Search results for "Interactive Learning"

Disabled People from Welfare to Jobs: A Decision Support Tool

2012

Despite repeated statements from successive governments in Norway, disabled people employment rate remains unchanged since 2000. A range of studies to describe and analyse the situation qualitatively and quantitatively have been performed, however we have not been able to find any study containing a decision support tool focusing on this issue. This paper presents a simulation model, built using the System Dynamics methodology. The model focuses on enabling disabled people to move from welfare to work, incorporating attitudes of disabled people and employers. The model is designed to cover selected factors that are believed to enable and encourage disabled people to take up jobs. It is inte…

Accessibility of Norwegian Municipalities Websites: A Decision Support Tool

2011

Access to public websites is crucial to assure equal opportunities for all citizens to participate in society. Although, a range of studies to analyse the accessibility of websites have been carried out, we have not been able to find any study evaluating the effect of managerial decisions on the accessibility of websites. This paper presents a demonstrator simulation model, built using System Dynamics methodology. The model focuses on accessibility of Norwegian Municipal websites, and is intended to be used as a decision support tool, mainly for managers responsible for website development and maintenance. To build the underlying model we have used information collected from in-depth interv…

Overcoming Myopic Behaviour in Intellectual Capital Policies through Interactive Learning Environments based on System Dynamics and Accounting Models

Organizational Performance Dynamics : a preliminary model

2023

The main objective of this model (an Interactive Learning Environment) is to help the reader understand how employees' motivational dynamics influence organizational performance. The model will allow you, through an iterative learning process, to understand: - the feedback structure of dynamic organizational performance system - the main motivational variables that influence the organizational performance - the organizational levers able to affect the employees' motivational dynamics The model will allow the reader to figure out the complex relationship between employee motivation and organizational performance through an "experimental" approach, using the simulation features provided by th…

Two Solutions to an Unsolvable Problem: Connecting Origami and GeoGebra in a Serbian High School

2014

Our “Visuality & Mathematics — Experiential Education of Mathematics Through the Use of Visual Art, Science, and Playful Activities” Tempus Project started in 2012 with the cooperation of eight European universities and scientific institutions, in order to develop Serbian mathematics education with technological equipment and interactive, experience-centered, and art-related content. The general objectives of this two-year-long project are justified by the findings of the PISA 2012 survey as well, which show that 15-year old Serbian students' mathematics performance is significantly below the OECD average. For the improvement of the Serbian students' mathematical literacy and abilities, wha…

Digital and Interactive Learning and Teaching Methods in Descriptive Geometry

2013

Abstract During the course of “Fundamentals and applications of Science of Representation - Geometric drawing” (held at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Palermo) we successfully tested the adoption of informatics tools to enhance the comprehension and the critical analysis of complex figures in the geometrical space. The peculiarity in the teaching methodology was the adoption of interactive software products (Cabri Geometre and GeoGebra concerning dynamic and geometrical constructions; the well-known Rhinoceros plug-in, Grasshopper, about generating algorithms; Linceo regarding implementing the graphic display of complex solids in augmented reality). According to our experie…

Perceptions of digital technology in nursing education: A qualitative study.

2021

Abstract Aim The aim of this study was to explore how digital technologies can facilitate interactive learning in a 15-credit theory module on basic nursing. Background Digital platforms are in widespread use in nursing education; however, the rapid technological advancement provides new opportunities to support teaching and learning. This indicates the need to explore how educational digital technologies can be used as an integral part of learning activities to promote quality and relevance in nursing education. This study was carried out at the Department of Nursing Science at a university in Norway. The university has been using a digital platform for many years and has recently adopted …

How the Psychology of Education Contributes to Research With a Social Impact on the Education of Students With Special Needs: The Case of Successful …

2020

One current challenge in the psychology of education is identifying the teaching strategies and learning contexts that best contribute to the learning of all students, especially those whose individual characteristics make their learning process more difficult, as is the case for students with special needs. One main theory in the psychology of education is the sociocultural approach to learning, which highlights the key role of interaction in children's learning. In the case of students with disabilities, this interactive understanding of learning is aligned with a social model of disability, which looks beyond individual students' limitations or potentialities and focuses on contextual as…

INFORMĀCIJAS UN KOMUNIKĀCIJAS TEHNOLOĢIJU IZMANTOŠANA SVEŠVALODU APGUVĒ STUDENTU MOTIVĀCIJAS PAAUGSTINĀŠANAI

2019

Informācijas un komunikācijas tehnoloģiju integrācija ikdienas mācību darbā ir nozīmīgs uzdevums gan skolotājiem, gan skolēniem. Moderno tehnoloģiju izmantošana valodu mācībās veicina studentu iesaistīšanos mācībās, veido interaktīvu mācību vidi, paplašina skolēnu individuālo darbību un piedāvā jaunas iespējas mācībās. Pētījumā analizēts, kā IKT integrācija klasē ietekmē skolēnu aktīvu līdzdalību valodas apguvē un izzināts, kā skolotāji izmanto tehnoloģijas klasē. Izmantotās datu vākšanas metodes bija šādas: studentu un skolēnu aptauja un skolotāju intervija. IKT izmantošanu svešvalodu mācībās skolotāji novērtēja pozitīvi. Skolotājiem bija iespēja izmantot daudzveidīgu un plašu informāciju …

Teaching Knowledge Management by Combining Wikis and Screen Capture Videos

2011

PurposeThis paper aims to report on the design and creation of a knowledge management course aimed at facilitating student creation and use of social interactive learning tools for enhanced learning.Design/methodology/approachThe era of social media and web 2.0 has enabled a bottom‐up collaborative approach and new ways to publish work on the web, promoted by tools such as YouTube video service. In this spirit a knowledge management course was designed aiming to facilitate university students to compose videos on different difficult concepts in the theory part of the course by searching for explanations on the web and by creating a Windows Media Player video focusing on the self‐defined pro…