Digital Project Research Articles

Navigating work integrated learning (WIL) pathways for learners through creative media production: the Yagan Square digital tower WIL project

ABSTRACT Work-integrated learning (WIL) environments are designed to assist students in consolidating their acquired knowledge and skills, apply them to real-world settings and develop a professional identity. Promoting industry engagement and assisting students make links between what they are learning and how it applies to professional practice is one of our key roles as educators. Studies in the relationship between well-being and learning confirm the need for tertiary educators to consider how personal values, health and behaviours radically interact with skills development in the designing and implementation of our teaching and learning programs. It is an imperative we keep abreast of contemporary media practices, but also build effective networks with community and industry and generate partnerships to assist students as they navigate their way through the academy in an increasingly complex world. Informed by studio and project-based learning and experiential methodologies that facilitate student centred approaches with high levels of self-directed learning we discuss our respective pedagogical approaches to the Yagan Square digital tower project, Perth Australia, to promote student engagement with their own communities and how to work with an external organisation who also act as a client and mentors to students .

Photogrammetry, 3D modelling and printing: The creation of a collection of archaeological and epigraphical materials at the university

The aim of this contribution is to present the Experimenting Digital Antiquity Project undertaken at the Complutense University in 2021–2022. The initiative consisted of encouraging new teaching methodologies by creating a collection of copies of ancient finds printed with 3D technology. This required a series of carefully organised steps that can be summarised as training students in the skills needed to carry out the photogrammetry of artifacts preserved in museums and ultimately printing the 3D models they prepared. The results, an initial collection of 21 artifacts, laid the foundations for work that has continued since then.

PENGEMBANGAN VIDEO PEMBELAJARAN MENULIS PUISI UNTUK SISWA KELAS V SEKOLAH DASAR

Media that had been used at the time of learning to write poetry is to wear textbooks and worksheets, although using the environment and even then only in the classroom. The school has actually set up a computer and digital projector; the facility cannot be fully utilized due to the limited ability of the teacher. Armed with the help of video learning process more interesting and meaningful. Besides video media is used as an important learning to cope with students' learning styles, both students who have a visual learning style and learning style audio. Their lessons can be combined with the use of information technology advances. Through the advancement of the teachers can use video. This results in a product development research video for learning to write poetry. The specifications of the products developed by the researchers contains a step -by-step how to write poetryand poetry is equipped with a visualization exercise for the task of writing poetry . Keyword: Video learning, writing poetry

Дигиталните устни истории във висшето образование и академичните библиотеки: потенциал и развитие

Abstract: In the realm of academic research, accessing, creating, preserving, and disseminating historical narratives is of paramount importance. Oral histories, in particular, offer a unique perspective, capturing personal experiences, emotions, and cultural nuances that traditional written records may overlook. With the advent of digital technology, the oral history is undergoing a transformative change. The article examines the development of digital oral histories and the opportunities they offer in higher education and academic libraries. The review includes an analysis of the specifics of traditional and digital oral histories, the role of academic centers in the development of digital oral history projects, and identifies the potential for enriching learning experiences and research. In addi¬tion, the challenges and opportunities for the development of digital oral histories in the future are considered, emphasizing the role of the academic library in this process. Keywords: oral history, digital oral history; academic libraries; higher education; educational techniques.

EFL Pre-Service Teachers’ Experiences in Speaking through a Digital Storytelling Project

EFL Pre-Service Teachers’ Experiences in Speaking through a Digital Storytelling Project

Controlled Mechanical Property Gradients Within a Digital Light Processing Printed Hydrogel-Composite Osteochondral Scaffold.

Tissue engineered scaffolds are needed to support physiological loads and emulate the micrometer-scale strain gradients within tissues that guide cell mechanobiological responses. We designed and fabricated micro-truss structures to possess spatially varying geometry and controlled stiffness gradients. Using a custom projection microstereolithography (μSLA) system, using digital light projection (DLP), and photopolymerizable poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PEGDA) hydrogel monomers, three designs with feature sizes < 200μm were formed: (1) uniform structure with 1MPa structural modulus ( ) designed to match equilibrium modulus of healthy articular cartilage, (2)  = 1MPa gradient structure designed to vary strain with depth, and (3) osteochondral bilayer with distinct cartilage (  = 1MPa) and bone (  = 7MPa) layers. Finite element models (FEM) guided design and predicted the local mechanical environment. Empty trusses and poly(ethylene glycol) norbornene hydrogel-infilled composite trusses were compressed during X-ray microscopy (XRM) imaging to evaluate regional stiffnesses. Our designs achieved target moduli for cartilage and bone while maintaining 68-81% porosity. Combined XRM imaging and compression of empty and hydrogel-infilled micro-truss structures revealed regional stiffnesses that were accurately predicted by FEM. In the infilling hydrogel, FEM demonstrated the stress-shielding effect of reinforcing structures while predicting strain distributions. Composite scaffolds made from stiff μSLA-printed polymers support physiological load levels and enable controlled mechanical property gradients which may improve in vivo outcomes for osteochondral defect tissue regeneration. Advanced 3D imaging and FE analysis provide insights into the local mechanical environment surrounding cells in composite scaffolds.

The Impact of a Skill-Driven Model on Scrum Teams in Software Projects: A Catalyst for Digital Transformation

Human skills are a critical factor in the success or failure of a digital project. Limited studies have been conducted to identify the industry demand for skills of scrum roles (product owner, scrum master, web developer) and levels (entry, associate, mid-senior). The evaluation of skills over time benefits both decision-makers and associated team members, which leads to successful project completions. The aim of this research is to improve decision making concerning the level-specific skills of selected scrum roles for digital projects. The study identifies major and minor skills, patterns, and relationships between levels, and formulates the mathematical equations as the most important inputs to the skill-driven model’s implementation and evaluation. Both qualitative and quantitative research methods were used to analyse 900 surveyed job advertisements published on LinkedIn in Europe. Descriptive analysis was used to analyse quantitative data while the deductive approach was followed with thematic analysis. There are required skill sets for each level of roles, level-specific skills, industry-demanded skills, and formulas related to the initial and individual skill ratings that are investigated. A new mechanism for evaluation is introduced based on “the time spent with skills”. As a result, the proposed model is implemented by feeding research findings into the Mendix programming platform. The skill-driven model is a decision-support solution in software project management to evaluate skills which assist in assigning the right person to the right digital project. Further investigation on different job portals can help to improve the accuracy of industry standards and reduce the lack of progression skills by overcoming limitations identified in this paper.

Exploring the perspectives and practices of humanitarian actors towards the Participation Revolution in humanitarian digital health responses: a qualitative study

BackgroundAs crises escalate worldwide, there is an increasing demand for innovative solutions to enhance humanitarian outcomes. Within this landscape, digital health tools have emerged as promising solutions to tackle certain health challenges. The integration of digital health tools within the international humanitarian system provides an opportunity to reflect upon the system’s paternalistic tendencies, driven largely by Global North organisations, that perpetuate existing inequities in the Global South, where the majority of crises occur. The Participation Revolution, a fundamental pillar of the Localisation Agenda, seeks to address these inequities by advocating for greater participation from crisis-affected people in response efforts. Despite being widely accepted as a best practice; a gap remains between the rhetoric and practice of participation in humanitarian response efforts. This study explores the extent and nature of participatory action within contemporary humanitarian digital health projects, highlighting participatory barriers and tensions and offering potential solutions to bridge the participation gap to enhance transformative change in humanitarian response efforts.MethodsSixteen qualitative interviews were conducted with humanitarian health practitioners and experts to retrospectively explored participatory practices within their digital health projects. The interviews were structured and analysed according to the Localisation Performance Measurement Framework’s participation indicators and thematically, following the Framework Method. The study was guided by the COREQ checklist for quality reporting.ResultsVaried participatory formats, including focus groups and interviews, demonstrated modest progress towards participation indicators. However, the extent of influence and power held by crisis-affected people during participation remained limited in terms of breadth and depth. Participatory barriers emerged under four key themes: project processes, health evidence, technology infrastructure and the crisis context. Lessons for leveraging participatory digital health humanitarian interventions were conducting thorough pre-project assessments and maintaining engagement with crisis-affected populations throughout and after humanitarian action.ConclusionThe emerging barriers were instrumental in shaping the limited participatory reality and have implications: Failing to engage crisis-affected people risks perpetuating inequalities and causing harm. To advance the Participation Revolution for humanitarian digital health response efforts, the major participatory barriers should be addressed to improve humanitarian efficiency and digital health efficacy and uphold the rights of crisis-affected people.

The Successful Factors for Digital Transformation in Project Management

In the era of Industry 4.0, the advent of the digital revolution is reshaping project management processes, and digital transformation is advancing with a heightened focus on its influence on project success. Research on the success factors for digital transformation in project management is limited, particularly in drawing industry-specific conclusions, owing to varying levels of digitization across projects. The exploration of success factors' impact on the digital transformation process and the distinctive characteristics of different industries remains largely uncharted territory. This research aimed to explore key aspects of digital transformation projects, focusing on success factors that significantly influence their outcomes. A Thematic analysis approach was used to draw insights. The analysis delves into four crucial success factors. These key themes included organizational change management, organizational efficiency enhancement, organizational process management, sustainability, and societal management. Each factor is examined for its role in shaping successful digital transformations. The conclusion succinctly summarizes the key findings and emphasizes the importance of these success factors in the context of digital transformation initiatives. These findings go beyond the scope of prior research, delving into the intricacies of industry perspectives, which can drive the digital transformation of project management practices.

Multi-depth imaging head-up display using broadband composite holographic optical elements

In order to address the problem of limited imaging planes in the depth direction of traditional automotive head up displays (HUDs), we proposed a kind of HUD with multi-depth imaging capability using broadband composite holographic elements, which can simultaneously project driving information in far, middle, and near depth planes. The system integrates a micro LED digital projector, a composite dispersion compensation element (CDCE) and a composite holographic combiner (CHC) into a compact structure. The images output from a single micro LED projector are projected to different depth planes by the CDCE and CHC. Dispersion blurring of holographic optical elements (HOEs) using broadband incoherent LED illumination is solved by the dispersion compensation characteristics between the holographic elements. This HUD system is capable of projecting high-resolution images on depth planes of z = 2.3 m, z = 0.55 m, and z = 0.3 m, respectively, with the resolutions of 11.57 lp/mm, 13.2 lp/mm, and 15.4 lp/mm with a 6.5° horizontal field of view. Using LED as light source, the system not only avoids speckle noise and safety hazards from laser, but also reduces illumination costs and expands the applicability of HOEs. Meanwhile, the HUD system has high transparency and effective virtual and real information integration ability, which has promising application prospects.

Barriers and bridges to well-being for Latinx immigrant youth in a new Latinx destination: A digital narrative inquiry

An increasing number of Latinx young people in the United States are facing unique challenges to attaining and maintaining well-being as residents of new Latinx destinations. This study analyzes the testimonios of 12 Latinx immigrant youth (aged 18–21) who participated in a digital narrative research project in New Orleans – a new Latinx destination in the US South. Findings are interpreted and discussed through the lens of the Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory (PVEST), revealing Latinx young people’s perspectives on the barriers to experiencing well-being, the “bridges” that helped them to experience well-being despite those barriers, and the ways in which broader contexts and identities shaped their lived experiences. This study offers evidence of the detrimental health impacts of racialization and marginalization on Latinx youth in a new Latinx destination, as well as the assets, resources, coping skills, and meaning-making processes that supported their well-being.

Making The Future School: An Analysis of Teens' Collaborative Digital Fabrication Project

Maker culture emphasizes informal, networked, self- and peer-led learning, motivated by fun and self-fulfillment, and learning through mistakes. However, studies often describe activities involving a lot of guidance. As guidance may lead to both the process and outcomes influenced by those guiding the activity, it is also important to examine how projects evolve without the supporters' push. We take a nexus analytical approach to explore 1) how teens' background, interactions with others, and available materials and spaces are at play when they shape their ideas and outputs in a collaborative maker project with minimal support, and 2) how these factors can be considered to better support learning in such projects. The work carried out by five teens in a local FabLab was based on peer collaboration within changing apprentice mentor pairs. When they ideated and prototyped for a future school, researchers provided minimal support, mainly online. Without their push, teens quickly modified tasks which both guided and narrowed down their thinking. Their experiences from school environment and the FabLab space served as an inspiration as they designed solutions to overcome current problems in the current school setting or digital fabrication process. When making, they gravitated towards processes they had previous experience of or which they enjoyed, perhaps partly affected by the competing discourses of maker culture and expertise we observed to be present in the FabLab space. While building on existing skillsets, this may leave the potential of novel trajectories and expanding one's skills and competences unexplored. Teens' self-esteem improved as they turned from apprentices to mentors for their peers. This allowed them to process their learning from a different perspective. In general, our results paint a detailed picture of the roles of different participants in a maker project and provide an example of how familiar discourses of education persist in teens' designs. Looking at the project through the lens of Nexus analysis contributes to an increased understanding of the space for action and participants' histories, and interactions on the process, valuable for researchers studying DF and making, and practitioners working in makerspaces and FabLabs with different user groups. On a more practical level, our work contributes to a deeper understanding on how to include teens into non-guided and community-driven maker practices. We provide practical implications on how to support learning in collaborative making projects in informal learning situations, and regarding the role of the different actors and the environment in such situations. We also identify avenues for future research in this area.

NEH releases $1.5M for Digital Projects for the Public program

NEH releases $1.5M for Digital Projects for the Public program

Large-field and fast super-resolution microscopic imaging method based on laser interferometry

In recent years, structured illumination microscopy (SIM) has been drawing great attention for both technique development and application. However, conventional SIM, which uses a spatial light modulator (SLM) for fringe projection, often has a limited field of view. To meet the demand for high-throughput microscopic imaging in biomedicine research, a large-field super-resolution (SR) fluorescence microscopic imaging method based on laser interferometry was proposed. The method that combines a two-dimensional (2D) grating for fringe pattern projection and an SLM for selecting fringe orientation can break the limitation of fringe number limited by the digital projection devices. A spatial-domain reconstruction algorithm was developed to improve the computational speed of super-resolution imaging. Finally, an experimental platform for SIM microscopy was established. A large-field view of 1380 μm × 1035 μm under a 20×/NA0.75 objective is experimentally demonstrated, and an enhancement of 1.8-fold resolution is realized. The spatial-domain reconstruction algorithm can significantly improve the computational speed by approximately 10 times faster compared to the traditional frequency-domain algorithm.

Digital storytelling online: a case report exploring virtual design, implementation opportunities and challenges

BackgroundDigital storytelling is an arts-informed approach that engages short, first-person videos, typically three to five minutes in length, to communicate a personal narrative. Prior to the pandemic, digital storytelling initiatives in health services research were often conducted during face-to-face workshops scheduled over multiple days. However, throughout the COVID-19 lockdowns where social distancing requirements needed to be maintained, many digital storytelling projects were adapted to online platforms.MethodsAs part of a research project aiming to explore the day surgery treatment and recovery experiences of women with breast cancer in Peel region, we decided to pivot our digital storytelling process to an online format. During the process, we observed that the online digital storytelling format had multiple opportunities and challenges to implementation.ResultsThis paper outlines our promising practices and lessons learned when designing and implementing an online digital storytelling project including pre-production, production and post-production considerations.ConclusionsWe provide lessons learned for future teams intending to conduct an online digital storytelling project.

Transformation of Digital Technologies in Local Government

There is little theoretical justification for integrated management in municipalities. This especially concerns the need to formulate the concept and use of digital technologies for municipalities at various levels. This implies the need to take into account the core values characteristic of public organizations, in particular public associations and individuals involved in this process. The problem of digitalization has been considered in many areas, but at the municipal level there are only the results of fragmentary descriptions, and, most often, only at the level of converting previously created content into digital format. The authors show various approaches to the use of digital technologies in management: e-government, digital city, smart city, digital projects in municipalities, digitalization of administration, information and communication technologies in state and municipal government. This study examines a rarely considered aspect, namely the transformation of digital technologies in the management process at the city level, as well as its impact on urban infrastructure assets. Besides, the study attempts to methodize the objects of the municipal structure in a digital format and to attract the attention of the practical world to the value that a complex development system integrated into digital space can bring to the system.

Paradoxes of the digital ruble implementation in monetary turnover

Russia, which is actively piloting the Digital Ruble project, has become the first country to legislate the turnover of the central bank’s digital currency. At the same time, the embodiment of the competitive balance between “electronic private and digital honest” for the interaction of the information society in a virtual environment, which makes it possible to turn the lack of understanding (indirect participation) into a trust relationship (direct participation) with full optional financial support in the contour of the national metaverse, has not yet been implemented in practice. The relevance and desirability of the study is due to insufficient research on the integration of high-tech financial products into the monetary system in the focus of a full-scale digital transformation of the entire financial system, as well as the lack of a carefully developed legal framework for the implementation of central banks digital currencies on a global scale. The need to achieve this goal determined a phased study of regulatory, statistical and periodic literature using general scientific and special research methods: systemic and interdisciplinary approaches, formal logic, comparative analysis, classification, etc. The authors have found that the digital ruble does not correspond to the category of ideal digital currency in the context of digital (crypto) units and identified the discussion provisions for regulating the transformation processes of the digital ruble implementation into monetary turnover. As a result, we have specified the nature of monetary innovation at the stage of economic bifurcation metamorphoses.

Research on the Development of Digital Economy in Shanxi Province in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

With the development of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, new information technologies such as 5G technology, big data and artificial intelligence have become an important driving force to promote the development of digital economy. In the context of the era of artificial intelligence, Shanxi Province, as a relatively latecomer in the economic development of domestic provinces, should seize the opportunity to keep up with the trend of The Times. Through the analysis of some data of Shanxi's digital economy in recent years and the comparison with other provinces, it is found that Shanxi has some problems in digital infrastructure, industrial digitization, digital industrialization and digital government construction. With artificial intelligence as the background, through investigation, literature and other methods to accelerate the construction of digital infrastructure, expand the scale of digital industrialization, implement industrial digital transformation projects, and strengthen the construction of digital government as basic measures, Shanxi can realize the rapid development of digital economy. These measures are of great significance for Shanxi Province to formulate corresponding measures from the perspective of problems in the process of digital economy development, so as to achieve industrial transformation and high-quality economic development

The memeing body: More-than-activism in the more-than-real

This article explores the ways that bodies are imagined and enrolled in a digital political project in the context of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Using data from online and in-person fieldwork over the course of 2020–22, I follow a small group of young people in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, who spend their days running CAT (Citizens Against Terrorism), a self-described anti-fascist meme group active on platforms such as Twitter/X, Facebook, and Instagram, as well as their own website. Behind the seeming unseriousness of this endeavour is a deliberate approach, grounded in the view that Bosnian youth are not apathetic, but ignored; that they are actively being targeted by the far right through memes and other mirthful means; and that attempts to engage youth in left political action must meet them on their own turf. As they attempt to meet young people where they are, the CATs engage in what they call “more-than-activism”, a serendipitous nod to the more-than-real spaces they create through their digital and physical activities. Drawing on cyberfeminism and recent work in digital geography, the article argues for an approach to young people’s politics that is sensitive to their embodied experiences, including in the digital parts of their lives. Through a more-than-real approach, we can understand how seemingly ephemeral objects like memes come to matter in the making and unmaking of political projects.

A comparison of soft factors in the implementation and adoption of digitalization projects: a systematic literature review

This study expounds existing literature on digitalization projects taking a one-dimensional view on people at organizational, project and individual levels. Through a systematic literature review, we highlight and contrast the impact of soft factors on the implementation and adoption of digitalization projects. Four core enablers were identified and contrasted at different organizational levels in an integrated framework for successful implementation and adoption of digitalization projects. Findings indicate that both adoption and implementation of digitalization projects have similar core enablers at organizational level, significantly different actions that need to be taken at project level and slightly different characteristics at individual level. Moreover, eight critical soft factors were identified for successful implementation and adoption of digitalization projects. The findings provide valuable insights to practitioners and enable controlling the highest value factors to increase the success rate of digitalization projects and to identify the core elements that need attention at various organizational levels. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first systematic literature review that expounds the extent of knowledge available on success factors within the context of digitalization projects taking the single dimensional focus on people at different organizational levels.