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What is Liquid Education

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Evaluating Mental Workload for Improved Workplace Performance
It is a ‘liquid modernity' conceptual variant of the sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman, applied by him to the education field. So, Bauman makes reference to how human consciousness regarding the dominant instability in today's society, forces to develop an immediacy culture, where education should adapted be fast enough to integrate into a world that changes in continuous time.
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Evaluating Technostress to Improve Teaching Performance: Chilean Higher Education Case
Alejandro Vega-Muñoz (Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Chile) and Carla Estrada-Muñoz (Universidad de Concepción, Chile)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1052-0.ch008
Abstract
The main objective is to evaluate the techno stress perception in the Chilean higher education system professors, a system with a strong market orientation regarding the career's free choice and professional orientation, which is mainly offered in face-to-face mode. In the techno-stress levels identification, it is important to distinguish if these are such that they can affect the teaching performance. For this, techno-tensors and factors are used that determine the technology impact levels in academic stress, in the components: skepticism, fatigue, anxiety and inefficacy. A quantitative approach methodology and non-random design is used, with a snowball sampling obtaining the 190 academics' opinions from Chilean universities. Detecting in general low techno-stress levels with the fatigue slightly higher in comparison to the other three components.
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