Tecnologías de la comunicación

Presently, traditional educational approaches have resulted in a mismatch between what is taught to the students and what the industry needs. As such, many institutions are moving towards ICT and multimedia resources as a solution to producing graduates who are creative, can think critically and analytically, and are able to solve problems. This research focus on identify the type of ICT and multimedia resources available in teaching and learning in selected tertiary institutions in Zaria, exploring the level of satisfaction of teaching and learning with ICT and multimedia resources, clarifying the level of ICT and multimedia teachings for motivating the students to learn a subject, investigating the level of ICT and multimedia teaching effectiveness in classroom teaching. This work should be useful for the professionals to teaching and educational systems.

Education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is crucial for taking advantage of the prospects of new scientific discoveries initiating or promoting technological changes, and managing opportunities and risks associated with innovations. This book explores the emerging perspectives and methodologies of STEM education and its relationship to the cultural understanding of science and technology in an international context.

The authors provide a unique perspective on the subject, presenting materials and experiences from non-European industrialized as well as industrializing countries, including China, Japan, South Korea, India, Egypt, Brazil and the USA. The chapters offer a wide scope of interpretations and comparative reviews of STEM education by including narrative elements about cultural developments, considering the influence of culture and social perceptions on technological and social change, and applying innovative tools of qualitative social research.

The book represents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary review of the current status and future challenges facing STEM education across the world, including issues such as globalization, interdependencies of norms and values, effects on equity and social justice as well as resilience. Overall the volume provides valuable insights for a broad and comprehensive international comparison of STEM philosophies, approaches and experiences.

La simultaneidad de cambios en la tecnología y en la forma de comunicación explica la irrupción veloz de la sociedad del conocimiento en sustitución de la sociedad industrial con sus consiguientes efectos en todos los ordenamientos, social, económico, y político, también en la psicología y comportamiento de los seres humanos. El dilema que enfrenta el ciudadano desde sus diferentes roles es el de asumir o rechazar los cambios. La cuestión que motiva la investigación que han realizado los autores de este libro es el papel que le corresponde jugar a los responsables de la educación, particularmente a los de la educación superior, y sus posibles efectos sobre el sistema político democrático haciéndolo más inclusivo e igualitario. Lo cierto es que el gran salto tecnológico –la sustitución del sistema analógico por el binario– ha dado lugar al cosmopolitismo digital y a la disponibilidad abierta del conocimiento a todos, con lo que ha surgido un nuevo paradigma económico que se proyecta sobre las demás esferas de la vida social: democracia cognitiva mediante la educación para todos.
Una universidad innovadora –en contraposición a la del statu quo– tiene una doble misión. En primer lugar, adaptarse, en función del pensamiento crítico, a la modernidad científica y social, integrarla y aportar enseñanzas útiles a la sociedad. Para ello es fundamental comprender los profundos cambios –a veces bruscos e insospechados– que han introducido los nuevos sistemas de comunicación no sólo en los procesos productivos y en las instituciones políticas, sociales y culturales, sino también en la mente y el comportamiento humano. Además, es necesario ofrecer una cultura más allá de lo profesional en la que impere la ética de la democracia del conocimiento. Fuerza comprender que las oportunidades de la sociedad del conocimiento tienden a facilitar vivir mejor y progresar equitativamente. La tesis de la educación básica común universal sirve para resaltar una función que ha caracterizado a la universidad de siempre: el cultivo de la filosofía, la reflexión y las humanidades entendidas éstas como las artes liberales, las acciones que liberan al individuo y le permiten cumplir con su misión en armonía con la cambiante realidad social.

This ambitious multidisciplinary volume assembles diverse critical-theory approaches to the current and future states of networked learning. Expert contributors expand upon the existing literature by analyzing the ethical aspects of networked learning and the ongoing need for more open, inclusive, and socially engaged educational practice. Chapters explore in depth evolving concepts of real and virtual, the processes of learning in, against, and beyond the internet, and the role of critical pedagogy in improving social conditions. In all, coverage is both realistic and positive about the potential of digital technologies in higher education as well as social and academic challenges on the horizon.

Included among the topics:

Counting on use of technology to enhance learning.
Decentralized networked learning through online pre-publication.
The reality of the online teacher.
Moving from urban to virtual spaces and back.
The project of a virtual emancipatory pedagogy.
Using information technologies in the service of humanity.

It is no longer a question of "Can technology enhance learning" it's a given that it does.

Critical Learning in Digital Networks offers education researchers, teacher educators, instructional technologists, and instructional designers tools and methods for strengthening this increasingly vital interconnection.

Collectively known as Hallyu, Korean music, television programs, films, online games, and comics enjoy global popularity, thanks to new communication technologies. In recent years, Korean popular culture has also become the subject of academic inquiry. Whereas the Hallyu’s impact on Korea’s national image and domestic economy, as well as on transnational cultural flows, have received much scholarly attention, there has been little discussion of the role of social media in Hallyu’s propagation.

Contributors to Hallyu 2.1: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media explore the ways in which Korean popular cultural products are shared by audiences around the globe; how they generate new fans, markets, and consumers through social media networks; and how scholars can analyze, interpret, and envision the future of this unprecedented cultural phenomenon.

“Hallyu 2.0’s endeavor—to ‘explore how Korean popular-cultural products have been circulated, disseminated, and consumed by audiences around the globe’—is eminently timely and worthy. The volume has an important contribution to make to scholarship on the Korean Wave. It will be of interest to scholars and students as well as an eager global base of fans keen to read more academic approaches to Korean popular music and dramas.”
—Stephen Epstein, Victoria University of Wellington

In less than a decade, mobile technology has revolutionized our cultures, societies, and economies by impacting both personal and professional aspects of human life. Mobile technology has therefore become the fastest diffusing technology in history, expanding and transforming existent possibilities by making technology accessible and ubiquitous.

Emerging Perspectives on the Mobile Content Evolution seeks a better understanding of the centrality of mobile content in the recent and coming evolution of both the ICT ecosystem and the media industry. This publication appeals to a broad audience within the interdisciplinary field of media studies, covering topic areas such as journalism, marketing and advertising, broadcasting, information management, media management, media economics, media- and technology-related public policies, media sociology, audience/consumption studies, and arts.

This publication presents a multi-disciplinary discussion through a collection of academic chapters covering topics such as mobile communications and entrepreneurship, reflection on wearables and innovation, personal and mobile healthcare, mobile journalism and innovation, and behavioral targeting in the mobile ecosystem.

In the rich tradition of mobile communication studies and new media, this volume examines how mobile technologies are being embraced by Indigenous people all over the world. As mobile phones have revolutionised society both in developed and developing countries, so Indigenous people are using mobile devices to bring their communities into the twenty-first century.

The explosion of mobile devices and applications in Indigenous communities addresses issues of isolation and building an environment for the learning and sharing of knowledge, providing support for cultural and language revitalisation, and offering the means for social and economic renewal. This book explores how mobile technologies are overcoming disadvantage and the tyrannies of distance, allowing benefits to flow directly to Indigenous people and bringing wide-ranging changes to their lives. It begins with general issues and theoretical perspectives followed by empirical case studies that include the establishment of Indigenous mobile networks and practices, mobile technologies for social change and, finally, the ways in which mobile technology is being used to sustain Indigenous culture and language.

Readers seeking to gain a handle on the internet's global expansion will find this book rich in scholarly foundations combined with cutting-edge discussion of emerging ICTs and services and the complex societal contexts in which they are embedded. To explore possibilities to the fullest extent, a sociotechnical systems approach is employed, focusing on the interplay of technical, social, cultural, political, and economic dynamics to explore alternative futures (ones that are not part of the dominant discourse about the internet).

These shared perspectives are not well addressed elsewhere in current discussions. Awareness of these dynamics, and the fluidity of the future, is important, as humankind moves forward into the uncertain future. Due to the sociotechnical complexity of the Internet, policymakers, businesspeople, and academics worldwide have struggled to keep abreast of developments. This volume's approach is intended to stimulate dialogue between academics and practitioners on a topic that will affect most aspects of human life in the near-term future.

Today, a hurricane is forming, and businesses are headed straight into it. This hurricane is arising from the convergence of several enormous trends in information technology, including cloud, mobility, Software as a Service, and Big Data. In Inflection Point, Scott Stawski shows how to harness these fierce winds of change, put them at your back, and sail towards greater competitiveness and customer value.

Stawski explains the strategic implications of today’s new technology paradigms, helping you reshape strategy to embrace and profit from them. You’ll discover how technology and other factors are driving a radical new round of disintermediation, reintermediation, and disruption–and what that means to you and your company.

Stawski shows how to go beyond inadequate incremental improvements, dramatically reducing IT spend and virtually eliminating IT capital expenditures. One meaningful step at a time, you’ll learn how to transform Operational IT into both a utility and a true business enabler, bringing new speed, flexibility, and focus to what really matters: your true core competencies.

BUILD A CONTINUAL TRANSFORMATION ENVIRONMENT THAT’S READY FOR ANYTHING
Focus on high-value core competencies, not fixed assets or unchanging processes
CONSUME IT THE WAY YOU CONSUME ELECTRICITY
Stop running data centers, buying software, and managing applications–forever!
LEVERAGE THE CLOUD’S SIMPLICITY WITHOUT LOSING CONTROL OR SECURITY
Use standards and governance to maximize cloud benefits with minimal risk
HARNESS THE PRECIOUS ASSET YOU MUST ALWAYS KEEP CLOSE: DATA
Build data-centric operations to deliver the right knowledge, right now, wherever it’s needed

Este libro es el resultado de la investigación sobre la utilización de Tic, competencias básicas y calidad de la educación,¿cómo se visibiliza el impacto de los proyectos pedagógicos en Tic aplicados a los centros educativos?, reconociendo en ellos el mejoramiento de la calidad educativa, la importancia de la mediación pedagógica enriquecida tecnológicamente, las reflexiones son procedentes de la sistematización y evaluación de aprendizajes, se rescata el conectivismo presente como teoría, la cibernética social asociada a metodologías grupales, la complejidad desde el uso metodológico de la investigación acción participación procurando el respeto de la realidad del maestro, "El Maestro que aprende" requiere de su vivencia para acercarse al individuo participante, sus momentos de aprendizaje cada vez son diferentes, sus maneras de aprender en aprendizajes y escenarios virtuales, el paradigma de la realidad sin tecnología educativa, por ello debemos aprender a aprender sin desconocer a la sociedad, el aprendizaje es mediado por la inclusión de competencias específicas que permean todos los sectores, la innovación social reconoce como la tecnología puede generar desarrollo.