A HEALTHY FAMILY MODEL DURING PANDEMIC TIMES

Author(s): Simona Eftimie / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

This paper aims to identify the characteristics of a healthy family model for these times of profound social challenges. For this purpose we have tried to analyse some traits of family relationships that have stood the test of time and also demonstrated their value during pandemic: quality time spent together by family members, the role of working together for house holding, the relation with extended family, the self and re-discovering process etc. Other results are discussed here.

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 Sequence Of Distance Education Lasting 5 Years in the Ottoman State: Literature Lessons From Ebuzziya Tevfik Bey to His Son Velid

Author(s): Yüksel Yıldırım / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

The first example of distance education in the Ottoman State is the letters education that he gave to Ebüzziya Tevfik Bey's son Velid as an individual enterprise between the years 1902 and 1907. Ebüzziya Tevfik Bey was exiled to Konya on April 10, 1900. He was closely interested in the education of his younger son Velid, who stayed in Istanbul, and gave him literature courses by means of correspondence. He was closely interested in the education of his younger son Velid, who stayed in Istanbul, and gave him literature lessons by letter. Only two letters from the 6-year literature education were included in this study. Thus, how the letter teaching was done has been studied over the details of the two letters. This article, which is remarkable for shedding light on the education life of the period, it also is contributes to Turkish education history.

A Study into how Covid-19 changed the public opinion of homeschooling

Author(s): Adna Sijerčić,Mario Odak / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

– Homeschooling is a term typically used to describe the form of education where parents educate their own children at home with little to no contact with public school education. The purpose of this study is to gather information on the public opinion of homeschooling in Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as to see how the COVID-19 pandemics affected this opinion. For this purpose, a survey was conducted and, as a result, information on the topic is gathered. The general opinion of the public leaned more towards the negative end when all the results were summarized. Homeschooling, in general, is not a term that people are familiar with and accepting of in the region of Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina.Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic has not had a positive influence on the opinion of the homeschooling.

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.

ABOUT ON-LINE LEARNING AND TEACHING: POINTS OF VIEW, ANALYSIS, OBSERVATIONS

Author(s): Mihaela SUDITU / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

The pandemic and the state of emergency instituted last spring took our country by surprise, forcing it to cope with this rapid adaptation from an educational perspective as well. Without a previously thought-out strategy, schools closed and therefore the education process turned to the online for solutions. The impact has led to challenges for both teachers and pupils/ students. Our microstudy captures - through a focus group based on a guided interview and a checklist – students’ perception on going through this unfamiliar situation; it also captures the difficulties of adapting to the technology-based education system, while emphasizing the need to rethink education through digitization and access to resources, technology, applications and tools to which pedagogical significance can be attributed.

Actionbound – interaktywna gra terenowa w kształceniu receptywnych i produktywnych sprawności językowych

Author(s): Marta Anna Gierzyńska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2021

The process of shaping four key language skills in pupils makes teachers search not only for relevant types of activities, but also for the right tools that would be both effective and appealing for students. Actionbound is an interactive tool that is worth using when teaching basic language skills. Not only does it work during remote classes, but also for full-time learning, at every language level.

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.

Addressing Maritime Industry Feedback For Continuous Improvement: A Process Model

Author(s): Emeliza Estimo / Language(s): English / Issue: 6s/2021

Stakeholders’ satisfaction is essential for sustainability. It provides opportunities for learning the strengths and weaknesses of an institution or organization to design and improve the quality of its services to promote goodwill and effective partnerships with the industry and the community. This descriptive study discusses and illustrates how a leading maritime university implements a process model for addressing industry feedback in the Philippines based on a trend of data gathered for nine consecutive years (2011 – 2019). This paper also mentions the actions taken by the University to address the issues and concerns raised by the industry stakeholders represented by shipping company Presidents, Crewing Managers, and Training Officers, particularly on the quality of graduates that it produces vis-à-vis the expectations of the industry. This study used the mixed methods of gathering data. The results revealed a trend in the level of satisfaction of the industry stakeholders, which point to a consistently high level of satisfaction with minimal declines at certain points from the quality of students that the school is producing to the quality of services provided over the years. Certain factors have been discussed as possibly influential in the decline of the stakeholders’ level of satisfaction. After implementing the work processes to address industry feedback, it was found to be working well and is now being considered by the administration as one of its best practices. To date, the University is continuously maximizing all strategies possible to sustain its performance in meeting the industry’s expectations.

ADULTS’ EDUCATION DURING PANDEMIC TIMES: PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Author(s): Simona Eftimie,Alina Mărgăriţoiu / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

This paper aims to identify the advantages and disadvantages of distance education for middle stage adult students. For this purpose we have analysed our students’ perspective considering the implications of distance educations on their professional and professional life. We have also tried to identify routines changes and perspective plans considering personal and school relationships. Other results, like particular difficulties for this category of students – in roles conflicts – marriage partners, parents (most of them have children), members of extended family, friends etc. are also discussed here.

Air Pollutant Emission Measurement

Author(s): Nicola Račić,,Branko Lalić,Ivan Komar,Ladislav Stazić,Frane Vidović / Language(s): English / Issue: 6s/2021

One of the main methods for estimating air pollutant emissions from ships is the method developed by Carlo Trozzi, which was later accepted and recommended by the European Environment Agency in its air pollutant emission inventory guidebooks. Consequently, it has become the most commonly used methods for making inventories of air emissions in the shipping industry and for predicting future trends. The method and its equations use emission factors to calculate the emission of air pollutants from ships. Emission factors are calculated depending on fuel consumption or main engine power; results are given for different year of manufacture and engine speed. This paper presents the measurement of air pollutant emissions and some other parameters on marine engines operating in different conditions. The measured values are calculated to obtain values which will enable the next step, the comparison with the emission factors in the latest guide of the European Environment Agency on the inventory of pollutant emissions.

An E-Learning Environment for Algorithmic: Toward an Active Construction of Skills

Author(s): Abdelghani Babori,Hicham Fihri Fassi,Abdellah Hariri,Mustapha Bideq / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2016

Assimilating an algorithmic course is a persistent problem for many undergraduate students. The major problem faced by students is the lack of problem solving ability and flexibility. Therefore, students are generally passive, unmotivated and unable to mobilize all the acquired knowledge (loops, test, variables, etc.) to deal with new encountered problems. Our study is structured around building, step by step, problem solving skills among novice learners. Our approach is based on the use of problem based learning in an e-Learning environment. We begin by establishing a cognitive model which represents knowledge elements, grouped into categories of skills, judged necessary to be appropriated. We then propose a problem built on a concrete situation which aims to actively construct a skill category. We conclude by presenting around the proposed problem a pedagogical scenario for the set of learning activities designed to be incorporated in an E-learning platform.

Analele Universității din Craiova, seria Psihologie-Pedagogie

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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.

Analysis of the liquids composition by the sound produced by their heating

Author(s): Assen Pashov,Grigori Matein / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2021

When a liquid is heated and the power of the heater is high enough (about 1MW/m2), bubbles are formed at the surface of the heater. Their expansion and collapse are the source of a specific sound, known to everybody who uses a kettle to prepare water for tea or coffee. The main goal of this study is to investigate whether it is possible to judge about the composition of the heated liquid by this sound. A specialized experimental set up is assembled and a systematic study of all known factors, influencing the sound is carried out. It is found out that the most crucial parts of the set up are the container for the liquids and the heater. They are discussed in detail and considerations for further improvements are given. It is demonstrated that with the present apparatus it is possible to detect changes in the sound spectrum when changing the composition of the liquid. For example, one can distinguish between pure water and water with less than 0.1% of ethanol. Along with admixtures of different alcohols, experiments with a soap solution in water and carbonated water are performed.

Assessing Grammar in Online Environment: A Comparison between High and Low-Stakes Test Performance

Author(s): Marijana M. Prodanović,Valentina Gavranović M. / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2021

Assessing students’ progress and creating objective and reliable tests occupy an important place in the ELT sphere. This paper focuses on the analysis of the answers provided by a group of undergraduate students majoring in English. They responded to two grammar online tests assessing the knowledge of the verb tenses used in context. The analysis includes the comparison of the results obtained via the low-stakes test comprising fill-in type tasks, on the one hand, and the high-stakes test containing multiple-choice tasks on the other hand. This study aims at exploring which tense-related aspects the students find either the most or least demanding and whether there are similarities or differences in the outcomes gained from two different tests and task types. The findings show that the analyzed answers exhibit similar characteristics regardless of the format and type of testing. The pedagogical implications arising from this study point to the areas which could be improved in terms of specific uses of tenses in context.

Assessing instructors' usage of emojis in distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Author(s): Reem Al-Zou’bi,Fathi Shamma / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

This research assessed instructors' usage of emojis in distance education for high diploma students. A quantitative approach was employed comprising an e-survey consisting of 11-items, one closed-ended question, and two open-ended questions. The participants were a randomly selected sample of 343 high diploma students, 243 attending Al al-Bayt University (AABU) in Jordan and 100 students attending the Arab Academic College in Haifa (AAC). The results indicated that instructors' usage of emojis in distance education was moderate in both universities. All students strongly preferred instructors to use emojis to express what is on their minds as an alternative to facial expressions, and female instructors were more active in using emojis in virtual lectures. The emoji used most frequently by distance education instructors for the sample was the thumbs-up emoji ( ). Based on the results, several recommendations are put forth that will be of value to researchers and workers in this field.

Assessment of knowledge and confidence for E-learning

Author(s): Devkan Kaleci / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

One of the most important goals in E-learning is to guarantee that participants reach the learning objectives. We have observed that having the knowledge of the subject is not sufficient for reaching learning objectives. The participants must also develop understanding that they know the subject, which we have named confidence. In this work, we have demonstrated that it is possible to assess both knowledge and confidence using only two different types of multiple-choice test questions. We have developed 1) a method to design questions to identify both knowledge and confidence and 2) a method to estimate actual knowledge and confidence from answers. We have evaluated our method using Monte-Carlo simulations. Our simulations demonstrated that it is always possible to obtain reliable estimations for knowledge and confidence using approximately 100 multiple choice test questions in a given subject.

Assessment Of Lng Bunkering Accidents

Author(s): Peter Vidmar,Andrej Androjna / Language(s): English / Issue: 6s/2021

The maritime safety is of great concern for the entire maritime community. Ships using LNG for propulsion are already sailing the seas, but the majority of the ports are not yet prepared for this kind of supply. As the process of LNG bunkering is only seemingly similar to traditional oil bunkering or liquid loading, dealing with the technical and safety challenges is much more subject of investigation. In this paper, the dispersion part of the consequences of LNG release, pooling, evaporation and dispersion during the future bunkering operation in the port of Koper, Slovenia, where the populated area (city) is located in close proximity are examined. We follow the comparison of three different tools, namely the Unified Dispersion Model (UDM) implemented by the software PHAST from DNV-GL® and two CFD (FDS – Fire Dynamics Simulator from NIST and Ansys Fluent) in the same case scenario. Geometry, initial and boundary conditions are assumed to be the same as far as possible, according to the limitations of the respective software tools.

Attitudes and opinions of special education candidate teachers regarding digital technology

Author(s): Fezile Özdamlı / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2017

Parallel to the rapid development of information and communication technology, the demand for its use in schools and classroom is increasing. So, the purpose of this study is to determine the attitudes and views of students who will be special education teachers in the future regarding digital technology on the use in education. A mixed method, qualitative and quantitative, was used to collect data. Attitude Scale for Digital Technology was used as a quantitative data collection tool and a semi-structured interview form was used to collect qualitative data. A total of 275 students studying at Special Education teaching department of Near East University participated in this study. The findings indicated that the candidate teachers had a positive attitude towards the use of technologies. The findings obtained from the qualitative dimensions of the study showed that the candidate teachers had positive views about the use of technology by the special education students in their learning process.

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.