PERAN PERPUSTAKAAN SD ISLAM AL-AZHAR 21 PONTIANAK DALAM MENDUKUNG PROSES PEMBELAJARAN ONLINE PADA MASA PANDEMI COVID-19

The research focus discusses the role of the Raudhatul Ilmi learning resource center in supporting the online learning process during the Covid-19 pandemic at Al-Azhar Islamic Elementary School 21 Pontianak. The purpose of the study is to describe the role of PSB Raudhatul Ilmi in supporting the online learning process during the Covid-19 pandemic, efforts made by librarians in managing PSB Raudhatul Ilmi so as not to lose their role during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the obstacles faced by PSB Raudhatul Ilmi in supporting the online learning process during the Covid-19 pandemic at Al-Azhar Islamic Elementary School 21 Pontianak. This research uses descriptive methods with qualitative approaches, the number of informants there are two people, namely the deputy principal and the librarian. While data collection techniques are participatory observation, interviews, and documentation. Data analysis techniques through the stage of data reduction, data presentation and conclusion or verification. The results showed that the lack of role of PSB Raudhatul Ilmi in supporting the online learning process during the Covid-19 pandemic. PSB Raudhatul Ilmi only plays a role for teachers rather than learners. PSB Raudhatul Ilmi does not have the efforts that librarians can make so that PSB can still carry out its role, and there are some obstacles, namely limited time constraints for online learning, collections that support online learning are still in print, The absence of collection visitors and loans during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Harnessing Social Media to Improve Educational Performance of Adolescent Freshmen in Universities

Social media use in different industries and commerce is high. Little exists on harnessing Facebook and YouTube to improve the educational performance of adolescent students. Researchers support that the use of social media has a positive correlation with educational performance. However, ‘little' or ‘no' research has been done on how social media platforms are customized to improve the academic performance of adolescents. Data was collected using interviews in the qualitative case study. The chapter proffers solutions like coming up with a private resource center hosted by university departments. The resource center is solely accessible for accessing research content and making contributions by academics, students, and industry. Further research might include a framework for the coalition of universities in sharing educational content on a global scale and designing local social media platforms.

The Implementation of Special Needs School Programs as Resource Center for Inclusive Education in Indonesia

This research is on the Implementation of special needs schools as Resources Center for Inclusive Education in Jakarta, Indonesia. This study aims to determine the implementation of special needs schools as organizers of inclusive educational resource centers. This research was conducted in a special needs school designated as an inclusive education resource center numbering 18 schools in Jakarta. This research uses a qualitative approach. Implementing the special needs schools' program as a resource center for inclusive education illustrates that the condition of inclusive education has not been maximized because there is still a lack of means to support the activities of inclusive educational resource centers. In addition, the need for training on inclusive education for teachers and education personnel becomes important for inclusive schools to do.

Strategies for the Architectural Space Design of Special Education Resource Center in China

In view of the current problems in China’s special education resource centers, such as lack of functional cognition and unreasonable architectural function and spatial organization, which result in the inability to coordinate regional education resources, the formulation and implementation of special education ISP program are undertaken, and the development of integrated education is promoted. This paper draws on the concept of integrated education in developed areas and the design wisdom of resource centers. The research is carried out from the perspective of meeting the behavior patterns and special needs of different users, and the perfect and reasonable functional composition and the key points of special space design are put forward, and the feasible design strategies are expressed through establishing the model and plane layout.

When Advocates are Forced to go Virtual: The Long-Term Care Ombudsman Response to COVID 19

This study explores strategies used by the nation’s Long-Term Care (LTC) Ombudsman Programs (LTCOP) to perform their grass roots, investigatory, sentinel defense advocacy during the near total COVID LTC lock out from March 13th 2020 through September 17th, when the “ban” was conditionally lifted. Our layered systematic searches by title, subject, and total text for unrestricted allusions to the LTCOP used the multi-disciplinary database Academic Search Ultimate that includes mass media. Selection criteria included print and broadcast news. Search keywords were “ombudsman” singly and with 10 other terms. This was augmented by reviewing the National LTC Ombudsman Resource Center (NORC) clearinghouse information website and by interviewing NORC staff. Resulting (172) media entries (92% print) were manually coded independently by a team of five, and iteratively reconciled according to a simple flat frame format to identify key words and associated themes. Four main LTCOP lock out strategies emerged: (1) virtual resident interventions (via phone, Skype, Zoom, in-facility allies); (2) public outreach (services provided, sharing COVID data and best practices, social isolation threats and mitigation efforts [window visits], need for volunteers); (3) systems advocacy (state/federal; CMS, legislative and other testimony about social isolation, CARES Act check problems, visitation issues; and (4) partnering with others (multi-agency planning groups, task forces, Zoom town halls, interstate information sharing). NORC interviews revealed that older LTCOP volunteers are seizing the COVID lock-out to retire undermining an already short-staffed network—so calls for volunteers were evident in about 25% of all stories regardless of any other focus.

La pandemia covid -19 y su impacto sobre el riesgo país del Ecuador. Un análisis coyuntural en el periodo 2020

La COVID‑19 enfermedad de carácter pandémico producida por un tipo de virus llamado SARS-CoV-2 descubierto como su primera sepa en China en la ciudad de Wujhan a finales del 2019, pandemia que ha afectado negativamente en la economía mundial. El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar el impacto económico y coyuntural de la pandemia COVID-19 en la economía ecuatoriana focalizando el estudio en el indicador económico Riesgo País. El estudio se sustenta en la data obtenida por el Banco Central del Ecuador (BCE) y el Coronavirus Resource Center de la Universidad Johns Hopkins University, centro especializado en la recolección de datos científicos para investigación a nivel mundial. Se desarrolló una investigación de tipo cuantitativa y cualitativa direccionada al análisis de casos de COVID-19 y el Riesgo País basándola en regresiones lineales, exponenciales y polinómicas, así como también un análisis correlacional. Se demostró el impacto de la COVID-19 en el Riesgo País, evidenciándose, entre otros aspectos, la complejidad de una gestión oportuna de carácter gubernamental, económica y de salud ante los impactos negativos de la pandemia. Los autores basados en esta investigación generaron un análisis coyuntural de la realidad ecuatoriana en el contexto pandémico en el 2020, con la finalidad de generar herramientas de análisis de información que permitan tomar decisiones oportunas y estratégicas para minimizar impactos no favorables por la COVID-19.