scholarly journals About Psychological Adaptation of Medical Universities Students to the Process of Distance Learning During the Pandemic of the New Coronavirus Infection

2021 ◽  
pp. 133-144
Author(s):  
Dmitrii Valerievich Sudakov ◽  
Oleg Valerievich Sudakov ◽  
Natalia Vladimirovna Iakusheva ◽  
Artiom Nikolaevich Shevtsov ◽  
Evgenii Vladimirovich Belov
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Psychological Adaptation ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
Almost All

This work is devoted to some aspects of the psychological adaptation of students of a medical university to the distance learning process during a pandemic of a new coronavirus infection. The presented research is relevant for several reasons, the leading of which are: the ongoing reform of the education and health care systems in our country – both of which affect students of medical universities and various aspects of their educational activities, including their psychological adaptation to it; as well as the global pandemic of the new coronavirus infection COVID-19 that emerged in 2020, as a result of which, almost all scientists at various levels around the world were forced to switch to distance learning. The purpose of this work was to identify and analyze some elements of psychological adaptation of students directly to the distance learning process. The objects of the study were 200 men and women, students of the medical faculty. A certain interest in the study is also due to the fact that the same students were involved in it for 2 semesters (spring and autumn) of 2020. In order to track the development of their possible adaptation mechanisms to distance learning, the level of anxiety, both personal and situational, was determined; identified various depressive states; determined the reasons for the main fears and concerns, both directly to the period of an unfavorable epidemiological situation, and to the distance learning process itself. The main points of psychological adaptation were identified, with the identification of factors contributing to them. This work is of certain interest for all higher school teachers involved in the educational process with students, as well as for psychologists and all kinds of researchers dealing with the psychological health of students.

scholarly journals A MODEL FOR EVALUATING AND ELIMINATING THE PROBLEMS OF “SHOСK” TRANSITION TO DISTANCE LEARNING IN A MODERN UNIVERSITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-321
Author(s):  
Oleg S. Koshevoy ◽  
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Irina G. Khokhlova ◽  
Svetlana V. Dudkina ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Statistical Processing ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
The University

T he current epidemic situation in Russia and the world caused by coronavirus infection requires prompt solutions to eliminate the consequences of the pandemic in almost all sectors of economic activity. The isolation of the population from mutual contacts was one of the effective solutions to the problem. This arose the need for the educational institutions to promptly switch to a remote mode of education. Those involved in the distance learning process faced a wide range of different problems, which defines the topicality of developing the efficient measures aimed to overcome the challenges of the distance learning process. The subject of the work is the analysis of the processes arising from the sudden transition of the educational environment of the university to the distance learning format, the development of a rating model designed to grade the problems which are important for the students and which are determined by the transition to the distance learning format, and the development of directions for solving the established problems. The aim of the study is to identify the problems that have arisen from the transition to a distance learning format among the students and to develop an organizational and managerial tool to fix these problems. The study relies on the information taken from a secondary data analysis performed by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) and the results of their own research by the students specializing in Economics at the Institute of Economics and Management in Penza State University. The research methods included SPSS based comparative and frequency analysis. The scientific novelty of the work is as follows: 1) a rating evaluation of the problems arising from the transfer of the educational process of the university to a distance learning format in the context of a "shock" transition associated with force majeure caused by coronavirus infection has been developed; 2) University students’ satisfaction with distance learning and students’ readiness to apply the technological distance learning tools and possibilities of Moodle based electronic educational resources in the distance learning format have been identified. Statistical processing of the research results with nonparametric criteria contributes into the reliability of the findings and the recommendation. The practical significance of the research lies in the developed concept of the organizational and managerial mechanism for overcoming the problems arising from the transition to the university’s distance learning environment. This mechanism refers to the social and informational areas, reduces the time of transition to the distance learning format, and accounts for the interests and readiness of the teaching staff and students. Further research is seen to be connected with monitoring the validity of the revealed problems in their dynamics with a one semester lag.

scholarly journals Covid-19 FAQ’s in Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology – AEPC position paper.

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Skaiste Sendzikaite ◽  
Ruth Heying ◽  
Ornella Milanesi ◽  
Katarina Hanseus ◽  
Ina Michel-Behnke
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
Paediatric Cardiology ◽  
European Paediatric ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
The Times ◽  
Almost All

Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic has had a huge influence in almost all areas of life, affecting societies, economics and health care systems worldwide. The paediatric cardiology community is no exception. As the challenging battle with Covid-19 continues, professionals from the Association for the European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC) receive many questions regarding Covid-19 in a Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology setting. The aim of this paper is to present the AEPC position on frequently asked questions based on the most recent scientific data, as well as to frame a discussion on how to take care of our patients during this unprecedented crisis. As the times are changing quickly and information regarding Covid-19 is very dynamic, continuous collection of evidence will help guide constructive decision-making.

scholarly journals SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE INTRODUCTION OF ELEMENTS OF DISTANCE EDUCATION IN THE LEARNING PROCESS

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (33) ◽  
pp. 404-422
Author(s):  
B. M. AITBAYEVA ◽  
A. M. MAULENOVA ◽  
Z. B AKHMETZHANOVA ◽  
Z. A. KENZHEBEKOVA ◽  
B. O. RAKHIMBAYEVA
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Global Trends

Distance education is essentially the basis for the development of educational institutions that provide innovative services, which cannot be obtained elsewhere. It is believed that distance education is a substitute for the traditional as part of simplifying and cheapening the learning process. At the same time, the leading global trends suggest the need for the development of elements of self-education and the expansion of the geographical nature of educational offers. The relevance of the study is that it is necessary to distinguish between the use of distance education methods in the traditional sphere and the sphere of training professionals. The paper presents the concept of the need to integrate elements of distance education in the process of preparing university teachers. The authors believe that teachers in drawing up courses and applying learning technologies use the same techniques as in distance learning. Therefore, the use of distance learning technologies can be shown as the basis for the development of advanced training programs and additional professional education. The authors proposed a study on the need and sufficiency of the use of distance education technologies and the possibilities for their integration into the process of postgraduate education. The practical significance of the work is determined by the fact that the possibilities of self-development of teachers are fully disclosed, not only as subjects of the educational process but also as subjects of training.

scholarly journals Comprehensive Review of Cardiovascular Involvement in COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. e1-e19
Author(s):  
Ruff Joseph Macale Cajanding
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Involvement ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cardiac Pathology ◽  
Current State ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Cardiovascular Involvement ◽  
Disease Causation ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Clinically Significant

COVID-19 has emerged as one of the most devastating and clinically significant infectious diseases of the last decade. It has reached global pandemic status at an unprecedented pace and has placed significant demands on health care systems worldwide. Although COVID-19 primarily affects the lungs, epidemiologic reports have shown that the disease affects other vital organs of the body, including the heart, vasculature, kidneys, brain, and the hematopoietic system. Of importance is the emerging awareness of the effects of COVID-19 on the cardiovascular system. The current state of knowledge regarding cardiac involvement in COVID-19 is presented in this article, with particular focus on the cardiovascular manifestations and complications of COVID-19 infection. The mechanistic insights of disease causation and the relevant pathophysiology involved in COVID-19 as they affect the heart are explored and described. Relevant practice essentials and clinical management implications for patients with COVID-19 with a cardiac pathology are presented in light of recent evidence.

Operations Research in Healthcare Supply Chain Management Under Fuzzy-Stochastic Environment

2020 ◽  
pp. 1833-1875
Author(s):  
S. Priyan ◽  
R Uthayakumar
Keyword(s):  
Customer Service ◽  
Operations Research ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Good Condition ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The People ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Increase Productivity ◽  
The Right ◽  
Almost All

Operations research is for mankind in almost all aspects of our life. Applying the scientific method to the management of organizations, industry, government and other enterprises play a vital role in OR. It is used to increase productivity, to improve customer service, to improve quality and to reduce costs. Healthcare has attracted a great attention of governments in order to provide sufficient health services to the people. The provision of healthcare is very complicated and very responsible, that the right drug to the right people at the right time and in good condition to fight the disease. Today, the importance and significance of planning in healthcare can hardly be over emphasized when providing proper and adequate service continues to be a key concern of most countries. Operations research provides a wide range of methodologies that can help health care systems to significantly improve their operations. It helps to solve approximately all the problems involved in healthcare with its useful modeling techniques.

Adult Care in Cystic Fibrosis

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (06) ◽  
pp. 857-868 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Stuart Elborn
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Cystic Fibrosis ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Models Of Care ◽  
Adult Care ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Expanding Population ◽  
Almost All

AbstractCystic fibrosis (CF) is now more common in adults than children in countries with well-developed health care systems. The number of adults continues to increase and will further increase if the new cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) modulators are disease modifying. Most of the complex morbidity and almost all the mortality of CF occur in adults and will increasingly follow this pattern even with new effective modulator therapies. Maintaining good quality of life including social functioning and maximizing survival for adults are the key priorities. This requires a highly knowledgeable and adaptable multidisciplinary team, which, though focused on maintaining lung health, requires an increasing range of other disciplines and specialties to maximize well-being. Changes in health care systems will require current models of care to adapt to provide care for the large number of adult patients. With increasing survival and age, many are likely to have both CF morbidities and additional diseases of aging. New models are needed for health care delivery for this expanding population with complex medical conditions.

scholarly journals Psychological readiness for distance learning in a pandemic of pedagogical university students

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Volodina ◽  
Lyudmila Korneva
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
State Pedagogical ◽  
Students First ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Two Stages

The article presents data from an empirical study of the psychological readiness of first-third-year students of the Moscow State Pedagogical University for distance learning in a pandemic. The authors considered such indicators of the mental state of future teachers as emotional tone and mental stress, and also determined the index of their life satisfaction in new learning conditions. This article presents a comparative analysis of the emotional state of students, studied at two stages: in April 2020, when students first completely switched to the distance learning format, and in October 2020, when they returned to this format amid the growing new wave of the pandemic. The results of the first stage of the study revealed that abrupt changes in the conditions of the educational process, namely, its transfer to distance learning, as well as technical difficulties with equipment and the speed of the Internet, had a negative impact on the emotional state of many students. The data of the second stage of the study showed that most of the future teachers have adapted to distance learning and do not experience high psycho-emotional stress in the educational process. This is in particular evidenced by such facts as an increase in the number of students participating in classes with the camera turned on, in contrast to the first stage of distance learning, when almost all students in lectures and practical classes experienced problems associated with the "camera effect". In general, student teachers have become much more active in learning activities than in the first months of transition to online learning.

scholarly journals THE TEACHER TRAINING DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ABOUT ONLINE LABORATORIES QUALITY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosanna Tammaro ◽  
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Iolanda Sara Iannotta ◽  
Concetta Ferrantino
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Primary Teacher ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Research Survey ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Online Laboratory ◽  
Remote Labs

The spread of novel Corona Virus and the resulting Covid-19 Pandemic has had a profound impact in our lives and most of daily activities have been upset. Negative effects crushed education and all around the world schools, universities and tertiary institutions had to shut down moving to Distance Learning. Distance Learning was in fact the global answer to continue educational activities and preserve students’ right to education. The United Nations Organization for Culture and Education (UNESCO) reports that ten months after rising pandemic, more than 331 million students worldwide are affected by the Pandemic and in 28 countries the schools are still closed (updated 09.12.2020). During the months of the first contagion curve, only 15% of teaching activities were delivered remotely, globally, thanks to Distance Learning. More than 1.5 billion students worldwide are or have been touched by the closure of schools and universities due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Teachers and instructors world-wide had to find the best solution to fix the pedagogical challenge. For this reason, teaching strategies, methods and materials have been adapted to the online learning environment. Distance Learning refers to an electronic learning environment; generally, it is used if time and/or geographic conditions do not allow a direct contact between educators and students (King, Young, Drivere-Richmond & Schrader, 2001). UNESCO (2002) asserts that Distance Learning includes learning process carried out separately in time and space, through artificial electronic or print media; this holds also for a part of the educational process. Distance Learning requires specific evaluation procedures throughout qualitative and quantitative methodologies, focusing the performance assessment and the learning process (Benigno & Trentin, 1999). This article is a part of a wider research that wants to investigate the students’ experience about online Laboratory classes during Pandemic crisis. Based on a quantitative, non- experimental and ex-post-facto research, this article specifically investigates the strategies used during remote Labs students attended during the sanitary emergency. Data was collected through a no-tested research survey administered with an online free app. A voluntary response sample from 749 Single-cycle Primary Teacher Education students, from first year course to the fifth, attending university in one of the most important athenaeums in Southern Italy, at the end of their last second semester. Results from the closed-response questions show the use of a variety of strategies whose effectiveness should be assessed based on empirical evidence.

scholarly journals Accessibility of Microsoft Teams and Moodle Services for the Implementation of E-Learning for Students with Disabilities in Institutions of Higher Education in Ukraine

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-42
Author(s):  
Oksana Khomik ◽  
Nataliia Bielikova ◽  
Svitlana Indyka ◽  
Oksana Kovalchuk ◽  
Viktor Halan-Vlashchuk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Psychological Adaptation ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Adaptive Physical Education ◽  
E Learning

The current study investigates the ways to increase accessibility to higher education for students with disabilities. The importance of implementation e-learning for such students as one of the preconditions for effective social and psychological adaptation and further successful integration of persons with disabilities into society is emphasized. A survey of students with disabilities was conducted to identify their needs in educational process. The main difficulties that they overcome in the process of education in institutions of higher education are identified. The main peculiarities and advantages of the distance learning course «Adaptive Physical Education» are described created in the Moodle system. The differences and benefits of Microsoft Teams over the Moodle platform in the process of e-learning for students with disabilities are described. The process of organizing of «Adaptive Physical Education» distance learning course for students with disabilities on the Microsoft Teams platform and the purpose of implementation it in the institution of higher education are emphasized.

scholarly journals The Comparative Characteristic of Modern Online Tools for Testing Knowledge in the Process of Distance Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
I.S. Zinovieva ◽  
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A.G. Zembitska ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Comparative Characteristic ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
School Students ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Testing Tools ◽  
Online Tools

Most of the educational institutions in Ukraine were forced to switch to distance learning, which is why there arose the question about the availability of technical means to ensure the fullness of educational process. The article investigates modern systems of testing students' knowledge in the process of distance education. Currently, there are quite a few LMS (learning management systems) that can optimize the learning process of distance education. The works of scientists related to the problems of organizing effective learning and the complexity of the transition to distance learning are considered. This article assumes the method of testing not on-ly as a tool to assess the level and quality of learning, but also as a means to obtain recommen-dations for improving the learning process in the whole. Based on the results of the analysis, a comparative description was created and an assessment of the suitability for intermediate control of knowledge of primary and secondary school students, the most common at this stage of school distance learning online knowledge testing tools. Thus the advantages and disad-vantages of these tools are revealed. As a consequence the most universal systems that can fully provide the learning process in terms of distance education and the most convenient tools for assessing knowledge are identified.

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