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This paper analyses the result of applying podcasts as a teaching-learning tool for university students. Using a quantitative methodology, with a descriptive and correlational design, Levene's inferential t-test for equality of variances was used to compare two groups of students to assess if there are differences regarding the academic, design, usability and learning variables, in order to verify the differences between students creating the contents and those only listening to the end result. A sample of 461 students was used in this research, distributed in two groups. In the first group, the teaching staff oversaw preparing and carrying out the dynamics of the podcast. In the second group, the students collaboratively created the podcast. To analyse the differences between the two groups, the Educational Innovation Questionnaire (CINNE) was applied, based on the Podcast Evaluation Questionnaire, QAEP (Alarcón and Blanca, 2020), and the SUS Scale (Brooke, 2013). The results indicate significant differences (99.95% CI 99.95%) between the groups in the usability and design dimensions. No gender differences were found. In conclusion, this research paper has confirmed the effectiveness of using podcasts as a didactic strategy, in particular regarding its accessibility, use, and design by students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recently, education and teaching have been significantly impacted by information and communication technologies. New cohorts of students, COVID-19 pandemic and pressure in the labor market on the labor force to master the technology-related skills and competence serve as main drivers for universities to redesign the way of teaching. A radical transformation of education caused by technologies is related to several aspects, such as online teaching or using other technologies in both physical and online learning environments with the focus on student-centered learning. The existing literature suggests that educational innovation through technologies allows for the adoption of collaborative, inclusive and student-driven pedagogy. The paper aims at revealing educational innovation through information and communication technologies in one of the courses for master’s students, namely People Analytics. While disclosing the particular case of one course, the paper seeks to provide the argumentation (advantages and disadvantages) for choosing specific tools and how these tools are embedded. The use of tools such as Zoom, digital escape rooms, Centimeter, and Padlet, is presented. The paper concludes that technologies may offer many wide-ranging benefits in education; however, the further study is needed for revealing the students’ acceptance of technologies and the impact of technologies on learning outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the new contemporary pandemic paradigm, higher education in public administration and beyond knows challenges, barriers, and opportunities for the academic process. Shocks, environmental changes and physical distancing in recent years have led to the implementation of efficient solutions in educational services, based on artificial intelligence (AI). Thus, in the global academic landscape, many international universities have adopted a 'chatbot', a digital interface designed to stimulate conversation with people. Modern algorithmic communications have effects, such as: increasing the number of enrollments in public administration programs, improving academic experience and active student participation, while reducing administrative tasks on university staff. This paper aims to provide a glimpse on the perceptions of the potential impact of conversational artificial intelligence on public administration (PA) programs from universities and to reflect on its implications for university leaders and staff work and also on students' engagement. The paper will focus on how AI tools will help university programs to be more effective, and how technology will support the limited human resources in this sector. In order to gather the data for this research, the interview was used as well as case studies from international universities that have implemented a chatbot. The research findings capture technological and digital advances that will continue to shape the higher education landscape and its curricula, especially in PA programs. As a result, leaders will need to monitor how artificial intelligence, in particular conversational agents, influences universities' images; attraction and retention for students in PA programs and other important partners; staff productivity, and how to be more proactive in initiating pilot projects. This is one of the few publications that looks at the expectations for conversational AI in higher education today. In this sense, implementing a chatbot can be a competitive advantage in a market where modern technologies weigh heavily and make a difference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The incorporation of gamification strategies in teaching has been described as a tool to increase the motivation and engagement of students with the subject. Under this premise, an educational innovation experience has been developed using the Kahoot! platform in the first and last laboratory practice of the Cell Biology course of the Biology degree. The participants were 135 students divided into 12 laboratory groups, which were divided into experimental and control groups. All groups solved a questionnaire on paper about the concepts explained in class, at the end of both practices (post-test), but only the experimental groups solved a questionnaire before the class (pre-test). Before the first practice, students in the experimental groups answered the pre-test using Kahoot! However, for the last practice, some groups solved it by playing Kahoot! and others with pen and paper. The results showed that those students who were selected to play Kahoot! obtained a higher number of correct answers in the test performed after the practical session (post-test) than those who did not solve any pretest or who did it in a classical way. Therefore, our results suggest that implementing gamification in teaching considerably increases student motivation, probably due to physiological changes experienced by the brain during the game and the creation of a positive climate, which facilitates the learning process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The transformation of the European energy sector is becoming a priority for the European Union. This is indicated, for instance, in the European Union strategy known as the European Green Deal. According to the Green Deal, the area of 'research and innovation' is one which can counteract climate change. Universities can play a significant role in this by adopting a pedagogical approach aimed at mobilizing the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship in young professionals. In addition to modifying curricula related to mining, energy, and environmental engineering, i.e., activities in recognized, traditional schemes, one prospective tool may be the involvement of students and PhD candidates in European initiatives such as the InnoEnergy PhD School (which is funded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology). This paper aims to discuss the InnoEnergy PhD School programme as a possible instrument for mitigating the negative effects of energy transformation. The article analyzes the programme using a case study method, including surveys and open interviews. The paper draws attention to and highlights the role of human resources in the field of education and the stimulation of innovation, as well as the need to strengthen the business component in the education of PhD candidates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a multiattribute group decision-making (MAGDM) based on the CoCoSo method under the intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs) environment for quality evaluation of innovation and entrepreneurship education (IEE) in vocational colleges. First of all, this paper extends the CoCoSo to the IFSs environment. Second, a new MAGDM model for quality evaluation of IEE in vocational colleges based on the CoCoSo algorithm is built. In this algorithm, the attribute weight is derived by subjective weight and objective weight, and the objective weights are defined by using the CRITIC method. At the end of this given study, some comparisons are given to verify the decision effectiveness of the algorithm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to explore how environmental protection expenditures (EPE) affect innovation and investigate the potential causal relationship between the two variables. The novelty and main contribution of our paper to the literature stems from the fact that we look at total environmental protection expenditures from both the public and private sectors, and distinguishing between corporations and households in the private sectors. We also consider both inputs and outputs of innovation and address potential endogeneity issues in this relationship, which are both lacking in the current literature. Using a panel of EU countries over the period 2006–2020, this study generally finds a positive impact of EPE on innovation after controlling for the effects of trade, credit, education and inflation on innovation, and using the System GMM estimator to treat endogeneity. Moreover, EPE from the government sector drives the bulk of this positive impact. The core results are robust to alternative measures of innovation, alternative estimation techniques that address endogeneity (i.e., the Lewbel 2SLS, Mundlak, and Hausman-Taylor estimators) and the moderation effects of Climate Change Performance (CCPI). This study also provides a useful guide to policy makers engaged in environmental planning. • We evaluate the impact of environmental protection expenditures (EPE) on innovation in mainly EU countries. • We use longitudinal dataset for the group of EU countries over the period 2006–2020. • We find a positive impact of EPE on innovation. • The results are robust for observable heterogeneity, alternative measures of innovation and estimation techniques. • This study provides a useful guide to policy makers engaged in environmental planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To facilitate the process of educational design and analysis, it is important to consider the ACAD (Activity-Centred Analysis and Design) Toolkit, which represents elements of a framework used in educational design: learning setting, social interaction, knowledge tasks, and pedagogical approach. The aim of this paper is to discover how a group of future teachers view these elements in an educational initiative to improve their skills in the analysis and design of technology-enhanced learning situations. A research methodology based on educational design is used, with the evaluation of an initial version of the toolkit that uses a self-reporting questionnaire based on Kirkpatrick's classical model (1999). Also, the students' views as reflected in their online blogs are analysed. The students show a medium-high degree of satisfaction (3.68 out of 5) with the elements of the tool, and highlight the social interaction involved in using it, which motivates their teacher-training (3.78 out of 5), as well as the analysis of their educational projects (3.92 and 3.84 out of 5 respectively) relating to the transfer of knowledge acquired into practical reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With economic globalization and rapid development of science and technology, many colleges and universities pay more and more attention to the cultivation of students' innovative thinking and creativity, and innovation and entrepreneurship education has also become an important part of the education system. Due to the current unevenness of teachers in innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities, high training cost, and lack of strong atmosphere, this paper optimizes the innovation and entrepreneurship education and training system in colleges and universities through OpenStack cloud computing. This paper optimizes the cloud computing platform according to the OpenStack virtual machine and the multiobjective ant colony improvement algorithm and then designs the innovation and entrepreneurship education and training system. The multiobjective ant colony improvement algorithm uses the way ants find food to find the best information resource route from the traces left by the information trend in the cloud platform. In order to test the effectiveness of these methods, this paper uses the simulation method to test. The results show that, sometimes, the load utilization rate of the innovation and entrepreneurship education and training system in colleges and universities exceeds 80%, which is in line with the expected settings. Through the OpenStack cloud computing platform, it can provide a good innovation and entrepreneurship training environment for more users at low cost and low risk and promote the development of innovation and entrepreneurship education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The conventional college innovation and entrepreneurship education ecosystem is not considered to be designed for low energy consumption, and there is confusion in function switching, which leads to a large value of packet loss rate in system transmission. In this paper, we analyze the construction of college innovation and entrepreneurship education ecosystem and construct the scientific ecosystem of college innovation and entrepreneurship education based on user experience so as to realize college. At the same time, it takes into account the principle of green and low energy consumption of system hardware and software design, in which the hardware part selects S3C6410 RISC microcontroller as the core component to build the structure of educational ecological controller, connects a 16 bit buffer in parallel outside the controller, uses the buffer as the actual conversion port, specifies the function switching bearing interface, uses a protocol conversion chip, and designs the data acquisition circuit structure. The software part builds a model of user experience elements, sets to get an ecological interaction interface under the interoperability between the model and information data, and uses JAVA programming to realize functional modules according to the deviation of educational information shown by users. The experimental results show that the educational ecosystem designed in this paper has high data throughput, high fault tolerance, and low packet loss rate and system energy consumption, which verifies the effectiveness of the system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the advent of the information age, computer technology is also widely used in various fields. In the field of education, physical education teaching strategy has always been the focus of many educators. In order to optimize physical education teaching strategies and improve teaching quality, this paper proposes a new intelligent computing technology. This technology has excellent innovation in the engineering design field of physical education teaching strategy reform and innovation and combines Intelligent Computing with physical education teaching strategy to explore the feasibility and effectiveness of physical education teaching strategy reform and innovation. On the basis of intelligent computing algorithm, this paper analyzes the visualization strategy scheme brought by intelligent computing classroom to physical education teaching. This paper analyzes the feasibility of students' feedback after the reform of the physical education teaching strategy. Finally, the big data discrete dynamic modeling technology is used to dynamically model and analyze the students' learning behavior and effect after the reform and innovation of physical education teaching strategy. Combined with the analysis data and students' behavior feedback, this paper analyzes the feasibility of the physical education teaching strategy after the reform and innovation. The results show that the visualization scheme of physical education teaching strategy based on intelligent computing can help students understand theoretical knowledge and realize the transformation from static classroom to dynamic classroom. It enhances students' practical activities and perceptual knowledge and is of great help to students' physical education learning effect. In the discrete dynamic modeling analysis, the feasibility of physical education teaching strategy reform is very important. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides in-depth critical analysis and reflections on how technology, innovation and digital literacy can help to bring awareness on the need for a new dimension and approach to foster a transformational attitude towards education. Learning drives change, and if the aim is to make an impact, there is a need to enable collaboration between different disciplines so that new transformative educational models can emerge. The analysis identifies the role of pedagogy and how it can contribute to put forward humans as central and critical actors in using science, technology, and innovations (STIs) to foster human security. It explores the critical role of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and their engagement with science, technology, and innovation in the search for educational transformation that supports multicultural, diverse and inclusive learning environments within the tenets of social engagement and cohesion that guide us towards the principles of human security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study draws on extensive ethnographic data and a multiple case study design to develop new theory about innovation processes and techniques. By contrasting the experiences and outcomes of five innovation projects in an educational technology company, the study considers two distinct, if often interrelated, strategies to navigating market uncertainty: theory building and theory testing. The paper theorizes how the appropriate balance between these two strategies is driven by the multiplicity, or number of and relationships between relevant stakeholders and stakeholder interests, in the innovation context. The data suggest that multiplicity increases the value of rigorous - and potentially more time-consuming - theory building, while simultaneously increasing the potential risks and costs of poorly grounded theory testing. These insights challenge contemporary views on innovation teaching and practice, which have increasingly emphasized action over analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One innovative strategy that can improve higher education is undergraduate students' engagement in research. Mentoring is one of the few opportunities that afford extended face-to-face and one-on-one instruction. However, mentoring undergraduate students in doing research is not the same at different types of colleges and universities. This paper gives insights from my perspective on how undergraduate students are being mentored in doing research in different university/college settings, namely a premier university (University of the Philippines Los Baños), a public research university (University at Buffalo), a public senior college (York College) and a private university (Pace University). The main goal of this paper is to compare the undergraduate research structure at the four institutions. I will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each setting, emphasizing how I engaged my students to do research with emphasis at Pace University. This paper also includes the similarities and differences in how students achieved the following learning outcomes: knowledge, skills, attitudinal outcomes, and learned abilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

COVID-19 severely impacted small industries in Indonesia and many collapsed. Sustainable education is essential to help small industries recover post-pandemic through an open innovation design program to improve small industries' economic, social, and environmental performance. This paper examined the impacts of the sustainable education program implemented and explored open innovations suitable for the sustainability of small industries in developing countries, such as Indonesia, after the pandemic. This research employed a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach involving academics, government, the community, and four small industries in West Java, Indonesia. Our findings reveal that the sustainable education program through learning activities and direct practice provides valuable knowledge and experience for small industries in designing economic, social, and environmental innovations. Open innovations post-pandemic suitable for small industries in Indonesia include simple business digitalization for company economic growth, the recruitment of people losing their jobs due to the pandemic to achieve social benefits, and innovations in using environmentally friendly packaging and charcoal briquette fuel as an environmental awareness effort. This study recommends that the open innovation designed for small industries be right on target and done using a participatory method to achieve sustainability after the COVID-19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is about the evaluation of educational policies for non-sexist education in Catalonia from the Spanish democratic transition on. It starts by analysing the legal framework of education, both in Spain and Catalonia. Many different laws have been approved during these years. After this first part, we analyse the action of the Conselleria d’Educació, the education authority in Catalonia. What did this institution do about non-sexist education? The most important action was an Educational Innovation Programme from 2005 to 2010, and then during the last three years. We also mention a few actions from other institutions or schools. However, we must conclude that no institutional policy has consistently been developed. Finally, we provide some notes about non-sexist research in schools, teachers’ training, and books and papers about what is referred to as “coeducation” in Spain. A big change has to be made in the years ahead in order to achieve a non-sexist education in Catalonia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Funding for educational innovations is increasingly scarce in academic medicine. While there is some funding for medical education research, this is often for discovery or application work, and there are few avenues for those with a heavy innovation focus to fund early work. Objective of the Innovation: The objective was to develop an intrapreneurial unit focused on medical education projects and scholarship. Development Process and Implementation: The GridlockED and TriagED games are educational or serious games that seek to teach health care learners about emergency medicine processes. Both games were cocreated with learners and brought to market in the past 3 years. All of the proceeds from the sales of these games have been accrued over time to create a new innovation fund. This fund seeks to support trainees and early career educators in their medical education projects. Outcomes: Sales for GridlockED began in March 2018 and the TriagED began in November 2019. In the first year, sales for GridlockED yielded a total of $9,534. After 18 months of sales, the fund has accrued a total of $14,530. The fund has helped finance the development of new games. Additionally, the fund awarded two internal $500 Kickstarter grants to assist with evaluating and improving two local education projects. The GridlockED and TriagED games have also spurred multiple academic opportunities for junior educators interested in this domain: five workshops, eight conference abstracts, two peer-reviewed papers, and two research protocols are being developed. Conclusions: The GridlockED and TriagED games represent a new academically oriented, intrapreneurial approach to medical education work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While some academic health centers have organizational structures to support educational scholarship, such as Medical Education Research Units (MERU), many education scholars may lack access to such institutional resources to support their research agenda and professional growth. In 2014, as part of an externally funded education grant, three faculty educators established a unique education data management system Research & Evaluation Data for Educational Improvement (REDEI). Lacking an institutional MERU, they established an educational research community of practice (CoP) using REDEI as the research dataset. The senior faculty member's effort to facilitate the group is funded by the Dean's Office. The CoP meets every 2 weeks to generate research ideas, discuss analytic approach and strategy, review analyses designed to address or explore a research question, and plans for manuscript development. Our CoP has grown from 3 to 18 members representing faculty educators, administrators, and staff across many departments in the School of Medicine. As of 2021, the REDEI system contains performance data on 1,246 students across all years of undergraduate medical education. To date, we have published 11 peer-reviewed educational research manuscripts. Five learners have served as coauthors (three medical students and two residents), three of whom were first authors. Eleven additional papers are in process. This community of practice supports productivity, provides mentorship, overcomes barriers, and is flexible enough for people to join when they can or when an area of interest is actively under development. We are working on educational interdisciplinary research grant submission and creating collaborations with other institutions. Our focus remains on honing skills in grantsmanship, identification of impactful research questions, application of rigorous methods and instrumentation to address them, and refining process of budget development, timelines, and other planning strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of research on trends in the information sciences in the framework of the project "Curricular innovation of the undergraduate programs in Archival and Library Sciences of the Universidad de Antioquia" of the Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología. Social trends were analyzed to think about how political, educational, economic, and environmental factors influence the contexts in which professionals and institutions operate; trends in scientific and academic production in the field of information sciences, to investigate where research is going. Trends in information and data technologies are described, characterized by rapid changes and developments which indicate the horizons of this area of work, but which are not the sole determinant of trends. Finally, we reflect on trends in institutions, how they respond to these transformations and social and technological demands. The method implemented in the research had a mainly qualitative approach, using four research techniques: 1) analysis of social networks of scientific production; 2) consultation of press releases from multilateral organizations and institutions in the area; 3) analysis of market sources; and 4) development of in-depth interviews with specialists in the field. It is concluded that technological development and the role of information and memory professionals and institutions demand constant and abrupt changes for the adoption of new technologies. However, care must be taken; a critical and conscious position must be taken, which does not ignore the foundations of the fields of knowledge, and the social and cultural practices that professionals face. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

However, the number of college students enrolling in our country has only begun to increase on a large scale in the 21st century. As educational big data gets more and more attention, it has its own distinct characteristics in the field of education and at the same time consolidates the overall trend of big data development. The countermeasure analysis of innovation and entrepreneurship education under the reform of the education supply side has become a subject to be explored in an all-round way. This paper is mainly aimed at the importance of a big data analysis model to college students, explores the current development status of innovation and entrepreneurship education for college students, finds some problems in the application of big data, and improves the existing problems based on the purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The introduction of the ecological perspective into the research of entrepreneurship education is an important transformation of the way of thinking. Using the thinking forms such as integrity, diversity, and openness, it analyzes the ecological role relationship of the various elements of entrepreneurship education itself, and the relationship between the entrepreneurship education system and the external social ecology. The relationship between the system and the influence of various elements on the effect of entrepreneurship education is clarified to ensure that entrepreneurship education achieves practical results. From the perspective of ecology, based on the research on entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities, on the basis of ecological cognition of entrepreneurship education, this research attempts to solve many problems in the current implementation of entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities through the theoretical construction of an ideal college entrepreneurship education ecosystem. The problem of ecological imbalance can better serve the practice of entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities. At the same time, theoretically expand the horizons of entrepreneurship education research in colleges and universities, and further promote the "conditional" integration of ecological thinking and entrepreneurship education. This paper introduces the random matrix theory and introduces the related theory of Monte Carlo method. The weight assignment of the evaluation index system is realized, which lays the foundation for the quantitative evaluation. The weight coefficients of the indicators at all levels are determined by the analytic hierarchy process, and the importance of the indicators is judged by the weight coefficients, so as to realize the scientific quantitative evaluation of the innovation and entrepreneurship education ecosystem. At the same time, the scientificity of the evaluation index system is verified by means of the method of reliability and validity test. The conclusions of this study theoretically solve the main problems existing in the evaluation of the current innovation and entrepreneurship education ecosystem. By building a complete evaluation index system for the innovation and entrepreneurship education ecosystem in colleges and universities, it helps researchers and users to clarify the connotation and elements of the innovation and entrepreneurship education ecosystem in colleges and universities, and fully taps the "hidden" elements of evaluation indicators, making the evaluation more comprehensive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the promotion and development of artificial intelligence, the computer major has become a hot major in innovation and entrepreneurship education. It is increasingly essential to carry out a refined evaluation of creativity and venture education to achieve professional differentiation. The purpose of this paper is to study and explore the innovative use of AI in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship of college students in Internet universities. In the article, AI is first introduced. AI is inherently a novel instrument of human praxis, a tool of productivity that embodies human ability and volition. Then we analyze the innovation and venture education on the ground of the BP neural network, and finally, we conduct an empirical study on the innovation and venture on the ground of the BP neural network. Innovation and entrepreneurship refer to entrepreneurial activities based on one or several innovations in technological innovation, product innovation, brand innovation, service innovation, business model innovation, management innovation, organizational innovation, market innovation, and channel innovation. The report analyzes the influencing factors of creative venture education and designs an evaluation model of creative venture education. The test shows that the output of the BP neural network is the actual value, the real worth is reasonable, and the desired worth is also reasonable. The maximum error between the two is 1.64%. The results tend to be generally satisfactory. The BP neural network model can highly generalize students' creative venture abilities, increasing the practical application value and research scope of BP neural networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The reform can better improve students' innovation and entrepreneurial skills and comprehensively improve the innovation and entrepreneurial competitiveness of college students, which is conducive to their survival and development in the market. Therefore, this paper analyzes the data generated in the educational process from the perspective of educational data mining and studies students' entrepreneurial interests and motivations so as to improve the quality of students' entrepreneurial guidance. The knowledge map, an important visualization tool in personalized learning systems, is used as a research object to analyze students' online evaluation data. We develop a prototype system for improving teaching quality—a knowledge map generation and knowledge point recommendation path analysis system. We hope to further explore new ways and methods to promote the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities, giving full play to the proper role and value of innovation and entrepreneurship education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The National Science Foundation (NSF) and other organizations have spent millions of dollars each year supporting well-designed educational innovations that positively impact the undergraduate engineering students who encounter them. However, many of these pedagogical innovations never experience widespread adoption. To further the ability of innovation developers to advance engineering education practice and achieve sustained adoption of their innovations, this paper explores how one community-based model, engineering education guilds, fosters propagation across institutions and individuals. Engineering education guilds seek to work at the forefront of educational innovation by creating networks of instructor change-agents who design and implement a particular innovation in their own context. The guilds of interest are the Consortium to Promote Reflection in Engineering Education (CPREE) and the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN). With these guilds as exemplars, this study’s purpose is (1) to articulate how the approaches of engineering education guilds align with existing literature on supporting sustained adoption of educational innovations and (2) to identify how these approaches can advance the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education community’s discussion of propagation practices through the use of the Designing for Sustained Adoption Assessment Instrument (DSAAI). The DSAAI is a conceptual framework based on research in sustained adoption of pedagogical innovations. It has previously been used in the form of a rubric to analyze dissemination and propagation plans of NSF educational grant recipients and was shown to predict the effectiveness of those propagation plans. Results: Through semi-structured interviews with two leaders from each guild, we observed strong alignment between the structures of CRPEE and KEEN and evidence-based sustained adoption characteristics. For example, both guilds identified their intended audience early in their formation, developed and implemented extensive plans for engaging and supporting potential adopters, and accounted for the complexity of the higher education landscape and their innovations in their propagation plans. Conclusions: Our results suggest that guilds could provide another approach to innovation, as their structures can be aligned with evidence-based methods for propagating pedagogical innovations. Additionally, while the DSAAI captures many of the characteristics of a welldesigned propagation strategy, there are additional components that emerged as successful strategies used by the CPREE and KEEN guild leaders. These strategies, including having mutual accountability among adopters and connecting adoption of innovations to faculty reward structures in the form of recognition and funding should be considered as educational innovators work to encourage adoption of their innovations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the huge number of online university education resources, it is difficult for learners to quickly locate the resources they need, which leads to "information trek." Traditional information recommendation methods tend to ignore the characteristics of learners, who are the main subjects of education. In order to improve the recommendation accuracy, a recommendation algorithm based on improved collaborative filtering model is proposed in this paper. Firstly, according to the student behavior data, consider the behavior order to create the behavior graph and behavior route. Then, the path of text type is vectorized by the Keras Tokenizer method. Finally, the similarity between multidimensional behavior path vectors is calculated, and path collaborative filtering recommendations are performed for each dimension separately. The MOOC data of a university in China are introduced to experimentally compare the algorithm of the article as well as the control group algorithm. The results show that the proposed algorithm takes better values in evaluation indexes, thus verifying that this algorithm can improve the effectiveness of innovation and entrepreneurship education resources recommendation in universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A recent trend in human-computer interaction has facilitated content production, such as innovation and information growth through intelligent systems, enabling unqualified users to describe a machine's behaviour through visual programming. However, the difficulty could become similar to the standard coding techniques as the number of elements to be managed increases. Entrepreneurial education is defined as a collection of formalized lessons that advise, train, and educate all people who want to participate in socio-economic development through a project that promotes knowledge of entrepreneurship to advance the business. Hence, in this paper, the Human-computer interaction-based Entrepreneurship learning platform (HCI-ELP) has been proposed to boost student quality of life by enhancing self-confidence and changing the learning timeframe. HCI provides several promising implications for integrating knowledge management approaches, taking advantage of computer-supported interactive learning from entrepreneurship learning platforms. The suggested approach recommends collaboration to learn for students' opinions on learning developed through a questionnaire's tasks. Thus, the experimental results show that HCI-ELP achieves the highest performance rate to 97.66% and enhances student interaction in completing the task to improve curriculum development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the modern university environment, where some people worry that our focus on innovation and technology comes at the expense of information and education, it is important that we encourage a love of learning by recognizing that the pursuit of information is a joyful endeavor. Drawing on the author's personal experiences with PLATO lessons at the University of Illinois, this paper reminds us that while innovation is exciting, information is full of joy. Library and information science researchers and practitioners have a unique opportunity to shape the future of innovation in education by emphasizing the joy of information in all our activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the analysis of the importance and necessity of evaluating the college entrepreneurship and innovation (E&I) education effect for the sci-tech service (STS) industry, from four aspects of top-layer design, college environment, faculty and learner assessment, an assessment index system for the effect of college E&I education is constructed. Through analytic hierarchy process (AHP), this paper also makes a comprehensive and objective assessment and analysis on the effect of college E&I education, which is oriented to the STS industry. Among the primary layer indicators, the weight coefficient of learner assessment is 0.4444, followed by the faculty, and the weight coefficient is 0.3061. Additionally, this proves that lecturers and learners are the focus and primary body of E&I education activities in colleges for STS industry. The theoretical concept and practical ability of learners is the most important index to test the assessment of E&I education effect. Lecturers' teaching methods and their own experience are important for the effect assessment of E&I education, and the environment of E&I education is important for the effect assessment of education. The construction of innovative and entrepreneurial lecturers is critical to education effect assessment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

China is in a critical period of national rejuvenation and national prosperity. Innovation is the soul of a nation and an inexhaustible driving force for national development. Youth are the hope and future of a country. In order to enable young people to have the entrepreneurial ability and innovative spirit of the development of the new era, it has become a very important link for college students to better enter the society and realize their own value. It has become a key link in the development of individuals and China, and has attracted the attention of the whole society. With the continuous development of Internet technology and the deepening of application exploration, in the context of cloud computing, the improvement of the quality of college students' innovation and entrepreneurship education based on big data analysis has also become the focus of universities, society, and the country. The core of the system is the discrete dynamic modeling technology of complex systems. This paper will discuss ways to improve the quality of college students' innovation and entrepreneurship education based on big data under the background of cloud computing by introducing the development and principle of complex system discrete dynamic modeling technology and analyzing the deficiencies and problems of college students' innovation and entrepreneurship quality in many aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an analysis of the reasons and motivations behind several educational figures in the constructing of hybrid methodologies through combinations based on entrepreneurship education as a method. A qualitative exploratory study wa s carried out, and data was collected through 19 semi-structured interviews. Data was analyzed through a discourse analysi s technique which made it possible to appreciate that hybrid methodologies are built as part of a contextualization process that seek s to apply correctly the methodologies concerned to the educator's culture, context, and even personal style present at the time. The understanding of the role that an educator's context plays in his or her choice of contents and teaching approaches could help to avoid biases and create transformational education practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the notion of global justice has marked the work of cooperation, peace, and human rights organizations in Catalonia, which has led to the conceptualization of a proposal to promote 'Education for Global Justice' (EpJG) in alliance with educational institutions and social movements. However, the theoretical foundations of EpJG are under construction and weakly articulated with practice. Therefore, this paper develops a conceptual framework of education and global justice and presents a documentary analysis of the main reflective material arising from the practices and experiences of the entities. In this context, a proposal for emancipatory education is observed that aims to provide insight into global ecology and interdependence, analyze the factors and causes responsible for inequalities in the world, and support critical educational innovation and the balance of knowledge. However, the proposal has certain limitations and requires addressing emerging issues to continue moving forward in these processes of change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the possibilities of Applied Theatre in Education to work on the prevention of gender-based violence and the promotion of equality in higher cycles of Vocational Training (secondary education with orientation towards the world of work) in Castilla y León. In this context, a case study with a qualitative approach was carried out with the aim of analysing the potential of theatre to address gender equality issues. Ethnographic instruments and techniques such as non-participant observation, video recordings, semi-structured interviews and analysis of written productions were used in the data collection. The results presented allow us to analyse the educational and civic potential of this educational innovation based on methodological strategies of theatrical pedagogy to promote processes of awareness, construction of critical and counterhegemonic thinking, fundamentally on the social role of women and the structural violence exercised on them and their lives on a daily basis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides a view on the appropriation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT's) from the perspective of digital contents. The methodology was aimed at identifying trends in the use of ICT's, through the application of a survey type instrument (Likert), answered by 404 teachers. Practices in the use of ICT's, criteria for choosing content, methodological strategies and training in the use and development of content were consulted. The results show a discursive gap between the importance given to ICT's and the teaching practices. It was identified that the respondents have been using the same tools for the past two decades. Besides, there is little implementation of educational innovation projects in their teaching. Likewise, ICT's are assumed as a support for face-to-face teaching and teachers are more consumers than content producers. These findings contrast with the acceleration of the appropriation of ICT's caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The beginning of Science and Technology-Based Innovation (STI) policies in Cuba should be traced to 1961, with the so-called Literacy Campaign that declared the Nation as the First Latin-American Country Free from Illiteracy. From this moment to our days, Cuba has developed a significant Research and Development (R&D) infrastructure and committed human resources on Science, Technology and Innovation. This paper explores the links among Cuban Science, Technology and Innovation System and National Education System for the achievement of scientific technical achievements, within the context of the actualization of Cuban Model for Economic and Social Development. Also, It takes into consideration the role of education and training within a learning economy and Mode 1 to Mode 2 knowledge production process transition. A comprehensive approach to national, sectorial and local innovation systems actors and interactions with education and training experiences is discussed, as well as general reflections regarding Innovation and Education within the National Economic and Social 2030 Plan, which may contribute to a better understanding of the role of education within the Cuban National System of Technology and Innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: This paper presents the results of a didactic project carried out in the subject Design and Aesthetics of the Everyday of the Degree in History of Art at the University of Malaga (Spain) during the academic year 2020-2021. Method: Through a collaborative and participatory methodology, the objectives were defined, which focused on creating digital content based on the knowledge learnt in the subject and disseminating it through the social network Twitter. Results: The project is explained in detail, its design, its development during the first weeks, as well as evaluating its results. Statistical data is provided and improvement actions are proposed for successive courses. Conclusions: The internship has been a very enriching experience for the students, who have explained their work system and the potential of social media for teaching, as well as sharing their experiences and their acquisition of different soft skills that bring them closer to the real and working world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the dialogue between culture and education, with the digital culture as one of the mediators, and the construction of the curriculum and as a central axis for the national project. The contradictions, setbacks, and inconsistencies that pervade the dialogue, nor the advances made in the republican school, cannot be avoided. It highlights the dangers that can hinder the dialogue and the setbacks of educational innovation. It considers the ideological and conceptual traps that the consumer society and the financier economy place on the school social function, the curriculum, and the role of technology in education. It analyzes public policies and their advances, concluding that the integration between technology and curriculum can be shown as one of the ways, when dealing with technology as means for humanization, empowerment, and liberation, with a view to social quality of education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Development of competencies for Open Innovation (OI) plays a very important role since new skills and abilities are required at all levels: to design and adapt products and processes, to develop new business models and to modify the organization of work and processes. This paper analyzes Education 4.0 features, main components, and characteristics; adaptation of teaching and learning practices to changed requirements of Industry 4.0 for the successful implementation of the Open Innovation model. This paper systematically reviews a total of 48 WoS and Scopus studies, ultimately allowing us to determine components of Education 4.0 used in the framework of the OI model in recent years. Four research questions have been directed to data analysis. The results showed that (a) there is little literature research on issues related to important aspects in the dynamics of open innovation (partnerships, critical thinking, self-assessment, leadership, friendships, and risk-taking); (b) the main literature focuses on a comprehensive study of knowledge and skill parameters, application of appropriate strategies for their development, there are gaps in character development and meta-learning; (c) there is a noticeable lack of research on the competence framework of OI aimed at schoolchildren and the use of learning and teaching strategies to strengthen open educational innovations in schools; and d) there is a lack of research on development of OI competencies using cloud resources. This paper is intended for researchers, education and open innovation experts interested in the possibilities of educational technologies for the further dynamic development of the OI model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since 2020, the master's program "Multiple Sclerosis Management" has been running at Dresden International University, offering structured training to become a multiple sclerosis specialist. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many planned teaching formats had to be changed to online teaching. The subject of this paper was the investigation of a cloud-based digital hub and student evaluation of the program. Authors analyzed use cases of computer-supported collaborative learning and student evaluation of courses and modules using the Gioia method and descriptive statistics. The use of a cloud-based digital hub as a central data platform proved to be highly successful for learning and teaching, as well as for close interaction between lecturers and students. Students rated the courses very positively in terms of content, knowledge transfer and interaction. The implementation of the master's program was successful despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The resulting extensive use of digital tools demonstrates the "new normal" of future learning, with even more emphasis on successful online formats that also increase interaction between lecturers and students in particular. At the same time, there will continue to be tailored face-to-face events to specifically increase learning success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]