scholarly journals The New Norms and Students’ Motivation in the Pandemic Sphere

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-238
Author(s):  
Nurul Aisyah Awanis Rahim ◽  
Wan Maziah Wan Ab Razak ◽  
Ahmad Ismail Mohd Anuar ◽  
Nurul Aisyah Munirah A. Rahim
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Threatening

The global pandemic COVID-19 has hit the world tremendously and shifted all normal daily routines to a new way of living. Education and knowledge sharing has now been held virtually to prevent the spread of this life-threatening virus. Hence, students nowadays have to cope with so many changes in the execution of their courses and assignments. Aside from this challenge, lectures now have to be conducted strictly online and the lecturers can no longer physically be with them to teach face-to-face as per previous practice. Therefore, this study aims to explain the motivational conditions of students when using various media in ODL. The survey has been distributed to 174 numbers of students from one of the Higher Learning Institution in East Peninsular Malaysia. The result showed that even students who are in worry, restless and wanted everything to be ended immediately, still try their best to perform and to gain knowledge through any medium that they can to perform their best.

Generation “X” and “Y” knowledge sharing behaviour

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Sabbir Rahman ◽  
Nuraihan Mat Daud ◽  
Hasliza Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Learning Institutions ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between employee motivation and intention for knowledge sharing behaviour. Inter-generational differences (generations X and Y only) were assumed to moderate in the relationship between intention and knowledge sharing behaviour of non-academic staff of higher learning institutions. This research also aims to test the role of behavioural intention as mediation between motivation and knowledge sharing behaviour. Design/methodology/approach This research tested a conceptual framework derived from widely accepted theories. This study was carried out on non-academic staff working at the different higher learning institutions in Malaysia. Respondents from private and public higher learning institutions in Peninsular Malaysia were asked to complete a self-administered questionnaire. This research also applied confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling to examine the proposed hypothesis of this inquiry. Findings Results indicate that non-academic staff knowledge sharing behaviour was significantly mediated by intention between motivation and knowledge sharing behaviour relationship. More specifically, inter-generational differences (generations X and Y) play a significant moderation role between intention and knowledge sharing behaviour. Research limitations/implications The generalizability of this cross-sectional study can be strengthened by adopting a longitudinal approach in the next phase of the study. Practical implications The results of this research highlighted that the higher learning institutions need to institutionalize knowledge sharing behaviour among their non-academic staff (executive and non-executive) by facilitating knowledge sharing-oriented work environment. Originality/value This paper has attempted to furnish a comprehensive understanding of knowledge sharing behaviour among the non-academic staff of higher learning institutions.

scholarly journals Shape-shifting connections, relationships and Pacific education in the uncharted waters of a global pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 168-174
Author(s):  
Cherie Chu-Fuluifaga
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Short Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Face To Face Learning

The importance of maintaining connections and relationships across tertiary education for students is discussed as a way of examining the nature of Pacific education in challenging times, particularly in terms of fractured face-to-face learning. Universities have been thrust into an unpredictable time of remote/distance/online learning in a short period of time. The process has been unsettling and challenging for people across the world. As Pacific students and staff experience the unchartered waters of Covid-19 and global disturbances, they are searching out ways to build purposeful connections, shape-shifting and ways to maintain communities of academic togetherness while harnessing the tools of their knowledge trajectories in research. This article will focus on four key principles: valuing personal and academic connections beyond the textbook; discovering heart-warming methods of connection; and connecting for growth and wellbeing.

Learning Processes in Impact Communities

2019 ◽  
pp. 28-44
Author(s):  
Lídia Oliveira ◽  
Ana Luísa Rego Melro
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The World ◽  
Engagement Process ◽  
New Challenges

Engagement processes are facing a lot of challenges since the boom of the IT. This is true when there is a face-to-face engagement process, but also when the ties are mostly virtual. Nowadays, access to social networks, platforms for content posting and sharing (blogs, wikis, etc.), and for collaborative work are changing the way people engage. Those tools have enriched the processes, but also initiated new challenges. Knowledge sharing and transfer are processes that occur when several factors are combined. One of them, and the most important, is the existence of human critical mass capable of thinking the world and finding ways of changing it for the better, in this specific case social entrepreneurship. The authors studied a pilot of an impact community, its path, and the challenges it has faced. They also implemented four interviews to specialists in the areas of networks, social entrepreneurship, and learning.

scholarly journals Inferring True COVID19 Infection Rates From Deaths

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian McCulloh ◽  
Kevin Kiernan ◽  
Trevor Kent
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Infection Rates ◽  
Time To Death ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Asymptomatic Patients ◽  
Co Morbidity ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, commonly known as COVID19 has become a global pandemic in early 2020. The world has mounted a global social distancing intervention on a scale thought unimaginable prior to this outbreak; however, the economic impact and sustainability limits of this policy create significant challenges for government leaders around the world. Understanding the future spread and growth of COVID19 is further complicated by data quality issues due to high numbers of asymptomatic patients who may transmit the disease yet show no symptoms; lack of testing resources; failure of recovered patients to be counted; delays in reporting hospitalizations and deaths; and the co-morbidity of other life-threatening illnesses. We propose a Monte Carlo method for inferring true case counts from observed deaths using clinical estimates of Infection Fatality Ratios and Time to Death. Findings indicate that current COVID19 confirmed positive counts represent a small fraction of actual cases, and that even relatively effective surveillance regimes fail to identify all infectious individuals. We further demonstrate that the miscount also distorts officials' ability to discern the peak of an epidemic, confounding efforts to assess the efficacy of various interventions.

scholarly journals Classification of COVID-19 and Pneumonia Using Deep Transfer Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Mainuzzaman Mahin ◽  
Sajid Tonmoy ◽  
Rufaed Islam ◽  
Tahia Tazin ◽  
Mohammad Monirujjaman Khan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transfer Learning ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Custom Made ◽  
The World ◽  
Learning Technique ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) recognized COVID-19 as the cause of a global pandemic in 2019. COVID-19 is caused by SARS-CoV-2, which was identified in China in late December 2019 and is indeed referred to as the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2. The whole globe was hit within several months. As millions of individuals around the world are infected with COVID-19, it has become a global health concern. The disease is usually contagious, and those who are infected can quickly pass it on to others with whom they come into contact. As a result, monitoring is an effective way to stop the virus from spreading further. Another disease caused by a virus similar to COVID-19 is pneumonia. The severity of pneumonia can range from minor to life-threatening. This is particularly hazardous for children, people over 65 years of age, and those with health problems or immune systems that are affected. In this paper, we have classified COVID-19 and pneumonia using deep transfer learning. Because there has been extensive research on this subject, the developed method concentrates on boosting precision and employs a transfer learning technique as well as a model that is custom-made. Different pretrained deep convolutional neural network (CNN) models were used to extract deep features. The classification accuracy was used to measure performance to a great extent. According to the findings of this study, deep transfer learning can detect COVID-19 and pneumonia from CXR images. Pretrained customized models such as MobileNetV2 had a 98% accuracy, InceptionV3 had a 96.92% accuracy, EffNet threshold had a 94.95% accuracy, and VGG19 had a 92.82% accuracy. MobileNetV2 has the best accuracy of all of these models.

Online Work Engagement During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2022 ◽  
pp. 334-353
Author(s):  
Pınar Ersin ◽  
Derin Atay ◽  
Fatoş Uğur Eskiçırak
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World

The COVID-19 global pandemic affected many areas adversely, mainly health and education, all over the world. In education, this sudden pandemic led to efforts to bring about a set of rapid and radical solutions. As in many parts of the world, in March 2020, Turkey took steps to mitigate the potentially devastating consequences of the pandemic by changing face-to-face (F2F) education to online education. This unparalleled change in the method of delivery was new to many teachers ranging from subject matter to foreign language teaching, from novice to experienced, and most of them were unprepared. They had to face many challenges, one of which was work engagement. To the best of the authors' knowledge, no studies have been conducted on online work engagement of instructors under the pandemic conditions in Turkey. Thus, the present study was an attempt at contributing to the field by examining second language (L2) English instructors' level of work engagement on online education and their perceptions on work engagement.

scholarly journals Implementasi Pendidikan Pada Masa Covid-19 Dalam Perspektif Sosiologi

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-123
Author(s):  
Mutiyati Mutiyati ◽  
Yuniarti Yuniarti
Keyword(s):  
Learning System ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Online Learners ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Learning Policies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Today the world is shocked by the outbreak of a disease caused by a virus called corona or known as covid-19 (corona virus diseases-19). The virus that began to plague on December 13, 2019 in the city of Wuhan in the Hubei Province of China spread very quickly throughout the world, until March 11, 2020, WHO settled this outbreak as a global pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of people were exposed to this world virus and even dozens of dead victims died. Transmission is very fast and difficult to detect people exposed to because the incubation period of covid-19 for 2 weeks. And transmission occurs because of social activities that can not be avoided. So a lot of impact received from covid-19 and restrictions on social interaction. One of them has an impact on the world of education.This article we will discuss the actions of the government in overcoming the impact of co-19 in the world of education, so that it remains well run and is able to produce young people who have character without the hindrance of learning activities by this co-19 virus outbreak. Pandvid Covid-19 has made the learning system change dramatically from face-to-face meetings to online learners. This study uses a survey method using a questionnaire conducted online. The Tarbiyah and Teacher Training faculties support learning policies at home by implementing online learning.

scholarly journals Change in mental health, physical health, and social relationships during highly restrictive lockdown in the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from Australia

PeerJ ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. e11767
Author(s):  
Shane L. Rogers ◽  
Travis Cruickshank
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Work Productivity ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
Perceived Change ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

Background A novel coronavirus first reported in Wuhan City in China in 2019 (COVID-19) developed into a global pandemic throughout 2020. Many countries around the world implemented strict social distancing policies to curb the spread of the virus. In this study we aimed to examine potential change in mental/physical health and social relationships during a highly restrictive COVID-19 lockdown period in Australia during April 2020. Methods Our survey (n = 1, 599) included questions about concerns, social behaviour, perceived change in relationship quality, social media use, frequency of exercise, physical health, and mental health during COVID-19 lockdown (April, 2020). Results When estimating their mental health for the previous year 13% of participants reported more negative than positive emotion, whereas this increased to 41% when participants reflected on their time during COVID-19 lockdown. A substantial proportion (39–54%) of participants reported deterioration in mental health, physical health, financial situation, and work productivity. However, most of these participants reported ’somewhat’ rather than ’a lot’ of deterioration, and many others reported ’no change’ (40–50%) or even ’improvement’ (6–17%). Even less impact was apparent for social relationships (68% reported ’no change’) as participants compensated for decreased face-to-face interaction via increased technology-mediated interaction. Conclusions The psychological toll of COVID-19 on Australians may not have been as large as other parts of the world with greater infection rates. Our findings highlight how technology-mediated communication can allow people to adequately maintain social relationships during an extreme lockdown event.

scholarly journals A Study on Novel Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-37
Author(s):  
Harsimran Singh ◽  
Santosh Kumar ◽  
Rakesh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Wuhan City ◽  
Zoonotic Virus ◽  
Infectious Bronchitis ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Threatening

COVID-19 is a global pandemic and life threatening virus that mainly influences the respiratory tract of mammals, consisting humans being. It was 1st isolated in 1937 from an infectious bronchitis virus in birds. Many years ago, scientists have investigated that corona virus can infect mice, horses, dogs, pigs, rats, cats, cattle and turkeys. This zoonotic virus was first identified from Wuhan City, China and presently increasing very rapidly. The world has confirmed 141,057,106 cases, which includes 3,015,043 deaths and 793,484,083 vaccine doses administered as per the WHO till 20th April, 2021. Hence the aim of this paper is to provide a detailed review of COVID-19 including their history, origin, characteristics, symptoms and impacts along with preventive measures to be taken to restrict the outbreak of this evil virus of on human life.

scholarly journals Healing through Ancestral Knowledge and Letters to Our Children: Mothering Infants during a Global Pandemic

Genealogy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Miriam G. Valdovinos ◽  
Noralis Rodríguez-Coss ◽  
Rupal Parekh
Keyword(s):  
Women Of Color ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Women In Academia ◽  
Ancestral Knowledge ◽  
Global Pandemic

The struggle for work–life balance amongst women in academia who are both mothers and scholars continues to be apparent during a global pandemic highlighting the systemic fissures and social inequalities ingrained in our society, including systems of higher learning. Women of color professors on the tenure track are vulnerable to the intersecting ways capitalism, sexism, and racism exacerbate the challenges faced by motherscholars, making it imperative to explore these nuances. While motherscholars may share advice about navigating family leave policies or strategizing scholarship goals, no one could have prepared us for our motherscholar roles during a pandemic. We were, in some ways, unprepared for giving birth with a heightened level of social isolation and feelings of loneliness, while racial unrest and loud exigencies to protect the lives of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) persist. Through three testimonios, we explore how ancestral/indigenous knowledge provides us with ways to persist, transform, and heal during these moments. We share letters written to each of our babies to encapsulate our praxis with ancestral knowledge on mothering. We reflect on matriarchal elders, constricted movement in our daily routines, and ongoing worries and hopes. We theorize this knowledge to offer solidarity with a motherscholar epistemology.

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