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A Collaborative Framework between Industry and Academia to Stimulate Entrepreneurship through Business Incubation

  • Chanakira, Maxwell;Kanhukamwe, Quinton C.
    • World Technopolis Review
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.61-70
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    • 2016
  • Entrepreneurship development has increasingly become a global solution to address the problem of rising unemployment. Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) have become important tools in improving the economic performance and social well-being of nations. When universities and industry work together to push the boundaries of knowledge, they become a powerful engine for innovation and economic growth. This paper is based on focus group interviews and discussions conducted with key players involved in the HIT-Sandown-UNDP Business Incubation Programme in Harare Zimbabwe. The business incubation project sought to support young Zimbabweans to transform their technical prototypes into commercially and socially viable ventures. As a result, a total of 10 prototypes were refined and investor ready business plans were developed for capital sourcing purposes. It was only through the coming together of the partners that real transformation of the lives of the participants was achieved through learning valuable business skills, coaching and mentoring. University-industry partnerships are a useful vehicle of setting up sustainable business incubation centres.

Analysis of Reflective Essays on the Learning Community Experiences of Medical Students (의학전문대학원생의 학습동아리 참여 경험에 대한 성찰 에세이 분석)

  • Yune, So Jung;Park, Kwi Hwa
    • Korean Medical Education Review
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.167-173
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    • 2016
  • This study analyzed participation experiences in a voluntarily learning community using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Sixty freshmen and sophomore medical school students in 10 learning communities participated in the study. At the time of the survey, learning communities had been operating for 10 weeks and had weekly in-person meetings. Satisfaction questionnaires and reflective essays were given and analyzed. The results showed that learning community experiences were effective in promoting students' learning motivation, cooperative learning, responsibility, and communication skills. Three essential topics and nine subjects were analyzed in the reflective essays. Three essential topics were conflict with each other due to the difference, forming deep relationships, and sharing and learning together with an in-depth study. The results of this study will contribute to collaborative learning culture and the development of learning communities in medical schools.

A CASE STUDY: HOW TO ADDRESS THE CRITICAL ISSUE OF EMPLOYABILITY FOR CONSTRUCTION PROFESSION STUDENTS

  • Paul Watson;Richard Davis
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2007.03a
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    • pp.346-355
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    • 2007
  • Employability is a critical issue in construction education. Employability is more than students obtaining employment upon graduation. The concept is far more ranging, and should encompass enabling students to acquire the knowledge, personal and professional skills and encouraging attitudes that will support their future development and employment. This paper describes two case studies relating to how the true concept of employability can be incorporated into the construction higher education curriculum. Case study 1 was a collaborative venture with contributions from a higher education provider, employers, students and a professional body (Association of Building Engineers). It outlines the whole process from course inception through to graduation and feedback. Thus it presents a valid model for other higher education providers of construction courses to adapt or adopt. Case study 2 outlines how the opportunity of a degree programme revalidation process was utilized to introduce modules which would enhance students' employability on graduation.

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Maximising Cross-Border Labor Mobility of Seafarers in APEC region

  • 설진기;서영정;표예림;최승희
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2022.06a
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    • pp.357-358
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    • 2022
  • Seafarers from 21 APEC economies, are not only an indispensable source of human capital for the global maritime industry, covering at least 56% of the world's seafaring population (BIMCO, 2015), but also pivotal in providing support to their economies as a major industrial pillar, specifically in developing economies where the development of skills and enhancement of labor mobility of human resources is essential in creating sustainable and inclusive regional growth. This paper examines challenges and barriers in seafarer mobility in relation to policies in APEC economies and investigates mutual collaborative actions that can be taken to address the issues identified in a coordinated and harmonised manner.

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The Academic Vocabulary Studies for Petty Officer in Community Colleague (전문대학 부사관과의 사고도구어 선정을 통한 글쓰기 교육방안 연구)

  • Yu, Yong-tae
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.165-171
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    • 2017
  • The goal of this paper is to seek an educational method that can cause some communicational improvements to petty officer majoring students through listing and utilizing the academic vocabulary. The academic vocabulary has been listed by using three major steps. The first, the academic vocabulary is needed to extract from the studies based on this field in past 3 years. Second, the academic vocabulary for petty officers is required to compare with high school level of the academic vocabulary. For the last, the academic vocabulary is demanded to be listed for teaching petty officer majoring students. The signification of the academic vocabulary in this study is limited by focusing on the educational skills for writing in petty officer majors. This study presents a way to develop the communicational abilities through using the academic vocabulary into the collaborative learning. For the conclusion, this study presents its limits and further directions.

Guidelines for big data projects in artificial intelligence mathematics education (인공지능 수학 교육을 위한 빅데이터 프로젝트 과제 가이드라인)

  • Lee, Junghwa;Han, Chaereen;Lim, Woong
    • The Mathematical Education
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    • v.62 no.2
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    • pp.289-302
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    • 2023
  • In today's digital information society, student knowledge and skills to analyze big data and make informed decisions have become an important goal of school mathematics. Integrating big data statistical projects with digital technologies in high school <Artificial Intelligence> mathematics courses has the potential to provide students with a learning experience of high impact that can develop these essential skills. This paper proposes a set of guidelines for designing effective big data statistical project-based tasks and evaluates the tasks in the artificial intelligence mathematics textbook against these criteria. The proposed guidelines recommend that projects should: (1) align knowledge and skills with the national school mathematics curriculum; (2) use preprocessed massive datasets; (3) employ data scientists' problem-solving methods; (4) encourage decision-making; (5) leverage technological tools; and (6) promote collaborative learning. The findings indicate that few textbooks fully align with these guidelines, with most failing to incorporate elements corresponding to Guideline 2 in their project tasks. In addition, most tasks in the textbooks overlook or omit data preprocessing, either by using smaller datasets or by using big data without any form of preprocessing. This can potentially result in misconceptions among students regarding the nature of big data. Furthermore, this paper discusses the relevant mathematical knowledge and skills necessary for artificial intelligence, as well as the potential benefits and pedagogical considerations associated with integrating technology into big data tasks. This research sheds light on teaching mathematical concepts with machine learning algorithms and the effective use of technology tools in big data education.

Study on Ability to Communicate with the Smart-based Cooperative Learning (스마트 기반 협동학습을 통한 의사소통능력 신장에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jeongrang;Noh, Jaechoon
    • Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.625-632
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    • 2014
  • Due to the development of information and communication technology smart devices and apps, SNS, mirroring communication is made with such a smart and education to reflect the change of emphasis on the recent variety of collaborative social interaction are emerging. In this study, smart training and LT cooperative learning model developed in conjunction with the 'Smart-based cooperative learning 'model applied in the third grade social studies class and Smart-based cooperative learning and cooperative learning common to kidney doctor communication skills of elementary school students the impact on the communication capacity compared respectively, were analyzed. As a result, the expression of the elementary school, listening and understanding, all the sub-areas of interaction, such as communication skills in social studies class kidneys were applied to Smart-based cooperative learning in elementary school than applying the general cooperative learning model. This is not said to improve the ability to interact with the Smart-based cooperative learning in speech and in writing and clearly express the thoughts and opinions of students and separates help you understand the meaning of the words and writings of other students for the purpose in social situations can.

Exploring the Effect of SW Programming Curriculum and Content Development Model for Non-majors College Students : focusing on Visual Representation of SW Solutions (비전공자 SW 프로그래밍 교육과정 및 콘텐츠 개발 모형의 효과성 탐색: SW 해결안의 시각적 표현을 중심으로)

  • Lee, Minjeong
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.18 no.7
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    • pp.1313-1321
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    • 2017
  • In the future society where ICT-based digital convergence creates new value, collaborative skills among experts in various fields and SW based problem solving ability is more emphasized. Non-SW specialists are required to have SW based communication skills to effectively collaborate with SW experts to solve their problems. Therefore, SW programming curriculum for non-major college students should be different from the existing programming education for SW-majors aiming at a high level of coding ability. It is also known that diagram-based visual representation is helpful for productive communication and collaboration. In this study, we defined the SW education objectives for the non-majors as cultivating the visual programming ability for SW based problem solving. In order to accomplish this, we explored SW programming curriculum and content development model for non-majors focusing on visual representation of SW solutions. The results of this paper will help to provide appropriate SW learning model for non-majors and to cultivate practical SW capabilities.

A Study of the Thematically Integrated Information Literacy Curriculum for Strengthening its Relationship with Curricula (교과 연계성 강화를 위한 학습주제 중심의 통합 정보활용교육과정에 관한 연구)

  • Song, Gi-Ho;Kim, Tae-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.41-64
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    • 2008
  • This study sought to develop an integrated information literacy curriculum that would have a strong relationship with curricula through the standard themes abstracted from theme network structures, scan and cluster analyses of the information literacy curricula. In addition, this study also attempted to develop a teaching-learning model for the developed integrated information literacy curriculum. This study utilized the themes of information literacy instruction that have interdisciplinary characteristics as analysis criteria in analyzing the commonality of information literacy instruction and the subject curricula. The following characteristics were found from the analyzing the areas of commonality. Foremost, the first themes(the fields of basic learning skills and nature) which belongs to the fields of information society, library, information technology, collaborative skills were found to have many relationships with the subject curricula. Next, the second themes(the field of information problem solving capabilities) which is the core field of information literacy instruction showed a weak relationship with the subject curricula.

Student Teachers and Beginning Teachers' Understandings of Scientific Inquiry

  • Flick, Larry;Morrell, Patricia-D.;Wainwright, Camille;Park, Young-Shin
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.160-175
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    • 2004
  • This study examined the knowledge and practices of scientific inquiry displayed by three student teachers and two beginning teachers at secondary levels. Observations using the instrument of OTOP designed by the research team of OCEPT (Oregon Collaborative for Excellent in the Preparation of Teachers) generalized similar teaching strategies of scientific inquiry between student and beginning teachers, such as using group work for students' first hand experience, using concrete materials for experimentation or visual tools for demonstration, using questions for factual knowledge mainly without opportunities to understand how scientific knowledge is constructed. Those scientific inquiry activities were very confirmative ones to follow the steps without opportunities of understanding nature of science or nature of scientific inquiry. However, all participants in this study hold knowledge of scientific inquiry envisioned by the National Science Education Standards [NSES] (NRC, 1996), where students identify their hypothesis, use critical and logical thinking, and consider alternative explanations through argumentation as well as experimentation. An inconsistent relationship between participating teachers knowledge and practices about scientific inquiry resulted from their lack of pedagogy skills of implementing it in the classroom. Providing opportunities for these teachers to reflect on their beliefs and practices about scientific inquiry was recommended for the future study. Furthermore, increasing college faculty interest in new teaching approaches for upgrading the content knowledge of student teachers and beginning teachers was recommended as a solution, since those teachers showed evidence of influence by college faculties at universities in their pedagogy skills.