Books by Constantine Andoniou
Papers by Constantine Andoniou
Technology Integration and Digital Transformation in Post-COVID-19 Hybrid Education
Technical and vocational education and training, 2024
The paper adopts a Lefebvrian view of spatiality and proposes a novel spatial perspective in thin... more The paper adopts a Lefebvrian view of spatiality and proposes a novel spatial perspective in thinking about how the application of information communication technologies affects the flow of information and implicates the construction of knowledge in digital and electronic communication based learning environments. Infogramic Analysis is proposed as an analytical model of theoretical approximations, which aims to advance our understanding of how learning occurs in digital communication and of how information communication technologies in digital and electronic communication based learning environments organize our representations and realities of the world within and around us, and consequently necessitate and direct decisions of social action.
The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Jan 31, 2022
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-No... more This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The paper calls for a fresh new perspective in thinking about the application of ICTs in postmode... more The paper calls for a fresh new perspective in thinking about the application of ICTs in postmodern learning environments. Adopting a Lefebvrian view of theoretical approximations, it sets the challenge to reconsider the value of available information and knowledge in the context of global electronic communication. It aims to establish a spatial theoretical understanding of the digital reorganization of information and knowledge by ICT systems. It is argued that the reconsideration of our daily digital environments and informational landscapes must proceed from an in-depth analysis and a 'framing' of the organization of information systems.
Technoliterati: Digital Explorations of Diverse Micro-Learning Experiences Vol.7
The Fear Endemic Of Covid-19: Myths, Conspiracy Theories And Cybercrime In The Coronavirus Multiverse
Faculty Academic Performance Assessment (FAPA) Model
The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational and Social Sciences, 2021
Academic Performance Assessment is a key institutional process in evaluating academic faculty to ... more Academic Performance Assessment is a key institutional process in evaluating academic faculty to ensure quality and maximum output in all key areas of their assigned responsibility. The current paper provides an overview of the Academic Performance standards for higher education faculty in the United Arab Emirates. These standards are set by various educational authorities in the UAE, such as the Commission for Academic Accreditation (Ministry of Education), the National Qualifications Authority, and the private and public higher education institutions of the country. Three key areas of performance are included, namely, Teaching Effectiveness, Scholarly Activities, and Academic and Community Service. The current paper proposes an assessment model addressing these areas and includes: assessment criteria and indicators, rubrics. timeline and procedure guidelines, post-assessment action plan, assessment forms (lesson observation, Academic Dean assessment, faculty action plan assessment...
European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2022
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-No... more This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2022
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-No... more This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The paper adopts a Lefebvrian view of spatiality and proposes a novel spatial perspective in thin... more The paper adopts a Lefebvrian view of spatiality and proposes a novel spatial perspective in thinking about how the application of information communication technologies affects the flow of information and implicates the construction of knowledge in digital and electronic communication based learning environments. Infogramic Analysis is proposed as an analytical model of theoretical approximations, which aims to advance our understanding of how learning occurs in digital communication and of how information communication technologies in digital and electronic communication based learning environments organize our representations and realities of the world within and around us, and consequently necessitate and direct decisions of social action.
Journal of Work-Applied Management, 2019
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the importance of colour on the communication of ... more Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the importance of colour on the communication of financial data in management and to encourage future discussion on related topic. Design/methodology/approach Hypothesis was designed building on relevant literatures. Quantitative discrete data were collected through a mini-test activity in a lecture from students. The results were reviewed and evaluated by relevant statistical tool. Findings The authors found consistent statistical significance results in the mini-test. The findings support that users prefer to choose the financial data presented in cool colours in business management context. Research limitations/implications Gaining the understanding of colour’s influence on decision making and behaviour is subjected to complexity. There are many other contextual factors should be taken into consideration in practice. Although the design of the mini-test in this study is relatively simple, it still provides clues for the issue. With ...
The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Jan 31, 2022
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-No... more This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
FRACTAL FETISHES Essays on the Organization of the System of Information
Fractal Fetishes is a philosophical investigation of the nature and organization of the global sy... more Fractal Fetishes is a philosophical investigation of the nature and organization of the global system of information, which comprises our knowledge and experience of the social and which defines our individual and collective existence. This thesis contends that digital technologies have brought about the genesis of a world, where everything is, and it is not or it can be at the same time. In this world the way in which the global system of information is organized, distributed and consequently, individually or collectively incorporated, leads to unchallenged conceptual misrecognitions and logically unjustified receptions of anything as being true and real . The later add up to the body of social knowledge as critical conceptual inaccuracies and inconsistencies which make our understanding of the ways social knowledge is constructed and our actual understanding and evaluation of this knowledge, problematic. Information processing uncontrollably creates conceptual confusions and disillusions, adding to the recycling procedure of already inadequate and problematic scientific justifications and mistakenly-thought-as-obsolete conclusions. The thesis calls for fresh new thinking, accepting that there can only be variations on given issues, that there can be only theoretical approximations to the true or the real; truth and reality, and meaning themselves have become ambiguous and, in a sense, of unimportant priority. The priority is rather to set individual standards in a redefinition of the content of the available bodies of knowledge within a global context. The challenge we have to accept is to reconsider our ways of processing information, and hopefully reach an adequate degree of understanding of, how ourselves and the world around us, are constructed within our daily digital environments and informational landscapes. At the core of the analysis in this thesis is the concept of information. The thesis examines various aspects of the system of information, leading to a series of theoretical approximations regarding the structure and organization of information systems, and information processing by machines and human agents. It aims to identify patterns of power, domination and struggle within digital information channels of human/machine communication and interaction, in order to advance our understanding of the ways in which digital information processing organizes our representations and realities of the world around us, and consequently necessitates and directs decisions of social action. This thesis proposes an analytical model of the structure and organization of information, termed as Infogramic Analysis. It is suggested that, the system of information spans along multiple coexisting space-time coordinates: an Era of Romanticism (actuality), an Epoch of Ersatz (imitation), and an Age of Chimera (fantasy). Within these coordinates, the processes of Virtual Implosion and Fractal Dynamics are proposed, referring to the dynamic change of the global system of information along distinctive phase spaces towards a fractal state of meaning and value. Virtual Implosion produces irregular, contradictory and chaotic distortions of authentic informational patterns, in three trajectories of fractal mutation: Syghysis (deconstruction), Molynsis (differentiation), and Photococciasis (reconstruction). Fractal Dynamics refer to a series of five powerful structural micro-processes which power up and interlink the trajectories of virtual implosion: Catastrophe: (destruction), Orgasm (excitement), Metamorphosis (transformation), Epigenesis (rebirth), and Anomia (lawlessness). In this context, the concept of information is analyzed through what is termed here its Infotype; the infotype refers to the relation of a set of information to meaning and on the type of representational code of the specific set of information. It is suggested that the infotype of each set of information can be mapped with distinct characteristics, what is here defined as an Infogram. Infograms (composed of smaller units termed as datagrams) are packets (groups) of informational patterns of accumulated communicated information and existing cloned libraries of acquired knowledge and experience. Infograms can be distinguished according to the core theme to which the set of information is referring to, in: Authentic, Simulated, and Fractal. Infograms develop unpredictable communicational exchanges due to dynamically present or potentially existent informational associations and interactions. Informational interactions, are here defined as Endogenesis, referring to three levels of innate structural condition: Organization, Lethargy, and Disorganization. Information associations, are defined as Exogenesis, referring to three levels of external interactions: Simplicity, Apathy, and Complexity. Within the proposed framework of infogramic analysis, it is argued that bodies or segments of social knowledge may as well implode towards states of genuine fractal…
Infogramic Analysis: Theoretical Approximations Towards an Analytical Model of Learning in Ict Educational Settings
Abstract Based on a Lefebvrian view of spatiality, the paper endeavors to offer a spatial underst... more Abstract Based on a Lefebvrian view of spatiality, the paper endeavors to offer a spatial understanding of how information and knowledge are digitally reconstructed by ICT systems. It proposes an analytical model of theoretical approximations of learning in ICT learning environments ...
The Digital Reconstruction of Hyper-Reality in Postmodern Ict Learning Environments
Teaching Documents by Constantine Andoniou
Change is happening in any organization at any time. Change initiatives aim to improve performanc... more Change is happening in any organization at any time. Change initiatives aim to improve performance, increase profits, and enhance competitive advantage, to implement technology for more flexible and mobile employees, to ensure quality and regulatory compliance, to transform customer experience. A common factor of any organization’s successful change management initiative are people. Organization change management practices have an impact on how individual people do their work: their processes, job roles, workflows, reporting structures, behaviors and even their identity within the organization.
Change management is a transformational approach to guide adoption and practice so that expected results and outcomes are delivered. Change management is needed to improve performance, close the gap between required and actual performance and results, increase success of objectives, avoid and reduce excessive risk and cost, decrease and eliminate chance, and proactively engaging and supporting the organization’s workforce.
To provide a better understanding of change management and some of the issues involved, the EIBFS RSD has prepared a Reader in Organizational Change Management, with a collection of articles focusing on the concept of change, on dealing with the various aspects of change management, on the role of leadership in environments of change, and on the transition process to change.
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Change management is a transformational approach to guide adoption and practice so that expected results and outcomes are delivered. Change management is needed to improve performance, close the gap between required and actual performance and results, increase success of objectives, avoid and reduce excessive risk and cost, decrease and eliminate chance, and proactively engaging and supporting the organization’s workforce.
To provide a better understanding of change management and some of the issues involved, the EIBFS RSD has prepared a Reader in Organizational Change Management, with a collection of articles focusing on the concept of change, on dealing with the various aspects of change management, on the role of leadership in environments of change, and on the transition process to change.
Change management is a transformational approach to guide adoption and practice so that expected results and outcomes are delivered. Change management is needed to improve performance, close the gap between required and actual performance and results, increase success of objectives, avoid and reduce excessive risk and cost, decrease and eliminate chance, and proactively engaging and supporting the organization’s workforce.
To provide a better understanding of change management and some of the issues involved, the EIBFS RSD has prepared a Reader in Organizational Change Management, with a collection of articles focusing on the concept of change, on dealing with the various aspects of change management, on the role of leadership in environments of change, and on the transition process to change.