The Spring of 2020 brought many disruptions to our professional and personal lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic that forced worldwide mid-semester campus closures; pivoting of traditional, face-to-face classes to remote teaching and learning; and postponements or cancellations of conferences, workshops, and other professional development events. One example of the breakdown of scheduled opportunities for us as honors colleagues to gather in-person to enhance our practices and strengthen our community was the cancellation of the 2020 International Conference on Talent Development and Honors Education in Groningen, the Netherlands, originally slated for June 10-12 but moved to June 16-18, 2021. Immediately following the 2020 conference, we (the authors) had planned to offer the fifth Honors International Faculty Institute (HIFI), an international and highly interactive occasion for honors and talent development teachers, researchers, and leaders to engage in presentations, experiential activities, place-as-text explorations, collaborative group work, reflective exercises, and showcases designed to improve teaching, learning, and programming in honors. Suddenly, the coronavirus upended our world, and we had to reimagine the institute that we had previously organized four times alternately at Hanze University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands) and Texas Christian University (USA). Putting aside the disappointment of the moment and recognizing the value of coming up with an alternative to HIFI that would ensure the safety and health of our honors colleagues, we decided to create a fully online version with free registration to encourage participation and create resources accessible to all members of our international community. We wanted to highlight the challenges of how all of us unexpectedly had to pivot to remote teaching and learning as the global pandemic intensified, but we also wanted to share information, experiences, and models that could open new avenues for operationalizing online honors education more generally beyond the COVID-19 crisis. We wanted, in other words, to explore how honors pedagogy could (and maybe should) be adapted to the increasingly online world of primary, secondary, and higher education. Thus, HIFLO 2020 was born! HIFLO stands for Honours International Faculty Learning Online.
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For this exploratory study we aim to provide knowledge and insights concerning the processes of setting up, implementing and managing online communities as a part of the product/services offer of media companies. The goal is to increase their reach amongst target groups, to strengthen involvement with their audiences and to entice their audiences to participate. This information should help us to understand the many different aspects important for developing and managing online communities. The research question for this phase is: Which critical success factors play a role in the process of setting up and managing online communities using social media in order to activate and/or engage target audiences? In this exploratory first phase we looked into literature relating to general guidelines and critical success factors in setting up and managing online communities. These aspects include, communication and interaction options, functionalities for sharing information, the content structure given, the importance of socialization within the community, the policies used and the usability of the platform (Ning Shen & Khalifa, 2008).
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Internet technology offers a lot of new opportunities for the dissemination of information, sharing of support and consultation of professionals. Innovating professionals from multiple disciplines have begun to exploit the new opportunities for parenting support. The studies presented in this book are meant to deepen our insights in the subject of online parenting support and investigate the feasibility to use single session email consultation to empower parents. This publication includes: - A systematic review of 75 studies on online parenting support. - A meta-analytic review of 12 studies on online tools to improve parenting. - A content analysis of 129 parenting questions and responses in single session email consultation. - An analysis and validation study of the newly developed Guiding the Empowerment Process model. - An evaluation study of the effects of single session email consultation on parental empowerment. The results of this research indicate that the Internet is not only a source of information, but it can also be an instrument for support and training, aiming to improve parental competencies.
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The Academy for Leisure & Events has always been one of the frontrunners when it comes to the development, design and implementation of cultural tourism and creative industry business models as well as lifelong learning programmes.These programmes are attended by a variety of leisure and tourism professionals, including public authorities in leisure, culture and nature fields.The CULTURWB project addresses the need for strengthening the development of the cultural tourism industry.The experts from BUas together with the other project partners have utilised diverse research methodologies (marketing and branding, strategy business planning, digital tourism, sustainable development, strategy and action plan implementation, etc.) to develop and pilot a toolkit for Lifelong Learning courses in the field of cultural tourism and heritage. They have also designed and implemented a master’s programme in the WB countries and created an online platform for communication between stakeholders, industry leaders, managers, workforce, and academia.PartnersHochschule Heibronn, FH Joanneum Gesellschaft, World University Service - Österreichisches Komitee (WUS Austria), Dzemal Bijedic University of Mostar (UNMO), University of East Sarajevo (UES), The University of Banja Luka (UBL), University of NIS (UNI), University of Montenegro (UoM), Sarajevo Meeting of Cultures (SMOC), rovincial Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments (PZZZSK), Tourism Organisation of Kotor Municipality (TO Kotor)
NHL Stenden opleiding Creative Business & Communication, het Piter Jelles Leeuwarder Lyceum, het lectoraat Organisaties & Sociale Media (O&SM), Van Hall Larenstein, het online jongerenplatform ‘Suksawat’, en het Aansluitingsnetwerk VO-HO Fryslân willen met dit KIEM project de mogelijkheden verkennen voor het ontwikkelen van een duurzame samenwerking tussen voortgezet onderwijs (VO) en hoger onderwijs (HO) op het gebied van 21st century skills/mediawijsheid. Doel van het project is het ontwikkelen en uitvoeren van een pilot rondom social media gerelateerde thema’s zoals fake-news, privacy, de rol van digitale influencers (zoals vloggers) en social media gebaseerde business modellen. Deze thema’s worden gezamenlijk door de genoemde partners uitgewerkt met als doe te komen tot innovatieve leer-werkvormen en lesproducten die vervolgens getest en geëvalueerd worden. Vernieuwend is hierbij dat de beoogde lesproducten ontwikkelt en uitgevoerd worden door studenten (ambassadeurs vanuit het HBO), die onder de begeleiding van experts (Suksawat en het lectoraat O&SM) een jaarlijks terugkerend programma ontwikkelen wat in de curricula van HO, VO en bij activiteiten en evenementen van Suksawat terugkeren. Het beoogde project zal tevens leiden tot onderzoeksactiviteiten op het gebied van social media wijsheid en aansluiten bij de wens van de Suksawat om nieuwe activiteiten te ontplooien voor het betrekken van jongeren bij hun regionale online platform. Tevens is het van belang om doormiddel van deze pilot te kijken of het project ook opgeschaald zou kunnen worden naar meer middelbare scholen in de noordelijke regio’s. De activiteiten rondom het project zullen tevens plaatsvinden in het kader van de verbinding tussen VO-HO in de regio Friesland. De inzichten, uit dit KIEM project, uitgewerkt in een draaiboek, zullen dan ook meegenomen worden voor een groter project waarbij meer kennisinstellingen, (media)bedrijven en middelbare scholen aan deel kunnen nemen.
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