Social Sciences

Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2016

  • Big Data, Online Reputation and Knowledge Management in Higher Education Online

    Consuelo León Llorente, Marta Matias Roca

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6-1, December 2016
    Pages: 1-6
    Received: Jul. 11, 2016
    Accepted: Jul. 27, 2016
    Published: Sep. 03, 2016
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2016050601.11
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Re-Imagine Education for Social Improvement
    Abstract: Summary: The progressive digitalization of our society has also transformed the online training. The new platforms offer more features, favour a tailored education and are compatible with the working life of the student. From the servers it is possible to measure the rate of interaction and the student’s dropout rates. For this reason, the phenomen... Show More
  • Improving Students’ Competencies through Perception of Mentoring in an Online Master of Teaching Training

    Ana Rodríguez Martín, Vicente Gabarda Méndez

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6-1, December 2016
    Pages: 7-13
    Received: Mar. 30, 2016
    Accepted: Jun. 08, 2016
    Published: Sep. 03, 2016
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2016050601.12
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Re-Imagine Education for Social Improvement
    Abstract: This work aimed to learn online higher education students’ perception of mentoring and to know how it should be planned in virtual environments to favor student learning. With these new environments, the mentoring process needs to be reconceptualized which can, in turn, be adapted to the online teaching format, attending to its specific use to enha... Show More
  • Comparing Leadership: Business, Politics and Education

    Mireia Tintoré, Casilda Güell

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6-1, December 2016
    Pages: 14-28
    Received: Jul. 29, 2016
    Accepted: Aug. 16, 2016
    Published: Sep. 03, 2016
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2016050601.13
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Re-Imagine Education for Social Improvement
    Abstract: Research on leadership has extended throughout social sciences in recent years and is becoming more and more relevant. In this regard, the online higher education institutions are not an exception. This paper aims to do an analysis of the evolution of the studies on leadership by reviewing the articles on this topic since 1950s, and to propose a mu... Show More
  • Academics’ Professional Identity: A Contingency Perspective

    Cristina Sancha, Alba Barbarà-i-Molinero

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6-1, December 2016
    Pages: 29-34
    Received: Sep. 08, 2016
    Accepted: Oct. 15, 2016
    Published: Nov. 07, 2016
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2016050601.14
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Re-Imagine Education for Social Improvement
    Abstract: The aim of this paper is to adopt a contingency approach and study important factors for academics’ Professional Identity. Based on a sample of 112 academics we run a descriptive analysis to understand if variables such as gender, age, nationality and teaching mode do have an influence on academics’ Professional Identity. Our results show that teac... Show More
  • Expanded School: Cultural Convergence and Teacher’s Online Education

    Claudia Coelho Hardagh, Ana Lucia de Souza Lopes

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6-1, December 2016
    Pages: 35-41
    Received: Oct. 29, 2016
    Accepted: Nov. 05, 2016
    Published: Jan. 06, 2017
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2016050601.15
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Re-Imagine Education for Social Improvement
    Abstract: The presented work invites the reader to engage with the proposed Expanded School, deterritorialized from time and space of higher education institutions. The experience of the teacher training in the course “Methodology to quality in online learning” with the participation of five universities (one in North America, two in Latin America, and two i... Show More
  • Indexed Literature Review: Intercultural Approach to the Online Teaching and Learning

    Eulalia Torras, Andreu Bellot

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6-1, December 2016
    Pages: 42-49
    Received: Jan. 07, 2017
    Accepted: Jan. 09, 2017
    Published: Feb. 14, 2017
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2016050601.16
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Re-Imagine Education for Social Improvement
    Abstract: Attention to cultural diversity is a necessity at online higher education in management (2004) postulated a framework for conceptualizing dimensions of intercultural competence in its development model of intercultural sensitivity. Complementary, Intercultural Learning Model (Beamer, 2016) emphasizes the importance that students are able to encode ... Show More
  • The Group Reduction Technique to Achieve Consensus Among Collectives in Health Care Training

    Jorge Irigaray, Guillem Bou, Casilda Güell, Francisco Benjamín Cobo

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6-1, December 2016
    Pages: 50-58
    Received: Jan. 30, 2017
    Accepted: Feb. 09, 2017
    Published: Feb. 28, 2017
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2016050601.17
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Re-Imagine Education for Social Improvement
    Abstract: In training processes within professional practice, professional discourse can benefit from the study of language and its complexity, incorporating both its representational and presentational aspects. Integrating a professional’s thoughts and actions is key in the research of professionalizing knowledge, in which the use of narrative exceeds the d... Show More