Planning and Promoting events in Health Sciences Libraries: Success Stories and Best Practices (book review)

Social media networking websites have become platforms where users can not only share their photos, moments of happiness, success stories and best practices, but can also voice their criticism, discontent and negative emotions. It is interesting to follow how something that starts as a mere disagreement or conflict over clashing interests or values can develop into a hateful exchange on Facebook that targets social media users based on their gender, religious belonging, ethnicity, sexual orientation, political convictions etc. The present research explores how hateful posts and comments can start among Facebook users, and studies the language means employed in their design. The factual material was retrieved from more than ten open Facebook pages managed by popular Armenian figures, such as media experts, journalists, politicians and bloggers, in the period 2018–2020. The analysis of hate speech samples extracted from these sources shows that hate speech can find its explicit and implicit reflection in the online communication of Armenian Facebook users, and can be characterised by contextual markers such as invisibility, incitement to violence, invectiveness and immediacy. The language analysis of the posts and comments comprising hate speech has helped to identify language features of hateful comments including informal tone, use of passive voice, abusive and derogatory words, rhetorical or indirectly formed questions, generalisations and labelling.

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Transformative Curriculum Design

Transformative Curriculum Design in Health Sciences Education - Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8571-0.ch002 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 40-102

Author(s):

Colleen M. Halupa

Keyword(s):

Program Evaluation ◽

Best Practices ◽

Curriculum Design ◽

Health Program ◽

Health Sciences ◽

Curriculum Mapping ◽

Program Outcomes ◽

Curriculum Models ◽

Transformative Curriculum ◽

Objective Outcome

This chapter discusses the principles of transformative curriculum design to include: curriculum models, objective outcome creation, scaffolding of curriculum, curriculum mapping, linkage of assessment to objectives and objectives to program outcomes, program evaluation and strategies for curriculum design including technology. In addition, some recent best practices in health program curriculum design are presented as well as emerging models. Last, some specific designs related to health sciences curriculum and programs are presented.

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Transformative Curriculum Design

Medical Education and Ethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0978-3.ch021 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 439-487

Author(s):

Colleen M. Halupa

Keyword(s):

Program Evaluation ◽

Best Practices ◽

Curriculum Design ◽

Health Program ◽

Health Sciences ◽

Curriculum Mapping ◽

Program Outcomes ◽

Curriculum Models ◽

Transformative Curriculum ◽

Objective Outcome

This chapter discusses the principles of transformative curriculum design to include: curriculum models, objective outcome creation, scaffolding of curriculum, curriculum mapping, linkage of assessment to objectives and objectives to program outcomes, program evaluation and strategies for curriculum design including technology. In addition, some recent best practices in health program curriculum design are presented as well as emerging models. Last, some specific designs related to health sciences curriculum and programs are presented.

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Crowdfunding

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Crowdfunding Platforms - Advances in E-Business Research ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-3226-3.ch010 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 252-257

Author(s):

Majdi Hassen ◽

Ibtissem Ouertatani

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Best Practices ◽

Non Profit ◽

Success Stories ◽

Current Weight

In this chapter, the research deals with NGOs and their current weight in state's development and public conditions improvement. The researcher also goes to connect the financial challenging faced by NGOs and how the use of crowdfunding platform is important specifically to solicit funding to start, continue, and expand its works. The chapter will highlight the crowdfunding models suitable for NGOs specifically crowdfunding and NGOs in developing countries with describing crowdfunding policies and regulations. Through that, the researcher helps in shaping best practices based on NGO success stories. This chapter will also review previous studies and statistics as a guide for the researcher to present crowdfunding as a tool for the non-profit sector.

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