed. The interview group involved Exch…

Constructing intercultural competence in Italian social service and healthcare organizations : pedagogical design, effectiveness research, and altern…

2013

Yliopisto-opiskelijoiden näkemyksiä etäopetuksen pienryhmätilanteista

2023

Koronapandemian myötä ryhmäkeskustelut tulivat osaksi opiskelijoiden etäopiskelun arkea. Opiskelijoiden asennoitumista sekä ryhmätyöhön että teknologiavälitteiseen vuorovaikutukseen on tutkittu, mutta tutkimusta etäopiskeluaikaisista ryhmäkeskusteluista ja niiden herättämistä tunteista ja asenteista ei vielä juuri ole. Tässä tutkimuksessa selvitetään, millaisena yliopisto-opiskelijat kokevat etäopiskelun reaaliaikaiset ryhmätilanteet ja millaisia asenteita ja tunteita ne heissä herättävät. Tutkimusaineisto kerättiin verkkolomakkeella, jossa oli avoimia kysymyksiä. Kyselyyn vastasi keväällä 2021 yhteensä 59 opiskelijaa kolmesta suomalaisesta yliopistosta. Aineisto analysoitiin laadullisella …

Incorporating teacher-student dialogue into digital course material : Usage patterns and first experiences

2020

This work-in-progress research investigates teacher-student communication via Learning Management Systems (LMS) in highly populated courses. An LMS called TIM (The Interactive Material) includes a specific commenting technology that attempts to make teacher-student dialog effortless. The research goal is to explore students’ willingness to use the technology and identify patterns of usage. To these ends, a survey with both Likert and open-ended questions was issued to CS1 and CS2 students. A favorable student evaluation was observed while several critical viewpoints that inform technology development were revealed. We noticed that besides appreciating the possibility of making comments, man…

La Percepción Del Alumnado Sobre Las Competencias Docentes Del Profesorado De La Rama De Ciencias Sociales Y Jurídicas De La Universitat De València

2013

En el presente trabajo se presentan los datos de una investigación realizada en la Universidad de Valencia en la que se analiza la percepción del alumnado sobre las competencias docentes del profesorado del área de Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas. En el estudio participaron un total de 389 estudiantes universitarios de 10 titulaciones diferentes de la Universitat de València. En general, las 32 competencias son valoradas por los sujetos de la muestra como muy importantes en el proceso de enseñanza/aprendizaje. El alumnado valora las competencias personales como las más importantes, seguidas de las científicas, las metodológicas y las sociales. Globalmente las dos competencias más valoradas ha…

Tutkimus peruskoulun ja lukion opettajista Keski-Suomen alueella

2017

This study examined Information and Communications Technology (ICT) know-how and needs and challenges of teachers in-service training in the region of Middle–Finland. In this context impressiveness is seen as the congruence between the set aims and gathered results. The study approaches the subject matter through the opinions of teaching personnel. The study data was gathered from the focused interview questionnaires in many supplementary educational occasions of randomly picked teaching personnel in 2013, 2014, 2017 and also from personnel interwiew’s in 2013-2016. The study is aimed at the teaching personnel of Comprehensive Schools and Upper- Secondary Schools to investigate their ICT kn…

Movement Detection with Event-Based Cameras: Comparison with Frame-Based Cameras in Robot Object Tracking Using Powerlink Communication

2018

Event-based cameras are not common in industrial applications despite the fact that they can add multiple advantages for applications with moving objects. In comparison with frame-based cameras, the amount of generated data is very low while keeping the main information in the scene. For an industrial environment with interconnected systems, data reduction becomes very important to avoid network congestion and provide faster response time. However, the use of new sensors as event-based cameras is not common since they do not usually provide connectivity to industrial buses. This work develops a network node based on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), including data acquisition and trac…

FLUMO: FLexible Underwater MOdem

2019

The last years have seen a growing interest in underwater acoustic communications because of its applications in marine research, oceanography, marine commercial operations, the offshore oil industry and defense. High-speed communication in the underwater acoustic channel has been challenging because of limited bandwidth, extended multipath, refractive properties of the medium, severe fading, rapid time variation and large Doppler shifts. In this paper, we show an implementation of a flexible Software-Defined Acoustic (SDA) underwater modem, where modulation parameters are completely tunable to optimize performance. In particular, we develop the system architecture following two key ideas. …

In vitro models of BBB: a tool for the analysis of cell to cell communication in the brain

2008

Many researchers have been trying to set in vitro models of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) aimed at analyzing, in simplified terms, the molecular mechanisms responsible for formation, maintenance and functioning of the BBB, as well as the capability of specific drugs and pro-drugs to cross BBB. We did it, starting with a simpler system of co-culture that allowed us to analyze the effects of neurons on differentiation of brain capillary endothelial cells (RBE4.B cells) in culture, and setting then a more complex model, that includes three cell types (endothelial cells, neurons and astrocytes). The reciprocal geometrical organization of brain cells in this model system is similar to the one ob…

"I use it correctly!": The use of ICTs among Italian grandmothers in a generational perspective

2018

In this project, we investigated the role played by digital media and information and communication technologies (ICTs) in building intergenerational and intragenerational relations for grandparents. Specifically, we investigated the possible relationships between grandmothers, children, and grandchildren, with the aim of understanding the dynamics of intergenerational exchanges and how grandmothers experience the use of the Internet as a tool to facilitate communication with family members. The research shows that the reflections regarding the role of the Internet among elderly people are often linked to a generational identity and generational belonging and involve constant comparison wit…