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Scholarly research has indicated that technology adoption to facilitate blended learning promotes the academic success of many different types of students and improves the quality of existing educational offerings. To understand how technology enhances learning, surveys queried the faculty and students of a statewide community college system. The results indicated widespread technology use among the faculty and students. The faculty survey revealed details of technology tools employed and the motivations for their use or discontinued use. Details regarding faculty use of learning management systems, textbooks, and other media characterized the current technology adoption climate. The student survey collected information about students' perceptions of how technology influenced their learning, their preferences for specific technology tools, and their student progress. Ninety-three percent of student respondents indicated that technology enhanced their learning. Alignment between the faculty use and student preference for technology tools suggested that students are actively engaged in the technology resources used by faculty to enhance learning. Students described how technology facilitated multimodal learning. They also noted that technology increased communication, access, and inclusion in learning. Successful technology use and integration, accompanied by ongoing scholarly debate and monitoring, has the potential to provide more access, promote learning outcomes, and preserve the investment of technology for the institution. The surveys employed here, when used semi-annually, may provide a low-cost model for technology integration monitoring and evaluation. The responses to the surveys also have the potential to provide technology use and integration data that informs strategic planning processes and institutional learning outcome development.
Keywords: educational technology, higher education, blended learning, technology integration
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If the ultimate aim of a scholarly journal is to produce objects that adhere to relatively stable norms, then by all appearances the print journal is already obsolete. But wait ! If a journal is conceived as a forum for scientific activity, it still has some promising days ahead. The university presses need not favour one way over another. Each journal can, in its own good time, define and adopt the tools it needs to achieve its ends. The presses, however, can help provide the right conditions to spur those running the journals on a forward path, to thereby assume the stimulating role that should indeed mark the scholarly communities themselves.
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The study of cultural scenes in the early 1990s has rapidly been assimilated to the field of popular music studies, in an attempt to find an alternative to the notions of counter-culture and subculture. The polysemy and plasticity of the term have given way to often disparate efforts at thematizing the sonority or « sound » of a city. Whereas sound does provide rhythm and effervescence to urbanity, doesn't images also provide, beyond a mere decor, a proper life to, and embodiement of, the city ? This article provides a reflection on the concept of scene from the somewhat neglected angle of the visual culture studies. How does images become performative, and come to stage in forming a cultural overproduction ? How does the circulation of images generate new experiences of sociality ? Taking examples from street art and calligraffiti in Montreal – together with echoes in Paris, Beyruth and Tunis. As an articulation of the local, the translocal and of the virtual, these emergent practices allow us to understand how the circulation and visibility of images can generate new political and cultural codes and stakes, in the new contemporary context of cultural heterogeneity, artistic hybridization and social controversies.
Keywords: Scène culturelle locale et translocale, image, visibilité, circulation, culture numérique, Street art, calligraffiti, local transcultural scene, translocal images, visibility, circulation, digital culture, street art, calligraffiti, Escena cultural y trans-local, imagen, visibilidad, circulación, cultura numérica, arte de la calle, caligraffiti
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The stronger the GAFA's influence, the more we become aware of the fragility of the democratic societies that engendered them. The decline of the press and professional journalism increases the risk of large-scale manipulations that the crowd does not know how to guard against. The largest digital companies are aware of the risks they pose to us all, but do not know and can not stave off them in the context of the fierce competition that forces them to seek ever more ways to capture everyone's attention.
Keywords: monopoles, Mark Zuckerberg, presse, attention, monopolies, Mark Zuckerberg, media, attention
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