Penn State acoustic wave (PAW) kits: Development of “at-home” hands-on activities for first-year graduate level acoustics courses

This paper reports on a pilot study that was conducted during a technical trial of a new ePortfolio system at a large Australian university. Students from a large (n = 325) first-year educational technology course were given the opportunity to use the new ePortfolio system weekly as part of their reflective practice at the end of the hands-on tutorial classes and also through a blogging assignment that required six posts throughout the semester. Although the students reflecting on their work and ePortfolios themselves are not new concepts, this paper reports how assessment practices can be improved using ePortfolios and how students can improve their reflective practice through simple and regular use throughout the 12-week semester that the study was conducted. From the class, 208 students responded to the survey with the results being positive. The students were able to use the system easily and did not report many problems with crashing or freezing. The lessons learnt form an important part of this study for future iterations with these reported in the paper.

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Attendance at a psychiatric day centre

Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine ◽

10.1017/s0790966700001774 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 180-182

Author(s):

Gerry Lynch ◽

Margaret McKee ◽

Daniel M Brennan

Keyword(s):

Service Quality ◽

Psychotic Disorders ◽

Drop Out ◽

Satisfaction Survey ◽

First Year ◽

Service Utilisation ◽

Diagnostic Data ◽

Drop Out Rate ◽

At Home

AbstractObjective: To examine the service utilisation of a newly opened psychiatric day centre. We wished to determine if different diagnostic groups had different perspectives of the day centre, and to see if the drop-out rate differed among clients with neurotic or psychotic disorders.Method: Demographic and diagnostic data was gathered for all clients referred in the first year of operation of the day centre. Those who defaulted from attendance were visited at home and asked to detail reasons for non-attendance. Those who continued to attend 16 months after the centre opened completed a satisfaction survey.Results: The drop-out rate was high for both clients with neurotic and psychotic disorders. Clients who continued to attend were very positive about the day centre. Both client groups saw the benefits of attendance in social rather than therapeutic terms.Conclusions: Consumer opinion may have a valuable part to play in overall measure,measurement of service quality, particularly if it includes the opinion of those who no longer use that service.

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Private Trade and Elite Privilege. The Trial of Nicolaas Schaghen, Director of Bengal

Itinerario ◽

10.1017/s0165115300003971 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 69-86 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Pamela McVay

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Board Of Directors ◽

East India Company ◽

Dutch East India Company ◽

High Court ◽

East Indies ◽

Hands On ◽

Dutch East Indies ◽

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It is common wisdom among the historians of the Dutch East Indies that everyone in the Dutch East India Company engaged in private trade. That is, ‘everyone’ traded in goods supposedly monopolized by the Company and ‘everyone’ abused his or her position to squeeze graft from the Company's trade. It was, supposedly, to get their hands on the private trade and graft that people joined the Dutch East India Company (VOC: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) in the first place. But back in the Netherlands the VOC's Board of Directors (the Heeren XVII) objected vociferously to private trade, which drained Company profits and shareholder revenue. To appease the Heeren XVII back at home, the various Governors-General and Councillors of the Indies (Raad van Indië), who represented the Heeren XVII in Asia, issued annual placards forbidding private trade while the High Court (Raad van Justitie) carried out infrequent desultory trials for private trade. But these prosecutions were inevitably doomed to failure, so the story goes, because everyone engaged in private trade would ‘cover’ for everyone else.

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Qualitative Development of Students’ Digital Skills by Integrating a Spreadsheet Software in First Year Introduction to Engineering and Seminar Course

International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) ◽

10.3991/ijet.v16i18.24325 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (18) ◽

pp. 213

Author(s):

Aziatul Niza Binti Sadikin ◽

Azizul Azri Bin Mustaffa ◽

Hasrinah Binti Hasbullah ◽

Zaki Yamani Bin Zakaria ◽

Mohd Kamaruddin Bin Abd Hamid ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Problem Based Learning ◽

First Year ◽

Microsoft Excel ◽

First Year Students ◽

Learning Skill ◽

Hands On ◽

Digital Skills ◽

Data Source ◽

Spreadsheet Software ◽

Development Of Students

The Introduction to Engineering (ITE) and Industrial Seminar and Profession (ISP) courses conducted at School of Chemical and Energy Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, are integrated courses which implement the Cooperative Problem-based Learning (CPBL) methods in the same semester. Based on this integrated courses, the main aim of this paper is to investigate the qualitative impact of spreadsheet hands-on seminar on the first year students' digital skill. At the beginning of the semester, students are given sustainability-based project to work on, which requires them to collect and to report the data in a series of presentations and written reports. In order to present those data, they need to use analysis tools such as a spreadsheet software. The students are introduced with some in-depth applications of the Microsoft Excel software through the seminar sessions in the ISP course. With the knowledge that the students gain, they are expected to implement it in the CPBL project. A qualitative approach has been adopted to implement the study. Student’s reflections were used as the data source to identify common attributes that they have managed to gain from seminar sessions. This study has found that all students had primarily learned about digital skills. They perceived hand-on activity during the seminar as a good platform to acquire knowledge on basic calculation and developed learning skill on Excel. Moreover, students recognized the skills they are learning will be useful in other courses and future careers.

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A Progressively Advancing Curriculum for Robotics Education – The Case of Toin University of Yokohama –

Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics ◽

10.20965/jrm.2006.p0215 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 215-221

Author(s):

Yasuo Hayashibara ◽

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Takeshi Agui ◽

Takahiro Ito ◽

Motoyoshi Ohaba ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Practical Experience ◽

First Year ◽

Trial And Error ◽

First Year Students ◽

Robotics Education ◽

Hands On ◽

Elective Course ◽

Second Year ◽

Real World Problems ◽

Mobile Machine

We detail an educational program implemented at Toin University of Yokohama in which lab and workshop courses on automated mechanics, from basics to applications, are offered consecutively during the first three undergraduate years. Engineering is a discipline concerned with practical real-world problems, but students rarely have the chance to gain enough practical experience to effectively understanding engineering. At our department, first- to third-year students may take several hands-on courses for fabricating machines – first-year students build an automatic mobile machine, second-year students write computer programs to control the position of a robot, and some third-year students design and fabricate an entire robot from the bottom up. An elective course on robot fabrication enables students to choose individual theme. Students experience failures and discover better ways by trial and error through these processes.

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Uptake and Scalability of a Peritoneal Dialysis Virtual Care Solution: Qualitative Study (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.9720 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Lianne Jeffs ◽

Trevor Jamieson ◽

Marianne Saragosa ◽

Geetha Mukerji ◽

Arsh K Jain ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Peritoneal Dialysis ◽

Health Care Providers ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Care Providers ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

Virtual Care ◽

Key Stakeholders ◽

Hands On ◽

Semistructured Interviews ◽

At Home

BACKGROUND Early research in the area of virtual care solutions with peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients has focused on evaluating the outcomes and impact of these solutions. There has been less attention focused on understanding the factors influencing the uptake, usability, and scalability of virtual care for chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients receiving PD at home. OBJECTIVE In this context, a study was undertaken to (1) assess and understand the factors influencing the uptake of a virtual care solution and (2) provide recommendations for the scalability of a virtual care solution aimed at enhancing CKD patients’ outcomes and experiences. METHODS This study used a qualitative design with semistructured interviews and a thematic analysis approach. A total of 25 stakeholders—6 patients and 3 caregivers, 6 health care providers, 2 vendors, and 8 health system decision makers—participated in this study. RESULTS The following three primary mechanisms emerged to influence the usability of the virtual care solution: (1) receiving hands-on training and ongoing communication from a supportive team, (2) adapting to meet user needs and embedding them into workflow, and (3) being influenced by patient and caregiver characteristics. Further, two overarching recommendations were developed for considerations around scalability: (1) co-design locally, embed into the daily workflow, and deploy over time and (2) share the benefits and build the case. CONCLUSIONS Study findings can be used by key stakeholders in their future efforts to enhance the implementation, uptake, and scalability of virtual care solutions for CKD and managing PD at home.

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