Emotional design application to evaluate user impressions of library information desks     

Carmina Cortés-Villalba  Isidoro Gil-Leiva  Miguel Ángel Artacho-Ramírez 《Library & information science research》2017,39(4):311-318

To evaluate the quality of service it is critical to know the concepts on which such evaluations are made from the user point of view. Differential semantics was applied in an emotional design framework to identify these concepts, or dimensions, and an equation was devised to discover the influence they have in the acceptance of a service by users. Some 53 users evaluated the tangible elements of 28 library information desks. Five latent concepts emerged from the analysis: modern, welcoming, professional, simple, and accessible. The most influential concepts influencing willingness to interact at library information desks were, in descending order, modernity, professionalism, welcoming environment, and accessibility. Finally, a comparative semantic profile was developed to explore the perception differences between the most and the least desirable information desks. Understanding the concepts that users consider when evaluating information desks and the influence of those concepts on user behavior can help designers improve overall service quality impressions.  相似文献   

Collaborative action research between schools,a continuing professional development centre for teachers and the university: a case study in Spain     

Maria Elena González Alfaya  Maria Ángeles Olivares García  Rosario Mérida Serrano 《Educational Action Research》2017,25(5):770-789

This article describes a collaborative action research project developed over the course of the 2011/12 academic year in the Faculty of Education at Cordoba University (Spain). The RIECU school–continuing professional development centre for teachers–university learning network is part of this research process. The aim is to create and consolidate a community of practice made up of continuing professional development advisers to teachers, infant education teachers, university students who are training to become infant education teachers and university teaching staff. The most relevant findings, which respond to the questions raised, are: the action research conducted indicates that teamwork between teacher, adviser, researcher and university student is an effective strategy to facilitate the acquisition of professional competences among student teachers; and student-teachers involved in the case study have evolved in their conception and approach to childhood and have had the opportunity to learn by modelling the professional conduct of their mentor teachers.  相似文献   

Spanish validation of the Basic Psychological Needs at Work Scale: A measure to predict teachers’ well-being in the workplace     

Ángel Abós Catalán  Javier Sevil Serrano  José Antonio Julián Clemente  José Martín-Albo Lucas  Luis García-González 《International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance》2018,18(2):127-148

The present study aimed to validate a Spanish-version of the Basic Psychological Needs at Work Scale (BPNWS-Sp) and to examine the associations between needs satisfaction and engagement and burnout in secondary education teachers. Using a sample of 584 secondary education teachers, the results supported the three-factor model, composite reliability, measurement invariance, and nomological validity of the BPNWS-Sp. This study contributes to validating the first instrument in Spanish to measure the satisfaction of the three BPNs separately in secondary education teachers. The measurement of teachers’ BPNs could effectively provide guidance for school policies to improve teaching and learning.  相似文献   

How Journalists and Social Media Users Perceive Online Fact-Checking and Verification Services     

Petter Bae Brandtzaeg  Asbjørn Følstad  María Ángeles Chaparro Domínguez 《Journalism Practice》2018,12(9):1109-1129

While services for fact-checking and verification to counter fake news in social media have increased, little research has investigated how journalists and the public perceive such services. This study reflects the outcomes of REVEAL, a three-year European Union research project investigating the use and impact of services for fact-checking and verification. Based on interviews with 32 young journalists and content analysis of social media users’ online conversations, we contribute new knowledge about the ways that journalists and social media users perceive online fact-checking and verification services. The findings suggest that, while young journalists were largely unfamiliar with or ambivalent about such services, they judged them as potentially useful in the investigative journalistic process. Yet, they were unwilling to rely exclusively on these tools for fact-checking and verification. A comparison of journalists’ perceptions with those of social media users reveals social media users are similarly ambivalent. Some accentuated the usefulness of such services, while others expressed strong distrust. However, the journalists displayed a more nuanced perspective, both seeing these services as potentially useful and being reluctant to blindly trust a single service. Design strategies to make online fact-checking and verification services more useful and trustworthy are suggested.  相似文献   

Librarians as Research Partners: Their Contribution to the Scholarly Endeavour Beyond Library and Information Science     

Ángel Borrego  Jordi Ardanuy  Cristóbal Urbano 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2018,44(5):663-670

Academic libraries are increasingly called upon to demonstrate their value to their home institutions. Research collaboration with faculty resulting in the co-authorship of scholarly output is one possible way to demonstrate the alignment of the library with the institutional mission. Involvement in research also improves librarians' skills in offering research support services. This study explores the contribution of librarians to scholarly journals in fields other than Library and Information Science (LIS) as well as their collaboration practices with researchers in those fields. Results show an increasing number of papers published by library-affiliated authors in non-LIS journals between 2006 and 2015. The papers fall broadly into four areas: articles on topics related to LIS published in non-LIS journals; higher education and information literacy; systematic reviews and meta-analysis; and research collaboration in the faculty's areas of expertise. The study is limited by the difficulty in properly retrieving the scholarly output of librarians from bibliographic databases and the difficulty in ascertaining their contributions to published articles.  相似文献   

A model of the role of error detection and self-regulation in academic performance     

Ángela Zamora  José Manuel Súarez  Diego Ardura 《The Journal of educational research》2018,111(5):595-602

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Legacy and Native News Brands Online: Do They Show Different News Consumption Patterns?     

Ángel Arrese  Jürg Kaufmann 《媒体管理杂志》2016,18(2):75-97

The distinction between legacy media and digital media has frequently been used to analyze the journalistic and commercial contrast between traditional media (offline) and new media (online). However, little research has been carried out on the degree to which legacy brands differ from digital native brands in the digital environment. Are legacy and digital native news brands associated with similar news consumption patterns, or do those patterns differ substantially? This work intends to give an answer to this question, taking as a reference the Spanish case. The underlying assumption of this study is the idea that legacy brands carry over into the digital world some of the consumption characteristics of their old products, which could differ greatly from those associated with new digital native products. While not in the manner initially planned, the study confirms the existence of small differences in those characteristics between groups of brands, but mostly related to journalistic factors, not marketing ones. These findings have important consequences for the branding of legacy and native news brands.  相似文献   

Supporting Blended-Learning: tool requirements and solutions with OWLish     

Ainhoa Álvarez  Maite Martín  Isabel Fernández-Castro  Maite Urretavizcaya 《Interactive Learning Environments》2016,24(6):1176-1197

Currently, most of the educational approaches applied to higher education combine face-to-face (F2F) and computer-mediated instruction in a Blended-Learning (B-Learning) approach. One of the main challenges of these approaches is fully integrating the traditional brick-and-mortar classes with online learning environments in an efficient and flexible way. In this paper, we present a set of requirements to be met by a computer system in order to adequately support both students and teachers in a B-Learning context. Then, it defines a suitable conceptual architecture to meet the requirements, and the multi-agent implementation of the architecture. Next, it presents the evaluation of the functionality implemented. Finally some conclusions are drawn.  相似文献   

The Accelerating Roles of Higher Education in Regions through the European Lifelong Learning Initiative     

BALÁZS NÉMETH 《European Journal of Education》2010,45(3):451-465

This article assesses the network development and promotion of the learning region model in HEIs in the framework of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), focusing on quality, partnership and social equality in the Hungarian context. It argues that the learning city-region model can be used and put into practice in many different ways for a new learning climate to occur, as in the case of the Pécs Learning City-Region Forum. However, there are parallel ways to implement the model for HEIs. The first is a purely economically centred one for those HEIs that reflect a reformed social identity to serve mainly employability, economic productivity and innovation through education and research in post socialist countries. The second is more holistic, reflecting not only education and research, but also making use of innovation based on economic and social partnership and networking in local, regional, national and international contexts. The article elaborates on the opportunities for this model as one into which Hungarian HEIs may develop.  相似文献   

Formación de profesorado en España orientada a la sostenibilidad: implementación y análisis de una ‘ecometodología’     

Pedro Vega  Pedro Álvarez 《欧洲师范教育杂志》2012,35(4):495-510

Es indudable que la preocupación por el medio ambiente es una nueva seña de identidad de la sociedad al comienzo del siglo XXI. Pero ésta preocupación no siempre lleva aparejada los conocimientos, las actitudes y, sobre todo, la competencia necesaria para su protección. En este contexto, cobra sentido una educación superior orientada hacia la sostenibilidad que involucre a la comunidad universitaria, y en concreto a los futuros docentes, capacitándolos para participar, individualmente y colectivamente, a favor de la sostenibilidad. Para tal fin, la implementación de una ‘ecometodología’ basada en la aplicación de la Agenda 21 y el cálculo de la ‘huella ecológica’, se revela como una eficaz herramienta para avanzar hacia la sostenibilidad en la formación del profesorado en España, tal como pone de manifiesto el análisis y la discusión de los resultados del estudio realizado.

Teacher training in Spain towards sustainability: implementation and analysis of ‘ecomethodology’

There is no doubt that concern for the environment is a new feature of society’s identity at the beginning of the twenty-first century. But this concern is not always accompanied by the necessary knowledge, attitude, and above all competence to ensure its protection. In this context, it makes sense for higher education to be oriented towards sustainability, involving the university’s community, especially future teachers, and enabling them to participate, individually and collectively, in favour of sustainability. To this end, the implementation of an ‘ecomethodology’ based on the application of Agenda 21 and the calculation of the carbon footprint, is revealed as a powerful tool for progressing towards sustainability in teacher training in Spain, as shown by the analysis and discussion of the results of this study.  相似文献