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2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christiane R. Stempel ◽  
Katja Siestrup

COVID-19 confronted many people with an abrupt shift from their usual working environment to telework. This study explores which job characteristics are perceived as most crucial in this exceptional situation and how they differ from people’s previous working conditions. Additionally, we focus on job crafting as a response to this situation and how it is related to employees’ well-being. We conducted an online survey with N = 599 participants, of which 321 reported that they were telework newcomers. First, we asked participants to indicate the three most important advantages and disadvantages they see in telework. The subsequent questionnaire contained a comprehensive measure of working conditions before and during the pandemic, job crafting behaviors, and indicators of well-being. Based on the qualitative answers, we identified three major advantages and disadvantages. Quantitative results indicate perceived changes in all job characteristics for telework newcomers. Concerning working conditions and well-being, job crafting activities that aim to increase structural and social resources are important mediators. The findings underline the need to design appropriate telework conditions and encourage job crafting activities to foster occupational well-being.


2022 ◽  
pp. 202-222
Author(s):  
Lucio Negrini ◽  
Christian Giang ◽  
Evgeniia Bonnet

The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent school closures created several challenges for teachers and students. From one day to the next, teachers had to rethink their educational activities and move to remote learning. Especially with regard to educational robotics activities, which makes large use of physical artefacts, this abrupt shift towards online learning represented a major change in how activities had to be designed and implemented. In this chapter, some experiences of online educational robotics activities carried out in compulsory schooling and teacher training are presented. The experiences are then discussed using a model for the development of educational robotics activities in order to reflect on how to design such activities that can be carried out online. The examples presented in this chapter showed there is great potential for educational robotics in online learning.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boen Zhang ◽  
Shuo Wang ◽  
Jakob Zscheischler

Abstract The abrupt shift from drought to heavy rainfall can lead to consecutive drought-flood hazards with high socioeconomic losses. However, past and future changes in such abrupt shift events remain poorly understood. Here we show that the lagged dependence of drought and heavy rainfall may double the probability of consecutive drought-flood hazards that would be expected from the independent occurrence of both hazards. The average historical probability of abrupt shift is 53% and will increase robustly with warming across mid- and high-latitude areas. Such increases may even emerge in the regions with projected decreases in both droughts and heavy rainfall events. Future droughts are more likely to terminate along with intense convection and strong water vapor convergence exceeding those in future normal periods, potentially amplifying the probability and intensity of heavy rainfall following droughts. Such rainfall intensification would seriously challenge the adaptation of global water infrastructure to rapid drought-flood cycles.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
XinYun Peng ◽  
Nicole Wang-Trexler ◽  
William Magagna ◽  
Susan Mary Land ◽  
Kyle Peck

BACKGROUND COVID-19 pandemic has changed organizations around the world in many ways. Learning & Development (L&D) departments within organizations underwent profound changes during the abrupt shift to remote work, and as a result, envisioned and implemented new work and training practices. Given the complex and dynamic situation of the pandemic, both individuals and organizations needed to learn quickly and apply what they learned to solve new, unprecedented problems. This situation presents an opportunity to study how characteristics of learning agility were evidenced by organizations and individual employees during the abrupt shift to remote learning brought about by the global pandemic. OBJECTIVE In collaboration with the StudySite [name blinded], this study investigated the responses and learning agility of L&D professionals and their organizational leadership within the life-sciences sector to the work changes due to the pandemic. METHODS We adopted a mixed methods approach that included a semi-structured interview and a survey. Interviews were conducted through phone or online conferencing and lasted 30-60 minutes each, covering 22 questions to stimulate ideas that could be used in the survey. The subsequent survey consisted of 37 items regarding 4 specific themes. RESULTS Findings reveal generally positive organizational and individual responses towards the changes brought about by the pandemic. Results also indicate that a disruptive crisis, like the abrupt shift to remote working, required professionals’ learning agility to both self-initiate their own learning and to support the learning agility of others in the organization. CONCLUSIONS This is the second study in a series designed to better understand education and training in the life sciences on a macro level. We discussed several important directions for future research on learning agility of L&D professionals in life-sciences organizations.


Author(s):  
Sarah R. Sletten

The abrupt shift to remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic left faculty at a loss of how to administer exams, which are common methods of summative assessment in college courses. This study evaluates students’ perceptions of an alternative assessment method in which they complete Paper Review Forms on relevant primary literature in a majors microbiology course.


Author(s):  
Yoko Suzuki ◽  
Fusae Kawana ◽  
Makoto Satoh ◽  
Takashi Abe
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2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. ar14
Author(s):  
Julie E. Speer ◽  
Max Lyon ◽  
Julia Johnson

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic required an abrupt shift in how science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research was conducted. Many undergraduate mentees and graduate mentors were forced to move into virtual mentoring. This study discusses changes in mentoring methods, research productivity, and the impact on the future plans of both mentors and mentees across six STEM departments.


2021 ◽  
pp. 111-126
Author(s):  
Faisal H. Husain

This chapter recounts a dramatic turning point in the Ottoman Empire’s relationship to the Tigris and Euphrates. In the late seventeenth century, a prolonged drought event and a botched canal project triggered an abrupt shift in the Euphrates’ channel southwest of Baghdad. Beset by plague outbreaks and rural uprisings, the Ottoman provincial administration could not mount an effective response to deal with the chaos unleashed by the channel shift. The Ottoman imperial center, on the other hand, was preoccupied with a prolonged war on its western front. An engineering expedition dispatched from Istanbul in late 1701 came too late to restore the Euphrates to its original bed. The Ottoman Empire had to come to terms with the new fluvial landscape.


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