A hypertext, az online kommunikációs csatornák és a digitálismédia-platformok mint az oktatás új otthonai

Author(s): Zoltán Szűts / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 4/2020

The digital turn in pedagogy is based on both a communication and a text-centric revolution. This paper summarizes how an interactive text gives a new home to education. It, obeys the laws of the new networks, is inherently convergent, combines image, video, and sound while supports not only interactivity but also co-creation, and thus the user becomes a creator of content, that is, a prosumer. As a result of the integration of online communication and media processes into the subsystems of our world, educational institutions have begun to introduce and operate e-learning environments. Digital pedagogy is currently based on cloud-based, web 2.0 online communication and media platforms, and mobile applications. There are many ways to categorize these platforms. A valid approach is to divide based on access or the number of participants in learning. Considering all possible approaches, the author finally decided to group and examine the applications based on the communication functions they perform, while also addressing their elements based on hypertextuality.

A Study of Effects of E-Learning Based Exploratory Education on Students’ Self-Efficacy and Interpersonal Relationship

Author(s): Lingke KONG,Zhenlong CHU,You LI / Language(s): English / Issue: 72/2021

Under constant education reform to cultivate students with transferable skills, it is necessary to effectively release excessive competition for school admission and guide normal teaching and balanced development of five ways of life. By re-positioning book knowledge as footprints commonly accumulated by humans, it might be able to recover current rigid education. Students should not be restrained from formal education, but should positively cultivate learning autonomy aiming at living to successfully seek for goals and ideal. Taking a university in Fujian Province as the empirical object, total 214 students are preceded the 15-week e-learning based exploratory education experiment (3 hours per week for total 45 hours). The research results show that exploratory education would affect self-efficacy, exploratory education would affect interpersonal relationship, and self-efficacy reveals significantly positive effects on interpersonal relationship. According to the results to propose suggestions, it is expected to help students discuss, communicate, establish goals, solve problems, and generate trust in the interaction process in learning activities as well as connect specific experience in activities with life experience, transfer and generate meanings, encourage adventure and self-challenge, self-awareness, and finally discover innovative thinking and new potential to generate the natural development for learning and change.

Adaptation to Emergency Online Education: A Case of Oral Communication Skills Course in E LT

Author(s): Belkıs Zeynep ÖZIŞIK / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

The significant growth of the cases all around the world caused by the Covid-19 pandemic necessitated the intermittent closures in higher education in March, 2020 in Turkey. Yozgat Bozok University started online education synchronously and asynchronously via Google Meet and Google Classroom. This paper aims to present ELT students’ online experience in carrying out Oral Communication Skills course adapted to distance learning. Secondly, by conducting qualitative research methods, it presents students’ standpoints concerning the problems they faced with an unplanned and unprepared online education. The researcher sent reflective writing questions to students and then arranged online interviews. Qualitative data were analyzed by NVivo 12 and learner-reported data bring fruitful insights on students’ attitudes towards Google Meet and Google Classroom. It is founded that these applications increase students’ interaction and help them promote communication skills. However, poor internet connection and lack of internet access are noted by all the participants as a basic problem for online education. The present study drawing on current distance learning literature suggests instructors to design student-centred online environment to foster student participation.

Analele Universității din Craiova, seria Psihologie-Pedagogie

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Romania

Analele Universității din Craiova, seria Psihologie-Pedagogie (The Annals of the University of Craiova, the Psychology-Pedagogy series), is an international academic publication with interdisciplinary characteristics that aims to promote education and educational research, to provide an expression opportunity to all the experienced specialists in the field, but also to the young researchers, facilitating the exchange of ideas and interactions at the level of the scientific community.

Analele Universității din Craiova, seria Psihologie-Pedagogie (The Annals of the University of Craiova, the Psychology-Pedagogy series) aims to publish original research articles and review articles in the field of education sciences and psychology, in some important areas: pre-service and in-service teacher training; theory and practice of training; theory and practice of the assessment; management and educational leadership; management of the educational programs; sociology of education; psychology of education; university pedagogy; adult pedagogy; history of pedagogy and alternative pedagogies; comparative pedagogy; education of children with special educational needs; inclusive education; educational counselling; special didactics etc.

The Journal gives all readers the possibility to view and download articles for free. The studies are published in English and French, international languages and relevant for the field of education sciences.

ATTITUDES OF MEDICAL STUDENTS ABOUT E-LEARNING

Author(s): Marija Lugonjić,Olja Arsenijević / Language(s): English / Issue: 31/2021

Background: E-education is becoming increasingly important at the third level of education, but it has not been successfully implemented everywhere. The success of the introduction of e-education at the faculties is significantly influenced by the readiness for this type of education, as well as the attitude of the students towards it. The intention of this research is to study the attitude of medical students towards e-education. Methods: Quantitative research was conducted in February 2021 on a deliberate sample of 100 students of higher medical vocational schools in Serbia. The Crombach alpha coefficient was 0.966. Data were processed in SPSS. Frequency analysis, t-test for independent variables, one-way analysis of variance, correlation, factor and regression analysis were used. Results: The advantages of e-education were mostly assessed by students who participated in three subjects in the e-classroom (p = 0.000). Attitudes towards e-education are related to students’ computer literacy (p <0.05). Three factors can explain 64.72% of the variability of the total factors of students' attitudes towards e-education: the use of e-classroom, satisfaction with teamwork and the way of learning. Conclusion: Respondents are not in favor of e-learning, although several factors have been identified that positively influence their attitudes towards e-learning. The results would be more significant, if the research were extended to a larger sample of respondents.

Blended Learning - The Efficiency of Video Resources and YouTube in the Modern Dental Education

Author(s): Cristina Gena DASCALU,Magda Ecaterina ANTOHE,Georgeta ZEGAN,Stefan Lucian BURLEA,Elena Mihaela CARAUSU,Anamaria CIUBARA,Victor Lorin PURCAREA / Language(s): English / Issue: 72/2021

The media-enhanced teaching techniques became popular in the last years because they stimulate the students' engagement and motivation. The educational movies uploaded on YouTube became nowadays a highly used resource for learning in the academic environment. We conducted an opinion survey among the students at the Faculty of Dental Medicine, “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania, about their agreement and interest in using educational movies as didactic tools, compared with the traditional teaching methods, and about the features they prefer in such materials. The study group included 170 students with average age 20.93 ± 2.751. Most students (91.2%) use didactic movies in their practical training; 77.6% think that the didactic movies from YouTube contain correct scientific information. 74.6% of the students like to learn using didactic movies, 39.7% of them appreciate the oral speech accompanied by PowerPoint Presentations and 46.6% like the oral speech accompanied by written explanations, with no significant differences between genders and age groups. The most popular features of the educational movies are: human narrator (94.7%), who speaks in Romanian (82.4%). The narrator’s speech must be accompanied by animated schemes with explanations (90.6%) and drawings (93.5%). The movie must have a clear structure, evolving from basic to complex (85.9%). The educational movies uploaded on YouTube are an adequate source of information for the dental students; the professionals in universities must survey better the scientific quality of such materials.

Challenging the Students‘ Sense of Mathematics Via Decoding Problems in Chernorizec Hrabar Tournament

Author(s): Ivaylo Kortezov,Borislav Lazarov / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2021

Under consideration is a thematic branch from the Chernorizec Hrabar (ChH) math tournament, which aims to check and develop the student’s sense of mathematics. The ChH competition papers include several types of test items related to codes. These test items require just basic math knowledge but a high level of nonstandard reasoning and a kind of synthetic mathematical abilities. The authors’ standing point is to present by examples how the idea of (de)coding evolves in competition papers for students in different ages.

CLASSROOM COMMUNICATION IN THE ONLINE ENVIRONMENT - PERCEPTIONS AND DIRECTIONS OF ACTION

Author(s): Mihaela Aurelia ȘTEFAN,Alexandrina Mihaela POPESCU / Language(s): English / Issue: -/2020

Communication, a transfer of information between a sender and a receiver, as a result of which the information transmitted and received is understood and interpreted in the same way by the two parties involved, can be revisited from the perspective of the digital context.Classroom communication aims to produce changes, positive transformations in terms of knowledge, affectivity and behaviour, of the personality profile of the subjects. Based on this asumption, the following questions are outlined: How can the online communication process be optimised so that the message sent is clearly understood? What is the impact of the online environment on classroom communication?The current paper represents an investigative approach that aims to provide data on the students' perceptions of online communication-related issues and effects.

COVID-19 Salgını ve Çocuk Psikolojisi

Author(s): Cemaliye Direktör / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 4/2021

During the COVID-19 epidemic, which affected the world, both physiological and psychosocial risks negatively have been affected the lives of individuals. As countries closed their borders, they have been organized stay-at-home campaigns to control the pandemic. The closure of the units that have an important place in children’s lives such as schools, parks, sports halls among the public areas, causing psychological problems such as anxiety, trauma and depression to be observed more frequently in children; It was determined that they faced problems in both access to education and the adaptation process with the transition to distance education instead of face-to-face education. With the pandemic, the use of online psychotherapy has also increased. It has been observed that there are difficulties in transferring psychological services to the online environment. However it has been determined that maintaining dance and art therapy online with children has been found to be effective. In this article, the problems experienced by children during the epidemic process and the changes in education and psychotherapy are discussed.

Cybergogy as a digital media to facilitate the learning style of millennial college students

Author(s): Rezka Arina Rahma,Sucipto Sucipto,Yessi Affriyenni,Monica Widyaswari / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2021

This research was aimed to test the effectiveness of AR-based digital learning materials in improving the learning of the students. The development method used in this research is the ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development or Production, Implementation or Delivery, and Evaluation) model. The subjects in this developmental research are the lecturers of the educational technology department as media experts, the lecturers of the nonformal education department as the subject expert, and the students of the nonformal education department of the academic year 2018 as the users. The specification of the innovative product to be developed is augmented reality as a digital media in learning the family education subject. The result of the research that AR-based digital learning materials have gained excellent results as it has proven to help students in learning effectively. The average score in the experimental group after participating in learning with Augmented Reality media, the average score was improved to 92,55. Whilst in the control group, the average learning with the old/conventional paradigm, the average score recorded at 86,75

DESIGNING LEARNING OBJECTS FOR ITALIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: A CASE STUDY

Author(s): Andrea Molinari / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

This research aims at analyzing the effectiveness of SCORM-based e-learning material in introducing companies to innovative practices, specifically the use of Digital Signature and Certified Electronic emails. These two tools have recently become mandatory in the Italian Public Administration, thus forcing them to pursue innovation through dematerialization processes. This innovation involves millions of Italian citizens and companies that now have the opportunity to interact with public bodies in a more efficient and effective way. Nevertheless, neither the Public Administration nor most of the companies (especially Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises - SME) were ready for this radical change in the use of electronic communication. A significant training effort has been delivered to allow end-users to absorb the concepts, tools, methods and procedures that take advantage of citizen-to-government and business-to-government communication. Most of this effort relied on e-learning and virtual communities’ tools and services, providing support to citizens and organizations facing this new technical and organizational challenge. The authors present the successful experience in the design, creation and delivery of the distance learning materials designed for these purposes, together with the best practices and lessons learned.

DIGITAL SKILLS OF TEACHERS FOR LIFELONG LEARNING - ROMANIAN REALITIES AND PERSPECTIVES

Author(s): Alexandrina Mihaela POPESCU / Language(s): English / Issue: -/2020

The need for teacher's Lifelong learning is a permanent and paramount goal of any 21st-century education system and the best investment that any state can make to ensure the social, economic and cultural future.The European Union has shown an increased interest in training and developing the digital skills of teachers in the European area in recent years. In this regard, EU has developed a series of measures and recommendations for Member States. Nevertheless, in Romania we are experiencing a crisis caused by the shift of teaching activities to the online environment, the lack of digital skills of teachers in pre-university education and, last but not least, the lack of digital media (free internet access, computers, tablets) for a large part of the students.The current paper aims to identify the Romanian context shaping the development of the teachers' digital skills for Lifelong Learning up to the onset of lockdown, which led to the relocation of teaching activities online (on 16 March 2020), also focusing on the measures taken during lockdown (16 March 16 - 15 May 2020). The question we are trying to answer is how prepared were the teachers to cope with the online teaching activities, how much had the schools advanced in the integration of digital resources to face-to-face teaching.

Digital transformation of Russian society as a condition of forming young teachers’ professional identity in a big city

Author(s): Yury G. Volkov,Galina I. Chikarova / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2021

Digitalization affects every sphere of life including education. However, for it to be beneficial, it needs transfomation in order to fit the current situation or changes that have occurred in human life over a time.The purpose of this research is to consider the impact of the digital transformation of Russian society on the formation of young teachers’ professional identity. The constructivist approach and the "soft concepts" of identity that have developed within its framework, serve as the methodological basis of the proposed research. The results of the applied authors’ sociological study conducted in 2020 serve as the empirical basis of this study. The method of collecting information was an in-depth interview. The research concluded that digitalization has a positive impact on formation of professional identity of young teachers. We also note that, despite the fact that the forced transition to online education has increased the prestige of teaching, digitalization cannot be considered as an independent factor that is able to change the professional space so that it becomes more attractive for young professionals

Distance Learning for a Foreign Language in the Postmodern Age and its Forms

Author(s): Yurii Stezhko,Nadiia Grytsyk,Maryna Mykhailiuk,Hanna Tekliuk,Olha Rusavska,Olga Beregova / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2021

The article is devoted to innovative postmodern requests for the liberalization of education. Postmodernism influenced education not only methodologically, but also by changing the very pedagogical culture of teaching. Now the relevance of the research topic is due to the problems of forming information content and methodological support for the introduction of distance learning technology in mobile form. The introduction of IT in education, the improvement of smart devices, the formation of an electronic information and educational environment have created the basis for such forms of education as mobile learning and blended learning. In both cases, the student situationally himself forms the educational process, turns from an object of training into its subject. The humanistic potential of mobile learning in the sense of ensuring equal access to education for people with different abilities is noted. The opinion is expressed about the importance of student motivation and IT competence of teachers to provide information content, intensify the introduction of e-learning and mobile-oriented learning technologies. It is argued that learning based only on mobile learning technology, using smart devices without classroom or office work, real communication with the teacher is not didactically self-sufficient, which would provide adequate language skills. Effectiveness in learning foreign languages is achieved by synergy of technologies distance mobile and traditional classroom or classroom training, real communication with the teacher.

Effects of Digital Media Integrated Reciprocal Teaching on Students’ Reading Ability and Motivation

Author(s): Zhenlong CHU / Language(s): English / Issue: 73/2021

The 21st century is the knowledge economic era decided by brains. Reading is the sole tactic to rapidly accumulate knowledge and effectively absorb others’ research results. The level of reading ability is closely related to individual future learning and employment and even economic development. A competitive nation nowadays would invest large amount of resources and plans in reading. Students could broadly absorb distinct knowledge through reading to make up inadequate teaching hours of teachers, i.e. entering the time, space, and culture in books through reading, without which people could merely live in personal time and space. With experimental design model to precede the quasi-experimental study, total 216 elementary school students in Jiangsu, as the research objects, are preceded the 16-week (3 hours per week for total 48 hours) digital media integrated reciprocal teaching. The research results show that digital media integrated reciprocal teaching would affect reading ability, digital media integrated reciprocal teaching would affect reading motivation, and reading ability reveals significantly positive effects on reading motivation. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to apply previously mentioned reciprocal teaching principles to readers’ animation design, to cultivate students’ learning strategy through “man”-“machine” interaction, and to enhance reading comprehension.

E-LEARNING MATERIALS FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE STUDENTS

Author(s): Marjan Krašna,Tomaž Bratina / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2014

Today's student population is rightfully categorized as digital natives. From the beginning of their education, they used ICT. The technological gadgets, internet, and social networks are like a glove to them. Such generation of students require more than just textbooks. In the 2013 University of Maribor establish a task force for e-learning materials development. The goal was to identify the optimal technological, didactical and financial approach to the long process of e-learning materials development. Members of the task force have many workshops presenting different views, acquired experiences from their previous projects, technological constraints, prediction, etc. During these workshops it was decided it would be the best to prepare different types of e-learning materials and test them by the students. From their feedbacks we could set the guidelines for large scale production. At the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and Faculty of Education students needs to acquire also the digital competences to become successful teachers. For special didactics study programs different types of e-learning materials were produced with different technological approach. The concept was to upgrade the previous deliverables (PowerPoint slides) and narrate them. Narrated slides would enable students to refresh their lectures and should be used as blended e-learning materials. Narrations were prepared in different format: textual narration, voice narration and video narration. But later it was decided that these types are not enough and a mix of narratives (integrated multimedia learning materials) could be used on individual slides depending on the content of the slide.Students first receive the lecture in the classroom and in the same week they need to study associated e-learning materials and write their review of corresponding e-learning materials. In their review students were required to log the required time for studying the e-learning materials; benefits and drawbacks; potential improvement of e-learning materials; and open text of impression of using e-learning materials. Effectiveness and outcomes were tested with the electronic quizzes. Students were highly motivated with these new types of learning materials and provide us valuable feedback. Most efficient were text narrated learning materials, but the favourite was integrated multimedia learning materials. Video and audio narrations take them more time to study since they were constrained with the speed of speech of the recorded lecturer.

EMERGING EDUCATIONAL DESIGN IN ONLINE TRAINING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Author(s): María Rosa Fernández-Sánchez,Juan Silva Quiroz / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2021

Universities are living in a time of major transitions regarding the challenge of rethinking and transforming the current pedagogical models so they can respond to the needs of the global knowmad society. In this study, the Design-Based Research (DBR) approach is used to address the improvements of two emerging pedagogical designs in e-learning in the university context: the model of the Center for Research in Education and ICT (CIIET) of the University of Santiago de Chile (Chile) and the model developed by the Education Node research group of University of Extremadura (Spain). The main focus of these models is the student, who by developing activities based on the resolution of a contextualized problem and using new strategies, accompanied by open resources for resolution, resulting in a learning outcome that can be achieved and measured through assessment. This work aims to advance in identifying of some pedagogical keys for the design of online training scenarios that promote environments of production, research, and open dissemination of best practices, to experience new creative forms and collaborative learning, which have emerged within the hyper connected society and the net-culture.

Empirical Study on the Effects of the Application of Virtual Reality to Experiential Education on Students’ Learning Attitude and Learning Effectiveness

Author(s): Lingke KONG / Language(s): English / Issue: 73/2021

Along with the change in social environment, a lot of families ignore the parenting styles to result in weak empathy of students, who simply see others’ faults but ignore personal responsibilities. In the experiential education process, the guides encourage students to seek for answers by themselves, allowing students presenting sense of participation and sense of accomplishment. Nevertheless, it requires more research to prove whether experiential education activity could enhance students’ learning effectiveness. Apply experimental design model to the quasi-experimental study, total 198 students in Jiangsu, as the research objects, are precede the 16-week (3 hours per week for total 48 hours) experimental teaching. The research results are summarized as following. 1. Applying virtual reality to experiential education with teams, students reveal good interaction with peers and receive honor and affirmation in the group. The learning attitude and motivation are therefore positive. 2. Applying virtual reality to experiential education activity for team tasks and peers interaction, students present the ability to organize and execute action processes to achieve specific achievement belief and achieve the objectives with the application of virtual reality to experiential education. 3. Students favoring the application of virtual reality to experiential education would engage in the group and regard it as the model to change the behaviors. In this case, students participating in virtual reality applied experiential education appear significantly positive correlations between learning attitude and learning effectiveness. According to the results to propose suggestions, it is expected to more effectively integrate teachers or adjust the directions of teaching strategies to effectively provide the effort direction for students’ learning needs.

ENSEIGNEMENT « CONFINÉ » ET TIC À L’UNIVERSITÉ : QUELLES REPRÉSENTATIONS CHEZ UN GROUPE D’ÉTUDIANTS DE L’ENSB (ALGER) ?

Author(s): Assia BELGHEDDOUCHE / Language(s): French / Issue: -/2020

The coronavirus crisis has affected all countries and has changed the daily lives of millions of people, including teachers and learners around the world. They have been hit hard by this crisis and have undergone changes in their teaching / learning practices. In this work, we will try to question the representations and opinions of a group of students from the ENSB (L'École Normale Supérieure de Bouzaréah) in Algiers while they are still experiencing these upheavals because we think that these representations will have an influence on their current and future practices. Our goal is to collect their perceptions of online and distance education during confinement, and to learn about the teaching practices that they believe have helped or hindered their learning. We will also try to see if these perceptions influence their intention to use ICT in their future practice as teachers.

EVALUATING DISTANCE EDUCATION IN SERBIA DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Author(s): Suzana Marković Krstić,Lela Milošević Radulović / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2021

Education is a significant factor which contributes to overcoming social, economic, health, ecological and other challenges. During a pandemic, formal education adapts to ongoing circumstances, and the learning-teaching process transitions to distance education. A study of the advantages and disadvantages of the realization of certain modalities of distance education is significant as it contributes to the improvement of its quality. The aim was to determine how the citizens of Serbia evaluated the quality of distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research questions focused on how they evaluated: distance education based on modality (via Radio Television of Serbia, Google Classroom, Google Meet, Zoom, Viber groups, WhatsApp), the level of involvement of the learners/students during distance learning classes, the quality and extent of their acquired knowledge, and the level of skills that teachers need to effectively teach in distance education. The study presents the results of a survey carried out in 2020 on a sample of 602 adult Serbian citizens. The results confirm the initial hypothesis that certain modalities of distance education received a highly positive evaluation (Google Classroom, Google Meet, Zoom), and that teachers, learners/students, and other citizens provided statistically significant different evaluations of their quality (classes for primary and secondary school students broadcast on the Radio Television of Serbia; classes via Viber groups, on WhatsApp). Citizens feel that distance education enables efficient learning-teaching during the pandemic, confirming the importance of modern technologies for the learning-teaching process in Serbia, and the need for their continued intense development and application in education.