Knowledge creation and play

Suorsa, Anna

doi:10.1108/jd-11-2016-0141

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“…As we mentioned before, teacher interaction with the students is of utmost importance, therefore using digital platforms to move the process forward is of special importance. We should mention one other thing which we believe to be very important regarding this aspect of collaboration software or virtual classroom; many of these platforms were never meant for teaching purpose, although using them as such has never been an issue, but we should keep in mind that such platforms have been first and foremost made for business meeting or chatting rooms for social platform interaction (Suorsa, 2017).…”

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The Importance of Virtual Technologies in Education

Rustemi¹,

Tahiri²

2021

ISJ-Monte

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Students with their school bags are walking, smiling, and moving forward with the goal to reach the school. They enter school, sit on their chairs waiting for their teacher, who enters with books in his hands ready for the class to begin. These scenes seem from a long time ago, especially in the schools of North Macedonia where we live. The pandemic that the world is facing from 2020 has changed the way how we learn and educate our students. Distance learning has become the main way of teaching and learning, thus making us question our school methodologies and the way we provide and acquire knowledge. Digital platforms have become the new way teachers and students communicate. It is important to mention that there are schools that use a combination of physical and digital learning, but the important issue here is that schools may be going through a very important change, which will certainly be affected from how long the pandemic will last, but which will leave its mark even long after it ends. These are the aspects that this paper we deal in providing information about different platforms and how each one of them has affected the learning and teaching process, whether it is in our region or in the world as a whole. Things, of course, haven't been so smooth, because it seems that the world wasn't prepared for such a drastic change in this field, therefore education systems had to face many hurdles in order to find a middle ground to make the transition as successful as possible. Some countries have had better results, some not so much, but one thing is for certain, Tech companies have given us a large number of alternatives of which some may have suited best in one school, while some in another. Regarding this important transition, schools have faced technical and training problems, where some have lacked any proper knowledge about the digital platforms that exist for this purpose, while others in addition to that, have lacked adequate computer devices to make an effective teaching/learning process. We will try to explain why parts of the world weren't properly prepared for times like these and if there is some hope that there is a brighter future for the educational systems to provide the needed learning quality for the generations to come. But he most important thing is whether we as human beings who are in constant need for knowledge, are learning a lesson from these hard times and are preparing ourselves for possible similar times like these in the future. In one way we need to reflect on what went wrong and, at the same time, make important steps to improve tomorrow.

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The Importance of Virtual Technologies in Education

Rustemi¹,

Tahiri²

2021

ISJ-Monte

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Embodied and dialogical basis for understanding humans with information: A sustainable view

Suorsa

2024

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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In this conceptual paper I suggest that hermeneutic phenomenological view on humans in the world can lay a premise to understand our embodied, dialogical way of living in the world with information of all kinds. This gives us ethical stance to the development of information‐intensive world and points out our limits as human beings. First, I explicate the implicit and explicit traces of phenomenology in the field of Library and Information Studies (LIS). After that, I continue to explicate how human beings and their relation to the world of information can be conceptualized also by the means of understanding, and dialogicality, with hermeneutic phenomenology of Martin Heidegger, 1985 and Hans‐Georg Gadamer, 2004 T. Then, I introduce the concepts and conceptions of understanding human beings as living bodies in the world, based on hermeneutic phenomenology of Maurice Merleau‐Ponty, 2006. Together, these form a strong basis for understanding humans with information in their environment. Finally, I explicate why it is essential and meaningful to understand humans as embodied and dialogical, to be able to understand and examine information use, action, and interaction in our field in different contexts critically and sustainably.

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Evaluating the impact of a virtual reality workstation in an academic library: Methodology and preliminary findings

Lischer-Katz

Cook

Boulden

2018

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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Collections of 3D models and the analytic affordances of virtual reality (VR) systems can be integrated to form a “3D digital heritage ecosystem” (Limp, et al., 2011), providing a potentially richer and more intuitive learning environment that enables students to interact with models of artifacts and spaces that are too rare, fragile, or distant to access directly. This paper describes efforts to evaluate the impact of virtual reality on undergraduate instruction in varied disciplines, hosted within an academic library context. Existing research on VR and learning has focused primarily on domain‐specific tasks carried out in controlled lab settings or the social aspects of immersive virtual worlds. This paper describes the methodology and preliminary findings of a mixed‐methods research project currently underway (running from September 2017 to August 2018) that is evaluating how use of virtual reality impacts undergraduate students' self‐efficacy, and seeks to understand students' embodied experiences. The strengths and weaknesses of the methodology, initial findings drawn from the early stages of data analysis, and directions for further research are discussed.

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Knowledge creation and play

Cited by 10 publications

References 41 publications

The Importance of Virtual Technologies in Education

The Importance of Virtual Technologies in Education

Embodied and dialogical basis for understanding humans with information: A sustainable view

Evaluating the impact of a virtual reality workstation in an academic library: Methodology and preliminary findings

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