Personalized and Explainable Employee Training Course Recommendations: A Bayesian Variational Approach

As a major component of strategic talent management, learning and development (L&D) aims at improving the individual and organization performances through planning tailored training for employees to increase and improve their skills and knowledge. While many companies have developed the learning management systems (LMSs) for facilitating the online training of employees, a long-standing important issue is how to achieve personalized training recommendations with the consideration of their needs for future career development. To this end, in this article, we present a focused study on the explainable personalized online course recommender system for enhancing employee training and development. Specifically, we first propose a novel end-to-end hierarchical framework, namely Demand-aware Collaborative Bayesian Variational Network (DCBVN), to jointly model both the employees’ current competencies and their career development preferences in an explainable way. In DCBVN, we first extract the latent interpretable representations of the employees’ competencies from their skill profiles with autoencoding variational inference based topic modeling. Then, we develop an effective demand recognition mechanism for learning the personal demands of career development for employees. In particular, all the above processes are integrated into a unified Bayesian inference view for obtaining both accurate and explainable recommendations. Furthermore, for handling the employees with sparse or missing skill profiles, we develop an improved version of DCBVN, called the Demand-aware Collaborative Competency Attentive Network (DCCAN) framework , by considering the connectivity among employees. In DCCAN, we first build two employee competency graphs from learning and working aspects. Then, we design a graph-attentive network and a multi-head integration mechanism to infer one’s competency information from her neighborhood employees. Finally, we can generate explainable recommendation results based on the competency representations. Extensive experimental results on real-world data clearly demonstrate the effectiveness and the interpretability of both of our frameworks, as well as their robustness on sparse and cold-start scenarios.

Token Economy for Sustainable Education in the Future: A Scoping Review

This research aims to examine the use of a token economy for education sustainability. It presents a recent review and evaluation of the token economy used among young learners and learners with special needs for behavior management and learning engagement in teaching. Online articles from Google Scholar, ERIC, and UKMLibrary were used. The terms used for reviewing the articles were token economy, token systems, positive reinforcement, and rewards. The scoping review protocol was used for this study. A total of 60 relevant articles published from 2000 to 2020 were filtered and grouped into three major themes for review: behavior management, learning engagement, and types of tokens. Findings suggested that although previous research had examined the impact of a token economy on behavior management and learning engagement, there was limited research on the correlation between teaching methods and social fairness. Teachers as the main participants in assessing the effectiveness of a token economy, were also lacking. Additionally, the use of social and physical reinforcers was found to assist in obtaining the desired behaviors and learning engagement from participants, thereby enabling them to sustain learners’ interest in future lessons.

Prophetic based transformational leadership in educational institutions

The results of the research that the author did, strengthen the theory of transformational leadership James Mac Gregor Burn. However, in this study, the author uses an approach with prophetic values. This study aims to analyze prophetic-based transformational leadership. The focus of the research is: (1). How is the prophetic-based transformational leadership strategy (2) What are the obstacles faced in solving problems (3). How to evaluate prophetic-based transformational performance. This research is qualitative research through a descriptive approach. The data was obtained by taking primary data by conducting interviews. And secondary data through literature reviews, supporting documents, archives, and observations needed by the author related to this research. Data were analyzed through data reduction, followed by data presentation and then drawing conclusions. The research was conducted at STAI Madinatul Ilmi, Depok, West Java, Indonesia. The results of the research found that; a prophetic-based transformational leadership strategy at STAI Madinatul Ilmi formulated the vision and mission to achieve the goals that have been set. determined through a SWOT analysis at STAI Madinatul Ilmi. Then nine main strategies were established, namely, the field of student affairs, improving the quality of lecturers, curriculum, facilities and infrastructure, funding, program management, learning processes, graduates as well as research and publications. Another result of this study found that the role of transformational leadership in dealing with existing problems is carried out by outlining the eight main strategies that have been set. While the implementation is carried out on a prophetic basis. Finally, results also found that evaluations that can be carried out formally or informally are carried out continuously in all fields and in all ranks at STAI Madinatul Ilmi in order to find out how far the programs have been determined have been carried out properly or not.

Interweaving positive and critical perspectives in management learning and teaching

Management learning is increasingly and rightfully called upon to address societal challenges beyond narrow concerns of economic performance. Within that agenda, we describe the generative aims of a special issue devoted to interweaving positive and critical perspectives in management learning and teaching. The five articles that comprise the issue describe the prospects for such interplay across a range of empirical and theoretical contexts. Together, these contributions suggest a way forward for work that is at once critical, positive, and reflexive. We identify key themes for future directions: the generative potential of contrarian learning dynamics, an ethics-first focus on ecological and human well-being, and the prospects of scholarly practice for systemic activism.

Management of Learning for Children with Special Needs an Early Age

This article aims to describe the concept and implementation of the management of learning for children of early age with special needs. This study systematically describes the facts found in the field and compare the conditions at both institutions verbal or sentence. Object in this research is the process of managing learning for children with special needs, early age to be a child. The process includes planning, learning, organizing, learning implementation, and supervision. methods of data collection using observation, interview and documentation. Managing learning in early childhood Bloom which combines between the child regular with children with special needs require a different management in early childhood education generally. Learning to accommodate children with different characteristics and barriers to the development of different. The results showed the presence of management learning for early childhood needs, namely in the planning of learning begins with the initial assessment to identify the peculiarities of the child to be tailored to the needs of the Program, Individual Learning in children as well as develop a curriculum that is used as a learning reference. Organizing by placing the supervising teacher or special teacher who has competence in the handling of the CREW in accordance with the division of the group of children's learning. The implementation of learning using learning model that is specified each institution, the implementation of learning activities include the opener, the core and the cover, Evaluation and assessment reports carried out to determine the development achieved in the learning process. Differences and similarities of both institutions are located on the concept and implementation in each of the management functions of learning for children with special needs. Recommendation addressed to the head of school, teachers and parents with the aim that the learning can be done well.

What Have We Learnt About the Sourcing of Personal Protective Equipment During Pandemics? Leadership and Management in Healthcare Supply Chain Management: A Scoping Review

Introduction: During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic there have been much publicised shortages in Personal Protective Equipment for frontline health care workers, from masks to gowns. Recent previous airborne pandemics provide an opportunity to learn how to effectively lead and manage supply chains during crisis situations. Identifying and plotting this learning against time will reveal what has been learnt, when and, significantly, what can be learnt for the future.Aims: (i) To identify the temporal trajectory of leadership and management learning in health supply chain management through pandemics and (ii) to identify leadership and management lessons to enable the resilient supply of key items such as PPE in future pandemics.Methods: We undertook a scoping review in line with PRISMA (scoping review extension) searching Business Source Premier, Health Business Elite, Medline, ProQuest Business Collection and PubMed. Search terms were focused on recent airborne pandemics (SARS; Ebola; Zika virus; H1N1 swine flu, COVID-19), supply chain management, PPE, leadership, learning, inhibitors and facilitators and resilience e.g., SARS AND supply chain* AND (“personal protective equipment” OR PPE) (leaders* OR manage*) Titles and abstracts were downloaded to Endnote and duplicates removed. Two authors independently screened all of the titles and abstracts. Inclusion criteria focused on leadership and management in health supply chains during pandemics, peer reviewed or grey literature (either from business journals or reports): exclusion criteria included not in English and not focused on a named pandemic. Once interrater reliability was assured, authors completed a title and abstract screening independently. Ten percent of the resultant full text articles were screened by both authors, once agreement was reached the full text articles were screened independently noting reasons for exclusion. A data extraction tool was designed to capture findings from the final articles included in the review.Results/Discussion: We found 92 articles and, after screening, included 30 full text articles. The majority were focused on COVID-19 (N = 27) and most were from the USA (N = 13). We identified four themes related to leadership and management of pandemic PPE supply chains, (i) Leadership and management learning for pandemic PPE supply chain management, (ii) Inhibitors of PPE supply chain resilience during a pandemic, (iii) Facilitators employed to manage the immediate impacts of PPE supply chain demands during a pandemic,and (iv) Facilitators proposed to ensure longer term resilience of PPE supply chains during pandemics Our study suggests there has been limited leadership and management learning for PPE supply chains from previous pandemics, however there has been extensive learning through the COVID-19 pandemic. Lessons included the importance of planning, the significance of collaboration and relationship building. Resilience of PPE supply chains was reported to be dependent on multiple levels from individuals to organisation level and also interdependent on (i) sustainability, (ii) the practise of PPE and (iii) long term environmental impact of PPE suggesting the need, long term, to move to a circular economy approach.

TRANSFORMATION VARIABLES IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW

<p>The higher education sector faced increasingly tense to transform due to the digitization that reshapes the world in the 21st century to strengthen and improve the teaching and learning environment. The present critical success factors driven by global-profit-making reform institutions are affected by both external and internal issues. This systematic article review expounds on the instrumental transformation variables that influence higher education institutions globally. The exploration of these variables is not a new phenomenon in this research field and has long gained numerous scholars' attention. However, most of these past inquiries overlooked the effects of cultural and contextual components, where the higher education landscape perspectives are often underrepresented. Hence, this study aims to fill this gap by critically reviewing a considerable amount of past studies on the changes in Asian educational institutions. The Systematic Review approach was adopted for data analysis, accessing main journal databases and search engines through Elsevier, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, Web of Science, Scopus, Emerald and EBSCO. The search efforts resulted in a corpus of 33 articles were reviewed. As a result of the thematic analyses, eight main themes were formulated namely, Globalization, Income Generation and Financial Implication, Institutional Policies, Knowledge Management, Learning Innovation, Governance in Institutional Restructuring, Synergy, and Leadership as dominant variables for the higher education sector. Several recommendations were also presented for the reference of relevant parties and future scholars. </p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0963/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Pengembangan Game Edukasi Bahasa Isyarat Tentang Pengelolaan Sampah Berbasis Android

Membuang sampah sembarangan akan berdampak negatif bagi lingkungan seperti pencemaran lingkungan, mengakibatkan banjir serta dampak bagi kesehatan, oleh karena itu kesadaran membuang sampah beserta memilah pada tempatnya merupakan sikap yang perlu ditanamkan pada setiap masing individu. Berdasarkan survey siswa/siswi tunarungu SLBN Banjar dapat disimpulkan masih belum paham tentang pengelolaan sampah dan kurang peduli dalam membuang sampah pada tempatnya. Penyelesaian terhadap permasalahan tersebut yaitu dengan menerapkan pembelajaran pengelolaan sampah melalui pengembangan game edukasi bahasa isyarat menggunakan pendekatan siklus pengembangan game. Hasil dari pengembangan ini adalah game dengan fitur level menggunakan bahasa isyarat yaitu Level1 mengenal jenis sampah, Level2 Memilah sampah, dan Level3 recycle sampah, sedangkan fitur tambahannya Splashscreen, menu utama, pengenalan sampah, belajar SIBI, Info games. Hasil pengujian Blackbox mendapatkan hasil valid dan pengujian usability Nielsen berdasarkan aspek Learnability 80%(Baik), Efficiency 73%(Baik), Memorability 73.33%(Baik), Error 79%(Baik), Satisfaction 82.67%(Sangat Baik) sehingga rata-rata nilai pengujian usability Nielsen sebesar 77% dikategorikan baik. Abstract Careless disposal of garbage has negative effects on the environment., such as environmental pollution, resulting in flooding and impacts on health. Therefore, the awareness of disposing of waste and sorting it in its place is an attitude that must be applied to every individual. The problem is that the deaf students of SLBN Banjar can be concluded that they still do not understand waste management and are less concerned about disposing of waste in its place. The solution to this problem is to apply waste management learning through sign language educational games using a game development cycle approach. The result of this development is a game with level features using sign language, namely Level1 recognizes the type of waste, Level2 sorts waste, and Level3 recycles waste, while the additional features are Splashscreen, main menu, the introduction of waste, learning SIBI, Info games. The results of the Blackbox test get valid results and Nielsen's usability test based on aspects of Learnability 80% (Good), Efficiency 73% (Good), Memorability 73.33% (Good), Error 79% (Good), Satisfaction 82.67% (Very Good) so that the average Nielsen's average usability test score of 77% is categorized as good.