Social Collaboration Research Articles

Empowering High School Girls in a University-Led STEM Summer Camp

Women are less likely to choose STEM educational programs, hold STEM degrees, or enter the STEM labor force. Several factors contribute to this including intrinsic psychological factors, external environmental variables, academic mindsets, and STEM attitudes. This paper discusses a 10-day long STEM camp aimed at engaging high school girls in authentic field-based environmental research. The goal of the camp is to foster and encourage interest in STEM fields through hands-on laboratory experiences, discussions with female scientists, field trips, and a broad range of research-focused authentic scientific activities. The descriptive research study used observational qualitative and quantitative data to better understand and improve the future of informal STEM experiences for high school-aged girls. Results of the study found that girls were more likely to see themselves in STEM fields and exposure to authentic scientific research, hands-on fieldwork, and final research presentations promoted self-efficacy and confidence in their ability to undertake university-level research. Finally, the camp provided a place to engage with other females through academic and social collaboration.

Strengthening Religious, Personal, Human, Natural and State Character Based on Integrative Morals in Elementary Schools in Makassar City

The main problem in this study is the poor behaviour of students still experiencing decadence. The study aimed to produce a model for strengthening character education based on moral integration for elementary school students in the Teaching Campus Classes 1 and 2 in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Makassar City. This study uses mixed research methods, data collection techniques using questionnaires, observations, interviews and documentation, then analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. The results show that strengthening good character in religion, personally, among fellow human beings, towards nature and in the state is in an outstanding category at all stages of moral knowing, feeling, sinverbal, action, habitus and culture from various campus teaching activities such as teaching assistants , activities for dhuha and dhuhur prayers, counselling guidance activities, flag ceremony activities, activities to clean the room and school environment, activities to recycle waste or used goods, and the use of Indonesian in the school environment. These activities are integrated into intra-curricular, co-curricular, and non-curricular and extra-curricular activities involving school principals, teachers (classes, subjects, counselling guidance), students, lecturers and parents. Strengthening the character profile of Pancasila students in Campus Teaching activities is carried out based on moral integrative and social collaboration.

Teachers' and Black students' views on the incorporation of African American children's literature in an after‐school book club: collaborative and culturally based learning

AbstractIt has been suggested that culturally relevant literature can be beneficial to elementary school students' learning. Yet, less research has focused on African American students' perspectives of that literature, including aspects of that engagement that may benefit their learning. Therefore, the main goal centred on US elementary school students' perspectives of African American children's literature in an after‐school book club. There were 15 second‐ and third‐grade African American students from a low‐income area who participated in the 6‐week book club. The book club sessions were recorded, student artefacts were collected and a focus group was held with students. Following the book club, there were two classroom teachers interviewed along with an after‐school teacher facilitator. Based on the analysis, four themes were found. These focused on increased reading motivation, the role of cultural and personal associations with literature for comprehending, engagement in communal learning and improved access to culturally relevant texts. The results extend previous research on the importance of social collaboration and culturally relevant books to promote motivation and reading comprehension among learners and highlight the value of collaborative and culturally based learning for Black children in the American context.

Teacher critical reflection: what can be learned from quality research?

AbstractThis Meta-Aggregative (MA) Qualitative Evidence Synthesis (QES) identified, investigated, and critically appraised examples of ‘quality’ Teacher Critical Reflection (TCR) in recent peer-reviewed research. The key question guiding the synthesis of literature was, How is teacher critical reflection evidenced, justified, and communicated in peer-reviewed research? The synthesis detected the importance of TCR in supporting quality teacher practice in early childhood and primary school settings. The MA element guided the choice of articles and the QES identified evidence of the intricacies of teacher critical reflection. The MA QES provides insights into sustainable and purposeful TCR. Thirteen studies conducted between 2013 and 2019 met the requirements of a four-phased MA QES and were critically appraised to inform the synthesis. Recommendations derived from this review include the importance of identifying the objectives of TCR, TCR as part of teacher identity and its impact on TCR, the significant role that social collaboration plays in TCR, and the tools that support successful TCR.

Large-Scale Social Collaboration Policy in the Food Sector in DKI Jakarta: A Socio-Cultural Perspective

PurposeThis research aims to reveal the implementation of Large-Scale Social Collaboration (LSSC) policy in the food sector in DKI Jakarta, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic seen from the socio-cultural perspective to produce a solution policy model. MethodsThe study employed a qualitative approach with a descriptive research design as it tried to elaborate how the society perceived LSCC policy during the Covid-19 pandemic. The data of this research is the LSSC policy issued by DKI Jakarta Provincial Government, and the society's perception and opinions sourced from aggregators, collaborators, and beneficiary communities. The data was got by conducting a review on LSSC policy, interview, and observation of the policy implementation process. FindingsThe study reveals the government of DKI Jakarta has implemented LSSC policy in the food sector during the Covid-19 pandemic well. However, there were several shortcomings must be improved, including data synchronization, socialization, and limited regulations by introducing two policy models, namely IEFFB and MATALI. IEFFB stands for improving DKI Jakarta's food security, ensuring people's food needs, fostering a sense of togetherness and care, forming a collaborative system between the government, private sector and the community to overcome common problems, and becoming a policy role model for other regions. MATALI that stands for motivation, actualization, trust, ability, leadership; and innovation is six important aspects of implementing the LSSC food sector policy. ConclusionThe study concludes that implementing LSSC policy in the food sector in DKI Jakarta still needs a serious improvement as a new policy solution for LSSC after Covid-19 pandemic.

Pemberdayaan masyarakat berbasis ekonomi digital untuk meningkatkan pendapatan masyarakat pulau salemo kabupaten pangkep sulawesi selatan

Salemo Island, one of the islands held by Pangkep Regency, is also referred to as Ulama Island since it has produced numerous Ulama in South Sulawesi and serves as a location for religious study. However, Salemo Island's religious beliefs are starting to change. This is the context in which the Kosabangsa Team decided to conduct Kosabangsa on Salemo Island. The goal to be achieved with the Kosabangsa Program is to make Salemo Island a religious tourism island by restoring religious values to Salemo Island. The process involves mapping the Salemo Island Asset Based Development Community, followed by Focus Group Discussions (FGD) tailored to partner needs, such as communication FGD, social media promotion FGD, seafood processing FGD (making shredded crab and shredded tuna), organizing marine product production house, and establishing a tourism awareness community group (POKDARWIS) on Salemo Island, Physical Strengthening through Salemo Island Stirytelling, an Island Website, and Pier Repair funded by the Regional Government of Pangkep Regency. The implementation of this Kosabangsa led to an increase in tourists to Salemo Island as well as a growth in the group of PKK women who make up the UMKM group who are MSME actors and operate a home business. IBK Nitro's partnership with UMM Malang through the Kosabangsa (Social Collaboration to Build the Nation) initiative significantly benefited the Salemo Island Community by providing training techniques for the UMKM Community in collaboration with PKK moms, Mosque Youth, and Salemo Island Bumdes

The impact of digital technology on content and language integrated learning in higher education: a systematic review of literature

With internationalization becoming an increasing trend in higher education, many universities worldwide have been implementing content and language-integrated learning (CLIL) as an innovative approach to teaching and learning English that helps students compete internationally. Alongside this trend, the advance of digital technologies has offered beneficial use in integrating language and content knowledge. Following the conceptual framework of Hallingda (2013), this systematic review has explored the impact of digital technology use in English education related to the CLIL approach by synthesizing studies on various forms of technologies in supporting different aspects of CLIL. Findings revealed a positive interrelation of digital impact on language use and skills and social collaboration, interaction, and motivation. However, a lack of evidence was found regarding the correlation between using digital technologies and enhancing content knowledge in CLIL. This recommended further research delving into how digital use would assist both language and content teaching and learning so that students at higher educational institutes could effectively access the global world.

Mediating the performance of social organizations in context of social and organizational innovations in China.

Social and organizational innovations are one of the most effective ways to gain social collaboration for effective, rapid, and coordinated interventions. An analysis of the relationship among organizational performance (OP), social innovations (SI) and organizational innovation (OI) in social organizations (SOs) is little discussed in the literature and much less with main component analysis. This paper is an effort to provide some empirical evidences about social and organizational innovations that social organizations in China have implemented to address the social issues of the society. A survey of Chinese SO's is conducted during beginning two months of 2022 in provinces of Jiangsu, Guangdong and Zhejiang to attain the statistics and assessing the insights of the executives of the SOs participating in this study with respect to organizational performance, social and organizational innovations. The technique used to select the sample is a non-probabilistic sampling and multiple linear regression model is applied to determine the partial impact of organizational innovations and social innovations on the organizational performance. The grouping of the variables is carried out through main components analysis. The empirical findings of the study highlight that Chinese SOs are innovative because they adopt management strategies to address the social issues associated with their institutional mission. There are four groups of derived components from organizational and social innovations based on the empirical evidence: SO's innovative activities to modify the environment; inside innovative measures to enhance SO's performance; innovative activities of SO's to enhance their relationships with outside actors; innovative measures to improve the management of SOs related to their mission and institutional projects. The findings of this study offer an efficient solution to government and policy makers for involving SOs in terms of planning of social development in China. The social and organizational innovations are very necessary to overcome the social issues so government should encourage the establishment and sustainability of social organizations.

Pelatihan Mengelas dengan Kelengkapan Keselamatan dan Kesehatan Kerja (K3)

Welding technology is an applied technology that can be applied to society as a service company (welding contractor). The welding services business is a productive economic sector and has a wide range of markets, for example, the domestic market i.e. the manufacture of walkways, fences, canopies and d'Agliannes, as well as the transport sector for the repair and modification of automobiles. The use of welding technology in the community is based on training models. Through the PKM UNMUS 2022 programme, the PKM team is providing welding training using industrial safety equipment (K3) to the daily fish packing workers in Karang Inda Village, Merauke. Welding training is the solution for unskilled workers to increase their productivity. Training activities include socializing the community service program, training in welding theory through personal presentations and lectures, welding hands-on, and providing an understanding of K3 procedures and the use of PPE in the welding field. We hope that through this series of social contribution activities based on the social collaboration service SKIM, participants in the social contribution collaboration program will be able to acquire welding technology knowledge and skills for entrepreneurship.

Innovative application and optimized governance of blockchain in the media industry

Blockchain technology was originally used in the financial industry, and was applied to Bitcoin as the underlying technology and infrastructure. At present, the value of application has expanded from the financial industry to other industries such as transportation, medical care, and media. Then the article focuses on the possibility of transfer of new value and social collaboration of blockchain, the application and practice in the field of cultural media, and the problems faced by the development of "blockchain + cultural media", together with discussing the innovative application of blockchain in the media industry.

A Social Collaboration Model Between Guidance and Counseling Teacher and Parent to Guide Students During Distance Learning

It is apparent that during the Covid-19 pandemic, students are opting to learn from home. For guidance and counseling teachers, this situation is a challenge to guide children in online-based learning. For parents who are not used to access technology, it becomes a problem. The purpose of this study is to explore a collaboration model between guidance and counseling teachers and parents for attaining learning objectives and overcoming impediments. This research is a descriptive analysis, which explores and analyzes the collaboration between parents and counseling teachers in overcoming difficulties of distance learning and in supporting best efforts that parents should make to guide their children during online learning. The data collection technique is library research, with the primary sources being two journal articles from 2020-2021 about the roles of parents and guidance and counseling teachers in online learning. These sources were examined by a content analysis method. Distance learning requires collaboration with various parties engaged in different educational activities. Parents are involved in the process of mutual communication in the guidance and counseling program and development of students. They also assist in collecting data and information and they support the success of guidance and counseling services via extracurricular monitoring. These various roles are seen to make significant contributions to the effectiveness of the counseling program implementation in schools. In particular, the parental involvement in schooling methods and experiences can provide positive support and influence for the development of student growth. This study has limitation since it provides only few data which cover two journal articles. For future research, it is recommended to probe more than two journal articles and with a large data set.

City Digital Twins: their maturity level and differentiation from 3D city models

ABSTRACT The emerging field of City Digital Twins has advanced in recent years with the help of digital infrastructure and technologies connected to the Internet of Things (IoT). However, the evolution of this field has been so fast that a gap has opened in relation to systematic reviews of the relevant literature and the maturation of City Digital Twins on an urban scale. Our work bridges this gap by highlighting maturity in the field. We conducted a systematic literature review with bibliometric and content analysis of 41 selected papers published in Web of Science and Scopus databases, covering five areas: data types and sources, case studies, applied technologies and methods, maturity spectrum, and applications. Based on maturity indicators, the majority of the reviewed studies (90%) were at initial to medium stages of maturity (up to element 3), most of them focused on 3D modelling, monitoring and visualisation. However, digital twins cannot be limited to 3D models, monitoring and visualisation, for they can be developed to include two-directional interactions between humans and computers. Such a high level of maturity, which was not found in the reviewed studies, requires advanced technologies and methods such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, BIM and GIS. We also found that further studies are essential if the field is to handle the complex urban challenges of multidisciplinary digital twins . While City Digital Twins extend by definition beyond mere 3D city modelling, some studies involving 3D city models still refer to their subjects as City Digital Twins. Among the research gaps we identified, we’d like to highlight the need for near-real-time data analytics algorithms, which could furnish City Digital Twins with big data insights. Other opportunities include public participation capabilities to increase social collaboration, integrating BIM and GIS technologies and improving storage and computation infrastructure.

Is the Structure of “Regular Working Days” about to Dissolve? Changes in Employees’ Time-Use Patterns Working in Enterprise Collaboration Systems During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The measures taken during the COVID-19 pandemic have strengthened Work from Home and the use of digital communication technologies and digital collaboration. The resulting flexibility in terms of control over time and place of work can support workers in improving their work-life balance. In this paper, we investigate whether workers using digital communication technologies made use of this flexibility and changed the distribution of their work hours across the week and day. To answer this question, we investigate the use of an Enterprise Collaboration System in 2019-2022. Using real-world data, a MS Power BI dashboard was created following the steps suggested by the Social Collaboration Analytics Framework (SCAF). The dashboard shows that the system use increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, an expansion of work on weekends and outside of regular working hours can be observed. Although, timely adjustments of use-patterns were highest in the beginning of the pandemic, long-term trends could be observed as well. The results indicate that knowledge workers used digital collaboration technologies to restructure working days, according to their specific personal and business needs while working from home. The paper is a valuable starting point in the context of a long-term interdisciplinary research project on the digitalisation of the workplace.

DIGITAL MEDIA LITERACY AND SOCIAL MEDIA COMPETENCE AMONG MILLENNIALS FOR TOURISM PROMOTION DURING THE COVID PANDEMIC

This research started with the fall issue of tourism at a time when the pandemic strikes Indonesia. Much effort has been made to try to explore the possibility of a revival of Indonesian tourism. The millennial generation has the advantage of digital capabilities that can encourage tourism revival through social media. This study aims to find out to what extent the level of social media literacy can be a factor that encourages the participation of the younger generation, especially millennials, in helping the level of tourism promotion in Indonesia. The methodology used is quantitative with data collection using questionnaires. The population is Paramadina Univ students and Mercu Buana Univ students. The analysis used is frequency tables, correlation tests, and factor analysis. The essential findings obtained are that the generation is relatively high in the context of digital media literacy, and there are three supporting factors in the framework of involvement in tourism promotion, namely the ability to process digital media production, social collaboration capabilities, and the consistency of the millennial generation in developing social media production patterns.

Long-/Short-Term Preference Based Dynamic Pricing and Manufacturing Service Collaboration Optimization

Manufacturing service (MS) collaboration promotes the social collaboration of distributed enterprises, which makes profits through manufacturing resource sharing on platforms. Therefore, the pricing strategy for MSs will affect the collaboration results, and the satisfaction of enterprises with the platform further. Hence, in this article, a personalized dynamic pricing based MS collaboration optimization method is proposed. First, due to the poor information of the enterprise preference, long-term and short-term preferences of enterprises are estimated based on scarcity, including service features, service quantity, and available time. Then, the personalized pricing method is proposed to adapt to the dynamic collaboration process. And the consumer utility model that considers time decay and price changes is constructed, which reflects the utility characteristics of consumers in the actual collaboration process, such as the utility decrease and deceleration rate increase with time consuming. Finally, Q-learning algorithm based MS collaboration optimization verifies the effectiveness and superiority of the method.

Comparison of Chinese and Malaysian Media Literacy: An Analytical Study

Media literacy refers to the ability to select, fully absorb, analyze, and react critically to the multitude of types of information disseminated by the media. Important components of media literacy include avoiding creating or disseminating false news and respecting other people's rights and privacy. In the era of the Internet, online media literacy is a brand-new subset of media literacy. In addition to the information use and critical literacy skills found in conventional media, online information creation, online communication, social collaboration, and social participation skills are included as well.

The role of knowledge-based resources in Agile Software Development contexts

The software value chain is knowledge-based since it is highly dependant on people. Consequently, a lack of practice in managing knowledge as a resource may jeopardise its application in software development. Knowledge-Based Resources (KBRs) relate to employees’ intangible knowledge that is deemed to be valuable to a company’s competitive advantage. In this study, we apply a grounded theory approach to examine the role of KBRs in Agile Software Development (ASD). To this aim, we collected data from 18 practitioners from five companies. We develop the Knowledge-Push theory, which explains how KBRs boost the need for change in ASD. Our results show that the practitioners who participated in the study utilise, as primary strategies, task planning, resource management, and social collaboration. These strategies are implemented through the team environment and settings and incorporate an ability to codify and transmit knowledge. However, this process of codification is non-systematic, which consequently introduces inefficiency in the domain of knowledge resource utilisation, resulting in potential knowledge waste. This inefficiency can generate negative implications for software development, including meaningless searches in databases, frustration because of recurrent problems, the unnecessary redesign of solutions, and a lack of awareness of knowledge sources.

A social VR-based collaborative exergame for rehabilitation: codesign, development and user study.

Immersive virtual reality (VR)-based exercise video games (exergames) are increasingly being employed as a supportive intervention in rehabilitation programs to promote engagement in physical activity, especially for elderly users. A multifaceted and iterative codesign process is essential to develop sustainable exergaming solutions. The social aspect is considered one of the key motivating factors in exergames; however, research on the social aspect of VR exergames has been limited. Previous studies have relied on competitiveness in exergames, but research has shown that competition can lead to adverse effects on users. With the aim of motivating elderly individuals to participate in physical exercise and improving social connectedness during rehabilitation, this work presents a social VR-based collaborative exergame codesigned with elderly participants and therapists. This exergame stimulates full-body exercise and supports social collaboration among users through a collaborative game task. Furthermore, this article presents a user study based on a mixed-methods approach to gather user feedback on exergame design and the effect of social collaboration versus playing alone in a VR exergame in terms of physical exertion and motivation. This study spanned five weeks (99 exergaming sessions) with 14 elderly participants divided into two groups, one playing collaboratively and the other playing individually. Between-group comparisons were performed at baseline (first week) and in the fourth week, and within-group comparisons were performed in the fifth week, when the participants played the exergame in counterbalanced order. In contrast to the first week, the participants exergaming collaboratively in the fourth week reported significantly higher intrinsic motivation on all subscales (enjoyment: p < 0.02, effort: p < 0.002, usefulness: p < 0.01) and physical exertion (p < 0.001) than those playing alone. Thereafter, exergaming in counterbalanced order during the fifth week resulted in significant differences (medium to large effect size) within groups. The participants found the social VR gameplay enjoyable and agreed that collaboration played a vital role in their motivation. They reported various health benefits, a minimal increase in symptoms of simulator sickness, and excellent usability scores (83.75±13.3). In this work, we also identify various key design principles to support healthcare professionals, researchers and industrial experts in developing ergonomic and sustainable VR-based exergames for senior citizens.

How can students in vocational education be motivated to learn mathematics?

The aim of this article is to discuss how mathematics teaching with a closer connection to students’ vocational orientation can increase their motivation to learn mathematics. This article uses a motivation theory called self-determination theory to analyse interviews and observations made in two different studies investigating mathematics in vocational education. The results indicate that there are many vocational students who are unmotivated to learn mathematics because they do not see any relevance in the subject. However, there seem to be positive aspects regarding vocational students’ motivation to learn mathematics when they are given the opportunity to work with vocational-integrated mathematics tasks, especially in a vocationally authentic environment. In relation to self-determination theory, it is possible to see increased motivation linked to a sense of meaningfulness, competence and self-determination, as well as increased social collaboration. However, teachers need to be observant of students’ goals for their studies, so that even those who do not see a future in the vocation they are training for will find motivating factors for their learning in mathematics.

Collaboration as a structural aspect of proactive social sustainability: the differential moderating role of distributive and procedural justice

PurposeThis paper aims to adopt the strategy-structure-performance (SSP) framework to explore how proactive social strategy could motivate firms to collaborate with suppliers on social sustainability initiatives, and how such collaborative efforts could unlock a win-win opportunity for both noneconomic (social performance) and economic (operational performance) performance. Additionally, drawing on the tenets of the social exchange theory, the different moderating effects of distributive justice and procedural justice on the social collaboration-performance relationship are also examined.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses survey data collected from 215 manufacturing companies in China. The proposed hypotheses are tested using multiple linear regression models as well as the PROCESS macro within SPSS.FindingsThe results suggest that (1) a proactive social strategy could motivate firms to collaborate with suppliers on joint social activities and (2) social collaboration with suppliers can have a significant positive effect on both social and operational performance. The moderation results suggest that distributive justice has a differential effect on the collaboration-performance link. Particularly, distributive justice strengthens the relationship between social collaboration and operational performance, while it weakens the relationship between social collaboration and social performance. Surprisingly, procedural justice did not have a significant moderating effect on the social collaboration-performance link.Originality/valueThis paper extends the SSP framework to the social sustainability context by not only stressing the importance of proactivity in managing sustainability, but also revealing collaboration as a structural aspect that could achieve superior performance benefits. This study also contributes to sustainable supply chain literature by exploring the moderating roles of justice elements.