Online Synchronous Teaching during a Pandemic

As the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) spread rapidly across the globe, most educational institutions tried to address major challenges of engaging students in a productive way and disseminating knowledge through online learning. Given this consideration, the present study qualitatively explores the observations and experiences of a private university and giant strides taken by the institution in adapting and delivering value to all the stakeholders through educational transformation during the pandemic. The data was collected using observations and in depth interviews. The findings of the study revealed that the university went through certain structural changes and modified teaching pedagogy for virtual delivery like providing support and training to the faculty before shifting completely to online mode and delivering the sessions online in both synchronous and asynchronous mode. The results of the study are likely to help transform and address the major challenges of engaging students in a productive way and disseminating knowledge through online learning during a pandemic.

Gamification Meets Mobile Learning

Higher education in the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0) has given a brand new drive on Malaysian educational transformation. The impact of a numerous technology innovations in ICT towards Malaysian education is noticeable. Some existing jobs will be eliminated in this era, but more new jobs that require digital literacy are going to be created. Therefore, Education 4.0 must be able to produce graduates with excellent communication and collaborative skills. However, Malaysian Digest states that fresh graduates lack soft skills. Several approaches have been proposed by the Ministry of Higher Education for the purpose of enhancing students' soft skills. Therefore, by having technologies to help overcome this problem is sought after. This chapter describes the utilization of mobile learning and gamification in enhancing learner's soft skills. It elaborates the effectiveness of using gamification in mobile learning technique to develop learners' higher order thinking skills to help them succeed in a global economy.

Postmodern Principles in Integrated Teaching of Foreign Languages and Fine Arts to Primary Learners in the New Ukrainian School

The article deals with the issue of integrated teaching of foreign languages and fine arts to primary learners in the New Ukrainian school that seeks to overcome postcolonial and modernist traditions of education and gradually implements postmodern education principles. In this regard, the article highlights the use of such postmodernist trends as simulation, free interpretation, and establishment of personal associative connections in integrated teaching of foreign languages and fine arts. Such a need is based on the hypothesis that primary learners are extremely sensitive to the above-mentioned trends and can enrich their vocabulary via consecutive study-visualization of foreign language words and their denotations. Research methods include theoretical analysis of relevant sources, pedagogical modelling of stages, special methods of integrated teaching of foreign languages and fine arts, prognostic methods. The article presents the step-by-step process of integrated teaching of foreign language and fine arts. It proves that integrative teaching in primary school thematically and methodically coincides with the three-stage process of acquiring the basics of foreign languages and fine arts. Besides, the article contains practical recommendations on the organization of integrated teaching of foreign languages and fine arts. The international relevance of the article lies in projecting the postmodern education principles on didactic realities of developing countries that need to learn the experience of educational transformation based on Ukraine’s example, as well as in implementing these principles in integrated teaching of foreign languages and fine arts.

Emotional states in times of pandemic; transformations of university education

The present houses situations that promote the unavoidable change in education, the economy, and society in general. The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered emotional contrasts, including depression, but also hostility. In this work, various academic materials are analyzed, which show the emotional impacts of the pandemic on society, which impact education and require a transformation of methodologies and processes with an ideal vision for new professional challenges.Emotions play a critical role in future job challenges. The results of this work reveal that the pandemic has broadly affected society, affective bonds have become more complex and university activities are the consequence of a set of reasons that motivate it to change form and substance. Keywords: emotional states, educational transformation, university studies. References [1]F. Suárez and L. Rosales, La ingeniería de las emociones humanas, Quito: AutanaBooks, 2021. [2]M. Tamayo, Z. Miraval and P. Mansilla, «Trastornos de las emociones a consecuencia del covid-19 y el confinamiento en universitarios de las diferentes escuelas de la universidad nacional Hermilio Valdizán. perú,» Rev. Comun Salud., vol. 10, nº 2, p. 343–354., 2020. [3]A. Cervio, «EN cuarentena, en casa. Prácticas y emociones durante el aislamiento social, preventivo y obligatorio por COVID-19 en hogares urbanos de Argentina, » CONICET, Buenos Aires-Argentina, 2020. [4]J. Salvador-Moreno, M. Torrens-Pérez, V. Vega-Falcón and D. Noroña-Salcedo, «Diseño y validación de instrumento para la inserción del salario emocional ante la COVID-19,» Revista de Ciencias de la Administración y Economía, vol. 11, nº 21, pp. 1390-8618, 2021. [5]A. M. Fernández, «Antropología de las emociones y teoría de los sentimientos,» Versión, vol. 26, pp. 1-24, 2011. [6]A. Fernández, «2020: Estudiantes, emociones, salud mental y pandemia,» Revista Andina de Educación, vol. 4, nº 1, pp. 23-29, 2021. [7]UNICEF, «El impacto del COVID-19 en la salud mental de adolescentes y jóvenes,» Septiembre 2020. [Online]. Available: https://www.unicef.org/lac/el-impacto-del-covid-19-en-la-salud-mental-de-adolescentes-y-j%C3%B3venes. [Last access: September 15, 2021]. [8]Statista, «Sentimientos de la población durante el aislamiento impuesto por la pandemia del coronavirus (COVID-19) en Perú en marzo de 2020,» 9 septiembre 2020. [Online]. Available: https://es.statista.com/estadisticas/1110475/peru-sentimientos-cuarentena-covid-19/. [Last access: September 15, 2021]. [9]B. Manrique-Losada, M. C. Gómez-Álvarez and L. González-Palacio, «Estrategia de transformación para la formación en informática: hacia el desarrollo de competencias en educación básica y media para la Industria 4.0 en Medellín – Colombia,» RISTI, vol. 39, nº 10, pp. 1-17, 2020. [10]GEINFOR, «¿Qué es la industria 4.0?,» [Online]. Available: https://geinfor.com/blog/industria-40/. [Last access: September 12, 2021] [11]J. Carvajal, «La Cuarta Revolución Industrial o Industria 4.0 y su Impacto en la Educación Superior en Ingeniería en Latinoamérica y el Caribe,» de 15thLACCEI International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education, and Technology: “Global Partnerships for Development and Engineering Education”,, Bocaratón, Estados Unidos, 2017. [12]C. Jose, B. Rildo, A. Vilca, M. Blanca, G. Monzón and F. Ceballos, «Capítulo 2: Enunciado del problema y marco teórico en la investigación cuantitativa,» de Lainvestigación cuantitativa y algunas aplicaciones, Quito, AutanaBooks, 2020, pp. 88-105. [13]F. Suárez, L. Rosales and Á. Lezama, Computación inteligente y estados emocionales, Quito: AutanaBooks, 2020.

COVID-19 and crises of higher education: Responses and intensifying inequalities in the Global South

This special issue contributes to the vibrant debates concerning the ‘responses and intensifying inequalities in the Global South’ underway with regard to COVID-19 and the subsequent crises of higher education. With neoliberal globalization in a deeper crisis by the pandemic, transforming higher education and teaching configurations in ways that appease the rich and powerful players, while simultaneously seeking to neutralize forms of equity in education. Rather than pointing fingers at the broken structures and wider external economic framework, we argue that re-centring the humanistic, holistic and bottom-up approach that frames the post-pandemic higher education offers a more useful framework for understanding educational transformation in the contemporary period.

Institutional and Educational Transformation of Pesantren in Social Capital Perspective: A Phenomenological Study at Pesantren of Miftahul Ulum, Suren, Jember

<p>This research focused on the development of <em>pesantren</em>, especially in the institutional and educational aspects using a social capital perspective. The <em>pesantren</em> used as a research site is <em>Pesantren </em>of Miftahul Ulum, Suren, Jember. To delve into the focus of this research, the researcher, thus, tried to understand and interpret the development of the <em>pesantren</em> from the perspective of social capital. To achieve these objectives, this research was conducted by using a qualitative approach with the type of phenomenology using a single site design. The data collection technique used was participant observation, so that researcher could participate in every Islamic boarding school's institutional and educational programs. This research finds that social capital is able to transform <em>pesantren </em>from institution with an isolative-traditionalist paradigmatic system to a modernist synthesis. Even the education system is from a dichotomous to a non-dichotomous system (a pattern of education that is oriented towards spiritualistic-humanist values); theocentric to theoanthropocentric pattern. This social capital is also a potential for <em>pesantren</em> as spiritual patrons and the vanguard of the source of values and morality of the surrounding community.</p>

Socio-pedagogical study of educational transformation in the period of crisis changes

The relevance of the article is due to a change in the philosophy of the very paradigm of human development, provokes changes in the structure of society, namely: new requests appear that require adequate expression in educational systems. In this regard, the article is aimed at theoretical substantiation and practical implementation of the idea of developing soft skills as basic needs in the “knowledge economy”. The key approach to solving the problem was the use of logical methods, namely deductive inferences, inferences by analogy, made it possible to generalize the accumulated experience and present it in the model of soft skills formation. The article presents theoretical generalizations on the change in the philosophy of the vector of education development in the period of crisis changes, on the importance of lifelong education in this aspect, motivation for self-realization, value orientations.

Problem and project-based learning as an educational philosophy: A novel conceptual model for higher education

Educational transformation at universities driven by the radical changes in society, culture, politics, economy, technology and industry has changed the knowledge, skills and competences demanded from individuals in professional life. This has also led to the problem and project-based learning (PBL) to gain importance once again. PBL is a learning model that all curriculum components are oriented at problems. This study aims to analyze the evolution of PBL from a teaching method to educational philosophy and to propose a novel conceptual model for an institution-level PBL design. This paper is based on a narrative approach to analyze the literature, proposes new relationships among constructs and creates links between existing theories to give a novel and broader insight to the theories using a combination of theory synthesis, adaptation, typology, and model. We think that problem and project-based learning should be considered together to create a framework to design a curriculum in higher education to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Also, we believe that the PBL model we proposed in our study can shed light on the practice of the universities in performing their educational and societal roles.

The Child Is Capable: Anishinaabe Pedagogy of Land and Community

Situated within a post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission Canadian context, educators are seeking Wisdom to create space in schools for Indigenous Knowledges, perspectives, languages, and histories. An Anishinaabe scholar invites readers to make meaningful connections to knowledge from experience that centers the child within the context of an Anishinaabe summer harvest camp, a competition powwow, and a smokehouse. The storyteller takes an inward turn, exploring features of the communal learning process conducive to the learning spirit, self-evaluation, and participation in learning and teaching that matches one’s readiness and skill. The story is powerful for connecting the heart and mind, stimulating receptivity to assessment-making opportunities for teachers that are relevant to Indigenous student community teaching-learning traditions. True to the storytelling method, the stories here are meant to stimulate remembering, reflection, and a process of deep knowing. The author invites educators to think with the stories for inspiration toward personal possibilities of praxis. Positive educational transformation is set into motion as teachers connect with Indigenous peoples to honor the diversity of children, co-create a relational curriculum inclusive of family and community to embrace Indigenous Knowledge that comes from the Land, and create space to generate and transmit new knowledge through story.

Learning Strategies for SD Muhammadiyah 1 Sidoarjo in the Midst of the Covid-19 Pandemic

The purpose of this study is to find out how the strategies used in SD Muhammadiyah 1 Sidoarjo in the covid 19 pandemic. This scientific work examines various aspects, including: history, learning strategies in SD Muhammadiyah 1 Sidoarjo. This research is a descriptive qualitative research. The technique of collecting data and research is through interviews, and observations. Based on the results of research from SD Muhammadiyah 1 Sidoarjo, online learning only lasted for a short time, then the school held face-to-face learning but it was not as effective as before. The impact that has arisen due to COVID-19 on education has changed the education system and curriculum. The curriculum is made in such a way as not to burden students. Apart from the negative impacts, there are also positive impacts, including 1) Teachers become more familiar with technology 2) The emergence of unlimited creativity 3) Trigger the acceleration of educational transformation.