Mathematics Support – Essential at the Best of Times, Crucial at the Worst of Times

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Cheryl Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
One To One ◽  
Changing Times ◽  
Face Support

Mathematics and statistics support is essential in today’s higher education system. It gives students the guidance, expertise, skills and nurturing they need to be successful in their studies and beyond. It offers them opportunities to explore past their limits, self-motivate, self-assess, seek relevance, and ask questions. The Maths Hub at La Trobe University, Australia, recently changed, as we all did, with our face-to-face support in a physical space transitioned to face-to-face support via Zoom, almost overnight due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is our tale – how we transitioned from the vibrant, busy, demanding physical space to a wholly online world. The advantages, the surprises, the incidents, the attendances, and the feedback, will be highlighted. Not only was the interaction and intimacy of one-to-one sessions successful, but also the increased engagement in the tailored cross-disciplinary online modules that we offer. It is the worst of times, but it is also the best of times for creating innovative online opportunities, and it is changing times. But the thirst for mathematics and statistics support remains strong.

Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Higher Education and Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 340-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shazia Rashid ◽  
Sunishtha Singh Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The World ◽  
Downward Spiral ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
Community Transmission

COVID-19 outbreak has caused a downward spiral in the world economy and caused a huge impact on the higher education system. The sudden closure of campuses as a social distancing measure to prevent community transmission has shifted face-to-face classes to online learning systems. This has thrown the focus on utilising eLearning tools and platforms for effective student engagement which may have limitations of accessibility and affordability for many students. The pandemic has exposed the shortcomings of the current higher education system and the need for more training of educators in digital technology to adapt to the rapidly changing education climate of the world. In the post-pandemic situation, the use of eLearning and virtual education may become an integral part of the higher education system. The higher education institutions and universities need to plan the post-pandemic education and research strategies to ensure student learning outcomes and standards of educational quality.

scholarly journals COVID-19 AND EDUCATION MANAGEMENT: THE CASE OF SILESIAN REGION - POLAND

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 162-168
Author(s):  
Luis Ochoa Siguencia ◽  
Gilberto Marzano ◽  
Renata Ochoa-Daderska ◽  
Zofia Gródek-Szostak ◽  
Anna Szeląg-Sikora
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Education System ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Teaching Learning

COVID-19 outbreak has changed the economic and social relations and caused a critical impact on the higher education system. The closure of University campuses to prevent community transmission of the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has shifted face-to-face classes to online learning, distance learning, e-learning, mobile learning, and social learning. E-Learning and virtual education may become an essential component of the higher education system in the next years. Accordingly, teaching staff had to adapt their teaching methodology and tools to eLearning tools and platforms for effective student engagement. This paper reports on a first study conducted from December 2020 to January 2021, involving one hundred Higher Schools teachers of Management in the Silesia Region.The study showed many serious problems related to the emergency teaching-learning experience since it was essentially based on the translation of face-to-face approach in the online environment. 

scholarly journals Blended Learning in Substantive and Procedural Law Modules: Malaysia’s Experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1166-1174
Author(s):  
Zainal Amin bin Ayub Et.al
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Education System ◽  
Learning Gain ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Face To Face Instruction ◽  
Conventional Classroom ◽  
Substantive Law

Since its inception in 1990s, blended learning gain its footing in higher education system. The awareness amongst law lecturers on the blended learning however are not encouraging as they are firmly hold to Socratic methodology and conventional classroom face-to-face instruction. This study examines the awareness of law lecturers in using blended learning and the performance of the students who enrolled in blended learning classes. This study involves descriptive and inferential statistical analyses to investigate the law lecturers’ awareness and to analyse impact of blended learning toward students’ performance. Five modules have been experimented, three substantive law modules and two procedural law modules. The results suggest that the awareness of law lecturers on the usage of blended learning is increasing. While students’ performance, the result shows that it is better if the module is blended, but only in regards to substantive law module. On the contrary, the performance of the students is unsatisfactory in the procedural law module. This study concludes that while the awareness and the interest among law lecturers to use blended learning is increasing, it is also concluded that the suitability of blended learning only in regards to substantive law modules compared to procedural law modules.

Evaluating Technostress to Improve Teaching Performance

2020 ◽  
pp. 161-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Vega-Muñoz ◽  
Carla Estrada-Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Academic Stress ◽  
The Other ◽  
Teaching Performance ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Stress Perception ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Stress Levels

The main objective is to evaluate the techno stress perception in the Chilean higher education system professors, a system with a strong market orientation regarding the career's free choice and professional orientation, which is mainly offered in face-to-face mode. In the techno-stress levels identification, it is important to distinguish if these are such that they can affect the teaching performance. For this, techno-tensors and factors are used that determine the technology impact levels in academic stress, in the components: skepticism, fatigue, anxiety and inefficacy. A quantitative approach methodology and non-random design is used, with a snowball sampling obtaining the 190 academics' opinions from Chilean universities. Detecting in general low techno-stress levels with the fatigue slightly higher in comparison to the other three components.

The Influence of Western Qur'anic Scholarship in Turkey

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-44
Author(s):  
Mehmet Akif Koç
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Turkish Higher Education ◽  
Tremendous Importance ◽  
Cultural World

After first surveying the development of academic studies of Islam within the modern Turkish higher education system, this essay provides an inventory of material that has been translated from Western languages into Turkish. It is inevitable that orientalist studies will have a place of tremendous importance in this analysis. However, approaches to the Qur'an and its exegesis which have been developed under the influence of the Western scientific and cultural world encompass a larger range of literature that includes not only the orientalist studies themselves but also the criticisms directed against these studies. Particular attention is paid to the work of Fazlur Rahman and Arab scholars influenced by Western methods, and an assessment of the various issues related to the critique of orientalist works is provided.

The interaction of higher education system with the labor market: A study of the labor market in the regions of the Volga Federal District

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 456-480
Author(s):  
R.B. Galeeva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Education System ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Expert Survey ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Qualified Personnel ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The One

Subject .This article discusses the need to bring into line with the future activities of specialists the content of their preparation, the formation of a system model of higher education, which takes into account today's and prospective requirements of the labor market. Objectives. The article aims to research the labor market in four regions of the Volga Federal District of the Russian Federation: the Republic of Tatarstan, Mari El Republic, Chuvash Republic, and the Ulyanovsk oblast, as well as discuss problems and prospects of interaction of universities with enterprises and organizations of these regions. Methods. For the study, I used the methods of logical and statistical analyses, and in-depth expert survey. Results. The article analyzes the state of regional labor markets, presents the results of the expert survey of labor market representatives and heads of the regional education system, and it defines possible ways of harmonizing the interaction of universities with the labor market. Conclusions. The article notes that although the number of employed with higher education is growing, at the same time there is a shortage of highly qualified personnel in certain professions, on the one hand, and unskilled workers, on the other. Also, the article says that the universities do not prepare the necessary for the regions specialists in a number of professions or they provide a set of competencies different from the requirements of the labor market, so it is necessary to form and develop effective directions of cooperation between educational institutions and employers.

APPLICATION OF DATAMINING TECHNIQUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
ALBUNSKUBA J ◽  
SARAVANAKUMAR M. VENKATESH ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Higher Education System
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