Self-Transcendence Facilitates Meaning-Making and Flow Experience: Evidence from a Pilot Experimental Study

This article suggests attention to the paideia of the soul as an educative corrective for preparing open distance learning students for living in the current technology-dependent world. This world is undergirded by a technology-rich knowledge society that privileges new informational epistemologies. In an attempt to suggest a spirituality of open distance learning that is based on the paideia (full-blown completeness) of the soul, use is made of the integrated interpretations of three relevant viewpoints. It is shown that spirituality in open distance learning is neither religion nor ethics; that it is essentially about the meaning in and of life, meaning-making and meaning-decoding, self-transcendence (especially as meaning-making), connection, engagement and a re-interrogation of all the major existentialist questions. It is a journey towards wholeness and compassion (as knowledge of love) of every student teacher.

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Inspiring Movement — Physical Activity in a Virtual Sea as a Driver for Ecological Awareness

International Journal of Semantic Computing ◽

10.1142/s1793351x21400158 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (04) ◽

pp. 539-559

Author(s):

Carolin Strassmann ◽

Alexander Arntz ◽

Sabrina C. Eimler

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Experimental Study ◽

Working Memory ◽

Virtual Reality ◽

Behavioral Change ◽

Recall Performance ◽

Flow Experience ◽

Ecological Awareness ◽

Head Mounted Display ◽

Raising Awareness

As environmental pollution continues to expand, new ways for raising awareness for the consequences need to be explored. Virtual reality has emerged as an effective tool for behavioral change. This paper investigates if virtual reality applications controlled through physical activity can support an even stronger effect, because they enhance attention and recall performance by stimulating working memory through motor functions. This was tested in an experimental study ([Formula: see text]) using a virtual reality head-mounted display in combination with the ICAROS fitness device enabling participants to explore either a plastic-polluted or a non-polluted sea. Results indicated that using a regular controller elicits more presence and a more intense Flow experience than the ICAROS condition, which people controlled via their physical activity. Moreover, the plastic-polluted stimulus was more effective in inducing people’s stated tendency to change their attitude than a non-polluted sea.

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Experimental Study on Gamification Teaching of Mathematics Classroom Practice Based on Flow Experience

2020 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Computer Science and Educational Informatization (CSEI) ◽

10.1109/csei50228.2020.9142485 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Jian Zhao ◽

Yingqi Li

Keyword(s):

Experimental Study ◽

Classroom Practice ◽

Mathematics Classroom ◽

Flow Experience ◽

Teaching Of Mathematics

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Experimental study on the restoration from a tilt-azimuth series for improvement in resolution

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s042482010013955x ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 53 ◽

pp. 636-637

Author(s):

Norio Baba ◽

Norihiko Ichise ◽

Syunya Watanabe

Keyword(s):

Experimental Study ◽

Spherical Aberration ◽

Incident Beam ◽

Optical Parameters ◽

Beam Tilting ◽

Illumination Method ◽

Restoration Method ◽

Illumination Mode

The tilted beam illumination method is used to improve the resolution comparing with the axial illumination mode. Using this advantage, a restoration method of several tilted beam images covering the full azimuthal range was proposed by Saxton, and experimentally examined. To make this technique more reliable it seems that some practical problems still remain. In this report the restoration was attempted and the problems were considered. In our study, four problems were pointed out for the experiment of the restoration. (1) Accurate beam tilt adjustment to fit the incident beam to the coma-free axis for the symmetrical beam tilting over the full azimuthal range. (2) Accurate measurements of the optical parameters which are necessary to design the restoration filter. Even if the spherical aberration coefficient Cs is known with accuracy and the axial astigmatism is sufficiently compensated, at least the defocus value must be measured. (3) Accurate alignment of the tilt-azimuth series images.

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