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Education in a Changing Climate: A Systematic Review for Low and Middle‐Income Countries (LMICs)

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is a major global challenge that affects many aspects of human life and hinders progress on the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One area that has not received enough attention is its impact on children's education in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs), which are especially vulnerable to ...
Afshan Ameer, Rami Ghannam
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Hackathons as Stepping Stones in Health Care Innovation: Case Study With Systematic Recommendations

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2020
BackgroundUntil recently, developing health technologies was time-consuming and expensive, and often involved patients, doctors, and other health care professionals only as passive recipients of the end product. So far, users have been minimally involved
Poncette, Akira-Sebastian, Rojas, Pablo-David, Hofferbert, Joscha, Valera Sosa, Alvaro, Balzer, Felix, Braune, Katarina   +5 more
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(In)justice in Smart Cities: Barriers and an Integrative Framework for Solution Pathways From a Global Perspective

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smart city initiatives aim for sustainability and inclusiveness, but recent evidence shows that they often lead to injustices. Although this contradiction has received growing academic attention, a comprehensive understanding of how justice is addressed within smart city practices remains limited.
Md. Nazmul Haque, Emilio Costales, Dominik Beckers, Ayyoob Sharifi, Samar Aad, Luca Mora   +5 more
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Implementing Educational Innovation in LMSs: Hackathons, Microcredentials, and Blended Learning

Applied System Innovation
In the evolving landscape of digital education, there is an increasing need to enhance traditional Learning Management Systems (LMSs) by integrating innovative pedagogical practices that promote active participation and learner autonomy.
Antonios Stamatakis, Ilias Logothetis, Vasiliki Eirini Chatzea, Alexandros Papadakis, Nikolas Vidakis   +4 more
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Self Harmony: Rethinking Hackathons to Design and Critique Digital Technologies for Those Affected by Self-Harm [PDF]

, 2017
In this paper we explore the opportunities, challenges and best practices around designing technologies for those affected by self-harm. Our work contributes to a growing HCI literature on mental health and wellbeing, as well as understandings of how to ...
Birbeck, Nataly, Lawson, Shaun, Morrissey, Kellie, Olivier, Patrick, Rapley, Tim   +4 more
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Systemic Management Education as an Adaptive Venture: 60‐Year Evolution of the St. Gallen Management Model

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Which methodological position is best for orientating higher education? This question is crucial for the design of pedagogical programmes. The issue is not always raised; hence, many offers in higher education are unsatisfactory: ill‐defined, concept‐less, inefficient.
Markus Schwaninger
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The Motivation to Participate in Citizen-Sourcing and Hackathons in the Public Sector [PDF]

BAR: Brazilian Administration Review, 2018
Key challenges of how citizens can be motivated to participate in citizen-sourcing initiatives remain unaddressed. In this paper, we identified the influence of eight motivation variables in the number of participations in Hackathons, a citizen-sourcing ...
Gabriel de Deus Ferreira, Josivania Silva Farias   +1 more
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Building Collaboration Theory Across Education Science and Systems Engineering—The FINDUS Process for Collaboration

Systems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Systems Engineering (SE) relies on industry–academia collaboration for much of its research. Such collaborations are frequently described valuable in practice. At the same time, there is a need to align between partners to maximize the value of collaboration through acknowledging and working with nuances between parties to share and develop ...
Johan Cederbladh, Simon Sjölund
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Civic Hackathons: New Terrain for Local Government-Citizen Interaction?

Urban Planning, 2016
As more and more governments share open data, tech developers respond by creating apps using these data to generate content or provide services that citizens may find useful. More recently, there is an increase in popularity of the civic hackathon. These
Pamela J. Robinson, Peter A. Johnson
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Hackathons as Instruments for Settlement Sector Innovation

The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion, 2020
In Canada, the non-profit organizations (NPO) and settlement sectors are increasingly re-examining their responsibility for service delivery and service design. With a growing interest in understanding how to include design principles and an “innovation”
Eliana Trinaistic
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