Year: 2022
Usability Evaluation of an App to Support the German in-home Care Consultations According to § 37. 3 Sgb XI
Introduction: In Germany in-home care consultations are mandatory for informal caregivers receiving care allowances. These visits are carried out by nurses and aim to ensure that care recipients are taken care of appropriately and help to stabilize the home care situation. Objective: The aim of the study is to evaluate the usability of an app …
Introducing Virtual Writing Centers in Japanese High Schools to Support Teachers Implementing Changes to the English Curriculum
The recent and coming changes to the Japanese Ministry of Education English Course of Study and English requirements of the Japanese University Entrance Exam system have shifted the focus of the teaching and learning of English in Japanese high schools away from reading and listening towards writing extended texts in English. These changes have increased …
The Role of Omani Women’s Associations in Preserving Women’s Creative Industries
The government of the Sultanate of Oman has been keen to preserve the entity of Omani women and their families through stability and cohesion in the light of the changes in life, whether it was material stability or moral stability. Since the establishment of the first branch of the Omani Women’s Association in 1972 AD …
Impact of Proficiency in English on the Intuitive Understanding of Computer Science Concepts
Computer science terms like: Code, Analysis, Protocol, Encapsulation, Validation, Sampling, Model and many more are borrowed from English with their meanings slightly altered to suite computer science. This makes initial computer science acquiring more difficult for non- native English students, while it is facilitated for students of higher English proficiency. This is sort of a …
Fine Arts in a Digital Age
This article will summarize the research shared at The 10th European Conference on Arts & Humanities, 2022 hosted at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, including a discussion of the Canadian landscape of fine arts in an online environment, an exploration of the use of web technologies to promote diversity and equality through notable examples, and …
Study Abroad Programs as Means to Connect Culture, Art, and Design
This Presentation examines a study abroad program as a means to promote the intersection of culture, art, and design and to help students across art and design majors to connect the dots between the three concepts. The study abroad program offers students to visit two cities in Germany in a faculty lead program, giving them …
Investigating Procedures for Translating Vietnamese Noodle Dishes Into English: Application to Language Teaching
The purpose aims at finding translation procedures for rendering Vietnamese noodles – a world well-known cuisine – into English in order to apply in teaching and learning English language skills in general and Translation in particular for EFL (English as Foreign Language) students at The University of Danang in Vietnam in the current context of …
A Narrative Inquiry of Coping Responses of Selected Deaf College Students in the Philippines During the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 made an immense impact on the educational system worldwide. The unexpected disruption of face-to-face instructions and the sudden change in the academic curriculum stressed the learning and well-being of Deaf students. However, during the pandemic, their voices were primarily unheard. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the coping responses of selected Deaf college students …
Correlates of School-based Sexuality Education: A Comparative Study of Students and Teachers of Secondary Schools in Hong Kong
This study examined factors associated with SBSE in secondary schools, with a view to provide information for effective implementation of SBSE. It looked into students’ and teachers’ sexual attitudes and their views on SBSE. Other associated factors, viz., religiosity, spirituality, and demographic characteristics were also examined. Participants were recruited via convenience sampling from three secondary …
The Differences in Bilingual Signs Found in EMI and Non-EMI Universities in China
The linguistic landscape (LL) is a multifaceted phenomenon worldwide. LL is important in multilingual contexts, referring to the public display of the visible written language. Despite recent interest in LL, studies of code-mixing in English and Chinese in the linguistic landscape are few. This study extends Radtke and Yuan’s 2011 research into code-mixing in Chinese …
In Their Shoes: A Framework to Enhance Faculty Intercultural Competence Through Virtual Reality and Self-Reflection
Intercultural competence is an essential tool in the 21st century and an integrated part of global readiness. A hidden curriculum plays an essential role in intercultural competence in higher education (Blasco & Tackney, 2013; Elliot et al., 2016; Leyerzapf & Abma, 2017). This hidden curriculum represents faculty’s beliefs, preconceived ideas, and behaviors unintentionally delivered and …
Developing a Conceptual Model: Integrating CALL in TBLT
Over the last 20 years, task-based language learning (TBLT) has gained immense recognition from linguists all over the world. With the seamless assimilation of technology in the lives of educators and learners, a strong and growing body of literature has supported the efficacy of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) over the last decade. Recent research has …
Pros and Cons of Learning Latin Vocabulary Using Duolingo
In 2019, the language-learning website and app Duolingo released a Latin course that currently has almost 1.5 million learners. Despite its potential, Duolingo has already received several criticisms regarding other languages for what are considered unrealistic goals. Furthermore, it was pointed out that the proposed method might be helpful for vocabulary but only in addition …
Digital and Tactile Games to Support Literacy Instruction
Literacy affects all components of our lives so the development of a strong foundation of literacy skills is critical. Games often tell a story while offering opportunities with repeated practice, strategic problem-solving, targeted goals, and trial and error (Haas, Metzger, & Tussey, 2021). Digital games, or video games, are often rich and complex forms of …
Strategies and Activities to Promote Active Engagement in the Classroom
Educators understand the importance of active engagement in the classroom setting to promote higher order thinking. According to Hurst (2021), “research shows that students whose teachers spend too much time talking are less likely to be engaged during classroom instruction. Luckily, reading instruction can be so much more than lecture, reading practice, memorization, or decoding …
Exploring the Hybridization of Traditional Printing and Digital Fabrication Processes to Expand Design Innovation in the Classroom
Design education has been institutionalized for several decades, but digital competencies have shifted the role of the “designer-author” to a “digital black-box operator”. Computational Design and Media Literacy are directly related to the development of critical thinking. Promoting these literacies is a priority as they allow us to understand and operate a range or set …
Black Life Matters: Did It Change Our Perception of Art?
Through this presentation, I wish to share the research findings of the Tolerable Art project, and demonstrate how it will be leading to a ‘creative outcome’. I will also be wondering if the ‘creative outcome’ of the project remains ‘art’ in the typical sense. Tolerable Art research project started in April 2022. It is concerned …
Screen View of the World – The Study of the Dissemination of Media Façade Image Information in Space
People’s attachment to the screen has reached an almost obsessive level.Through specific technical means,some people can’t even tell the world inside and outside the screen.In the composition of modern environmental design, photoelectric media such as screen occupy a more and more important position.Do people really like the screen or the content displayed on the screen? …
Design Education for Sustainability and New Social Changes
This paper is an ongoing research study that highlights sustainability and social ventures to create connections between academic and business worlds in order to design towards the new functions of XXI century’s reality. The authors underline how design practices can help to create a pilot project, implementing social changes. This means that governmental inefficiency presents …
An International Digital Learning Experience: The “Reinserta” Challenge
The purpose of this presentation is to talk about the benefits of an international academic project based on a collaborative online learning (COIL) experience. In this kind of collaboration, it is important to get in touch with real businesses and organizations in order to incentivize students and offer real solutions to the academic partner. The …
Fostering Academia-industry Collaboration: Insights on the Demola Portugal Initiative by IPV Teachers Acting as Trainees and Facilitators
Academia-industry collaboration has been around for some time, through internships and joint projects, but, in recent years, there has been a shift in both the education and workforce settings to work closely together, coordinating initiatives across all sectors, in an attempt to mutually drive innovation, provide opportunities to go from concept to action, encourage entrepreneurship …
Use of Storytelling to Advance Education Reform
COVID-19 has revealed the deep inequities in our education system, as well as new ways to educate our youth. Countries across the globe are grappling with how to meet the changing needs of students, and educators play a vital role in those reforms. Storytelling has long been a means for revealing universal truths about the …
Emotional Impacts of Online Purchasing Behaviour During the COVID-19 Pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the routine daily habits of individuals have changed. For example, remote working has become a much more common concept, pupils carried out their classes online and various socialization habits have been moved to digital platforms. In this period, a vast number of people have become digitized. This study aimed to investigate …
Language, Communication and Culture: Higher (Virtual) Education for the Future Professions
Today’s professionals in various fields need skills in intercultural communication, perhaps even in a transnational context. Intercultural communication can be effective if the participants share a common understanding of what communicative and professional practices are appropriate and meaningful. However, intercultural communication can be challenging on virtual courses, where students can work individually, perhaps even asynchronically, …
Resilience in Times of Need: Educational and Social Measures Adopted by the Regional Labour Court of Goiás During the Pandemic
Quarantine, lockdown, social distancing and facemask policies are measures that have been taken worldwide to reduce COVID-19 transmission. In Brazil, while the Executive administration has downplayed the threat of coronavirus infection, the response of Judiciary to COVID-19 crisis occurred immediately after the confirmation of the first cases. Different courts implemented a set of institutional arrangements …
Research on the Learning Effect of Experiential Learning Theory Applied to Design Education
Experiential learning theory enables course study to establish practical experience exchanges, and instructors who take the initiative to provide guidance to learners perform better. Students apply the professional skills learned from their own experience, meet their learning needs, and ask questions from their peers, which can enhance the true value and confidence of cooperative learning. …
Daily Mobility among Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Pet Dogs in Urban Areas: A Scoping Review
Companion dogs are part of families and households and are relevant to individuals of all ages. Research has mainly focused on the role of therapy and service dogs in people’s lives. Dogs have been involved for therapeutic purposes in interventions targeting older adults with depression and dementia, mostly in institutional settings, and have shown effectiveness. …
A Comparative Study of the Changes of the Language Policy From Colonised India to Independent India
Linguistic Imperialism’ is considered very common as we can see nowadays some languages dominate other languages as is the case of the English Language. This paper is a comparative study that investigates the reasons that cause ‘Linguistic Imperialism’ as a phenomenon, the impact of the British Imperialism on Education in India, and how it affected …
How Did Students, Teachers, and School Management Perceive Effectiveness of Virtual Flipped Classrooms in Hong Kong Secondary Schools?
Funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, two Hong Kong universities carried out the Jockey Club “Flipped Learning” Pilot Project and recruited 15 secondary schools as partner schools during the pandemic. These schools adopted the virtual flipped classroom approach in English Language and Mathematics classes at the junior secondary level (i.e., Secondary 1-3) …
Examining the Impact of Social Media Use on Inter-family Communication: A Study in Family Communication Patterns Theory
This study examines the potential impact of social media use on inter-family communication from the perspective of family communication patterns theory (FCPT). Using the assumptions of the FCPT, The study attempts to investigate the impact of social media on two dimensions that determine family communication patterns, namely conversation orientation and conformity orientation, as well as …
Students Perception of a Gamified Student Engagement Platform as Supportive Technology in Learning
Students are increasingly turning towards Web-based learning materials to supplement their education. One such approach would be the introduction of Gamified student engagement platforms (GSEPs) to instill a new learning culture. Data was collected from closed-ended questions via content analysis techniques. About 81.8% of college students from the Monash University Foundation Year agreed that GSEPs …
COVID-19 and Its Effect on Parent-adolescent Issues
Background: Examination of how parents handle and experience life with their adolescent children during the pandemic. Covid-19 disrupted routines and entailed social distance and closures, impacting all families, and particularly confronting adolescents’ self-perception and affecting cognitive, health, and mental abilities. As parents themselves experienced new challenges at home and at work, they also faced complex …
Lettering Design in Raul Lino’s Work: Humanism, Nature and Tradition in Architecture, Graphic Arts and Design
Raul Lino’s work is often connoted with the image of Estado Novo and with Português Suave, an architectural style with a partly degenerate and retrograde taste. However, this view does not consider that a part of his most important work, which in addition to architecture covers various decorative arts, was developed before that Portuguese dictatorial …
Exploring the Challenges of Academic Fatigue and Strategies to Enhance Retention for the Determined Ones (TDOs) in Online Learning
The daily activities of educational institutions globally were affected by the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020. The abrupt transition from on-campus to distance learning gave students and educators limited time to prepare for such a massive shift in teaching and learning. Students with disabilities (dubbed TDO students in the UAE), were negatively impact because their normal …
Style and Aesthetics of Film Directing and Film Production Review of “We Are Hong Kongers”
It is an original, reflexive and systematic review about the film project entitled as “We are Hong Kongers” . The film project aimed to reveal the identity, language and economic challenges faced by South Asian communities and ethnic minorities in Hong Kong. Dr. Sobel Chan Ka Lok, as the director and scriptwriter, would give support …
The Motivation of Chinese Students in Learning Foreign Languages Other Than English
This paper investigates the motivation of Chinese university students in learning Languages other than English (LOTEs) through the lens of Self-determination Theory, exploring the difference in motivational types among different subjects of 75 university students who are English, LOTE and non-language majors who took part in the questionnaire-based study. Students’ motivation was measured using Noels …
Intercultural Adaptation in Joint Training Dual Degree Programs: A Study in The Sino-American CHEPD 1+2+1 Program
This study focuses on the factors influencing students’ intercultural adaptation stress and strategies in the Sino-American CHEPD 1+2+1 Program. A total of 355 questionnaires were distributed to Chinese institutions participating in the Program, and the results were statistically analyzed. This study revealed that the number of local friends, the length of stay in the US, …
A Strategy for Resilience: Developing a Narrative of the Imagined Future
Using motifs from the 1484 Jan van Eyck, “The Arnolfini Portrait”, I draw parallels with the processes of narrating an imagined future and of art-making to develop a strategy that has the capacity to navigate through clinical depression and suicidality. Both art-making and creating a narrative of the imagined future call on the imagination to …
Teachers Mental Health: A Post-Graduate Course of Study Designed to Build Robust Teachers Mental Health Through Knowledge, Collegial Support, and Reflective Practice
There is a significant gap in post-graduate teacher education about strengthening teachers’ mental health. This paper outlines the theorising, the understandings and the processes in creating an Education post-graduate, specialisation course of study on teachers’ mental health. In particular, I draw attention to the relational nature of teaching and to the overlooked spiritual dimension of …
Remote Exams: The Move From Traditional Exam Questions to Case Study Style Assessment
In 2020, because of Covid-19, student summative assessments were required to be completed off campus as opposed to being attempted in invigilated exam locations and conditions. Exams had already been written, and moderated, prior to this decision being taken, and were a form of assessment which not only tested students’ knowledge but also, in part, …
International Collaboration in Higher Education: A Reflection of Student and Lecturer Experiences
The influence of international collaboration opportunities on student and lecturer experience in higher education is unmistakable. Not only do international collaboration projects provide the opportunity for internalisation, the improvement of cultural sensitivity and understanding, as well as problem-solving in culturally diverse teams, it also provides a reflection opportunity for lecturers on current lecturer teaching practices …
Indigenizing Order and Agency: A Southeast Asian Perspective on the ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’ and the Rising China
The idea of the ‘free and open Indo-Pacific’ (FOIP) widely promoted by a number of major powers represents the evolving, yet competing, order of global politics. In light of these developments, this paper surveys the indigenous thinking of Southeast Asian International Relations (IR) in the context of the FOIP strategies. The main task is to …
Reconceptualization of Test Fairness Model: A Grounded Theory Approach
The indefinite nature of the test fairness (McNamara et al., 2019) and different interpretations and definitions of the concept have stirred a lot of controversy over the years, necessitating the reconceptualization of the concept. On this basis, this study aimed to explore the empirical validity of Kunnan’s (2000, 2004, 2008) Test Fairness Framework and revisit …
Still We Rise: Racial Discriminatory Resilience and Black American Musicians
“What does it mean for descendants of enslaved people to create a music embraced by the world and still be treated as second-class citizens, exploited, dehumanised, and subject to premature death?” thus asked author Robin Kelley. According to Chou et al, Black Americans are exposed to more racial discrimination a any other ethno-racial group (Chou …
An Analysis of Competency’s Connotations for Travel Agent Managers in Taiwan
In order to meet the demands of the shifting operational environment and the demand for human resource training in the travel industry, this study aimed to pinpoint the professional competency’s connotations that travel agent managers should have. The purpose of this study was to examine the job duties, tasks, and knowledge (K), skills (S), and …
Fuzzy Based Model for Students Debar Policy in Indian Engineering Institutes
All around the world, a critical aspect of the higher education system is the evaluation of students through periodic examinations. To exemplify, many higher education centers in India allow students to undertake rigorous semester-based examinations i.e., End-Semester (or End-Term) examination, provided they meet the criteria of class attendance up to a certain percentage. However, below …
Computer Adaptive Language Tests (CALT)
Creating a test to adequately assess reading, speaking, listening, and writing proficiency in a foreign language has many challenges. Traditionally, such tests have been paper-based or done by an evaluator in a face-to-face mode. The increasing use of technology in language education has recently shifted the way assessment can be performed. This paper will develop …
The Effects of Training Workshop for Cognitively Intact Community Dwelling Older People on Knowledge of Dementia and Dementia Worry in Hong Kong
Background: Dementia is a global challenge. Little is known about the cognitively intact older people regarding their knowledge and worries about dementia. The aim of the current study is to assess the effects of training workshop to these group of people on the knowledge and their worries about this disease. Methods: An interventional study with …
Achievement of Program Outcomes in Between Dance Students of Creative Art Program During a Pandemic and Endemic of COVID -19
Since 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Coronavirus disease and is also known as Covid-19, has triggered a pandemic (World Health Organization, 2021). This phenomenon affects the education sector, including the tertiary education system (Pangayan, 2021). These effects and changes also occur in the learning of the Fundamental of Dance Arts course (CA10302) offered in …
E-learning Meets Educational Key Opinion Leaders (Edu-KOLs): A Close-Up Look on Exuberant Platforms and Their Success Ingredients
The teaching medium, which had witnessed stillness without significant changes for almost 40 years, has been undergoing a digital transformation in the last decade and is now being remarkably amplified by Educational Key Opinion Leaders (Edu-KOLs). Constructivism inspired collaborative and interactive learning has been further embedded into e-learning platforms amid the recent pandemic. This paper …
Resilience in Media Ecologies: Mapping the Converging Histories of Magic Lanterns, Omocha-e (Toy Prints) and Kamishibai (Paper Theater)
Histories of kamishibai (paper theater) typically trace its roots to early magic lantern shows, but Iwamoto Kenji questions this development: “At a time when many different audiovisual technologies were tied in some way to modern scientific instruments, kamishibai was made of just pictures and narrative and seemed to be a throwback to Edo-period spectacles” (2002). …
Enabling Factors That Lead Educational Middle Leaders to an Effective Professional Performance
Effective school leadership is made of senior and middle leaders who work effectively and collaboratively. More than ever, in the 21st century, there has been recognition that schools need knowledgeable, skilled, proactive and committed leaders, along with great teachers, to ensure outstanding education at all levels of schooling. The scope of this paper lies within …
Establishing a Writing Practice Remotely: A WhatsApp Course for Academics
In many universities there are numerous writing courses, workshops, resources and writing centres for academics. Some of these were disrupted by the Covid pandemic. A positive outcome has been moving beyond Emergency Remote Teaching to innovative pedagogical alternatives that continue to be effective as lecturers and academic developers reenvisage teaching interventions past the pandemic era. …
English for Conference Interpreting Purposes: A Corpus-driven Study on Multiword Constructions
Interpreters sometimes work from their A language (their native language) into their B language (their non-native language of which they have a perfect command). This direction is called retour interpreting. Retour into English as a B language is now generally expected and even a norm in parts of Asia. The market demand has driven training …
Cultural Integration: Aboriginal Pop Music Project in Taiwan
Most aboriginals in Taiwan showed their remarkable talents for music. They can use different percussion instruments, integrate their traditional cultures and then to create rhythms. Nowadays, with the age of digital age, to strengthen aboriginal students’ professional knowledge and practical training in pop music, this project is to combine new media technology to music producing, …
What Relationship Do Students Have With Mathematics? A Survey in Primary Schools in Martinique, France
The latest international surveys confirm that French students have a very complex relationship with mathematics and mainly, in most marginalized contexts, they have significant difficulties making progress in this area. This situation is becoming particularly alarming in overseas departments, due to the lack of adapted pedagogical infrastructures and an underperforming educational ecosystem, a legacy of …
Teaching Mental Calculation in a Postcolonial Context: A Case Study in Martinique
Numerous studies confirm that, in many post-colonial territories, students experience significant difficulties in the field of mathematics. This skill deficit has a negative impact on the human, social and economic development of these former colonies. This paper presents the initial results of the Africa 2020 Mental Math project. As part of the project, nearly 3000 …
Research on the Application of Virtual Reality in the Field of Handicrafts
The protection and inheritance of cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage are very important to the development of culture. Due to the continuous innovation of technology, the inheritance and innovation of handicrafts tend to be dynamic and diversified. The application of virtual reality technology in many fields also brings more possibilities for the inheritance and …
Indicators to Manage the Enjoy-Learn Impact of Kahoot on the Engagement Learning
The introduction of educational technologies in teaching-learning processes has modified the educational context traditionally focused on lecturers, connecting the student to a learning network without barriers. At present, scholars advocate the use of educational gamification tools, such as Kahoot, that lecturers could apply to encourage the student´s motivation and engagement in the university classrooms. This …
Professional Development of Teachers: Comparison of Czech and Russian Educational Systems
Being a part of a larger research, this study focuses on the Czech and Russian educational systems in terms of Continuous Professional Development (CPD). It is a secondary data analysis which draws a comparison between Czech and Russian teachers and puts an enlarged interpretation of the results on lower-secondary school teachers’ CPD from the OCED’s …
Photographic Mnemotopes: Phototextual Reports as a Research Tool for the Communication of the Memory of Places
The proposed study refers to Communication Design for the Territory, a discipline that has taken up the territorial theme as its own specific dimension, in conjunction with memory studies, an academic field that investigates memory as an integrated interdisciplinary system that combines the physiological dimension with the socio-cultural one. The focus is the concept of …
Maternal Love in the Blank: Charlotte Kann’s Pleasant Days in Life? or Theatre?
The masterpiece of German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943), Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel (Life? or Theatre?: A Song-play), has been considered an important piece of work by many art historians and scholars over the past decades. Its status as an autobiography is still under argument but given that Salomon suggested her work was her whole …
USA Rural High School Students Creating Safe Spaces to Develop Community-Focused Techno-Social Projects
This paper describes a techno-social justice program (Scott, 2021) across six rural high schools in Arizona, USA between 2019 and 2021. We explore how students developed safe spaces in their classrooms while creating community-focused projects using technology. Projects included a website on environmental justice awareness, where visitors were encouraged to calculate their carbon footprint and …
Identifying Ideologies of War and Peace in EFL Reading Material for Peace Education: Transitivity Analysis Within Systemic Functional Linguistics
Peace education has contributed to world peace, illuminating direct, structural, and cultural forms of violence and equipping individuals with information and experiences that help them develop the knowledge, skills, behaviors, and values required to promote peace. However, little research has been conducted by TESOL professionals into this realm. This study suggests that a useful form …
Effectiveness of Digital Game-Based Learning on Academic Achievement in an English Grammar Lesson Among Chinese Secondary School Students
Previous studies have proven that the widespread implementation of digital game-based learning (DGBL) in educational practice can be potentially beneficial. To date, however, far too scant attention has been paid to its efficacy in English grammar learning in China. Therefore, the principal objective of this study was to examine the effectiveness of DGBL on Chinese …
East Versus East: The Failure of Ilya Repin’s Parisian Café at the 1875 Paris Salon
The 19th century in Europe was characterized by the canonization and de-canonization of various painters. My paper deals with the failure at 1875 the Parisian Salon of a painting by the great Russian realist Ilya Repin (1844–1930), who exhibited a social genre work – a cafe scene – to a French audience for the first …
The Mediatization of Folk Art: -A Narrative Study of Paper-Cutting in Fujian, China
Paper-cutting in China is considered a culturally-based interpretation.With a paradigm of folk culture built within it, paper-cutting creates civilization and documents history. “Mediatization” refers to a process of media and social change, and research on it focuses on the role that various media rings play in the process of social and cultural development. Developments in …
Photopoetry as You Have Never Read/Seen Before: A Study of ʻAlāʼ ʻAbd al-Hādī’s Shagin [Sympathetici] (2003)
Pairings of poetry and photographs date back to the nineteenth century. However, the name photopoetry, was first used in Photopoems: A Group of Interpretations through Photographs (1936), photographed and compiled by Constance Phillips. Michael Nott (2022) defines photopoetry as “a form of photo-text that takes, for its primary components, poetry and photography” (p. 1). Rather …
Exploring a Standardized Training Framework That Provides Individualized Student Experiences
Since modern workplaces and universities are becoming increasingly diverse, there is mounting pressure for universities to provide intercultural competency training for students. Various approaches for teaching intercultural competencies exist and are reliant on intercultural experts. Not all universities can provide intercultural experts to deliver training internally. Meanwhile, outsourcing to external trainings may not adequately address …
Creative Storytelling in Art and Design From the Perspective of Interaction
In the practices of art and design, creativity is the most vital ingredient as its appearance is unpredictable, just like quantum leaps. Referring to the hyperspace theory, the 11 dimensions of space-time might show similar patterns with information exchanges. Therefore, I compare the “quantum entanglement” to the information loop of interaction. The relationships between arts …
Curriculum Innovation Landscapes: Early Childhood Education [ECE] Sector in Aotearoa New Zealand
Innovation traverses many organisational landscapes and inspires those who work there to use creativity to shape current and future practice and curriculum development. We wanted to learn more about what curriculum innovation was happening in the early childhood education [ECE] sector in Aotearoa New Zealand, and what inspired it. This research project explored the role …
Examining the Impact of Classroom Group Identity Development in an Urban Chemistry Classroom
In this grounded theory study, we follow the cases of two marginalized female students in their Regents High School Chemistry class. Both traditionally and historically, chemistry has been viewed as a challenging field of study, one promoting elite status stereotypes that often alienate and hamper students’ capacity for achievement in science. Especially now that we …
Centralization of Faculty Systems/Processes for an Improved Faculty Experience
There are many challenges associated with the management of adjunct faculty profiles and operations in an online, asynchronous environment. One of the biggest challenges for our institution was with the centralization of many of the processes, records, and data that exists across various systems at the university. These include the faculty management system (FMS), student …
University Students’ Perceptions of Using a Communication Platform for English Speaking Courses
Attributable to the fast pace of globalization, demand for effective English speaking skills has been growing rapidly. It is clear that a greater enhancement of the communication skills of university students is a critical mission of English educators. At the current time, an array of communication platforms is being used across different education levels. The …
The Role of Trauma-Informed Teaching and Learning in Building Resilience Among Racial-Ethnic Minority University Students During COVID‐19 and Beyond
The normal school calendar during the COVID-19 pandemic was dramatically altered as schools were closed with many adopting online learning programs. As schools reopened and worked to transition learners back into the classroom, teachers and learners faced numerous challenges including adapting to the new ways of interacting and learning. Many learners reported back to school …
Interpreting International Students’ Experiences in Terms of Their Higher Education Academic Integration
Internationalization of higher education in Central European countries is increasing. In addition to their quality of education, higher education institutions are taking advantage of its geographical location, attracting foreign students into their corpus maximizing a multicultural environment. Research is needed in the field of international students’ experiences from central European countries. Therefore, the present report …
Envisioning the Future: Ten Keys to Enhance Resilience Predictors Among Inmates
This study examines the impact of the program Envisioning the Future (EF) by Patrizio Paoletti Foundation on the predictors of resilience among male inmates. EF offers ten keys encompassing the main neuroscientific findings and daily practices for resilience. With the collaboration of the University of Padua, EF was implemented in Padua prison during the Covid-19 …
DDMATH: New Approaches for Teaching Mathematics to Blind and Visually Impaired Students
This presentation is about DDMATH (https://ddmath.eu), a project funded by ERASMUS+ that brings together partners from 4 European Countries (Italy, Germany, Poland and France) under the coordination of the Association Paccini in Italy. The project targets blind and visually impaired students as well as their teachers with the aim to facilitate their learning of mathematics. …
A Precursor to Change: How Understanding Faculty Change Readiness Can Support EDI Change Initiatives
Begun with a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Grant in 2017, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) at CU Denver has engaged in several student success initiatives targeting underrepresented minority (URM) students within STEM-related fields. In the five years since receiving the grant, CLAS has undertaken several initiatives (e.g., workshops, advising practices, student experience, …
Resilience, Social Support, and Coping in First-Generation Immigrant University Students in the Era of COVID‐19‐related Depression, Anxiety and Stress
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has been suggested as a trauma and stress related event associated with increased depression, anxiety and stress among university students. Among the populations most affected by the pandemic were first-generation immigrant students in the United States. University students with the combined status of being immigrants and first-generation have increased risk …
Challenges and Opportunities: Musicals in China in the Era of Covid-19 Pandemic
The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic undoubtedly affected every single aspect of human life, resulting in devastating socio-economic challenges across the world. After the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak, China’s performing arts market has shrunk as a whole, the performance market has repeatedly stopped, and the musical industry in China has been in trouble. This paper, however, …
The Study of the Visual Effects of Depth Creations and Perspectives in New Egyptian Archeological Discoveries
Many researchers have worked on the analytical study of the ancient Egyptian art executed in two dimensions as paintings or reliefs depending on the famous squared grid, which was the main guide for the artist to maintain standard proportions in drawing. But in this research I have attempted to base my own analysis and theories …
Culture as Data: Notes on the Ontological and Methodological Implications of the Network Turn
After the nine turns in cultural studies as famously described by Doris Bachmann-Medick, here comes another, perhaps among all the most profoundly transformative for the humanities. The network turn – proclaimed in the book of the same title (Ahnert, Coleman and Weingart 2020) – represents a timely reaction to the progressive datafication of the modern …
The Translation and Dissemination of Wuthering Heights in China from the Perspective of Pierre Bourdieu’s Field Theory
The reception of foreign literary works in other counties experiences translation, publication and dissemination. This study’s objective is to explore the reception of Wuthering Heights in China by adopting Descriptive Translation Studies and Empirical Research studies. The Historical and Archival Research methods and Close Reading methods were applied. The materials were two versions of Wuthering …
Designing for the Future: Professionalizing the Field of Curriculum Design in the Age of EdTech
Contemporary realities, such as the technology-immersed lives of students and world events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, have emphasized the critical need for more effective EdTech curriculum that ensures that all students have access to high-quality, engaging, learning experiences. Yet, effective models for the systematic design of curricular programs are lacking in the literature, especially …
Why Parents Do What They Do: Developing and Validating a Survey for the Mathematical Lives of Parents and Children
Learner variability presents an enormous challenge for teachers and schools. Even as early as kindergarten, incredible learner diversity exists in terms of children’s early learning experiences, especially in mathematics. Research has shown that this variability begins in the home environment, where parents and caregivers have the biggest impact on the child’s readiness for school. Regular, …
Exploration of Native Speaker Teachers and Non-native Speaker Teachers Within the English Learning Communication
The present research zeros down to the unending and much-debated topic of native speaker teachers (NST) and non-native speaker teachers (NNST). Nonetheless, this critical debate has always revolved around English language teaching (ELT) and fails to look at the different attitudes and preferences between the two sets of teachers in the ETL frameworks and how …
A Redesign of Principal Education Program During the COVID-19 Crisis
COVID-19 pandemic around the world entailed an uncertain reality for higher education system. We, at the Faculty of Education, of a well-known and established teacher education college, felt the need for documenting this transformation focusing mainly on challenges and obstacles in teacher education during the crisis. In this respect, we invited lecturers to share their …
A Bird’s-Eye View of Curriculum Publications Concerning Seven Countries: A Bibliometric Analysis
This study reports a bibliometric analysis providing a bird’s-eye view of publications on curriculum pertaining to Australia, South Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Ghana, India and Estonia. Bibliometric analysis enables an overview of the scholarly production within a field. Systematic searches of the Scopus database were conducted to identify relevant peer- reviewed journal articles, and their bibliometric …
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Trauma-Informed English Language Teaching to Adults
This qualitative paper examines trauma-informed teaching of English as a second language (ESL) to adults. Trauma is highly prevalent worldwide, and post-traumatic stress negatively affects language learning. A review of the literature identified five major principles for trauma-informed learning: safety, agency, a foregrounding of student identities, recognition of strengths, belonging, and meaning. However, very few …
Learning to Express Pain: Book-based Medical Expression AAC Learning for Individuals With Developmental Disabilities
Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices emerged in the 1980s as an effective communication support technology for individuals with complex communication needs . Naturally, AAC has been used in the special education field, especially gaining its popularity among individuals with developmental disabilities. Research shows that exposure to the AAC system helps individuals with developmental disabilities …
Egyptian EFL Writers’ and Instructors’ Perceptions of Peer Written Feedback
The principal aim of this study is to compare between the perceptions of peer feedback (PF) and teacher feedback (TF) as viewed by adult Egyptian L2 writers. That aim is pursued to address the lack of abundancy of that line of research in Egypt, and particularly targeting adult L2 writers. Consequently, the study is guided …
Children’s Incidental Learning of English Through Cartoons: An Italian Case Study
The presentation concerns a qualitative and longitudinal case study of two young Italian children acquiring English incidentally, while enjoying cartoons in a domestic environment. The data from a log kept by a participant observer over eight years are investigated to reconstruct the main steps of the process, from reception to various forms of production. Unlike …
Innovation and Value: Organ Transplant Abuse in China
Innovation is ethically neutral. Its value depends on how it is used. Technological developments do not change human nature. But they do change the ability to bestow benefits or inflict harm. The development of transplant technology and the mass killing in China of prisoners of conscience for their organs are linked. That this mass killing …
Inclusive Research With People With Intellectual Disabilities as Co-researchers – Towards Emancipation
Inclusive research covers various forms of participation of researchers with disabilities in the research process. Its idea is that non-disabled researchers create conditions for cooperation ensuring the maximum — meeting the needs of both parties — involvement of people with disabilities. It focuses on issues important primarily for the population of people with disabilities (co-researchers …
Exploration of the Relationship Between Housing Conditions and Cultural Capital in Hong Kong
Due to the over-population and less land supply, the housing condition in Hong Kong is undersupplied, which leads to nearly 30% were under 25 lived in subdivided flats. Till now, no research study examined the cultural capital and housing conditions among the youngsters. Therefore, this study aims to i) explore the characteristics among the subdivided …
Professionalization on the Go: A Latent Profile Analysis in Self-Regulated Learning of Flemish Teachers in a Mobile Learning Environment
Teachers have long been using mobile devices to support their personal learning. Especially during the COVID-pandemic, the professionalization of teachers demanded the use of mobile solutions, which requires them to apply self-regulated learning strategies. This article focuses on mobile self-regulated professional learning of Flemish teachers in primary education. The study examined (1) which profiles in …
Reimagining Faculty Management with APL nextED Faculty Management System to Improve All of Academic Operations
There are many challenges associated with the management of adjunct faculty profiles and operations in an online, asynchronous environment. One of the biggest challenges for our institution was with the centralization of many of the processes, records, and data that exists across various systems at the university. These include the faculty management system (FMS), student …
Research of the Art Creation on the Virtual and Real Integration of Augmented Reality
In recent years, due to the rise of the metaverse, the virtual and real integration of argumental reality has gradually been applied in various industries. Among them, the art creations based on the image process technology have played an important role in virtual objects, which are integrated into the computer screen usually should be a …
Axiomatic Dimensional Analysis of Art in the Visual Culture of the Ibibio People of Nigeria
The research into visual culture, vis-à-vis art praxis and product, keeps on turning up as tangential to the history, context and practice of socio-cultural variables prevalent in specific cultural settings, despite the fundamentality of image flows and visual technologies in both the rural and urban domains of contemporary society. This study focused on this hiatus, …
Visual Culture Strategies for Right-Brain Learning in the Early Stages of Maltese as a Foreign Language
The left side of the brain has historically been thought to be the centre of language processing during language acquisition. However, current research indicates that the right brain plays an important initial role in assisting learners to identify the fundamental sounds related to a language. Therefore, by merely familiarising a student with the way a …
Just a Sham? – An Empirical Investigation of Homeowners’ Misperception of Self-sufficiency in the Context of Fossil-fueled Heating in Germany
To reduce the consumption for space heating and hot water, a transition from individual fossil-fueled heating to district heating (DH) is crucial. Although DH can present a more cost-efficient and comfortable solution, private homeowners still prefer their individual fossil-fueled heating based on gas and oil. Since previous studies on households’ choices for heating systems provide …
What Draws Young Men Overseas? Identifying the Impact of Overseas Business Experiences on Young Men in Dickens’s Life and Novels
In this article, I focus on the impact of overseas business experiences on the young men in Dickens’s life and fiction, and how their absence and return propel his novel plots. Dickens’s lifetime (1812–70) parallels the expansion of the British Empire. I mention that Dickens’s five sons obtained jobs overseas, and Dickens fully acknowledged the …
Tragedy to Triumph: Utilizing a Graphic Novel and Instructional Design to Sustain the Culture, Heritage and Resilience of a Community
Arts, design and education can powerfully combine to create relevant and impactful place- and community-based educational resources that engage interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives. This study will discuss the multiple setbacks, including COVID-19 upon a community, and explores how an original graphic novel about a 19th century labor advocate is utilized to educate and promulgate the …
Significance of a King in the South-East Section of the Silk Road in the Period Between Ancient and Medieval Times
Along the Silk Road, there were different nations that differed not only ethnically, politically, culturally, but also religiously. Southeast Asia was a very important, both commercial and cultural artery. The route network was connected between countries in the eastern world along the coast of the Asian continental mainland and many associated archipelagos, thus connecting this …
To What Extent Lebanese University Students Consider Themselves as Intercultural Communicators
Globalization has removed all constrained borders and distances among countries, governments, and business corporations. With this fundamental change, there has been an increasing demand for intercultural competent communicators to secure success in the 21st century marketplace. However, some universities in Lebanon, if not all, seem not to have IC as a part of their curricula, …
A Scheme for Enhancing a University President’s Performance in a Transforming World
As society evolves and technology advances, a university like any other dynamic institution will need to change and adjust its teaching, research and community service to stay relevant, keep pace and prepare future professionals and leaders. These adjustments need to be reflected in the university’s outlook and strategic plan to remain relevant and competitive. Consequently, …
Cosmopolitan Legal Education: From Irnerius and the Westphalian Paradigm to the Modern Law School
The law school has not always been one that would be predominantly engaged with national legal matter. The subject of law, as a field of learning, has for a number of centuries been the toy of national educational systems, because law has been the toy of nation States. Law, the discipline, which nowadays draws materials …
Return Migration to Japan: Experiences of Japanese Brazilians
In the emerging literature, research on migration and acculturation has focused on investigating return migration (i.e., migration to one’s ethnic homeland). Since the 2008 economic crisis, the Japanese Brazilian population substantially dropped in Japan. This led to a decrease in the study of Japanese Brazilian return migrants (i.e., returnees). This study aims to fill this …
Symbolism of Selected Wax Prints in West Africa
Wax prints have been a part of the material culture and visual anthropology of West Africa for centuries. Even though they may appear the same in outlook and material constituent, their interpretation and disposition in the scheme of things differs from country to country across the sub-region and beyond. This study, therefore, seeks to identify, …
Recording of a Piano and Violin Duo: A Case Study to Explore Challenges and Opportunities of Recording During COVID-19 Pandemic
During crises, performing arts are usually the first discarded activities. This attitude towards performing arts has not changed much during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the first instance was recorded in December 2019, COVID-19 has had a disastrous influence on the arts industry, causing cancellations and closures at thousands of arts organizations worldwide. However, the practice …
Designing a Curriculum With Custom and Present Virtual Reality
The pandemic has created many challenges for education. Despite many schools now having already returned to instruction in-person as opposed to the challenge of doing so virtually, many have adapted to the new normal of having hybrid modes of instruction. One of these methods is through VR/AR technology. This paper will discuss how custom VR/AR …
Psychological Well-Being Among Immigrants and Refugees in St. Louis, Missouri
The process of migration and integration into immigrants’ host communities has been noted to be a stressful, non-normative event from a psychosocial point of view. Given the magnitude of immigration to the U.S., it is increasingly important to understand the variables that impact immigrant psychological well-being, an essential aspect of successful integration. The data for …
Using a 3CAPs Conceptual Framework to Explore Hong Kong Kindergarten Teachers’ Perceptions About Visual Arts Education
In the past decades, the visual arts in early childhood education were dominated by conventional approaches to shaping children’s artistic output. Craft making formed the major content of visual arts activities in kindergartens, and teachers relied on product-oriented instructions to deliver visual arts teaching to young children. However, there was a revision of the Hong …
The Design Studio as a Place of Study: Critique as Hermeneutic Conversation
As postsecondary design educators, are we providing students a place of study or are we just instructing? Educational theorist and historian Robert McClintock’s “Toward a place of study in a world of instruction” (1971) was published as a critique of the instructional culture in education in which he observed an overemphasis on pedagogy and the …
Internationalization at Home through the Pandemic Era: A Qualitative Study on Tertiary Students in Hong Kong and Japan
Internationalization has become a key priority of many higher education institutions across the globe to enhance the intercultural capabilities of their students. With the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, Internationalization at Home (IaH) has provided invaluable opportunities for students to develop and improve their global outlook and cross-cultural competencies ‘at home’ during these challenging times …
How Preschool Children Articulate Learning Through Polaroid Photography
The significance of polaroid photography is attributed to the mediums ability to capture the world exactly as it appears to the child. A child who is given the freedom to orchestrate autonomously their own photo shoot has license to capture their vision in a single frame. I plan to record three Preschool participants concept of …
Conceptual Collaborative Learning Space in “Studio-based Classroom” for Future Campus
The aspirations of national higher education institutions to achieve a world-class rank based on research and creativity mean that those institution intends to apply international standards in its facilities to carry out their best practices as well as world-class universities. The vision and mission is to make their faculties excel in various fields of disciplines …
Japanese Characteristics as Seen in Iroha Karuta
Iroha Karuta is a card game that originated in the mid-Edo period in Japan. It is played especially in new year and contains a variety of didactic expressions and humor. Through this game, one can learn life lessons while having fun playing it. In this study, researcher will try to clarify the characteristics of the …
Mathematics in Southern Europe: Mathematics Education and Performance, Through the Prism of PISA, in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain
A mathematically literate student, according to PISA and OECD, recognizes the role that mathematics plays in the world in order to make well-founded judgments and decisions needed by constructive, engaged and reflective citizens. Among European countries who have participated in PISA since 2000 till today, the top performing countries in mathematical literacy are concentrated more …
Critical Literature Review: Age Factors on Second Language Acquisition
Our understanding about second language acquisition is constantly updating itself due to new and compelling research. This article supports the idea that second language teachers should remain cognizant on the recent developments in research and critically reviews the literature regarding second language learning. This article also explores new theories regarding age factors in second language …
Engaging/Creating Difference: The Relevance of Cultural Identity as Laypeople Plan a Newscast
This study placed 18 groups of African-, European-, and Latin-Americans (divided by race and gender) into the role of news producers; each peer group was charged with planning a hypothetical TV newscast from a list of realistic stories. The study investigates the relevance of cultural identity as these groups go about their task, and found …
“F O R M S”: Creating Visual Composition Through the Movement of Dance and Artificial Intelligence
What relationship exists between dance and visual arts? How can dance visually express lines, shapes, and visual compositions in space? It is true that performing arts and visual arts have common methodologies and connections with each other. However, how can the audience understand their relationship? The present work intersects art with technology, more specifically dance …
Text Summarization of News in Tamil Epaper Using Machine Learning
Automatic text summarization is the process of reducing the size of original content to reduced computational burden of handling original large volume of data. There are many research works has been introduced earlier for the automatic text summarization. In the existing work Machine Learning based Automatic Text Summarization (MLATS) is introduced for the automatic summarization …
Social Media & Dialogic Engagement: An Exploration of the Facebook Pages of New Zealand’s Elite Arts Organisations
Creating and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships between organisations and their publics is at the core of public relations practice. Social media networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, have created new opportunities to foster these relationships through mediated interactions. If organisations and publics both participate in these interactions with a dialogic orientation, they are likely …
Multimodal Learning
According to Bouchey et al. (2021) global digitalization has dramatically changed the way we learn. These authors claim that digitalization poses a challenge for teaching and learning in 3 ways: The first one is an abundance, or over-abundance of information provided in several forms: audios, videos, texts and multimedia. They state that these new forms …
The 4th Industrial Revolution: A Redefinition of the Role of Higher Education?
The 4th industrial revolution has begun to change -and will dramatically continue to change- the economy, the society, and the labour market at large. As Frey and Osborne (2013) have pointed out, automatization and digitalization will “destroy” or at least reconfigure, as many as 70% of jobs. While Arntz et al. (2017) do not agree …
Health Impact Perceived by University Students at Three Sites in Asia: Two Years Into the Pandemic
Two years since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, education in universities is still being disrupted. Prolonged exposure to the pandemic situation may result in health-related problems for university students. In January 2022, we conducted an online survey in three universities in Bangladesh, Thailand, and Vietnam for a rapid assessment of students’ perceived impacts on …
Unveiling Educators’ Digital Media Skills in Teaching: A Case of South Africa
The South African education system is under a revolutionary transformation of digital media tools adoption and use in the teaching and learning. This has been exasperated by the eruption of Covid-19 pandemic worldwide in 2019 which demands educators to teach at distance. These developments among others call for the need to unpack educators’ pedagogical, technological, …
Why Do People Not Attend Arts Events? The Influence of Perceived Risks and Level of Involvement
Many governments invest in arts events such as performing arts, visual arts, and so on to support the tourism industry’s development and improve the quality of citizen’s life. The number of participants is one of the criteria to evaluate the success of the investment. Previous studies have revealed that perceived risks influence the consumer decision …
Investigating Formative Assessment Strategies to Support Differentiation via Digital Technology in Elementary Math Classes
In this study we investigate how digital technologies can support educators’ differentiation and students’ learning through formative assessment (FA) strategies. A three-dimensional assessment framework is developed via a European project FaSMEd (2022) by eight experienced elementary teachers, familiar with digital technology, who received instructions (and support) for FA mathematics strategies. Five FA strategies were used …
Innovative Design of Sustainable Fashion – A Case Study of Practical Fashion Design Teaching
Recycling of the environment and recycled resources has been an important item in the world’s push for environmentally friendly design, as well as a current social reconstruction and education effort. However, how to apply it in people lives, and cultivate people the habit of recycling use and save the earth resources, which is a knowledge …
Fantasized Romanticity: Rethinking the Role of Curtained Motels in Thai Contemporary Culture
Examining through the lens of social-sexual production, this paper focuses on the curtained motel, known to Thais as rong raem man rud, in Thai contemporary culture, which has long been determined by Thai sex-gender discourse or so-called “hetero-normality”. In general, these are enjoyable places for anonymous sexual activities or having sex without any strings attached. …
Adaptation of the Teacher Professional Agency Scale in the Unique Cultural Context of Estonia
Teachers’ work-related agency has scientific and practical significance. It is associated with redefining pessimistic projects and finding pleasure in the vocation. Measuring this phenomenon among teachers (N=686) in the culturally diverse education context of Estonia, where Estonian language of instruction and Russian instructional language schools historically co-exist, representing two various logics associated with transformation vs …
The Influence of Instagram on Consumer Behavior and Brand Community: Effect of Location on Brand Positioning in Northern Cyprus
Nowadays, technology has started to take place in all areas of our lives. Social media has become a part of our lives through this developing technology. One of these and popular social media tools is Instagram. These days, Instagram has a huge impact on consumer behavior and brand community. Mardo is a brand that produces …
Gen Z College Students, COVID-19 Courses & Beyond
The pandemic thrust the usage of Learning Management Systems, LMS, on teachers in all levels of education. Some students and faculty, especially at the college level, were experienced in using it but many were not prepared to the degree needed when schools were forced to go online. This paper reviews undergraduate Generation Z (born after …
Nudging Resilience: Promoting Sleep Awareness to Enhance Mental Well-Being in Adults Aged 60+
Ageistic stereotypes and practices have become a normal and therefore pervasive phenomenon in various aspects of everyday life (e.g., Ayalon & Tesch-Römer, 2018). Over the past few years, renewed awareness towards self-directed age stereotyping in older adults has given rise to a new line of research focused on the potential role of attitudes towards ageing …
The Impact of the COVID-19 on Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy and Their Attitudes Towards Online Learning
Teachers’ sense of efficacy has been pinpointed in a rich array of recent studies to determine the teachers’ readiness and success in adapting themselves to online teaching during the abrupt school closure amid the Pandemic. With attempts to ensure the quality of teaching and learning, acknowledgement of teachers’ self-efficacy and attitude towards the new form …
The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place
A hospital is a place for treatment of diseases. It is a liminal place where ideally people are cured and able to return back to their normal lives. Hospitals though can be sites of trauma depending on the patient experience. Lock hospitals especially were not only places where patients were treated for contagious diseases but …
Observing Learning Through the Hands: A Longitudinal Study of the Gestures of an English Language Learner
Hand gestures are an additional window into the mind of language learners allowing a glimpse of how learners might be conceptualizing in the second language (L2). It might also allow pedagogues to assess how learners are processing the language. Most studies comparing the same individuals gesturing in their L2 and in the mother tongue (L1) …
Investigating the Learning and Cognitive Process With Phenomenography: A Case Study of a Visual Experimental Research Course
Experiential learning theory emphasizes on the importance of learning through experiences and reflection. Recently, the question of how to implement a teaching strategy has attracted great attention from educators. In this study, we designed a course on the theme of death. During this course, students were expected to learn reflectively and eventually create a video …
The Power of Seeing and Being Seen: Feeling Shame in In the Mood for Love and The Grandmaster
This paper is about how the spectator can feel the emotion of shame through the lens of seeing and being seen during a film-watching experience. It will use the phenomenological approach as the fundamental method to find out how the films use different techniques to elicit, depict, and convey the emotion of shame. In addition, …
Historical Study of Chinese Clan Associations in Singapore
Singapore joined the ranks of developed countries in the 21st century, and is a multi-ethnic nation with attention in many ways, including its national policies and educational activities. In Singapore, people of Chinese descent account for a large part of the population, attracting attention for their cultural activities as well as for their economic activities. …
Parasitism: The Inextricable Connection of the Indispensables
When questioning people about their top three everyday life companion gadgets, the answers are often smartphones, smartwatches, and laptop computers. The interconnection could be symbolically analogized to a parasitic relation. The term parasitism characterizes an interdependent relationship between two living beings, in which one benefits from another; in some incidents, the parasites cause some harm …
Rising Up: Student Learning in the Post-pandemic Era
Since the start of the pandemic, the University of Massachusetts Global (UMG), like all virtual and dispersed learning institutions of Higher Education, has been forced to adapt to unplanned cycles of change. UMG is committed to improving the learning environment based on a combination of data points, like student feedback and performance and the evolving …
Learning Science in Service to Students: Applying Artificial Intelligence and Automatic Question Generation to Scale Learn by Doing
Educational technology has undergone rapid changes in recent years as artificial intelligence has begun to shape how data and content are used in student learning resources. However, as new technology is inserted into the learning ecosystem, it is paramount to ensure it is based on learning science research and created with a student-centered learning engineering …
Teaching the M in STEM with Robotics: Exploring Understanding by Design for Curriculum Development to Teach Math Concepts Using Robotics
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education has been at the forefront of national education policies and school reform for the past several decades, and the continual advances in technology and educational research bring new methods of STEM learning. Educational robotics have been introduced to the classroom space as a tool to teach STEM concepts. …
Catching Up: An Observational Study of Underserved Primary and Secondary Student Mindsets When Introduced to Educational Robotics
Student attitudes toward STEM subjects decline as they progress through primary and secondary school, making interventions even more critical for students in these age groups. Integrating educational robotics into the classroom has been shown to increase student perceptions of STEM topics while also having many other positive learning benefits such as increased mastery of STEM …
Providing 12-17 Week Transferable and Employability Skills to 30,000 Underserved Learners Across 8 Countries – A Truly Cross Border System
Otermans Institute (OI) is a global micro-organisation upskilling unserved and underserved populations globally with the mission of making them employable. Currently working in more than eight countries, supported by UKRI grant funding, and having worked with governments of 3 nations, it is providing its pedagogy and training digitally to underserved and rural learners. OI aims …
An AI-Driven Virtual Teacher That Can Upskill Anyone on a One-to-One Basis Tested From Refugee Camps in Iraq to India
Through AI modeling work done with Otermans Institute, Dev Aditya has built several conversational AI-driven virtual teachers, some as Bots and some using humanlike form through technologies like deepfake, to provide one-to-one teaching and training to some of the most underserved learners in society. His first major humanlike prototype, OI AI, was a virtual teacher …
Teaching Electricity and Magnetism Using Low-cost Physics-lab Box and Context-based Laboratory Activities
This study describes the authors’ efforts to assess the status of a physics laboratory in a junior public high school setting and to develop and validate the effectiveness of the low-cost physics lab-box and Context-based laboratory (CbL) activities to 10th-grade level based on the lab assessment result. The efficacy of these teaching materials was also …
Using UTAUT to Explore the Acceptance of High School Students in Programming Learning With STEAM Education
Many countries incorporate programming into primary education; the application of artificial intelligence robots in programming education is what the future holds. The current study mainly compares the differences between the two teaching methods of Programming using traditional single subject teaching and STEAM cross-disciplinary teaching. Through the data of Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of …
Educators’ Perspectives of Emotional Support in South African Schools Amid COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic disruption in South Africa resulted in the Department of Basic Education (DOE) implementing measures to salvage teaching and learning in primary and secondary schools. While these measures are critical to strengthen teaching and learning in schools, the emotional well-being of educators who are drivers of teaching and learning are given less attention …
Exploring Wellbeing Related Issues Arising From the Unregulated Use of Screen-Based Technology During Breaktimes in an International Middle School Environment
The following study uses a design-thinking and mixed methods research approach to elicit students’ views on the use of screen-based technology during break periods. An interest in this area emerged due to a noticeable reduction, in recent years, in the number of students spending time in outdoor play areas during morning and afternoon breaks. The …
Cross Cultural Learning Experiences Among Graduate Students in the US and France: A Case Study
A total of 27 graduate students enrolled in a teacher preparatory program at a higher education institution in France were paired with 37 graduate students in the United States. All the students in the US, who are finishing their Masters degree in teaching, met online with the French students during the course of the semester. …
Creation Research in Digital Painting
The research purpose of this paper is to conduct digital learning through digital painting in order to enhance undergraduate students’ digital painting skills, art appreciation, and creative ability. The study subjects are university students. In the digital painting courses, we will mainly focus on the images of animation characters. The research methods will make it …
The Impact of the Use of Technology on the Nature of Teacher’s Profession in TESOL Classes
During the recent pandemic, Educational programs have recognized the growing need to use computers in classes. It presents unprecedented challenges that help the students acquire an inquiring, critical and creative mind to capitalize on the growth of information and knowledge and technology opportunities. Computer knowledge began influencing students’ learning experience more than 25 years ago, …
Using Design to Connect Children Through Playful Discovery
This paper presents the first stage of FUSE, a project presented here as an example of how interdisciplinary researchers, university outreach staff and schools can come together to address the systemic inequalities in education exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Children’s connections with their school, their families and with each other was central to this collaboration. …
Design as a Facilitator to Changing Mindsets for Craftmanship Enterprises’ Resilience
Craftmanship is currently promoted as a foremost cultural manifestation, as they represent the heritage, diversity, and creative potential of a society. It also favors the generation of jobs, being characterized as an economic activity and not static, which must adapt to contemporary times and respond to the market and consumer needs. There are glaring gaps …
Doctoral Side Effects: Damage Limitation Versus Unexpected Benefits to PhD Research in a Pandemic
In May 2021, following up on a publication by PhD Design students of the University of Porto on the topic of the various kinds of impact of the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in doctoral research, the authors organised an informal online meeting for Arts and Humanities PhD students and recent graduates. The goal was to share …
Neoliberal Principles: Lecturers’ Perspective
Many researchers agree on the notion that neoliberalism is shaping the world today and some even argue that the economics curriculum promotes this ideology because of its emphasis on transferable and flexible skills. The contention is that there is a strong connectivity between neoliberal discourse and economics. Therefore, it is fundamental to investigate if economics …
Technology, Toucan, and Language Education
Globalization and computerization along with the limitations caused by the current pandemic have all moved us towards having more online presence. From online shopping to online learning, all aspects of our lives have been impacted by technology including how we learn and use languages. The goal of this presentation is to discuss various aspects of …
Challenges and Potentialities of Using ICT in Initial Teacher Education: A Comparative Study With Students From Portugal and Spain
The use of digital technologies in a conscious, critical and creative way is one of the challenges proposed in initial teacher training, since we are witnessing a time of change that requires the preparation of future teachers for the 21st century. This article is part of the IFITIC Project which aims to rethink educational practice …
The Freirean Legacy in Innovative Educational Practices: Maker Culture, Active Methodologies, Digital Technologies and Transdisciplinarity
Currently, the challenges of contemporaneity impose a new social contract for a fairer, more democratic and inclusive society. This idea implies a new vision of education and, consequently, a re(think) and innovation of school curricular practices with the purpose of contributing to the education of all citizens in this new era. In this context, we …
Study Motivation in the Academic-Industrial Program of Southeast Asian Students in Taiwan
Since 2016’s “New Southbound Policy” in Taiwan, there are more and more Southeast Asian Students coming to Taiwan for study. From 2016 to 2020, their number had risen to over 30,000 students, posting an increase of 85 percent in just five years. How to attract students to study in Taiwan would be the main issue. …
Utilizing Natural Language Processing to Develop an Interactive Web Platform for Practicing Text-based Conversational English as a Foreign Language
In recent years, as people from around the world become more digitally connected, the importance of communication between people from different language backgrounds is also increasing. Thanks to technologies such as social media, messaging applications, and recent advances in machine translation tools, text-based conversations are one of the most used forms of communication between people …
Supporting Your Child in Sexuality Education: Negotiating the School/Immigrant Family Boundary
Many studies have documented an asymmetrical and hierarchical relationship between schools and immigrant families (Charette, 2019; Périer, 2017). The research project Sexuality Education in a Multi-Ethnic School Context: Perceptions of Two Major Stakeholder Groups aims to examine the manifestations of this relationship in the specific and particular context of sexuality education (SE). In fact, a …
Centralization of Academic Operations as a Pathway to Increased Efficiencies and an Improved Faculty Experience
There are many challenges associated with the management of adjunct faculty profiles and operations in an online, asynchronous environment. One of the biggest challenges for our institution was with the centralization of many of the processes, records, and data that exists across various systems at the university. These include the faculty management system (FMS), student …
Teacher Agency in the Context of Curriculum Reform: An International Scoping Review
In parallel with neoliberal curriculum reforms taking place over the globe, teacher agency is increasingly recognized as a worthwhile research topic. Although the concept of teacher agency is fast becoming an educationally worldwide concern, there is little agreement on its conceptualization. Additionally, despite its real significance to educational changes, no previous study has attempted to …
Factors Contributing to Quality Performance in a Foundation English Course at a Higher Educational Institution
The knowledge of English language is important for the educational, economical, and national development of a country where the official language is English. There is a growing concern about undergraduates’ quality in performance in the English language course at the States’ University. The objective of the study is to examine the factors contributing to quality …
Reimaging Academic Operations with APL nextED Faculty Management System/Portal
There are many challenges associated with the management of adjunct faculty profiles and operations in an online, asynchronous environment. One of the biggest challenges for our institution was with the centralization of many of the processes, records, and data that exists across various systems at the university. These include the faculty management system (FMS), student …
Quality of Life of Elderly With Vascular Illness and the Level of Depression in 4 Barangays in Malabon, Philippines
Seniors or elderlies are a growing number all over the world, and they also have sicknesses like diabetes, high blood, and high cholesterol. Having chronic illnesses can affect the mood of the elderly: becoming cranky, lonely, not eating, etc. Therefore, there is a need to study the relationship between the quality of life of the …
Real Men Fantasy: Explore The Media Representation of Effeminate Males in China
“Men should not shed tears” has been a deep-rooted motto for Chinese males. In Chinese culture, masculine men are honorable while effeminate males are abnormal. With the release of reality shows, like Idol Producer, exquisite and effeminate male images gain attention in public, challenging the conventional images of men of steel. Those exquisite male idols …
Combined GIS Based Spatial-Temporal Analysis Using Social Media Data of Wuhan, China
The development and growth of Internet technology with geo-location has promoted the development of China’s Volunteered Geographical Information (VGI) Services. Twitter-like Sina Weibo has gathered a large number of user check-in data, which contains the geolocation features with temporal information. Weibo data has become a major source of geographic location information, helping to access human …
21st Century Education Model: We Need Museums Now More Than Ever
The accelerated development of digital technologies highlights the necessary transformation of educational models towards one based on competencies and capable of breaking with linear and deductive thinking. At this juncture, museums are reconsidered and redefined as cultural spaces capable, from artistic practices and new technologies, of breaking with the linearity and rigidity of the scientific …
Use of Infographics in Multilingual Writing: An Analysis From the Critical Digital Pedagogy Perspective
In this case study, we designed a workshop in a college writing course and introduced the principles of turning research papers into infographics. We focused on digital infographics design because scholars have proved its benefits in presenting complex and large information quickly and efficiently (Alrwele, 2017; Barlow et al., 2021). Critical Digital Pedagogy (CDP), introduced …
(Re)framing Outdoor Play: ‘Snakes, Scorpions and Sand …oh My’
This paper is situated within the expanding body of research in Early Childhood Education (ECE), that suggests a shift away from dominant romanticized discourses of developmentalist theories of early childhood learning about the natural world. Turning to posthumanism, we work with ECE teachers, pedagogy and culture to explore the ‘desert school’ encounters within the non-human, …
Grade Inflation: Comparison of Competencies Among Public Schools Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The aim of this study is to find traces of grade inflation during the pandemic on selected public schools in the Division of Bulacan. This phenomenon has been an issue across educational institutions since there was an implemented leniency on assessments during this period. The researchers focused on the average performance of the schools in …
Learners’ Expectations and Satisfaction in an Intercultural Telecollaboration Project
The aim of this paper is to analyse the data collected in a six-week intercultural telecollaboration project between the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) (Spain) and Morgan State University (US). Participants from UPV were 9 Spanish-speaking learners of English and 5 international students from the Erasmus+ programme, who engaged in both synchronous and asynchronous activities …
What Kind of Consolation Do Students in Japan Who Have Seriously Failed Academically Really Want?
Failure is inevitable for students. The serious failures for students in Japanese schools are failure to pass exams and late submission deadline. How students are comforted in such failures may affect their recovery and motivation for further study. Since friends, instead of teachers, are the significant others in adolescence, we examined the effectiveness of eight …
Preparing Higher Education Teachers for Successful Online Teaching: Where Does Your Students’ Motivation Come From?
The present study aims to 1) discover the source of higher education (HE) students’ motivation and explore the basis of their motivation from their point of view, and 2) discuss the best practices and strategies employed by HE teachers to motivate their students in online or remote learning environments. The study’s objective is to listen …
Is Paracetamol Prescribed Appropriately in Elderly Patients Admitted for a Fall? – A Geriatrician’s Perspective
Aims Paracetamol is a commonly used analgesic in older adults. There have been reports of adverse events with chronic paracetamol use even at therapeutic doses. The objective of this quality improvement activity (QIA) was to evaluate the prevalence of inappropriate paracetamol prescription in the elderly admitted for falls and to introduce strategies to reduce the …
Semiotic Pedagogy and Students Cognitive Development: Does the Order of Multiple Representations Play a Role in Meaning Making?
The present doctoral research project studies what mental mechanisms are formed by students to understand scientific concepts and whether and to what extent Semiotic Pedagogy and semiotic systems facilitate the representation of scientific concepts. Specifically, we focus on the way in which students construct cognitive schemata through semiotic resources, organize them in a broader mental …
Agrarian Capitalism and Later Life Loneliness: The Unheard Voices of Rural-dwelling Migrant Older Women of the Global South
Globally, feminised labour migration for agricultural work has increased. In the global south, agrarian capitalism has been associated with improved economic status and raised standards of living among rural populations. However, these benefits have not been evenly distributed among the diverse populations engaged in agriculture. To an extent agrarian capitalism has precipitated later life feminist …
When Geopolitics Meet Design: -162ºC Trading Power – A Case Study
This paper chronicles and reflects upon a collaborative project between Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar (VCUarts Qatar) and the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology in Tokyo (AIIT). Titled -162ºC Trading Power, this project started as an exploration into the relationships between the two countries of Qatar and Japan, and it resulted in the design, production …
The Role of Advanced Typographic Taxonomy Systems Vis-à-Vis Modular, Variable and Parametric Typography
Typographic taxonomy systems categorise and describe the vast corpus of typefaces, created over centuries, and are used in teaching, commercial and professional settings. Mainstream taxonomy systems usually focus on separating neatly defined, text-bound typefaces into discrete classes, while grouping a huge diversity of display-bound typefaces and other outliers into loosely defined, generic classes. Modular and …
TikTok and YouTube Videos in the Flipped Classroom Model to Improve the Learning Process and Motivate Students
Social media has become a very useful tool for learning in recent years. Millions of people access YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and other social media every day to learn. At the same time, more and more teachers are using these platforms to share their knowledge with the general public and bring it into the classroom. Materials …
Multisensory Approaches From Interactive Art to Inclusive Design
In interactive art and multimedia installations, the public plays a fundamental part. Visitors change the meaning and the appearance of artwork according to their sensitivity and preferred way of interaction. For designers, this audience is the set of users on which they should focus their projects. Among the most pervasive technologies are a variety of …
Profiling the Instructional Designer: Towards a Systematization of the Profession
In recent years, particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to rethink learning experiences has become evident. Instructional design is a field that can contribute significantly to developing new ways of learning in digital environments; however, as a profession within the European context, it has not been regulated, nor the requirements for the practitioners of …
Sonic Kinesthetic Forest: Listening to and Dancing With Trees
Sonic Kinesthetic Forest is an interdisciplinary research project and pedagogical investigation that uses sensory-based, creative methods of drawing, sound, and movement for connecting humans more viscerally to trees and forest landscapes. Our work responds to David Abram’s premise in The Spell of the Sensuous that sensory practices are vital for mitigating human disembodiment, desensitization and …