Advances in Emerging Trends and Technologies
Advances in Emerging Trends and Technologies

Author: Miguel Botto-Tobar

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-12-18

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 3030636658

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advances in Emerging Trends and Technologies (ICAETT 2020), held in Riobamba, Ecuador, on 26–30 October 2019, proudly organized by Facultad de Informática y Electrónica (FIE) at Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo and supported by GDEON. ICAETT 2020 brings together top researchers and practitioners working in different domains of computer science to share their expertise and to discuss future developments and potential collaborations. Presenting high-quality, peer-reviewed papers, the book discusses the following topics: Communicationse-Government and e-Participatione-LearningElectronicIntelligent SystemsMachine VisionSecurityTechnology Trends

Estrategias tecnológicas para la industria de la hostelería
Estrategias tecnológicas para la industria de la hostelería

Author: Peter D. Nyheim

Publisher: Ediciones Universidad Católica de Salta

Published: 2019-10-22

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 9506231818

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Los procesos comerciales en la industria de la hostelería, como toda industria en la actualidad, están atravesados por las nuevas tecnologías que aportan rapidez, eficiencia y posibilidad de control al ámbito de la gestión. La industria del turismo, y en especial todo lo relacionado con el hospedaje y la alimentación del viajero, se mueve con una fuerte dinámica, y la rapidez de la respuesta es uno de los aspectos prioritarios junto con la necesidad de lograr la total satisfacción de las demandas tanto de clientes como de proveedores. En todos estos procesos, las tecnologías de la información (TI), los sistemas de información (IS) y los sistemas de gestión de la información (MIS) son la herramienta clave en el éxito de los procesos vinculados tanto en las operaciones diarias como en la planificación. Este libro, dirigido tanto a estudiantes como a profesionales vinculados a la hostelería, es el resultado de una colaboración entre autores que han vivido las situaciones que se plantean en él. Cada capítulo cuenta con entrevistas a líderes de la industria en las que se reconocen casos concretos de aplicación de tecnología en la hostelería. Sin dudas, las nuevas tecnologías ofrecen un mayor número de oportunidades tanto a gerentes como a clientes; desde hacer una reserva a través de una aplicación, hasta la experimentación de un servicio mediante recursos tecnológicos de realidad aumentada. De ahí la importancia, necesidad y pertinencia de este libro, que alcanza con esta su tercera edición, primera en español.

Open Universities
Open Universities

Author: Robert E. Bell

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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Open Universities: A British Tradition challenges the notion that the open university is a recent invention. It argues that in Britain there is a long and varied tradition of such developments, and that there has been a significant 20th-century reduction in the open-ness of our universities, particularly in the period from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Education and Social Change
Education and Social Change

Author: John Rury

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-04-02

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1135666903

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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World

Author: Curtis J. Bonk

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-12

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1317614151

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As new digital forms of formal and informal learning proliferate, there is an increasing need to better understand how people in different regions of the world are implementing massive open online courses (MOOCs) and other forms of open educational resources (OERs). Educators, researchers, politicians, and numerous other stakeholders want to grasp what the outcomes of these initiatives are and how they can be improved. Ongoing e-learning developments related to both technology and pedagogy have pushed institutions and organizations to grapple with issues of accreditation, credentialing, quality standards, innovative assessment, and learner motivation and attrition, among other areas of concern. In response, MOOCs and Open Education Around the World explores and illuminates unique implementations of MOOCs and open education across regions and nations. The book also focuses on the various opportunities as well as the dilemmas presented in this rapidly evolving age of technology-enabled learning. What are the different delivery formats, interaction possibilities, assessment schemes, and business models? What are the key controversies or issues that must be discussed and addressed? This edited collection explains MOOCs and open education trends and issues in a variety of contexts, shares key research findings, and provides practical suggestions and recommendations for the near future.

Facilitating Online Learning
Facilitating Online Learning

Author: George Collison

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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Instructors new to the online teaching and training environment, as well as experienced online educators, will discover the groundbreaking skills and techniques needed to be a successful online instructor. Discover how to effectively facilitate dialogue and build a community of learners as well as hurdle common roadblocks. Learn how to create a learning community where the instructor moves from center stage to a collaborative learning environment.

Transforming Modernity
Transforming Modernity

Author: Néstor García Canclini

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2010-06-28

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 0292789076

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Is popular culture merely a process of creating, marketing, and consuming a final product, or is it an expression of the artist's surroundings and an attempt to alter them? Noted Argentine/Mexican anthropologist Néstor García Canclini addresses these questions and more in Transforming Modernity, a translation of Las culturas populares en el capitalismo. Based on fieldwork among the Purépecha of Michoacán, Mexico, some of the most talented artisans of the New World, the book is not so much a work of ethnography as of philosophy—a cultural critique of modernism. García Canclini delineates three interpretations of popular culture: spontaneous creation, which posits that artistic expression is the realization of beauty and knowledge; "memory for sale," which holds that original products are created for sale in the imposed capitalist system; and the tourist outlook, whereby collectibles are created to justify development and to provide insight into what capitalism has achieved. Transforming Modernity argues strongly for popular culture as an instrument of understanding, reproducing, and transforming the social system in order to elaborate and construct class hegemony and to reflect the unequal appropriation and distribution of cultural capital. With its wide scope, this book should appeal to readers within and well beyond anthropology—those interested in cultural theory, social thought, and Mesoamerican culture.

Open Data for Education
Open Data for Education

Author: Dmitry Mouromtsev

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-03-18

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 3319304933

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This volume comprises a collection of papers presented at an Open Data in Education Seminar and the LILE workshops during 2014-2015. In the first part of the book, two chapters give different perspectives on the current use of linked and open data in education, including the use of technology and the topics that are being covered. The second part of the book focuses on the specific, practical applications that are being put in place to exploit open and linked data in education today. The goal of this book is to provide a snapshot of current activities, and to share and disseminate the growing collective experience on open and linked data in education. This volume brings together research results, studies, and practical endeavors from initiatives spread across several countries around the world. These initiatives are laying the foundations of open and linked data in the education movement and leading the way through innovative applications.