What are Teachers Concerned about in Implementing Digital Collaboration?

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei-Wen Chen ◽  
Cheng-Chih Wu ◽  
Greg C. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Digital Collaboration

scholarly journals Lessons from failure: neurosurgical outreach in Managua, Nicaragua

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 3083-3087
Author(s):  
Rahul Jandial ◽  
Pranay Narang ◽  
Jorge Daniel Brun Aramayo ◽  
Michael Levy
Keyword(s):  
Medical Center ◽  
Video Conferencing ◽  
Surgical Care ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Developing Regions ◽  
Digital Collaboration ◽  
State Of Affairs

AbstractWith respect to the tremendous deficit in surgical care plaguing developing nations, it is critical that medical outreach models be organized in such a fashion that sustainable advancements can be durably imparted beyond the duration of targeted missions. Using a didactic framework focused on empowering host neurosurgeons with an enhanced surgical skillset, a mission was launched in Managua, Nicaragua, after previous success in Kiev, Ukraine, and Lima, Peru. Unfortunately, the failure to critically assess the internal and external state of affairs of the region’s medical center compromised the outreach mission. Herein lies the visiting team’s lessons from failure and insights on facilitating effective communication with host institutions, circumventing geopolitical instability, and utilizing digital collaboration and video-conferencing tools in the post-COVID-19 era to advance the surgical care of developing regions in a fashion that can be generationally felt.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON ECONOMY, EMPLOYMENT AND NEW SKILLS

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (Issue Vol 20, No 3 (2021)) ◽  
pp. 409-422
Author(s):  
Miltiadis STABOULIS ◽  
Irene LAZARIDOU
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
Digital Collaboration ◽  
The Impact

This paper discusses the economic features of the current Covid-19 outbreak and its relation to labour markets and new skills in demand. At the same time, it focuses on how it started to expand worldwide, while reporting the ways of transmission and their effects on daily social and professional life. It is argued that focusing on skills and human capital could offer a strong foundation for building sustainable economies, as the recent months have been a suitable period to progress and advance digital skills, thus reducing digital illiteracy, while at the same time developing certain major sectors such as online education, ecommerce, telemedicine, entertainment, digital collaboration tools, virtual reality applications, etc. The author mainly focuses on the analysis of the recent global trends in many affected sectors, examines possible unemployment issues with an emphasis on the kind of new skills and soft skills in demand that are necessary for an easier transition to the new Covid-19 way of life.

scholarly journals Digital collaboration inside and outside educational systems

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nils Rune Birkeland ◽  
Eli-Marie Danbolt Drange ◽  
Elise Seip Tønnessen
Keyword(s):  
Educational Systems ◽  
Digital Collaboration

scholarly journals LO14: The CanadiEM Digital Scholars Program: An innovative international digital collaboration curriculum

CJEM ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (S1) ◽  
pp. S32 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Zaver ◽  
A. Thomas ◽  
S. Shahbaz ◽  
A. Helman ◽  
E.S. Kwok ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Content Creation ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
New Frontier ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Digital Collaboration ◽  
Practical Experiences

Introduction/Innovation Concept: Digital media are a new frontier in medical education scholarship. Asynchronous education resources facilitate a multi-modal approach to teaching, and allows residents to personalize their learning to achieve mastery in their own time. The CanadiEM Digital Scholars Program is a nationwide initiative that provides residents with practical experiences in creating digital educational materials under the supervision of experts in the field. The program allows for collaboration and access to mentorship from top digital educators from across North America. Methods: Interested residents accepted into the program spent a period of their PGY4 year completing modules developed in the theory and science behind digital education. Four modules, developed in an iterative process, have been built on the topics of podcasting, blogging, digital identity, and patient communication. Each fellow was supervised members of the CanadiEM team, a faculty member from the resident’s home institution, and digital experts from across North America. Curriculum, Tool, or Material: The first fellow completed all aspects of the designed curriculum. Above this, he also engaged in blog content creation, initiated research on digital scholarship, and managed the editorial section of CanadiEM. The second fellow is currently halfway through his year (and is expected to complete the program within the year) and has co-authored 30 blog posts and 53 podcasts in 6 months. Conclusion: The CanadiEM Digital Scholars Program utilizes a novel approach to foster development of digital educators utilizing experts across North America. We have demonstrated the feasibility and sustainability with our initial pilot years. This program is being scaled next year to include two scholars per year, which will facilitate cross-collaboration between the scholars.

scholarly journals Building Digital Bridges:  Improving Digital Collaboration through  the Principles of Hyperlinked Practice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
David Henry Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Thought Experiments ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Adoption Of Technology ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Digital Collaboration ◽  
Effective Collaboration ◽  
Software Prototype

<p>Effective collaboration requires access to timely and relevant information, but this is difficult given the complexity of the architectural design process and the segmentation of the architecture, engineering and construction industry. Effective collaboration is further complicated by the quantity and density of the digital information generated within a project, and the irregular adoption of technology by different team members. Consolidating project information within Building Information Models has improved its management, but the technology’s complexity limits who can contribute to it. This is a problem, because team members are capable of collaborating more effectively when they can record and reflect upon a comprehensive record of the project’s design process. The aim of research was to identify how information technology can assist architectural project teams to collaborate by more inclusively and comprehensively recording and reflecting upon the design process. To address this problem, this research proposes that the industry adopt Hyperlinked Practice, which is the creation of a distributed cloud of interconnected information describing an architectural project’s events, activities and digital artefacts. A set of fundamental principles were identified that would be used to guide the design and deployment of digital collaboration tools capable of facilitating Hyperlinked Practice. To ensure a flexible and inclusive environment, the principles were derived from concepts proven within the World Wide Web. To validate these principles, their collaboration influence, potential, and industry applicability was tested within a software prototype utilised in a university architecture course and two thought experiments. The results from testing the software prototype suggest that the principles are capable of influencing collaboration in a manner that promotes the recording of the design process, and reflection upon it. The thought experiments demonstrated that the principles provided an excellent framework for evaluating a digital collaboration tool’s ability to facilitate Hyperlinked Practice. Based on these results, the research concluded the identified principles of Hyperlinked Practice were capable of facilitating a collaboration environment that would allow the design process to be comprehensively recorded and reflected upon.</p>

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