Download or read book Higher Education as a Cyber cultural Institution written by Neelam Dwivedi and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher Education in the U.S. has been considered one of the most successful sectors that represents the widely adopted western model of education in the world. Scholars view it as the most important institution in the complex process of knowledge creation and distribution. Such assertions, however, directly contradict the projections made by others that university campuses will soon be relics or that the sector will collapse under its own weight within next few decades. A closer examination of these contradictions reveals that the perspectives driving such projections often adopt an economic outlook, mostly focusing on higher educations rising cost, and compare the sector with commercial industries such as manufacturing or services that were disrupted with emergence of online technologies. While such an outlook explains some recent transformations, it doesnt acknowledge the sectors challenges beyond economic sustainability, and, therefore, fails to guide future policy for its broader role in our society. Several scholarly reflections reinforce this outlook by arguing that higher education is losing its academic and social priorities and gravitating toward the dictates of the marketplace.In this research, I argue that the higher education sector needs a broader range of perspectives to capture its dynamics comprehensively and, therefore, I engage the theory of institutional logics to view higher education as a complex system of multiple institutional logics. I then use the theory of mediatization to shift the focus from its cost to its content ,which offers an alternate view. It allows for the drawing of parallels with other cultural institutions, such as the performing arts of music and theater, that underwent mediatization when their content was mediated by recording technologies. The traditional models of content exchange in these cultural institutions (in face-to-face settings) were disrupted when their content was captured, recorded, and disseminated virtually. Scholarly accounts of these events in cultural and media studies reveal many parallels and suggest that higher education is also a cultural institution, primarily because it engages in the creation and distribution of symbolic content. To explore this perspective, I conducted a multi-level, multi-case qualitative field study. The setting for the research included higher education organizations across three categories: public non-profit, private non-profit, and private for-profit, with two organizations in each category representing resident and online education as the dominant mode of teaching. A specific program was chosen from each organization as the unit of analysis. To capture the field-level phenomenon, I conducted an archival analysis of documents published by field agencies. The results reveal six prevailing institutional logics that influence the teaching practice Academic, Social, Community, State, Corporation, and Market. Increasing online adoption reveals the emergence of a seventh logic that I term the Cyber-Cultural logic. It focuses on student engagement and leverages cyber technologies to digitize, distribute, personalize, track, and adapt the instructional content. Increasing production of videos with experts from disciplines such as entertainment and media to create engaging instructional content reflects the cultural element. The use of virtual interactivity, learning analytics, and predictive algorithms reflects the cyber element. Further, each of these seven institutional logics is explicated and analyzed in terms of how it co-exists, conflicts, and evolves with others. The lens of mediatization reveals how online education has led to the emergence of an alternate world of higher education, comprising instructional content providers and credit-recommendation agencies. While on one hand it is trying to disrupt the traditional educational models, on the other it is leveraging academic strength to gain legitimacy. In this way, this research makes several theoretical, as well as practical, contributions. It broadens our perspective by identifying multiple institutional logics prevailing in the higher education sector. It offers their in-depth explication and an integration between the theories of institutional logics and mediatization in the context of higher education. The findings reveal the complexity of contemporary transformations that call for engaging multiple perspectives to bring sustainable change. They also bring to light why projections solely based on narrow economic outlooks fail to be realized and how they can potentially misguide the discourses that shape future policy. This comprehensive view can guide our efforts to transform higher education without compromising the foundational values that have made it one of the most enduring and esteemed sectors in the world.

Download or read book Exploring Institutional Logics for Technology Mediated Higher Education written by Neelam Dwivedi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book articulates the complexities inherent in higher education’s multi-faceted response to the forces of mediatization—or how institutions change when their social communication gets mediated by technology—and introduces a novel perspective to comprehend them in a systematic way. By drawing on archival analysis and six organizational case studies, the author empirically traces the emergence of a cyber-cultural institution within higher education. As these case studies demonstrate, this new institutional logic requires creativity, individual recognition, and an underlying platform powered by cyber technologies and digitization of content. Using an analytical lens, this cyber-cultural perspective answers many questions about why faculty refuse to adopt online education, why students struggle with mediated teaching, and what possibly could be done to take online education to its next level.

Download or read book Exploring Institutional Logics for Technology Mediated Higher Education written by Neelam Dwivedi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book articulates the complexities inherent in higher education’s multi-faceted response to the forces of mediatization—or how institutions change when their social communication gets mediated by technology—and introduces a novel perspective to comprehend them in a systematic way. By drawing on archival analysis and six organizational case studies, the author empirically traces the emergence of a cyber-cultural institution within higher education. As these case studies demonstrate, this new institutional logic requires creativity, individual recognition, and an underlying platform powered by cyber technologies and digitization of content. Using an analytical lens, this cyber-cultural perspective answers many questions about why faculty refuse to adopt online education, why students struggle with mediated teaching, and what possibly could be done to take online education to its next level.

Download or read book STEM and Cyber Culture written by Dr. Mary J. Ferguson and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STEM and Cyber Culture by Dr. Mary J. Ferguson During the course of any day, the culture of technology is inevitable in the United States of America, as well as around the world. In order to communicate effectively, science, technology, engineering and math’s (STEM’s) functional culture is vital to one’s work and play within the most common environments. This book defines minorities and the female absence in STEM jobs; it also reviews the race for our nation’s place and space in the world of cybersecurity. Additionally, this read researches its reputable sense of being proactive in order to compete with the daily activities of information technology and our government, educational institutions, and corporate practices of retaining minorities and women in STEM and cyber jobs continues to be questionable.

Download or read book Pathology of Learning in Cyber Space written by Sayed Hadi Sadeghi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is divided into seven chapters, beginning with discussions of the main concepts of cyberspace, the relationship between cyberspace and real space, learning and education. It describes the relationship between cyberspace and real space, and presents capacities, judiciary, and concepts related to cyberspace. Cyber curricular education forms are then described in terms of teaching and learning resources in cyberspace. The discussion presented in this book consists of two main sections: The first section, outlines the objectives of training in cyberspace at different levels, while the second section describes the injuries caused by learning and training in cyberspace at different levels, and then highlights how cyber training is handled and receives feedback. Lastly, the authors provide a summary of the topics presented. Most other discussions are general and present the overall benefits of e-learning and e-teaching that is formally carried out in universities and schools through cyberspace. But, unfortunately, none of them fully explores the learning, education and cyber-training resources which should be used by individuals, groups, organizations, governments, and others in pursuing to achieve their goals. In addition to this, they do not pay much attention to the challenges and injuries caused by learning and teaching in cyberspace. This has led the authors to investigate these and other issues related to learning and training in cyberspace more widely and comprehensively, and also consider them beyond official formal learning and education. Most importantly they address issues such as the injuries and challenges that, in different ways and at different levels result from learning and education in this space. As such this book goes beyond simple and repetitive issues that have been raised concerning cyberspace, and underlines the challenges it poses. Although intended for scholars and students from the fields of science education, information technology, sociology and educational technology as well as interested parties and related authorities, this book is also helpful for people wishing to better understand new topics, such as cyberspace, learning and training in cyberspace, and related issues. It is of interest to a wide range of enthusiasts, with different educational, specialist and executive backgrounds, including academics, policymakers, managers and planners from educational and cultural institutions

Download or read book Cyberspace Distance Learning and Higher Education in Developing Countries written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resourceful book provides cutting-edge exploration and insightful analysis of educational implications of technology and distance higher education in Africa and Asia, critically examining access, curriculum, pedagogy, externally designed programs, the quest for ownership and strategies for creating a knowledge society.

Download or read book Putting the University Online written by James Cornford and published by Open University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their book will help sensitize policy makers, academics, university managers, and students to the limits to, and implications of, the pursuit of a virtual future for higher education."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Emerging Practices in Cyberculture and Social Networking written by Daniel Riha and published by Brill Rodopi. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the most significant research presented during the 4th Global Conference on Cybercultures: Exploring Critical Issues, held as a part of Cyber Hub activity in Salzburg, Austria in March 2009.

Download or read book Anti computing written by Caroline Bassett and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a moment of high anxiety around digital transformation. Computers are blamed for generating toxic forms of culture and ways of life. Once part of future imaginaries that were optimistic or even utopian, today there is a sense that things have turned out very differently. Anti-computing is widespread. This book seeks to understand its cultural and material logics, its forms, and its operations. Anti-Computing critically investigates forgotten histories of dissent – moments when the imposition of computational technologies, logics, techniques, imaginaries, utopias have been questioned, disputed, or refused. It asks why dissent is forgotten and how - under what circumstances - it revives. Constituting an engagement with media archaeology/medium theory and working through a series of case studies, this book is compelling reading for scholars in digital media, literary, cultural history, digital humanities and associated fields at all levels.

Download or read book Cyberculture written by Marcelo Mendonça Teixeira and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarly Research Paper from the year 2012 in the subject Communications - Multimedia, Internet, New Technologies, grade: -, University of Minho (Institute of Education), course: Educational Technology, language: English, abstract: Cyberculture is contemporaneously understood as a sociocultural way resulting from a symbiotic relationship between society, culture and microelectronic new technologies that emerged with the convergence of telecommunications and computer science in the 70's, according Lemos & Cunha (2003). Since then, "Cyberculture & Cyberspace" has been a prologue of sociability in a network communication in the virtual world, such as the knowledge socialization phenomenon that occurs at a global level in an environment of sharing experiences, information, entertainment, business and collaborative learning. Therefore, this study provides an important contribution to the State of Cyberculture Art, dealing with all aspects prior to the etymology of the word, its related terms and contribution to education. Being based on an empirical descriptive methodology, the study is guided by a literature review and it was developed in the second half of 2012. As a result, we found some circumstances in which cyberculture is present in education by means of multiple languages, multiple communication channels and in distinct temporalities.

Download or read book Research Anthology on Empowering Marginalized Communities and Mitigating Racism and Discrimination written by Information Resources Management Association and published by Information Science Reference. This book was released on 2021 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This edited reference book focuses on the empowerment of marginalized communities and the social movements, activism, and push for mitigating racism and discrimination amongst different industries and contexts by shedding light on social justice applications and practices internationally and the changes being made to promote equality, fair treatment, and inclusivity of marginalized communities"--

Download or read book Cyberbullying and Online Harms written by Helen Cowie and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyberbullying and Online Harms identifies online harms and their impact on young people, from communities to campuses, exploring current and future interventions to reduce and prevent online harassment and aggression. This important resource brings together eminent international researchers whose work shines a light on social issues such as bullying/cyberbullying, racism, homophobia, hate crime, and social exclusion. The text collates into one volume current knowledge and evidence of cyberbullying and its effect on young people, facilitating action to protect victims, challenge perpetrators and develop policies and practices to change cultures that are discriminatory and divisive. It also provides a space where those who have suffered online harms and who have often been silenced in the past may have a voice in telling their experiences and recounting interventions and policies that helped them to create safer spaces in which to live in their community, study in their educational institutions and socialise with their peer group. This is essential reading for researchers, academics, undergraduates and postgraduates in sociology, psychology, criminology, media and communication studies, as well as practitioners and policymakers in psychology, education, sociology, criminology, psychiatry, counselling and psychotherapy, and anyone concerned with the issue of bullying, cyberbullying and online harms among young people in higher education.

Download or read book Changing Cultures in Higher Education written by Ulf-Daniel Ehlers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More and more educational scenarios and learning landscapes are developed using blogs, wikis, podcasts and e-portfolios. Web 2.0 tools give learners more control, by allowing them to easily create, share or reuse their own learning materials, and these tools also enable social learning networks that bridge the border between formal and informal learning. However, practices of strategic innovation of universities, faculty development, assessment, evaluation and quality assurance have not fully accommodated these changes in technology and teaching. Ehlers and Schneckenberg present strategic approaches for innovation in universities. The contributions explore new models for developing and engaging faculty in technology-enhanced education, and they detail underlying reasons for why quality assessment and evaluation in new – and often informal – learning scenarios have to change. Their book is a practical guide for educators, aimed at answering these questions. It describes what E-learning 2.0 is, which basic elements of Web 2.0 it builds on, and how E-learning 2.0 differs from Learning 1.0. The book also details a number of quality methods and examples, such as self-assessment, peer-review, social recommendation, and peer-learning, using illustrative cases and giving practical recommendations. Overall, it offers a step-by-step guide for educators so that they can choose their own quality assurance or assessment methods, or develop their own evaluation methodology for specific learning scenarios. The book addresses everyone involved in higher education – university leaders, chief information officers, change and quality assurance managers, and faculty developers. Pedagogical advisers and consultants will find new insights and practices for the integration and management of novel learning technologies in higher education. The volume fosters in lecturers and teachers a sound understanding of the need and strategy for change, and it provides them with practical recommendations on competence and quality methodologies.

Download or read book Technoscience and Cyberculture written by Stanley Aronowitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technoculture is culture--such is the proposition posited in Technoscience and Cyberculture, arguing that technology's permeation of the cultural landscape has so irrevocably reconstituted this terrain that technology emerges as the dominant discourse in politics, medicine and everyday life. The problems addressed in Technoscience and Cyberculture concern the ways in which technology and science relate to one another and organize, orient and effect the landscape and inhabitants of contemporary culture.

Download or read book Data Cultures in Higher Education written by Juliana E. Raffaghelli and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection focuses on the role of higher education institutions concerning datafication as a complex phenomenon. It explores how the universities can develop data literac(ies) shaping tomorrow skills and “formae mentis” to face the most deleterious effects of datafication, but also to engage in creative and constructive ways with data. Notably, the book spots data practices within the two most relevant sides of academics’ professional practice, namely, research and teaching. Hence, the collection seeks to reflect on faculty’s professional learning about data infrastructures and practices. The book draws on a range of studies covering the higher education response to the several facets of data in society, from data surveillance and the algorithmic control of human behaviour to empowerment through the use of open data. The research reported ranges from literature overviews to multi-case and in-depth case studies illustrating institutional and educational responses to different problems connected to data. The ultimate intention is to provide conceptual bases and practical examples relating to universities’ faculty development policies to overcome data practices and discourses' fragmentation and contradictions: in a nutshell, to build “fair data cultures” in higher education.

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Current Trends in Cybersecurity and Educational Technology written by Jimenez, Remberto and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-02-17 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been an increased use of technology in educational settings since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the benefits of including such technologies to support education, there is still the need for vigilance to counter the inherent risk that comes with the use of such technologies as the protection of students and their information is paramount to the effective deployment of any technology in education. The Handbook of Research on Current Trends in Cybersecurity and Educational Technology explores the full spectrum of cybersecurity and educational technology today and brings awareness to the recent developments and use cases for emergent educational technology. Covering key topics such as artificial intelligence, gamification, robotics, and online learning, this premier reference source is ideal for computer scientists, industry professionals, policymakers, administrators, researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Download or read book The Cyber Law Handbook Bridging the Digital Legal Landscape written by Mr. Nilutpal Deb Roy and Ms. Pallabi Bordoloi and published by Authors Click Publishing . This book was released on 2023-12-09 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In “The Cyber Law Handbook: Bridging the Digital Legal Landscape,” we delve into the complex and ever-evolving field of cyber law, an area that has become increasingly significant in our digital age. This comprehensive guide navigates through the intricate web of legalities in cyberspace, addressing the fundamental concepts, jurisdictional challenges, and the impact of technological advancements on legal frameworks. From the foundational aspects of cyber law to the latest developments in blockchain technology and emerging tech, each chapter is meticulously crafted to provide insights into how the law intersects with the digital world. The book is designed not only for legal professionals but also for students, policymakers, and anyone interested in understanding the legal dynamics of the digital era.