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One of the most apparent obstacles to DDL is the use of the technology itself – the computer with its query software and interfaces for accessing electronic corpora. Where this is the case, the obvious question is whether the computer can be successfully removed from the equation without losing the benefits of the overall approach. In the present study, two groups of lower intermediate level learners at a college of architecture were introduced to an English language corpus both ‘hands on’ and ‘hands off’. The learning outcomes of the two approaches were tested, and compared against feedback obtained at the start and again at the end of the course. The general conclusion is that paper-based DDL does represent a viable option: there is unlikely to be a single best version of DDL for all learners in all situations at all times, and variety and sensitivity to learner variation and local conditions is crucial.
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate on the potential role of social media in value co-creation relationships in a marketing and management perspective. It goes without saying how we witness importance of social media in achieving general marketing goals. Moreover, concept of value co-creation implies management initiative to develop closer and mutually beneficial interactive relationships between company and customers in order to further jointly cocreate acceptable outcome for parties involved. Authors will try to give a theoretical overview of potential portrayal of social media as a communicational channel/tool and its eventual footprint on value co-creation. What are the social media marketing and management elements useful to shape and influence the process of value co-creation? How did the academic public approach and elaborate this consanguinity? Primarily, by observing theoretical developments throughout academic prism, authors have been very much interested to tackle these questions. The research performed is theoretical, secondary-desk analysis. Publicly available sources of literature have been utilized. Academia shares contrasting attitudes when it comes to potential roles of social media in value co-creation. A group of analysed authors strongly supports this statement, whilst we have another cluster of authors who are severely opposing and claim that no solid findings are possible until more primary researches are performed.
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The paper deals with two current topics, which are social networks and personnel marketing. The review of literature in the paper is focused on the synergy that results from this connection. Personnel marketing as a new field defines an employee as a customer. To achieve higher satisfaction of this customer specific communication channels are used and social networks are one of them. This paper presents a two-level primary research. We have chosen the topic of the paper to fill in the information gap in the application of personnel marketing. The primary qualitative research using in-depth interviews has been applied for this purpose. It resulted in the identification of opportunities in the use of social networks, which was the first partial objective. These attributes were then used in primary quantitative research using electronic questioning. It resulted in the comprehensive overview of the importance of different options for the HR work and in the achievement of the second partial objective. The research was also focused on determining whether the size of the company influences the research result. The paper presents an overall summary of ways how to use social networks and shows the importance of the various ways through which the main objective of the research was achieved. The paper may serve as basis for future theoretical research, as well as it can help companies to implement social networks in their activities and thus increase their competitiveness.
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The authors concentrate on the variety and scope of roles filled by learners, the potential development of associated transferable skills, and the way videoconferencing facilitates this process. Key learner roles and their outcomes are described. Detailed advice is given as to how students can maximise their skills and how technology can best support them. A range of task-based collaborative activities are presented, and the underlying theory and practice are both described in order to balance their rationales.
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This chapter gives voice to the students using videoconferencing, in some cases for the first time. By doing so, a clear picture emerges of the challenges, frustrations, but ultimately beneficial experiences felt by students. The views and feelings expressed act as useful compass points for teachers setting up such courses. These can be helpful in avoiding future pitfalls.
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The authors use a case study with students of law to illustrate both the possibilities and limits of videoconferencing. This detailed article outlines the stages of course development, syllabus writing, integration of subject matter and technology, and mechanisms to ensure a successful outcome. Useful advice is provided not only in technical aspects but also in areas related to interpersonal transactions. This includes ensuring that student groups from different countries have time to acquaint themselves informally before embarking on the more formal aspects of the programme.
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The authors offer a detailed and informative insight into the changing role of the teacher in light of technology-driven changes in classroom teaching. Videoconferencing is an area which both demands and inspires a new methodology, and this article outlines the variety of specific but interlinked roles which help to ensure successful delivery. The case study chosen provides a wealth of examples which illustrate the scope of collaborative teaching and learning made possible by videoconferencing. These examples also provide a clear indication of the required skills and the consequent need for targeted staff development programmes to help develop the teachers of the future.
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The author underlines the importance of having a clear rationale for using videoconferencing. A detailed case study illustrates the pitfalls and challenges of technology and looks at key examples of mismatching. These include mismatches between the different expectations of students and teachers, between theory and practice, between desired aims and actual outcomes, and between the ideal applications and actual limitations of the technology on offer. The article discusses a range of problems and issues but also points to solutions and workarounds. It emphasises the importance of considering not only how technology is used and which type is chosen but also why technology is used at all.
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The author presents a personal and professional overview of key technology issues in videoconferencing. The tone is both authoritative and informative, and the range of information covers most aspects of use. It provides a good introduction to videoconferencing for the novice, whilst existing users will benefit from the detailed options outlined in the technical sections. The article will help teachers not only to expand their knowledge of this developing field but also to organise their videoconferencing courses.
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In this paper I am analyzing the audience of the portal Ecofeminizam. I am suggesting that ecofeminism in Serbia can only »revive« with activism through new media and social networks, which can be noticed during the analysis of the portal Ecofeminizam. In the research I use the method of analyzing content, that is, the most interesting media content for direct visitors to the portal, as well as those who visit the website Ecofeminizam through social networks. The analysis also includes elements characteristic of Internet media such as multimedia or hypertextuality.
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Digital learning, although it primarily implies the use of information and communication technologies, primarily depends on the experience of reality in a virtual sociality. Therefore, the interaction of librarians, teachers and students in digital reality is as important today as in physical (reality), which makes the process of using, as well as creating and disseminating, information resources even more complex and demanding, but also challenging. Considering the potential of redesigning the role of (school) libraries, turning them into centers of information and media literacy would be a strategic backbone of innovation in modern digital learning destinations.
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This chapter presents the results of researches conducted by the Institute for Social Science Research of the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo for advance of strategic development of media and information literacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: a) Pilot research of teachers' self-assessment primary and secondary school librarians in Sarajevo Canton; b) Research of self-assessment of competencies of teachers and librarians in Bosnia and Herzegovina; c) Research of competencies of parents and children on the level of media and information literacy as well as advice for future research of competencies of children and youth on media and information literacy.
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Digitalization has emerged as a critical driver, enabler, and supporter of plenty of socio-economic processes in the contemporary digital economy. Since the world population is continually aging, information and communication technology (ICT) is considered a factor in the aging process qualitative shift. Creative aging is identified as a form of active aging. The adoption of digital technology by the elderly population is considered a precondition for their active aging. This study aims to investigate the opportunities for creative aging of the elderly population. The study examines the experiences of the EU countries in relation to ICT promoted creative aging and reducing social isolation among the older population. Through in-depth research, the study is mainly focused on analyzing older adults aged 65+ in the Macedonian and Croatian economy, exploring how they embrace ICT in favor of creative aging.
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The ever-increasing number of the elderly in developed countries creates the need to keep them active as long as possible to maintain their psychophysical health and prevent them from living isolated, sedentary life. The chapter analyzes the phenomenon of an aging population and the characteristics of this life stage in European countries, emphasizing the Republic of Croatia. Based on the hypothesis that the number of the elderly using information and communication technologies has been increasing, the chapter offers a solution to the problem of keeping them up to date through a web application. The application enables them to communicate easily and quickly, establish social contacts and find out about organized meetings and training of associations and other institutions. The application also lists work opportunities for the elderly. If mentally and physically healthy, they can earn additional money, increase the household budget and beneficially use their time.
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Digital literacy is an essential skill that teachers need to effectively use technology in their classrooms. The relationship between middle school mathematics teachers' digital literacy and their levels of technology use in the classroom is important for facilitating the effective use of technology in educational processes. However, there is a lack of sufficient empirical studies examining the meaningful relationship between these two skills. This study aims to investigate the relationship between middle school mathematics teachers' digital literacy and their levels of technology use in the classroom. The research was conducted using a correlational survey model, and 132 middle school teachers participated voluntarily, selected through convenient sampling method. Data were collected using a personal information form, a digital literacy scale, and a scale for determining the level of technology use in mathematics classes. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient analysis, and multiple linear regression analysis. The research findings indicate that middle school mathematics teachers have a high level of digital literacy and a moderate level of technology use in mathematics classes. Furthermore, a significant positive correlation at a moderate level was found between these two skills. The study also revealed that the sub-dimensions of digital literacy, namely attitude, technical, cognitive, and social variables, together significantly predicted the levels of technology use in middle school mathematics teachers' classes, explaining 36% of the variance in technology use. According to the importance order, it was determined that the social, attitude, and cognitive sub-dimensions were significant predictors of technology use in mathematics teachers' classes, while the technical sub-dimension was not a significant predictor.
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Artificial intelligence is one of the hot themes of the current public discussion with accounts associating it with transformations in especially manufacturing sectors which is usually expected to lead to massive unemployment. The public is keen on speculating about which jobs will be made redundant by the rise of AI and ultimately disappear. In addition to factories, the health sector is one of the sites of contestations as many medical tasks are getting automated. Some other scholars do not agree with this panic atmosphere. They claim that like any other industrial transformation, the rise of AI will also create new jobs. Although social implications of the rise of AI are under the spot, it is hard to come up with a single view among various views shared by scholars of various disciplines and strands of research. This article summarizes and elaborates on various positions on the topic, with a sociologically critical perspective, keeping an eye on AI’s highly likely role in exacerbating the already biting social inequalities and injustice. The sociology of artificial intelligence is delineated along with the ethical issues raised by the expansion of artificial intelligence in our daily lives, keeping the possibility of a humane artificial intelligence in mind.
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Art is the event of willingly and consciously transferring an emotion that manifests in humans. Considering that with art raises and exalts the human soul; art is related to human inspiration and creativity. As a result of the changing social structures with the modernization process, mass culture influenced art. In this study, it is thought that art, which has a unique structure, does not fit into a utilitarian pattern in its essence, however, it transforms into a kind of good with the spread of mass culture, and with that, the creativity of art in a utilitarian identity has deeply affected. Artificial intelligence, which enters all areas of life and affects human life, has begun to manifest itself in many areas requiring emotion, including the art field. The art is associated with emotion, however, the commodification of the concepts of inspiration and creativity together with modernization on the basis of popular culture has deepened and has changed dimensions with the presence of artificial intelligence in the field of art. In art, which is the expression of human emotion, it is thought that artificial intelligence is a kind of replication, not inspiration, to attempt to perform art through software installed to itself away from emotion and creativity. The study sought to answer the question of whether art can be performed emotionally with the development of technology based on the literature reviews. As a result, it is thought that high art, which has lost much of its essence with mass culture, will negatively affect art, artistic production, and the artist in the near future with the existence of artificial intelligence enabling and attempting to perform art. Without emotion, the meaning of art will lose, rather than change.
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