Access, learning and development in the creative and cultural sector: from 'creative apprenticeship' to 'being apprenticed'

This paper challenges the prevailing conventional wisdom in the UK that the government is the sole architect of the education and training (E&T) system and that qualifications are the magic bullet for securing employment in the creative and cultural sector. It also argues that if policy-makers are serious about wanting to diversify the occupational profile of the creative and cultural sector to reflect both the multicultural composition of the UK's population and the rising demand for broader creative and cultural products and services, then it is necessary to develop a less qualification-driven and more multifaceted approach to facilitating access and supporting learning and development in that sector. The paper maintains that this presupposes a shift from the current credentialist strategy to develop 'creative apprenticeships' towards a strategy that supports people to 'be apprenticed' in a variety of ways in the creative and cultural sector. © 2006 Taylor & Francis

Enclosing the Global Plant Genetic Commons

Looks at policies related to the development, use, and control of plant genetic resources, with a focus on property rights in relation to changing technology and its impact on food security in developing countries

Futures in the making: Practices to anticipate 'ubiquitous computing'

Kinsley, S. 2012, The definitive, peer-reviewed and edited version of this article is published in Environment and Planning A, 2012, Vol. 44, Issue 7, pp. 1554 – 1569 doi:10.1068/a45168. This a post-print, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Environment and Planning A. Copyright © 2012 PionThis paper addresses the discourse for a proactive thinking of futurity, intimately concerned with technology, which comes to an influential fruition in the discussion and representation of ‘ubiquitous computing’. The imagination, proposal, or playing out of ubiquitous computing environments are bound up with particular ways of constructing futurity. This paper charts the techniques used in ubiquitous computing development to negotiate that futurity. In so doing, it engages with recent geographical debates around anticipation and futurity. The discussion accordingly proceeds in four parts. First, the spatial imagination engendered by the development of ubiquitous computing is explored. Second, particular techniques in ubiquitous computing research and development for anticipating future technology use, and their limits, are discussed through empirical findings. Third, anticipatory knowledge is explored as the basis for stable means of future orientation, which both generates and derives from the techniques for anticipating futures. Fourth, the importance of studying future orientation is situated in relation to the somewhat contradictory nature of anticipatory knowledges of ubicomp and related forms of spatial imagination

Futures in the making: Practices to anticipate 'ubiquitous computing'

This paper addresses the discourse for a proactive thinking of futurity, intimately concerned with technology, which comes to an influential fruition in the discussion and representation of 'ubiquitous computing'. The imagination, proposal, or playing out of ubiquitous computing environments are bound up with particular ways of constructing futurity. This paper charts the techniques used in ubiquitous computing development to negotiate that futurity. In so doing, it engages with recent geographical debates around anticipation and futurity. The discussion accordingly proceeds in four parts. First, the spatial imagination engendered by the development of ubiquitous computing is explored. Second, particular techniques in ubiquitous computing research and development for anticipating future technology use, and their limits, are discussed through empirical findings. Third, anticipatory knowledge is explored as the basis for stable means of future orientation, which both generates and derives from the techniques for anticipating futures. Fourth, the importance of studying future orientation is situated in relation to the somewhat contradictory nature of anticipatory knowledges of ubicomp and related forms of spatial imagination. © 2012 Pion and its Licensors

Delphi Like as a Predictive Methodological Base Research of Information Systems and Information Technology (IS/IT)

La afirmación de los Sistemas de Información como campo científico independiente de otras áreas se viene sustentando en la gran cantidad de trabajos académicos y de investigación que sobre este tema se vienen realizando. Este corpus doctrinal adolece no obstante de un mayor bagaje metodológico y de estudios sobre la aplicación de determinadas metodologías a la investigación en Sistemas de Información. Bajo estas premisas hemos realizado un análisis de la doctrina existente sobre la investigación metodológica en sistemas de Información, centrándonos en una de las metodologías que venimos utilizando de forma más habitual en nuestros trabajos de investigación, el método delphi, al que consideramos como una de las técnicas de obtención de información más útiles y eficaces en nuestro campo científico. A pesar de su importancia, el método delfhi aún ha sido poco estudiado en nuestro país desde la perspectiva epistemológica en el ámbito de los Sistemas de Información, por lo que consideramos necesario la realización de un análisis de esta metodología y de las investigaciones que se han realizado sobre su aplicación para poder comprender mejor los aspectos que debemos potenciar de la misma y conocer cuando es adecuada su utilización.The statement of the Information Systems as a independent scientific field of other areas one comes sustaining in the great quantity of academic works and of investigation that it has more than enough this topic one comes carrying out. This doctrinal corpus suffers nevertheless of a bigger methodological baggage and of studies on the application of certain methodologies to the investigation in Information Systems. Under these premises we have carried out an analysis of the existent doctrine on the methodological investigation in Information Systems, centering us in one of the methodologies that come using in a more habitual way in our investigation works, the method delphi, to which we consider like one of the most useful and ef ective techniques of obtaining of information in our scientific field. In spite of their importance, the method delfhi has still been little studied in our country from the perspective epistemológica in the environment of the Information Systems, for what we consider necessary the realization of an analysis of this methodology and of the investigations that have been carried out on its application to be able to understand the aspects that we should develop of the same one better and to know when its use is adapted

Aircraft Maintenance Organizational Structure Changes an Antecedent Model

Air Force leadership has ordered the development of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system called the Expeditionary Combat Support System (ECSS). Many current jobs and positions will be streamlined, restructured or removed, while some will certainly be created to handle the new requirements associated with ECSS. The structure of the Air Force is certain to change with the implementation of ECSS. The Air Force has used many maintenance organizational structures since its inception in 1947. The focus of this research is to analyze past organizational structures to define key factors that affect organizational change. A case study style methodology was applied to eight periods of maintenance-related organizational change. Strategic initiatives, information and maintenance-related technology advances, change and project management practices were evaluated for relational affect. The researcher found that the strongest relational variables leading to organizational structure change were force-size change, budget change and major conflict occurrence or cessation

The social life of Learning Analytics: cluster analysis and the ‘performance’ of algorithmic education

This paper argues that methods used for the classification and measurement of online education are not neutral and objective, but involved in the creation of the educational realities they claim to measure. In particular, the paper draws on material semiotics to examine cluster analysis as a ‘performative device’ that, to a significant extent, creates the educational entities it claims to objectively represent through the emerging body of knowledge of Learning Analytics (LA). It also offers a more critical and political reading of the algorithmic assemblages of LA, of which cluster analysis is a part. Our argument is that if we want to understand how algorithmic processes and techniques like cluster analysis function as performative devices, then we need methodological sensibilities that consider critically both their political dimensions and their technical-mathematical mechanisms. The implications for critical research in educational technology are discussed

Gettysburg: Our College\u27s Magazine Spring 2016

From the President Janet Morgan Riggs \u2777 Table of Contents Scholarships Ensure Students a Broader, Global View (Craig Disher ’66) Jack Ryan: Vice Provost and Dean of Arts & Humanities Professor Jack Ryan From Father to Son to Sunderman (Frank Arbogast ’16) The 411: Suzanne Hermann Williams ’62 (Suzanne Hermann Williams ’62) Paying it Forward (Jack Duffy ’79) Making it Work: Public Archaeology (Paige Phillips ’12) The Writer\u27s Prompt was a Class Reunion Gettysburgreat: The Campaign for Our College Funds Sought for Music Tours (Joe ’75 and Susan Biernat ’77) Move-In Day is Memorable Shawna Sherrell Conversations Olympic-Sized Dreams (Andre Hinds ’16) The Mysteries of Golemo Gradište at Konjuh (Prof. Carolyn Snively, Katherine Haas ’10) The End of Fire Blight (Prof. Nikki Shariat, Jacob Marogi ’19, Dorothy Vosik ’19) Carina Sitkus The Bitters Biz (Ethan Hall ’11, Eric Kozlik ’11, Russell Garing ’11, Carolyn Margaret Murphy ’12) Carina Sitkus What Students Do: Engaging the Campus in Matters of Race (Ashley Fernandez ’16, Janet Morgan Riggs ’77, Troy Datcher ’90, Jeanne Arnold) What Makes Gettysburg Great: Broadcasting Public History (Jill Ogline Titus, Ian Isherwood ’00, Noah Wolfinger \u2719) Work that Makes a Difference: Inspiring Great Teaching (Anthony Angelini ’06) Save the Dates Class Notes Personal Lessons (Ian Isherwood \u2700) Plan Today to Impact Students Tomorrow (Betsy Haave Dougherty ’68)https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/gburgmag/1007/thumbnail.jp

The Micro- and Macro-levels of Co-creation: How Transformations Change People's Preferences

Radical technologies can lead to extreme transformations of their users and even societies. Innovation researchers, archeologists, economic- and technological historians, and other scholars have studied past radical innovations to rationalize how these innovations emerged. This knowledge is indispensible for business and governmental decision makers. However, most research studies lack the human dimensions, such as "what did these innovative people think?" and "what were their personal motivations?". In many instances, we don't even know who the inventors were. In this article, we argue that a better understanding of personal transformations may lead to an increase of co-creation effectiveness and efficiency. First, this article will explore the nature of the personal transformations taking place among ordinary people as consumers and users of cultural institutions. Such institutions have been created to enable people to learn and grow individually and to create a sense of community and cohesion. Second, we discuss the co-creation aspects of personal transformation processes. This will be seen in two contexts: that of the individual who is transformed, and in terms of the different value contributions to a community of users

Women In The Web of Secondary Copyright Liability and Internet Filtering

This Essay suggests possible explanations for why there is not very much legal scholarship devoted to gender issues on the Internet; and it asserts that there is a powerful need for Internet legal theorists and activists to pay substantially more attention to the gender-based differences in communicative style and substance that have been imported from real space to cyberspace. Information portals, such as libraries and web logs, are gendered in ways that may not be facially apparent. Women are creating and experiencing social solidarity online in ways that male scholars and commentators do not seem to either recognize or deem important. Internet specific content restrictions for the purposes of protecting copyrights and protecting children jeopardize online freedoms for women in diverse ways, and sometimes for different reasons than they do for men. Disparities in the ways women and men use, experience and communicate over the Internet need to be recognized, studied, and accommodated by those who would theorize cyberspace law and advocate directions for its evolution