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12th of October 2024, Presentation “(Ir)Responsible Uses of Digital Technologies in Business Education Interruptions orEngagement?” at international conference ITAIS 2024
Within the Collaboration and Educational Technology Hub project, the responsible use of technology in education will be one of the key issues. Indeed, today the question has arisen regarding the extent to which digital technologies should remain a key part of education, since it has become obvious that digital technologies, along with benefits, pose new risks. Given the high relevance of this issue, it is impossible to overlook this aspect of integrating technologies into education. Results have revealed that digital technology in business education settings has dual effect. On one hand, digital technology enhances engagement; on the other hand, it increases the level of distraction. The engagement has then a positive effect on task performance, while the link from distraction to task performance is positive and not statistically significant. This article was presented at the conference (ITAS 2024) and further submitted to the European Management Journal to inform the scientific community and practitioners in the field of educational management about the results of our research. On the basis of this project, it is also planned to realize one of the objectives of the project - to implement a dissemination strategy.
19th of December, 2024 Webinar How Digital Technologies Can Facilitatethe Collaboration Between Students? Pros and Cons
The past decade has seen rapid advances in the role played by digital technology in business education. Digital technologies have deeply influenced the educational landscape, shaped student-educator communication models, learning outcomes, design of educational systems. Ever-evolving digital technologies have unfolded new horizons and at the same time create certain risks.
One topic with both advantages and challenges is the influence of digital technologies on student collaboration. On one hand, digital tools offer significant benefits: they make communication among students more accessible and convenient, create a whole set of tools for collaborative work, accelerate the exchange of information, in general contribute to greater involvement of students in the educational process.
While digital technologies offer a wealth of benefits, they also bring challenges. These technologies can lead to disruptive interruptions and may even contribute to a sense of isolation.
Thus, given the ambiguity of the relationship between digitalization and collaboration, we invite the audience to discuss how digital technologies can facilitate the collaboration between students.
Forthcoming, 2025 Team Process Innovation in The New Work Landscape: The Role of Feedback Climate and Empowerment in Dispersed Settings
Magni, M. Caporarello, L. Paolino E.
The widespread diffusion of information and communication technologies, along with post-pandemic work arrangements, has led organizations to increasingly utilize dispersed teams to integrate knowledge across various locations. Despite the potential benefits, dispersed teams often fail to continuously innovate their processes due to hampered learning through feedback processes. Our study explores how team dispersion affects the development of team feedback climate for fostering continuous learning and, in turn, team’s process innovation. Using survey data from 594 team members and leaders, as well as objective data across 123 teams, the study highlights that the lack of co-location hinders effective feedback climate, which is essential for fostering teams’ ability to continuously learn and innovate. Additionally, it examines how team empowerment can mitigate the negative effects of dispersion by providing greater control to team members. Our findings underscore the importance of feedback climate and suggest that empowerment can alleviate the negative effects of dispersion, offering valuable insights for managers and organizations to reap the advantages of new distributed work models and alleviate the liabilities.