bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Triggering dialogic activities across networks
Authors: Sinclair Christine , Macleod Hamish 
Published: October 2024

Our study originates in exploratory interventions aimed at engaging students with relevant practices to support learning both in and about digital environments. Our students come from a wide range of professional contexts all over the world. Most are involved in teaching or supporting teaching. What they learn on our programme is carried into their practice - and vice versa. Their introductory course explores a range of environments along with critical literature, with a strong theoretical emphasis. The authors both have an interest in dialogic approaches to education, and we share findings on activities designed and tutored by each of us. A webquest and an online text augmentation exercise were both found to promote student creativity, dialogue and learning. While we had respectable pedagogical reasons for these activities, our subsequent reflections and conversations about them suggested that they were worthy of further theoretical analysis. Our students demonstrated considerable use of existing networks while at the same time apparently generating new networks that would sustain them throughout a programme of study and beyond. Drawing on Wegerif's (2013) notion of dialogic and its Bakhtinian influences, we attempt to distinguish and name features of networks likely to trigger dialogic exchanges that foster learning. We have isolated examples from each practice of particularly ‘interanimating' sections of dialogue and created a thick description of them, including their antecedents and consequences. Our examples illustrate that both practices raised questions about purpose, offered opportunities for showcasing knowledge and connections, led to sharing and making practices visible, and were taken forward to new contexts. The findings are not all positive; we have also identified concerns about exclusion or inadequacy from those who feel unable to participate fully, but even then there is potential to turn around difficult situations. This study might have practical application for learning designers but should also be of theoretical interest for research into newer forms of academic literacy.
Visualising structure and agency in a MOOC using the Footprints of Emergence framework
Authors: Mackness Jenny , Pauschenwein Jutta 
Published: October 2024

Reviews of research into MOOCs have identified two areas needing further research; the individual learner experience and the role of the teacher/facilitator. In this paper we examine the teacher/facilitator’s role as MOOC designer in achieving an appropriate balance between structure and agency in the design of a specific MOOC, and consider whether this balance was achieved by analysing the learners' experience of this MOOC. To do this we used a tool known as Footprints of Emergence, which enables designers, teachers, learners and researchers to visualise the course design and their learning experience in any course. Drawing Footprints of Emergence requires deep reflection on 25 factors which influence learning in complex learning environments, such as MOOCs.
The context for this research was the Competences for Global Collaboration MOOC (cope15) offered by FH Joanneum, in Graz, Austria, in Spring 2015. Through negotiation and taking advantage of a diversity of competences and experiences, the team designed a hybrid learning space with a multitude of resources and learning paths. They used an approach which combined Salmon's model for moderating small groups of learners with the principles of connectivism and the structuring of xMOOCs. In using this approach the teachers needed to adopt unfamiliar roles as open practitioners and relinquish control over their students. The visualisation offered by the design footprint of cope15 helped to frame their discussion and planning.
The MOOC design required learners to assume responsibility for their own learning, deal with uncertainty and be open to a holistic learning experience. At the end of the MOOC they were asked to draw a Footprint to reflect on their learning experience and provide a written reflection. 30 participants agreed to their Footprints and written reflections being analysed for this research. The Footprints show that a balance between structure and agency was achieved for these learners. They experienced neither too much prescription nor too much chaos in the MOOC design and learning processes. These preliminary findings suggest that attention to structure and agency using the Footprints of Emergence visualisation tool enables the design of a MOOC to meet learners’ needs, and supports end of course reflection and evaluation.
Learning how kinds matter
Authors: O'Shea Clara 
Published: October 2024

What does it mean to learn in a network? What does it mean to be a particular kind of learner? To develop and work towards a particular kind of being? Does every instantiation of a network lead to a different form of being? If networks are, as Jones (2016: 486) says “interactive processes that co-constructively shape persons”, then how contingent are these? How much does the social and material elements of the network contribute to the learner’s understanding of their own personhood?This paper is an exploration of Ian Hacking’s work on ‘making up people’ (e.g. Hacking 1986, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2004, 2006a, 2006b). Hacking posits that the possibilities for people are bounded, determined by what is imaginable and articulable, what is named and described. This naming of people, or classification, is part of an iterative, dynamic process in which the names and the named emerge simultaneously and in interaction with each other, changing the “space of possibilities for personhood”. In this paper, I link that concept to notions of ‘becoming’ in networked learning and suggest Hacking provides a useful frame to think about how learners come to know about and enact particular ways of being. I start by briefly summarising Hacking’s key concepts of kinds, dynamic nominalism and the looping effect, and outline Hacking’s framework. I argue that Hacking is offering a useful onto-epistemology for thinking about 'becoming' as part of a sociocultural network of humans, institutions and social processes. I then briefly describe posthumanism and explore how a posthuman and sociomaterial approach can help round out the important missing element in Hacking’s theory – the materials and technologies that are crucial in understanding any learning assemblage. In bringing together these approaches, seemingly inoperable binaries collapse and ‘becoming’ becomes a matter of constant process and persistent re-workings. This offers productive ways to think about learning as an emergent entanglement of social, the material and the technological processes that are constantly re-working and re-creating what it means to be ‘made up’.
Designing for Networked Learning in The Third Space
Authors: Parchoma Gale , Dreaver-Charles Kristine , Nelson Dorothea 
Published: October 2024

The focus of the argument in this paper is first situated in an allegory based on Van Gogh’s Expressionist masterpiece, The Yellow House, in that, our argument shares Van Gogh’s theme of looking for a home for a diverse community, engaged in a shared social movement, imagined/acted upon to evoke change. Our argument is fraught with commitments, investments, hopes, debates, rifts, and conflicts involved in the tentative, emergent nature associated with social movements. Within this diverse and contested context, networked learning praxis is set apart from mainstream e-learning and educational technology theories and practices. The problem of designing learning, in general, and designing for networked learning, in particular, is critically examined through a comparison of the projects, histories, and tenets of instructional design (ID) and learning design (LD). Associated notions of teacher-centred, learner-centred, and community/context-centred approaches to design are compared. Contrasts are drawn and commonalities are identified. The shared LD/ID claims that their projects are pedagogically neutral is interrogated. We then introduce Third Space theory as a way to open a dialogue between ID/LD proponents/researcher-practitioners. Third Space theory begins with abandoning aspirations for emergence of consensus from difference, arguably a practical stance to take when dealing with wide-ranging diversities across multicultural, interdisciplinary, international contexts. Having abandoned consensus, Third Space theory is directed toward ‘multilogues’ that promote boundary crossings and hybridisations, which can result in the emergence new “presences”: newly co-constructed ways to identify and accomplish shared goals. If we conceptualise The Third Space as, (Dare we suggest, an Expressionist social movement?), then based on historical examples of earlier social movements, it is relatively safe to suggest that this space too will likely be marked by misunderstandings and incommensurabilities. Third space ‘multilogues’ will involve participants sometimes talking ‘past each other’ rather than ‘with each other.’ We can expect substantive disagreements and retreats to previously held positions prior to arriving at places of mutual recognition, and perhaps even one or more forms of reconciliation. The paper concludes with an invitation for LDs and IDs to enter The Third Space with a view to finding varied, but sustainable, hybridised conceptualisations of design theories and practices that can contribute to designing future opportunities for networked learning across multicultural, multilinguistic, international, interdisciplinary context.
МОНІТОРИНГ РЕЗУЛЬТАТІВ НАВЧАННЯ У ВНУТРІШНІЙ СИСТЕМІ ЯКОСТІ ЗАКЛАДУ ОСВІТИ
Authors: Кулешова Оксана 
Published: October 2024

У методичній статті здійснено аналітичний огляд сучасних досліджень та чинних нормативних документів. Обґрунтовано, що моніторинг як управлінський механізм дає змогу керівникам мінімізувати ризики в управлінні. Схарактеризовано сутнісні особливості результату навчання як об’єкта моніторингу. Акцентовано на умовах, за яких система моніторингу результатів навчання буде ефективною. Уперше запропоновано методичні рекомендації для керівників шкіл щодо шляхів її впровадження у внутрішню систему забезпечення якості освіти задля досягнення сталого розвитку і безперервного покращення якості.
Оцінювання привабливості бізнес-середовища для експортної діяльності українських консалтингових маркетингових компаній на ринках США та Франції
Authors: Нагачевська Т. В. , Капшієнко Я. В. 
Published: October 2024

На основі факторного аналізу визначено особливості бізнес-середовища на ринках консалтингових маркетингових послуг Франції та США. Представлено результати аналізу макро- та мікрофакторів, поглибленого дослідження конкурентного середовища на цих ринках. Виявлено переваги та недоліки, можливості та загрози для експортної діяльності українських консалтингових маркетингових компаній на ринках Франції та США. Визначено, що на обох ринках найбільшу вагому частку займають політико-правові фактори, які можуть бути одночасно загрозою та можливістю для діяльності українських компаній. Високий рівень конкуренції є вагомим фактором загроз на обох проаналізованих ринках, проте вищий рівень конкуренції було виявлено на ринку США. В умовах високого рівня конкуренції експортна стратегія українських консалтингових компаній має базуватися на наявності інноваційних компетенцій, унікальних методик консалтингу, а їх діяльність має бути спрямована на індивідуальний підхід до вирішення проблем клієнтів. Вагомим фактором впливу є наявність різноманітності культурних груп на обох ринках, що потребує врахування у формуванні експортних стратегій. У результаті проведеного дослідження, було обґрунтовано, що як ринок Франції, так і ринок США є потенційно привабливим для здійснення експортної діяльності українських консалтингових маркетингових компаній, оскільки рівень можливостей перевищує рівень загроз на кожному з цих ринків. Більш перспективним та привабливим для діяльності українських компаній є ринок Франції, оскільки коефіцієнт можливостей на цьому ринку є вищим ніж на ринку США. Застосовано метод збору та обробки первинних даних шляхом анкетування споживачів та експертів. Виявлено характеристики та специфіку споживчих мотивацій на ринках консалтингових маркетингових послуг Франції та США. Обгрунтовано практичні рекомендації щодо виходу на дані ринки та ведення успішної експортної діяльності українських консалтингових маркетингових компаній. На основі аналізу проведеного авторами опитування експертів ДУ «Офіс з розвитку підприємництва та експорту» розроблено рекомендації бізнесу щодо доцільності використання інформаційно-консалтингових та навчальних послуг Офісу для сприяння експортній діяльності. Запропоновано напрями вдосконалення діяльності Офісу та взаємодії з бізнесом на основі запитів експортного підприємництва, в тому числі надання сприяння українським консалтинговим маркетинговим компаніям з експортним потенціалом.
Туристичний ринок України в часи війни: проблеми, загрози, можливості
Authors: Сокол Т. Г. , Міхо О. І. , Дергач А. С. 
Published: October 2024

The article examines the impact of war on Ukraine's tourism market due to globalization and integration processes. The article discusses in detail the problems and opportunities that arise in the context of modern challenges. In Ukraine, where hostilities continue, the tourism industry has faced unprecedented challenges, which have resulted in a significant drop in arrivals and a reduction in domestic tourist flows. The tourism industry has also a ban on air transportation, the closure of many tourist and hotel enterprises, the destruction or transformation of hotels into temporary shelters, personnel shortages, and a general decrease in income from tourism. Because of these aspects, investigating the challenges in Ukraine's tourism market is relevant and necessary to determine effective strategies for the industry's development. These strategies should further contribute to the economic growth and social welfare of the country. The article presents the results of surveys that demonstrate the accessibility of travel for domestic tourists and their motivation. The main reasons for refusing to travel are security and economic factors. Ukrainians prefer seasonal summer vacations in cities and hiking. Priority is given to event, gastronomic, active, and ecological tourism. The impact of hostilities has also resulted in some adaptation and search for new opportunities for the tourism industry. New tourist destinations, such as military tourism and "memory tourism," began to develop actively in Ukraine. Developing such tourism as agritourism and cultural and historical tourism in safe regions, can help to diversify the tourist offer and reduce the economic impact of a decrease in international tourist flow. It also contributes to the development of local economies and the creation of new jobs, which is critical in crisis. It is recommended to strengthen efforts in the field of international PR to improve Ukraine's image in the world. This includes participation in international tourism exhibitions, online marketing campaigns, and cooperation with international leaders of thoughts who can change the perception of Ukraine as a tourist destination. Tourism operators and local authorities should work together to develop and implement emergency response plans that will help them quickly adapt to changes in the security situation. Implementing these strategies will require strong coordination among all stakeholders, including government, the private sector, and international partners.
Tendencias en la gestión de facturación para ACEROTRANS.S.A en 2024: Un enfoque práctico aplicando técnicas de Inteligencia Artificial
Authors: Reinoso Cueva Diego Alexander , Bedón Salazar Edison Patricio 
Published: October 2024

Introducción: La integración del Machine Learning y el desarrollo de aplicaciones informáticas, está en constante evolución debido a que mejoran la capacidad para gestionar eficazmente requerimientos de una empresa u organización y a la vez apoyar a la toma de decisiones informadas.
Objetivo: La predicción de tendencias en facturación de transportistas de Acerotrans a partir de datos históricos con la finalidad de evaluar cómo se pueden tomar decisiones anticipadas.
Métodos: Recopilar datos históricos, seguidos por el uso de técnicas de Machine Learning para implementar algoritmos de regresión. Se aplicaron procesos ETL para subida masiva de datos y técnicas de BI para que la información se visualice mediante reportes gráficos. Todos estos métodos forman parte de las fases de KDD.
Resultados: Los algoritmos de regresión se encargarán de entrenar, agrupar y predecir la facturación, lo que permitió hacer un análisis sobre los datos originales y los datos predichos a fin de evaluar el comportamiento y ajuste del modelo.
Conclusiones: La integración de la inteligencia artificial, inteligencia de negocios y el desarrollo Web es vital para que un sistema informático se adapte a cambios y necesidades del usuario. La predicción de tendencias en base a datos históricos es esencial para anticiparse a eventos futuros, por lo que el volumen de datos debe ser considerable.
Palabras Clave: Desarrollo Web, Machine Learning, KDD, BI, ETL.
Enhanced fig tree production through endomycorrhizal fungi inoculation: A nursery study on tree cuttings derived from the Ifrane Region, Morocco
Authors: BALLAOUI Mouad , EL GABARDI Soumaya , ADNANI Manal , SELMAOUI Karima , SAIDI Najia , MSAIRI Soukaina , MOUDEN Najoua , EL ALAOUI Moulay Abdelaziz , OUAZZANI TOUHAMI Amina , DOUIRA Allal 
Published: October 2024

The mycorrhizal association represents a crucial symbiotic bond necessary for the vitality of the majority of plants. This report aims to investigate the impact of endomycorrhizal fungi on the production of fig trees from cuttings. The research took place in a nursery environment by inoculating fig cuttings sourced from three sites in Morocco with a composite inoculum of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). The mean root and vegetative masses of the inoculated plants after 140 days were 33.1 g and 35 g compared with 1.8 g and 6.4 g in the control. The mean shoot length and number of leaves developed from treated cutting were 98.5 cm and 17, respectively 29 cm and 4 leaves in control. Thus, the newly formed roots showed a well-established mycorrhizal colonization and contained different structures characteristic of arbuscular endomycorrhizae: arbuscules, vesicles, endophytes, hyphae and spores. The frequency and intensity of root mycorrhization were approximately 80% and 15.5%, respectively. The contents of arbuscules and vesicles were 2.5% and 5.5%. The study of formed spores showed a combination of 52 spores per 100 g of soil, belonging to 11 species and 3 genera: Glomus, Acaulospora and Rhizophagus with dominance of the genus Glomus (85%). Glomus macrocarpum and Glomus deserticola were the most abundant species, appearing at 30.77% and 19.23%, respectively. The results demonstrate a pronounced stimulating effect on both root formation and vegetative shoot development in the inoculated cuttings. Specifically, the early inoculation of fig cutting with the AMF inoculum significantly enhanced rhizogenesis end root system development. Consequently, the gradual establishment of mycorrhizal symbiosis at the root level of inoculated plants led to good development of the root mass and the vegetative mass. The inoculated plants showed good root and vegetative mass development due to the installation and the progressive development of mycorrhizal symbiosis at their roots.
GLOBAL PRACTICE OF DIVERSIFICATION OF THE OIL AND GAS SECTOR OF THE ECONOMY
Authors: Кизимбаева Ажар , Момбекова Гульмира , Мангибаева Дина 
Published: October 2024

The article considers global trends in the development of the oil and gas sector of the economy. World economic systems, developing due to the availability of large amounts of natural resources, are increasingly specialised in the extraction and export of energy products, which are mainly exported to industry markets in raw form. Countries that supply hydrocarbon commodities to world markets are subject to price volatility and pricing policies, with the result that the economies of oil and gas exporting countries are not always sustainable. Historically, such countries have historically been less able to develop manufacturing sectors that produce value-added goods, while supplementing government budgets with quick revenues from oil and gas exports. These countries have a chance to develop their economies by selling raw materials for a certain period of time, but in the long term they switch to economic diversification to ensure sustainability in the face of uncertainties (lower demand for raw materials, volatility of resource prices, environmental challenges, scientific and technological development, increased use of unconventional energy sources, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, etc.).
Oil and gas producing and exporting countries have been carrying out reforms for the last two decades in order to ensure strong economic growth through the expansion of industrial sectors of the economy by producing deep processing products with high added value.
The purpose of the research is to study the world experience of oil and gas industry diversification development in order to adapt it to the realities of Kazakhstan
Methodology - The work uses statistical, monographic, abstract-logical and other methods of research.
Originality/value of the study is to consider the experience of foreign countries in the development of diversification of the oil and gas sector of the economy.
Results of the study - The main directions of development of diversification of the oil and gas sector of the country's economy are determined.
Iḥsān ʿAbd al-Quddūs’ Paths to Freedom Between Journalism and Popular Fiction in the Novel "Anā Ḥurra" (I Am Free)
Authors: Tondi Arianna 
Published: October 2024

Iḥsān ʿAbd al-Quddūs (1919-1990) is one of the best-known journalists in the history of Egyptian political journalism. He began his career at Rūz al-Yūsuf magazine, founded by his mother, the celebrated actress and journalist who named the journal after herself. He was also a famed author of popular fiction, which was serialised in Egyptian mainstream weeklies from the late forties through the eighties. His name is associated with mass readership and sentimental novels and short stories whose protagonists often are young women struggling for freedom in a traditional and patriarchal society.
In this article we will analyse his first success, the novel Anā Ḥurra (I Am Free), which was written a year after the 1952 Egyptian revolution. The aim of this study is to re-evaluate the underrated field of popular and middlebrow Arabic literature. We will focus on the relation between female liberation and politics in the novel, in particular how the story of the young protagonist’s search for freedom reflects the failures of the 1952 revolution.
Keywords: Iḥsān ʿAbd al-Quddūs, Rūz al-Yūsuf, Anā Ḥurra, Journalism, Popular literature, Rebellion, Freedom.