E-learning experiences of adults during Covid-19 outbreak: The moderating effect of gender

2021 ◽  
pp. 147797142110246
Author(s):  
Olivia Adwoa Tiwaah Frimpong Kwapong
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
E Learning ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Gender Groups ◽  
The University

Covid-19 has brought surprises in the educational landscape. Educational institutions had to hurriedly migrate all teaching, learning and assessment activities to online platforms. Such was the case of adult learners who had signed on to the access course for entrance into the University of Ghana. This study sought to find out how the e-learning experiences of adult learners differed across gender as they studied English language, Logic and Mathematics online. From a quantitative analysis of the data, the online experience of students with regard to Mathematics learning did not differ along gender lines. Therefore, the experiences of males and females were similar. Though, there were differences across gender groups regarding Logic and English language experiences, those of Logic experience were much bigger, where males provided overall more positive ratings than females. Specifically, for Logic experience, instructors’ show of respect to students, understanding of the learning needs of students and effective communication were rated generally better among males than females. Going forward, Logic instructors should pay equal attention to both groups irrespective of their gender to identify their learning needs and support them accordingly. Furthermore, all the instructors irrespective of their course could continue to improve their delivery of the courses as well as their relationships with the students in order to enhance future experience of the students.

scholarly journals Developing Digital English Materials Based on Contextual Teaching Learning for Economics Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Imam Fauzi ◽  
Yayat Ruhiat ◽  
Lukmanul Hakim
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Learning Resources ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Fundamental Goal ◽  
Economics Students ◽  
Contextual Teaching ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University

This study refers to the problem study of the teaching and learning needs which requires English learning resources in order to meet the expectations of students during the ESP pandemic teaching and learning process. The fundamental goal of this research is to create effective digital English learning resources for students at the University of Serang Raya's Economics faculty. The main goals of creating a digital English coursebook based on contextual teaching-learning are to help Economics students enhance their English language skills and to meet their learning demands. This research was carried out using the PSDD model as a research and development method (Preliminary Study, Design, and Develop). The information is gathered using a questionnaire and a speech assessment form.

scholarly journals Engaging Adult Learners of English Using Collaboration and Negotiation

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Larcy C. Abello
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learners ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Teacher Researcher ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Globalized World

<p class="2M-body">This work stems from the author’s experience as a teacher-researcher handling Intensive English for Foreign Graduate Students from several Southeast Asian countries, in line with the program of the University of the Philippines at Los Baños to enrich their reading and vocabulary skills.</p><p class="2M-body">This reports the teaching-learning practices which help learners to cope with their reading and vocabulary difficulties. Survey and interview encourage adult learners to take active part in planning targets based on identified needs. For these adult learners of English to be responsive and receptive, a thorough needs analysis is required to adopt an appropriate teaching-learning design. Contrary to a common practice of using a predetermined content and conduct of lessons provided by commercially available texts, this particular procedure encourages a contextualized and integrated approach and focuses on scaffolding and empowering of learners through a more dynamic and looser organization of subject matter. Collaboration and negotiation empower learners, making learning fulfilling and liberating; thus, the teacher acts as an effective facilitator of a learning process and not a mere lecturer/proctor who delivers a predetermined learning package.</p><p class="2M-body">The experience highlights the need for teachers to become active, flexible, and engaged action researchers to upgrade the quality of teaching and learning. No educator should settle doing the same routine (lessons, activities, exercises, approaches) considering the ever-changing role of English language in the globalized world. In short, an action research keeps the teacher on track as s/he remains faithful to the ultimate aim of English language teaching: that is, to produce autonomous and empowered individuals who can communicate effectively, solve problems strategically, and think/analyze critically.</p>

ETHWorld - Implementation of a Virtual Campus Infrastructure and E-Learning at ETH Zurich

2003 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Anders Hagstrom ◽  
Walter Schaufelberger
Keyword(s):  
Technological Development ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Academic Planning ◽  
Virtual Campus ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
And Control

ETH World is a strategic initiative for establishing a new virtual campus at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. ETH World will provide services in the areas of research, teaching, learning and infrastructure for the established disciplines in technology and natural science at ETH. The initiative aims to develop the excellence of ETH Zurich, making use of the new facilities and infrastructure instruments and methods that technological development offers. It is an integral part of the university, supporting its academic planning, infrastructure and financing processes. In its first part this paper describes the background of ETH World and an international conceptual competition organized in 2000 to seek ideas for the “infostructure” of this new academic environment. Some results of the competition are presented along with other projects that have been launched as building blocks of ETH World. The second part looks in some detail at e-learning as one of the focal points of ETH World, presenting two cases studies in architecture and control engineering education.

Justification Based on Rational Training

2010 ◽  
pp. 146-165
Author(s):  
Karim A. Remtulla
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Cultural Critique ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Exploratory Case Study ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Worker Identity ◽  
And Training

This chapter produces a socio-cultural critique of the ‘rational training’ workplace e-learning scenario. In this workplace e-learning scenario, workplace e-learning for workplace adult education training is used to justify the workforce through standards, categories, and measures. The alienating effects that arise out of this rush towards technocentric rationalization of the workforce through workplace e-learning are also discussed. These are the unintended and paradoxically opposite outcomes to the effects actually anticipated. An exploratory case study problematizes the unquestioned acceptance of the technological artefacts of workplace e-learning within organizations as credible sources to provide a rationale to justify workforces within workplaces. This approach critiques the presumption of infallibility of the technological artefacts of workplace e-learning; considers the short-comings of the conceiving of workplace e-learning as ‘finished’; and, reveals the ‘underdetermined’ nature of workplace e-learning technological artefacts. Socio-cultural insensitivity from workplace e-learning, in this scenario, comes from the basic, unquestioned assumption that workers are essentially socially flawed and culturally inferior; accountable for overcoming their sociocultural flaws and inferiorities; and, need to be justified by workplace e-learning, through standards, categories, and measures, to meet the expectations of the infallible and commodified workplace. A workplace e-learning that is deployed to justify the workforce, through standardization, categorization, and measurement, all result in a workforce being alienated from: (a) each other (worker-worker alienation); (b) their work (worker-work alienation); and, (c) their personal identities and sense of self (worker-identity alienation). Social rationalization is not the means to social justice in the workplace when it comes to workplace adult education and training, workplace e-learning, and the diverse and multicultural learning needs of a global cohort of adult learners.

scholarly journals Identity Construction in Mathematics Learning: A Phenomenological Study of Girl Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Krishna Prasad Adhikari
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Master's Level ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Girl Students ◽  
Thematic Network Analysis

This phenomenological study examined how girl students struggle in constructing their identity in mathematics learning. The concept given by Cobb and Hodge (2003) was used as a theoretical basis to explain the identity construction of girls. In addition, the process of identity construction is critically examined through a feminist perspective. Three girl students studying mathematics in Master’s level were involved in in-depth interview. The data collected through interview were first transcribed, which was followed by thematic network analysis to make meaning from the information. The key finding was that students faced difficulties and struggle due to patriarchal system of society, false beliefs about mathematics and mathematics learning, and traditional and meritocratic system of teaching learning system.

METHODOLOGICAL STRATEGY FOR THE RIGHT USE OF THE INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD IN THE TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN THE UNIVERSITY

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Macías Loor ◽  
Roberth Zambrano Santos ◽  
José Intriago Macías ◽  
Juan Carlos Carpio ◽  
Marianela San Lucas Marcillo
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
English Language ◽  
Interactive Whiteboard ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
Methodological Strategy

scholarly journals Is it purposeful for students of Lithuanian higher schools to continue learning the English language? Motivation factors

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-72
Author(s):  
Ramunė-Vitalija Ilgūnaitienė ◽  
Eglė Linkevičiūtė ◽  
Diana Ribikauskienė
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Main Tool ◽  
College Level ◽  
Spring Semester ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Language Level ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University

After Lithuania had regained its independence the policy of foreign languages teaching/learning at secondary schools changed cardinally. The majority or former school leavers do not perceive it to be purposeful and meaningful to prolong the English language learning on the university or college level. According to them, having covered the secondary school programme they possess a full baggage of the English language knowl-edge allowing them to communicate fluently in the above mentioned language while travelling, studying and working in foreign countries. Does this belief correspond to the reality of today? The article is based on four factors which are supposed to motivate freshmen and senior students to go on learning the English language as the main tool to enhance their position in contemporary world irreversibly affected by massive globalization and Eurointegration processes. VDU UKI in spring semester of 2014 carried out a research. The questionnaire was compiled the goal of which was to determine whether the English language level of the students matches all the international requirements for the language awareness and present the motives for students to continue the English language studies on a higher level. 172 first year students of various programmes participated in the research. The principle points of the questionnaire sought to provide answers to the following questions: whether the level of the English language acquirement is sufficient after having covered the secondary school programme, if VDU UKI Eng-lish language teaching/learning policy enables students to acquire the language on a higher level, whether a language is a living, thus a constantly changing organism which requires progressive studies and refreshment of knowledge, if the level of language acquisition remains on the same level if it is not exploited on daily ba-sis. Having systematized the questionnaire results the authoresses of the article draw the conclusion for the purposefulness of continuing the English language level on the university and college level.

scholarly journals Proceso de aprendizaje en la fabricación integrada de una plataforma robótica educativa multidisciplinar

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Martí Gil ◽  
Eduardo Quevedo Gutiérrez ◽  
Pedro Hernández Castellano ◽  
Alberto Zapatera Llinares ◽  
Himar Fabelo Gómez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
High Price ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Project Design ◽  
Educational Robotics ◽  
Innovation Project ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The University

Educational robotics has come to the classrooms and is here to stay. STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) learning has put the use of robots in classrooms in vogue, though these are mostly closed products and at a high price. The educational innovation project “Design, implementation and tests of a modular low-cost educational robotics platform” from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, expects to design an open, modular and low-cost educational robot to make robotics more accessible. One of the challenges which the project hopes to accomplish is for this robot to be able to adapt to any educational level, thanks to its modularity, from pre-school to university levels. This study analyzes the Industrial Design and Product Development Engineering degree students’ level of acceptance. Therefore, an analysis of the currently most used educational robots at any level has been made, comparing them to the project design. Moreover, a survey was passed to a total 78 students from several degrees to compare the level of acceptance, concluding that students show a general interest in the proposal, but not so among those of the study group, probably due to the lack of robotics knowledge.

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