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Exploring Student-Centered Initiatives in Virtual and Asynchronous Post-secondary Graduate Programs
As post-secondary education continues to evolve in response to diverse learners, graduate post-secondary programs have embraced virtual and asynchronous learning environments. This paper investigates the implementation and impact of student-centered initiatives within these contexts within online learning communities at the graduate post-secondary level. Educational institutions face challenges and opportunities posed by online learning environments including …
Accessing Ability: Making the Case for a Mental Health Promotion Approach to Inclusive Education
Post-secondary education plays an important role on societal and individual levels. The human capital developed during post-secondary education programs fosters social and economic prosperity by developing the country’s workforce. Completing higher education contributes to increased lifetime earning potential for everybody, but might be particularly beneficial for people with mental health related disabilities (MHRD). Therefore, as …
Students’ Experience Two Years Into the Pandemic at a Bulgarian University
After the pandemic began in March 2020, universities in Bulgaria suspended in-person learning. In the current 2021-22 academic year, schools shut down again in areas of Bulgaria where COVID-19 infection rates spiked, returning students to online learning. This study investigates the experiences of undergraduate students at a Bulgarian university about the impacts of the pandemic …
Exploring the Educational Potential of Social Networking Environments for Indigenous K-12 Students in New Zealand
This presentation will detail PhD research on the factors that promoted e-learning engagement in online social networking sites (SNS) for a small sample of indigenous Māori students (Y9-11) in the rural Northland area of New Zealand.The study helps address a lack of data on how indigenous students, in particular, engaged with e-learning through a series …
Educational Culture in a Synchronous Class: Case of Filipino-Chinese Interface
One key target of the global education system is the equipping of graduates exhibiting sets of core 21st-century competencies. Looking into global competencies vis-a-vis language learning, inclination to English fluency is an edge for pursuing global careers. The imperativeness of accommodating English education in China is first manifested in its Open Door Policy in 1976. …
Attitudes of Thai Male VDO Game Players in Choosing to Use VDO Games’ Women Characters
This study aims to investigate the online social phenomenon related to the attitudes of Thai MALE GAMERS opting to use women characters in video games. The subjects were Thai male game players interacting in gaming community on social media– Facebook. Data were collected by using a non-participatory observation of talks about female characters among gamers …
The Use of Digital Means in the Teaching and Learning of Multiplatform and 2.0 News Communication
The debate promoted decades ago on the use of the ICT as a key factor for the learning processes in the university teaching, together with the advancements in the journalistic field support this paper approach (Scott, 2002). The main aim is to determine the value of using social media when training journalism students on the …
Learners’ Perspective of the Critical Benefits of Digitalisation of Teaching and Learning in Nigeria Higher Education
In recent years, the Nigeria youths have embraced online interactions through social media, though for social interactions with least applications to teaching and learning. Some examination bodies in Nigeria have adopted digitalisation of examinations to select suitable enrolments to the university, but none of the higher institutions have commenced digitalisation of teaching and learning whereby …
High School Preparatory Class Students’ Digital Reading Culture and Their Engagement With Interactive English Graded Readers
Fast-growing technology of the 21st century has led to an overwhelming desire for its constantly use in educational areas where the learners are overrashly perceived as digital natives. Bearing in mind that “One size does not fit all”, this study focused on High School Preparatory Class (HSPC) students’ attitudes towards digital reading and their use …
ISSN: 2186-4705 – The Asian Conference on Technology in the Classroom 2017: Official Conference Proceedings
ACTC2017 Art Center of Kobe, Kobe, Japan
Conference Theme: “Educating for Change”
Thursday, May 11 – Sunday, May 14 2017
ISSN: 2186-4705
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 major source of forming and strengthening echo chambers and political polarization. Hence, quantifying the significance of each edge (the connection or relationship between two particular nodes, for example two friends on Facebook, or two follower/followed …
Let’s Play: Using Gamification in University Classes as a Means to Increase Motivation and Engagement While Lowering Stress
Worldwide, traditional face-to-face (f2f) students struggled with a rapid shift to virtual learning as did faculty who often had limited experience and knowledge of developing online courses or knowing how to engage their students. Many institutions of higher education have returned to classrooms, first with hybrid approaches, and now f2f. However, just as the world …
Enhancing Student Learning Experiences Through Recorded Presentation Using the “Gongyeh” System
Oral presentation is one of the core competencies of the higher education professional training. The use of oral presentation is a popular assessment in higher education. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a shift from classroom learning to online or blended learning approaches where the class engagement is usually limited. This current …
Development of Student Status Reports of a Faculty in University Using Interactive Microsoft Power BI for Effective Academic Administration
The student status report is generally designed for academic administration to get information to analyze the learning progress. For the case study at the Faculty of Industrial Education and Technology (FIET), King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, there are 8 undergraduate programs, 7 master’s programs, and 1 doctoral program. There are average number of 755 …
Investigate the Difficulties of Indonesian Learner During Electronic Portfolio
Normal learning stopped, project delayed, school shut down. The universe seemed to have a halt because of the Novel Coronavirus. On the other hand, students have to continue their education through online learning which was currently the best alternative as keeping schools opened but safe for them. This learning method was the new one in …
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 that the shift to online and distance learning were a short-term anomaly. After 18 months of pandemic restrictions that have caused distancing in both the teaching and other social aspects of learning, remaining resilient and …
Modes of Learning and Performance Among Graduates During a Pandemic in a State University in Romblon, Philippines
Quality education is a key commitment of Romblon State University. By providing a performance assessment of students exposed to modes of learning during a pandemic, this study aimed to describe their performance in different learning modalities during COVID-19. This study focused on all 2021 graduates from the College of Education in determining their modes of …
Digital Transformation in Art Education for Pre-service and In-service Primary School Teachers: Potential and Challenges
The sudden disruption of normal classes caused by COVID-19 and the transition to Emergency Remote Teaching in Higher Education brought into focus the challenges as well as the opportunities afforded through remote learning-teaching to offer high quality educational experiences (Azorìn 2020, Harris 2020, Hodges et al 2020, Rapanta et al 2020, UNESCO, 2020). The new …
Exploring Classroom Interactions for Inclusive and Quality Education Under SDG4
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) introduced by United Nations brings together the whole nation to eradicate poverty and tackle issues of social and climate change. Its fourth SDG (SDG4), ‘Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all and promote lifelong learning’, extends from pre-primary to tertiary and vocational education. Online learning was …
Effectiveness of Using Smartphone Instant Messaging (IM) App for Academic Discussion in an Undergraduate Chemistry Course
In this study, the effectiveness of using a smartphone instant messaging (IM) app (WhatsApp) for academic discussion for a first year half-credit Chemistry course in SUTD was examined. Academic discussion during and after instructional teaching is an integral part of learning. However, only 32% of the student participants had used online platform, such as Piazza …
Enhancing Teaching Through Moodle: A Case Study on e-Learning-supported English Language Teaching
This paper describes the experiences of English Language Center of Nizwa College of Technology regarding the implementation of blended learning approach in teaching English. Starting a policy on the use of e-learning in English Language courses, ELC envisions to supplement lesson delivery with online resources and activities in implementing blended learning using Moodle. As there …
Collaborative Feedback in a Blended Learning Environment: A Case Study of an EFL Writing Class
Collaborative feedback in a blended learning environment was studied to encourage learner-centeredness in the process of writing. The study aimed to: 1) examine how Thai university students perceived collaborative feedback activities when conducted in a blended learning environment; and 2) compare students’ perceptions toward collaborative feedback through face-to-face and online interactions. The participants were 24 …
Digital Literacy as a Factor for Sustainable Society
Digital literacy should be seen as directly related to the strengthening of information and communication technology. The integration of information and communication technologies into education at all levels and in all areas of training requires the development of skills and competencies related to the knowledge and use of digital media. The present paper explores digital …
A Soft Museum of Hardware Use: Testimonies From the Early Experience of Digital Devices as Historical, Pedagogical and Narrative Assets
This research addresses the validation of narrative legacies of a first generation of digital and online media users upon its mass adoption in the 1980s and 1990s. As a complement to ongoing processes of technological obsolescence, whereby arcane digital media devices become potential museum objects or trending novelties, we vouch for the testimonies of early …
Digital Cultural Communication: Vietnamese Cultural Professionals’ Use of Facebook During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Developments in digital technologies are having an impact on the work practices of cultural professionals. Digital technologies today afford cultural professionals with new ways of exhibiting art and culture. The digital platforms of galleries and museums, including websites and social media accounts, have become curated spaces with multi-media, interactive content and large amounts of digitized …
No Bells and Whistles: Technologically Simplified Instruction in Scholarly Reading and Writing
The Scholarly Reading eWriting Intensive was developed by an English language program in a large public university as a rapid response to the move online in the spring of 2020. Amidst the early days of the pandemic, there was concern about students’ need for “live” Zoom-style contact with other students and instructors. However, the author …
Issues and Challenges Experienced by Undergraduate Students in Undertaking an Oral Communication Assignment in the Midst of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This paper discusses the issues and challenges experienced by 91 first-year undergraduate students at a local university in Malaysia in undertaking an interview project in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, which required the use of mobile and computer technology as part of their group assignment. The assignment initially required each student to conduct an …
Professional Photographers of Instagram: The Meaning of Visual Communication Through Modern Photography in Digital Society
The purpose of this paper is to study the modern forms of visual communication of people, through Instagram. In order to study the way in which the visual message is transmitted between individuals, and then how this transmission of information affects its final content, determining the creation of aesthetic experience and perception in the individual, …
A Comparative Analysis of Flexible Learning and Performance in Computer Programming Course
Learning computer programming entails conceptual and imperative knowledge. Learning difficulties often arise when novice learners apply conceptual knowledge to practice to gain imperative skills. In the post-pandemic era, learners at all levels suffered as learning overturned from fully online to hybrid learning. Lecture recording, live classes, online game-based tools, social and digital media, and collaborative …
Social Presence and Engagement: A Design-Based Research Study to Incorporate Web 2.0 Protocols
Increased social presence in asynchronous courses has shown to lead to student success and improved learning experiences. However, many students still lack social presence in asynchronous courses. This study utilizes educational design research (EDR) methods to frame an investigation into the issues and potential solutions for the lack of social presence in asynchronous online courses. …
Preschool Teachers’ Learning Self-efficacy in Predicting Technology-teaching Integration: A Comparison Between Taiwan and Malaysia
In Asia, Taiwan is one of the world’s leading producers of information and communication technology products and government continuously invest in teacher development on technology to empower teachers to improve school education in the digital era. Some studies concerned teachers’ technology integration, and their self-efficacy in the online learning context. However, little research has been …
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 …
The Accessibility of Web-based Lessons During the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic
In this age of content digitalization, equal access to web-based learning resources is important as it contributes to offering all students with same opportunities to pursue their learning and career goals. With the current circumstance, the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has forced most governments in the world to temporarily close educational institutions of different …
“Universal” Video Games? Reintroduction and Influence of Cultural and Social Identities in the Virtual World
As of today, The Video Game Industry has become one of the most profitable and influential leisure businesses in the world. Alongside this trend, Video Games have become one the most important elements that contribute to the integration of online media and connectedness, mainly because of the offers of interaction and entertainment that provides to …
Leveraging WBCL in Higher Education Architecture Programs
Higher education programs in architecture are under increasing pressure to meet the challenges created by expanding integration of digital technologies, new online platforms, and the lingering limitations imposed by the Covid19 pandemic. New expectations for addressing expanding automation, material development, synchronous/asynchronous learning, online communication, increased environmental equity, and climate-change challenges, are triggering comprehensive changes in …
Does Blended Learning System Boost Student’s Knowledge Sharing in General Education Course? The Indonesian Higher Education Challenge
The role of General Education is to equip students with basic knowledge, to understand the relationship between one science and another, to teach how to apply human knowledge and experience universally, so that it will enhance mutual understanding and respect for human beings. One of the challenges in General Education learning in higher education is …
Jurisdictional Issues in Cross Border Hacking
Increase in use of cyber technologies and at the same time increasing trends in the related crimes, compelled the scholars to discuss about the respective. During the regulation of the cyber world, one of the major problems, which was witnessed was the clash between the transnational internet and national law(s) because online activities are not …
Challenges and Benefits Those New Technologies Bring to Teaching Mathematics
Technology is not a new concept to mathematics. As technology continues to advance, computer-assisted or computer based instruction is becoming an integral part of higher education. In online education, technology replaces some or all of the face-to-face interactions, with self-paced content that is delivered through an online system. This new situation requires new approaches and …
ISSN: 2189-101X – The Asian Conference on Education & International Development 2021 Official Conference Proceedings
ACEID2021, Online from Toshi Center Hotel, Tokyo, Japan
Monday, March 22 – Wednesday, March 24, 2021
ISSN: 2189-101X
Considering Pedagogical Strategies for Countering Distraction and Its Sources
This research-based presentation reports on the issue of student distraction and disruption in online versus physical classrooms at university level. It is hoped that it will provide useful insights to teachers based on actual student feedback. The research was conducted by using a Student Disruption and Distraction (SDD) Questionnaire which garnered responses from 50 students …
Eliot’s Notion of Tradition and Its Significance in the Age of Multimedia
Our world today is being remade through the continuous spread of multimedia. We are actually living in what is called ‘New Times’. Multimedia has changed our life enormously. Despite the fact that some technological advances have caused some negative developments in our modern times: some people are being distracted, overly stressed, feeling qualitatively empty, alienated, …
A Within-Asia Comparison of Anxiety in English Language Classrooms
Anxiety in English language classrooms is often considered as one of the major sources of students’ reticence and shyness, frequently reported as one of the common characteristics of Asian learners. But, do all Asian students share the same characteristics in the setting of language learning? There might be some differences even if they share the …
Koto-tsukuri: Education at the Interface
The move to online was a serious disruptor. We reflect here on almost three years of fully online educational work at university level in a science-based curriculum in Japan. Presented as a workshop at the conference, participants experienced a real-time deployment of a class management system put together with low-code tools. Initial setup was to …
Systematic Literature Review: Learning Design Using the Flipped Classroom Model to Improve Learning Outcomes and Student Participation
With the help of anytime, anywhere access to online technologies, the flipped classroom learning approach focuses on students’ needs to improve learning efficiency. One style of learning is called a “flipped classroom,” which combines face-to-face synchronous interaction with online, individual learning. This study aims to analyze the use of the flipped classroom model to improve …
Does Sociality Become Virtual or Natural in Social Network Services? The Example of Facebook
Sociality means a number of individuals living and interacting together, which can lead to complicated social relationships and structure. In recent years, Social network services (SNSs) and online communities have been growing quickly. SNSs offer a variety of social behaviors that simultaneously expand and challenge our conventional understanding of sociability. Specifically, SNSs provide flexible and …
Students-Enthusiasts in a Virtual Classroom: Their Contribution to the Educational Process
In this work, the phenomenon of students’ enthusiasm was explored. 47 graduate students, which took the author’s online psychology courses, participated in the study. The tasks included quantification of the students’ learning motivation based on the analysis of their online coursework, comparing it with their academic achievement, and the analysis of the developmental tendencies of …
Research Supervision During COVID-19: A Comparison Between Supervisors’ and Supervisees’ Experiences
The COVID-19 pandemic shaped teaching, learning, and research activities and imposed an urgent online transition. Technology was extensively used to facilitate research and mentoring purposes, including research supervision. The importance of this research project stems from the need to explore the experiences of research students and research supervisors during the pandemic to assess the way …
Class Styles in a Private Japanese College: A Qualitative Study of Student Experiences of Face-to-Face and Remote Classes
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many Japanese universities to broaden their classroom methods. This presented a challenge for students and faculty. To improve future education, effectiveness of remote classes is important. At Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts (DWCLA), there are 11 departments in six faculties across two campuses in Kyoto, Japan. The diverse types of …
Classroom Assessment Standards: Indonesian EFL Teachers’ Assessment Practices in the Amid of the Pandemic
This study investigated assessment standards conducted by EFL Indonesian secondary school teachers and how they coped with the emergency remote teaching during the pandemic. The Indonesian curriculum assessment standard and Brookhart’s educational assessment standards were used as a research framework. An explanatory sequential research design was employed to capture the research problems holistically. First, using …
Innovative Learning Activities with the Use of Modern Educational Technology
There is a growing trend in the use of e-learning technology for the support of learning and teaching in universities worldwide. At St. Marianna University School of Medicine, E-learning was incorporated into ESL courses for first and second-year students in 2013. e-learning materials are mainly used to supplement in-class activities and to build academic vocabulary …
ISSN: 2187-476X – The Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy 2013 – Official Conference Proceedings
“Trust”
March 29-31 2012, Osaka, Japan
ISSN:2187-476X
ISSN: 2186-5906 – The Asian Conference on Media, Communication & Film 2019: Official Conference Proceedings
MediAsia2019, Toshi Center Hotel, Tokyo, Japan
MediAsia2019 Conference Theme: “Reclaiming the Future”
Friday, November 25 – Sunday, November 27, 2019
ISSN: 2186-5906
ISSN: 2186-4691 – The Asian Conference on Language Learning 2012 – Official Conference Proceedings
“Globalization, Culture and Society: What role does language play?”
April 26-28 2012, Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2186-4691
ISSN: 2434-5881 – The IAFOR Conference for Higher Education Research – Hong Kong 2018: Official Conference Proceedings
CHER-HongKong2018, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
CHER-HongKong2018 Conference Theme: “Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Value”
Friday, October 19 – Sunday, October 21, 2018
ISSN: 2434-5881
ISSN: 2186-5906 – The Asian Conference on Media & Mass Communication 2017: Official Conference Proceedings
MediAsia2017, Art Center Kobe, Kobe, Japan
MediAsia2017 Conference Theme: “History, Story, Narrative”
Friday, October 27 – Sunday, October 29, 2017
ISSN: 2186-5906
ISSN: 2189-1001 –The Asian Conference on Business and Public Policy 2014: Official Conference Proceedings
ACBPP2014, Osaka, Japan
Conference Theme 2014: “The Data-Enriched Enterprise”
Thursday, November 20, 2014 – Sunday, November 23, 2014
ISSN: 2186-5914
ISSN: 2186-5906 – The Asian Conference on Media & Mass Communication 2016: Official Conference Proceedings
MediAsia2016, Art Center Kobe, Kobe, Japan
MediAsia2016 Conference Theme: “Justice”
Thursday, October 27 – Saturday, October 29, 2016
ISSN: 2186-5906
ISSN: 2189-1036 – The IAFOR International Conference on Education – Hawaii – 2016 Official Conference Proceedings
IICEHawaii2016, Hawaii, USA
Conference Themes 2016: “Education and Social Justice: Learning and Teaching for Change”
Friday, January 8 – Monday, January 11, 2016
ISSN: 2189-1036
ISSN: 2187-5294 – The Asian Conference on Film and Documentary 2015: Official Conference Proceedings
FilmAsia2015, Kobe, Japan
Conference Theme 2015: “Power”
Thursday, November 12 – Sunday, November 15, 2015
ISSN: 2187-5294
ISSN: 2187-4735 – The Asian Conference on Asian Studies 2014 – Official Conference Proceedings
ACAS 2014, Osaka, Japan
Conference Theme 2014: “Borderlands of Becoming, Belonging and Sharing”
Rihga Royal Hotel, Osaka, Japan
Thursday, May 29, 2014 to Sunday, June 1, 2014
ISSN: 2187-4735
ISSN: 2187-4743 – The Asian Conference on Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences 2013 – Official Conference Proceedings
“Trust”
March 29-31 2013, Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2187-4743
ISSN: 2434-5881 – The IAFOR Conference for Higher Education Research – Hong Kong 2019: Official Conference Proceedings
ACLA2019, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Friday, November 8 – Sunday, November 10, 2019
ISSN: 2435-3922
ISSN: 2186-229X – The Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities 2013 – Official Conference Proceedings
‘Exchanges and Encounters’
April 4-7, 2013, Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2186-229X
ISSN: 2187-4735 – The Asian Conference on Asian Studies 2013 – Official Conference Proceedings
‘Encounters and Exchanges’
May 24-26 2013, Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2187-4735
ISSN: 2435-3922 – The Asian Conference on Liberal Arts: Official Conference Proceedings
ACLA2019, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Friday, November 8 – Sunday, November 10, 2019
ISSN: 2435-3922
Pictogramming Workshop (Learning Programming Concepts with Pictogram Contents Creation)
We have been developing content creation environment using human pictogram, called “Pictogramming.” This application can be accessed freely (web site URI: http://pictogramming.org/?page_id=470 and application URI: https://pictogramming.org/editor/). Pictogramming is coined from two words, “pictogram” and “programming”. Pictograms are widely used in various fields such as counseling, safety, and facilities. Thus, the pictogram has been researched in …
Implementation of Input Methods with Natural Language for Pictogramming
This paper proposes the extension of input method of “Pictogramming”. We have been developing content creation environment using human pictogram, called “Pictogramming.” It also leads to fit for educational use and it also has the advantage that an understanding of the concepts of programming such as sequential execution, parallel execution, variables, looping, conditional statements, etc. …
The Dynamics of Large Publicly Traded Corporations in Santa Catarina, Brazil
The research comprised the study of three public companies: BRF SA, Tupy SA, and WEG SA. These companies present a high level of technological development, with administrative headquarters located in Santa Catarina – Brazil, with business in several countries. The aim was to accompany historical development, geographic expansion, and business evolution of such companies in …
Finding Effective Ink Receiver Ingredient in Image Creation on Aluminum Plate to Replace Red Lacquer in Lithograph Process
Printmaking is an important process in Thailand, as required by many universities’ curriculums as well as Thai artists. Lithograph is rather popular among printmaking techniques. Its process is mainly utilized chemical reaction, however some chemicals are rare, then needed to be imported from foreign countries. The problem are led to “Finding effective ink receiver ingredient …
Real Science in Clear English
Real Science in Clear English The Issue English dominates the world of science. In order for students in countries such as China, India, Asia and the Middle East to compete globally in their fields, an increasing number of their tertiary institutes use English – rather than local languages – as the medium of instruction. However, …
A Study in Information Usage Behavior of Students in Rajabhat Rajanagarindra University
The study has following objectives as: (1) to study information usage behavior of students in Rajabhat Rajanagarindra University, (2) to study about problems in information usage and (3) study about requirements of the students in information usage. Sample comprised of 300 students. Data were collected by questionnaires analyzed by percentage, mean and SD. The results …
Autoconstruction as a Housing Tactic in the Contemporary City
Based on the recognition of the difficulty of access to urban housing by the lower classes as one of the greatest political and socio-economic challenges faced by Brazilian cities in the contemporary world, this article seeks to elucidate how this issue has been operated over the years and what are the consequences of such actions …
Social Green as a Strategy to Design Sustainable City in Developing Countries a Case Study of Surabaya
Designing city with minimum ecological foot print is necessary. However, most cities in developing countries have lack ability to design it. Lack of budget, lack of technology, urbanization, rapid population and economic competitive pressure has created slum and waste (Zarsky & Tay, 2000). Article argues that environment policy should meet five criteria. It should have …
Educational Practice and Professional Identity among Volunteer Correctional Educators: Becoming a Teacher Behind Bars
This case study examines the experiences of 8 volunteer educators working in a rural county jail in the northeastern United States. More specifically, it explores the challenge of developing a critical educational practice and nascent professional identity in a context otherwise alien to them and on the “borderlands” of contemporary educational practice It is well-documented …
ODD Self-Efficacy Test Academic Self-Efficacy Among College Students
It has long been considered that persons with a high level of self-efficacy can tackle even the most difficult tasks. As a result, the harder the activity, the more self-confidence and self-control they have, and the more successful they will be. The ODD Self-Efficacy Test is a 100-item survey designed to test college students’ self-efficacy. …
Development of a Tool to Analyze Source Code Submitted by Novice Programmers and Provide Learning Support Feedback With Comments
Novice students make various mistakes in the process of learning computer programming. In courses with more than 100 students, it is difficult to provide accurate and detailed feedback regarding errors in the source code submitted for their assignments. Therefore, we created a source code analyzer and developed a tool to provide detailed feedback to each …
Quality of Life and Psycho-affective Supervision of Elderly in Accommodation Facilities for Dependent Elderly People in Cameroon: A Cross-sectional Study
Ageing is accompanied by the loss of autonomy in some people, forcing families to use appropriate structures for their care. In Cameroon, accommodation facilities for dependent elderly people (AFDEP) are requested to cope with the lack of social and family supervision. Unfortunately, the supervision given to the aged persons (AP) in these structures raises questions …
Awareness, Perception and Readiness of Faculty and Staff Towards Remote Educational and Operational Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The sudden transition of face-to-face instruction to remote teaching in the early days of March 2020 created a new prototype for teaching, learning, and support for faculty and staff. The disruption brought to the surface the readiness of faculty and staff, the planning, and efficacy of professional development programs. Millions of faculty and students worldwide …
Demographic Variations of Multiple Sclerosis Patients Between Britain and Kuwait
Introduction Multiple Sclerosis (MS) has been described to result in debilitating symptom of the disease. The aim of this study was to compare the effects of MS on patients from Britain and Kuwait. Methodology A questionnaire was distributed to 200 individuals with MS (100 Kuwaiti, and 100 British). The questionnaire consists of three parts; General …
Densification of Tropical Wood Residues for the Development of Solid Fuels
Densification of materials through pelletisation, briquetting and cubing to form strong and durable bonding products with greater structural homogeneity, better handling and durability properties has attracted the attention of researchers in recent past. The present work focused on conversion of residues of some tropical wood species to energy fuel through pelletisation. The woody-biomass species studied …
Back to the Drawing Board: A Longitudinal Study of Fossilized Errors
The problem of fossilized errors has been a problematic issue with EFL researchers because that they indicate that traditional methods of instruction are not effective. This issue was, therefore, examined with university-level first-year Japanese EFL students to better understand the context in which they are occurring and their frequency over the course of an academic …
Awareness on Fish Depletion and Fishing Practices among Fishermen around River Rima and Kware Lake, Northwestern Nigeria
Human dependence on freshwater fish is significant, owing to the nutritional value provided by fish to populations particularly in the developing world. Fish are overexploited or severely depleted as a result of excessive fishing quotas, illegal fishing practices and poor management of our freshwater resources. Fishermen around River Rima and Kware Lake were surveyed to …
Educational Planning: Dropout of CWSN and SLD Children in India
India is striving for universal enrolment up to secondary level in schools. The planning documents reveal that Net Enrolment Ratio (NER) is more than 100 percent whereas Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) is less than 100 percent in elementary education. The paper analyses the data on disability in schools as reported under Unified District Information System …
Students’ First Language in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Classroom in Ubon Ratchathani University: “The Students’ Perspective”
This study tries to investigate the students’ perspective on the use of their L1 (Thai) in the acquisition of the L2 (English) in Ubon Ratchathani University. The study adapts questions used in previous studies to capture weather students think Thai should be used in the English class room and in what situations students use their …
Learning of Successors in Long-Lived Family Firms: Knowledge Construction for Entrepreneurial Mindsets
This study explores how successors in long-lived family firms learn entrepreneurial mindsets that orient the reconfiguration of unique resources of family firms. Learning to shape business values and beliefs is important for successors because values and beliefs are the firms’ core related to organizational identity and culture. Entrepreneurial mindsets are values and beliefs that pursue …
China’s Global Maritime Expansion: Between Its Grand Dream and External Trends
China’s dream to become a global maritime power is a controversial element of China’s global growth. Its expansion of maritime lines has been shaped by internal needs and external trends. The expansion has alarmed the world and raised the uncertainty about China’s potential to become the world maritime power in mid- 21st century. Despite the …
Insight of Twitter Ban: Student’s Perspectives in Higher Education
Twitter appears to be a platform for the elites, with abuse, misuse, misinformation, and disinformation. Twitter bans in various countries, including Nigeria, have raised worries about freedom of expression and information access. This study examines Nigeria’s Twitter ban’s reasons, effects, and alternative measures The research study was carried out using a quantitative method that takes …
Examining the Impact of Teachers’ Assessment Competency on Learners in Academia: A Study of Selected HEIs of Uzbekistan
Assessment evaluates students’ performance against established criteria, standards, or learning objectives to analyse learning outcomes through formative or summative techniques through ongoing feedback and opportunities for improvement so that curriculum, instruction, and educational policies are adjusted according to the student’s needs. In this light, the need for transformation is anticipated as never before, and teachers’ …
Management for Disabled Workers in the Establishment of Fruit and Vegetable Processing Industry in the Upper Northern of Thailand.
The study is qualitative research focusing on employees with disabilities in the fruit and vegetables processing industry. The results show that fruit and food processing enterprises in the Northern Part with more than 100 employees are required to employ one disabled as stated by laws. Almost of such enterprises employ employees with mobility disability as …
An Investigation of User Perception and Behavior for a Robotic Exercise Coach on Different Age Groups
As robot technology moves forwards, service type robot for home use has gradually entered people’s daily life. However, what is the acceptance and expectation from people for such innovative products and services? Will it be different among different family members of different ages? For this issue, through experimental design, to explore the difference in perception …
The Study of the First Year Students’ Multiple Intelligences in Learning English, Faculty of Liberal Arts, RMUTSV
The purposes of the study were to examine the first year student’s multiple intelligences preference in studying English, explore the difference in student’s multiple intelligences preference in learning English of each gender and investigate the difference in students� multiple intelligences preference in learning English of each major. The sample of this study was 100 first …
Performance of the Kindergarten Teachers and Its Relation to Pupils Achievement in Different Learning Areas
This study aimed to determine the performance of the kindergarten teachers and its relation to pupils’ achievement in different learning areas in the Division of Kabankalan City. Using the standardized assessment and evaluation of the Department of Education secondary data, 100 kinder teachers and 2901 kinder pupils were investigated to determine the performance of the …
Performance of the Kindergarten Teachers and Its Relation to Pupils Achievement in Different Learning Areas
This study aimed to determine the performance of the kindergarten teachers and its relation to pupils’ achievement in different learning areas in the Division of Kabankalan City. Using the standardized assessment and evaluation of the Department of Education secondary data, 100 kinder teachers and 2901 kinder pupils were investigated to determine the performance of the …
Performance of the Kindergarten Teachers and Its Relation to Pupils Achievement in Different Learning Areas
This study aimed to determine the performance of the kindergarten teachers and its relation to pupils’ achievement in different learning areas in the Division of Kabankalan City. Using the standardized assessment and evaluation of the Department of Education secondary data, 100 kinder teachers and 2901 kinder pupils were investigated to determine the performance of the …
Videogame Technologies for a Neurosciences Program
In this paper we present the advances corresponding to the implementation of a laboratory for neuronal rehabilitation using videogames technologies. In this laboratory we develop interactive technologies (videogames, virtual reality material, specialized devices, etc.) to be used and introduced in the Neuroscience bachelor’s degree program, which will be offered by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México …
OBOR: China’s Challenge to Western Hegemony in Higher Education and Implications for Malaysia Universities
The One Belt One Road initiative is seen as China’s challenge to Western hegemony in higher education. The strength of OBOR is that it has no formal institutional structure. Projects are negotiated on a bilateral arrangement between government entities at all levels and also between government and private sectors. OBOR is multifold, encompassing economic, political …
Fundamentals of Automation Engineering: Recent Innovations in Teaching and Learning
In this paper, recent innovations in teaching and learning related to the course “Fundamentals of Automation” are described. This course is introduced in the first year for freshmen, common for all undergraduate engineering programs. It focusses on creating required competencies for design and maintenance of automation systems. A hybrid Project Based Learning pedagogy is employed, …
A New Standard for Doing Agile Scrum Team Work in Education
Scrum is increasingly becoming an essential product development methodology for project education in modern curricula, however, individually assessing students that work in scrum projects as applied in the professional work field remains extremely challenging until date. In scrum, students team up in order to deliver high-quality products in projects that are directed to real business …
Social Forums for a Different Democracy: Key Artistic Strategies of Chinese Socially Engaged Art in the 21st Century
It is the goal of this presentation to analyze how do some recent Chinese socially engaged art experiment a different democracy than the western paradigm. An in-deep study of art project Everyone’s East Lake (2010-2014) will be introduced. East Lake is the biggest tourist attraction in Wuhan city of China, whereas, in recent ten years, …
The Management of Innovative School: A Case Study of Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand
The objectives of this research were to: 1) study the characteristics and factors of Innovative School 2) study the administrative process according to the factors of Innovative School 3) Study the development guidelines for innovative schools. The target group were school director, teachers, personnel, school boards, parents, students, organizations and related agencies of Innovative School …
A Curator(Ial) Collaborative: Curating Contemporary Asian Art in an Australian Context
This presentation begins with an examination of the historical relationship in cultural shifts in Australia, which reflects the re-orientation towards the Asia-Pacific region and the development of Asian contemporary art over the last two decades. This research reflects my cultural and artistic position on the imposition of Australian culture on Asian culture and vice versa. …
A Study of Multi-Agent Simulation in the Urban Transformation of Tamsui, Taiwan
Cities embed the parameters and drive components, which has intention behind the physical embodiment. Based on the research of Cedric Price’s urban planning operated by the dynamic and adaptive system showed the interactions to reflect such intentions of the immediate neighbors, participants, and the other informational feedback loop. The bottom-up intelligence becomes visible and with …
Personality Types in the Classroom
Why is it that Aisha never talks during group work? Why does Sultan always need me to tell him what to do? And why do they both insist on completing their projects at the last minute? These are questions we have all probably asked ourselves during our teaching careers, and the answer may be quite …
Design Thinking and Creative Group Engagement in the EFL Classroom
Research has questioned the ability of our educational systems to prepare students for the increasingly uncertain and complex nature of the modern world. The need to rapidly predict trends, and find solutions to complex problems has increased the importance of empathy, creativity, cognitive flexibility and critical thinking in the workplace. In order to prepare students …
Education for urban refugee children in Malaysia: Pathway to Peace
This research focuses on the educational experiences of urban refugee children in Malaysia, examining the expectations of parents, NGO of educational projects for urban refugee children in Malaysia and investigating if the education space contributes to peace through intergroup contact. The conceptual framework for the study is based on intergroup contact theory which is based …
Rethinking the Promise of Scratch in the Applied Linguistics Classroom: Students’ Perspectives, Instructor’s Observations
For the past five fall semesters (2010-2014), undergraduate and graduate students taking applied linguistics (LN400, LN500) at the University of Guam were required to explore the promise of SCRATCH by designing projects relevant to their individual fields of specialization, from language teaching and literature, to pragmatics and sociolinguistics. SCRATCH, a free downloadable program from MIT …
Screening Otherness: The Potential of Screen Literacy Learning for Cosmopolitan Knowledge and Understanding
Recent cineliteracy projects for young people in Japan and Australia indicate that knowledge and understanding of the moving image impacts positively upon their reading and writing skills. It can also introduce them to new ways of communicating with others and of appreciating “otherness”. Taught within an intercultural pedagogical framework, students learn how to culturally locate, …
Can Active Collaborative Learning Improve Equality?
Across UK Higher Education, there is a strong drive to improve equality for students from diverse backgrounds reflected in government and university strategies and policies. One priority is the attainment gap, where students from some ethnic minorities and other disadvantaged backgrounds experience worse outcomes than expected. The national regulator, the Office for Students, allocated funding …
Does the New “Fix” Fit?
Adaptive building reuse constitutes a major factor for the city resource exploitation, to wit the local sustainable urban development. Economic potential and sustainability in the wake of an adaptive reuse project, given the several variables involved, is an important subject of study. In particular, the adaptive reuse of industrial buildings of cultural heritage is considered …
Rephotographic Powers: Teaching Rephotography As a Platform for Visual Communication in Turkey
Rephotography is the act of re-taking a previous photograph from the same vantage point, usually separated by a period of time. Rooted in 19th century scientific practices of recording environmental change (e.g. glaciers, plant population), it has since been adopted within fields of arts and humanities to illustrate cultural changes. Possessing the power to pull …
Reinforcing Pancasila Student Profiles: The Ideal Frameworks of Project-Based Learning in Secondary Schools in Indonesia
Students in Indonesia are expected to be capable of being useful members of society and becoming great human beings in the twenty-first century. Critical thinking skills and character building are among the characteristics necessary to attain the Pancasila student profiles. Project-based learning is being used in schools in an effort to enhance Pancasila students’ profiles. …
Curricular Design of Higher Education in Colombia From Educational Policies
With the Colombian Constitutional Reform of 1991, the Government ceased to be the sole curriculum designer in educational institutions. With this Reform, the Government fulfills the role of supervision and control of educational quality. On the other hand, the Universities are granted the autonomy for the design of their Institutional Educational Projects, therefore, the design …
Religious Prosperity Calling Cultural Progress: Architectural Discourses on Korean Catholic Churches (1979–94)
After the Korean War (1950–53), the South-Korean Catholic population increased unprecedentedly, despite the Confucian roots of the nation. From 1979, this Catholic boom reached a climax, which was accompanied by the 200th anniversary of the Korean Catholic Church in 1984 and celebrated with commemorative cultural events and projects. Pope John Paul II visited Seoul twice, …
Developing Pedagogies: Reflections on Pedagogical Intersections During a COIL Project Between South Africa and the Netherlands
Teaching practitioners in higher education are increasingly encouraged to engage in collaborative projects. This work follows from scholars who have lauded COIL and other collaborative projects for facilitating global citizenry and providing third spaces for learning (Guimaraes & Finardi, 2021). This paper reports on a case study of a collaborative project between a University in …
Closing the Loop in Design Education: Surviving Disruption in A Digital World
Creative problem-solving, agile and analytical thinking, collaboration and empathy have become essential 21st-century skills required in the current workforce. The upheaval of a global pandemic has accelerated the need to adapt to the changes and disruptions society is facing. The role of future designers is not just to design for the world to be understood …
A Study on Chinese Fashion Design Students’ Perceptions on Sustainable Practices Throughout the Lifecycle of Clothing Products
Fashion departments of higher education institutions currently play a decisive role in promoting sustainable development as centers of cultivating fashion design talents towards the rapid increase of environmental issues that caused by the fashion and textile industry. Through both quantitative and qualitative approaches, we aim to determine the perceptions of fashion design students regarding sustainability …
Developing English-Speaking Skills of Engineering Students Through Project-Based Learning in Uzbekistan
Traditionally, engineers are known as problem solvers as they deal with various kinds of issues and suggest possible solutions. One of the vital aspects is to enhance their problemsolving skills from the first year of their studies at the university and at the same time improve their English language skills. Project-based learning is a method …
Educational Policies for Aging and Movements in Thailand: A Literature Review
According to the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (2002), social and policy movements to increase an educational opportunity among Thai elderly had also been established and implemented. The objective of this paper is to review the education policy for the elderly and its implementation. The secondary data employed from several resources, either Thai …
The Competitive Transformation of Business Based on Agile Innovation Methods That Engage Visual Creatives as Business Process Leaders
Humankind has been marked by profound transformations through the centuries. These transformations have led humanity to find answers and solutions to create new realities. During these transformations, a constant has been the ability to adapt to change. Although this may not necessarily be easily accepted, it has been recognized that the human mind is forced …
The Role of Design in Health Observational Studies
The specialization in “Design for Health and Well-being” has recently emerged in Portugal. This branch aims to bridge different fields, Design, Health, and Well-being. At the moment, we are working to identify what our role as designers is in the area, namely in a Cohort Study in Leiria, with 10 years duration. The present project …
Homeostatic Designs: How the Theories of Antonio Damasio Can Inform Design Thinking
This paper discusses the role of homeostasis through the lens of the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio and its potential relation to design. The understanding of physiological regulation has evolved from the Greek idea of body humors, through Claude Bernard’s “milieu intérieur”, to Walter Cannon’s formulation of the concept of “homeostasis. This evolution was important to the …
Active Compassion: Empowering Buddhist Nuns Through STEM Education
This study endorses teaching and learning opportunities in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) for Buddhist nuns. The Dalai Lama’s position on science and secular education is examined, as well as STEM educational programs in which the Buddhist monastic community participates. This research advances the initiatives of international governmental and nongovernmental organizations …
Reference Framework for Tacit Knowledge in Craft-Based Manufacturing Processes for Updating Their Practices With Digital Interventions: A Systematic Review
This study aimed to build a framework to define key attributes in the tacit knowledge of craft-based manufacturing processes, used to update the technique through digital interventions. Currently, with the integration of CAD/CAM technologies into craft-based processes, the development of new products is possible, but it is important to recognize the prior tacit knowledge and …
Teaching Real-Time Programming for Embedded Microcontrollers by Using Cloud-Based Simulator
In “normal” times, students of electronic department enrolled in the course “Real-Time Digital Signals Processing” (RT-DSP) use real hardware – dedicated development boards containing microcontrollers and additional electronic components, and dedicated software (installed on the personal computer) to program those development boards. However, because of COVID 19 limitations, the distribution of development boards and dedicated …
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. …
Students’ Involvement in Co-creation Initiatives: The Link Me Up – 1000 Ideias Project at the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu
The unpredictability of the current job market requires the development of specialized technical skills, but particularly transferable skills, which allow career construction in a process of constant adaptation to job opportunities and demands. In this process, higher education institutions play a fundamental role, readjusting the training offer, including participation in research and intervention projects. As …
A Collaborative Strategy for the Construction and Graphic Representation of A Cultural Ecosystem Involving Participatory Design in the Academic and Business Context
The main theme of this work is games as tools for promoting empathy, inclusion and teamwork in both academic and professional environments. Our objective is to present the entire process of elaboration of the Cultural Ecosystem derived from the realization of workshops that resorted to a participatory design approach that resulted in the identification of …
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 …
An AI-Enable Knowledge Graph and Student’s Agency in Productive Struggle During Problem-Based Learning in Cybersecurity Education
Problem-based learning (PBL) is adapted to support students’ learning in cybersecurity courses. However, students frequently lack learner agency and require step-by-step instruction. With an instructor’s minimum help, students struggle with integrating coherent target concepts, applying those concepts to solve real-world problems, and managing their learning progress. To respond to the national challenge on the workforce …
A Conceptual Framework to Elicit Student Engagement via Development of Extended Reality (XR) Applications Using Project-Based Experiential Learning
Student Engagement is recognized as a covariate of learner outcomes within both online and face to face learning environments. Withal, due to extensive implementation of passive teaching approaches, there is finite guidance about utilization of proactive student-centered teaching strategies to ameliorate engagement among learners like employing Project Based Experiential Learning (PBEL). This paper describes ongoing …
Community-Centred Design for Social Innovation: Bottom-Up and Government Initiatives in Shanghai
Insecurity has gripped our society. When we write these words, some countries may be experiencing war, hunger, and poverty. The causes of this extreme insecurity vary, but the major contributors include a lack of community cohesion, relevance, and cultural identity. In the absence of timely solutions to these problems, more social problems will arise. Therefore, …
Education Plan According to Age and Experience to Reduce Human Error of Construction Workers
In Korea, as construction projects become increasingly large and complex, many construction accidents are occurring. According to the Ministry of Employment and Labor, as of 2021, the number of accident victims in the construction industry is the second highest after other industries, and the number of accident deaths accounts for about 50%, ranking first in …
The Perceptions and Experiences of Graduate Students: Evidence From a Japanese National Research University
The study is devoted to exploring the perceptions and experiences of graduate students at a case Japanese national university through a comparison between graduate students in Humanities and Social Sciences and those in Sciences and Engineering. The data from the Students Experiences in the Research University (SERU) survey conducted at the case university from 16th …
Aspects of Italian Buddhist Presence and Poetry
The first, shorter section of this paper will briefly inform on how Buddhism was imported to Italy. The latest and most prolific import has taken place in the last five decades. Buddhism in Italy involves about 89,000 Asian migrants, and 100,000 Italian nationals. An aspect of cultural borderland is that Italian Buddhism, like all Western …
A Study on Quality of Life in Male to Female Transgender
The objective of this study was to examine Transgenders’ quality of life. Samples were 120 Transgenders in Chonburi province, Thailand, derived from accidental sampling. The research instrument was WHOQOL – BREF – THAI, which was a measuring tool of quality of life developed from the concept of ‘quality of life’ with Cronbach’s alpha coefficient reliability …
Dirty Battery, an Alternative Source of Electricity (DBASE) for the Community
Extension service is one of the functions of Higher Education Institutions in the Philippines. It is a service thrust of the University where community development projects and programs are served among the various sectors of community. With the University of Rizal System’s commitment to empower community through relevant and sustainable technical instruction, research and extension …
Community, Identity and Elderly: What Happens When “Us” Enhances “Me” – The Belonging on Elderly
We are living on times where it is possible to observe families with three or four generations to coexist, but their members are so busy and involved in so many activities outside home, that there is no time to share experiences in day life time, and sharing is restricted on commemorative parties dates, or occasional …
Challenges of Language Education in Post-Colonial Contexts
A problem that persists in post-colonial contexts is the perception that the standard form of languages should prevail on regional dialects and creoles. In many countries (Haiti, Belize, etc.), a creole is spoken at home, while only the standard form of the language is used in the education system. Students face negative attitudes of teachers …
Traditional Seeds Saving Learning Site: An Experiential Learning for Food Security and Community’s Sufficiency Economy in a World Heritage Site, Thailand
This research aims to study the design of the local seed conservation learning centre of the Pwo Karen community and to study a learning model through villagers’ experience in maintaining food security and community economy in the world heritage. Data were collected by a survey and interviews with nineteen people and then analysed. The results …
Child Q: A Case Study of the Adultification of Black Girls in Schools
Sylvia Ikomi is an early career researcher who is completing an Economic and Social Research Council Stuart Hall Foundation 1 + 3 PhD studentship in education at the University of Leeds. In 2022 the news of the strip searching of a Black secondary school girl (now referred to as Child Q) in a school/academy in …
Knowledge, Attitude, and Perception Towards ChatGPT Among University Students and Faculty: A Preliminary Exploration
Launched on November 30, 2022, ChatGPT has taken the world by storm with its ability to generate human-like text in a conversational style. The reactions varied from enthusiasm about its potential to enhance learning to concerns about its threat to students’ cognitive development and academic integrity. This exploratory study aims to (1) gauge the level …
Compassionate Acts: Implementing Forum Theatre as a Tool to Create a Compassionate Peer Structure for Bereaved Students in Schools
Child Bereavement Network estimates 127 children are bereaved of a parent every day. Compassion Arts, in partnership with St Luke’s Hospice, aims to change the nature in schools around death and dying by 1) training young people to understand bereavement, dying, and anticipatory grief and 2) talking about death and bereavement in an open and …
The World Café Method for the Development of Non-technical Midwifery Skills in Morocco: A Pilot Experience
This research discusses the most critical soft (non-technical) skills development in midwifery education by using a collaborative methodology known as the World Café in the continuous education context at the Centre de Formation et de Simulation (FORSim) in Settat, Morocco. Non-technical skills complement technical skills to provide safe performance of technical activities and satisfaction of …
Love as a Critical Act of Resistance: Teaching Refugee Children in Disquieting Times
Educational organisations must address the needs of refugees and migrants and mitigate the concerns and prejudices of local communities, yet little is known about how teachers are addressing these challenges. Since its democracy in 1994, the influx of refugees into South Africa has increased rapidly. African refugees in South Africa have become the new other, …
E-learning in Secondary Schools: Survey of Students in Kigali, Rwanda
Although much time and energy has been put into digitizing the world around us, education is lagging behind. The question therefore arises to what extent secondary schools should introduce e-learning into their courses. The purpose of this study is to increase knowledge about e-learning by examining students’ perceptions and intentions regarding e-learning. To achieve this …
Insights on Innovation in Education: A TPACK Experience in Continuing Teacher Education in Southern Brazil
Pedagogical practices at different levels of education, especially in basic education, demand proposals capable of developing autonomy and innovation skills. Considering the Latin-American scenario, especially in Brazil, the (post) pandemic context has contributed for information and communication technologies to move from supporting to protagonists in the pedagogical process, with their limitations and potential being the …
Panopticon Perspective: Visual Analysis of a Film
Bent Hamer’s movie Kitchen Stories (2003) is a Norwegian movie that is a combination of the post-war context within the research storyline of daily life practices. Kitchens are places where parts become wholes: where various ingredients could be combined and turned into a new form. In the film, space turns into a research field about …
A Study on the Participatory Culture of Filipino Kpop Fandom and Its Fan Activism
K-pop fans are now recognized as a prominent force in the field of activism, having been vocal about their concerns about a variety of social and political issues. Due to the new and still rising activism of modern K-pop fans on a worldwide scale, research on K-pop fan activism is not as thorough in the …
Media Exposure and Health Behaviors of Menopausal Woman in Ranong Province, Thailand
This study examines the relationship between media exposure and health behaviors among menopausal women in Ranong Province, south of Thailand. The primary objectives of the research involve analyzing the association between media exposure and health behavior among 375 menopausal female patients who sought medical assistance at Ranong Hospital, Thailand in 2022. The results indicate significant …
English Medium Instruction on Spatial as a Virtual Reality Classroom
As a result of growing Artificial Intelligence technologies, many immersive Metaverse platforms have emerged for various purposes including teaching and learning. Although many studies have explored the use of immersive Virtual Reality (VR) platforms in university courses, little research on the application of these digital tools at English Medium Instruction (EMI) Higher Education institutions in …
Sista, Stanup, Strong: The Use of Storytelling to Raise Collective Female Pasifika Voices Against Gender Violence
In her 2010 review of Michelle Keown’s 2007 book Pacific Islands Writing: The Literatures of Aotearoa/New Zealand and Oceania, Janet Wilson noted that while the Oxford University Press publication was “an essential introductory text for all students and scholars in this field,” Keown’s coverage of “recent diasporic communities of the Pacific” and “the place of …
What’s Role of Indonesian Young Voters in Upcoming 2024 Elections?
Indonesian millennials are the largest age-group as Indonesia is experiencing a demographic dividend, where the size of the young productive age population is the largest until 2030. Millennials and Gen-Zers hold about 54 percent of the population of 270 million people, according to official statistics. Meanwhile, the Association of Indonesian Internet Service Providers (2022) also …
Pre-service Teachers’ Perception, Interpretation, and Decision-Making in Mathematics at the Primary Level – Using Video-Vignettes for Research
Teachers’ perception, interpretation, and decision-making skills are considered a prerequisite for appropriate teacher behavior in complex teaching situations. For researching these skills, video-vignettes are recommended as a context-sensitive stimulus. The article presents a study about these skills of pre-service teachers using video-vignettes showing learners dealing with context-related problems. When watching these video-vignettes, the pre-service teachers …
Music Composition: Lagu J-Mahmad Folk Dance for Jazz Ensemble
This article is about a music composition name “Lagu J-Mahmad Folk Dance.” The song composed for Jazz Ensemble. It has 4 musical part that include, part A-B-A-C-A which has been play in 6 minutes long. The composer using the melodic ideas, Motif ideas and rhythmic ideas from the southern of Thailand folk song name “Lagu …
Higher Education Beyond COVID-19 Pandemic: Students’ Perspectives on Design Thinking: A Q-methodology Study
The purpose of this study is to examine and categorize the epistemological views of college students and correlate and group those who share similar patterns of views regarding the use of Design Thinking (DT) in their Philosophy course at De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde, Philippines. Q-Methodology which is a mixed research method was used …
Changes of German Foreign and Security Policy Since Russian-Ukraine War –For Understanding the German Eurasian Strategy
German security policy under Scholz government changed from prudent to assertive one. “Policy entrepreneur” led to Militarization of German foreign policy. Thereby they broke the taboo norm about weapon provision much more deeply. As the result, Germany mostly abandoned the “culture of restraint.” Additionally, they decided to promote militarization and increase the defense expenditure-to-GDP ratio …
Action Research: Learner Reflection on Group Work and Leadership Skills
Learning how to be an effective leader seems to be an important facet of group discussions and group task work. One way to attempt a bottom-up approach to applying and practicing leadership skills is through action research (AR), defined by Burns (2009) as an approach to research that involves teachers researching their own contexts. AR …
Sexual Communication in Heterosexual and Non-Heterosexual Young Adults: Seeking the Importance of Perceived Social Support
Many people still feel uneasy to talk about sex and sexuality as they are sensitive and still much stigmatized topics. Especially non-heterosexual individuals as compared to heterosexual counterparts tend to have difficulty when disclosing their sexual concerns due to sexual stigma. However, studies show the more social support people have, the more likely they are …
Analysis of Big Data and Education Research Using Data Mining
Background: The interest in big data in education related to the continuous industrial revolutions affecting education and several industries has led to increased publications about it. Objective: This study aims to identify prevalent big data in education research and describe the temporal trends of topics using data mining. Methodology: Social sciences-related abstracts were systematically mined …
Education for European Citizenship – Reviewing EDC/HRE by Using Habermas’s Theory
The purpose of this presentation is to reveal the necessary education to cultivate European Citizenship qualities by focusing on Jürgen Habermas’s opinions on Europe as an integrated body and the theory of Communicative Action. In addition, since 1997, the Council of Europe has been running a citizenship education project throughout Europe called Education for Democratic …
Karol Wojtyla’s Personalist Philosophy of Education
Karol Wojtyla and his philosophy is well known among scholars of philosophy for its rich contribution to ethics, anthropology, epistemology, and metaphysics. He is also acknowledged as a personalist philosopher because of the fundamental claims of his philosophy that enrich the movement. When Wojtyla got elected as Pope and took the name John Paul II, …
In Pursuit of Quality TV Programs for Young Children: What Are the Criteria in the View of Their Audience?
There has been concern about the impact of media on young children, especially television. Parents have been looking for appropriate, high-quality media for their children, which is why the criteria of quality TV programs for young children are essential for parents to maximize the benefit of media in developing children’s learning. The ‘Media Quality Rating’ …
The Role of Virtual Reality (VR) to Teach Maltese as a Second Language
Although Virtual Reality (VR) technology is becoming increasingly popular, little is known about the prospect of using VR tools for educational purposes in the context of teaching Maltese language. The current study used a mixed research methodology. The qualitative approach and a focus group technique were applied to collect data from 25 teachers about the …
Using Pre-Test for Assessing Familiarity With Japanese Culture of Foreign Students During Japanese Communication Class
After over two years into the pandemic, international student mobility is still not recovered in Japan and many of the exchange activities with students at foreign universities are still being conducted online. In 2022, we conducted an online summer school for foreign students from abroad to learn about up-to-date scientific research trends as well as …
UX Evaluation of a School Newspaper Creation Platform
Media and information literacy is an increasingly important skill, especially for the younger audiences who consume and believe in information that may not be credible. Thus, school journalism can contribute to combat misinformation and develop media literacy in young people. This paper reports on a platform developed to create school newspapers and support news writing …
Teachers’ and Learning Advisors’ Perspectives on Integrating Reflection Activities into a Language Curriculum
According to Huang (2021), reflection on language learning is a process whereby language learners think deeply about their abilities, strategy use, and task performance, and in doing so, become more aware of their linguistic knowledge and self-regulation skills. This is important in helping them develop metacognitive awareness, setting a “foundation for learning and success” (Fleming …
Quitting with a Crowd: An Exploration of U.S. Teachers’ Resignation Stories on TikTok
This study explores teacher resignation stories on TikTok — “QuitToks” — to understand the messages that these viral videos send about the teaching profession during an unprecedented teacher shortage in the United States. I examine 36 popular QuitToks with viewership between 85,000 and 14 million. Drawing on frame analysis rooted in social movement theory, I …
Design Thinking in Education as a Catalyst to Discover and Maintain a Sense of Hope, Agency, and Confidence for Students
Learning about ‘wicked problems (WP)’ in sustainability such as pollution, urban waste, and food and water shortages could incur a sense of helplessness among students. WP is complex to understand and challenging to teach. Our experience suggests how these concepts are taught is as important for student learning as is teaching the concepts of WP. …
Campus Resilience: Educational Strategies to Elucidate Impact Factors and Implement Recommended Recovery Methods in Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Through utilizing diverse methods, education provides a unique path both to discovering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and recommending recovery methods. During 2021-2022, we implemented a variety of educational opportunities – including special topics and directed studies courses, campus-wide presentations, and extracurricular activities – toward this end. Initially, we offered a special topics course …
Quarterlife Crisis Among Emerging Adults: A Phenomenological Study
This study focused on the experience of Quarterlife Crisis among Filipino emerging adults. It aims to examine the quarterlife experiences of emerging adults as they transition from adolescence into adulthood. Several factors were taken into consideration in this investigation such as attainment of bachelor’s degree, pursuing a higher degree of education, age, and single as …
The Study Conceptual of Professional Learning Community and Teacher’s Practice in School in Thailand
The research aims to study the concept of the teacher professional learning community and the practice of using the teacher professional learning community process. This research collects data from 360 teachers by using online questionnaires. Questionnaires consist of multiple choices about general information, the concept of teacher professional learning community, and rating scale questions about …
Learning Experiences to Support Equity for Student Living in Poverty
Poverty can affect the background knowledge and vocabulary development of students before they enter our elementary classrooms. As educators it is key to ensure that we provide a variety of learning experiences to help ensure equity inside and outside the classroom setting for these students. Out-of-school learning has the potential to help decrease the academic …
How to Plan Urban Environments: Rethinking Criteria for Urban Planning
Urban Planning (UP) is about the ways a city should be structured. I address the meta-question of the criteria used to evaluate and judge the appropriateness of UP. The issue is pressing: given climate change, more extreme temperatures and weather conditions, and fast-growing populations in cities we need to rethink UP, its criteria and their …
Military Life Challenges Among Military Spouses: Implications for Future Interventions
While there is a vast amount of research about the military in the Western setting, there is an undeniable scarcity in research involving the military, its members and their families in the Philippines. As the “overlooked casualities of war”, the researcher believes that military family members are equally impacted by the military lifestyle thus they …
A Women Leader and Kyrgyz Nomadic Society: Ethnographic Re-consideration of Life of Kurmanjan Datka in the 19th-Century Silk Road
Kurmanjan Datka (1811-1907) is the most famous woman leader in Kyrgyz history who was dubbed “the Queen of the Alai Mountains” in the 19th century. Kurmanjan Datka was born in 1811 in a nomadic Muslim family in the Alai region, southern Kyrgyzstan. She left her first husband breaking Kyrgyz traditions and fled back to her …
The Crisis of Alzheimer’s Disease in “The Father” and “Still Alice”: Media Representations of Dementia in Contemporary Film Narratives
Film and television have an essential impact on how we understand and respond to contemporary medical issues. In the case of dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease, this has translated into a fear of and stigmatization of the disease. While the standard frames for dementia in contemporary media focus on the biomedical aspects, these representations often translate …
Service Learning in Nutrition and Dietetics Education: A Systematic Review
Service learning (S+L) is a teaching method through which students apply what they learn in the classroom to real-life situations. In so doing, students help a community in addressing their needs and challenges, and, at the same time, students deepen their learning about specific contents in a university programme. The aim of this paper is …
Learning Beyond Teachers’ Lesson Plans – Implementing the Ignorance-driven Teaching and Learning Model in College Classes
Knowledge and non-knowledge, or ignorance, seemingly antithetical, are actually symbiotic. In essence, knowing is about learning about (what is), learning from (what causes and what is the consequence of), learning with (how to deepen learning with the better exploration of), and learning for (how to pursue a greater) ignorance. That is, ignorance sets off, drives, …
Forgetting Green Biographies: Memories and Relationship With Plants in a Primary School
This research explored the experiences of children and parents in a primary school class in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Participants took to the green archives where they engaged in a process of exploration, rediscovery and appreciation of their relationship with plants. The researchers’ approach, based on active listening and curiosity, brought the sleeping green memory to …
Empowering Self Regulated Learners: Embedding of IB ATL Skills Through Digital Literacy in Primary Students
The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a turning point of creativity in the field of education with the abrupt commencement of remote learning in March 2020 via online platforms. The ongoing digital transformation was accelerated and forced students to drastically adapt and adopt new approaches to their academic learning. In order for teachers to support …
Developing a National Identity in Kindergarteners of Different Ethnic Backgrounds: Values and Practices of Parents in Hong Kong
Nation-building is important in national politics, but establishing a national identity can be challenging. It has long been perceived as an alarming issue that Hong Kong people’s sense of Chinese national identity is waning. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government has vowed to reform education “from the bottom” to cultivate an understanding of …
Blurred Boundaries for Foreign Caregivers: For Better or For Worse?
Background: Stroke survivors frequently require a caregiver after they are discharged from the hospital (1). Their needs are often medically and physically demanding and can exceed the abilities of families, leading some to seek in-home help (2, 3). In Taiwan, foreign caregiving has become more common to address the needs of older adults and avoid …
Implementing Flipped Classroom for Chinese Intellectual Property Lawyers
Flipped classroom is one of the alternative learning modalities beyond simply delivering lectures in the classroom and assigning homework for students at home. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Wusong Law School, a commercial educational institution for Chinese lawyers, initiates the flipped classroom where both distance e-learning prior to the class and online collaborative activities are integrated …
Building People’s Awareness on Using the Outdoor Advertising for Tourism Promotion Case Study: Tourism-Content Billboards in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Currently, the out-of-home (outdoor) advertising is still used as a media campaign that gives many advantages for advertisers because of its benefits. The use of out-of-home advertising can be maximized on its use for the potential promotion of tourism in Yogyakarta, which is famous as the city of culture. The purpose of this study was …
Unjust Identity Quest: Sahar Khalife’s the Inheritance: A Post-Colonial Study
In Sahar Khalifeh’s novel The Inheritance, the reader is immersed in a hysterical world of various Diasporas revealed between the US and Palestine. Most characters are in the process of identity quest; a journey that acquires a greater importance and difficulty in this novel because it mirrors the Palestinians’ search for home and national existence.The …
An Analysis of Filipino Seafarers’ Return Preparedness and Perception of Successful Return
A Filipino seafarer’s return home is recognized by his family and society, as a culmination of a financially lucrative career and the achievement of lifelong objectives, a model of “calculated strategy.” The study 1) identifies the factors that seafarers consider when preparing for their retirement; 2) determines their level of preparedness for return to the …
The Relationship between the Number of Chronic Diseases and Living Environment among Aged Dementia Patients
Aim: To understand the Relationship Between the Number of Chronic Diseases and Living Environment among aged Dementia Patients. Methods: The study use the Aged Care Service Demand Questionnaire to obtain the subjects’ information on activities of daily living, physical health, mental health, and social resources and economic conditions et al.. The current research use Chi-square …
A Culture of Peace and Indigenous Women’s Engagement in Peacebuilding: A Cross-Cultural Concern
Southeast Asia is home to various cultural communities beset with war and conflict. Peace building efforts in the islands have been raised to a certain level of intensity. With the hopes to avoid war and conflict, initiatives toward achieving peace have been documented, but mostly, those which are wanting of stories involving women in the …
The Dimensions of Childhood in Modern Architecture: From Urban Scales to Domestic Spaces
According to many authors, architecture is more than meets the eye: it is the image of a certain historical, cultural, and social context, as it reflects the ideals and longings of the society by which it is built and inhabited. In the eventful years of the 20th century, amid a context punctuated by the horrors of …
Japan Away from Japan: The Tehran Supplementary Japanese School
How can my multi-racial children maintain and even improve their competency in their heritage languages? This is a common struggle in any multi-racial families as in most cases their daily life outside the home is carried out in one of the languages of theirs. Particularly, in the case of the biracial families of Japanese and …