Social Welfare Programs and Social Work Education at a Crossroads

Social Welfare Programs and Social Work Education at a Crossroads
Author: Antonio López Peláez
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2024-07-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1040088198

This book explores a key phenomenon that has been accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis, namely, the crossroads at which social welfare professionals find themselves. This is a crossroads where, on the one hand, there is an accelerated digitalization process and a reorganization of social programs, while on the other hand, we are confronted by the basic challenge of designing social policies and their methods of evaluation, that is, the generation of robust data that will allow better evaluation of social projects and programs. Rigorously analyzing the crossroads at which social welfare programs find themselves and the new demands for the education of professionals involved in social welfare programs, several key issues can be discerned; • the theoretical debate surrounding the changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and the process of redefining globalization in which we are immersed. • the challenges to be met by welfare programs, and the good practices that are being implemented. • the key issue of how to generate more robust data in the field of social services and social protection. • how to increase the competencies of professionals through education in schools of social work. Providing 15 newly written chapters drawn from both the global north and the global south, it offers a set of recommendations to address the challenges of inequality and social inclusion in the coming years. It will be of interest to all academics, students and practitioners working in the fields of social work, social welfare and social development.

Project Managing E-Learning

Project Managing E-Learning
Author: Maggie McVay Lynch
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2007-05-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135981426

The most comprehensive guide to developing e-learning projects in academia and the corporate education/training available E-learning is big business: Estimated growth by 2008 of the e-learning/distance education worldwide is huge: $3.2 billion in 2002 to – $23 billion in the post-compulsory sector, and £3.6 billion to $36 billion in workforce development Maggie McVay Lynch is an international figure in e-learning and instructional design John Roecker is head of e-learning with PMI (Project Management Institute), an international membership organization of over 200,000 members in 125 countries

Didactics of Smart Pedagogy

Didactics of Smart Pedagogy
Author: Linda Daniela
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2018-11-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030015513

The focus on smart education has become a new trend in the global educational field. Some countries have already developed smart education systems and there is increasing pressure coming from business and tech communities to continue this development. Simultaneously, there are only fragmented studies on the didactic aspects of technology usage. Thus, pedagogy as a science must engage in a new research direction—smart pedagogy. This book seeks to engage in a new research direction, that of smart pedagogy. It launches discussions on how to use all sorts of smart education solutions in the context of existing learning theories and on how to apply innovative solutions in order to reduce the marginalization of groups in educational contexts. It also explores transformations of pedagogical science, the role of the educator, applicable teaching methods, learning outcomes, and research and assessment of acquired knowledge in an effort to make the smart education process meaningful to a wide audience of international educators, researchers, and administrators working within and tangential to TEL.

Ubiquitous Learning

Ubiquitous Learning
Author: Bill Cope
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2009
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0252034961

Exploring the anywhere/anytime possibilities for learning in the age of digital media

Mobile Learning

Mobile Learning
Author: Norbert Pachler
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2009-12-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1441905855

As with television and computers before it, today’s mobile technology challenges educators to respond and ensure their work is relevant to students. What’s changed is that this portable, cross-contextual way of engaging with the world is driving a more proactive approach to learning on the part of young people. The first full-length authored treatment of the relationship between the centrality of technological development in daily life and its potential as a means of education, Mobile Learning charts the rapid emergence of new forms of mass communication and their potential for gathering, shaping, and analyzing information, studying their transformative capability and learning potential in the contexts of school and socio-cultural change. The focus is on mobile/cell phones, PDAs, and to a lesser extent gaming devices and music players, not as "the next new thing" but meaningfully integrated into education, without objectifying the devices or technology itself. And the book fully grounds readers by offering theoretical and conceptual models, an analytical framework for understanding the issues, recommendations for specialized resources, and practical examples of mobile learning in formal as well as informal educational settings, particularly with at-risk students. Among the topics covered: • Core issues in mobile learning • Mobile devices as educational resources • Socioeconomic approaches to mobile learning • Creating situations that promote mobile learning • Ubiquitous mobility and its implications for pedagogy • Bridging the digital divide at the policy level Mobile Learning is a groundbreaking volume, sure to stimulate both discussion and innovation among educational professionals interested in technology in the context of teaching and learning.

Teaching and Learning in Digital World

Teaching and Learning in Digital World
Author: Mercè Gisbert
Publisher: PUBLICACIONS UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2015-06-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 8484243761

Many reports over the last few years have analysed the potential use of games, videogames, 3D environments and virtual reality for educational purposes. Numerous emerging technological devices have also appeared that will play important roles in the development of teaching and learning processes. In the context of these developments, learning rather than teaching becomes the main axis in the organisation of the educational process. This process has now gone beyond the analogue world and face-toface education to enter the digital world, where new learning environments are being produced with ever greater doses of realism. Teaching and Learning in Digital Worlds examines the teaching and learning process in 3D virtual environments from both the theoretical and practical points of view.

Las TIC en la escuela actual

Las TIC en la escuela actual
Author: José María Cañizares Márquez
Publisher: Wanceulen Editorial
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2018-09-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 8499939201

La irrupción y posterior consolidación de las llamadas “Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación” (TIC) y de las “Tecnologías del Aprendizaje y Conocimiento” (TAC), están transformando a gran velocidad todo lo relativo a la enseñanza en general y a su metodología en particular. La Educación Física también está inmersa en estas nuevas maneras de enseñar y aprender, por lo que cada día es más popular el uso de la tableta digital o el ordenador portátil en sus múltiples formatos, complementados por programas o conjunto de éstos que nos permite realizar tareas específicas e interaccionar y comunicarnos con cualquier componente del grupo clase, prácticamente, las veinticuatro horas del día. Las aplicaciones informáticas que instalamos en tabletas, portátiles y teléfonos móviles inteligentes, sea cual sea el sistema operativo de los mismos, se denominan comúnmente Apps, en singular, abreviatura de que es la traducción de “aplicación” en inglés. Contribuye a ello las continuas innovaciones y el incremento espectacular en los últimos tiempos en cuanto a la velocidad en la transmisión de datos, gráficos, fotos, vídeo, etc. Igualmente, las “bases de datos” educativas cuentan con fondos y motores de búsqueda cada vez más conseguidos y operativos a todos los niveles. Las diferentes metodologías que vamos a considerar en este libro, son: Flipped Classroom (Aula Invertida); Aprendizaje por Proyectos (ApP) y Tareas Integradas (TI); Aprendizaje Cooperativo; Gamificación o Ludificación; Aprendizaje Basado en Problemas (ABP); Design Thinking (Pensamiento de Diseño) y el Aprendizaje Basado en el Pensamiento (Thinking Based Learning). Se puede decir que son de las más usadas actualmente en Primaria y Secundaria y cada vez se publican más experiencias de las mismas aunque raro es el trimestre que no aparecen otras novedades en el mercado. Si bien en este este volumen pretendemos tratar las nuevas metodologías, no debemos olvidarnos de las “tradicionales” que habitualmente seguimos en Educación Física -basadas fundamentalmente en los “Estilos de Enseñanza-, y que son compatibles con las de vanguardia, más centradas en la investigación, cooperación y el desarrollo del pensamiento del alumnado, y que tienen como principales recursos las herramientas de tipo multimedia: ordenador, tabletas, móviles y sus aplicaciones informáticas. Nuestra propuesta pretende dar unas pautas básicas para que los docentes interesados puedan utilizar estas metodologías en sus centros, si bien deberán previamente considerar las condiciones de aplicación a sus contextos, posibilidades y recursos.

The Journey to Inclusion

The Journey to Inclusion
Author: Xuan Thuy Nguyen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9463003045

This book offers insight on the politics of inclusion in Vietnam through a Foucauldian and post-colonial perspective on disability and education. Drawing on a socio-historical analysis of the inclusion of disabled people in Vietnam in the twenty-first century, the book guides readers through a ‘history of the present.’ By reflecting on the treatment of disabled people in Vietnamese social history, the book argues that this journey to inclusion calls for critical reflections on the challenges and possibilities for policies to transform exclusion for disabled people. The book unveils the problematics of social and educational institutions in governing disability and difference through a critical reflection on discourses and power in the global and local juncture, in relation to its engagement with disability in the global South. The intersection between the global politics of disability rights and development and the local politics of inclusion in Vietnam shapes the cultural politics of education. The ways inclusive education is historically constructed, within this socio-historical condition, reflects the challenges of inclusive thought and action for transforming injustice. Going beyond ‘deconstructive politics,’ The Journey to Inclusion argues for a re-positioning of the relationships between the global North and South as an alternative approach to inclusion. It suggests that critical research must construct a politics of engagement with subjugated voices and representations in transnational, national, and local contexts. A reflexive, critical, and inclusive dialogue that engages with Southern knowledge offers a political platform for reframing justice in the twenty-first century.

Detecting Fake News on Social Media

Detecting Fake News on Social Media
Author: Kai Shu
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2019-07-03
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1681735830

This book is an accessible introduction to the study of detecting fake news on social media. The concepts, algorithms, and methods described in this book can help harness the power of social media to build effective and intelligent fake news detection systems. In the past decade, social media is becoming increasingly popular for news consumption due to its easy access, fast dissemination, and low cost. However, social media also enables the wide propagation of "fake news," i.e., news with intentionally false information. Fake news on social media can have significant negative societal effects. Therefore, fake news detection on social media has recently become an emerging research that is attracting tremendous attention. From a data mining perspective, this book introduces the basic concepts and characteristics of fake news across disciplines, reviews representative fake news detection methods in a principled way, and illustrates advanced settings of fake news detection on social media. In particular, the authors discuss the value of news content and social context, as well as important extensions to handle early detection, weakly-supervised detection, and explainable detection. This is essential reading for students, researchers, and practitioners to understand, manage, and excel in this area. This book is supported by additional materials, including lecture slides, the complete set of figures, key references, datasets, tools used in this book, and the source code of representative algorithms.

Child Friendly Schools Manual

Child Friendly Schools Manual
Author:
Publisher: UNICEF
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9280643762

This Child-Friendly Schools (CFS) Manual was developed during three-and-a-half years of continuous work, involving the United Nations Children's Fund education staff and specialists from partner agencies working on quality education. It benefits from fieldwork in 155 countries and territories, evaluations carried out by the Regional Offices and desk reviews conducted by headquarters in New York. The manual is a part of a total resource package that includes an e-learning package for capacity-building in the use of CFS models and a collection of field case studies to illustrate the state of the art in child-friendly schools in a variety of settings.