scholarly journals Competences for creating educational resources in a digital environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 136-154
Author(s):  
Mima Trifonova
Keyword(s):  
Primary Education ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Learning Resources ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Teaching Emphasis

The article presents the teacher's activity in terms of the educational resources they use in their teaching. Emphasis is placed on the opportunity for teachers to create their own educational materials in a digital environment. A classification of the educational resources has been made according to the purpose they serve and the digital objects they consist of. The pedagogical projections of digital objects in their role as components that make up the learning resources have been analyzed. The need to form hybrid competencies, in this case digital-pedagogical ones, for the students who would be future teachers in primary education has been explained.

scholarly journals Competences for creating educational resources in a digital environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 136-154
Author(s):  
Mima Trifonova
Keyword(s):  
Primary Education ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Learning Resources ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Teaching Emphasis

The article presents the teacher's activity in terms of the educational resources they use in their teaching. Emphasis is placed on the opportunity for teachers to create their own educational materials in a digital environment. A classification of the educational resources has been made according to the purpose they serve and the digital objects they consist of. The pedagogical projections of digital objects in their role as components that make up the learning resources have been analyzed. The need to form hybrid competencies, in this case digital-pedagogical ones, for the students who would be future teachers in primary education has been explained.

scholarly journals Open Educational Resources in the Development of Digital Learning Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (12) ◽  
pp. 144-155
Author(s):  
N. V. Dneprovskaya ◽  
I. V. Shevtsova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Training Course ◽  
Russian Universities

During the period of the forced transition of universities around the world to the online education, the demand for digital free access services has grown. A unique opportunity has appeared to supplement and develop the theoretical and methodological provisions of online learning based on the analysis of the empirical results that characterize the relevance and effectiveness of the digital environment parts. The educational materials free available at the Internet are the part of the digital environment, which are combined into the concept of open educational resources (OER). The purpose of the study is to assess the relevance of OER for faculty, systematize the main ways of working with them, identify the motives and barriers for the development of OER by faculty. The study conducted among the lecturers at Russian universities showed the high importance and value of OER for their teaching and methodological activities to create and develop the training course content in digital environment. More than half of the faculty staff create and distribute their copyright materials on the Internet on their own initiative for the convenience of their students. The faculty and students freely exchange educational materials using a variety of web services. In conditions of increasing demands on faculty and content of training-course, OER is a valuable resource for educational activities. The analysis of the regulatory framework revealed a lack of OER policy in Russian universities, which is one of the barriers for lecturers to create OER. The results of the study made it possible to develop recommendations for the development of OER in the field of higher education: consolidate the concept of OER in the regulatory framework of education, provide methodological and legal support for the creation and use of OER by faculty, and conduct an information campaign to reveal the prospects and advantages of using OER in higher education.

Family Inequality, School Inequalities, and Mathematics Achievement in 65 Countries: Microeconomic Mechanisms of Rent Seeking and Diminishing Marginal Returns

2015 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Ming Ming Chiu
Keyword(s):  
Student Achievement ◽  
Mathematics Achievement ◽  
Teacher Quality ◽  
Rent Seeking ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Mathematics Test ◽  
Oecd Pisa ◽  
Family Inequality ◽  
Marginal Returns

Background While many studies show that greater economic inequality widens the achievement gap between rich and poor students, recent studies indicate that countries with greater economic inequality have lower overall student achievement. Purpose This study explores whether family inequalities (family income) or school inequalities (educational materials or teachers with university degrees) reduce overall student achievement through micro-economic mechanisms, such as fewer educational resources (via rent-seeking) or inefficient resource allocation (via diminishing marginal returns). Population/Participants/Subjects The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's Programme for International Student Assessment (OECD-PISA) selected 475,760 representative fifteen-year-olds and their principals from 18,094 schools in 65 countries. Research Design In this secondary analysis, we tested whether family or school inequalities were related to students’ mathematics test scores, and whether fewer educational resources or inefficient resources allocation mediated these relationships. Data Collection and Analysis Each student received a mathematics test. The students and their principals also received a questionnaire. World Bank economic data on each countries were merged with the OECD-PISA data. To analyze this data, we used item response models, Warm indices and multilevel analyses. Findings/Results In countries with greater family inequality (GDP Gini) or school inequalities (of educational materials or teacher quality), students had lower mathematics achievement. The results were similar in all student subsamples (high vs. low SES; high vs. low achievement). As the mediation results for each inequality differed, they suggest that these inequalities operate through different mechanisms. Family inequality and school inequality of teacher quality are linked to fewer teachers with post-secondary education and lower mathematics achievement. Meanwhile, school inequality of educational resources is linked to diminishing marginal returns and lower mathematics achievement. Conclusions/Recommendations Family inequality and school inequalities (educational materials, teacher quality) are distinct inequalities that are all linked to lower mathematics achievement, but not substantially correlated with one another. Thus, each inequality can be addressed separately. As none of the subgroups of students (not even the richest ones) benefit from any of the inequalities, disseminating the results widely can help more laypeople (especially the richest ones) recognize their mutual benefit in reducing these inequalities –or reduce their inclination to support policies that exacerbate these inequalities. As reducing family inequality can be extremely costly and politically controversial, a strategic intervention at the inequality mechanism level (e.g., increasing teacher quality in schools with few high quality teachers) might be improve mathematics achievement more effectively.

Formation of Digital Competencies Among Students of Teacher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-22
Author(s):  
S. Zenkina ◽  
E. Gerasimova
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Methodological Development ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Online Services ◽  
System Activity ◽  
Digital Competencies ◽  
Modern Information

The article provides the typology of online educational materials, concretizes and clarifies digital competencies that are in demand in the modern information educational environment. In accordance with the principles of the system-activity approach, a methodology for the formation of digital competencies in future teachers in the context of the organization of project activities of students of pedagogical specialties is proposed. It is shown that this activity can be associated with the step-by-step methodological development of electronic educational materials in the environment of online services.

scholarly journals ПРИПРЕМА БУДУЋИХ УЧИТЕЉА И ПРОБЛЕМ ФОРМИРАЊА КУЛТУРНОГ ИДЕНТИТЕТА

TEME ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 001
Author(s):  
Vesna Trifunović ◽  
Danijela Zdravković ◽  
Dragana Stanojević
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Normative Framework ◽  
Important Field ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Institutional Preparation

In the Republic of Serbia, education reforms have been implemented since 2000 with the aim of harmonizing this important field of society with the so-called European Education Area. The whole range of changes lawfully adopted and applied in practice at all levels of institutionalized education is mainly directed towards the standardization and unification of "domestic" education with the educational paradigms of a neoliberal society. Maintaining the continuity of cultural development and the formation of cultural identity are important issues for overall social development, and they are not given proper attention in the education strategy. In addition to that, the institutional preparation of future teachers does not sufficiently focus on this issue.In this paper we consider: (1) the normative framework that regulates the field of primary education and the formation of cultural identity in the Republic of Serbia, (2) the factors influencing the process of training future teachers for the formation of cultural identity and (3) the teachers’ competencies as a support to the formation of the cultural identity of younger school-age children.The importance of the harmonization of the basic guidelines of the normative framework regulating primary education and the formation of cultural identity with the basic intentions of preparing future teachers is emphasized. Especially from the perspective of the role of teachers in the process of establishing and preserving the cultural identity of generations reaching compulsory primary education in the context of intergenerational transmission of culture, cultural patterns and values. At the same time, the paper emphasizes the insufficient presence of content in the education of future teachers that would adequately prepare them for understanding the complex problem of forming a cultural identity.The authors point out the importance of the groundedness of future teachers’ preparation in terms of their academic knowledge of society, history and culture. The aim of the paper is to emphasize the importance of developing teachers’ competencies necessary for understanding identity issues and forming a cultural identity.The paper employs the descriptive-analytical method.

scholarly journals Algorithmic techniques for detection and classification of digital objects

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ιωσήφ Πολενάκης
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Algorithmic Techniques

Σε αυτή τη διδακτορική διατριβή διερευνήθηκαν οι αλγοριθμικές τεχνικές για την ανίχνευση και τη κατάταξη ψηφιακών αντικειμένων. Στον τομέα των ψηφιακών αντικειμένων, η παρούσα εργασία επικεντρώνεται κυρίως στη μελέτη του σχεδιασμού και της περαιτέρω ανάπτυξης αλγοριθμικών τεχνικών ανίχνευσης και κατάταξης μιας συγκεκριμένης κατηγορίας ψηφιακών αντικειμένων, αυτής του λογισμικού και πιο συγκεκριμένα του κακόβουλου λογισμικού, δημιουργώντας εν τέλει ένα ολοκληρωμένο αλγοριθμικό πλαίσιο για την προστασία ενάντια σε αυτό. Οι δημιουργοί των κακόβουλων λογισμικών, προκειμένου να αποφύγουν τις καθιερωμένες μεθόδους ανίχνευσης, έχουν αναπτύξει ευφυείς τεχνικές που εστιάζουν στη μετάλλαξη των παραγόμενων κακόβουλων λογισμικών, ενσωματώνοντας μηχανισμούς μετάλλαξης που στόχο έχουν να τροποποιήσουν ριζικά τη δομή των παραγόμενων δειγμάτων. Ως εκ τούτου, στον πρώτο άξονα, η έρευνα επικεντρώνεται στο σχεδιασμό και την πρόταση μιας αναπαράστασης μέσω γραφήματος της συμπεριφοράς του δείγματος κακόβουλου λογισμικού (συμπεριφοριστικό γράφημα) ανθεκτικής σε μεταλλάξεις, η οποία προκύπτει από τα Γραφήματα Εξάρτησης Κλήσεων Συναρτήσεων Συστήματος (κατευθυνόμενα άκυκλα γραφήματα), τα οποία κατασκευάζονται αντλώντας πληροφορία από την εκτέλεση δυναμικής ανάλυσης του εκτελεσθέντος κακόβουλου λογισμικού. Έτσι, σε πρώτο επίπεδο, προτείνουμε το Γράφημα Συσχετίσεων Ομάδων (κατευθυνόμενο έμβαρο γράφημα) το οποίο προκύπτει έπειτα από ομαδοποίηση των κόμβων του γραφήματος Εξάρτησης Κλήσεων Συναρτήσεων Συστήματος, αξιοποιώντας την ιδιότητα ότι οι κλήσεις συναρτήσεων συστήματος μπορούν να συγχωνευθούν σε ομάδες ανάλογα με την ομοειδή λειτουργικότητά τους. Επιπρόσθετα, επεκτείνουμε αυτή την προσέγγιση προτείνοντας το Γράφημα Κάλυψης, όπου διερευνούμε τις ``σχέσεις κυριαρχίας" μεταξύ των κόμβων του γραφήματος Συσχετίσεων Ομάδων, αναφορικά με το βάρος και το βαθμό αυτών. Επιπλέον, επεκτείνοντας τις δυνατότητες των παραπάνω γραφημάτων προτείνουμε επίσης τα Χρονικά Μεταβαλλόμενα Γραφήματα, τα οποία απεικονίζουν τη δομική εξέλιξη των προτεινόμενων γραφημάτων (δηλ. Γραφήματα Συσχετίσεων Ομάδων και Γραφήματα Κάλυψης) απεικονίζοντας την εξέλιξη στη δομή τους μέσω στιγμιότυπων αυτών, τα οποία καταγράφονται ανα συγκεκριμένες περιόδους. Μεταξύ άλλων, προτείνουμε ένα σύνολο μετρικών ομοιότητας, όπου αξιοποιούνται τα ποσοτικά, σχεσιακά και ποιοτικά χαρακτηριστικά των παραπάνω γραφημάτων αναφορικά με τη συμπεριφορά των κακόβουλων λογισμικών, αξιοποιώντας αυτές τις μετρικές για τη μετέπειτα αποτίμηση των δυνατοτήτων ανίχνευσης και κατάταξης των προταθέντων μοντέλων. Επιπλέον, δεδομένου ότι η χρήση των φορητών συσκευών παρουσιάζει ευρεία εξάπλωση, κατά την εκπόνηση της παρούσας διατριβής μελετήθηκε η ανάπτυξη αλγοριθμικών τεχνικών βασισμένων σε γραφήματα, οι οποίες θα ολοκληρώνουν το ευρύτερο αλγοριθμικό πλαίσιο προστασίας ενάντια στο κακόβουλο λογισμικό, με τη διερεύνηση στρατηγικών βασισμένων σε γραφήματα για την καταστολή και περαιτέρω αποφυγή εν δυνάμει πανδημικών φαινομένων που θα προκύψουν από την εξάπλωση του κακόβουλου λογισμικού. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, προτείνουμε μια σειρά τεχνικών για τη μοντελοποίηση της τοπολογίας του πολεοδομικού σχεδιασμού, των μοτίβων κίνησης των φορητών συσκευών καθώς επίσης και της συμπεριφοράς μετάδοσης (αναφορικά με το ακολουθούμενο επιδημιολογικό μοντέλο), συντονίζοντας τα μοντέλα αυτά στην πλαισίωση μιας αλγοριθμικής τεχνικής που θα καθορίζει τον μέγιστο επιτρεπόμενο χρονικό όριο που απαιτείται από ένα αντίμετρο προστασίας προκειμένου να απομακρυνθεί το κακόβουλο λογισμικό από μια μολυσμένη συσκευή (χρόνος απόκρισης), ώστε τελικά να αποφευχθεί η πανδημία. Τέλος, η ευρύτερη απόδοση της προτεινόμενης προσέγγισης παρουσιάζεται μέσα από μια σειρά επαναλαμβανόμενων πειραμάτων (Monte Carlo) ακολουθώντας διαφορετικά επιδημιολογικά μοντέλα, λαμβάνοντας παράλληλα υπόψη και ένα σύνολο παραγόντων που επηρεάζουν την εξάπλωση του κακόβουλου λογισμικού.

scholarly journals The development of future foreign language teachers’ digital competences in creating multimedia tutorials

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 216-245
Author(s):  
G. Zh. Smagulova ◽  
G. B. Sarzhanova ◽  
G. K. Tleuzhanova ◽  
N. Stanciu
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Training Course ◽  
Visual Materials

Introduction. The article considers the problem of the development of future teachers’ digital competences in creating foreign language multimedia tutorials and presents the results of the corresponding research conducted by the authors. In the context of the digitalisation of education, the foreign language multimedia tutorials represent an effective means of organising and integrating authentic audio-visual materials into the learning process. Nevertheless, FL (foreign language) teachers today face the problem of the lack of the competences, including digital ones, necessary for the development of effective multimedia tutorials, which cannot be created without the awareness of the methodological foundations of their designing, mastering of the relevant software tools and obtaining the corresponding level of digital skills of their usage.Aim. The current research is aimed to identify the effectiveness of the training course for future teachers in the development of foreign language multimedia tutorials based on authentic audio-visual materials. The training course was conducted at Academician E. A. Buketov Karaganda University among 30 graduate students.Methodology and research methods. The research work was based on the determination of four levels of training in the field of development of multimedia foreign language tutorials: recognition-based, reproductive (adaptive), heuristic, creative.Results and scientific novelty. The developed training course proved its effectiveness in increasing the level of development of digital competences of future FL teachers in the field of designing multimedia educational resources. The research results demonstrated that 80 % of the participants achieved the heuristic level in the field of the development of digital educational resources, namely multimedia tutorials, getting the required 60 % and more points (according to Bespalko V. P.) in the final assessment of academic achievement.Practical significance. The corresponding authoring experimental training course contributes to solving the problem of the development of the future FL teachers’ competences when creating multimedia educational resources, and to the problem of skills formation when using appropriate software to create multimedia educational resources.

scholarly journals Open Education for a Better World: A Mentoring Programme Fostering Design and Reuse of Open Educational Resources for Sustainable Development Goals

Open Praxis ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja Urbančič ◽  
Anja Polajnar ◽  
Mitja Jermol
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Online Mentoring ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Development Goals

An international online mentoring programme Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW) has been developed to unlock the potential of open education in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The programme provides an innovative approach to building Open Educational Resources, connecting developers of educational materials with experts volunteering as mentors. The model of the programme has been carefully designed and tested in two subsequent implementations in years 2018 and 2019. Results have proved the model to be useful for building capacities in open education, while producing concrete educational materials with great potential for social impact. Analysis of results has been used to suggest further improvements needed for enabling the program to be used on an even larger scale. The paper presents the development of the OE4BW model, its main characteristics, implementation results and guidelines for the future.

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