Network Education Research Articles

A research model to study research-practice partnerships in education

PurposeThis scoping review utilizes findings from 80 articles to build a research model to study research-practice-policy networks in K-12 education systems. The purpose of this study was to generate a broad understanding of the variation in conceptualizations of research-practice-policy partnerships, rather than dominant conceptualizations.Design/methodology/approachArskey and O'Malley's (2005) five stage scoping review process was utilized including: (1) a consultative process with partners to identify research questions, (2) identify relevant studies, (3) study selection based on double-blind peer review, (4) charting the data and (5) collating, summarizing and reporting the results in a research model identifying key dimensions and components of research-practice partnerships (RPPs).FindingsCoburn et al. (2013) definition of RPPs arose as an anchoring definition within the emerging field. This article proposes a model for understanding the organization and work of RPPs arising from the review. At the core lies shared goals, coproduction and multistakeholder collaboration organized around three dimensions: (1) Systems and structures: funding, governance, strategic roles, policy environment, system alignment; (2) Collaborative processes: improvement planning and data use, communication, trusting relationships, brokering activities, capacity building; (3) Continuous Learning Cycles: social innovation, implementation, evaluation and adaptation.Research limitations/implicationsBy using a common framework, data across RPPs and from different studies can be compared. Research foci might test links between elements such as capacity building and impacts, or test links between systems and structures and how those elements influence collaborative processes and the impact of the RPPs. Research could test the generalizability of the framework across contexts. Through the application and use of the research model, various elements might be refuted, confirmed or refined. More work is needed to use this framework to study RPPs, and to develop accompanying data collection methods and instruments for each dimension and element.Practical implicationsThe practical applications of the framework are to be used by RPPs as a learning framework for strategic planning, iterative learning cycles and evaluation. Many of the elements of the framework could be used to check-in with partners on how things are going – such as exploring how communication is working and whether these structures move beyond merely updates and reporting toward joint problem-solving. The framework could also be used prior to setting up an RPP as an organizing approach to making decisions about how that RPP might best operate.Originality/valueDespite increased attention on multistakeholder networks in education, the conceptual understanding is still limited. This article analyzed theoretical and empirical work to build a systematic model to study RPPs in education. This research model can be used to: identify RPP configurations, analyze the impact of RPPs, and to compare similarities and differences across configurations.

The Use of Social Network in Daily Pediatric Practice and Education: Turkish Pediatric Atelier.

Using social media applications in pediatric education is not outdated, and its effectiveness has not been tested yet. For this reason, we shared the first results of the Pediatric Atelier experience that we realized through telegram application. We make an online survey to investigate the needs, requirements, pleasure, and suggestions of members through a web-based questionnaire. This cross-sectional survey study was delivered only to participants who were members of the workshop via their email addresses. Online questionnaires organized using Google Forms were sent to pediatric workshop members between March and June 2019. The questionnaire consisted of questions that measured the participants' basic demographic data, the use of the workshop, and the overall impact of the workshop on their professional behavior. While the institutions and positions of the participants were recorded, no other personal data (such as address and telephone) were collected. Among the 997 members, 417 (42%) of them answered the questionnaire. Respondents included 300 (72%) pediatrician, 21 (5%) pediatric subspeciality fellows, and 75 (18%) pediatric subspecialists. Of the 417 respondents, 217 (52%) were working in Istanbul, and 200 (48%) were working in other cities of Turkey. Among the responders, 233 (56%) were working in private hospitals or doctor offices. A total of 520 cases were consulted in 241 days of study period. Most consultations (n = 309, %59) were made from the Istanbul metropolitan area, and 203 (40%) consultations were from other cities of Turkey. The most frequently consulted departments were Pediatric infectious diseases: 166 (32%), Pediatric hematology and oncology: 56 (11%), and Neonatology: 43 (8%). Of the 520 consulted cases, 44 (8%) were related to life-threatening events, and 25 of them were hospitalized in the intensive care units, and 6 of them were required surgical operations. Of the 94% of responders thought this platform was useful and 82% of them stated that the case counseling part of the atelier was the most useful part. We think that the development of technology and artificial intelligence may lead to the usage of on-line platforms or systems in clinical medical practice. Clinical Trial Registration (if any). Registry name, registration number, web link to study on registry, and data sharing statement.

The challenges of internal social networking for higher education: a brief review of the literature

As social networks become increasingly popular, they have positively changed the business environment by encouraging and providing collaboration opportunities. Social media networks have also enhanced knowledge sharing, innovation, and relationship building, which is growing very fast among enterprises. Many enterprises are assessing the potential of exploiting the commercial opportunities of this technology, which could enhance employee engagement and provide a variety of effects on collaborative work (e.g., relational and personal benefits to organizations). Although these benefits are not only limited to commercial organisations, but also higher education communities are benefiting, as they enable communication, collaboration, and knowledge exchange between individuals. The interest of academic research is in discovering whether the staff and scientific researchers use enterprise social networks as part of their work practices. This focus is motivated by an apparent schism between a need for researchers to exchange knowledge, collaborate, and the aversion to engaging their ideas by communicating through specific digital channels with other individuals. This literature review highlights the influencing factors on the adoption of social networking in higher education, and how these factors differ under different types of social networking, and diverse perspectives in different education levels.

The Application of Computer Network in Ideological and Political Education

The Application of Computer Network in Ideological and Political Education

Negative Aspects of Using Social Networks in Education: A Brief Review on WhatsApp Example

The aim of this study is to examine negative effects of using WhatsApp social network application in educational processes and to create a conceptual framework in this manner. In order to examine the literature related to the research topic, sources in different databases were evaluated and research works after especially 2010 have been considered accordingly. A holistic framework regarding negative results of using WhatsApp in education has been tried to be established by examining the sources in detail. There is currently not too many scientific research works on benefits and disadvantages of using WhatsApp in long-term. But since this application has been accepted by many researchers as an instant messaging approach, it appears to be a small number of studies analyzing the effects of over-use of instant messaging take place in the associated literature. When the data obtained within this research is examined it is possible to express that the students addicted to instant messaging are inadequate in academic processes, they cannot control the time spent for messaging, they neglect their homework and they are also less disciplined compared to other students. Additionally, it is also seen these students’ comprehension levels, learning skills, productivity and academic achievements have been affected negatively. It is also remarkable that students using instant messaging during reading tasks can increase the time required for completing reading, and may even feel sleepiness during daytime.

Application of social network in traditional sciences education on the vocabulary acquisition of secondary English learner students

Learning vocabulary is probably the most challenging and time-consuming part of learning a foreign language. Researchers argue that social media could affect learners’ vocabulary acquisition. It is hypothesized that teaching science concepts could accompany vocabulary acquisition. We investigated the possible role of social networks (i.e. Telegram) in the improvement of vocabulary knowledge among undergraduate students from the Iranian University of Medical Sciences during September and October 2017. We conducted a quasi-experimental controlled before-after study and allocated female students to intervention and comparison groups at their academic major level (32 public health students as intervention, vs. 29 subject from nutritional sciences as a comparison). The intervention and comparison groups attended 6 lectures. The learners in the intervention group received additional video and text material through Telegram on a weekly basis and we had an open discussion regarding the important word and concepts. Students in both conditions were given a pretest at the beginning and a posttest at the end to measure growth in vocabulary acquisition. We used a linear regression model, adjusted for concept score, pre-test vocabulary score, lecture attended, education and marital status with pretest scores serving as a covariate. We have investigated 61 subjects, where, 32 participated in the Telegram group discussion related to the science concept. Six standard educational videos delivered through a filmed lecture distributed among the intervention group, each of which was approximately 500 words (ranging from 450 to 707) long. We have observed significant improvement in the vocabulary score of participant in intervention (before = 34.37 vs after = 46.03) and comparison groups (before = 32.79 vs after = 36.31). However, the intervention group significantly outperformed the comparison group, P < 0.05). the current study showed that online collaborative learning (i.e. using Telegram), as an assistance tool in education, can increase the communication between teaching faculty and students in such a way that resulted in significant improvement in the vocabulary score of SLL.

Managerial Potential of Educational Organizations under Conditions of Network Interaction

Development of new forms of labor self-organization is embodied in phenomena of distributed management and direct influence of personnel on realization and development of the organization’s strategy. The article is devoted to studying of relations underlying the development of managerial potential of an educational organization under conditions of network interaction. The work involves activity, network, system-synergetic approaches and methods of comparative theoretical and methodological analysis, theoretical reconstruction of bases of development strategies of a modern educational organization’s managerial potential under conditions of network interaction. Differences of the network and non-network managerial paradigms in education are described in detail. It was established that the managerial potential of educational organizations is actively realized in course of development of collectives’ involvement into solving and realization of strategic and tactic tasks in conditions of activity of the scientific-educational network. It is demonstrated that development of the managerial potential of interaction participants is provided via creation of additional managerial roles and solving of super-functional managerial tasks, which allows to change the nature of the managerial labor. It is demonstrated that managerial potential of teachers’ collectives can successfully developed in integrative management technologies based on a new methodology focused on development of involvement of network interaction into solving of organizational issues, solving of strategic and tactic tasks under conditions of systemic activity of the scientific-educational network.

Campus Connections: Student and Course Networks in Higher Education

Residential higher education brings thousands of students together for multiple years and offers them an array of shared intellectual experiences and a network of social interactions. Many of these intellectual and social connections are formed during courses. Students are connected to students through courses they take together, and courses are connected to one another by students who take both. These courses and the students who take them form a bipartite network that encodes information about campus structures and student experiences. Because all institutions of higher education collect and maintain precise records of what courses students take, it is possible to assemble a student-course network that quantitatively describes the interactions among students and courses. We provide an example that demonstrates the identification of courses effective at creating unique connections among students and reveals how students and majors can be strongly connected or dispersed. We show how social network analysis can be used to improve our understanding of the learning environment at the University of Michigan, and we hope that this kind of analysis is of interest to persons at other institutions.

Integrating emotional attachment, resource sharing, communication and collaboration into UTAUT2 to examine students behavioural intention to adopt social media networks in education

This study aims to develop and test an amalgamated conceptual framework based on Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2) with trust (TR), emotional attachment (EA), resource and material sharing (RA), communication (COM) and collaboration (COL), which might be the salient factors that may influence the adoption of Social Networking Sites (SNS) for educational purposes. Data were collected from 399 Omani university students who use SNSs for their academic purposes using a self-administrated questionnaire. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was employed to perform reliability and validity checks, and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was employed to test the proposed conceptual model. As hypothesised, the findings of this research revealed that students' Behavioural Intention (BI) was positively and significantly influenced by COM, RA, Performance Expectancy (PE), COL, EA, hedonic motivation, and habit, in their order of influencing power and explained 67.7% of the variance in behavioural intention. However, effort expectancy and TR did not have affecting impact on BI. This study could help instructors and managements at higher educational institutions to formulate strategies to encourage the students to use the social networking sites for academic purposes.

The Attitude Towards and the Use of Social Networking in European Higher Education

Nowadays, social networking is becoming a more and more powerful tool for students for communication, sharing of information and discussions on various topics. The study presented in this article investigates the extent to which teachers from different European countries use social networking sites in their teaching practice for different purposes and what their attitude is towards the use of social networking in higher education in general. The study is intended to seek clarity on the issues, whether the use of social networks is related to teacher information about social networking sites; their participation in interest groups and research for the use of social networks in education; and whether the results obtained from the survey vary according to the country. For this purpose, the statistical software IBM SPSS Statistics is used. On the other hand, the study explores specific areas of the use of social networking in higher education, with an emphasis on their efficacy.

Preparedness to combat COVID-19 via structured online training program regarding specific airway management: A prospective observational study.

Preparedness to combat COVID-19 via structured online training program regarding specific airway management: A prospective observational study.

Semantic knowledge networks in education

The article is devoted to the modeling a semantic knowledge networks. The knowledge network is the basic concept of the problem of knowledge management. This is a new discipline that implements the principles of sustainable development of education. The method of constructing a semantic knowledge network allows us to analyze the connections between educational disciplines: “Economic Cybernetics”, “Algorithms and Programming” and “Calculus”. The paper compares the topological characteristics of the concept graphs related to various disciplines. We develop the algorithm to implement the subject area model in the form of a semantic knowledge network. 125 concepts are analyzed that provide optimal mastering disciplines and establish the connection between them.

ТЕНДЕНЦИИ И НАПРАВЛЕНИЯ РАЗВИТИЯ УНИВЕРСИТЕТОВ В ЦИФРОВОЙ НАУЧНО-ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЙ СРЕДЕ

The digitalization trend has fundamentally changed the operating conditions of modern universities and contributed to the formation of new market segments. The use of modern information technologies has made it possible to improve the manufacturability and individualization of educational and research processes, ensuring the achievement of a new quality of the digital scientific and educational environment. New areas of development of the digital scientific and educational environment based on the use of information technology capabilities include gamification technologies, virtual and augmented reality, robotics, cloud technologies, artificial intelligence, blockchain, virtual assistants and the use of social networks in education, research and innovation and other fields of activity. universities. At the same time, these technologies can be applied in the context of developing a software package and information and methodological support for the process of forming and developing sustainable competitiveness of employees of modern universities.

Fejsbuk grupe kao alat u visokom obrazovanju

The modern age is characterized by the Internet era, the rapid development of technology and new means of communication and education, including social networks. The aim of this paper is to examine the degree of utilization of Facebook in higher education by students, and educational tools within the network. The first part of the paper refers to definition of key terms in relation to the subject matter of the research, chapters on the social network Facebook in function of education and Facebook groups in education. This section also presents interpretations of previous researches, from published scientific papers and books, on the use of the Facebook social network in high education. The second part presents the research conducted for the purposes of this paper, which showed that a group of surveyed students from the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš use Facebook for educational purposes through Facebook groups. Finally, the results that led to the conclusion are summarized.

Redes de políticas, terceiro setor e os movimentos de privatização da educação brasileira

Como estratégia para desenvolver uma educação para a produtividade, legitimar a configuração mais recente do capitalismo, garantir a posição da classe hegemônica-dirigente e impulsionar o mercado pedagógico, grupos empresariais têm se organizado em movimentos que vêm assumindo protagonismo na definição de políticas educacionais. Ao comporem um terceiro setor, desenvolvem parcerias que deixam mais tênues as fronteiras entre o público e o privado e assumem determinadas funções próprias do Estado. Essa atuação mantém relações orgânicas com empresas internacionais pela via de redes de políticas. O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar a incidência do terceiro setor, das relações público-privadas e das redes de políticas na educação pública brasileira. Pelo estudo teórico-documental, de abordagem quanti-qualitativa, recortou-se o Movimento Todos pela Educação e o Movimento pela Base. As análises evidenciam que esses movimentos têm marcado a transposição dos ideais e ações do empresariado para a educação pública, legitimados por parcerias com instituições, governos e o Estado. Incidindo sobre as políticas educacionais atuam como mecanismos de privatização e de incremento de lucros reorientando a gestão educacional. Sublinha-se a importância dos movimentos e associações de defesa da educação laica, pública e de qualidade sociopolítica referendada interpelarem e coibirem ações público-privadas na definição das políticas públicas educacionais.&#x0D; Palavras-chave: Estado, Terceiro Setor, Redes de Políticas, Movimento Todos pela Educação, Movimento pela Base.&#x0D; &#x0D; Policy Networks, the Third Sector and the Movements to Privatize Brazilian Education&#x0D; Abstract: As a strategy to develop education for productivity, to legitimize the most recent configuration of capitalism, to guarantee the position of the hegemonic-ruling class and to promote the pedagogical market, business groups have organized movements that have assumed a leading role in the definition of educational public policies. When composing a third sector, they develop partnerships that leave the borders between public and private thinner and assume certain functions of the State. This performance maintains organic relations with international companies through policy networks. The aim of this study was to analyze the incidence of the third sector, public-private relations and policy networks in the Brazilian public education. Through the theoretical-documental study, with a quantitative and qualitative approach, the All for Education and the Base Movement were cut out. Analyses show that these movements have marked the transposition of the ideals and actions of the business community to public education, legitimized by partnerships with institutions, governments and the State. Focusing on educational policies, they act as mechanisms for privatization and increased profits, reorienting educational management. The importance of movements and associations for the defense of secular, public and socio-political education endorsed is underlined to challenge and restrain public-private actions in the definition of public educational policies.&#x0D; Keywords: State, Third sector, Policy Networks, All for Education Movement, Base Movement.&#x0D; &#x0D; Redes de políticas y tercer sector: movimientos privatizadores la educación brasileña &#x0D; Resumen: Como estrategia para desarrollar una educación para la productividad, legitimar la configuración más reciente del capitalismo, garantizar la posición de la comunidad empresarial como clase hegemónica-dominante y para impulsar el mercado pedagógico, los grupos empresariales se han organizado en movimientos que, paulatinamente, han ido asumiendo protagonismo en la definición de las políticas públicas educativas, introduciendo principios y acciones de gestión en la enseñanza pública. Al componer un tercer sector, desarrollan alianzas público-privadas que dan lugar a mecanismos de privatización, dejando más difusas las fronteras entre lo público y lo privado, asumiendo así las funciones propias del Estado. Esta actuación mantiene relaciones orgánicas con empresas internacionales a través de las redes de políticas. El propósito de este artículo es analizar la incidencia del tercer sector, las relaciones público-privadas y las redes de políticas en la educación pública brasileña, por medio de los movimientos privatizadores. A través del estudio teórico-documental, se destacan el Movimiento para Todos y el Movimiento de Base, que han marcado la transposición de los ideales y acciones de la comunidad empresarial a la educación pública, legitimados por alianzas con instituciones, gobiernos y con el propio Estado brasileño. &#x0D; Palabras clave: Estado, Tercer sector, Redes de Políticas, Movimiento Todos por la Educación, Movimiento de Base.

Professionalism and professional education in the context of sustainable development

The sustainable development serves as the resulting index of new economic, social and political development in society with multiple uncertain parameters due to the increased process dynamics. It foresees the creation of personnel training system, the personnel able to develop proactively and fit the times. Consequently, it sets other tasks to the professional education system. The analysis conducted by the authors is directed to studying the term “professionalism” on the example of the social sphere, the dynamics of key professional functions and possibilities of social sphere specialists’ professional conversion. Respectively, primary trends in the social education development and the compliance with the labour market needs in social sphere, the impact of professional activity of social sphere specialists towards sustainable development in our country were analysed. The evaluation of study results was carried out during the development of professional and education standards, their professional and public hearings, and the development of recommendation on application of network and distance technologies in the social education.

The social side of teacher education: Implications of social network research for the design of professional development

This article provides an overview and synthesis of seven artilces in a special issue focusing on the use of Social Network Analysis to study networks in teacher education. The article uses the Intentional Network Design framework (Baker-Doyle & Yoon, 2018) to explain the outcomes from the studies and analyze the potential for findings from social network research in education to influence future design of teacher education practices and programs.

Application of wireless network and machine learning algorithm in entrepreneurship education of remote intelligent classroom

Educational information system is a hot topic in education today, and informatization is not only reflected in teaching methods. With the development of computer vision and deep learning technologies and the gradual maturity of related hardware, the application of computer algorithms and intelligent identification in distance education has become a norm. This research studies the entrepreneurial model of distance intelligent classrooms, uses machine learning technology as the basis, and combines intelligent image recognition technology to identify the status and expression of students in distance education classrooms. Moreover, this paper has carried out a more detailed study of face detection and expression recognition technology and tried to apply it to classroom teaching evaluation, which has shown certain feasibility in experiments. At the end of this article, the system was tested and analyzed with the collected data, which verified the feasibility and accuracy of the system.

The Austrian ECOLOG-schools programme: History, structure, lessons learned, and impact of a network

This chapter describes networking for education for sustainable development within the Austrian ECOLOG-schools network. It discusses theoretical concepts of Education for Sustainable Development and school development from an Austrian perspective, as well as networks in education in general and the organization of the ECOLOG-network in particular. Furthermore, the international Environment and School Initiatives (ENSI) network is described as an influential stimulus for the development of ECOLOG. Based upon these foundations, the concept and results of evaluation studies of ECOLOG-schools are described and reflected. The impact of ECOLOG on the developments in environmental education/education for sustainable development in Austria is described and reflected. The paper concludes with a summary of the evaluation process and with an outlook for the future development of the network.

The rise of global policy networks in education: analyzing Twitter debates on inclusive education using social network analysis

ABSTRACT With the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), inclusive education has become the main alternative to special schools for the schooling of children with disabilities. In order to promote the global implementation of inclusive education, a variety of stakeholders form networks to transmit and exchange information and knowledge concerning political strategies. However, little is known about the actors and actor groups involved in these networks. In the present paper, we draw on general network theory and policy network theory to examine the Twitter communication network that has formed around the topic of inclusive education. Using exploratory and inferential social network analysis, we show that disabled persons’ organizations and international organizations, such as the United Nations, hold a particularly central position in the network. This position enables them to potentially exert influence on the content and flow of information within the network. Aside from that, business actors are active participants in the network. Moreover, the Twitter network shows some structural patterns that can also be found in policy networks. Our findings help to map the global sphere of inclusive education promotion and can contribute to a broader understanding of global processes in inclusive education policy.