Social Sciences

Special Issue

Re-Imagine Education for Social Improvement

  • Submission Deadline: 30 March 2017
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Eulalia Torras
About This Special Issue
The teaching and learning processes mediated by information and communication technologies have the potential to contribute to the social justice. Information and communication technologies can make available high-level educational programs that help to build the necessary skills and knowledge. The e-learning can take on these challenges by helping to meet the many situations that lie ahead. Education is an indispensable asset in its attempt to attain the ideals of peace, freedom and social justice. E-learning has a fundamental role to play in personal and social development. Education can reduces poverty, exclusion, ignorance, oppression and war.

Aims and Scope:

1. Online teaching and learning in business and management.
2. Blended learning and social reinforce.
3. Higher education and professional improve.
4. Competences evaluation and e-learning.
5. Collaborative learning.
6. Life long learning.
7. Innovation and elementary education.
8. Innovation and secondary education.
9. Self-organized Learning Environments.
Lead Guest Editor
  • Eulalia Torras

    Departament of Management, OBS Business School, Barcelona, Spain

Guest Editors
  • Andreu Bellot

    Department of Innovation, Online Business School, Barcelona, Spain

Published Articles
  • 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: 30 January 2017
    Accepted: 9 February 2017
    Published: 28 February 2017
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2016050601.17
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    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
  • 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: 7 January 2017
    Accepted: 9 January 2017
    Published: 14 February 2017
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2016050601.16
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    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
  • 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: 29 October 2016
    Accepted: 5 November 2016
    Published: 6 January 2017
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2016050601.15
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    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
  • Academics’ Professional Identity: A Contingency Perspective

    Cristina Sancha , Alba Barbarà-i-Molinero

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6-1, December 2016
    Pages: 29-34
    Received: 8 September 2016
    Accepted: 15 October 2016
    Published: 7 November 2016
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2016050601.14
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    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
  • 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: 30 March 2016
    Accepted: 8 June 2016
    Published: 3 September 2016
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2016050601.12
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    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
  • 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: 11 July 2016
    Accepted: 27 July 2016
    Published: 3 September 2016
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2016050601.11
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    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
  • Comparing Leadership: Business, Politics and Education

    Mireia Tintoré , Casilda Güell

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6-1, December 2016
    Pages: 14-28
    Received: 29 July 2016
    Accepted: 16 August 2016
    Published: 3 September 2016
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2016050601.13
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    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