Will one be better than two? Exploring Project-Based Joint Assessment during a Pandemic in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shin Ling Wu ◽  
Chin Hun Gun
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Joint Assessment ◽  
Better Than

scholarly journals Mobile Learning System for Egyptian Higher Education Using Agile-Based Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Menna Elkhateeb ◽  
Abdulaziz Shehab ◽  
Hazem El-bakry
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Learning System ◽  
System Failure ◽  
Course Materials ◽  
Smart Mobile ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Mobile Learning System ◽  
Better Than

Nowadays, due to easiness and expansion in property of smart mobile devices, it is becoming inevitable for mobile applications to have an important role in higher education systems. The Egyptian public universities are facing the problem of students’ large number enrolled in each year. Thus, we lack proper communication between educators and learners. Mobile learning can solve that problem, and it enables adjustment of the curriculum to meet students' learning time and life situations. It provides different solutions better than traditional educational methods. Students and professors could exchange educational material or information even if they are not in the same class. Furthermore, the cost of universities’ materials reduced, as all course materials can be found online through mobile applications. This paper proposes a mobile learning system named “Easy-Edu.” The proposed system intended to make the learning process easier, focus on students’ needs, and encourage communication and collaboration between students and professors and supports collaborative scenario-based learning for university students. Unlike other traditional systems, the proposed “Easy-Edu” was built using an Agile-based approach that delivers sustainable and high-quality mobile learning system. In addition, it eliminates the chances of absolute system failure and detects and fixes issues faster. Summarily, everything related to the design and implementation of “Easy-Edu” is discussed.

scholarly journals Exploration of Public Perception About Drama Serial Meri Zaat Zarra-E-Benishan A Feminist Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol III (I) ◽  
pp. 48-72
Author(s):  
Sadaf Zahra ◽  
Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Story Line ◽  
Women In Islam ◽  
Intellectual Level ◽  
Women Rights ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Better Than

The purpose of doing this study is to record and collect the views and thoughts of people about how women are portrayed by our media and to what degree this portrayal matches with real life situations females face and the treatments they get in their real lives. Several issues have been raised in past decades regarding denial of women's existence, brutality on women, resistance against the higher education for women, status of women in Islam, women rights and more. Few issues like higher education for women, forceful marriages, and injustice with women were considered for this study and respondents were asked about these issues and the acceptance or rejection of these issues by using Drama Serial "Meri Zaat Zarra-e-Benishan" as a tool for content analysis. Respondents were asked about the situations in the drama and the real-life situations and incidents they face; close to the story line of this drama. The result of the study was somehow positive; it was found that the intellectual level of people is comparatively better than those from the last two decades. People have started being positively inclined towards giving basic rights to females and they appreciate higher education for women in a pretty higher ratio now.

scholarly journals The Socio-Economic Background of Immigrants Affect the Chances to get Higher Education in Sweden

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 153-163
Author(s):  
Md. Ashrafuzzaman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Condition ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Educational Facilities ◽  
Second Generation Immigrants ◽  
Economic Background ◽  
Back Ground ◽  
Better Than

The main reason behind gathering a great number of immigrants in Sweden is its neutral advocacy in world politics. Many of the immigrants have come to Sweden after completing their higher education in their own countries and want to work and live in Sweden. They prefer the socio-economic condition of Sweden better than any other countries even from their own countries sometimes. My area of this research is “Socio-economic background and immigration”. I reviewed books, articles, other secondary data and will try to show the position of immigrants through socio-economic background as both are co-related. Immigration comes before socio-economic back ground or vice-versa. I will also try to focus on the position of education or what kind of educational facilities the immigrants are enjoying. ‘Socio-economic background’ and ‘Effect of socio-economic background on higher education in Sweden’ are the two points of my discussion. Here I will focus on the two points as well as ‘Socio-economic background’ & Immigrant discussion make place this article respectively and the question is Does the socio-economic background of immigrants affect the chances to get higher education in Sweden? If so, then how it affects the chances? How does socio-economic and socio-cultural factors affect the educational attainment of higher education in second-generation immigrants in Sweden?

scholarly journals An encouragement to publish powerful studies on innovation in health: A journal preface

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muji Setiyo ◽  
Heni Setyowati Esti Rahayu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Health Innovation ◽  
Knowledge Triangle ◽  
Better Than

The health manifesto highlighted that studies on innovation flourish when all sides of the knowledge triangle (research, academia, and industry) work in tandem in terms of enhancing the quality of care. This opportunity should go much better than the implementation of theoretical and academic work in universities worldwide. To respond to this, health innovation is currently being developed by experts in higher education. Therefore, this preface coming from two experts in the field encourages how important to publish studies on innovation in health for reducing the health problems along with issues on healthcare services in clinical or community practice.

scholarly journals Doubtful swelling on clinical examination reflects synovitis in rheumatoid arthritis

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 1759720X2093348
Author(s):  
Peter Mandl ◽  
Paul Studenic ◽  
Gabriela Supp ◽  
Martina Durechova ◽  
Stefanie Haider ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rheumatoid Arthritis ◽  
Clinical Examination ◽  
Power Doppler ◽  
Clinical Information ◽  
Joint Inflammation ◽  
Clinical Approach ◽  
Markers Of Inflammation ◽  
Reader Reliability ◽  
Joint Assessment ◽  
Better Than

Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate the implication of doubtful joint swelling on clinical examination with respect to objective markers of synovitis by ultrasound (US) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods: Two independent observers performed a modified 28 swollen joint assessment (28SJC), in which joints could be graded as either definitely swollen, non-swollen, or doubtfully swollen. Two examiners blinded to clinical information performed US assessment of the hands. We performed descriptive statistics and models to analyse the links between clinical assessment and objective markers of inflammation. Results: A total of 1204 joints were evaluated in 43 RA patients; 93% (40/43) of patients had ⩾1 joint with doubtful swelling (range: 0–4/patient). Inter-reader reliability for the modified 28SJC was good (0.74). Generally, both grey scale (GS) and power Doppler (PD) discriminated across not swollen, doubtful, and swollen joints. GS signals discriminated better than PD between doubtful swelling and no swelling [odds ratio (OR) for GS: 5.2; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.2–23.3 versus OR for PD 1.7; 95% CI 0.2–13.0], whereas PD discriminated better than GS between swelling and doubtful swelling (OR for PD: 28.7; 95% CI 3.6–228.2 versus GS: 1.7; 95% CI 0.3–8.4). Joint osteophytes did not increase the degree of doubtfulness. Conclusion: Clinical doubt in the assessment of joint swelling constitutes an intermediate state between unequivocal swelling and the lack thereof also regarding the objectively quantified level of inflammation. In order to increase sensitivity for joint inflammation, the historical clinical approach of considering doubtful swelling the absence of swelling should be revisited to interpret clinical doubtfulness as an indication of swelling.

The costs of grandiosity

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mats Alvesson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Brand Names ◽  
Real Problem ◽  
The People ◽  
University Colleges ◽  
Marketing Director ◽  
Better Than

A critical reader might well ask at this point: What is the real problem? Why is this author so worried about what most people may see as positive things in life: increased consumption, more education, promises about a working life with stronger ingredients of milk and honey? The sceptical reader may want to challenge this text and pose the following critical questions: . Why not just accept what people want? Isn’t it natural that people want more—and more? Of course, people are looking for more things and want to increase their consumption. And if they want to pay the earth for things with certain brand names, maybe they will be more satisfied with that? . So what if there is a lot of higher education, even if all the graduates do not get jobs? It’s good to keep people occupied and out of the way in a cheap and agreeable manner. And don’t the students always learn something in all these courses? They don’t perhaps become smarter, but education is better than unemployment. . Why not permit new and finer titles and labels? Why not make elites and others happy through using knowledge vocabulary to describe society, economy, and the population? And if all these university colleges, polytechnics, and other higher education institutions want to call themselves universities, why not be generous? The division between universities and university colleges only favours those snobs who work or study at the former places. And the liberal awarding of titles like ‘marketing director’ and ‘professor’ might give the people concerned a nice title on their business cards and make them happier, perhaps more motivated, and make their spouses proud. . Who cares about ‘real’ equality of opportunity for women and minorities if there are fine equal opportunity policies and programmes? If we have a sufficient number of women who are promoted to fill their quotas on the board and in higher education, we will have sufficient equality to comply with the statistics, and then everyone can be happy.

Reading Behavior and Compliance Among Ecuadorian University Students: A National Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-436
Author(s):  
Yuxia Ouyang ◽  
Hubert Van Hoof ◽  
Amit Sharma ◽  
Ana Cueva Navas ◽  
Mateo Estrella Duran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Time Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Study ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Reading Behavior ◽  
Reading Compliance ◽  
Better Than

A study into reading behavior and reading compliance among 2,600 students in five universities in Ecuador found that their reading behavior and reading compliance were better than among students in the United States, despite the challenges that exist in Ecuadorian higher education. Suggestions for future research, in particular with regard to improving students’ time management skills as a way to enhance their reading compliance, are included.

Considering a Marketing Degree? Student Perceptions of General Versus Specialized Majors

2021 ◽  
pp. 027347532110288
Author(s):  
JoAnn L. Atkin ◽  
Anthony Alland Bowie ◽  
Scott Cowley ◽  
James A. Eckert ◽  
Bruce G. Ferrin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Cognitive Theory ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Business Colleges ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Better Than

Many business colleges offer specialized marketing majors in addition to the general marketing major. Given the extra resources needed to maintain multiple majors, in a time when higher education budgets are being strained, a need exists to understand how students make choices among these majors and what students perceive to be the advantages of general marketing majors versus specialized marketing majors. Using social cognitive theory, we examine how students make selections among choices in marketing-related majors, focusing on influence and compatibility factors. We surveyed 608 marketing majors representing one general and five specialized marketing majors. The findings indicate that, compared with general marketing majors, students’ choice of a specialized major is significantly more likely to be influenced by faculty and other students in the major. Also, the results show that students rate specialized majors better than a general marketing major in terms of self-efficacy, culture, and professional fit. On the other hand, students rate the general marketing major better than specialized majors in flexibility. These results have implications for supporting the priorities of students in both general and specialized majors.

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