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Creative Project-based learning to boost technology innovation
2017
This paper shows the results of the application of a project-based learning methodology that blended flipped classroom and face-to-face sessions, along with creativity and lateral thinking techniques, to integrate the expected concepts and procedures of technology innovation and boost entrepreneurship among students of Master?s degree in chemical engineering. The constructive alignment between the expected learning outcomes and skills with the proposed activities and assessment methods was decisive in the design of the methodology, which tractor activity was the creation of an innovation project. The use of techniques of creativity promoted lateral thinking and originality in the definition…
Facilitating Elements for the Transmission of the Entrepreneurial Spirit in the Classroom
2014
There have been countless tests made to confirm that creativity is a critical skill for entrepreneurs and their entrepreneurial training (Schmidt, J. et al. 2012), even more, practices on divergent thinking increases the entrepreneurial skills of students to generate a greater number and range of ideas, but not, their approaches to solve problems in a creative way. This situation raises a number of questions that should be analyzed before adding creativity and techniques to improve the training of creative thinking to studies (classes), about and in entrepreneurship, as a training channel, improvement or even to the generation of entrepreneurs. Our goal is to show that entrepreneurship is a…
Comunicar Conocimientos vs. Organizar el Conocimiento: la Gestión del Gen-preneur en el Aula
2014
Se han hecho innumerables pruebas para constatar que la creatividad es una habilidad crítica para los emprendedores y su formación emprendedora (Schmidt, J. et al. 2012), incluso se ha detectado que la práctica sobre el pensamiento divergente incrementa las habilidades emprendedoras de los estudiantes para generar un mayor número y rango de ideas, pero NO así, sus enfoques para la resolución creativa de problemas. Nuestro objetivo será mostrar que el emprendimiento es una faceta de la creatividad y que, el emprendedor "oculto" en el discente, necesitará observar y confirmar la existencia de condicionantes externos suficientes, para liberar su actitud emprendedora retenida, asimismo, será im…
'In search of assessment feedback' : student view on the Finnish and British higher education
2007
An adaptation of the Critical Thinking Disposition Scale in Spanish youth
2020
Abstract Background Enhancing students’ critical thinking (CT) is an essential goal of higher education. Although there are many instruments to assess its cognitive dimension, this is not so in the case of dispositional thinking. Our aim is to examine the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Critical Thinking Disposition Scale (CTDS; Sosu, 2013). Method Data come from 1064 students in their final years at high school and university in Spain. We report validity evidence based on its internal structure by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and an estimation of reliability and measurement invariance by gender. Additionally, nomological validity study with a multiple-indicator …
First Award of The Charles François International Prize established by IASCYS
2019
This article describes the circumstances of the establishment of the Charles Francois Prize by the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (IASCYS) and the procedure of its awarding. The role of Charles Francois ’s personality, in the development, popularization, and dissemination of systems thinking, the trans-disciplinary methodology of scientific research and the solution of social and practical problems based on it, is shown.
Identificación de factores influyentes en el proceso de aprendizaje en estudios de máster
2019
[ES] La puesta en marcha de los postgrados ha supuesto, en muchos casos, la incorporación de metodologías más apropiadas a este nivel educativo. En el trabajo que se presenta se estudia la repercusión de una metodología, que combina el modelo tradicional y el design thinking, en el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes de un máster ofertado por la Universitat de València y enmarcado dentro de la rama de ciencias sociales y jurídicas. El estudio hace énfasis en si el resultado obtenido aplicando dicha metodología muestra diferencias atendiendo a factores del alumnado de tipo académico y personal (estudios universitarios previos, situación laboral, ...). Si dichas disparidades se confirmar…
Jaspers’ Concept of Philosophical Faith: A New Synthesis?
2011
Philosophy begins where science ends. Philosophy has ceased to be a science. It is a source of its own. The limits of science make obvious that faith belongs to being human. Faith is either religious or philosophical. Faith is a main phenomenon of being human. It consists in the simple fact that persons have ultimate convictions. Philosophical faith is existential faith. Its certainty is tied to the individual. Philosophical faith cannot be achieved without personal effort, without acts of actual freedom, and without realizations of Existenz. Jaspers’ concept of philosophical faith turns out to be a new synthesis of historical conditions and philosophical requirements.
La paura di pensare
2021
Il saggio intende mettere a fuoco l'emozione della paura in relazione al modo in cui l’esercizio della ragione provoca in noi affezione, sviluppando una sensibilità specifica, una condizione di esposizione che concerne la vita del pensante. In ciò mi pare che la paura e, più in generale, l’intero ambito della vita emotiva, possa e anzi debba attirare l’interesse della ricerca filosofica, e specificamente, teoretica. La questione può essere posta sinteticamente in questi termini: la ragione fa paura? Pensare provoca una simile reazione emotiva? E se sì, in che senso?
A Constructal Law optimization of a boiler inspired by Life Cycle thinking
2018
Abstract The aim of the paper is to explore how design optimization contributes to a technology's ecological evolution. The article develops this concept through an application of Constructal Law, used to account for the “evolution” of technologies design (configuration, shape, structure, pattern, rhythm), and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), used for quantifying the environmental impacts of the design choices. The combination of both methods assesses how technology evolution affects the environment during its life, extending the concept of evolution of design. The study is applied to a case study of a real biomass boiler. The study analyses basic case and a series of alternative scenarios opti…