Technology, Entertainment, Design Research Articles

Digital Renaissance in Education: Unveiling the Transformative Potential of Digitization in Educational Institutions

Abstract This paper examines the ongoing trend of digitization within educational institutions, analyzing the potential opportunities that lie ahead. As educational landscapes evolve, embracing digitization offers institutions a pathway to unlock a myriad of prospects. This research explores the current state of digitization in educational settings, highlighting the opportunities that arise from the integration of digital technologies. The driving forces behind significant changes in higher education include escalating operating costs, the emergence of micro and nano degrees, the surge in online learning, the influx of digitally-native students, and the overarching wave of digital transformation. Students are increasingly leveraging digital technologies to showcase a diverse array of tools, integrating structured learning environments into the fabric of higher education teaching. This research provides a comprehensive overview of digital transformation in higher education, evaluating the potential of digitalization and forecasting its prospects in the near future. Key concepts such as digital transformation, virtual reality (VR) technology, artificial intelligence (AI), and Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) courses are examined as practical and indispensable elements shaping the future of education. Through a meticulous analysis, it becomes evident that digitalization marks only the initial phase in a broader process wherein institutions harness new technologies not merely to replicate old tasks but to redefine educational paradigms. Furthermore, the paper emphasizes that digital transformation necessitates the infusion of new management practices capable of harnessing the full potential of information and communication technologies (ICT). The journey towards the digital transformation of educational institutions involves a profound shift in mindset, encompassing innovative approaches to teaching, learning, and administration. As institutions embrace this transformative journey, they position themselves to create enhanced value for students and forge dynamic collaborations with partners in the evolving landscape of higher education.

Journeys Into Night: Agewise Cinematic Constructions in Cas and Dylan and Our Souls at Night

Ashton Applewhite, American writer, activist, blogger and expert on ageism, the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism (2016), remarked in her 2017 TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) series lecture “Let’s End Ageism” that today when the aged population is, according to the United Nations statistics, at its highest level in human history, in most societies, including developing and the developed countries alike, “people are living longer and societies are getting grayer; you read and hear about it on all media platforms and outside of them.” This essay will be about a slice of these platforms tackling cultural narratives involving longevity and ageing―and their subsequently increased visibility on the silver screen. In order to investigate ageing as a marker of life course identities in two cinematic matching and mismatching journeys into ageing, I have chosen two North American movies presented in the past five years, the Canadian-made Cas and Dylan (2013) directed by Jason Priestley and with Richard Dreyfuss and Tatiana Maslany in leading roles, and the US-produced Our Souls at Night (2017), directed by Ritesh Batra, featuring in the main roles Jane Fonda and Robert Redford. I am interested to see the ways in which the representation of senior citizens―in the above-mentioned movies all being members of the North American Baby Boomers generation―is challenging the cultural myths of aging through various acts of performativity.

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF «TED TALKS» VIDEO MATERIALS IN TEACHING ENGLISH AT A MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

The article examines the methodological potential of video materials from the TED Talks resource (Technology Entertainment Design) in the context of teaching English for Professional Purposes and Academic English at medical higher education institutions. The TED Talks video materials cover not only topical issues of natural sciences but also modern problems of education, culture, history, business, sustainable development, etc., therefore, they can contribute to the development of both hard and soft skills of undergraduate and Ph.D. students majoring in Health Care and Biology. Short TED talks delivered by experts from various spheres can be used to develop public speaking skills, analytical listening, rhetorical text analysis, etc. The paper presents several linguodidactic mechanisms aimed at the development, practice, and systematization of the above skills to optimize students’ mastering of grammatical constructions and lexical material. The methodological algorithm is represented by receptive, reproductive, and productive types of exercises and can be used to improve communicative competence and English language proficiency, to organize the classroom and extracurricular activities, as well as a distance learning mode. The research may be of interest to teachers of English at medical universities, as well as specialists from other fields, in the process of planning training sessions and developing educational and methodological materials.

Beyond tradition: using systemic functional linguistics in TED talks

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an internationally based open access platform where professionals from various fields are invited to give speeches, and to share ideas with like-minded people. In recent years, topics related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) or the COVID-19 pandemic have become the most popular speech topics on TED. This paper selects speech-related topics on TED during the pandemic, by using systemic functional linguistics to study how discourses are expressed on the platform. Unlike traditional textual analyses, content on TED are normally verbalized, requiring original texts to be presented in an understandable format. As a result, this paper focuses on the functional innovation of new forms of expression on TED. In other words, the functional perspective of the presentation in relation to COVID-19 based topics may rely on the explanation of the meta-meaning of the keywords, posting images and other techniques as auxiliary means for expression, to some extent. These auxiliary techniques offer traditional systemic functional linguistics new meanings in terms of ideational and interpersonal aspects.

A Review on Li-Fi: The Next Generation Wi-Fi

Abstract: The Li-Fi stands for Light Fidelity. The technology is very new and was proposed by the German physicist Harald Haas in 2011 TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Global Talk on Visible Light Communication (VLC). Light Fidelity (LiFi) is a Visible Light Communication (VLC) based technology that making a light as a media of communication replacing the cable wire communication. LiFi is evolved to overcome the rate speed in Wi-Fi, while using LiFi the rate speed can reach until 14 Gbps. This paper includes an introduction of the LiFi technology including the architecture, working, performance, and the challenges Li-Fi, its applications, features and comparison with existing technologies like Wi-Fi etc. Wi-Fi is of major use for general wireless coverage within building, whereas Li-Fi is ideal for high density wireless data coverage in confined area and especially useful for applications in areas where radio interference issues are of concern, so the two technologies can be considered complimentary. Keywords: LED, Li-Fi Technology, Wi-Fi Technology, Data Transmission, Visible Light, Li-Fi Applications

Supporting Students Become A Smart User Through TEDTalk Application

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 This research is aboutTed Talk application that support the students being smart people by smartphone. TED Talk applications can help the students in learning English for four skills such as reading writing listening and speaking. This app offers kids and parents the opportunity to explore and view videos from the renowned TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conferences, which feature a mix of interesting speakers from all walks of life. The researcher believes that this application can support the students being smart people by smartphone. The purpose of this research is to support the students being smart people by their smartphone using TED Talk application. This research did about six months in As-Syafi’iyah Islamic University. The participants in this research are 20 college students on fifth semester in speaking for academic purposes subject. The method of this research is descriptive qualitative. The instruments that used in this research are interview and observation. And based the data, the researcher can conclude that using TED Talk as application that support the students being smart people by smartphone is very useful for all students. The students can increase their knowledge and skills in English. They can watch videos or listening audio to get some ideas for speaking practice.
 

Introducing TED Talks as a Pedagogical Resource in Sport Management Education through YouTube and LinkedIn

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the educational sector, pushing it towards teaching–learning methodologies where the online aspect takes on special importance. In this sense, social media are tools that facilitate the creation of meaningful and sustainable learning environments. This study shares an educational experience where TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Talks are introduced as a pedagogical resource through YouTube and LinkedIn in a sport management course. A total of five TED Talks are viewed and discussed by the students in order to develop their professional profile, assisted by a set of initial questions posed by faculty. To assess the impact of the experience, a new scale is created and then validated. The analyses performed reflected the unidimensional nature of this scale, explaining the 64.36% of the variance, and presenting good psychometric properties (α = 0.95). Furthermore, the results obtained reflect the educational potential of TED Talks in the context of sport management, with increases in the averages of all the items from the scale, with significant (p < 0.05) increases in six of them. Both the new validated instrument and the shared pedagogical proposal can be valuable to guide and evaluate future educational experiences which introduce TED Talks as a pedagogical resource in sport management education.

O discurso científico mediado pela web. Legendar videoverbetes entre tipologias textuais, línguas especiais e problemáticas tradutórias

The aim of the present work is twofold. On one hand, the analysis will focus on the characteristics of Brazilian academic speech, basing on the videoverbetes of the Enciclopedia audiovisual de termos, conceitos e pesquisas em Analise do discurso e areas afins , a web-mediated audiovisual project which collects the speeches of Brazilian scholars specialized in Discourse Analysis (and other areas), coordinated by Bethania Mariani of the Laboratorio Arquivos do Sujeito of the Departamento de Ciencias da Linguagem, da Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF). On the other hand, the analysis will consider and describe the problems which may occur in the subtitling of this hybrid textual genre in Italian. Furthermore, the videoverbetes will be compared and contrasted with another hybrid text genre: the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) talks, a web-mediated genre, which shares common features with the academic discourse.

“TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, DESIGN (TED)” TALK IN TEACHING VOCABULARY

This study deals with the investigation of an analysis of teaching vocabulary by using technology, entertainment, design (TED) Talk. The previous study conducted in university students, while the present study is a case study in one of senior high school in Cilacap. This study was aimed at investigating teachers’ way and knowing students’ perception in teaching vocabulary by using TED Talk. In conducting this study the writers used qualitative research in which case study was employed to collect the data from participants in this research, that were English teacher who taught vocabulary using TED Talk and ten grade students of senior high school students’ perception. Moreover, classroom observation, questionnaire, and interview were the instruments used by the writers in collecting the data. It could be concluded that most of the students are very interested in learning, it was very significant in relation to their learning interest, it was very helpful in mastering new vocabulary, it was strongly agree that it was given positive results for their learning achievement.Keywords: TED Talk, Vocabulary

EXPLORATORY DATAANALYSIS AND TOPIC MODELLING ON TED TALKS

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a non-profit organization that influences the audience across the globe to deep dive into thinking .The short, powerful talks in more than 100 languages, from great inspired achievers engage the curious people and change their way of perception about issues on science, entertainment, business, technology, global concerns and various other topics. Why do some TED Talks get more views, go viral? What makes a TED talk the change maker in outlook, attitude and behaviour? What intrigues and influences people? This paper aims to analyze the various drivers behind maximum view count of certain TED talks from the start of 2006 till the end of June 2020. The analysis takes into consideration various parameters such as the speaker’s profession, chosen topic, his/her transcript, number of views, comments, tags to name a few. This analysis will help an aspiring TED Talker identify the drivers and plan a video that will attract more view counts. This research paper uses Exploratory Data Analysis with a special emphasis on Natural Language Processing using the native Latent Dirichlet Allocation model from Gensim and the LDA Mallet. Analysis of the TED Talk data suggests that the content is a prime driving factor rather than the public speaking abilities thereby making the view count less predictable.

Analysis on Serial Multiple Mediation Model of Web-Based Constructive English Learning in the Use of TED (Technology Entertainment Design)

이 연구에서는 TED를 활용한 웹 기반의 구성주의 영어 학습의 편리성, 대학생의 만족도, 신뢰도, 학습동기의 직렬다중매개 모형 분석을 통해 교육현장에서 적용 가능한 교육적이고 이론적인 함의를 도출하는데 그 목적이 있다. 이를 위해 충북의 사립 대학교 대학생들 105명을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하다. 수집된 자료는 타당성과 신뢰성을 확보하고자 SPSS를 활용하여 각 변수들의 구성개념을 신뢰도 분석과 탐색적 요인분석으로 확인하였다. 그리고 4개의 연구 가설들을 검증하기 위해 상관관계 분석과 PROCESS macro를 사용하여 회귀분석을 실시하였다. 연구결과, 첫째, 학습의 편리성은 학습 만족도에 영향을 미치는 것으로 분석되었다. 둘째, 학습의 편리성과 학습 만족도 간 학습 동기의 매개효과는 유의한 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 학습의 편리성과 학습 만족도 간 신뢰도의 매개효과는 유의한 것으로 나타났다. 넷째, 학습 편리성은 학습 동기와 신뢰도의 매개를 거쳐 학습 만족도에 영향을 미치는 것으로 분석되었다. 이에 영어 학습 설계 시 학습의 용이성을 가져오기 위해, 편리한 시스템과 향후에도 영어 학습을 지속하고자 하는 마음과 새로운 학습 방법을 통한 학습 동기를 부여해야 학생들의 학습 만족도를 가져올 수 있다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한 학습에 대한 신의와 약속의 준수하고 신속하고 정확하며 편리한 서비스를 제공해 주는 신뢰성을 바탕으로 학습에 대한 만족도를 가져올 수 있다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

Li-Net: towards a smart Li-Fi vehicle network

Background/Objectives: Light Fidelity is popularly known as Li-Fi. This is a most recent technology that was driven by German physicist Harald Haas(1) in 2011. The technology was proposed during a global talk on Technology Entertainment Design on VLC communications. Visible light communications are optical ways of communication that network the LED for data transmission. The term Li-Fi uses VLC communication for the high-end communication that can be an alternative to Wi-Fi. The proposal of Harald Haas is comparable with IEEE 802.15.7 that is the fully dual directional and networked standard built for 802.11. Li-Fi applications are featured for their comparison with other technologies like Wireless fidelity and their general use for LAN. Materials and methods: However, the optimality of the proposed Li-Fi is within highly dense areas where Wi-Fi faces interfaces and radio interferences are no good for complimentary performance goals of the communication standard. Li-Fi proves to be better in bandwidth, connectivity and secure when the higher speeds above 1Gbps are achieved. Finding/novelty : This study outlines the characteristics of Li-Fi and describes its potential use in a smart traffic net. The smart traffic net is the future of the transport system that is based on Li-Fi. Therefore, this is called Li-Net in this article. Li-Net is a modified VaNet that uses Li-Fi for V2V and V2I communication. The leveraging of Low cost LEDs and other lighting units have lots of opportunities that can help the Li-Fi to get over Wi-Fi. Keywords: Li-Fi; Li-Net; VaNet; communication technology; network; smart network

Обучение иноязычной монологической речи на основе Technology Entertainment Design (TED) Talks в вузе

The article considers the problem of teaching foreign-language monologic speech within the framework of professionally oriented foreign-language training at higher school. The paper aims to justify the reasonability of using TED (Technology Entertainment Design) Talks while teaching foreign-language monologic speech. The author proposes a system of exercises for teaching foreign-language monologic speech on the basis of TED Talks. The findings justify the efficiency of TED Talks when forming foreign-language monologic speech skills, it allows taking into account students’ language competence level, satisfies their cognitive needs.

Ретроспективи становлення конференції «Technology Entertainment Design» (TED) як бренда

The article discusses the historical aspects and factors that have contributed to the emergence of TED, as the conference has not only lost its position for thirty years, but continues to gain worldwide popularity. Technology Entertainment Design is a world-renowned conference whose mission is to spread thoughts, ideas that can motivate us to make personal and societal changes, that is, to inspire people from around the globe to make the world better. The emergence of TED as an international brand was facilitated by the fact that the areas of activity began to expand significantly due to the launch of new successful programs and initiatives: the TED Conference; TEDGlobal Conference; the annual TED Prize; open project ‘Translations’; open project ‘TV’; TED Fellows; TEDx conferences. TEDGlobal is a conference dedicated to human ingenuity through the study of ideas, innovations and creativity from around the world. The TEDx format invites individuals or groups of people to organize local, self-organized events around the world. The costs of this program include ongoing training and seminars for participants, as well as reaching out to new communities, as the main goal is to support this global international community. The TED Fellows project helps innovators from around the world become part of the TED community and with it help to achieve even greater success. The TED Youth and Education Initiative is TED-Ed, which aims to organize the exchange of interesting ideas and knowledge between teachers and students from around the world. The sources analyzed have highlighted a number of factors that contributed to the emergence of TED as a brand, namely: the increase in the number of interesting projects and initiatives launched by TED, the uniqueness of the conference format; peculiarities of the selection of speakers, the relevance of the topics of speeches, the requirements for speaking, the reach of various target audiences, the attraction of innovative technologies.

Exploring Iranian EFL Learners’ Listening Skills via TED Talks: Does Medium Make a Difference?

This quasi-experimental study examined whether TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) talks could improve the listening skills of Iranian EFL learners. The study also explored whether the different media of instruction could have differing impacts on the students’ learning. Sixty intermediate level male learners aged between 18 and 20 in three intact classes (n1=n2=n3=20) were the participants selected through convenience sampling. The groups were randomly assigned to two experimental groups and one control group after ensuring that they were at the same level of language proficiency. One of the experimental groups watched TED talks via mobile devices, another group watched them through laptops, and the control group practiced listening through DVDs and CDs of the course textbook (American File 2) for ten sessions. It is worth mentioning that the mobile group watched the videos outside of the class, whereas the laptop and control groups practiced listening in the class. Every session, the participants answered some comprehension questions to enable the researchers to measure their development. The repeated measures ANOVA showed the improvement of the listening skills of all participants in the three groups during the treatment. The results of the one-way ANOVA and post hoc comparison revealed statistically significant differences between the mobile group watching the TED talks and the control group, but no differences were found between the mobile group and the laptop group or between the control and the laptop groups. The researchers inferred that the observed difference was due to using TED talks via mobile devices in the study. They could also conclude that TED talks are useful sources of practicing listening skills. The study shows the efficacy of self-directed learning via mobile devices and has implications for teachers and practitioners who are seeking ways to extend language learning beyond the confinements of the classroom.

Reading the TED Talk Genre: Contradictions and Pedagogical Pleasures in Spreading Ideas About Management

Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) talks have become a powerful way of communicating management ideas to global audiences. This raises questions about how management educators should engage wi...

Spreading Ideas: TED Talks' Role in Cancer Communication and Public Engagement.

Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Talks have represented a broad source of health communication since 1984. However, to date, no studies exist on how this tool addresses the question of cancer. In this paper, we aim to illuminate two major issues: (1) Are TED Talks a good source for cancer communication? (2) How does the public respond to cancer-related TED Talk lectures? To this end, we searched for the keyword 'cancer' on the TED.com website in January 2018. All transcripts were obtained along with related information such as numbers of views, like and dislike rates. We also analysed a sample of 938 comments, corresponding to the 10 most relevant (if existing) regarding each video on TED.com and YouTube platforms. From the 49 videos pertaining to cancer, 33 were scientific-related, whereas 11 focused on speakers' personal experiences. Only three videos approached prevention themes of major relevance for cancer communication to broad audiences. Instead, they brought more therapy (16) and diagnosis (12) issues and often promoted exaggerated extrapolations of research results (20). Scientific lectures also made frequent use of a 'bad vs. good' duality discourse by criticizing current science/policies and then offering a solution/hope. Regarding the public response, non-scientific lectures had more negative votes than scientific counterparts. Moreover, the audience exhibited two major motivations to provide a comment: to judge the lectures and to share personal stories. We believe that our observations are of considerable relevance for helping in enhancing this tool as a substantial cancer communication source.

Visual rhetoric in educational animations: An analysis on TED Education Lessons

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 Today, developments in the field of computer technology have facilitated the application of animations in computer environment and also led to the widespread use of animation in the scope of computer-aided education. Educational animations engage the learners of all ages and make the learning experience enjoyable in many areas such as physics, chemistry, biology and social sciences. Thanks to the possibilities of animation, many concepts that might be difficult to learn with static images can be described very attractively and in a catchy way. At this point, rhetorical figures can be applied to animations in order to increase the effectiveness of the messages. TED Education Lessons can be given as a successful example of educational animations in this field. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Education is a series of lessons run by a private non-profit foundation, under "Lessons worth Sharing" slogan. These lessons are 3-10 minutes of educational and enjoyable animations, which are created with the collaboration of professional educators and animators. There are various animations on TED Education webpage that aim learners starting from the age of primary school and higher. Through TED Education lessons, this research examines how education takes the advantage of animation and how animations benefit from the rhetorical figures.
 Keywords: Animation, visual rhetoric, rhetorical figures, educational animations, TED Education.

A Comparative Study of Local Features in Face-based Video Retrieval

Face-based video retrieval has become an active and important branch of intelligent video analysis. Face profiling and matching is a fundamental step and is crucial to the effectiveness of video retrieval. Although many algorithms have been developed for processing static face images, their effectiveness in face-based video retrieval is still unknown, simply because videos have different resolutions, faces vary in scale, and different lighting conditions and angles are used. In this paper, we combined content-based and semantic-based image analysis techniques, and systematically evaluated four mainstream local features to represent face images in the video retrieval task: Harris operators, SIFT and SURF descriptors, and eigenfaces. Results of ten independent runs of 10-fold cross-validation on datasets consisting of TED (Technology Entertainment Design) talk videos showed the effectiveness of our approach, where the SIFT descriptors achieved an average F-score of 0.725 in video retrieval and thus were the most effective, while the SURF descriptors were computed in 0.3 seconds per image on average and were the most efficient in most cases.

27.0 TED Talks Meet Perspectives: (Clinical) Ideas Worth Spreading

The goal of this session is to bring Clinical Perspectives and the eponymous JAACAP column “into life” by casting content from recent and forthcoming installments of the series into the popular TED (technology, entertainment, design) Talk format. Clinical Perspectives are pithy articles in JAACAP that address novel, unexplored, overlooked, or unusual aspects of everyday practice. For over two decades, Clinical Perspectives have been bringing to light aspects of our work that are relevant and practical and that provide a reminder of the excitement and promise of our profession.