"The dearest of our possessions": applying Floridi's information privacy concept in models of information behavior and information literacy

This conceptual paper argues for the value of an approach to privacy in the digital information environment informed by Luciano Floridi's philosophy of information and information ethics. This approach involves achieving informational privacy, through the features of anonymity and obscurity, through an optimal balance of ontological frictions. This approach may be used to modify models for information behavior and for information literacy, giving them a fuller and more effective coverage of privacy issues in the infosphere. For information behavior, the Information Seeking and Communication Model, and the Information Grounds conception, are most appropriate for this purpose. For information literacy, the metaliteracy model, using a modification a privacy literacy framework, is most suitable

Knowledge Cartography for Open Sensemaking Communities

Knowledge Cartography is the discipline of visually mapping the conceptual structure of ideas, such as the connections between issues, concepts, answers, arguments and evidence. The cognitive process of externalising one's understanding clarifies one's own grasp of the situation, as well as communicating it to others as a network that invites their contributions. This sensemaking activity lies at the heart of the Open Educational Resources movement's objectives. The aim of this paper is to describe the usage patterns of Compendium, a knowledge mapping tool from the OpenLearn OER project, using quantitative data from interaction logs and qualitative data from knowledge maps, forums and blog postings. This work explains nine roles played by maps in OpenLearn, and discusses some of the benefits and adoption obstacles, which motivate our ongoing work

Leveraging Health Behavior and Communication Theories to Support Adolescent and Young Adults: Conceptualizing Social Media Wellness in Relation to Disordered Eating

Social media platforms like Instagram serve as an important mechanism for transmitting social information and influence. However, the nature and use of these platforms are known to perpetuate eating disorders (EDs) or further disorder eating symptoms. This concept paper proposes merging health behavior and communication theory to create a comprehensive and applicable framework for remediating pro-eating disorder social media content among people who have eating disorders. To this end, the Social Media Wellness Model, which is adapted from the Health Belief Model, the Uses and Gratifications approach, the MAIN model of media affordances, and media literacy training, is proposed. This paper shows how theoretical model components can be mapped back to behaviors typified by individuals with EDs, or those predisposed to developing EDs. Subsequently, we propose a training intervention to highlight salient literacy cues, and outline next steps for testing and developing this model with the ongoing support of a community advisory board (CAB). Creating a CAB with individuals who have lived experience of an ED or disordered eating, and who use social media, will be vital to testing the applicability of this conceptual Social Media Wellness Model for ED recovery

Contemporary developments in teaching and learning introductory programming: Towards a research proposal

The teaching and learning of introductory programming in tertiary institutions is problematic. Failure rates are high and the inability of students to complete small programming tasks at the completion of introductory units is not unusual. The literature on teaching programming contains many examples of changes in teaching strategies and curricula that have been implemented in an effort to reduce failure rates. This paper analyses contemporary research into the area, and summarises developments in the teaching of introductory programming. It also focuses on areas for future research which will potentially lead to improvements in both the teaching and learning of introductory programming. A graphical representation of the issues from the literature that are covered in the document is provided in the introduction

Closing the Gap: A Practical Guide to Science in the Writing Center

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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ON DETERMINANTS OF PROFITABILITY OF DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN BANKS IN INDONESIA (EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON COMMERCIAL BANKS USING MONTHLY REPORT OF BANKS FINANCIAL STATEMENTS PERIOD OF 2014.1-2015.12)

Profitability has an important role for bank sustainability, profitability is one of the most important pillars for bank in running their activities. Bank in generating profit, there are some things that must be considered, for instance is determinant factors that will affect the growth of profitability. By knowing the determinant factors of profitability, banks will be more prudent in doing strategies for generating greater profit and to face the unpredictable circumstances. The purposes of this research are to analyse the influence of Total Assets, Equity, Loan Loss Provisions, Off-Balance Sheet Activities, Overhead Costs, and Lagged Profitability to Profitability (ROA and NIM) of Domestic and Foreign Banks that operating in Indonesia period of 2014 – 2015, and also this research will present the comparative analysis of both bank groups (domestic and foreign). The population of this study were 66 Domestic Banks and 39 Foreign Banks (commercial banks) operating in Indonesia. This research also used monthly report of banks financial statements over the period of 2014(1)-2015(12). In the fact, data of monthly reports will provide more complete and accurate information to give a better result. This study used the cross-section method in taking the population. The results of this research had found various results, proving that the determinant factors used in this research had an influence on Foreign and Domestic Banks profitability. But there were some results that were not in accordance with the hypotheses that had been made. From this research also obtained, that there was a difference between influence of determinants factors to Domestic Banks profitability with influence of determinant factors to Foreign Banks profitability

Functional language & literacy in practice: a higher education music context

Currently most Higher Education (HE) and Vocational Education and Training (VET) courses do not specifically address functional literacy skills. A student could potentially pass the course, yet still be functionally illiterate. This paper is an attempt to consider what language and literacy issues might mean in practice in the context of Australian music higher education through investigating the role of reflective practice in music performance. A graduating music performance class at the Australian Institute of Music is employed as a case study to unpack the role of functional literacy in this context. Here, aligning cognitive processes with course development may avail opportunities for literacy skills to develop, but it still remains a question as to where such opportunities could exist within the broader education field. Regardless, the aim is to support content understanding by focusing on the nature and practices of academic reading and writing in all education environments