This teaching case deals with challenges of global virtual teams in start-up setting. Sunny Technologies is a born global from Germany. Five employees manage projects in the Sunbelt region and ...provide special technological solutions for gaining and storing energy from renewable resources. The project manager and an entrepreneur Angela Schmitz is working on negotiations with the first international customer and here is how it goes ...
This study analyses the effect of type of approach and methodology on different
types of motivation: intrinsic, extrinsic, instrumental and integrative motivation; interest
in other cultures and ...learning environment are also considered. The two types of approaches under scrutiny are CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) and non-CLIL or EFL (English as a foreign language), and the two types of methodology are based on either the textbook or project work (PW). Previous studies have examined the effect of PW and/or
CLIL on secondary education (Seikkula-Leino, 2007, Lasagabaster, 2011; Sierra, 2011), but the novelty of the present research lies in the fact that it is focused on primary education students. The data were collected through a questionnaire filled in by three groups of participants: a non-CLIL and book-based group taught conventionally, a CLIL and book-based methodology group, and a CLIL and PW group. The results bore out that CLIL is beneficial for some motivational clusters even at an early age, whereas the impact of PW was not as positive as expected.
En este estudio se examina el efecto del tipo de enfoque y de la metodología
en diferentes tipos de motivación: intrínseca, extrínseca, motivación instrumental e integradora, al tiempo que también se presta atención al interés en otras culturas y al ambiente de aprendizaje. Los dos tipos de enfoque bajo estudio son AICLE (Aprendizaje Integrado de Contenidos y Lengua Extranjera) y no-AICLE o enseñanza tradicional del inglés como asignatura de lengua, y los dos tipos de metodología se basan o bien en el libro de texto o bien
en el trabajo por proyectos. Mientras estudios anteriores han analizado el efecto del TP y/o AICLE en educación secundaria (Seikkula-Leino, 2007, Lasagabaster, 2011; Sierra, 2011), la principal novedad del presente estudio radica en que se centra en estudiantes de educación primaria. El instrumento utilizado fue un cuestionario cumplimentado por tres grupos de participantes: un grupo no-AICLE que aprendía inglés como asignatura basándose en el libro de texto, un grupo AICLE que seguía una metodología centrada en el libro de texto, y un grupo AICLE que trabajaba por proyectos. Los resultados confirman que AICLE afecta positivamente distintos aspectos motivacionales incluso a edades tempranas, mientras que el
efecto del TP no resultó tan beneficioso como se esperaba.
Palabras clave: Motivación, AICLE, trabajo por proyectos, educación primaria.
The article examines experience and approaches of teaching to foreign students who came to the Institute of Environmental Engineering of the RUDN University for short-term exchange programs (2-3 ...months). The short duration of the exchange programs imposes additional restrictions on the order of studying the material - it is necessary to give an idea not only about the requirements of environmental protection legislation applied, for example, in Russia and the European Union, but also to give students the opportunity to actively participate in the classes during the workshops, taking into account the adaptation period when in their thoughts they are still at home, but are already in the host country. As an example, the courses conducted at the RUDN for students from Indonesia who arrived to participate the program Sustainability management and studying Environmental Impact Assessment and Management of Environmental Risks courses. The experience of teaching these disciplines shows the expediency of practical tasks related to the homeland of students - this allows them not only not to miss their homeland, but also to study in more detail the requirements of their country legislation related impact assessment on the environment, but also the impact of various types of industries on the environment. Thus, the students not only does not fall out of the educational context in home country for several months, but also independently receive more in-depth knowledge. As an exam at the end of the course, it is advisable not to give a traditional test with questions, but to prepare a project that can be carried out jointly with colleagues who have remained at the university in their homeland and allows applying the knowledge gained through the exchange program to create a visually evaluated result (project) on environmental protection in their homeland.
If 4-H'ers earn project recognition for things they do as a matter of course in their schools and with their families—things they would do whether or not they were 4-H members—then is 4-H really ...making a difference in their lives? I make a case for rigor and high expectations in 4-H project work and suggest that state Extension specialists, in their engagement in 4-H, have a unique opportunity to strengthen 4-H programming as a bridge to excellence in the academic and professional careers of its participants.
This article reflects the learning process carried out within the framework of an environmental education and educational intervention project, using the Project Work Methodology (MTP), conducted in ...the context of preschool education in Portugal. Following a qualitative paradigm, the study aims to analyze how children develop skills through the MTP. The approach respected children’s individual needs, fostering critical and creative thinking. The educational intentions constructed during the intervention led to the promotion of different types of learning among the children. The recorded evidence reveals benefits in their holistic development, confirming the formative potential of the project methodology.
O artigo, que se apresenta, espelha um percurso de aprendizagens realizadas no âmbito de um projeto de educação ambiental e de intervenção educativa, através da Metodologia de Trabalho por Projeto (MTP), realizado em contexto de educação pré-escolar, em Portugal. Seguindo um paradigma qualitativo, o estudo pretende analisar de que forma as crianças desenvolvem competências através da MTP. A abordagem explorada respeitou as necessidades individuais das crianças, o pensamento crítico e criativo, sendo que as intencionalidades educativas construídas no âmbito da intervenção, conduziram à promoção de diversas aprendizagens nas crianças. As evidências registadas revelam benefícios no seu desenvolvimento holístico, confirmando as potencialidades formativas da metodologia de projeto.
Este artículo refleja el proceso de aprendizaje llevado a cabo en el marco de un proyecto de educación ambiental e intervención educativa, utilizando la Metodología de Trabajo por Proyectos (MTP), realizado en el contexto de la educación preescolar en Portugal. Siguiendo un enfoque cualitativo, el estudio tiene como objetivo analizar cómo los niños desarrollan habilidades a través de la MTP. El enfoque respetó las necesidades individuales de los niños, fomentando el pensamiento crítico y creativo. Las intenciones educativas construidas durante la intervención condujeron a la promoción de diferentes tipos de aprendizaje en los niños. La evidencia registrada revela beneficios en su desarrollo holístico, confirmando el potencial formativo de la metodología del proyecto.
The article deals with the problem of the development of intercultural competence, which is one of the key competences in foreign language education. The focus lies on examining the opportunities ...available to use the topic of German Trails in Ukraine as a material for developing intercultural competence. The theoretical foundations on which the research was conducted are analyzed: the essence of intercultural communication, the conditions of its smooth flow; the essence of intercultural competence, its constituents and the relations between them; the role of country studies (both the country of the target language and its own history) in the acquisition of background knowledge, the ability to compare cultures, to tolerate differences between them, and furthermore. Considering that the development of intercultural competence at a level that would ensure the effective implementation of intercultural communication is primarily due to the presence, in addition to language acquisition, of intercultural knowledge, perceptions of the rules of communicative behavior and the positive disposition of learners, an important element is the approaching of the target culture, the removal of prejudices about the „alien“. This can be achieved through the inclusion in the educational process of materials from the immediate environment of learners. For exemple, the theme „Traces of the Germans in Ukraine“ is used, in which work, on the one hand, reveals facts of the history of the Germans and Germany in the European format, and on the other, the facts of the history of their own country, the history of their immediate surroundings, at the expense of which the story of „alien“ is transferred to the personal sphere. Among the possible forms of work on the topic focuses on three: work with texts containing information, the history of the Germans as a motivation for communication, the implementation of an interdisciplinary approach to training of project activities.
This study examined the learning experiences of pre-service teachers completing a project with young children using the Project Approach methodology. The study used a mixed-methods research design to ...evaluate the teaching efficacy, attitudes, and knowledge of 55 pre-service teachers enrolled in an Early Childhood through Grade 6 certification programme for doing projects with young children, after utilising a Project Approach with kindergarten and first-grade students. Scores indicated a significant increase in feelings of preparedness and efficacy to complete a project with young children (t = −11.32, p <.001; t = −10.55, p <.001). Responses to open-ended questions indicated a significant increase in understanding and confidence through the experience of doing a project themselves. Also, the pre-service teachers' knowledge of completing projects with young children and their understanding of the perceived benefits of project-based learning increased after completing a project with young children.
Large-scale, national eHealth services, such as the summary care record (SCR) and electronic prescriptions (e-prescriptions), have been implemented by project managers as Norwegian health authority ...initiatives. Few studies have been conducted on the large-scale implementation of eHealth services and the relationship between the implementers' work and the use of the tools in healthcare practices. Hence, there was a need to determine the project work with a focus on changes in practice. This study explores the implementation of the SCR and e-prescriptions from the perspective of project managers; how does the implementation work by project managers relate to institutional practices in large-scale initiatives?
Twenty-two semi-structured interviews were held with project managers in 2016 and 2018 and were recorded, transcribed, and coded according to the content. The analytical concepts of the "project" and "practice" were used to focus on tensions between the dimensions of time connecting historically established social practice and in situ actions.
The eHealth initiatives were demonstrated to have been implemented as a part of the national strategy and achieved through close collaboration with the Norwegian Directorate of eHealth (NDE). Tensions arose in relation to task-oriented actions during the implementation of the project and the daily management thereafter. Further, the work tasks of the project managers were related to the dissemination of the tools while, in practice, the tools were related to actual use by professionals. The implementation of several projects simultaneously created tensions between the implementation of a tool and a specific practice, as well as between tools.
The objectives set out by the project managers in relation to their work should be viewed as temporary, whereas a long-term objective should apply to the use of the tools. Hence, the work of implementing eHealth initiatives might call for a renewed definition of the empirical object. Identifying factors that affect uptake, such as gaps between the intended use of an object and in situ actions or historically established activities, might expedite the future success of national eHealth initiatives. The social aspect of institutional practice has a direct bearing on the potential of a project to be implemented successfully.
The basis of the article is the research which is devoted to the organization of project work in teaching Russian as a foreign language. The principles of project work, its role in the educational ...process and the implementation of project work in both full-time and distance learning are considered. The analysis of these two types of project work is carried out, the advantages and disadvantages of the distant format in the implementation of the project method are revealed.
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