Month: August 2021

Designing an Online Simulation Board Game with Realistic Patients and Dynamic Electrocardiogram Situations for Learning First Aid Abilities
Due to the pandemic of COVID-19, many physical first aid courses have been converted to online courses. However, first aid …

Reflecting EFL Learners’ Writing Experience Through the Thematic Analysis: Genre-based Approach of L2 Writing
This mixed-methods study explored how 23 first-year university English as a foreign language (EFL) students in Japan improved their understanding …

The Practice of Teaching Java Programming Language to Undergraduate Students
The paper presents our practice of teaching java programming language to undergraduate students at Tsinghua University, China. The biggest challenge …

Insights into Students’ Online Learning Experiences During COVID-19 Pandemic: Shaping How We Do Education Moving Forward
Teaching and learning have transitioned entirely into an online mode in response to COVID-19 pandemic in Mongolia. Online education in …

Disability-Specific Measures and Roles of Disabled People’s Organizations in Supporting Persons with Disabilities and Families during COVID-19 Pandemic
This qualitative study aimed to analyze disability-specific measures and the roles of Disabled People’s Organizations (DPOs) in supporting persons with …

Education Resilience in Facing Pandemic Covid-19 (Study Case: Batam City, Indonesia)
The pandemic covid-19 in Indonesia had an impact on the education system. The Ministry of Education has produced the policy …

Public Service Announcement In Indonesia and Malaysia: A Semiotic Analysis
The purpose of this study was to analyze how public service announcements: social media and newspapers were applied in Indonesia …

Empowering Graduate Success With Career-Driven Modular Curriculum
Graduates entering an ever-more-competitive job market are often unaware of the skills and values they offer employers. The challenge is …

Facilitating Self-learning and Flipped Learning Amid the Pandemic With a New Learning Management System: Design and Development
The pandemic forces students to stay home and learn online. For those who do not want to lag behind, they …

Why Do International Students Come to South Korea for Language Learning and University: The Social Cognitive Career and Motivation Approach
Due to the rapid growth and international influences of the South Korean economic and social impacts, many international students decided …

Improving EFL Students’ Argumentative Essay Writing Self-efficacy through Knowledge Building Based Instruction
Argumentative essay writing is essential for English as Foreign Language (EFL) students but complicated and challenging to learn. Besides the …

Students’ Perceptions Toward Dyads and Triads in the English Classroom
Collaborative learning such as pair work and group work, has been widely discussed and proven to be an effective tool …

Instructional Leaders’ Reflective Inquiry Practices: Impact on Teachers’ Instructional Competence and Students’ Academic Performance in Selected Public Schools in Manila
The various tasks and high expectations add to the problems in the workplace. Instructional leaders, school principals, academic chairs, or …

Eating, Chatting, and Talking Back: Japanese Modern Schoolgirls’ Agency in the Early Twentieth Century
The eyes are important interpretive tools when analyzing modern schoolgirls of the early twentieth century. Scholars in the field of …

Supporting Mastery Learning Through a Multiple-Submission Policy for Assignments in a Purely Online Programming Class
The Learning Edge Momentum (LEM) theory suggests that once students fall behind, it gets more difficult to catch up with …

Designing and Teaching High Impact Culminating Core Curriculum Seminars Centered on Vastly Contentious Topics
This paper will engage the listener in the design and subsequent teaching of senior capstones based on global and contentious …

Designing Outside of the Classroom: Branding Design for Thai Traditional Pottery
This research aims to develop branding for pottery products in Maha Sarakham, Thailand and to generate the collaboration between the …

Teaching and Iterative Improvement: The Impact of Instructor Implementation of Courseware on Student Outcomes
Students need digital learning resources that will benefit their learning process, and educators need tools that provide meaningful data insights …

Creating Interactive Videos for Deeper Student Engagement Using PlayPosit
The current generation of college students have become the "YouTube" generation. These students gain knowledge by watching videos and interacting …

A Child’s Meaning-Making during COVID-19
Situated in a bounded socio-geographical context (i.e., Vancouver, Canada), this ethnographic individual case study provides an in-depth analysis of a …

Food and Organizations: The Relationship of Organizational Support and Attitude Towards Office Gastrodiplomacy Among Employees of a Public Organization
Office gastrodiplomacy refers to how food shapes and influences our social relations within organizations, usually in positive ways. Although already …

Breaking Boundaries of Prison Design for Architectural Design Studio
In collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Thailand Institute of Justice (TIJ), design tasks …

Semiosphere and Taiwan’s Horror Movies of the 1970s
This article follows the line of thought from Lotmanian semiosphere to analyze the communication act in the works of the …

KOL Training on Live-Streaming Platform in Taiwan
Recently, with the coming of multimedia and technology development, new-type industries come out. In addition, live-streaming industries are the crucial …

Student and Faculty Outcomes as a Result of a Community-Academic Vaccination Partnership During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic presents a novel public health crisis as well as an opportunity to participate in vaccination efforts …

Story Maps as Teaching and Learning Tools for Elementary Education Majors
It is imperative that preservice teachers learn how innovative technologies can be used to teach geographic inquiry. In a science …

Better Than Not Practicing at All: Resilience and the Okinawan Martial Arts Community Online
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 has by necessity transformed how we interact with others, drastically changing …

Does Practice Always Make Perfect? A Study of Whether Psychotherapists Treating Older Adults Become More Efficient as They Gain More Experience
The current longitudinal study investigates the effects of practice on the outcome of psychotherapy for elderly persons. It follows 4 …

Relationships between Japanese University Students’ Interest in Computer Programming, Their Logical Thinking, and IT Literacy
Increasing emphasis is being placed on strengthening personal ability for computer programming. However, students have different levels of readiness and …

Developing a Customer-focused Approach in Level 4/5 Graphic Design Students Through Project-based Learning
Studies have shown that progression from academic courses to ‘real world’ employment sectors is very challenging for graphic design students …

Pro-C of Creativity in Singapore’s Eating Culture During COVID-19 Pandemic
This paper discusses how in challenging times like the global Covid-19 Pandemic, Pro-C of Creativity (Kaufman & Beghetto, 2009) in …

Effect of Two Therapies and Gender on Reading Skills of Pupils With Learning Disabilities
Reading is a fundamental skill required for effective participation in academic tasks. This research investigated the significant main effects of …

Exploring the Cinema of Exile in Hisham Bizri’s Films
This research paper examines the themes of exile and diaspora in Hisham Bizri’s films Vertices: Beirut. Dublin. Seoul (2016), Shooq …

Resilience Among Teachers and Students with Learning Differences During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Similar Practices in Differing Contexts
When the COVID-19 pandemic started, teachers’ and students’ initial impressions were that a return to normal would occur soon and …

Detecting Political Secession of Fragmented Communities in Social Networks via Deep Link Entropy Method
Breakdown of global connectivity in social networks trough disintegration of fragmented but interacting communities leading to political secession is a …

Students’ Self-assessment on Group Presentation Performance with the Use of Rubrics
Group presentations are common and essential parts of many students' university assessments and are tied to their current and future …

Engaging Students to Chinese Language Enhancement Classes With Communication-Intensive Components
One of the University educational aims for undergraduate curricula in the University of Hong Kong is to enhance and promote …

Preparing Empathetic Teacher Candidates’: A Cultural Simulation of Japanese Internment in Hawaiʻi
In this phenomenological study, learning about empathy through the Japanese Internment in Hawaiʻi was explored by analyzing the experiences of …

Vocabulary in Japanese EFL Textbooks: A Bidirectional Coverage Analysis
Textbooks developed based on the new Course of Study Guidelines have been in use since April 2021. One notable change …

Effective Strategies to Motivate Musical Students to Practice
Practice is an important element in music studying as it contributes to the development of basic music skills and music …

Great Expectations: The Rhetoric, Responsibilities, and Realities of Elementary Teacher Resilience in the Era of COVID-19
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, educational leaders and policymakers have emphasized the need for teachers to demonstrate resilience. As the weight …

Roots and Resilience in Weil, Kołakowski, Todorov, and Finkielkraut
This paper studies selected writings of prominent European intellectuals regarding the matter of cultural roots and uprootedness. Simone Weil attributes …

Resilient Creatives: Experiences of Filmmakers During Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has in various ways affected many industries across the globe, including filmmaking. While many government organizations have …

Reflux and Rejuvenation – Exploration and Practice of Yim Tin Tsai in Hong Kong under the Background of Rural Revitalization
It is a hot topic on the rural areas that are at a disadvantage due to the rural depopulation and …

The Development of Leaders: Being, Knowing, and Doing – Leading Through Self Mastery
The study of leadership must include the question “how are leaders made?”. Researchers agree that to develop as a leader …

Awakened Schools: A Theoretical Framework for Engaging Students’ Interconnectedness
Much research has been done around the implementation and benefits of social and emotional learning. In spite of this good …

From Old Creole Days: Sampling the Afro-creole Folk Song of Louisiana of the Late Nineteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries
This lecture-recital will highlight selected arrangements of Louisiana Afro-Creole folk songs of the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries that …

Electricity Savings and Carbon Mitigation Potential of a University Campus in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
This study estimates the electricity consumption and related carbon dioxide (CO2¬¬) emissions for the buildings and facilities the main campus …

Body Image During Pregnancy in the Era of COVID-19: The Role of Heterogeneous Patterns of Perceived Social Support
Objectives. The aim of this study was to explore the profiles of pregnant women on perceived social support with regard …

The Use of a ClassPoint Tool for Student Engagement During Online Lesson
Teaching online can be quite different than in the classroom where instructor can physically interact with the students. With the …

Study of University Education in COVID-19: Considering Future Lectures Based on Survey Results
COVID-19, which is longer than expected, has a great negative impact on our society and life. We are restricted in …

The Reduction of Domestication of Anime on American Television Over Four Decades
The importation of anime into the United States began in earnest in the 1980s, although a few titles were imported …

Maximum Engagement and Minimum Distraction in Knowledge Transference
In the Indian academia the focus on teaching "Writing" is relatively new; traditional focus has been on teaching the English …

Homosexuality and African Criminal Justice System: Exploring the Current Laws and Enforcement Regimes in Nigeria
The discussions surrounding the position taken by the various legal systems towards the lifestyles and activities of homosexuals have gained …

Paragraph Writing Instruction for University Students
As the emphasis is placed on students’ practical abilities in English, the communicative approach, which focuses on students’ "productive abilities", …

Learning Experiences of College Students From Mindanao, Philippines During School Closure
The Coronavirus-19 disrupted almost everything, including schooling. The United Nations (2020) reported that nine in ten students in 166 countries …

Ready or Not? A Critical Policy Analysis on the Implementation of Flexible Learning Policy and Its Effect on High School Learners
In 2019 Corona Virus Pandemic created a massive impact in the Philippines most especially in Education. All face-to-face classes from …

A Success of Content Communication Through Y-Series: A Case Study of 2gether the Series
The research entitled “A Content Communication through the Y-Series Entitled 2gether The Series” is a qualitative research aimed to study …

Team Eportfolios – Developing Employer-Valued Skills
ePortfolios involve students producing and compiling artifacts that represent their learning and are accompanied by metacognitive reflection. They help students …

Immersive Technology Uses in Interactive Media: A Collection of Case Studies
A collection of case studies that combine immersive technologies such as augmented and virtual reality in various contexts are introduced …

High Impacts of Intercultural Service-Learning Program on Taiwanese College Students
Intercultural service-learning has been regarded a high-impact educational practice which can enhance students’ learning and civic engagement. Yet, research investigating …

Intermedia Motion Tracking in AR/VR – On Immersive Storytelling and Choreographic Patterns
According to the KAMC Submission Stream "Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music", we would like to contribute details on our …

Baomu in China: The Portrayal of Female Domestic Workers in Newspapers and Social Media
This study investigates how female domestic workers, known as Baomu, are portrayed in Chinese news media. Extant studies have provided …

Role of Female Physicians in Women’s Health Movement in Japan: The Case of Prescription-Free Emergency Contraception During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Although the COVID-19 outbreak resulted in challenges to global public health, it also posed new challenges in people’s private lives …

Pingtung County Recovered from Natural Disaster and Achieving the Goal of Providing Domestic Electricity 100% by Green Power
After the completed “Aqua Solar Farm” project (installed capacity with 23.4 MW) due to typhoon Morakot in 2009, we are …

Benefits for Bystanders? Effects of the Japan-South Korea and the US-China Trade Dispute for Japan (2018-2020)
The China-US and the Japan-South Korea trade dispute since 2018 and 2019 involve Japan’s three top trading partners. This paper …

Examining the File Renaming Errors Made by Japanese University EFL Students During the First Year of Emergency Remote Teaching
The move to emergency remote teaching (ERT) in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic forced instructors worldwide to necessarily include …

Resilience as a Policy Goal and a Policy Measure: South Korea’s New Deal Policy in the Post-COVID-19 Era
Resilience draws attention as a way to combat the unprecedented uncertainty today. Especially in this post-COVID-19 era, a sense of …

Examination of the Challenges in Local Climate Action Planning and Implementation in Japan
Climate change poses substantial challenges for the effective implementation of counter-measures. Carbon emission reduction and climate impacts adaptation require actions …

The Universe as a Harmonious Field of Vibration – Is Humanity out of Tune?
This paper begins with a reference to recent experimental research in the school of Engineering at MIT on the novel …

Socio-environmental Life Cycle & Its Relevance to Long-term Sustainability: A Key Success of Jorong Barutama Greston Coal-mine Closure, South Borneo – Indonesia
Environmental management is currently a priority in various industrial activities, ranging from upstream activities such as mining and energy related …

Life Cycle Thinking & Social Sustainability based on Capacity Building: An Insight from Indominco Mandiri, East Borneo – Indonesia
The coal mining's environmental management issue has become a severe global concern. Various mining management activities in Indonesia are currently …

Preliminary Life Cycle Assessment to Support Socio-Energy Innovation for Metal Processing Industry: An Approach from Pindad, Bandung – Indonesia
In order to support and participate in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) contribution, one of the instruments is the life …

Ecosystem Restoration as a Part of Energy & Environmental Life Cycle Contribution for Socio-Cultural Sustainability in Trubaindo Coal Mining, Indonesia
This paper discusses the ecosystem restoration efforts conducted by TCM, one of the coal mines operating in West Kutai, East …

Do Psychology Students Enjoy Lectures in Class? Relationship with Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction (Competence, Relatedness, and Autonomy)
Flow is an experience of pleasure and enjoyment in doing an activity, characterized by total absorption which entangles awareness and …

Strategies of Film Archives in the Face of National Trauma: Exile and Colonies
National film archives are complex institutions with many levels of management, which also carry the weight of the history and …

Development of Exploring Computer Science With Lynx for Student Learning Geometry and Logo Programming Code
Research on Logo programming contributing to student learning has appeared in the literature during the last four decades. Empirical and …

International Students’ Acceptance of Online Learning During Pandemic: Some Exploratory Findings
The COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 has impacted campus life in many ways, including shifting to online mode of teaching and …

Virtual Learning – Social Pedagogy Promotes Active Agent
Social pedagogy is more than a transformation in the academic institution. LaGuardia Community College has envisioned creating more meaningful and …

Analysis of French Grammatical Errors Using Surface Strategy Taxonomy: A Case Study of Thai University Students
This study was aimed to investigate the grammatical errors made by Thai university students and to explore the causes of …

Value Co-creation in the Multidisciplinary Sharing Between Design and Science: The Case of a Portuguese Cutlery Industry
This article presents the first impressions of the research project on international cooperation between Universities and a Portuguese cutlery industry …

MMORPG Games as a Way of Coping During the Pandemic: A Study on World of Warcraft
Negative effects of coronavirus expand from physical to mental health, thus finding methods for emotional coping and wellness has become …

Higher Education and Wicked Problems: Students Engaging with Complexity and Uncertainty in Sustainability Transitions
The challenges we collectively face, such as climate change, are characterized by more complexity, interdependence, and dynamism than is common …

The Line Between: Virtual Re-Tellers Exposing to Two Modes of Visual Literacy
This qualitative study aimed at investigating how the use of Virtual Reality Literacy (VRL) contributes to creating virtual agents story …

Engaging Parents in Newcomer Children’s Language Teaching and Learning
This study examines benefits that arise from the pedagogical practice of translanguaging, which utilizes bilingual children’s full language repertoire, in …

Museum of Works as a Means of Improving Professional Knowledge of Senior High School Students Through Public Intervention
Due to high school students' lack of professional knowledge, graduates contributed 7.92 percent to Indonesia's unemployment rate. This can be …