scholarly journals Assessing the Readiness Level of Don Honorio Ventura State University - College of Computing Studies Towards the Implementation of Blended Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-30
Author(s):  
Aileen P. De Leon ◽  
Eden D Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
State University ◽  
Ict Skills ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Readiness Level ◽  
Building Activities ◽  
Key Indicators ◽  
The University

  Blended learning (BL) emerged abruptly when global pandemic affected the education system. Significant changes are brought by this model where it optimizes the instructional resources and upscale the quality of learning. This study focused in determining the level of readiness of the state university encompassing the domains of blended learning by stating its pedagogical condition and limitations. As a result, the researchers aim to identify strategic programs that can help the university implement BL effectively. The study combined both quantitative and qualitative research approach where the foremost used descriptive research to describe the characteristics of students and teachers, as well as their perspective towards BL. The latter discussed further the implications of implementing BL through an in-depth interview. The survey was administered to 110 students and 30 teachers, while the interview was conducted to 3 groups. Results indicated that students are in the Intermediate level in terms of ICT skills, while teachers are found to be in the Expert level. The high percentage of stakeholders having ICT skills and means brings a positive perspective towards BL. Moreover, the university’s initiatives to employ BL through academic and administrative capability-building activities and programs, recognition of different roles to be assumed by the key stakeholders and operational guidelines were the key indicators of the readiness of the university.

scholarly journals Promoting a Culture of Engaged Scholarship and Mentoring Junior Faculty in the Reappointment, Tenure, and Promotion Process at a ‘Teaching First’ University

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Lisa Krissoff Boehm ◽  
Linda S. Larrivee
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
Collective Bargaining Agreement ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
State University ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Academic Leaders ◽  
Community Projects ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

This paper analyzes the processes and outcomes involved with mentoring junior faculty in the reappointment, promotion, and tenure (RPT) process at a comprehensive state university and creating a culture supportive of engaged research. Although the university in this case study is governed by a collective bargaining agreement that prohibits the development of new written policies on RPT, the deans and other academic leaders can promote significant change through cultural means. The article will examine: the place of engaged scholarship within the reappointment, tenure, and promotion processes of the university; the university’s commitment to a cross-institutional research approach; the mentoring of faculty conducting innovative community projects; the university’s recent strategic plan initiative funding of collaborative cross-college and community projects; partnership with the city of Worcester’s Department of Public Health on applied scholarship related to five domains of public health currently establishedas the focus of efforts by the city and the region; and the innovative CitySpeak devised theater project. At this state university, strong leadership helped support a deepening culture of engaged teaching and scholarship and helped faculty negotiate the road of RPT.

scholarly journals Olympiad Movement in the System of Partnership “School–University–Enterprise”

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (12) ◽  
pp. 116-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Troeshestova
Keyword(s):  
Career Planning ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
State University ◽  
Career Trajectory ◽  
Supplementary Education ◽  
University Center ◽  
Unique Experience ◽  
Key Indicators ◽  
The University ◽  
Strategic Project

The article addresses the problem of organizing Olympiads and competitions for schoolchildren and students by the University to identify and support them in their individual educational and career trajectory, with the participation of employers in the region. To solve this problem, I.N. Ulianov Chuvash State University is implementing a number of projects in the partnership system «school – University – enterprise». The article highlights the activities of the Centre for working with the talented youth of I.N. Ulianov Chuvash State University aimed at realization of the strategic project roadmap of the University «Formation and development of the complex for popularization of promising careers, engaging and support of the talented youth in the system of multilevel anticipatory staff training». The article describes a unique experience in organizing academic Olympiads and creative design contests for schoolchildren in conjunction with innovative enterprises of the Chuvash Republic, among which are: «Hope of Chuvashia electrical engineering», «Hope of Chuvashia mechanical engineering», «Builders of the future », «Electronics 4.0», «IT-Ring». Winners and prizeholders of these academic Olympiads and contests get involved into the work of professional navigational guidance platform of the University «Center for career planning». Currently, the University is actively working on adaptation and introduction of the tutorship model. Key indicators of Olympiad movement efficiency in the network of cooperation with enterprises are provided. An analysis of these indicators makes it possible to conclude that various academic Olympiads and competitive activities for schoolchildren held together with enterprises-partners increase the number of winners and prize-holders of the highest level academic Olympiads entering the University. The article also discusses the forms of supplementary education for gifted schoolchildren and their teachers-tutors. It is stated that the value is not holding Olympiads and identifying talented schoolchildren, but regular classes with them in clubs and in supplementary education courses. It is concluded that by attracting talented graduates of secondary educational institutions to enter the University and their active participation in student Olympiad movement organized in partnership with leading innovative enterprises, the problem of professional elite developing in the region is successfully being solved.

scholarly journals Lessons On-(the)-Line Blended Learning and Pedagogy of (the) Digitally Oppressed

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahul Gairola
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Knowledge Dissemination ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Material Practice ◽  
The University ◽  
Do So

In this essay, I explore the meanings and implications of blended learning in an era of global pandemic by extending Paulo Freire’s notion of a “pedagogy of the oppressed” into the digital milieu and COVID-19 era of the 21st century. In doing so, I critically meditate on how Freire’s cue is reformulated in the context of online teaching while situating questions about online learning in the context of the Blended Learning Online South Africa (BLOSA) project based at the University of Witwatersrand. I do so as a means for tracking how, in material practice, blended learning operates in the context of knowledge dissemination and postcolonial poverty.

scholarly journals Planning and Integration of Technologies for Effective Implementation of Blended Learning in Universities in Rivers State, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 452-462
Author(s):  
P. C. Ukaigwe ◽  
Innocent U. Igbozuruike
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
State University ◽  
University System ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
The University ◽  
Rivers State

The study investigated planning the integration of technologies in higher institutions as a strategy for effective implementation of blended learning in universities in Rivers State. The design used was descriptive. The population of this study consisted of the 4,377 teaching staff in the three (3) public universities in Rivers State, comprising 2,348 male and 2,029 female teaching staff.  The universities are the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State University and Ignatius Ajuru University of Education. The sample of this study was 590 elements, comprising 327 male and 263 female teaching staff that were drawn from the population using stratified random sampling technique. Instrument of data collection was a questionnaire that yielded a reliability index of 0.84, using test-retest and Pearson Product Moment Correlation techniques. The data generated were analysed using mean to answer research questions. z-test was used to test hypotheses at 0.05 significance level. Findings showed that aligning university's visions with the aspirations of full integration of blended learning into university system, provision of required communication networking infrastructures and modifying curriculum designs to become deliverable through blended learning mode are key ways of integrating blended learning in the university system. Recommendations made included that university managers should consider seriously, the advantages of blended learning in the school system, with a view to using planning to foster the integration of the learning innovation into the traditional face-to-face teaching and learning approach for improving students learning experiences and achievements.

scholarly journals Blended Learning as a Means of Foreign Students’ Integration into a University Educational Process

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (06) ◽  
pp. 259
Author(s):  
Nadezhda Kuzmina ◽  
Darya Kochkina ◽  
Maksim Kuzmin
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
State University ◽  
The University ◽  
Development Course

This paper considers the problem of blended learning as a means of foreign students’ integration into higher school environment. This process is not that simple, it demands special methods to help foreign students to be integrated easily. The use of blended learning in education facilitates easy students’ integration and leads to positive learning results. However, the application of blended learning is connected with challenges both educators and foreign students can face. The aim of the article is to consider and assess the use of blended learning at the lessons of English implemented into a university educational process. For that purpose, we applied such methods as a needs analysis (among lecturers of English from South Ural State University), a questionnaire and an interview (among three groups of students from similar bachelor’s programs). The findings show that the majority of those surveyed do understand the importance of blended learning as a means of foreign students’ integration, but they are not familiar with the types and how to use them. Based on the results of this analysis, the authors applied blended learning into the process of English teaching, such as flipped classroom, station rotation, and a new online language development course, “Methodological support to the textbook by McCarthy, M. “Touchstone”. The drawn conclusions indicate that blended learning allows not only to boost foreign language skills, but to promote easy foreign students’ integration into the educational process of the university.

scholarly journals Hubungan Antara Kualitas Hidup dan Olahraga dengan Kejadian Obesitas pada Mahasiswa Obesitas

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 567-573
Author(s):  
Iqbal Ainun Najib ◽  
Rias Gesang Kinanti ◽  
Olivia Andiana
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Correlation Coefficient ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
P Value ◽  
State University ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract: Obesity has become a global pandemic throughout the world and is declared the largest chronic disease by the WHO, the prevalence obesity in adolescents in the world is increasing continuously every year for men from 8.3 percent to 12.9 percent and for women in 8,4 to 13,4 percent in 2013. Therefore, it is necessary to make prevention efforts, one of which is by knowing the relationship between the incidence of obesity with life of quality and exercise during the pandemic in Malang State University students. This study uses a correlational quantitative methods with a causal design with the number of respondents being 20 students off the University of Malang State with inclusion and exclusion criteria. The results off this study were carried out by using the Spearman analysis test using the IBM SPSS 25.0 application between the life of quality and the obesity incidence showing a p-value of 0.000 with a corelation coefficient of 0.847 and for the quality of exercise with the obesity incidence, it showed a p-value of 0.015 with a correlation of coefficient of 0.535 which mean that there is a strong and significant relationship with a strong strength between variables. So conclusion for the research is that there is a relationship between the quality of life with the incidence of obesity and the quality of exercise with the incidence of obesity is a significant in Malang State University students. Abstrak: Di seluruh dunia obesitas telah menjadi pandemic dan WHO telah menyatakan sebagai penyakit kronis terbesar, Prevalensi obesitas pada remaja di seluruh dunia semakin meningkat terus – menerus per tahunnya untuk pria dari 8,3 persen kemudian menjadi 12,8 persen dan untuk perempuan 8,4 menjadi 13,4 persen pada tahun 2013. Obesitas merupakan keadaan lemak berlebih yang diakibatkan ketidakseimbangan antara pemasukan dan pengeluaran energi oleh tubuh. Oleh karena itu perlunya dilakukan upaya solusi sebagai pencegahan, salah satunya dengan mencari tahu tentang hubungan antara olahraga dan kualitas hidup dengan kejadian obesitas selama pandemi pada mahasiswa obesitas Universitas Negeri Malang. Penelitian yang ini menggunakan jenis metode kuantitatif korelasional dengan desain sebab akibat dengan jumlah responden 20 mahasiswa Universitas Negeri Malang dengan syarat yaitu kriteria eksklusi dan inklusi. Hasil penelitian ini dilakukan dengan uji analisis spearman menggunakan aplikasi IBM SPSS 25.0 antara kualitas hidup dengan kejadian obesitas menghasilkan nilai p- value yaitu 0,000 dengan correlation coefficient 0,847 dan untuk kualitas olahraga dengan kejadian obesitas menghasilkan nilai p- value 0,015 dengan correlation coefficient 0,535 yang artinya adanya hubungan yang kuat atau signifikan dengan kekuatan yang kuat antar variabel. Jadi kesimpulannya adalah bahwa terdapat hubungan antara kualitas hidup dengan kejadian obesitas dan kualitas olahraga dengan kejadian obesitas yang signifikan pada mahasiswa yang obesitas di Universitas Negeri Malang.

scholarly journals BUILDING GEOSPATIAL COMPETENCES IN TANZANIAN UNIVERSITIES WITH OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS

2018 ◽  
Vol XLII-4/W8 ◽  
pp. 93-99
Author(s):  
N. Käyhkö ◽  
C. William ◽  
J. Mayunga ◽  
M. O. Makame ◽  
E. Mauya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
State University ◽  
Ict Skills ◽  
Societal Relevance ◽  
Institutional Cooperation ◽  
Practical Experiences ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
The University ◽  
New Curricula

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The GEO-ICT is an institutional cooperation project aiming at improving the quality and societal relevance of geospatial and ICT research and education at the Universities of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Ardhi University (ARU), State University of Zanzibar (SUZA) and Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA). Jointly with the University of Turku (UTU) Finland, the institutions focus on strengthening geospatial and ICT skills of the staff, establishing new curricula, upgrading supportive infrastructures and creating synergetic cooperation modalities with different stakeholders in the society. In this paper we share how our practical experiences of the cooperation, including what is the background for the establishment of institutional cooperation between these universities, how is the project operating in practice, what type of activities and cooperation modalities we do together and how do we think institutional cooperation contributes to the advancement of geospatial expertise in Tanzania and what is the role of open source solutions in this development.</p>

scholarly journals University Kindergarten: The Story of a Little Big School

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-99
Author(s):  
Jana Majerčíková ◽  
Anna Rebendová
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
The Status ◽  
The University ◽  
A Company

Abstract The study is of empirical character. It presents a story of a kindergarten which is a private, a company and a university kindergarten. The establishing authority is a university that can preferentially accept children of its employees. The parents of the children financially contribute to running the kindergarten.The research was based on the strategy of a one-case study. This integrated quantitative and qualitative research approach. Data from two types of questionnaires were used in the study presenting interviews with parents, teachers, students in teacher training and members of the school board, as well as data from observations of the educational process and from the analyses of the available school documentation. The aim was to describe the kindergarten and the contexts in which it operates, explain its operation and clarify the mechanics, circumstances and subjects it is most influenced by. Three basic factors influencing the school’s operation and fulfilling its function emerged from the collected data: the relations with the establishing authority, the community of university-educated parents and the status of a faculty school providing space for practical training of the students in teacher training. The major conclusion that emerged from the study is: The kindergarten works in specific conditions with strong contextual conditioning linked to the university environment and the authority’s conditions.

scholarly journals The Socioeconomic Impact of Paralyzed Public Works: Analysis on the University City of the State of Amazonas

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 262-273
Author(s):  
Alessandro Marques Martins ◽  
Érica Pantoja de Araújo ◽  
Frank Henrique Santos Fontineles ◽  
Sara Dos Santos Santarém ◽  
David Barbosa de Alencar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Local Population ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
State University ◽  
Socioeconomic Impacts ◽  
University City ◽  
The University

The presente research refers to the analysis of  the socioeconomic impacts caused by the stoppage of the University City of the State University of Amazonas in the Community Our Lady of Nazareth Lake Test with the objective of investigating the consequences of not observing the principle of efficiency in execution of the work of the University City by its managers, verifying the curret socioeconomic situation of this local population, and finally propose ways to mitigate problems and losses resulting from the stoppage, which is a matter of common interest as it covers all social classes. The research approach is quantitative because it intends to describe a phenomenon of a particular group or Society, its research instrument was the interview. To be eficiente during the execution of a work, it is necessary to have management during the process, so the Executive Branch has instituted laws fo the public Works to be managed efficiently, namely: the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC), instituted by the Decree n° 6.025/2007; the DifferentialContracting Regime (RDC), launched by Law nº 12.462/2011; and the Bidding Law, introduced by Law n° 8.666/1993. These measures sought to reduce delas and stoppages in public Works and the social and economic impacts that might be generated.

Five Decades of Research Experience in Speech Anatomy and Physiology

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 4-12
Author(s):  
David P. Kuehn
Keyword(s):  
Ohio State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
University Of Iowa ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
The Ohio State University ◽  
Speech Science ◽  
The University ◽  
East Carolina University

This report highlights some of the major developments in the area of speech anatomy and physiology drawing from the author's own research experience during his years at the University of Iowa and the University of Illinois. He has benefited greatly from mentors including Professors James Curtis, Kenneth Moll, and Hughlett Morris at the University of Iowa and Professor Paul Lauterbur at the University of Illinois. Many colleagues have contributed to the author's work, especially Professors Jerald Moon at the University of Iowa, Bradley Sutton at the University of Illinois, Jamie Perry at East Carolina University, and Youkyung Bae at the Ohio State University. The strength of these researchers and their students bodes well for future advances in knowledge in this important area of speech science.

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