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Online professional development (OPD) programs have become increasingly popular. However, participating in professional development does not always lead to profound professional learning. Previous research endeavours have often focussed on measuring user acceptance or on comparing the effectiveness of OPD with a face-to-face delivery, but there is little knowledge of how the process of professional learning actually occurs in OPD. This study explores how professional learning takes place in an OPD program designed according to the principles of authentic e-learning, and how the learning design and technologies used impact on the professional learning experienced by the participants. The context of the study is an international OPD program in vaccine management developed and offered by World Health Organization. A grounded theory approach was employed to develop a theorised model of the professional learning process in an authentic online learning environment. The findings show that professional learning was facilitated in a dynamic web of interactions rather than by covering content: the learner is at the centre of the process, actively engaged in authentic tasks in collaboration with peers, while mentors and content play a supporting role. Technology facilitates and enables the web of interactions. The learning process was found to bear resemblance to the type of professional learning that occurs in authentic workplace settings, which implies that the authentic e-learning principles provide a helpful learning design framework for OPD.
Keywords: online professional development, professional learning, authentic e-learning, learning design, grounded theory, vaccine management
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Education dashboards are a means to present various stakeholders with information about learners, most commonly regarding the learners' activity in online learning environments. Typically, an education dashboard for teachers will include some type of visual aids that encourage teachers to reflect upon learner behavior patterns and to act in accordance to it. In practice, this tool can assist teachers to make data-driven decisions, thus supporting their professional growth, however, so far, the use of education dashboards by teachers has been greatly understudied. In this research we report on two studies related to the associations between the use of education dashboards by elementary school teachers and the teachers' professional growth. We used the framework defined by the International Society for Technology in Education's (ISTE) Standards for Educators. In the first study, we took a quantitative approach (N=52 teachers), using an online self-report questionnaire, and found that the use of dashboards is positively associated with professional growth in the dimensions of facilitator, analyst, designer, and citizen. In the second study, we took a qualitative approach (N=9 teachers), using semi-structured interviews, to shed light on the mechanisms through which teachers benefit from the use of education dashboards.
Keywords: teachers, education dashboard, professional development, data-driven decision-making, elementary school
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This article examines the premises of the notion of ‘active reader' and ‘act of reading' in an intellectual context wherein the author is pronounced dead and the book is being challenged by the rise of audiovisual media. The article is primarily based on paratexts and other essays by Jean Cayrol, Jean Paulhan and Gaëtan Picon, three literary publishers of the period eager to chronicle their editorial activities, their aesthetics criteria and contemporary conceptions of the mediation of literature. Their essays and critical journals amount to professional diaries intended as a dialogue not so much with the broader reading public as with counterparts and peers within the literary sphere. They also provide an understanding of reading protocols and guidelines which expert readers more or less explicitly encourage ordinary readers to follow. They exhibit how publishers of the time acknowledge the role of the reader, who remains anonymous, yet occupies an increasingly central position within the production and reception of literature, thus slowly but steadily paving the way for reader response theories.
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This article presents a literature review of existing academic, journalistic and non-fiction writing that has furthered the assessment of the writer and the occupation of writing in recent years. It is structured around four prominent themes that research about writers and writing commonly falls under: Being a Writer; Reputation, Fame and Hierarchies; Psychoanalyses of the Writer; and Economies of Writing. The final section of this article, Future Research, will propose research questions and methodological approaches which have, until now, remained largely absent from studies of the writer and writing life, and argues that these new areas of investigation are necessary to continue broadening the field of research about writing and furthering our understanding of the writer's inspirations, motivations and work practices.
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This paper addresses global talent management in firms from an institutional perspective. The study was conducted among managers of companies in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). In these countries, the issues surrounding employment are typically international and different from those in a Western context. The difficulties facing talent management are unravelled by examining the conflict of the institutional logics at play. In all of the companies, the nationalization of the workforce hampers the implementation of their programs. In both regional and local companies, the influence of the socio-cultural context is also a major obstacle although some progress is apparent.
Keywords: le management des talents, le management international des talents, les logiques institutionnelles, la complexité institutionnelle, le Conseil de Coopération du Golfe (CCG), les expatriés, les entreprises multinationales, la localisation, la globalisation des talents, talent management, global talent management, institutional logic, institutional complexity, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), expatriates, multinational companies, localization, globalization of talent, management de talentos, management internacional de talentos, lógicas institucionales, complexidad institucional, Consejo de Cooperación del Golfo, expatriados, empresas multinacionales, localización, globalización de los talentos
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This paper develops a new measure of investor sentiment in Europe using daily content from a Financial Times column. Consistent with the behavioral approach, we find that our investor sentiment measure impacts the returns of stocks hard to value and difficult to arbitrage. High pessimistic (optimistic) sentiment induces downward (upward) price pressure followed by a reversion of prices to fundamentals. Furthermore, we show that the culture influences the relationship between investor sentiment and stock returns. In particular, the impact of sentiment on stock returns is more pronounced in countries, which are culturally more prone to herd-like behavior and overreaction.
Keywords: Médias, sentiment de l'investisseur, culture, marchés financiers, Media, investor sentiment, culture, stock markets, medios, sentimiento de los inversores, cultura, mercados financieros
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This paper presents the results of the first empirical reception study on the deliberate non-subtitling of L3s in the multilingual TV series Breaking Bad. Multilingual films and TV series are on the increase both in terms of success and penetrating wider audiences in a global market. This puts the focus on how multilingualism is conveyed to the audience and how audiences respond to it. While the translation strategies used in multilingual productions have received some attention, audiences' reactions to them have only been investigated through an analysis of comments posted on an online movie message board. This study presents the results of a survey on the perception of and response to non-translation of L3 segments in a multilingual prestige TV series among hearing viewers. It shows that audiences are not only acutely aware of deliberate non-translation but also actively seek to identify motivations for it, which are context-sensitive and largely coincide with the filmmakers' motivations for this practice. On the translation-theoretical side, this paper suggests that Corrius and Zabalbeascoa's (2011) framework for the translation of L3s in dubbing would benefit from a supplement for other translation modes. On the applied side, the findings of this empirical reception study can inform agents in the international film and TV industry about audiences' viewing preferences and potentially change AVT practices.
Keywords: traduction audiovisuelle, multilinguisme, sous-titrage, non-traduction, réceptivité du public, audiovisual translation, multilingualism, subtitling, non-translation, reception study, traducción audiovisual, multilingüismo, subtitulación, no traducción, estudio de recepción
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The aim of this paper is to identify the conditions of occupational integration of undergraduate students in French philology, including translators, in Poland between 2011 and 2014. Applying an inductive methodology, we analyse four pools of empirical data, collected from students of the University of Wrocław's Institute of Romance Studies and their employers. The initial two pools of data (two surveys) reflect the students' side and are presented in detail in a previous paper. In the current paper, we deal with the final two pools of data, proper to the employers' side: the content analysis of the documentation generated during the work placement activities and of the job offers received by this Institute. The global image obtained, in terms of areas of economic activity and employability axes, shows a coherent situation: as undergraduate studies progress, the former become more specific and varied, and the latter become more firmly established.
Keywords: domaines économiques, axes d'embauche, formation supérieure, philologie française, traduction, areas of economic activity, axes of employability, higher education, French philology, translation, áreas de la actividad económica, ejes de la empleabilidad, educación superior, filología francesa, traducción