Developing Partnerships to Acquire Impact: The Role of Three Regional Centres’ Capacity Building Efforts for ODL Adoption in the Emerging World - Perris, Kirk; McGreal, Rory (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
Partnerships are central to the awareness, implementation and development of open and distance learning (ODL). It is an attribute that is distinct in the higher education sector, where ODL has made a large footprint by dispelling the notion that university enrolment is reserved for a narrow and elite demographic. The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) operates to advance the uptake of ODL amongst the 54 member states of the Commonwealth. COL leverages its work through various channels, and the COL Regional Centres play a pivotal role as partners to COL and, in turn, to acquire new partners that may benefit from COL’s technical expertise. The Regional Centres, strategically located across the Commonwealth, engage primarily in capacity building for ODL. Their constituents include governments, institutions, and individual learners. This paper explores the role of COL Regional Centres to grow existing partnerships and to form new ones in the pursuit of ODL expansion. The formation of partnerships is understudied in the ODL space, yet it has been pivotal in augmenting the visibility and importance of ODL around the world. Drawing on data from an evaluation of three COL Regional Centres conducted at the end of 2019, and reporting on follow-up activities to the mid-point of 2021, this paper highlights how the RCs are achieving their mandate to engage partners and, in the process, have achieved short- and long-term outcomes since 2018. Findings provide insight into the effectiveness of RC activities, relative to the number of institutions and individuals reached, complemented with inputs from RC stakeholders, mostly comprised of RC staff. Recommendations are offered, with the paper positing that the role of the Regional Centres should continue and expand to other areas of the Commonwealth premised on their ability to build and sustain partnerships through capacity building efforts.
Number: 2
Keywords: ODL; Partnerships; Regional Centres; _genre:PR-primary_research; ⛔ No DOI found

Review: Cleveland-Innes, M. F., & Garrison, D. R. (Eds.), (2021). An introduction to distance education: Understanding teaching and learning in a new era (2nd ed.). New York, N.Y.: Routledge. - Porter, David Alexander (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
Number: 2
Keywords: distance education; ⛔ No DOI found

Contradictions in Learner Interactions in a Blended-Learning Writing Course in the ODL Context: An Activity Theory Analysis - Pullenayegem, Judy; Silva, K. Radhika M. De; Buddhini, Gayathri Jayatilleke (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
This paper reports on the use of Engeström’s (1987) Activity Theory (AT) framework to gain insights into the contradictions that emerge within the activity system of the online component of an advanced writing skills course, delivered in a blended-learning mode using the Process Approach. Activity theory, with its principle of contradictions, has been used successfully to identify tensions that arise in interactions between and among participates in online environments. The focus of this mixed-method study was to identify challenges participants experienced due to externally imposed conditions when engaging in the online activities. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews and the online log reports from the Learning Management System (LMS). Contradictions emerged between and among the elements of two activity triangles within the activity system of the online writing course. Implications of these contradictions were noted to take steps to improve the design of the online component of the writing course.
Number: 2
Keywords: Activity theory; Open and Distance learning; _genre:PR-primary_research; advanced writing skills; blended learning; contradictions; ⛔ No DOI found

Achieving Community Development through an Agricultural Extension Programme: Technology Dissemination for Mushroom Farmers - Silva, Nilantha De; Wijeratne, Mahinda (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
Mushroom production is a small-scale business unit in rural areas. The Life Long Learning for Farmers (L3F) Programme aims to enhance the socio-economic conditions for them, increasing their access to and use of knowledge and technology. This study evaluates the outcomes of the L3F Programme at the community level. Data were collected through a pre-tested questionnaire survey. The sample consisted of 30 L3F farmers. Farmers’ achievement was assessed by the Farmer Performance Index (FPI). Results indicate that mushroom farmers have scaled up their production; have improved their productivity; designed new experiments to minimise the impact of pests and diseases; focused on environmental sustainability and scientific mushroom production; and improved the quality of packaging. The mobile app Bimmal Govi, blended with Information and Communication Technology, helped them to move with the latest technological advancements. The L3F Programme has increased the standards of mushroom production, helping the farmers become promising entrepreneurs.
Number: 2 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:A36LZWPK
Keywords: Agricultural extension; L3F programme; _genre:PR-primary_research; community development; mushroom; ⛔ No DOI found

Challenges to the Effective Teaching and Learning of Geography through ODeL at the Zimbabwe Open University - Tanyanyiwa, Vincent Itai; Madobi, Rejoice (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
ODeL offers a lot of opportunities and unique challenges for adult learners. In this paper, the authors sought to examine the main problems that influence the effective teaching and learning of geography and environmental studies in Zimbabwe through ODeL as perceived by the students at the ZOU's Harare/Chitungwiza Regional Campus. This single case study employed vital informant semi-structured interviews, documentary analysis and observations to solicit information from ten students and four tutors in the Geography and Environmental Studies Department (DGES) over three months. Thematic analysis and review of qualitative gained insight into the challenges that are faced by ODeL students in the DGES. The study found out that students in the department face personal and socio-economic challenges as well as related institutional challenges. The study recommends that the ZOU DGES should offer more academic support and improve its communication to the students so that they are aware of all university-related developments that impact on their studies. Keywords: challenges, teaching, learning, ODL, ODeL
Number: 2 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:BCRJ5JGG
Keywords: _genre:PR-primary_research; ⛔ No DOI found

Academic Silver Linings in a Philippine State University Amid the Early Stages of Pandemic Cases - Toquero, Cathy Mae (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
The primary role of the academe is knowledge building, however, due to the prevailing digital divide, some institutions of higher learning were not able to offer even Emergency Online Teaching (EOT) for continuous formal education during the early stages of the pandemic. This article highlights diversified ways that a state university from a developing country (Philippines) responded to the crisis to offer assistance towards the social development of the stakeholders amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Number: 2
Keywords: COVID-19; Philippines; _genre:PR-primary_research; crisis response strategy; emergency response; higher education; social media; ⛔ No DOI found

Assessing student–teacher relationship quality in cross-cultural contexts: Psychometric properties of student–teacher relationship drawings - Chen, Mengdi; Zee, Marjolein; Roorda, Debora L. (European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021)
The present study examined the psychometric properties of Student–Teacher Relationship Drawings (STRDs) to assess student–teacher relationship quality in a cross-cultural context. A sample of upper elementary school students from both the Netherlands (N = 752) and China (N = 574) was included. Results showed sufficient inter-rater reliabilities of all drawing dimensions for both the Dutch (.68 < ICC < .84) and Chinese samples (.72 < ICC < .85). Multiple group analyses supported partially strong invariance of STRD-dimensions across the Dutch and Chinese samples. Relationship drawing dimensions also showed moderate associations with student-reported relationship quality and engagement across both the Dutch and Chinese sample. Future cross-cultural research may therefore employ STRDs to assess students’ relationship experiences.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2021.1952862 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/17405629.2021.1952862 2129771:PGDZREX2 2486141:ULZ3624B
Keywords: Cross-cultural research; measurement invariance; student–teacher relationship drawings; student–teacher relationships

Meta-framework of digital literacy: a comparative analysis of 21st-century skills frameworks - Martínez, María Cristina; Sádaba, Charo; Serrano-Puche, Javier (Revista Latina de Comunicacion Social, 2021)
Introduction: Faced with an imminent digital era marked by globalization and technological innovation, different organizations raised the importance of innovating education with the so-called 21st-century competencies. The need for new skills to participate in digital culture is highlighted in the different proposals, where digital competence is fundamental to live, work and participate in Knowledge Society. Methodology: This work aims to generate an integrated proposal of digital literacy through a comparative analysis of digital competence in eight frameworks of 21st-century skills (ATCS, enGauge, Naep, Nets, OECD, P21, UNESCO, European Union), which they are studied in three main thematic blocks: a) definition, b) objectives and vision, c) competencies and abilities. Results: Digital literacy encompasses a holistic approach, nurtured by different literacies, from which a meta-framework with nine competencies is built: three direct competencies, 1) information and data, 2) communication and collaboration, and 3) technical; five transversal competencies, 4) problem solving, 5) global citizenship and multicultural awareness, 6) interpersonal, 7) future thinking, 8) creative thinking and 9) critical thinking; and 53 cognitive, critical, technical, social, emotional and projective digital skills. Conclusions: Multidimensional digital literacy consolidates the techno-social perspective for empowerment and technological appropriation, which exceeds the operational use of tools and guarantees the broad, meaningful, and innovative use of technology for the construction of an equitable society, decent employment, social participation, among other purposes that are connected with the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Getting all children into school: The Sierra Leone story (ArcGIS StoryMaps, 2021)
Harness the power of maps to tell stories that matter. ArcGIS StoryMaps has everything you need to create remarkable stories that give your maps meaning.
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Silenced by an Unknown Language? Exploring Language Matching during Transitions from Complementary Education to Government Schools in Ghana - Daly, Kieran; Carter, Emma; Sabates, Ricardo (Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021)
Mother tongue-based education has been central to the promotion of early literacy skills in many multilingual contexts of the Global South. However, learners in such environments may face significant linguistic challenges when changing language of instruction during schooling. In particular, the linguistic distance between mother tongue and official language may be a significant barrier to learners. This paper provides an empirical approach to this issue by employing language matching based on linguistic distance between languages to explore changes in literacy scores for learners who change language of instruction. Findings show that the greater the linguistic distance between two languages, the larger the loss in foundational literacy. We conclude that language matching could be introduced as a tool to identify at-risk learners during transitions and, if possible, as a tool for linguistic allocation of students who have the possibility of selecting between schools with different languages for instruction.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2021.1941772 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/03057925.2021.1941772 2129771:37FHTZ9B
Keywords: Ghana; Mother tongue education; language matching; literacy; multilingualism

Midterm Report: OECS Learning Hub - McBurnie, Chris; Megha-Bongnkar, Ghislaine; Regis, Callista; D’Angelo, Sophia; Haßler, Björn (2021)
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OECS Instructional Content and Engagement Framework - OECS Commission; McBurnie, Chris; Megha-Bongnkar, Ghislaine (2021)
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Learning Loss, Learning Gains and Wellbeing: A Rapid Evidence Assessment - Page, Ella; Leonard-Kane, Rosie; Kashefpakdel, Elnaz; Riggall, Anna; Guerriero, Sonia (Education Development Trust, 2021)
As schools begin reopening around the world, education systems are faced with the challenge of mitigating learning lost during the pandemic, designing and implementing remedial or accelerated learning programmes, remote learning and next year's curriculum. Effective teachers are a crucial part of supporting learning recovery. School closure during COVID-19 has left many teachers uncertain about their role, worried about their working conditions and their health, safety and wellbeing, unable to use technology effectively, and unprepared for classroom challenges when schools reopen. Teachers will need to respond to students' academic losses (and gains), but also to their socio-emotional wellbeing. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and Education Development Trust have undertaken this study to provide information to help teachers, schools and governments understand how to support teachers to best support students as they return to school. This research is designed to allow to focus on the available existing evidence, and focuses on the most marginalised students and include research from previous crisis and disaster contexts to examine broadly what is know about actions to mitigate and recover learning loss, not just related to the current global pandemic but in a broader sense. The key research questions for this Rapid Evidence Assessment (REA) are grouped into two sections. Firstly, questions about learning loss, gain and impact on student wellbeing. The second group of questions focus on the experience of teachers and the literature around the skills and support required for teachers to recover learning and wellbeing themselves and in students as they return to school. The REA is a companion to a review of policy and grey literature which focuses more on commentary and guidance literature. These papers are the first stage in a wider research project which will look at how teachers support learning recovery post COVID-19. [For "Learning Loss, Learning Gains and Wellbeing: A Review of Policy and Grey Literature," see ED615067.]
Publication Title: Education Development Trust KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:48FYSB2R 2129771:KVBA2FHD
Keywords: 21st Century Skills; Access to Computers; Access to Education; Achievement Gains; At Risk Students; COVID-19; Conflict; Educational Needs; Elementary Secondary Education; Emotional Response; Foreign Countries; Health Promotion; Intervention; Mental Health; Natural Disasters; Pandemics; Research; School Closing; Social Influences; Socioeconomic Influences; Teacher Competencies; Teacher Role; Technological Literacy; War; Well Being; ⛔ No DOI found

Educational building retrofit under climate change and urban heat island effect - Akkose, Gizem; Meral Akgul, Cagla; Dino, Ipek Gursel (Journal of Building Engineering, 2021)
Climate change (CC) and urban heat island (UHI) are important environmental forces that have serious consequences for the existing buildings, such as increased resource consumption and environmental footprint, adverse human health effects and reduced occupant comfort. In this context, educational buildings represent a critical category amongst other building typologies, due to their high energy use, high occupant density, atypical daily/annual occupancy patterns, and their occupants’ high vulnerability to heat. Poor indoor conditions can reduce the health and productivity of students and teachers, worsen learning performance and reduce attendance. Retrofitting educational buildings is an effective solution to tackle this challenge. This study investigates the impact of CC&UHI on educational building performance and demonstrates the effectiveness of passive retrofit scenarios targeting CC&UHI mitigation and adaptation. These investigations are based on a systematic approach that consists of (i) the generation and analyses of CC&UHI-modified weather datasets, and (ii) simulation-based comparative analyses of the as-is building and various retrofit scenarios. An existing secondary school building in Ankara, Turkey is selected as a case study for evaluations of the selected performance indicators including energy use, global warming potential (GWP) and thermal comfort. Obtained results indicate that total energy consumption can be reduced up to 50% with retrofit, whereas possible reductions in indoor discomfort are even more pronounced, underlining the significance of selecting the optimal combination of passive measures for maximum impact towards the adaptation of the existing educational buildings to the changes in climatic conditions.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.jobe.2021.102294 2129771:Z63QZFRM 2486141:KJ7D7CVS
Keywords: Climate change; Educational building; Energy efficiency; Retrofit; Thermal comfort; Urban heat island

Health impact assessment and climate change: A scoping review - Ammann, Priska; Dietler, Dominik; Winkler, Mirko S. (The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 2021)
Climate change has various adverse impacts on public health, ranging from heat-related illness to an increased risk of undernutrition in low-income countries. Health impact assessment (HIA) has been advocated as a valuable tool to systematically identify and quantify the effects of climate change on public health and to inform and evaluate the impact of disease-specific adaptation measures as well as health co-benefits of mitigation measures. We conducted a scoping review to map out peer-reviewed literature on HIA in the context of climate change. Web of Science, Scopus and PubMed were searched without language or time restriction. Publications were included in the full text screening that presented or discussed the application of HIA for investigating health impacts of climate change, or associated adaptation and mitigation measures. In total, 76 peer-reviewed publications from 26 countries were included and characterized. There was a paucity of studies on HIA in the context of climate change from low- and middle-income countries. The most investigated climate change effects were related to temperature and air-pollution. Consequently, associated health impacts, such as respiratory or cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, were examined most frequently. Research-driven HIAs with a quantitative methodological approach were the predominant choice to assess health impacts of climate change. Only one in five publications applied a classical step-by-step HIA approach. While quantitative assessment of health impacts associated with climate change seems to be a well established field of research, the few publications applying a step-by-step HIA approach to systematically anticipate potential health impacts of climate change in a given context point at a missed opportunity for strengthening intersectoral collaboration to maximize health (co-) benefits of climate mitigation and adaptation measures. To promote the use of step-by-step HIA in regions that are most affected by climate change, HIA teaching and training efforts are urgently needed.
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Adjusting the use of preprints to accommodate the ‘quality’ factor in response to COVID-19 - Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A. (Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences, 2021)
Preprints are typically crude precursors of peer-reviewed papers that are placed almost immediately, save for some superficial screening, on an open-access repository to allow the information to reach readers quickly, circumventing the long-drawn process typically associated with processing in peer-reviewed journals. For early-career researchers who might be enthusiastic about obtaining some recognition for their efforts, or wanting open and public input about their work, preprints are certainly a useful publication choice. However, if health-related data and information have not been carefully scrutinised, they may pose a risk and may even serve as a source of public health misinformation. Surging growth and competition among preprint servers, coupled with a massive volume of COVID-19-related preprints, mainly on bioRxiv and medRxiv, as well as select indexing now being tested on PubMed, suggests that preprints are being increasingly used in the biomedical sciences. Stronger and more robust ethical policies are needed to screen preprints before they are released to the public, and even if this implies a slight delay in publication, it may increase academics' trust in this form of scientific information and communication. Clear and stringent ethical policies need to be urgently introduced by ethics groups such as COPE and the ICMJE, whose many member journals allow preprints to be posted before traditional peer review. Stringent ethical guidelines that treat misconduct equally in preprints and peer-reviewed papers will boost the integrity of academic publishing.
Keywords: Ethics policies; Health policies; Peer review

World Bank EdTech Readiness Index (ETRI) - World Bank Group (2021)
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Five ways geospatial analysis can help visualize and solve some of education’s biggest challenges - the Education Commission (the Education Commission, 2021)
As the education community continues to mobilize efforts towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4), stakeholders at all levels of the system are grappling with questions on how to deliver inclusive quality education. What communities will benefit most...
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LAC Reads Capacity Program: Curriculum coding schemes - D’Angelo, Sophia; Regis, Callista; Megha-Bongnkar, Ghislaine; McBurnie, Chris; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2021)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0209 2129771:IX96CIPY
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

LAC Reads Capacity Program: Mid-term report - McBurnie, Chris; Megha-Bongnkar, Ghislaine; Regis, Callista; D’Angelo, Sophia; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2021)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0212 2129771:24FYFK9R
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

The use of virtual learning environments and learning management systems during the COVID-19 pandemic - McBurnie, Chris; Megha-Bongnkar, Ghislaine; Regis, Callista; D’Angelo, Sophia; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2021)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0203 2129771:S7SC6REF
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Final report: Beta testing and recommendations for scaling - Megha-Bongnkar, Ghislaine; McBurnie, Chris; Regis, Callista; D’Angelo, Sophia; Gonsalves, Sarah-Lee; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2021)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0214 2129771:VHLFWHHB
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

LAC Reads Capacity Program: Capacity strengthening report - Megha-Bongnkar, Ghislaine; McBurnie, Chris; Regis, Callista; D’Angelo, Sophia; Gonsalves, Sarah-Lee; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2021)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0215 2129771:T4Q5I92Z
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

LAC Reads Capacity Program - Final report - Megha-Bongnkar, Ghislaine; McBurnie, Chris; Regis, Callista; D’Angelo, Sophia; Gonsalves, Sarah-Lee; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2021)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0213 2129771:CV4GUYZ6
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LAC Reads Capacity Program: Outputs register - Megha-Bongnkar, Ghislaine; McBurnie, Chris; Regis, Callista; D’Angelo, Sophia; Gonsalves, Sarah-Lee; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2021)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0216 2129771:PYEZTVZI
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

Inception Report - Megha-Bongnkar, Ghislaine; McBurnie, Chris; Regis, Callista; D’Angelo, Sophia; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2021)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0207 2129771:N8NT47NN
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

LAC Reads Capacity Program: Audit of content repositories for early-grade literacy - Megha-Bongnkar, Ghislaine; McBurnie, Chris; Regis, Callista; D’Angelo, Sophia; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2021)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0208 2129771:NMYVR3QF
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

Rolling out a national virtual learning environment - Megha-Bongnkar, Ghislaine; McBurnie, Chris; Regis, Callista; D’Angelo, Sophia; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2021)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0204 2129771:D6HWERM2
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; ___duplicate_item

LAC Reads Capacity Program: Teacher categorisation inputs - Regis, Callista; Megha-Bongnkar, Ghislaine; McBurnie, Chris; D’Angelo, Sophia; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2021)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0210 2129771:FLLKKXY5
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

LAC Reads Capacity Program: User testing resuts - Regis, Callista; Megha-Bongnkar, Ghislaine; McBurnie, Chris; D’Angelo, Sophia; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2021)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0211 2129771:LYEE4WYI
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

Education and International Development: An Introduction - McCowan, Tristan; Unterhalter, Elaine (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021)
Education and International Development provides an introduction to the debates on education and international development, giving an overview of the history, influential theories, key concepts, areas of achievement and emerging trends in policy and practice. Written by leading academics from Canada, India, Netherlands, South Africa, UK, USA, and New Zealand, this second edition has been fully updated in light of recent changes in the field, such as the introduction of the Sustainable Development Goals and the increased focus on environmental sustainability and equality. The book includes three new chapters on private providers, decolonisation and learning outcomes as well as a range of pedagogical features including key concept boxes, biographies of influential thinkers and practitioners, further reading lists, questions for reflection and debate, and case studies from around the developing world.
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Keywords: Education / Comparative; Education / Multicultural Education

Education Systems for Girls’ Education in the Indo-Pacific Region - Newman, Lorenzo; Pelosi, Alice; Zino, Giovanni; Crespi, Silvia; Gordon, Rebecca (2021)
Despite substantial progress over the last two decades, girls in many parts of the world experience worse educational outcomes than boys, particularly at the secondary and tertiary levels. The COVID-19 pandemic appears to have exacerbated this learning gap in many regions, making research on the relationship between girls’ education outcomes and education systems increasingly urgent. This rapid review explores the determinants of girls’ education outcomes in a specific group of Indo-Pacific countries. It examines the education system determinants of these outcomes such as government investment, teacher training, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure in schools, school-related gender-based violence, and indirect costs of education, drawing from pre-COVID-19 data. It also investigates societal determinants such as political factors, poverty rates, labour market participation trends, and child marriage rates. By attempting to explain differences in learning outcomes for girls, it also achieves a typology of countries in the region and suggests ideas for further research and FCDO programming.
Accepted: 2021-09-08T10:32:40Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.19088/K4D.2021.114 2129771:C76A4PKM 4869029:UWNCAT3B

Biometric applications in education - Hernandez-de-Menendez, Marcela; Morales-Menendez, Ruben; Escobar, Carlos A.; Arinez, Jorge (International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM), 2021)
Educational institutions are acquiring novel technologies to help make their processes more efficient and services more attractive for both students and faculty. Biometric technology is one such example that has been implemented in educational institutions with excellent results. In addition to identifying students, access control, and personal data management, it has critical applications to improve the academic domain's teaching/learning processes. Identity management system, class attendance, e-evaluation, security, student motivations, and learning analytics are areas in which biometric technology is most heavily employed. A literature review is performed to present an overview of biometric technology applications for educational purposes, challenges that must overcome to implement biometric technology, and potentially foreshadowing trends effectively. The future seems promising for biometric technology; the biometric technology market is expected to reach a value of USD 94 billion by 2025 at a compound annual growth rate of 36%. New characteristics are under development for commercial applications, such as vascular pattern recognition, ear shape recognition, facial thermography, odor sensing, gait recognition, heartbeat authentication, brain waves, and human body bioacoustics. The biggest challenge this technology must overcome is security and privacy issues, which must be addressed to fully develop the technology to its full potential. It is desirable that this literature review can provide researchers with a sound vision of the potential that biometric technology will have in education.
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Keywords: Biometrics; Educational innovation; Final_citation; Higher education; State of the art; anystyle; existing

Education during the COVID-19 crisis Opportunities and constraints of using EdTech in low-income countries - Jordan, Katy; David, Raluca; Phillips, Toby; Pellini, Arnaldo (Revista de Educación a Distancia (RED), 2021)
Dates: 13-11-2020 — Actualizado el 09-01-2021 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.6018/red.453621 2405685:IVHRNTQ7 2405685:L7Y5JD68
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Immersive Virtual Reality in K-12 and Higher Education: A systematic review of the last decade scientific literature - Pellas, Nikolaos; Mystakidis, Stylianos; Kazanidis, Ioannis (Virtual Reality, 2021)
There has been an increasing interest in applying immersive virtual reality (VR) applications to support various instructional design methods and outcomes not only in K-12 (Primary and Secondary), but also in higher education (HE) settings. However, there is a scarcity of studies to provide the potentials and challenges of VR-supported instructional design strategies and/or techniques that can influence teaching and learning. This systematic review presents a variety of studies that provide qualitative and/or quantitative data to investigate the current practices with VR support focusing on students’ outcomes, performance, alongside with the benefits and challenges of this technology concerning the analysis of visual features and design elements with mobile and desktop computing devices in different learning subjects. During the selection and screening process, forty-six (n = 46) articles published from the middle of 2009 until the middle of 2020 were finally included for a detailed analysis and synthesis of which twenty-one and twenty-five in K-12 and HE, respectively. The majority of studies were focused on describing and evaluating the appropriateness or the effectiveness of the applied instructional design processes using various VR applications to disseminate their findings on user experience, usability issues, students’ outcomes, and/or learning performance. This study contributes by reviewing how instructional design strategies and techniques can potentially benefit students’ learning performance using a wide range of VR applications. It also proposes some recommendations to guide and lead effective instructional design settings in several teaching and learning contexts to outline a more accurate and up-to-date picture of the current state of literature.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1007/s10055-020-00489-9 4804264:YA75UGAS
Keywords: Final_citation; Human–computer interface; Immersive technologies; Simulations; Systematic review; Virtual reality; cited; existing

SFL praxis in U.S. teacher education: a critical literature review - Accurso, Kathryn; Gebhard, Meg (Language and Education, 2021)
This literature review analyzes the influences of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) in U.S. teacher education from 2000 to 2019. First, we describe how SFL has been contextualized in United States in response to changing demographics, new technologies, policies, and the impacts of globalization. Second, we outline our methodology, which yielded 136 publications from the fields of literacy research, teacher education, and applied linguistics. Third, we present four findings: (1) the main vehicles for introducing U.S. teachers to SFL theory and practice are grant-funded university-school partnerships, courses in colleges of education, and self-contained professional development workshops; (2) most interventions focused on introducing teachers to functional metalanguage and text analysis, with fewer focusing on multimodality; (3) SFL interventions positively influenced teachers’ level of semiotic awareness and ability to design focused disciplinary literacy instruction. Teachers’ critical awareness and confidence for literacy instruction were influenced to a lesser extent; and (4) more sustained investments in teacher professional development led to greater gains in teacher learning as well as a critical awareness of the relationship between disciplinary literacy practices and ideologies at work in K-12 schools. Based on these findings, we conclude with three recommendations for the future of critical SFL praxis in teacher education.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2020.1781880
Keywords: Systemic functional linguistics; critical language awareness; disciplinary literacies; pedagogical knowledge; teacher professional development

To truly ‘build back better’ we must reimagine what prosperity looks like - Moore, Henrietta (Financial Times, 2021)
Focusing on GDP and physical infrastructure is futile without real-life benefits for people living in left-behind towns

Learning from Experience: A post-Covid-19 data architecture for a resilient education data ecosystem in Sierra Leone - Fab Inc. (EdTech Hub, 2021)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Future of Testing in Education: Artificial Intelligence (Center for American Progress, 2021)
Technology and artificial intelligence can vastly improve the types of assessments teachers use to guide students in their learning.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2486141:NMMPJJBP

Black Caribbean girls in England ‘twice as likely to be excluded from schools as white girls’ - Mohdin, Aamna (The Guardian, 2021)
Data also shows that school exclusions for girls are growing at higher rate than for boys
Keywords: Education; Exclusions; Inequality; Race; Schools; UK news; Women

Understanding Barriers to Girls’ Access and Use of EdTech in Kenya During Covid-19 - Tembey, Lara; Baier, Jasmin; Ogolla, Concilia; Mohan, Prithika (EdTech Hub, 2021)
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Training of Teachers on Assistive Technologies and Interactive Digital Textbooks in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda | UNESCO - UNESCO (2021)

Commonwealth Secretariat Strategic Plan 2021/22 – 2024/25 - Commonwealth Secretariat (2021)

Advancing the Global Agenda for Human Rights, Vulnerable Populations, and Environmental Sustainability - Alfred, Mary V.; Robinson, Petra A.; Roumell, Elizabeth A. (IAP, 2021)
For over 70 years, the United Nations has worked to advance human conditions globally through its historic agenda for a more peaceful, prosperous, and just world. Through the work of the General Assembly and other programs like the UNESCO World Conferences on Adult Education, the organization has taken a leading role in bringing world leaders together to dialogue on world issues and to set agendas for advancing social and economic justice among and within the regions of the world. The underlying themes of the United Nations’ agenda over the years have been world peace, economic justice, addressing the needs of the world’s most vulnerable populations, and protecting the environment. We draw from the two last two declarations from which the Millennium Development Goals (September 2000) and the Sustainable Development Goals (September 2015) were adopted by world leaders with a focus on addressing the needs of the most vulnerable populations. In this declaration, world leaders committed to uphold the long-standing principles of the organization and to combat extreme poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination and violence against women. The overall objective of the book is to highlight the conditions of vulnerable populations from various contexts globally, and the role adult and higher education can play (and is playing) in advancing the United Nations agenda of social and economic justice and environmental sustainability. Adult education, through research, teaching, and service engagements is contributing to this ongoing effort but as many scholars have noted, our work remains invisible and undocumented. Therefore, this book highlights adult education’s critical partnership in addressing these global issues. It will also begin to fill the void that exists in adult education literature on internationalization of the field.
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Keywords: Education / Adult & Continuing Education; Education / Philosophy; Theory & Social Aspects; Education / Schools / Levels / Higher

An IoT-based deep learning approach to analyse indoor thermal comfort of disabled people - Brik, Bouziane; Esseghir, Moez; Merghem-Boulahia, Leila; Snoussi, Hichem (Building and Environment, 2021)
Monitoring the thermal comfort of building occupants is crucial for ensuring sustainable and efficient energy consumption in residential buildings. Existing studies have addressed the monitoring of thermal comfort through questionnaires and activities involving occupants. However, few studies have considered disabled people in the monitoring of thermal comfort, despite the potential for impairments to present thermal requirements that are significantly different from those of an occupant without a disability. Additionally, people with disabilities can experience difficulties in expressing their thermal comfort, which further complicates assessment and monitoring. To overcome this, we propose the development of a new learning model using a deep neural network. Our model can predict the indoor thermal comfort of differently abled people in real time to facilitate remote monitoring. We generated our real dataset using a new Internet of Things (IoT) architecture. Our architecture also includes a data collection scheme to ensure an efficient collection process, enabling the collection of targeted data before transferring them to cloud servers for further data analysis. Experimental results illustrate the reliability of our data collection scheme in gathering useful and targeted data, as well as the efficiency of our deep learning-based model, which achieved an accuracy of 94% and a precision and recall of 98% and 97%, respectively.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108056 2129771:ZRVWRNN9
Keywords: Building sustainability; Deep learning; Disabled people; Indoor thermal comfort prediction and monitoring; Internet of Things (IoT)

The outcomes of sexting for children and adolescents: A systematic review of the literature - Doyle, Caoimhe (Journal of Adolescence, 2021)
Introduction Given associated risks, sexting among children and adolescents has yielded significant interest in recent years. Several previous reviews have examined data on the prevalence, determinants, and correlates of sexting behaviour, however, in an ever-changing digital media context, a comprehensive overview of findings regarding its outcomes is warranted. This novel review aimed to systematically identify and conduct a narrative synthesis of empirical evidence regarding the outcomes of sexting involvement for children and adolescents. Methods Four databases were searched for peer-reviewed literature on sexting, and 54 articles were identified for inclusion in the review. The quality of included studies was appraised using Dixon-Woods et al. (2006) five question prompts. Results Four ‘outcomes’ categories were derived, namely, psychological (victimisation; sexual abuse/victimisation; mental health and quality of life; and emotional outcomes), behavioural (sexual activity, risk behaviours, and perpetration of abuse and harassment), relational (personal connections with others & reputational outcomes), and systems-level (distribution/public exposure of sexting content). Conclusions Findings indicate that the outcomes of sexting for children and adolescents (aged ≤19 years) are wide-ranging, some positive and desirable, others negative and unwanted. Furthermore, identified outcomes were located along a continuum spanning benefits for adolescents’ well-being and relationships, stigma and associated difficulties, and serious harm or trauma. Limitations (e.g., methodological constraints of studies) and implications (e.g., informing harm prevention/intervention initiatives; further large-scale and replication studies) are discussed within.
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Keywords: Adolescents; Children; Cybersex; Final_citation; Review; Sexting; anystyle; existing

Meta-analysis of 35 studies examining the effect of indoor temperature on office work performance - Porras-Salazar, Jose Ali; Schiavon, Stefano; Wargocki, Pawel; Cheung, Toby; Tham, Kwok Wai (Building and Environment, 2021)
Several relationships between air temperature and work performance have been published. We reanalysed the one developed in 2006 by Seppänen et al.; which is probably the best known. We found that even when significant, its prediction accuracy is very low (R2 = 0.05, MAE = 1.9%, RMSE = 3.1%). We consequently reviewed the literature and found 35 studies on the effects of temperature on office work performance. We used Seppänen et al.’s approach to normalise the data reported in these studies and explored the feasibility to develop a new relationship using regression models, models based on the Maximal Adaptability framework, and machine learning. We could not find a relationship between temperature and office work performance neither for the range of temperatures measured in most of the office buildings (20 °C–30 °C) or a wider range (18 °C–34 °C). Plausible reasons are discussed including the variety of methods used to assess performance, the multiple uncontrolled confounders, and the fact that temperature alone may not fully describe how the thermal environment affects building occupants. We do not recommend the use in practice of any of the models relating temperature to office work performance examined in the present study. The lack of relationships does not necessarily refute that temperature affects the performance of office work. Coordinated research predicated on a shared protocol enabling integrated analysis in the modelling of the relationships between the indoor thermal environment and office work performance is proposed to be carried out before using them in practice. We made the database open-source and developed an application for data exploring.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108037 2129771:3WB6E2E4 4682641:B4RYFHC6 4682641:PEAZCXFI
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; Cognitive performance; Indoor air temperature; Offices; Productivity; Thermal environment

Optimizing thermal comfort and energy use for learning environments - Taylor, Mary; Brown, Nathan C.; Rim, Donghyun (Energy and Buildings, 2021)
Thermal comfort is a critical component of indoor environments, especially in schools where learning is the main objective. However, thermal comfort comes at a price that many schools are unable to afford. Therefore, it is critical to determine a method to lower the energy costs of a building while still maintaining occupant thermal comfort. The objective of this study is to investigate how three indoor environmental parameters of air speed, humidity, and air temperature influence energy and thermal comfort in classroom environments. We employed a multi-objective optimization method that considers all three thermal parameters in the design and operation of a classroom. This method is demonstrated for three distinct climate locations (very hot and humid, cold and humid, warm and marine). Overall, our findings demonstrate significant energy savings from 1.3 to 9.1 kWh/year/m2 for cases where energy reduction is achieved. These values are for cases where the total annual number of hours that more than 10% of people are dissatisfied in a space are 0 to 42 in Miami and San Francisco and 26 to 49 in Boston. This translates to a cost savings of $3,000 to $12,800 per year for the entire building at current market rates. Note that for all locations, there were also cases where the number of hours that more than 10% of people were dissatisfied were reduced from the baseline value while still reducing energy use. This optimization framework shows promise for building mechanical designers seeking to maintain increased levels of thermal comfort throughout the year while lowering energy use.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111181 2129771:JGWBQ9ZN 4682641:MNJ28P67 4682641:VRCRT79Y
Keywords: Air speed; BE:RELEVANT; Building energy; Classroom; Humidity; Multi-objective optimization; Thermal comfort

Students’ online information use and learning progress in higher education – A critical literature review - Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Hartig, Johannes; Goldhammer, Frank; Krstev, Jan (Studies in Higher Education, 2021)
Learning using the Internet has become a vital factor for academic success in higher education. Students increasingly rely on the Internet as their main information source. However, related research is still an emerging and highly fragmented field. Therefore, this study aims to provide a comprehensive and integrative review of research literature on student learning vis-à-vis using the Internet. The review encompasses research on students' strategies for searching, evaluating, and selecting online information, the use of this information for domain-specific learning, and the influence of the characteristics of both online information sources and learners on searching, evaluating, and selecting online information. Moreover, research on how this information-related behavior develops and affects learning outcomes is considered. The literature research, conducted in 2020, employed the database Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) and the search engine Google Scholar. Based on relevant search phrases and keywords, over 500 publications were found. After a second search, 55 fitting publications from 2009 onwards were identified. The review reveals a lack of research on the characteristics of online information, how these characteristics affect student learning in higher education, and how student learning can be fostered by improving students' information-related strategies. Research integrating these different perspectives is even scarcer.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2021.1953336
Keywords: Online learning; higher education; meta-analysis; online media use

Ministerial Roundtable - “Digitalizing daily life: government services and content driving digital transformation” – Part 1 - ITU Telecom World - ITU (2021)
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Keywords: Final_citation

Desk Review: Virtual learning environments and learning management systems - OECS Commission (Open Development & Education, 2021)
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Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

LMS Selection and Implementation Tool Kit An Agile Delivery Approach - OECS Commission (Open Development & Education, 2021)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0206 2129771:ZUDWNBIN
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

Examples, Good Practices and Recommendations for Engaging Girls in Sudan With E-learning - AlSheikh Theeb, Thaer (EdTech Hub, 2021)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Keywords: Helpdesk Response; _r:AddedByZotZen

Study Behavior in Computing Education—A Systematic Literature Review - Lorås, Madeleine; Sindre, Guttorm; Trætteberg, Hallvard; Aalberg, Trond (ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2021)
As the field of computing education grows and matures, it has become essential to unite computing education and higher education research. Educational research has highlighted that how students study is crucial to their learning progress, and study behaviors have been found to play an important role in students’ academic success. This article presents the main results of a systematic literature review intended to determine what we know about the study behaviors of computing students and the role of educational design in shaping them. A taxonomy of study behaviors was developed and used to clarify and classify the definitions of study behavior, process, strategies, habits, and tactics as well as to identify their relationship to the educational context. The literature search resulted in 107 included papers, which were analyzed according to defined criteria and variables. The review of study behavior terminology found that the same terms are used to describe substantially different study behaviors, and the lack of standard terminology makes it difficult to compare findings from different papers. Furthermore, it was more common for papers to use study behaviors to explain other aspects of students rather than exploring and understanding them. Additionally, the results revealed a tendency to focus on specific educational contexts, predominantly introductory programming courses. Although computing education as a field is well equipped to expand the knowledge about both study behaviors and their connection to the educational context, the lack of common terminology and theories limits the impact. The taxonomy of study behaviors in computing education proposed in this article can contribute to contextualizing the research in such a way that researchers and educators across institutional borders can compare and utilize results. Last, the article outlines some areas for future research and recommendations for practice.
Keywords: Computing education; educational context; study behavior; study habits; study process; study strategies; study tactics

Evidence collection (2021)
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Dialling up Learning: Testing the Impact of Delivering Educational Content via Interactive Voice Response to Students and Teachers in Ghana - Afoakwah, Edmund; Carballo, Francisco; Caro, Alex; D’Cunha, Samantha; Dobrowolski, Stephanie; Fallon, Alexandra (EdTech Hub, 2021)
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Global emergency remote education in secondary schools during the COVID-19 pandemic - Bond, Melissa; Bergdahl, Nina; Mendizabal-Espinosa, Rosa; Kneale, Dylan; Bolan, Faye; Hull, Poppy; Ramadani, Fjolla (Open Science Framework, 2021)
Global emergency remote education in secondary schools during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Keywords: _genre:LR-literature_review; stress

Integration of Technology in Education for Marginalised Children in an Urban Slum of Dhaka City During the Covid-19 Pandemic - Islam, Touhidul; Hussain, Maria; Shimul, Shafiun Nahin; Rupok, Rifat Islam; Orthy, S. R. Khan (EdTech Hub, 2021)
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Comparative Education Review Guide to Searching for World Literature 2021 - Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn (Comparative Education Review, 2021)
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press Chicago, IL KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:MLPM6SBN 2129771:NTAHU7H6

Perception of gender in children's voices - Barreda, Santiago; Assmann, Peter F. (The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2021)
Publisher: Acoustical Society of America KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1121/10.0006785 2129771:HI6VSIF4

Understanding Teacher Digital Competence in the Framework of Social Sustainability: A Systematic Review - De la Calle, Ana Maria; Pacheco-Costa, Alejandra; Gomez-Ruiz, Miguel Ángel; Guzman-Simon, Fernando (MDPI Journals, 2021)
Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, ICT has been urgently introduced in education systems in a generalised manner. In this context, it is essential for teachers to master a spectrum of basic digital competencies and manifest digital leadership in the classroom. In addition, it is necessary to consider the relationship between digital competence development and social sustainability, that is, social and cultural heritage, and to what extent they contribute to improving social cohesion and living conditions in a community. This study presents a systematic review of research on teacher digital competence and social sustainability based on the PRISMA model and a review of 22 studies indexed in SCOPUS. The review reveals that most are intended to measure the digital competence level of teachers, usually in compulsory stages of the educational system and through quantitative studies based on virtual questionnaires comprised of closed-ended questions. However, the studies tend to ignore questions related to social sustainability (access to resources, heritage culture, intergenerational transmission, employability, or gender equality). It is therefore urgent to develop research committed to a sustainable society that is oriented towards social justice.
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Mapping education data in sub-Saharan Africa: Our experience from the Unlocking Data campaign and Sierra Leone - Unlocking Data (2021)
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Voices and Evidence from End-Users of the GLTV and GLRRP Remote Learning Programme in Ghana: Insights for inclusive policy and programming - Hodor, Raymond; Owusu, Ernest Adu; Ofori-Davis, Lucy; Afram, Alexander; Sefa-Nyarko, Clement (EdTech Hub, 2021)
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Facilitating flexible learning by replacing classroom time with an online learning environment: A systematic review of blended learning in higher education - Müller, Claude; Mildenberger, Thoralf (Educational Research Review, 2021)
Higher education institutions are trying to provide more flexibility and individualization, which is mainly realized through the use of new technologies and implemented in online or blended learning designs. This systematic review aims to investigate the impact of replacing classroom time with an online learning environment. The meta-analysis (k = 21 effect sizes) applied strict inclusion criteria concerning research design, measurement of learning outcomes and implementation of blended learning. The estimated effect size (Hedge's g) was positive, although not significantly different from zero and the confidence interval [-0.13, 0.25], suggesting that overall differences between blended and conventional classroom learning are small, and, at best, very small negative or moderate positive effects are plausible. This means that despite a reduction in classroom time between 30 and 79 per cent, equivalent learning outcomes were found. Consequently, blended learning with reduced classroom time is not systematically more or less effective than conventional classroom learning.
Keywords: Blended learning; Flexible learning; Higher education; Learning effectiveness; Meta-analysis

scite: A smart citation index that displays the context of citations and classifies their intent using deep learning - Nicholson, Josh M.; Mordaunt, Milo; Lopez, Patrice; Uppala, Ashish; Rosati, Domenic; Rodrigues, Neves P.; Grabitz, Peter; Rife, Sean C. (Quantitative Science Studies, 2021)
Citation indices are tools used by the academic community for research and research evaluation that aggregate scientific literature output and measure impact by collating citation counts. Citation indices help measure the interconnections between scientific papers but fall short because they fail to communicate contextual information about a citation. The use of citations in research evaluation without consideration of context can be problematic because a citation that presents contrasting evidence to a paper is treated the same as a citation that presents supporting evidence. To solve this problem, we have used machine learning, traditional document ingestion methods, and a network of researchers to develop a “smart citation index” called scite, which categorizes citations based on context. Scite shows how a citation was used by displaying the surrounding textual context from the citing paper and a classification from our deep learning model that indicates whether the statement provides supporting or contrasting evidence for a referenced work, or simply mentions it. Scite has been developed by analyzing over 25 million full-text scientific articles and currently has a database of more than 880 million classified citation statements. Here we describe how scite works and how it can be used to further research and research evaluation.

The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on governing health futures 2030: growing up in a digital world - Kickbusch, Ilona; Piselli, Dario; Agrawal, Anurag; Balicer, Ran; Banner, Olivia; Adelhardt, Michael; Capobianco, Emanuele; Fabian, Christopher; Gill, Amandeep Singh; Lupton, Deborah; Medhora, Rohinton P.; Ndili, Njide; et al. (The Lancet, 2021)
Publisher: Elsevier KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01824-9 4804264:2LNIW538
Keywords: Final_citation

Rayyan - AI Powered Tool for Systematic Literature Reviews (2021)
Rayyan is an intelligent research collaboration platform that saves you time completing literature reviews and systematic reviews. Intuitive, scalable, fast.
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Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024

Transnational Black Feminism and Qualitative Research: Black Women, Racialization and Migration - Burkhard, Tanja J. (2021)

Open and Innovative Schooling: An Implementation Experience in Fifteen Secondary Schools across Mozambique - Cossa, Sérgio Paulo; Nakala, Lurdes Patrocínia Matavela; Cherinda, Nilsa Adelaide Issufo Enoque Pondja (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
This case study explores the open and innovative schooling model piloted in fifteen secondary schools across all regions of Mozambique in the period 2018 to 2020. The model involved provision of access to curriculum-based digital Open Educational Resources (OER) using an Aptus device to enable sharing offline. Learning support centres offering access to some ICT as well as opportunities for individual use or structured tutorials were established in fifteen schools around the country. A mixed methods tracer study was designed and implemented using quantitative analysis to ascertain student enrolment, retention and success and then used qualitative focus surveys and focus groups to gauge the satisfaction of students, teachers and managers with the OIS model to inform future planning. While the pilot was generally considered successful in augmenting existing secondary schooling provision, access to devices, teacher development and support and expansion of curriculum coverage were all found to be in critical need of improvement if the model is to be scaled.
Number: 3
Keywords: Aptus; OER; _genre:PR-primary_research; learing support; open schooling; secondary schooling; tracer study; ⛔ No DOI found

Revisiting Brainstorming within an Educational Context: A Meta-Thematic Analysis - Doğan, Yunus; Batdı, Veli (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
An increase in research on teaching of creativity in learning environments is being witnessed as more studies continue to reveal its effects on learning outcomes and academic achievement. Thus, any investigative attempt to examine the relevant approaches to teaching of creative thinking skills is appreciated within the creativity literature. However, it is evident that the research on brainstorming as a creativity-promoting technique within educational context has been overlooked for a while. Therefore, this research sythesis tried to recombine and reinterpret the results of some qualitative studies on the impacts of brainstorming technique on learners’ achievement. To this end, 34 studies were reached and 7 of them were found to be conducive to the meta-thematic analysis. The results of the meta-thematic analysis suggest that the brainstorming technique has positive effects on learners’ cognitive skills and affect. It is believed that designing instruction with brainstorming could foster students’ creativity, by directing them to solving problems via critical thinking. The study further dwells on the reported drawbacks that are encountered during the implementation of this technique within classroom, and discusses some possible solutions as implications.
Number: 3
Keywords: academic achievement; brainstorming; creativity; meta-thematic analysis; thinking skills; ⛔ No DOI found

Learning Development’s Role in Supporting Academic Synergies through Co-evolution of Teaching Excellence and Practice - Donnelly, Roisin (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
This report from the field discusses a new approach taken to the co-evolution of teaching excellence and evidence-based practice in the context of Learning Development in a Technological University in Ireland. It explores supporting faculty in their exploration of pedagogic inquiry and teaching excellence and how this can co-evolve to generate synergies in academic productivity (the core activity sets of the faculty). A key part of this Learning Development work is understanding how integrating inquiry and teaching can drive excellence and pedagogic innovation in practice.
Number: 3
Keywords: co-evolution; pedagogic inquiry; scholarship; teaching excellence; ⛔ No DOI found

From Modernisation, Dependency and Soft Power Toward a Commonwealth of Learning - Evans, Terry; Jakupec, Victor (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
This article reflects on some influential theories, concepts and institutions that have shaped the nature and substance of international development since the mid-20th century. In particular, theories of modernisation and dependency are deployed to reflect on the ways in which the International Financial Institutions, such as, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank have adopted a ‘Washington Consensus’ concerning the social and economic development of ‘developing’ nations. ‘Soft power’ national agencies, such as, the British Council and USAID are brought into consideration, especially, for their interests and influences over matters of learning for development. The multi-national Commonwealth of Learning’s particular contribution to learning for development is discussed with suggestions made for developing member nations’ capacities to produce new local knowledge and to bring their existing local knowledge to the fore to share as part of a (Lockean) ‘commonwealth of learning’.
Number: 3
Keywords: dependency theory; learning for development; modernisation theory; soft power; the Washington Consensus.; ‘commonwealth of learning’; ⛔ No DOI found

Factors Inhibiting Sports Lecturer’s Publication Productivity in International Journals - Hanief, Yulingga Nanda; Haqiyah, Aridhotul; Winarno, Mashuri Eko; Pratama, Budiman Agung; Sinulingga, Albadi (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
Scientific publication is an essential part of research dissemination, irrespective of the productivity effects on lecturers' careers. Therefore, this study aims to determine the internal and external factors inhibiting the productivity of sports lecturers' publication in international journals. This is qualitative descriptive research with a survey method and questionnaire used to collect data from 74 sports lecturers in Indonesia by using Google form. The data were further analyzed to reduce the number of the original variables using the factor analysis method with the validity tests includes KMO (Kaiser Meyer Olkin), Bartlett, and MSA (Measure of Sampling Adequacy) used for reliability. The results showed that the sports lecturer’s writing ability and cost are responsible for inhibiting publications' productivity in international journals as opposed to gender analysis. The majority had limited time to write because most of their activities were carried out in the field. Grants offered by both the government and universities are expected to be absorbed to support the sports lecturers' publication activities in Indonesia. Further studies need to be carried out by analyzing the college type, academic position, and age as considerations for stakeholders to take strategic steps to overcome publication challenges.
Number: 3
Keywords: inhibitors; lectures; publications; sports; ⛔ No DOI found

Implementation of Problem Based Learning to Increase Scientific Explanation Skill in Biology Learning about the Environment - Laksmi, Monika Lintang; Sari, Dewi Puspita; Rinanto, Yudi; Sapartini, Raden Rara (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
This research aimed to describe and find out whether implementation of Problem-Based Learning can improve scientific explanation skills in biology learning about the environment. The research method was Classroom Action Research through the implementation of Problem-Based Learning. This classroom action research consisted of two cycles, which were concluded by planning, acting, observing and reflecting. The research subject was a natural science class consisting of thirty four students. Data were collected by essay test, observation method, interviews and documentation. Data were validated by the triangulation technique consisting of three components: data reduction, data presentation and conclusion. The research results showed improvement in the scientific explanation skills of students on the implementation of Problem Based Learning. The percentage improvement of students' scientific explanation was 61% in claim, 53% in evidence, and 51% in reasoning.
Number: 3 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:Z42TTNWE
Keywords: Biology Education; Classroom Action Research; Problem Based Learning; Scientific Explanation; _genre:PR-primary_research; ⛔ No DOI found

Effects of Demo Kit on Remediating Senior School Students’ Misconceptions in Mitosis and Meiosis in Ilorin, Nigeria - Luwoye, Akindeyi; Bello, Ganiyu; Adeoye, Gabriel Ademakinwa (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
This study investigated the effects of demo kit on remediating misconceptions held by senior school students’ in mitosis and meiosis. The quasi-experimental design of the pre-test, post-test, non-equivalent control group was adopted for the study. Multistage sampling technique was used to select 60 male and female biology students from two senior secondary schools in Ilorin metropolis. The instruments used for data collection was Mitosis and Meiosis Achievement Test (MMAT). Frequencies and chi-square were used to answer the research questions and test the null hypothesis respectively. The findings revealed that biology students’ held misconceptions on mitosis and meiosis before and after instructions. However, there was a significant difference in the number of misconceptions held by students taught using demo kit and those taught with the conventional method. It was recommended that biology teachers adopt the use of the demo kit for remediating students pre- and post-instructional misconceptions on mitosis and meiosis.
Number: 3
Keywords: Keywords: remediate; demo kit; meiosis; misconceptions; mitosis; ⛔ No DOI found

Leadership for Development: Re-shaping Higher Education Futures and Sustainability in Africa - Makoe, Mpine; Olcott, Don (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
Leading change in higher education has been a major challenge in countries of limited resources, such as those in Sub-Saharan Africa. Most African universities have struggled with this transition mainly due to lack of the requisite information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, inadequate expertise for online pedagogies and inability to provide computers to their students and staff. When faced with the recent changes, caused mainly by the COVID-19 pandemic that forced every person to work and learn remotely, many academic leaders were completely ill-prepared to deal with changes of this magnitude. The aim of this paper is to provide recommendations for shaping the future of higher education in Africa going forward. This will be done by analysing trends and opportunities created by these changes with the aim of accentuating the need for a renewed Pan-African Ubuntu that embraces the future, respects the unique dignity, cultures, languages and heritage of nations pre- and post-colonialism, and inspires the African Union Agenda 2063, The Africa we Want.
Number: 3 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:PWQ9F2W9
Keywords: Africa; Higher Education; Leadership; Ubuntu; _genre:PR-primary_research; digital technologies; ⛔ No DOI found

Teachers’ Perceptions of Open Educational Resources: The Case of Open Resources for English Language Teaching (ORELT) in Kenya - Orwenjo, Daniel Ochieng; Erastus, Fridah Kanana (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
The use of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in the teaching and learning of various subjects is a relatively new innovation in the Kenyan school system. With the advent and subsequent liberalization of ICT, material developers are subsequently shifting away from the traditional modes of material development in the form of textbooks and other “canonical” formats which require the teacher to use them as they are handed down without any input or modification. The Open Resources for English Language Teaching (ORELT) is one such educational innovation. This paper reports the findings of a baseline survey conducted in Kenya with a view to finding out the views and perceptions of Kenyan Junior Secondary School Teachers with regard to the adoption of open resources for the teaching of English language in Kenyan secondary schools. Sixty (60) JSS teachers of English from rural and urban schools and of mixed gender were invited for a four day ORELT in-service induction workshop at the Kenyatta University Conference Centre. The teachers were then given ORELT materials in form of CDs and textbooks for use in teaching English in their schools. They were also registered on the online ORELT platform and each given log in credentials to enable them access freely access the materials and freely interact with fellow teachers throughout the commonwealth. The study reports that whereas teachers are ready to embrace the use of open resources, they have varying perceptions on the suitability and potential efficacy of open resources in Kenyan classrooms. It also emerges that such differing perceptions are constrained by institutional, cultural, pedagogical and personal factors. Accordingly, the study recommends a more structured, inclusive bottoms up approach to any educational innovation as a means of ensuring success.
Number: 3
Keywords: ESL; Education Innovation; Kenya; ORELT; Perceptions; Teacher Education; _genre:PR-primary_research; ⛔ No DOI found

Barriers to the Quality of Emergency Online Pedagogies in Higher Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study from the University of Namibia: - Kadhila, Ngepathimo; Nyambe, John (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
Using the TIPEC framework, this study undertook a critical literature analysis, and student survey to explore challenges experienced by higher education institutions during emergency online pedagogies because of disruptions from the COVID-19 outbreak. The study revealed that most higher education institutions are still grappling with getting technicalities in place such as reliable network connectivity, IT capacity, clear navigation to learning content, timetabling, and session scheduling, and reliable hardware and software required to access online learning platforms to keep teaching and learning afloat. However, little attention is placed on the provision of quality online learning. Therefore, there is a need to move towards enabling epistemological access through the use of online tools in a pedagogically sound and inclusive manner to enable students to develop critical thinking skills. The current quality assurance practices also need to transform to effectively respond to the learning needs of the new normal. Students also need to be equipped with skills that will empower them to effectively use the online system.
Number: 3 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:6G97D7PE
Keywords: Africa; COVID-19; Namibia; _genre:PR-primary_research; higher education institutions; online pedagogies; quality assurance; ⛔ No DOI found

The Influence of Covid-19 on Students’ Learning: Access and Participation in Higher Education in Southern Africa - Mphahlele, Ramashego; Seeletso, Mmabaledi; Muleya, Gistered; Simui, Francis (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
Recent experiences of institutions in COVID 19 have heightened the need for research on its impact on higher education institutions globally. This article’s authors are from higher learning institutions in Botswana, South Africa and Zambia, which used a blended learning model before COVID 19. The majority of their students used the traditional part of blended learning, depending on the print, postal service, and face-to-face. These students’ access and participation in learning during COVID 19 were negatively affected. Using Digital Equity as a framework, this paper explores the influence of COVID 19 on students’ access and participation in online learning. There seem to be significant disparities in access and participation in high-quality technologies and severe educational inequities. This digital inequality impact calls for civic awareness in digital literacy among the citizenry if the gap between the rural and urban, have and have not digital immigrants and digital natives are to be bridged.
Number: 3 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:WGY9RCDE
Keywords: Access; _genre:PR-primary_research; digital awareness; digital equity; digital knowledge; digital literacy; online earning; ⛔ No DOI found

Reimagining Digital Learning for Sustainable Development: - Passos, Rosario (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
Book review
Number: 3
Keywords: Educational Technology Digital Learning; _genre:PR-primary_research; ⛔ No DOI found

Editorial: Learning for Development – Discourse and Practice - Panda, Santosh (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
Number: 3
Keywords: _genre:PR-primary_research; discourse; learning for development; practice; ⛔ No DOI found

Research Methods for Education - Centre for Research and Integrated Development (Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, Zimbabwe); UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa; Open Development and Education (OpenDevEd, 2021)
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Keywords: _r:AddedByZotZen; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Curriculum Implementation Strategies of Education Standards Officers in Choma District of Zambia: A Critique of their Effectiveness - Mulenga, Innocent Mutale; Mooya, Eugine (2021)
Effective curriculum implementation by teachers is recognised as a lynchpin for achieving educational goals of any education system that leads to improved learner outcomes. In this article, authors make a critique of the effectiveness of Education Standards Officers’ (ESOs) curriculum implementation strategies that were used to support teachers’ effective teaching and learning in Choma district of Zambia. They set the arguement by riding on the six premises of Fullan’s curriculum implementation model against the contemporary backdrop and knowledge that ESOs monitoring and evaluation roles are critical to effective curriculum implementation in schools. In this qualitative study, researchers identified and critiqued strategies that were employed by ESOs in the contemporary milieu of Choma district. Using interview guides and focus group discussions guides, data was collected from head teachers and teachers in five, public secondary schools. Additionally, interview guides were also used to collect information from ESOs themselves. Findings pointed to the fact that curriculum implementation strategies such as formation of subject associations, follow-up visits and the recommendations from ESOs and the use of common schemes of work in schools did not yield desired results in terms of supporting teachers to improve their teaching based on what ESOs identified as areas of need during their school visits. In fact, it was also noted that ESOs missed a golden opportunity to practice clinical supervision and to make lesson demonstrations as they interacted with teachers. Arising from the factors which led to this scenario, researchers make two main recommendations. They first and foremost suggest that the Ministry of Education needs to provide sufficient funding to aspects of curriculum implementation at both the district and school levels. Researchers also recommend that ESOs should consult teachers and their administrators as they come up with curriculum implementation strategies in order to have them aligned with the realities of the schools.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Lessons Learned from Education Initiatives Implemented During the First Wave of COVID-19: A Literature Review - Sims, Kate (2021)
It is important to assume that the learning crisis caused by COVID-19 is not over. As highlighted by 2021 school closures in response to the Delta variant, lessons learned from school closures in 2020 are required and applicable. There is therefore a need for reflection and a consolidation of lessons learned to protect education outcomes. Lessons include the need for parental engagement and support, the mobilisation of community actors, and inclusive and accessible remote learning approaches (Kapur, 2020, p. 38). This literature review seeks to better understand what worked and what did not work in education interventions during the first wave of COVID-19, in order to support planning on current and future school closures and/or disruptions to education systems. It focuses on three key areas: 1. Support to teachers to continue teaching during school closures, and the role of teachers in supporting marginalised learners; 2. Approaches to ensure the continuation of learning; and 3. Approaches to reach the most marginalised learners.
Accepted: 2022-01-06T14:29:17Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.19088/K4D.2021.134 2129771:X2KXBG56 4869029:6G8GUDMR

Rewired Global Declaration on Connectivity for Education - UNESCO (2021)

A survey of bedroom ventilation types and the subjective sleep quality associated with them in Danish housing - Liao, Chenxi; Akimoto, Mizuho; Bivolarova, Mariya Petrova; Sekhar, Chandra; Laverge, Jelle; Fan, Xiaojun; Lan, Li; Wargocki, Pawel (Science of The Total Environment, 2021)
We performed a survey of the types of bedroom ventilation in Danish dwellings (January–February 2020) and the associated subjective sleep quality. Five hundred and seventeen people responded. Their median age was 33 years old and 55.4% of them were males. We used an online questionnaire and collected information on the type of bedroom ventilation, bedroom airing behaviour by the respondents, the bedroom environment, building surroundings and location, and sleep disturbance caused by stuffy air, noise, and the thermal environment. Subjective sleep quality was assessed using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI); its median among respondents was >5 indicating reduced sleep quality. 35.4% of the bedrooms had mechanical, 24.6% exhaust, and 40.0% natural ventilation. Sleeping in a bedroom with mechanical ventilation tended to reduce sleep disturbance. The absence of mechanical ventilation and the presence of carpet in the bedroom were all associated with stuffy air causing sleep disturbance, which was the second most sleep disturbing factor. PSQI increased significantly with increased sleep disturbance. People who reported that their sleep was disturbed by stuffy air or “too warm” conditions opened windows frequently during the day or night, but no association was found between PSQI and bedroom airing behaviours. Our results are valid for the heating season and the survey would have to be repeated in the non-heating season to permit generalization of the findings. The results present associations and are qualitative, so field measurements are necessary to validate the present observations and provide further explanations.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149209 2129771:5DU85DEJ 4682641:W4ZVX6EJ
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; Noise; Occupant behaviour; PSQI; Sleep disturbance; Stuffy air; Thermal comfort

Queer identity and theory intersections in mathematics education: a theoretical literature review - Moore, Alexander S. (Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2021)
Researchers have become aware of a need to focus on the continued development of gender and sexuality research in mathematics education, as frameworks and conceptual perspectives have been difficult to operationalize, particularly outside of the heteronormative categories of cis-male and cis-female studies. Early pioneers of this work have proposed intersectionality theory (e.g., Leyva, 2017) and queer theories (e.g., Dubbs 2016; Esmonde 2011; Sheldon and Rands 2013) as promising lenses for conceptualizing such research, as they allow for critical postmodern engagement by avoiding many of the structuralist gender commitments that have previously prevented it. In this paper, I build on this work by employing the notion of mathematical identity. I perform a systematic, theoretical review of the literature to articulate a basis for the intersection of mathematical identity and queer identity. I articulate the theoretical basis for this intersection of identities by building a framework that illustrates the intersectional nature of mathematical and queer identities and gives scholars a tool for conceptualizing future work in this area. This paper issues a call to the field to embrace the uncertainty of this new research borderland, because it is only through a radical vision of identity research in mathematics education—such as is offered here—that researchers can begin to situate students’ participation in mathematics within larger social and economic systems that have yet to be analyzed in depth with respect to queer identity.

A Comprehensive Review of Educational Technology on Objective Learning Outcomes in Academic Contexts - Yeung, Kam Leung; Carpenter, Shana K.; Corral, Daniel (Educational Psychology Review, 2021)
Rapid advances in technology during the last few decades have provided a multitude of new options for teaching and learning. Although technology is being widely adopted in education, there is a shortage of research on the effects that this technology might have on student learning, and why those effects occur. We conducted a comprehensive review of the literature on various uses of digital technology in educational settings, and the effects of that technology on students’ objective learning outcomes. We interpret these effects within the context of empirical research on effective principles of learning, and the extent to which the affordances of technology permit opportunities for increased engagement with the material, retrieval practice, and spacing. Results revealed that technology is neither beneficial nor harmful for learning when used primarily as a means of presenting information (e.g., information viewed on a computer screen vs. on paper), but can be beneficial when it involves unique affordances that leverage effective learning principles. We discues these findings in light of the ever-increasing availability of technology in education, and the importance of evidence-guided criteria in decisions about adoption and implementation.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1007/s10648-020-09592-4 4804264:FHBBRX8L
Keywords: Classroom; Cognitive Science; Effective Learning Principles; Final_citation; Learning; Technology; cited; existing

Progress Towards Meaningful Women’s Participation in Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Decision-making - Lenhardt, Amanda (2021)
The Women, Peace and Security or Gender Peace and Security (WPS/GPS) agenda has expanded significantly over the 20+ years of concerted efforts at many levels to expand the role of women in conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Yet many authors note that the expansion of international agreements and national plans to support greater women’s participation in decision-making have yet to translate into concrete changes. This report examines progress in promoting women’s meaningful participation in decision making processes in conflict prevention and peacebuilding, with a focus on changes since 2018. Evidence on women’s meaningful participation in decision-making tends to focus on a small range of measurable outcomes with some studies considering the outcomes of women’s involvement in those processes to determine the extent to which they might be ‘meaningful’. Few studies examine differential outcomes of such initiatives for different groups of women, and most data does not allow for the disaggregation of intersecting identities between gender, ethnicity, race, disability, migration status and other key factors. Evidence collected for this report suggests that policies and programmes seeking to support greater women’s participation in decision-making in conflict prevention and peacebuilding often struggle to address the broader structural factors that inhibit women’s empowerment. Tackling longstanding and often deeply embedded harmful social norms has proven challenging across sectors, and in conflict or post-conflict settings with highly complex social dynamics, this can be especially difficult. Many of the issues highlighted in the literature as hindering progress on the WPS agenda relate to cross-cutting issues at the heart of gender inequality. Multiple authors from within women’s movements in conflict and post-conflict settings emphasise the need for policies and programmes that support women to act as agents of change in their own communities and which amplify their voices rather than speak on their behalf. Recent achievements in South Sudan and the Pacific region are indicative of the potential of women’s movements to affect change in conflict prevention and peacebuilding and suggest progress is being made in some areas, though gender equality in these processes may be a long way off.
Accepted: 2022-05-03T12:44:23Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.19088/K4D.2022.044 2129771:M5GQ4Y2Q 4869029:U6YZPPKZ

Burkina Faso: Why some West African architects are choosing mud over concrete (National Geographic) (Barza Wire, 2021)
A group of architects in West Africa are pushing to use mud over concrete to build houses. In countries such as Burkina Faso, as people have become wealthier, they have transitioned to using …
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:I2X77XHN

Back Doors, Trap Doors, and Fourth-Party Deals: How You End up with Harmful Academic Surveillance Technology on Your Campus without Even Knowing - Caines, Autumm; Silverman, Sarah (The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, 2021)
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Keywords: Final_citation; Issue Twenty; anystyle; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

Mapping the education data ecosystem in Sierra Leone - McBurnie, Chris; Beoku-Betts, Iman (EdTech Hub, 2021)
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Mapping the education data ecosystem in Sierra Leone - McBurnie, Chris; Beoku-Betts, Iman (EdTech Hub, 2021)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _r:AddedByZotZen

Lessons in School Improvement from Sub-Saharan Africa: Developing Professional Learning Networks and School Communities - Mason, Miriam; Galloway, David (Emerald Group Publishing, 2021)
Why do programmes of continuing professional development and Learning (CPDL) for teachers so frequently fail to deliver sustained improvement in children’s social behaviour and academic performance? How can schools that prioritise the most disadvantaged children in one of the world’s poorest countries consistently achieve among the best academic results in the country? How can teachers in these schools, most of whom have received little or no formal training, provide CPDL that leads to improvement in other schools? These questions are as relevant in high income countries as in Sierra Leone, where the research for this book was carried out. Lessons in School Improvement from Sub-Saharan Africa addresses them head-on by describing the planning, delivery and evaluation of a school improvement programme in which development of professional learning networks (PLNs) was a key component. The evaluation showed that children whose teachers had taken part in the programme made significantly more progress in attendance, literacy and behaviour than children in control schools. The book’s professional relevance is strengthened by an accompanying Practitioners’ Manual with full details of the CPDL. This enables replication of the results and provides a guide for future school improvement programmes and PLNs, both in low and high income countries.
Google-Books-ID: 1HxREAAAQBAJ KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4869029:I78Q9W5I
Keywords: Education / Administration / General; Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General; Education / Professional Development; Education / Teaching / General

A Decade of MOOCs: A Review of MOOC Stats and Trends in 2021 - Shah, Dawal (The Report by Class Central, 2021)
In 2021, 10 years after it burst on the scene, the MOOC ecosystem has reached 220M learners and 19.4K courses.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:F8ZVAJDU
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

A short review on passive strategies applied to minimise the building cooling loads in hot locations - Al-Yasiri, Qudama; Szabó, Márta (Analecta Technica Szegedinensia, 2021)
Cooling and air-conditioning systems are responsible for the highest energy consumption in buildings located in hot areas. This high share does not only increase the building energy demand cost but also increases the environmental impact, the topmost awareness of the modern era. The development of traditional systems and reliance on renewable technologies have increased drastically in the last century but still lacks economic concerns. Passive cooling strategies have been introduced as a successful option to mitigate the energy demand and improve energy conservation in buildings. This paper shed light on some passive strategies that could be applied to minimise building cooling loads to encourage the movement towards healthier and more energy-efficient buildings. For this purpose, seven popular passive technologies have been discussed shortly: multi-panned windows, shading devices, insulations, green roofing, phase change materials, reflective coatings, and natural ventilation using the windcatcher technique. The analysis of each strategy has shown that the building energy could be improved remarkably. Furthermore, adopting more passive strategies can significantly enhance the building thermal comfort even under severe weather conditions.
Number: 2
Keywords: Passive strategies; cooling load reduction; energy saving; insulations; thermal mass

Research in International Transfer of Vocational Education and Training – A Systematic Literature Review - Toepper, Miriam; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Kühling-Thees, Carla (International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021)
Context: The transfer of vocational education and training (VET) has a long tradition and can be based on various conceptual and methodical approaches. Transfer process and success can be influenced by numerous factors at different levels (systemic, institutional and individual). However, the existing research on the challenges and success factors of VET transfer is very heterogenous and fragmented. Method: To provide a comprehensive and structured overview of the current state of the international research on transfer in the context of VET, we conducted a literature review, which is presented here. Using the method of systematic literature review, a total of 231 studies were found and 41 studies were selected based on the defined criteria for full text analysis. Findings: Various specific research foci and analytical approaches used on the included studies were identified and documented. The transfer of a dual VET system or its elements is based on different approaches and perspectives of the recipient country and the transferee. Major challenges for the transfer of dual VET systems include the social reputation of VET in the recipient countries and (language- and culture-related) communication difficulties between the involved parties. For a successful transfer of VET, a deeper knowledge of the contextual conditions in the recipient country are of particular importance, as well as a close, longstanding cooperation between the involved parties. Conclusion: The generated knowledge about key contextual conditions at the individual, company and systemic level in the context of VET transfer can provide a valuable basis for future VET cooperation.
Number: 4
Keywords: Literature Review; Professional Competence; Success Factors; Transfer; VET; Vocational Education and Training

ASSESS TOOLS (Schools2030, 2021)
Tools
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Encouraging Community Action Against Teacher Absenteeism: A Mass Media Experiment in Rural Uganda - Wilke, Anna M.; Green, Donald P.; Tan, Benjamin (The Journal of Development Studies, 2021)
Chronic teacher absenteeism is widespread in Uganda, with approximately one-third of public school teachers absent on any given day. Absenteeism and other problems that arise in Uganda’s public education system are often attributed to a lack of public oversight and parental involvement. In an effort to develop a scalable method of encouraging community engagement on this issue, the present study assesses the extent to which entertainment-education videos increase willingness among Ugandans to take action against absenteeism. Working in collaboration with Ugandan screenwriters and local actors, we developed video dramatisations that depicted the problem of absenteeism and how parents mobilised to address it. We assess the persuasive effects of these dramatisations both under lab-like conditions, to gauge immediate effects, and in the field, to gauge effects two months and eight months after a placebo-controlled media campaign attended by over 10,000 Ugandans in 112 villages. Although the persuasive effects are weaker in the field than the lab setting, the former remain substantial even after eight months. The demonstrated ability of entertainment-education to change public views on this issue sets the stage for policy experiments that test whether entertainment-education campaigns have downstream effects on absenteeism and public school performance more generally.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2021.2008367 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/00220388.2021.2008367 2129771:MEAS58AG 4556019:Z9A72XEC
Keywords: Africa; access to education; education quality

The Meaning of Contemplation for Social Qualitative Research: Applications and Examples - Konecki, Krzysztof T. (Routledge, 2021)
This book offers an account of contemplative reflection in qualitative social research. Focusing on the experiences of the researcher – including sensory and emotional experiences – and the work of the mind in the investigative process, it considers the means by which the researcher’s basic assumptions can be analyzed and bracketed, so as to shed light on the process by which knowledge is produced. Through an exploration of the methods of meditation, auto-observation and self-reports, epoché, "contemplative memo-ing," and the contemplative diary, the author explores the essential role of subjectivity in qualitative research, providing inspiration for more mindful research. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, and geography with interests in phenomenology, research methods, and the role of the mind in the research process.
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Keywords: Social Science / Methodology; Social Science / Research

Principles for Digital Development (Principles for Digital Development, 2022)
Resources & Expertise for the Digital Principles
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Meaningful Connectivity — unlocking the full power of internet access - A4AI (Alliance for Affordable Internet, 2022)
Meaningful Connectivity — unlocking the full power of internet access 4G-like speed Our internet speeds make or break our online experience. We all know
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Validation of Designbuilder Simulation Accuracy Using Field Measured Data of Indoor Air Temperature in a Classroom Building - Abba, Habu Yusuf; Majid, Roshida Abdul; Ahmed, Muhammad Hamdan; Gbenga, Olutobi (Management, 2022)
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Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; ⛔ No DOI found

ChatGPT: Fundamentals, applications and social impacts - Abdullah, Malak; Madain, Alia; Jararweh, Yaser (2022 Ninth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS), 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1109/SNAMS58071.2022.10062688 4804264:QU9KCAEF
Keywords: Final_citation

Education research designed for uptake: Co-constructing an actionable research agenda for Education Research in Conflict and Protracted-Crisis (ERICC - Adesina, Adedoyin; Akogun, Oladele B (Paper Presentation. 67th Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES, 2022)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Combined effects of ventilation rates and indoor temperatures on cognitive performance of female higher education students in a hot climate - Ahmed, Riham; Mumovic, Dejan; Bagkeris, Emmanouil; Ucci, Marcella (Indoor air, 2022)
Publisher: Wiley Online Library KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1111/ina.13004 2129771:7WXPHPA2 4682641:MM48GLCP
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT

Effects of thermal sensation and acclimatization on cognitive performance of adult female students in Saudi Arabia using multivariable-multilevel statistical modeling - Ahmed, Riham; Ucci, Marcella; Mumovic, Dejan; Bagkeris, Emmanouil (Indoor air, 2022)
Publisher: Wiley Online Library KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1111/ina.13005 2129771:UE8PMH8F 4682641:XU7Y5YK5
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT

Durumi Camp: Conflict and the Spatial Praxes of a Furtive-Periphery’ - Ajadi, S.B. (‘Embodying the Periphery’, 2022)

Violence, Disruption and the Spatial Resilience of Northern Nigerian Markets’ - Ajadi, S.B. (The Cambridge Land Society Magazine, 2022)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Education research in conflict and protracted crisis - Akogun, O.; Adesina, A.; Watts, M. (2022)

Education research in conflict and protracted crisis - Akogun, O.; Adesina, Adedoyin; Watts, M. (2022)

Improving Literacy Outcomes for Disadvantaged Girls Through Empowerment: The Case of Siyani Sahelian Programme in Pakistan - Aslam, Monazza; Cashman, Laura; Hamid, Moaaz; Rawal, Shenila; Jamil, Baela Raza; Sabates, Ricardo; Saeed, Saba (Poverty Impacts on Literacy Education, 2022)
Literacy acquisition is important for the formation of higher order skills, further engagement with written forms of knowledge, and deeper participation in society. Yet not all children have the opportunity to acquire literacy skills in their own mother tongue to allow them to continue to advance to...
ISBN: 9781799887300 Pages: 149-164 Publisher: IGI Global KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8730-0.ch008 2129771:XLPT2QR3

The labor market impacts of technological change: From unbridled enthusiasm to qualified optimism to vast uncertainty - Autor, David (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:VCWNNRKI
Keywords: Final_citation

Achieving Cost-Effective Instructional Coaching at Scale: Evidence from Senegal - Bagby, Emilie; Swift-Morgan, Jennifer; Niang, Ablaye; Upadhyay, Arjun (Chemonics International, 2022)
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Enhancement of Productivity Using Chatbots - Balatamoghna, B.; Nagajayanthi, B. (Futuristic Communication and Network Technologies, 2022)

18. GLOBAL LEARNING ECOLOGIES: LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR EQUITY - Barron, Brigid (Education, 2022)
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Lowering Barriers to Remote Education: Experimental Impacts on Parental Responses and Learning - Beam, Emily; Mukherjee, Priya; Navarro-Sola, Laia (SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022)
We conduct a randomized controlled trial with households of secondary school students in Bangladesh to investigate how parents adjust their investments in response to three educational interventions: an informational campaign about an educational phone application, an internet data subsidy, and oneon-one phone learning support. We find that offering an educational service in a context where other barriers to take-up exist can still trigger parental educational investments by acting as a signal or nudge. These behavioral changes result in lasting learning gains concentrated among richer households, reflecting that the relevant behavior change—increased tutoring investment—is easier for them to implement. In contrast, when interventions do increase take-up, they have the potential to narrow the socioeconomic achievement gap. We observe that increased usage of the targeted educational service limits parental behavioral responses. This implies that learning gains in these cases are directly caused by the potential effectiveness of the services adopted. In our setting, remote one-to-one teacher support improves learning among students from poorer households, whereas receiving the free data package jointly with the app information has no impact on learning.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.2139/ssrn.4234910 4804264:LEHG7KXA
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

How can education systems rise up to the climate challenge? - Beardmore, Sarah; Martinez, Raphaelle; Tammi, Anna-Maria (Global Partnership for Education, 2022)
The climate crisis adds another layer to the existing learning crisis and calls for building education systems that can prepare for crises, ensure continued access to education during unpredictable times, and prevent and mitigate their negative impacts as much as possible.
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How Can Education Systems Structure Virtual Communities of Practice for Teachers Most Effectively? - Bedoya, Guadalupe; Belyakova, Yulia; Cilliers, Jacobus; Deeb, Antoine; Evans, David K; Jeon, Youngkwang; Kelly, Emma (2022)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Improving the teaching of FLN: Insights from behavioral sciences - Better purpose (2022)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) commissioned this report to draw insights on how the behavioral sciences could provide a lens to help us (1) better understand the problem of low foundational learning levels in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) by shedding light on what influences teachers’ decision-making in the classroom, and (2) help shape solutions to improve foundational learning by supporting teachers to implement effective instructional practices.
Keywords: education

Dealing with online and blended education in modern challenging times - Bhutoria, Aditi (DECISION, 2022)
Publisher: Springer

Managerial practices and school efficiency: a data envelopment analysis across OECD and MENA countries using TIMSS 2019 data - Bhutoria, Aditi; Aljabri, Nayyaf (Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022)
Publisher: Springer

SAI International School: In Pursuit of Academic Happiness - Bhutoria, Aditi; Mukhopadhyay, Bhaswati (2022)
Publisher: Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Case Research Center
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

The Effects of Air Temperature to the Cognitive Performance of Grade Five Pupils - Bigueja, Myrna C.; Tabardillo, Rosemarie A.; Amoroso, Sheila E.; Tabardillo, Joselito D. (2022)
High temperature makes the children uneasy during classroom activities. This study examines the effect of air temperature to children‟s cognitive performance. The school profile was determined such as: the total number of teachers, number of enrollees, land area (sq.m.), number of buildings and number of trees was determined to support the analysis of the data collected. The respondents were the Top thirty (30) Grade V pupils from public city elementary school in the Bicol Region. The pen-and-paper test was administered using the standardized test question in Science V of forty (40) items. The examination was done in the room without ventilation at 9:00 O‟clock to 11 O‟clock in the morning. Outdoor and indoor air temperature was recorded. The temperature recorded in the seven Public Central City Elementary Schools ranged from 240C to 310C. The recorded temperature indicates that the air contains particulates or pollutants like CO2 resulting in high temperature. Future work is required to establish evidence based guidelines for average temperatures and CO2 levels in classrooms. Findings suggest that high ventilation rates and low temperatures are required to provide optimum health outcomes and learning conditions. Natural Ventilation is also recommended through planting more trees in school vicinity to provide fresher air.
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Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; ⛔ No DOI found

Machine learning in weather prediction and climate analyses—applications and perspectives - Bochenek, Bogdan; Ustrnul, Zbigniew (Atmosphere, 2022)
Publisher: MDPI

Onder de motorkap: Onderzoek naar EdTech testbeds in Europa - Boot, N.; Jukema, H.; Stappen, E. van der (2022)
Het onderwijs is voortdurend in ontwikkeling. Studenten hebben behoefte aan afwisselend onderwijs dat aansluit op hun eigen belevingswereld. Terwijl docenten het best mogelijke onderwijs willen
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The Sandbox Model: A Novel Approach to Iterating while Implementing an Emergency Education Program in Lebanon during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Boujikian, Michèle; Carter, Alice; Jordan, Katy (Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2022)
Jusoor's Refugee Education Program helps Syrian refugee children living in Lebanon integrate back into formal schooling. When schools closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the refugee program adapted to distance learning by developing Azima, a novel program that used WhatsApp to enable children to keep learning. Azima had to respond immediately to the emergency context while maintaining high education standards, and it also needed to find an effective way to test and refine its content quickly. To do this, the Azima program adopted an innovative experimental approach called a sandbox. A sandbox model operates in rapid iterative cycles and uses multiple methods to quickly test a program's assumptions about how it will meet its goals. In this field note, we use Azima as a case study to report on our experience of applying the sandbox model. We reflect on the benefits and limitations of this novel approach in supporting the use of education technology in a crisis situation.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.33682/rj45-k7z7 4426965:TTY7N7J4 4804264:U5M5IJQA
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

The Sandbox Model: A Novel Approach to Iterating while Implementing an Emergency Education Program in Lebanon during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Boujikian, Michèle; Carter, Alice; Jordan, Katy (Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2022)
Jusoor's Refugee Education Program helps Syrian refugee children living in Lebanon integrate back into formal schooling. When schools closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the refugee program adapted to distance learning by developing Azima, a novel program that used WhatsApp to enable children to keep learning. Azima had to respond immediately to the emergency context while maintaining high education standards, and it also needed to find an effective way to test and refine its content quickly. To do this, the Azima program adopted an innovative experimental approach called a sandbox. A sandbox model operates in rapid iterative cycles and uses multiple methods to quickly test a program's assumptions about how it will meet its goals. In this field note, we use Azima as a case study to report on our experience of applying the sandbox model. We reflect on the benefits and limitations of this novel approach in supporting the use of education technology in a crisis situation.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.33682/rj45-k7z7 2129771:RXTUNSRQ 4426965:TTY7N7J4

Research-to-Change Toolkit: Implementation Research for Youth Practitioners - Brian Batayeh (IREX and Youth Excel Consortium., 2022)
Batayeh, B., et al. (2022). Research-to-Change Toolkit: Implementation Research for Youth Practitioners. IREX and Youth Excel Consortium. KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:UR8ZPXXC

Trends in Digital Personalized Learning: Landscape Review of Personalized Learning Solutions in Low and Middle-Income Countries - Castillo, Nathan M.; Adam, Taskeen; Alam, Andaleeb; Alrawashdeh, Ghaida S; Tiwari, Priyamvada (UNICEF Office of Global Insight & Policy, 2022)
Digital Personalized Learning (DPL) - tech solutions and products that tailor learning to individuals and their specific learning needs - have the potential to improve learning outcomes and close gaps for students who have fallen behind. However, there is a limited of evidence from digital personalized learning interventions deployed across the developing world. This landscape review identifies trends and gaps in DPL implementation in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) contexts. This research report presents data on DPL effectiveness in LMICs from over 40 interventions worldwide by to classifying and categorizing design features, implementation models, and scalability factors. Implications for future research and design are discussed from a multi-stakeholder perspective.
Keywords: Global studies; Learning; Policy action; Quality of education; technology in education

Improving the Impact of Educational Technologies on Learning Within Low-Income Contexts - Castillo, Nathan; Adam, Taskeen; Haßler, Björn (Learning, Marginalization, and Improving the Quality of Education in Low-income Countries, 2022)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; dode_eth-src-eth; dode_eth-trf2-dode

Chatbot-facilitated Nursing Education - Chang, Ching-Yi; Kuo, Shu-Yu; Hwang, Gwo-Haur (Educational Technology & Society, 2022)
Publisher: JSTOR KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:26E9DABC 2129771:3GK6A7RV 2129771:IAM3H3NX
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Curriculum Implementation in Zambia: Best Practices of Bridging the Gap between the Intended and the Achieved School Curriculum - Changwe, Robert; Mwanza, Christine (International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2022)

Artificial intelligence for climate change adaptation - Cheong, So‐Min; Sankaran, Kris; Bastani, Hamsa (WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2022)
Abstract Although artificial intelligence (AI; inclusive of machine learning) is gaining traction supporting climate change projections and impacts, limited work has used AI to address climate change adaptation. We identify this gap and highlight the value of AI especially in supporting complex adaptation choices and implementation. We illustrate how AI can effectively leverage precise, real‐time information in data‐scarce settings. We focus on supervised learning, transfer learning, reinforcement learning, and multimodal learning to illustrate how innovative AI methods can enable better‐informed choices, tailor adaptation measures to heterogenous groups and generate effective synergies and trade‐offs. This article is categorized under: Application Areas > Government and Public Sector
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Loans and Scholarships in Africa’s Higher Education Finance: A Comparative Analysis of Capitation, Policy and Recoveries in Eleven Countries - Chirwa, Ireen Nayame; Masaiti, Gift; Mwale, Nelly; Mkandawire, Sitwe Benson; Mulenga, Innocent Mutale; Sichula, Noah Kenny (British Journal of Education, 2022)
Publisher: European-American Journals

The building block thesis - Choudary, Sangeet Paul; Maruwada, Shankar (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:QIAJKXGS
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

Implementation of education technology in schools and colleges - CooperGibson Research (Department for Education, 2022)
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What has Worked at Scale? - Crawfurd, Lee; Hares, Susannah; Sandefur, Justin (Schooling for All Feasible Strategies to Achieve Universal Education, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:4RHA5K3J
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Digital Literacy and Skills Toolkit Implementation in Indonesia: Experience and Lessons Learned from a Small Survey - CSIS Indonesia (2022)
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A Topic is Not a Theme: Towards a Contextualised Approach to Topic Modelling - Doogan, Caitlin (Monash University, 2022)

The Impact of a Tech-Supported, School-Based TPD Model on Learning Outcomes in Tanzania - EdTech Hub (EdTech Hub, 2022)
The Impact of a Tech-Supported, School-Based TPD Model on Learning Outcomes in Tanzania In partnership with Aga Khan University and Tanzania Institute of Education Country: Tanzania | Topic Area: Teacher Continuous Professional Development (TCPD) Project summary The study researches effective and cost-effective sustainable, technology-supported, decentralised, and school-based Teacher Continuous Professional Development (TCPD) models to improve learning outcomes in rural primary…
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The Impact of GIS-Supported Teacher Allocation in Sierra Leone - EdTech Hub; Education Commission; Fab Inc. (EdTech Hub, 2022)
ZenodoArchiveID: 5596875 ZenodoArchiveConcept: 5596874 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/edtechhub.0055 2129771:RIHMNP95 2405685:QAH4K4D6
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Knowledge Pack : Digital Teaching and Learning - , EdTech Team (World Bank, 2022)

Integrated Phase Change Material windcatcher system for hybrid cooling and ventilation in tropical building - Eso, Olamide; Darkwa, Jo; Calautit, John (2022)
This study presents a novel solar fan-assisted multi-directional windcatcher (MDW) with encapsulated phase change material tubes (E-PCMT) for tropical buildings. The ventilation, cooling, and thermal storage performance of the integrated ventilative cooling system is investigated using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Ansys Fluent software under tropical climate conditions. A parametric geometric analysis of three different E-PCMT configurations with melting temperatures at 28oC was conducted to assess the thermal storage performance at different air velocities. The impact of the optimised EPCMT when incorporated inside the air stream of the MDW was further studied. To overcome air flow resistance caused by the obstruction by EPCM-T inside the air streams, the windcatcher airflow is assisted by a wall-mounted axial solar fan that is activated when outdoor air velocity is less than 2m/s. The results based on a typical tropical location showed that the system was able to achieve a consistent and stable air temperature drop of up to 2.64oC over a 4-6-hour. Even at an outdoor air velocity of 1.88m/s, the novel integrated system, in addition to its cooling performance was still able to achieve a supply air velocity rate of 0.16 - 0.57 m/s, meeting the ventilation rates required for indoor comfort.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4874017:GA76HUTU 5072953:NEMABBUB
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; ⛔ No DOI found

Addressing the climate, environment, and biodiversity crises in and through girls’ education - Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (2022)
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Keywords: selected_for:effects of climate ch...on learning...LMICs 2024

Introducing EIDU’s Solver Platform: Facilitating Open Collaboration in AI to Help Solve the Global Learning Crisis - Friedberg, Aidan (Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners’ and Doctoral Consortium, 2022)
EIDU provides child-focused learning content along with digitally supported structured pedagogy programmes for teachers and is being rolled out to all public pre-primary schools across four counties in Kenya. EIDU is content-agnostic, allowing any provider to integrate new content into the platform, with the choice and order of content for each individual child optimised through personalisation algorithms. Autonomous digitised assessment tools enable real-time learning measurement which can be fed back to content providers and researchers, facilitating continuous improvement cycles. EIDU is providing open access to its platform to facilitate collaboration in the personalisation space with ‘the Solver Platform’. Researchers will have access to a vast, anonymised learning dataset to train and develop personalisation algorithms. These algorithms can be deployed onto the platform using a plug-in system and will automatically be evaluated and selected based on their measured learning impact, always ensuring the safety of learners comes first.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1007/978-3-031-11647-6_18 4804264:NDEFZCRT
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Socioeconomic inclusion during an era of online education - Garcia, Manuel B. (IGI Global, 2022)
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Studying dilemmas of mathematics teaching in Southern Africa - Gobede, Fraser; Mosvold, Reidar (African Journal of Teacher Education and Development, 2022)
Publisher: AOSIS (Pty) Ltd.

Assessment of students’ digital competences in primary school: a systematic review - Godaert, Eline; Aesaert, Koen; Voogt, Joke; Van Braak, Johan (Education and Information Technologies, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1007/s10639-022-11020-9 4804264:H3METBU9
Keywords: Final_citation

How learning and employment records shape access to quality education and jobs - Goger, Annelies; Parco, Allyson; Carter-Rau, Rohan; Homma, Kazumi; Meliksetyan, Ani; Milman, Natalie (2022)
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Keywords: Final_citation; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

Impact of Living Conditions on Online Education: Evidence from China. Sustainability 2022, 14, 3231 - Gu, J. (s Note: MDPI stays neu-tral with regard to jurisdictional claims in …, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:8YP8Q36V

Impact of Living Conditions on Online Education: Evidence from China - Gu, Jiafeng (Sustainability, 2022)
Publisher: MDPI KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3390/su14063231 2129771:PWJFE7P8

The digital divide in online learning in China during the COVID-19 pandemic - Guo, Congbin; Wan, Boshen (Technology in Society, 2022)
Publisher: Elsevier KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.102122 2129771:AFGPK6KJ

Global education trends and research to follow in 2022 - Gustafsson-Wright, Emily; Hadani, Helen Shwe; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Jalbout, Maysa; King, Elizabeth M.; ODonoghue, Jennifer L.; Olsen, Brad; Shapiro, Jordan; Vegas, Emiliana; Winthrop, Rebecca (2022)
Publisher: Brookings Institution KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:H5U6GHQI
Keywords: Final_citation; ⛔ No DOI found

Digital tools for real-time data collection in education - Gustafsson-Wright, Emily; Osborne, Sarah; Aggarwal, Muskan (2022)
Publisher: Brookings Institution KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:LCXWWJ8C
Keywords: Final_citation; ⛔ No DOI found

From Evidence to Scale: Lessons Learned from the Quality Education India Development Impact Bond. - Gustafsson-Wright, Emily; Osborne, Sarah; Shankar, Aditi (Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2022)
Publisher: ERIC KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:KCHASA45
Keywords: Final_citation; ⛔ No DOI found

Early Grade Mathematics in South Africa - Hamsa, Venkat; Roberts, Nicky (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Resource list for T-TEL Ghana (2015-2016) - Haßler, Björn (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:FGQR8MW3

TVET Research in SSA: Recommendations for Thematic Priorities | Africa Journal of Technical and Vocational Education and Training - Haßler, Björn; Haseloff, Gesine (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:Y5Q9XG2S 2486141:VGUNXBX3
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

Technology use for teacher education and professional development: Insights from a systematic review [preprint] - Hennessy, Sara; D'Angelo, Sophia; McIntyre, Nora; Brugha, Meaghan; Zubairi, Asma (2022)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Technology Use for Teacher Professional Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A systematic review - Hennessy, Sara; D'Angelo, Sophia; McIntyre, Nora; Koomar, Saalim; Kreimeia, Adam; Cao, Lydia; Brugha, Meaghan; Zubairi, Asma (Computers and Education Open, 2022)
Pre-service education and in-service teacher professional development (collectively termed teacher professional development or TPD here) can play a pivotal role in raising teaching quality and, therefore, learning outcomes for children and young people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, TPD opportunities in LMICs are limited, unsustained, and often not informed by recent research evidence, and outcomes are mixed. Educational technologies offer potential to enhance formally provided programmes and informal peer-learning forms of TPD. We present the first systematic review of the literature pertaining to technology-mediated TPD for educators of school-aged learners in LMICs, aiming to characterise appropriate and effective uses of technology along with specific constraints operating in those contexts. An in-depth synthesis of 170 studies was undertaken, considering macro-, meso- and micro-level factors during TPD design and implementation in the 40 LMICs represented. Volume of publications increased dramatically over the review period (2008–2020), indicating that the field is rapidly developing. Results largely showed benefits for teachers, but evidence for sustainability, cost-effectiveness or tangible impacts on classroom practice and student outcomes was thin. Promising, locally-contextualised forms of technology-mediated TPD included virtual coaching, social messaging, blended learning, video-stimulated reflection, and use of subject-specific software/applications. We report on the variable effectiveness of programmes and limited attention to marginalised groups. To maximise effectiveness of technology-enhanced TPD, the role of facilitators or expert peers is paramount – yet often glossed over – and the interpersonal dimension of teacher learning must be maintained. Recommendations are made for researchers, policymakers, teachers and teacher educators.
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Keywords: ICT; Teacher professional development; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_knowledge_product; _MELA_seen; _genre:LR-literature_review; e-learning; low- and middle-income countries (LMICs); pedagogy; peer learning; teacher training; technology

Technology Use for Teacher Professional Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A systematic review - Hennessy, Sara; D'Angelo, Sophia; McIntyre, Nora; Koomar, Saalim; Kreimeia, Adam; Cao, Lydia; Brugha, Meaghan; Zubairi, Asma (Computers and Education Open, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.caeo.2022.100080 10.5281/zenodo.4733147 2339240:5GVQGQC4 2339240:LPFYJHUF 2405685:E5J2KHF2 2405685:KXGE9JIR 2405685:RKQI4W3A 2405685:T5QVE96Z 2534378:5CCARHUH 2534378:DZ4AXQJ2 4804264:4QCM8LRH
Keywords: Disability; Final_citation; Read; Referenced; Teacher education and training; What works evidence; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_knowledge_product; _MELA_seen; cited; existing

A critical view on the suitability of machine learning techniques to downscale climate change projections: Illustration for temperature with a toy experiment - Hernanz, Alfonso; García‐Valero, Juan Andrés; Domínguez, Marta; Rodríguez‐Camino, Ernesto (Atmospheric Science Letters, 2022)
Abstract Machine learning is a growing field of research with many applications. It provides a series of techniques able to solve complex nonlinear problems, and that has promoted their application for statistical downscaling. Intercomparison exercises with other classical methods have so far shown promising results. Nevertheless, many evaluation studies of statistical downscaling methods neglect the analysis of their extrapolation capability. In this study, we aim to make a wakeup call to the community about the potential risks of using machine learning for statistical downscaling of climate change projections. We present a set of three toy experiments, applying three commonly used machine learning algorithms, two different implementations of artificial neural networks and a support vector machine, to downscale daily maximum temperature, and comparing them with the classical multiple linear regression. We have tested the four methods in and out of their calibration range, and have found how the three machine learning techniques can perform poorly under extrapolation. Additionally, we have analysed the impact of this extrapolation issue depending on the degree of overlapping between the training and testing datasets, and we have found very different sensitivities for each method and specific implementation.

Artificial intelligence and education: a critical view through the lens of human rights, democracy and the rule of law - Holmes, Wayne; Persson, Jen; Chounta, Irene-Angelica; Wasson, Barbara; Dimitrova, Vania (Council of Europe, 2022)
The aim of this book is to provide a holistic view to ensure that AI empowers educators and learners, not over-empowers them, and that future developments and practices are truly for the common good. Artificial intelligence (Al) is increasingly having an impact on education, bringing opportunities as well as numerous challenges. These observations were noted by the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers in 2019 and led to the commissioning of this report, which sets out to examine the connections between Al and education (AI&ED). In particular, the report presents an overview of AI&ED seen through the lens of the Council of Europe values of human rights, democracy and the rule of law; and it provides a critical analysis of the academic evidence and the myths and hype. The Covid-19 pandemic school shutdowns triggered a rushed adoption of educational technology, which increasingly includes AI-assisted classrooms tools (AIED). This AIED, which by definition is designed to influence child development, also impacts on critical issues such as privacy, agency and human dignity – all of which are yet to be fully explored and addressed. But AI&ED is not only about teaching and learning with AI, but also teaching and learning about AI (AI literacy), addressing both the technological dimension and the often-forgotten human dimension of AI. The report concludes with a provisional needs analysis – the aim being to stimulate further critical debate by the Council of Europe’s member states and other stakeholders and to ensure that education systems respond both proactively and effectively to the numerous opportunities and challenges introduced by AI&ED
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2486141:9VK9E98Q

State of the art and practice in AI in education - Holmes, Wayne; Tuomi, Ilkka (European Journal of Education, 2022)
Recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have generated great expectations for the future impact of AI in education and learning (AIED). Often these expectations have been based on misunderstanding current technical possibilities, lack of knowledge about state-of-the-art AI in education, and exceedingly narrow views on the functions of education in society. In this article, we provide a review of existing AI systems in education and their pedagogic and educational assumptions. We develop a typology of AIED systems and describe different ways of using AI in education and learning, show how these are grounded in different interpretations of what AI and education is or could be, and discuss some potential roadblocks on the AIED highway.
_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ejed.12533 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1111/ejed.12533 4804264:NING5825 4804264:VVNH9AMG
Keywords: Final_citation; anystyle; existing

(untitled) - Holon IQ (2022)
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Building Educational Foundations through Innovation & Technology (BEFIT) Malawi Scale-Up Program Overview - Imagine WorldWide, Hon Agnes (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:HYWUSGYP
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Promising Practices in Teacher Professional Development - Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:37FYLWZE
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Leave No Child Behind: Global report on boys' disengagement from education - Jere, Catherine; Eck, Matthias; Zubairi, Asma (UNESCO, 2022)

Aligning artificial intelligence with climate change mitigation - Kaack, Lynn H.; Donti, Priya L.; Strubell, Emma; Kamiya, George; Creutzig, Felix; Rolnick, David (Nature Climate Change, 2022)
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group UK London

Transformation of Education Policy and Governance in the Digital Era - Kamp-Hartong, S.; Piattoeva, N.; Saari, A.; Savage, G. (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:I6G6EY4M
Keywords: Final_citation; anystyle; existing

Reflections on Technology, Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development: Findings from a Teacher Survey in Tanzania. - Koomar, Saalim; Hennessy, Sara; Zubairi, Asma; Kindoli, Robert; Kreimeia, Adam (African Educational Research Journal, 2022)
Publisher: ERIC

Understanding evidence: a brief guide for edtech produceers - Kucirkova, Natalia (2022)
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Applications of machine learning and deep learning methods for climate change mitigation and adaptation - Ladi, Tahmineh; Jabalameli, Shaghayegh; Sharifi, Ayyoob (Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2022)
Climate change is a global issue that must be considered and addressed immediately. Many articles have been published on climate change mitigation and adaptation. However, new methods are required to explore the complexities of climate change and provide more efficient and effective adaptation and mitigation policies. With the advancement of technology, machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) methods have gained considerable popularity in many fields, including climate change. This paper aims to explore the most popular ML and DL methods that have been applied for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Another aim is to determine the most common mitigation and adaptation measures/actions in general, and in urban areas in particular, that have been studied using ML and DL methods. For this purpose, word frequency analysis and topic modeling, specifically the Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) as a ML algorithm, are used in this study. The results indicate that the most popular ML technique in both climate change mitigation and adaptation is the Artificial Neural Network. Moreover, among different research areas related to climate change mitigation and adaptation, geoengineering, and land surface temperature are the ones that have used ML and DL algorithms the most.

Cognitive performance was reduced by higher air temperature even when thermal comfort was maintained over the 24–28°C range - Lan, Li; Tang, Jieyu; Wargocki, Pawel; Wyon, David P; Lian, Zhiwei (Indoor Air, 2022)
This study managed to create thermal comfort conditions at three temperatures (24°C-T24, 26°C-T26, and 28°C-T28) by adjusting clothing and air velocity. Thirty- six subjects (18 males and 18 females) were exposed to each of the three conditions for 4.5 h in a design balanced for order of presentation of conditions. During each exposure, they rated the physical environment, their comfort, the intensity of acute subclinical health symptoms, and their mental load, and they performed a number of cognitive tasks. Their physiological reactions were monitored. The subjects rated T24 to be comfortably cool, T26 to be comfortably neutral, and T28 to be comfortably warm. Their self-estimated performance did not differ between conditions but 12 of 14 objective metrics of cognitive performance decreased significantly at the elevated temperatures: compared with T24, their average cognitive performance decreased by 10% at T26 and by 6% at T28. At the elevated temperatures, their parasympathetic nervous system activity (as indicated by PNN50) and their arterial blood oxygen saturation level (SpO2) were both lower, which would be expected to result in reduced cognitive performance. The subjects also rated their acute subclinical health symptoms as more intense and their workload as higher at the elevated temperatures. These results suggest that where cognitive performance is the priority, it is wise to ensure a comfortably cool environment. The present study also supports the use of fans or natural ventilation to reduce the need for mechanical cooling.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1111/ina.12916 2129771:IZDK8FG8 4682641:CIQ8XNFD 4682641:M2MHIUAK
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT

Investigating the relation between electroencephalogram, thermal comfort, and cognitive performance in neutral to hot indoor environment - Lang, Xiaoyue; Wargocki, Pawel; Liu, Weiwei (Indoor Air, 2022)
The relation between electroencephalogram signals, thermal comfort, and cognitive performance in neutral to hot indoor environment was investigated. The experiments were carried out at four temperatures: 26ºC, 30ºC, 33ºC, and 37ºC, and two relative humidity levels: 50% and 70%. Thirty-two subjects were exposed for 175 min. The electroencephalogram signals were measured for 30 min 25 min after the onset of exposure while the recruited subjects performed neurobehavioral tests and rated their thermal comfort. The relative power of electroencephalogram signals has a significant correlation with thermal comfort and performance of neurobehavioral tests. The ratings of acceptability of thermal environment and thermal comfort, the speed, accuracy, and PI of completing the tests are negatively correlated with the relative power of δ-band, but positively correlated with θ-band, α-band, and β-band. The ratings of thermal sensation have a better correlation with the above four bands, but the correlation trend is opposite. A linear relation was found between electroencephalogram signals and the speed. The results showed that the relative power of P7 channel located in the occipital lobe is the most suitable as a single electroencephalogram channel to reflect joint thermal comfort and cognitive performance at high temperatures, especially its α-band.
_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ina.12941 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1111/ina.12941 2129771:9F3VADMF 4682641:4NSJKT5N
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; acceptability of thermal environment; cognitive performance; electroencephalogram; occipital lobe; thermal comfort; thermal sensation

Deploying artificial intelligence for climate change adaptation - Leal Filho, Walter; Wall, Tony; Mucova, Serafino Afonso Rui; Nagy, Gustavo J.; Balogun, Abdul-Lateef; Luetz, Johannes M.; Ng, Artie W.; Kovaleva, Marina; Azam, Fardous Mohammad Safiul; Alves, Fátima (Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022)
Publisher: Elsevier KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:JQ9G8AHZ 2129771:Q8HSB9ML 2129771:TTQJYJPB

The critical role of continuous professional development for teachers in Africa - Luneta, Kakoma (African Journal of Teacher Education and Development, 2022)

Beyond Data - Mantelero, Alessandro (Beyond Data: Human Rights, Ethical and Social Impact Assessment in AI, 2022)
In a technology context dominated by data-intensive AI systems, the consequences of data processing are no longer restricted to the well-known privacy and data protection issues but encompass prejudices against a broader array of fundamental rights. Moreover, the tension between the extensive use of these systems, on the one hand, and the growing demand for ethically and socially responsible data use on the other, reveals the lack of a framework that can fully address the societal issues raised by AI.
Keywords: AI; Data protection; Ethical Impact Assessment; Human rights; Privacy Impact Assessment; Risk-based approach; Self-determination; Social Impact Assessment

Beyond Data: Human Rights, Ethical and Social Impact Assessment in AI - Mantelero, Alessandro (T.M.C. Asser Press, 2022)
Keywords: AI Regulation; Artificial Intelligence; Data Protection; Ethics; Fundamental Rights; Human Rights; Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA); Impact Assessment; Open Access

Human Rights Impact Assessment and AI - Mantelero, Alessandro (Beyond Data: Human Rights, Ethical and Social Impact Assessment in AI, 2022)
The recent turn in the debate on AI regulation from ethics to law, the wide application of AI and the new challenges it poses in a variety of fields of human activities are urging legislators to find a paradigm of reference to assess the impacts of AI and to guide its development. This cannot only be done at a general level, on the basis of guiding principles and provisions, but the paradigm must be embedded into the development and deployment of each application. To this end, this chapter suggests a model for human rights impact assessment (HRIA) as part of the broader HRESIA model. This is a response to the lack of a formal methodology to facilitate an ex-ante approach based on a human-oriented design of AI. The result is a tool that can be easily used by entities involved in AI development from the outset in the design of new AI solutions and can follow the product/service throughout its lifecycle, providing specific, measurable and comparable evidence on potential impacts, their probability, extension, and severity, and facilitating comparison between possible alternative options.
Keywords: Data ethics; Democracy; Human Rights Impact Assessment; Human rights by design; Participation; Precautionary principle; Smart cities; Smart toys; Transparency

Open Issues and Conclusions - Mantelero, Alessandro (Beyond Data: Human Rights, Ethical and Social Impact Assessment in AI, 2022)
Having discussed in previous chapters the valuable contribution that an assessment model encompassing human rights, ethical and societal issues can provide to the development and regulation of AI, these concluding remarks address some of the challenges we face in implementing this approach in tangible reality. The focus on future global regulatory scenarios in the field of AI shows how the holistic HRESIA model, which includes the contextualisation of human rights and socio-ethical values in a given area, could be an effective answer for both the countries which have a human rights-based AI regulation and those who do not. In addition, holistic assessment and values-oriented design procedures can build trust in the development of AI, addressing the increasing public concern for invasive and pervasive AI applications, as well as the growing attention of policy makers to the side effects of AI use in the presence of concentration of power in digital services.
Keywords: AI regulation; Data protection; Digital ecosystems; Human rights; Risk assessment; Trust

Regulating AI - Mantelero, Alessandro (Beyond Data: Human Rights, Ethical and Social Impact Assessment in AI, 2022)
Although the debate on AI regulation is still fluid at a global level and the European initiatives are in their early stages, three possible approaches to grounding AI regulation on human rights are emerging. One option is a principles-based approach, comprising guiding principles derived from existing binding and non-binding international human rights instruments, which could provide a comprehensive framework for AI. A different approach focuses more narrowly on the impacts of AI on individual rights and their safeguarding through rights-based risk assessment. This is the path followed by the Council of Europe in its ongoing work on AI regulation. Finally, as outlined in the EU proposal, greater emphasis can be placed on managing high-risk applications by focusing on product safety and conformity assessment. Despite the differences between these three models, they all share a core concern with protecting human rights, recognised as a key issue in all of them. However, in these proposals for AI regulation, the emphasis on risk management is not accompanied by effective models for assessing the impact of AI on human rights. Analysis of the current debate therefore confirms that the HRESIA could not only be an effective response to human-rights oriented AI development that also encompasses societal values, but it could also bridge a gap in the current regulatory proposals.
Keywords: AI regulation; Ad hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAHAI); Artificial Intelligence Act; Co-regulation; Conformity assessment; Democracy; Technology assessment

The Social and Ethical Component in AI Systems Design and Management - Mantelero, Alessandro (Beyond Data: Human Rights, Ethical and Social Impact Assessment in AI, 2022)
The extensive and frequently severe impact of AI systems on society cannot be fully addressed by the human rights legal framework. Many issues involve community choices or individual autonomy requiring a contextual analysis focused on societal and ethical values. The social and ethical consequences of AI represent a complementary dimension, alongside that of human rights, that must be properly investigated in AI assessment, to capture the holistic dimension of the relationship between humans and machines. This assessment is more complicated than that of human rights, as it involves a variety of theoretical inputs on the underlying values, as well as a proliferation of guidelines. This requires a contextualised and, as far as possible, a participative analysis of the values of the community in which the AI solutions are expected to be implemented. Here the experts play a crucial role in detecting, contextualising and evaluating the AI solutions against existing ethical and social values. Ethics committees in scientific research, bioethics and clinical trials, as well as corporate AI ethics boards, can provide inputs for future AI expert committees within the HRESIA model. Based on the experience of these committees, the assessment cannot be entrusted entirely to experts, but it should also include a participatory dimension, which is essential to effective democratic decision-making process concerning AI.
Keywords: Clinical Ethics Committees; Clinical trials; Data ethics; Ethical values; Ethics boards; Ethics committee; Participation; Research Ethics Committees; Social values

Dimensions of digital literacy in the 21st century competency frameworks - Martínez-Bravo, María Cristina; Sádaba Chalezquer, Charo; Serrano-Puche, Javier (Sustainability, 2022)
Publisher: MDPI KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3390/su14031867 2129771:FZCF772V

The impact of GIS-supported teacher allocation in Sierra Leone: High-level findings on teacher preferences in Sierra Leone - McBurnie, Chris; Godwin, Katie; Beoku-Betts, Iman (EdTech Hub, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.5281/zenodo.6504993 2129771:38B3CUIM
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

What Matters Most for Teacher Deployment? A case study of teacher preferences in Sierra Leone - McBurnie, Chris; Godwin, Katie; Beoku-Betts, Iman; Bernard-Jones, Lydia (EdTech Hub, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/edtechhub.0095 2129771:IZ2H9WQW
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

When teachers are asked to deploy other teachers, we learn a lot about teacher preferences - McBurnie, Chris; Godwin, Katie; Bernard-Jones, Lydia (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:QJ86VAKD

Understanding Teacher School Choice Preferences: What Matters Most for Teacher Deployment in Sierra Leone? - McBurnie, Chris; Godwin, Katie; Haßler, Björn (2022)
This exploratory mixed-methods study investigates the factors that shape where teachers want to work in Sierra Leone. We identify five dominant factors: monetary incentives, school conditions, opportunities for professional development and support, school location, and relationships with the school and the community. Importantly, these factors combine to push and pull teachers to different locations. Moreover, the factors interact with individual teacher characteristics such as gender, family status, and experience to influence school choice preferences. This set of factors — and their interaction with certain teacher characteristics — continues to shape preferences as teachers move up the career ladder.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.5281/zenodo.6817992 2129771:7N48R3PH
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE; ⛔ No DOI found

The impact of GIS-supported teacher allocation in Sierra Leone: Inception Report - McBurnie, Chris; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.5281/zenodo.5896640 2129771:MUPACN2Q
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Youth Employment and Productivity: Medium-term Experimental Evidence from Rwanda - McIntosh, Craig; Zeitlin, Andrew (2022)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Digital trust: Why it matters for businesses | McKinsey - McKinsey (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:9F6SYMPJ
Keywords: Final_citation; existing

A review about COVID-19 in the MENA region: environmental concerns and machine learning applications - Meskher, Hicham; Belhaouari, Samir Brahim; Thakur, Amrit Kumar; Sathyamurthy, Ravishankar; Singh, Punit; Khelfaoui, Issam; Saidur, Rahman (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

West African Senior School Certificate Examination: Sierra Leone Results Analysis - Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:P4P34Q78 2339240:2WY3SC9N 2405685:YKA8Y8DM
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

How Sierra Leone is betting on data to fight the impact of climate change on schools - Momoh, A; Atherton, Paul (Global Partnership for Education, 2022)
Data can significantly improve decision-making and allow for prioritizing interventions to benefit the most vulnerable populations. That’s why the ministry of Education in Sierra Leone is working with Fab Inc. to develop a web-based data tool that helps estimate and prioritize where new schools are really needed.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:AT8FP8ZI 2405685:AVDJP4T3 4042040:AJHHQGBH
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Encouraging natural ventilation to improve indoor environmental conditions at schools. Case studies in the north of Spain before and during COVID - Monge-Barrio, Aurora; Bes-Rastrollo, Maira; Dorregaray-Oyaregui, Sara; González-Martínez, Purificación; Martin-Calvo, Nerea; López-Hernández, Dolores; Arriazu-Ramos, Ainhoa; Sánchez-Ostiz, Ana (Energy and Buildings, 2022)
Publisher: Elsevier KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111567 2129771:VV68XHRE 4682641:HVQK4BR6
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT

Mathematical knowledge for teaching in Africa 2014–2021: A review of literature - Mosvold, Reidar (African Journal of Teacher Education and Development, 2022)
Publisher: AOSIS

Education 2.0: A Vision for Educational Transformation in Egypt - Moustafa, Nariman; Elghamrawy, Ebtehal; King, Katherine; Hao, Yu (Claire); Hao, Yu (Education to Build Back Better: What Can We Learn from Education Reform for a Post-pandemic World, 2022)
Abstract This chapter presents a comprehensive description and analysis of Egypt’s Education 2.0 (EDU. 2.0) reform plan for grades K-2. The reform’s five key components are described including the new multidisciplinary curriculum, technology integration, school management Continuous Professional Development (CPD), access and infrastructure, and reformed assessment. We analyze this reform from five perspectives and conclude that a cultural shift, high-quality CPD, and a robust accountability system are imperative to sustainable educational reform in Egypt. This cannot be achieved without a shared vision and engagement between teachers, parents, and Egypt’s Education Ministry.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2486141:AQJ8FK3E 2486141:BHDTC79I 2486141:E5VU7PVJ 2486141:EPFVK6ZQ 2486141:PIL76ZYK
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

An integrated model for teacher continuing professional learning in Zimbabwean primary schools - Mtetwa, David KJ; Ndemo, Zakaria (African Journal of Teacher Education and Development, 2022)

Student Teachers School Experience in Zambia: Experiences and Challenges - Mulenga, Innocent Mutale; Bwalya, Katongo (East African Journal of Education and Social Sciences, 2022)