COVID-19 impact on UAT postgraduate students

Author(s):  
Sarahi Rubio-Tinajero ◽  
Jazmín Zapata-Contreras

<p>The UAT postgraduate students have had diverse academic and research problems due to the COVID-19 contingency. However, their commitment to comply with requirements is latent, while quickly adapting to the health crisis. The in-person restrictions have forced them to develop self-taught abilities, to look for solutions to research problems and to always stay updated in the use of digital technologies. Remote lessons have been a challenge for students and teachers due to technical problems that limit the efficiency of the teaching-learning process. Information is not passed onto the students and the objectives of the courses are only achieved halfway. Universities and the CONACYT have kept the graduation requirements in due time and form. However, requirements should be modified to be consistent with the severe limitations imposed by remote work, external to institutions. Grant holders have been the most affected.</p>

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-30
Author(s):  
Anjar Nur Cholifah ◽  
Abdul Asib ◽  
Suparno Suparno

To be good a teacher, a teacher must incessantly improve her/his teaching practice and skill/knowledge to produce and keep the academic quality. Mechanically, a teacher requires to concern a particular method/ technique or strategy and use a certain tool/type to fulfill the benchamark of excellence in teaching. Hence, reflection is substantial as one of the indispensable approaches that can be practiced to direct teacher’s performance becomes more experienced. In teaching, the term reflection refers to the opportunity of teachers to think back critically after the teaching-learning process. Previous studies that have been conducted to observe the efficiency of teacher journal in the education field. Conversely, only a few kinds research explored teacher’s perceptions toward the utilization of the teacher’s journal. Likewise, this research was located in Indonesia and engage an in-service EFL teacher of Junior High School to accomplish the gap. It intended at determining the parts reflected from the teacher journal. Moreover, to investigate the research problems, the researcher used an in-depth interview to explore the teacher’s experience in utilizing teacher diary. Consequently, this study employed a qualitative method since it was considered as the appropriate design to accomplish the research. The researcher concluded that the teacher has a positive perceptions related to the teacher’s diary/teacher’s journal. It gives precious involvement for English teachers to be more experienced and professional to help students in mastering English skills and help the teacher to do reflection in order to make a better teaching practice for the next English teaching.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Rizal Wahid Permana Putra

The increase number of Covid-19 outbreak has profoundly changed our education system. This condition has led the teachers to alter the face-to-face learning into online learning. Online learning emphasizes on the internet-based courses synchronously and asynchronously. Besides its technical problems, conducting online learning was said to be monotonous since the teachers preferred doing online tasking to providing effective learning experience. Further, this condition led to low students’ motivation in learning English. In other words, the students might be in boredom to participate and engage in the teaching- learning process owing to the monotonous learning. Most students were said to be late or even reluctant to complete the assignments. Therefore, the researcher conducted the Classroom Action Research dealing with the use of Google meet to improve the students’ motivation in learning English during the online learning. The research subject was the 7th grade students of SMP Negeri Satu Atap Jarit. The research was conducted in two cycles. In cycle I, it showed that there was an increase of students’ motivation in learning English. The increase of students’ motivation was 61, 8%. Meanwhile, in cycle II, the researcher found that the Google meet significantly improved the students’ motivation in learning English. The increase of students’ motivation was 79, 4%. The result showed that the students actively participate and engage in the teaching-learning process. The students were very enthusiastic to respond and answer the some questions, and share their ideas related to the topic of the meeting. In addition, the increase of students’ motivation influence the students to compose sentences correctly related to the given assignments. Based on the result of data analysis, the researcher drew a conclusion that the use of Google meet significantly improved the students’ motivation in learning English during the online learning.Keywords: Google meet, Learning English, Students’ Motivation


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Celia Carrera Hernández

A series of theoretical empirical reflections on research skills are presented from the experience of professors and postgraduate students. The purpose is to analyze from the experience of postgraduate teachers and students in education offered by the UPNECH Chihuahua campus the teaching-learning process and identify the research skills they have developed in order to propose actions to transform the process.The phenomenological method was used with a semi-structured interview and a theoretical review of studies developed in the international context was carried out. Among the main findings is the organization's research skills that the graduate student needs to develop,the need to link the curriculum with the research for the successful development of the graduate programs is identified and a series of proposals are made to favor the development of research skills in the teaching-learning process.


Author(s):  
Sindhu C. M. ◽  
Binoy K.

Digitalization is the integration of digital technologies in to everyday life by the digitization of everything that can be digitized. Digitalization is sweeping across every aspect of our daily lives. It has totally changed the educational industry and teaching learning process to a great extent. It has lessened the distance between students and their educational needs there by making education stress free. The use of digital information in the educational environment has enabled easy access to many resources. Students must develop knowledge about how to use ICT Technology to construct meaning, but most importantly in ways that are appropriate to their needs. Thus technology is proving a disruptive influence in education. Hence each and every student should be aware about these technological advancements. Today’s students living in digital age called as “digital students” or “digital inmates” or “digital natives” are the pupils those who born after 1980 and those who born before 1980 are called digital immigrants. Through the present paper investigators made an attempt to find out the digital awareness among digital natives hailing from four generation groups.


Author(s):  
Atul Bamrara

Digital technologies have drastically changed the mindset of communities and compelled them to function smartly. It is a must for everyone to keep updated and acquire the technical know-how for sustenance. Information and communication technology (ICT) and its capability to impact teaching-learning processes have enforced the educational institutions to apply it in pre-primary education to higher education and research. Such technologies have been explored as beneficial in variety of situations. Government is also investing a smart amount of funds to support institutions for creating appropriate ICT environment. The present study attempts to explore the factors responsible for successful integration of information and communication technology in teaching-learning process. Keeping in view the explored factors emerged from the study, it suggests to the government and policymakers how to design and develop the training programs in the area of ICT incorporation in the teaching-learning process.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-24
Author(s):  
I Komang Budiarta

A lecturer should do an ‘extra efforts’ to make the teaching learning process run smoothly. However, during the process, there is a fallibility which might not be directly observed by the lecturer. The lecturer, therefore, needs to carry out an evaluation of his/ her teaching. It can be done is through applying Lesson Study which consists of plan, do and see and involving observers to optimize the process. This research was limited on answering the research problems: what are the observers’ roles in lesson study to improve the competency of the lecturers? and what are the mutual feedback of the observers in conducting lesson study? The design of this study was descriptive and qualitative research. The required data were collected by using active-participatory observation by observing 3 observers and 5 model lecturers. In addition, the researcher also did post-interview. Based on two cycles of lesson study, the researcher found that the observers had significant roles to improve their competency. Moreover, the findings showed that they got mutual feedback to improve their competency and classroom management which is discipline, active, interactive, enjoyable, and motivating to make an active learning. This proves that lesson study is worth to be applied in developing the competency of the lecturers in faculty of teacher training and education.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-281
Author(s):  
N. Mridula ◽  
Smitha Baby ◽  
S. Helen

The coronavirus pandemic has imperilled the teaching-learning process, forcing to adapt to online modes from kindergarten to the tertiary level, globally. In this setting, a study was conducted among randomly selected 120 undergraduate agricultural science students of Kerala Agricultural University regarding their experience based perceptions on the online learning effectiveness for their courses. As per the results, online learning was considered effective in terms of learning material supply, ease of taking exams, cost-effectiveness, doubt clearance and learning flexibility while it was considered ineffective with regard to team feeling and motivation. Connectivity issues, technical problems and lack of interaction have negatively affected the interest and the attention span of the students. The social science subjects (Agricultural Extension and Home Science) were recorded as easier to study online, though the conceptual clarity was negatively impacted in Agricultural Economics and Statistics. Plant Pathology, Agricultural Entomology and Plant Breeding were counted as hard to learn online. This study tries to call for change management in the online teaching-learning process in agricultural education system so that the prevailing uncertainties due to pandemic can be overcome and the teaching-learning activities can be resumed with quality and effectiveness.


Author(s):  
Elena Vela Leiva

El presente artículo se plantea analizar cuáles son las problemáticas afrontadas por los docentes a la hora de comunicarse con las familias y discentes durante el confinamiento en contextos educativos especialmente vulnerables. Para ello, realizaremos un repaso de la teoría, la cual nos permitirá formular las preguntas y objetivos y así, orientar la investigación.Por lo tanto, conoceremos las consecuencias que las TIC han provocado en nuestra sociedad y, centrándonos en el ámbito educativo, podemos observar cómo la brecha educativa y la brecha digital se han agudizado. Por ello, las problemáticas serán presentadas en el contexto de la crisis sanitaria de la COVID-19, con el fin de poder comprender cómo el proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje fue desarrollado de manera online.Para ello, se ha desarrollado un instrumento de investigación con el objetivo de tratar las problemáticas afrontadas y, además tratar las acciones que estos docentes llevaron a cabo. Estos aspectos serán tratados en un contexto vulnerable, ya que el instrumento de investigación será cumplimentado por docentes que ejercían el curso pasado en centros educativos que pertenecían al Plan de Compensación Educativa, con el fin de poder analizar esta situación en los contextos más vulnerables.Por último, en relación a los resultados obtenidos, podemos observar cómo las problemáticas que los docentes han tenido que afrontar, cómo pueden ser la falta de recursos tecnológicos o la escasa implicación familiar, han dificultado gravemente el proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje del alumnado, provocando sentimientos de frustración entre el equipo docente y las familias. Por ello, ante esta situación los docentes han realizado un seguimiento diario del alumnado a través de videoconferencias y han mantenido una comunicación fluida con las familias a través de llamadas telefónicas, debido al escaso uso que las familias y alumnado realizaban de los entornos digitales proporcionados por el centro.   In the present research work a review of the theory is carried out, thanks to which we will know how the current society has changed due to technological advances, thus influencing the current society, which we can affirm that it is an Information Society made up of digital citizens.Therefore, we will know the consequences that ICTs have caused in our society and, focusing on the educational field, we can observe how the educational gap and the digital divide have become more acute. Therefore, the problems will be presented in the context of the health crisis of COVID-19, in order to understand how the teaching-learning process was developed online.For this, a research instrument has been developed in order to address the problems faced and also measure the strategies that these teachers developed. These aspects will be treated in a vulnerable context, since the research instrument will be completed by teachers who exercised last year in educational centres that belonged to the Educational Compensation Plan, in order to be able to analyse this situation in the most vulnerable contexts.Finally, in relation to the results obtained, we can observe how the problems that the teachers have had to face, such as the lack of technological resources or the scarce family involvement, have seriously hampered the teaching-learning process of the students, provoking feelings of frustration between the teaching team and the families. Therefore, in the face of this situation, teachers have carried out daily monitoring of students through videoconferences and have maintained fluid communication with families through telephone calls, due to the scant use that families and students made of the digital environments provided by the centre.


A knowledge based economy is equipped with the weapon of a solution to all its problems even in the time of distress. Hence, with the augmentation of the economies there are announcements of progressive issues which in turn demand for a further augmentation in the sphere of education. India has witnessed a perpetual development in the realm of education, starting from the Vedic era of Gurukul system to the chalk and talk mode of the brick and mortar setup to the ICT enabled digitalized mechanism. The recent pandemic, namely, COVID-19 has unlocked anew demand for a digitally supplemented knowledge space. The contemporary trend tends to replace text books by e-books and resource repositories and the hefty assignments dislodged by the e-assignments which seem to be profoundly advocated by the student fraternity. Invigorated by the online mode of teaching the students band seem to favour this mechanism. The navigation through this digitalized mode of learning necessitates the need for the physical intervention of technologically sound teachers. In this framework the paper envisages to examine the factors which affect the shift from offline to online mode, coupled with analyzing the student body’s reactions while accommodating the teaching learning process during this health crisis.


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