scholarly journals Fostering Accessible Online Education Using Galaxy as an e-learning Platform

Author(s):  
Beatriz Serrano-Solano ◽  
Anika Erxleben ◽  
Cristóbal Gallardo-Alba ◽  
Helena Rasche ◽  
Saskia Hiltemann ◽  
...  

The COVID-19 pandemic is shifting the teaching paradigms to an online setting all over the world. The Galaxy framework caters to computational biologists a set of features to facilitate the online learning process and make it accessible to everyone. Besides the high-quality training materials, Galaxy provides easy access to data and the possibility to share the progress and achievements, both student to student and student to instructor. By combining the different features offered by the Galaxy framework and by choosing the adequate communication channels, effective training activities can be designed inclusively, regardless of the students' environments.

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. e1008923 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Serrano-Solano ◽  
Melanie C. Föll ◽  
Cristóbal Gallardo-Alba ◽  
Anika Erxleben ◽  
Helena Rasche ◽  
...  

The COVID-19 pandemic is shifting teaching to an online setting all over the world. The Galaxy framework facilitates the online learning process and makes it accessible by providing a library of high-quality community-curated training materials, enabling easy access to data and tools, and facilitates sharing achievements and progress between students and instructors. By combining Galaxy with robust communication channels, effective instruction can be designed inclusively, regardless of the students’ environments.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-194
Author(s):  
Grażyna Rembielak ◽  
Renata Marciniak

Abstract The quality of online education is of interest to universities around the world. Only high quality and cyclical evaluation are the conditions for obtaining students’ satisfaction with this form of education. In the pandemic era, digital dissemination and open education have become a special obligation of academic education. This paper aims to present the opinions of postgraduate students on the quality of e-learning forced by the Covid-19 pandemic. The study was conducted using an online survey questionnaire sent to all 173 MBA and Executive MBA (EMBA) students studying during the pandemic era in Poland's leading Business School, 40% of whom returned completed valid surveys. Students assessed aspects of e-learning such as teaching materials, communication with lecturers, the attractiveness of online classes, networking, strategies, and criteria for evaluating didactic activities, e-learning platform, and support received from the university. The results showed that although most examined aspects are perceived very well or well by the students, there is always some space for improvement. Despite the fact that the study was conducted on a small sample of students, their opinions obtained during the survey provide valuable information to universities about the quality of postgraduate e-learning from its main actors, that is, students. Based on this, the paper presents clear recommendations to universities on how the quality of online education could be managed and improved.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kun Liang ◽  
Yiying Zhang ◽  
Yeshen He ◽  
Yilin Zhou ◽  
Wei Tan ◽  
...  

With the development of mobile platform, such as smart cellphone and pad, the E-Learning model has been rapidly developed. However, due to the low completion rate for E-Learning platform, it is very necessary to analyze the behavior characteristics of online learners to intelligently adjust online education strategy and enhance the quality of learning. In this paper, we analyzed the relation indicators of E-Learning to build the student profile and gave countermeasures. Adopting the similarity computation and Jaccard coefficient algorithm, we designed a system model to clean and dig into the educational data and also the students’ learning attitude and the duration of learning behavior to establish student profile. According to the E-Learning resources and learner behaviors, we also present the intelligent guide model to guide both E-Learning platform and learners to improve learning things. The study on student profile can help the E-Learning platform to meet and guide the students’ learning behavior deeply and also to provide personalized learning situation and promote the optimization of the E-Learning.


2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-31
Author(s):  
Mihaela Adriana Tita ◽  
Otto Ketney ◽  
Tamosaitiene Loreta

AbstractThe paper investigates the effectiveness of a continuing online education course for the professionals, who provides information on the food safety working group from "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, formed by students (specialization: Engineering and Management in Public Food and Agro-tourism), persons looking for a job (unemployed) and people who works in the food industry. Piloting materials was made both face to face and online. The knowledges was measured using evaluation tests after each lesson and through a final assessment test. The results of the promotion rate was over 90%, which indicates a high efficiency in terms of piloting materials adapted by teachers from the "Lucian Blaga" University.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Hamdan Husein Batubara

Abstrak: Penggunaan e-learning diyakini dapat mengatasi keterbatasan perkuliahan di kelas dan  menyediakan  layanan belajar yang dapat diakses darimana saja dan kapan saja. Kebijakan penggunaan  e-learning  di Universitas Islam Kalimantan MAB Banjarmasin masih tergolong baru dan  sebagian besar dosen belum mengerti cara menggunakannya.  Oleh karena itu, kegiatan pelatihan ini diharapkan dapat meningkatkan keterampilan dosen dalam menggunakan  e-learning.  Pelatihan  ini dilaksanakan  selama dua hari  di  Universitas Islam Kalimantan MAB Banjarmasin dengan melibatkan dosen-dosen dari perwakilan program studi. Kegiatan dilaksanakan dalam bentuk  simulasi, latihan,  dan pemecahan masalah. Materi  pelatihan  adalah pedoman penggunaan  e-learning  berbasis Moodle untuk dosen, yang  terdiri dari pengaturan mata kuliah,  penambahan sumber belajar, membuat grup, memantau progress belajar  mahasiswa, dan penggunaan fitur  forum,  chatting,  penugasan, kuis, dan  laporan nilai.  Kegiatan pelatihan dapat dikatakan berhasil berdasarkan kemampuan peserta dalam memperagakan materi dan dibuktikan dengan hasil karya mereka pada laman  e-learning.  Peserta merasa  pelatihan  ini penting karena  dapat meningkatkan keterampilan mereka dalam mengelola pembelajaran melalui e-learning.Kata Kunci: Pelatihan, E-Learning, Moodle, Perguruan TinggiAbstract:  The use of e-learning is believed to overcome the limitations of teaching in the classroom and provide learning services that can be accessed from anywhere and anytime. The policy of using e-learning at the Islamic University of Kalimantan MAB Banjarmasin  is still relatively new and most of the lecturers do not understand how to use it. Therefore, this training is expected to improve lecturers' skills in using e-learning.  The training was held for two days  at the Islamic University of Kalimantan MAB Banjarmasin involving lecturers from representatives of the department. Activities are carried out in the form of simulations, exercises, and problem solving.  Training materials are Moodle-based e-learning guidelines for lecturers, consisting of setting course, adding learning resources, creating groups, monitoring student progress, and using forum features, chats, assignments, quizzes and  grader report.  Training activities can be said to be successful based on participants' ability to demonstrate the material and  be proven by their work on the e-learning page. Participants feel this training is important because it can improve their skills in managing learning through e -learning.Keywords: Training, E-Learning, Moodle, College


2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
S.-M. Avram

In this paper we conducted an investigation on the performance of the students during the second semester of the academic year 2020-2021. We looked at the performance results obtained by students on the laboratory work, practical and final exams while we were forced by the Covid pandemic to move entirely into an online education system. Our focus was to determine the impact of a consistent behaviour (or lack of it) on the final student performance. We determined that, even in an online setting, a good involvement (in terms of attendance and good performance) guarantees good final results. The investigations were performed using the Formal Concept Analysis, which is a very powerful instrument already used by us in previous research in order to detect student behaviour in using an e-learning portal. Another set of results showed that the change of the final mark computation formula to be based in a higher proportion on the lab work was closer to the actual overall performance of students


Author(s):  
Onorina Botezat ◽  
Ramona Mihaila

As reported by the UN, the COVID-19 pandemic has touched almost 1.5 billion students forcing school cessations in 191 countries, changing the daily-routine of over 63 million teachers. While UNESCO and partners launched the Global Educational Coalition to produce solutions to “make digital learning more inclusive,” aiming at helping countries to gather resources to implement “remote education through hi-tech, low-tech and no-tech approaches,” a lot of actors have been holding webinars on the educational challenges and dimension of the pandemic, with participants enrolled from all over the world, from East to West.The European Association for International Education, through its EAIE Community Moment and EAIE Webinar Academy organized virtual meetings on a range of subjects, COVID19 response, mobilities and international students’ recruitment, the regional Francophone center for Central and Eastern Europe organized webinars on how to teach online the Francophonie today, the Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe has constantly published updates on distant learning tools or MOOCs courses.While the webinars discuss strategies to maintain education continuity, considering children and young people in need, presenting to professors and educators a wide variety of tools, there are quite a few discussing the pedagogy of online education. Although educators have been sharing debates and exchanging opinions in reference to the e-learning platforms for more than ten years now, this very situation made them found themselves obliged to embrace, at last, the distant online learning. So, from hypothetical, theoretical, or, in some happy cases, complementary mode of e-learning platform teaching and learning, we quickly moved to the reality that imposed immediate response, within modern technology tools’ use in order to make our students carry on with their studies. And here comes the real challenge! Moving to the e-learning platforms does not mean relocating your lesson from the textbook to an educational e-learning platform, but rather translating pedagogy strategy into tool-adapted, computer-assisted online education that shall surely ease our task to reach the proposed objectives, if we are opened to change! In this paper, we will address these issues based on our teaching experience through the pandemic.


Author(s):  
G. Padmini Devi ◽  
Sirisha Deepthi Sornapudi

Aim: To identify infrastructure facilities used by the students for digital education as well as to find out the significant difference in knowledge and skills of various online tools before and after lockdown. Study Design:  Exploratory design. Place and Duration of Study: Students from the government, aided colleges, and state agriculture universities in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana were administered the questionnaire in May 2020. Methodology: A total of 315 students (age range under 20-40 years) actively participating in online classes were chosen. Results: The majority of the students possessed mobile phones even before lockdown and used them for digital learning. Students reported an increase in the amount spent on internet connectivity per month (50%), increased usage of data (70%), and increased recharge amount (46%). Since the overall mobile data usage of the students has greatly increased, consequently the amount spent on the internet also has increased after lockdown. Although most students (90.48%) were aware of online education, only 30.79% were enrolled in online classes before lockdown. Three fourth of the students were using smartphones for accessing online classes and more than fifty per cent of the students were spending two to three hours per day in the digital learning process. When it came to knowledge up-gradation, 48.89% of the students have not made use of any e-learning platform, only 21.27% used the Swayam e-learning portal, and 12.06% used UGC MOOCs. During the lockdown, students were actively participating in the online classes, which could be gleaned from their knowledge of various apps. There was a significant difference in the students’ usage of various applications before and after lockdown. There exists a significant difference between students’ knowledge of usage of apps, data, the amount spent, and time spent in the digital learning process during Covid-19. Students who were active in the online classes inadvertently consumed more amounts of mobile data, which gave them continuous network coverage enabling them to finish assignments, attend webinars, and in turn improved their knowledge. Conclusion: Despite hardships, the students were actively engaged in digital learning during the lockdown period imposed due to Covid-19 by adapting to the new normal mode of online education.


Education and training process employees at this time still use many fundamental methods that have some weaknesses, such as the education and training process can only be done with the condition of face-to-face meetings between participants and instructors in class, the costs incurred to organize are expensive, the amount of accommodation and transportation costs , lack of motivation to attend training, lack of control from the leadership of employee training activities and possible loss of modules and subject matter. This research aims to build E-Learning that can help leaders, staff, instructors, and participants in carrying out the education and training process more effectively and efficiently. Besides this website-based e-learning can also be used as a monitoring tool for leaders to control the activities and results of employee training. This research was conducted at PT. Pegadaian which is an Indonesian State-Owned Enterprise engaged in finance by interviewing employees and leaders related to education and training activities that have taken place so far. The E-Learning Control Based Website on Employee Education and Training is designed using the PHP programming language with the Laravel Framework and MySql Database. By using this system, the education and training process can be done anytime and anywhere, ease in accessing subject matter, comfort in discussing with instructors or with fellow participants as well as easy access for leaders to monitor and control training activities conducted by employees


sjesr ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
Maham Sheikh ◽  
Abdul Hafeez Muhammad ◽  
Quadri Noorul hasan Naveed

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a subject that measures usability and evaluates the interface of a system, software, or product to see its efficiency, effectiveness, and user satisfaction. On the other hand, at the time, the pandemic spread of Coronavirus (Covid-19) having an immense impact on schools, universities, and other educational sectors. In this current unpredictable situation, the importance of online education is visible, therefore, the usability of e-learning platforms truly plays an essential role in our lives. This study is about to evaluate the usability of a very common e-learning portal i.e., Khan Academy by user testing and heuristic evaluation techniques. Effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction of Khan Academy were measured quantitatively, while usability issues were identified qualitatively through heuristic evaluation. The study result shows that Khan Academy suffers from certain usability problems which need to be addressed. The study also presents relevant recommendations which are scrutinized and approved by IT specialists and UI/UX designers. The study concluded that suggested amendments are important to consider enhancing the usability of different e-Learning portals generally and Khan Academy particularly.


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