Applying a Living Lab Approach to Smart Grid Training Course Design

This article aims at providing a conceptual design of a training plan according to the ASSURE model for the learning resource specialists in the Governorate of Muscat to use Facebook to implement modern marketing mechanisms for information services in libraries and information centers during the period of the covid Pandemic. This article uses a content analysis methodology within the descriptive analytical method procedures. The researcher designed the following research tool (training course design evaluation list) to evaluate the training course after being implemented, the sample included all the learning resource specialists in the governorate of Muscat, (28 specialists). The study resulted in developing a design concept for a training plan directed to the learning resource specialists on how to use Facebook to achieve modern marketing mechanisms for information services in libraries and information centers during the Corona pandemic. This plan was made in light of the procedures of the ASSURE Model. The study also recommended the necessity for the designer to be careful in choosing the educational theory in which he will build the design model because it is the ground on which all steps are based, and the need to carefully take care of choosing and defining the design model through broadening the scope of readings and references of the available literature reviews and research's that dealt with this topic. The study also mentioned the necessity of tracking and using the latest and most recent digital applications that can meet the needs of the trainees and achieve their training objectives, and the necessity of carefully determining the evaluation mechanisms that the designer will follow in building the training model because the accurate evaluation process is by which a successful training model can be provided.

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Living-Lab for Smart Grid technologies teaching

2020 XIV Technologies Applied to Electronics Teaching Conference (TAEE) ◽

10.1109/taee46915.2020.9163745 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Antonio Parejo ◽

Sebastian Garcia ◽

Enrique Personal ◽

Antonio Garcia ◽

Juan Ignacio Guerrero ◽

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Keyword(s):

Smart Grid ◽

Living Lab

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Teachers’ Training Course Using Synchronous Conferencing Tools for Hospitality and Tourism Education in Vietnam: A Constructivist Approach

International Journal of Information and Education Technology ◽

10.18178/ijiet.2021.11.5.1516 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (5) ◽

pp. 229-234

Author(s):

Thanh-Thao Luong ◽

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Eunyoung Kim

Keyword(s):

Course Design ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Constructivist Teaching ◽

Training Course ◽

Tourism Education ◽

Hospitality And Tourism ◽

Online Pedagogies ◽

Hospitality And Tourism Industry ◽

Hospitality And Tourism Education ◽

Synchronous Conferencing

Despite its significant damage to the hospitality and tourism industry, the pandemic of COVID-19 indeed has reinforced the needs for not only the hospitality and tourism education, but also the whole educational system of Vietnam, to make use of technological innovations in education, among which synchronous conferencing tools are currently utilized for changing their mode from physical classroom to online learning. This study adopts the constructivist approaches to propose a training course designed to enhance the skills needed for teaching with synchronous conferencing technology for teachers in Vietnam's hospitality and tourism institutions. We based on the current literature to identify the necessary skills to implement classes via synchronous conferencing environments. We also selected and designed learning activities to translate constructivist teaching theory into online pedagogies. Although it needs to be evaluated in further studies, this course design is expected to contribute to the growing literature on methods to improve instructors’ readiness to teach in virtual classrooms.

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Transforming introductory psychology: Expert advice on teacher training, course design, and student success.

10.1037/0000260-000 ◽

2022 ◽

Keyword(s):

Teacher Training ◽

Student Success ◽

Course Design ◽

Introductory Psychology ◽

Expert Advice ◽

Training Course

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Developing an Educational Course in Spiritual Care: An Action Research Study at Two Danish Hospices

Religions ◽

10.3390/rel12100827 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (10) ◽

pp. 827

Author(s):

Dorte Toudal Viftrup ◽

Kenneth Laursen ◽

Niels Christian Hvidt

Keyword(s):

Action Research ◽

Spiritual Care ◽

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Course Design ◽

Research Process ◽

Spiritual Needs ◽

Self Reflection ◽

Training Course ◽

Theater Workshop ◽

The Individual

Further improvement of spiritual care in palliative care is warranted. Particularly reducing barriers and enhancing spiritual care competencies among the healthcare professionals is needed. The aim was to develop a training course in spiritual care in close collaboration with patients and staff from two Danish hospices. We applied an action research design to ensure that the training course was rooted in everyday practice of patients and staff. The methodology applied was based on philosophical hermeneutics and existential phenomenology. The action research process enabled the division into three topics on how a training course can reduce barriers towards spiritual care among the healthcare professionals. These three topics functioned as a theoretical framework for educating staff at a hospice in spiritual care. The three topics were: (1) the vulnerable encounter; (2) self-reflection concerning spiritual needs, thoughts, beliefs, and values; and (3) shared professional language for spiritual care. We operationalized the three topics into a flexible course design that could be adaptable to the practical possibilities and limitations of the individual hospice. The curriculum includes theoretical teaching, reflection exercises, and an improvisation theater workshop with professional actors. Educating staff led to the improvement of spiritual care at the hospices involved in the study.

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Layers of Learning in Coach Developers’ Practice-Theories, Preparation and Delivery

International Sport Coaching Journal ◽

10.1123/iscj.2018-0067 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 307-316 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Anna Stodter ◽

Christopher J. Cushion

Keyword(s):

Course Design ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Coach Education ◽

Training Course ◽

Analytic Process ◽

Three Phase ◽

Learner Centred Learning ◽

Learning Principles ◽

Quality Learning ◽

Learning Frameworks

Despite the centrality of coach developers to formal coach education settings, only a handful of studies have begun to touch upon the role they play in mediating quality learning, while links between different layers of learning and impact on coach learners remains underexplored. This research explored English coach developers’ understanding of learning, and the learning frameworks taught to them, through unstructured interviews and participant observation of a generic coach developer training course. Three coach developers were observed delivering formal coach education, to elucidate how understanding was applied in practice. Supporting interviews with 16 coaches attending the course gave an indication of reactions to developers’ practice. Combined layers of data were analysed using a three-phase integrated analytic process. In the absence of pertinent evidence-informed coach developer training course design and delivery, implicit ‘practice-theories’, based on participants’ experiences as coaches and coach developers, appeared to inform understanding and practices. Despite acknowledging ‘learner centred’ learning principles, coach developers experienced challenges implementing these in practice and coach learners perceived confusion and contradictions. Findings are discussed in relation to contemporary ideas around coaches’ and coach developers’ learning, to highlight potential ways that coach developers could be more effectively prepared and supported.

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