USE OF ENHANCED FEEDBACK IN AN ELECTRONIC LEARNING COURSE “FUNDAMENTALS OF MOLECULAR PHYSICS AND THERMODYNAMICS”

Background: Being an essential part of the educational process, blended learning still faces some problems concerning the interaction between teachers and students. They include a decrease in the level of knowledge and in the number of graduates as students experience a lack of live communication with the teacher, lack of sufficient experience of independent work, lack of interactive assessment. Aim: This study aimed to elaborate the model of enhanced feedback in an e-learning course, “Fundamentals of Molecular Physics and Thermodynamics,” to increase student educational achievements. Methods: The effectiveness of the model of enhanced feedback in the learning process was measured with the methodology for calculating statistical indicators of the quality of education: knowledge quality, level of student proficiency, progress, and average grade. To measure the emotional and evaluative attitude of students to educational activities and interaction with the teacher in an electronic course, a test-questionnaire satisfaction with learning activity was employed. Results and Discussion: the results of the initial and final control of the statistical indicators of the quality of education including knowledge quality, level of student proficiency, progress, and average grade in students showed a significant difference between the control and the experimental groups. At the end of the semester, the difference in knowledge quality was 23%, student proficiency level – 13%, progress – 3.5%, average grade – 0.6 scores. The analysis of student satisfaction with the learning process also confirms an increase in satisfaction with the learning process and with the interaction with the lecturer. Thus, the experimental methodology contributes to a significant improvement in the learning process results. Conclusions: The experiment demonstrated that replacing formative assessment with the model of enhanced feedback raises student educational achievements and compensates for lack of live communication with the teacher.

Pemanfaatan Video Kehamilan Berkualitas Untuk Meningkatkan Pengetahuan Ibu Hamil Di Masa Pandemic Covid 19

ABSTRAK Ibu hamil lebih rentan terhadap morbiditas Covid 19 dikarenakan perubahan fisiologis dan imunologis selama masa kehamilan. Salah satu upaya asuhan pada masa pandemi covid untuk mencegah penularan dan penyebaran covid 19 adalah adalah dengan meningkatkan pengetahuan ibu hamil melalui promosi kesehatan tentang kehamilan berkualitas. Tujuan pengabdian masyarakat adalah untuk meningkatkan pengetahun ibu hamil melalui pemberian video kehamilan berkualitas pada masa pandemic covid 19. Pelaksanaan kegiatan pengabdian masyarakat dengan cara memberikan penyuluhan, konseling informasi dan edukasi (KIE) kepada ibu hamil dengan menggunakan media video kehamilan berkualitas di Puskesmas Oepoi Kota Kupang. Analisis univariate disajikan dalam bentuk tabel distribusi frekuensi. Analisis bivariate dengan menggunakan uji paired sample t – test untuk mengetahui perbedaan sebelum dan setelah pemberian penyuluhan dan KIE pada ibu hamil. Hasil Pengabdian masyarakat adalah terjadi Peningkatan rerata pengetahuan ibu hamil sebelum perlakuan 64.25 dan setelah perlakuan meningkat menjadi 81.08. Hasil uji paired samples t-test menunjukkan bahwa ada perbedaan bermakna pengetahuan ibu hamil tentang kehamilan berkualitas pada masa covid 19 (p < 0,05); Saran: perlu pengembangan telemedicine untuk memberikan asuhan pada masa kehamilan di masa pandemic covid 19. Kata kunci: Ibu hamil, Pengetahuan, Kehamilan berkualitas, Covid 19 ABSTRACK Pregnant women are more prone to Covid 19 morbidity due to physiological and immunological changes during pregnancy. One of the care efforts during the Covid pandemic to prevent the transmission and spread of Covid 19 is to increase the knowledge of pregnant women through health promotion about quality pregnancies. The aim of community service is to increase the knowledge of pregnant women by providing quality pregnancy videos during the COVID-19 pandemic. Implementation of community service activities by giving counseling, information counseling, and education (IEC) to pregnant women using quality pregnancy video media at Oepoi Health Center, Kupang City. Univariate analysis is presented in the form of a frequency distribution table. Bivariate analysis using paired sample t-test to determine the differences before and after counseling and IEC for pregnant women. The result of community service was that there was an increase in the mean knowledge of pregnant women before treatment of 64.25 and after treatment increased to 81.08. The results of the paired samples t-test showed that there were significant differences in the knowledge of pregnant women about quality pregnancies during the Covid 19 period (p <0.05); Suggestion: it is necessary to develop telemedicine to provide care during pregnancy during the Covid pandemic 19. Keywords: Pregnant women, knowledge, quality pregnancy, Covid 19

Learning Professional Knowledge: Bachelor Nursing Students’ Experiences in Learning and Knowledge Quality Outcomes in a Competence-Based Curriculum

Since decades, nursing education struggles with a persistent gap between the theoretical knowledge offered in the study program and its application in professional practice. To bridge this gap competence-based curricula were developed with instructional designs as authentic learning contexts and self-directed learning. In this project we explored final year Bachelor Nursing (BN) students’ experiences in learning in a newly developed curriculum, and their knowledge quality outcomes and the degree of agreement with knowledge requirements. An instrumental multiple case study was conducted with interviews, concept mapping and a domain knowledge list. Results show that a third of the participants had positive learning experiences and got high appraisals for their knowledge quality. Similar to the medium and low scoring participants, they developed instrumental knowledge but integrated other forms of learning into a system of meaning, which is needed to solve non-routine problems in future practice. Medium and low scoring participants did not profit from learning in authentic contexts and self-directed learning. In conclusion, developing sufficient professional knowledge in a constructivist competence-based curriculum is influenced by students’ intrinsic motivation to build a strong knowledge base, by their perception of how to learn and use professional knowledge, and their expectations of the degree of supervision and guidance by the teacher. It is recommended to evaluate the extent to which the intended curriculum is being taught.

The Measurement of Organizational Social Media Integration Impact on Financial and Innovative Performance: An Integrated Model

Organizations are investing in social media for communicating with customers, promoting employee collaborations, and integrating with partners and suppliers. One of the essential organizational capabilities that can help organizations create and share knowledge and improve their performance and create competitive advantage is social capital and social media integration. Therefore, while examining the role of social media integration on the three dimensions of social capital and the organizational emphasis on knowledge management, the present study has evaluated the impact of knowledge quality on improving organizational financial and innovative performance. This study was conducted in a sample of 280 employees of a bank in Iran. The present study had an applied data collection methodology, using structural equations modeling for analyzing with a descriptive correlational research goal. The results showed that integrated social media positively affects the social capital dimensions and organizational knowledge quality. This study highlights both the potential and limitations of social media in promoting organizational knowledge management. Businesses must consciously manage the assimilation and use of social media to benefit from them. The authors position the study at the intersection of social media, social capital, and knowledge management and explicate how social media works through social capital and organizational knowledge management efforts to affect knowledge quality.

Analysis of the Effect of Service Quality, Knowledge Level, and Islamic Financial Literacy Level on Muslim Community Decisions to Use Islamic Bank Services

This study was conducted to find out how the influence of the level of knowledge, quality of Islamic banking services, and the level of Islamic financial literacy possessed by the Muslim community on decision making using Islamic banking service products. The research was conducted with a quantitative and causal associative approach. The study was conducted on 100 respondents who are Islamic bank customers in Metro City, Lampung, Indonesia. The data obtained through filling out the questionnaires were then analyzed by statistical analysis using multiple linear regression. The results of data analysis in this study indicate a significant influence between the level of knowledge, service quality, and the level of Islamic financial literacy on the decision of the Muslim community to use Islamic banking services.

Conditions for forming future language teachers’ lexical competence in pandemic times

Successful communication in English as a foreign language depends primarily on the amount of vocabulary learned, which ensures speech appropriateness in a particular communicative situation and adequate perception of information. The article reveals the conditions for forming future language teachers’ lexical competence in Ukrainian higher pedagogical education institutions on the example of vocabulary denoting coronalogisms. The summative stage revealed students’ positive motivation for learning new vocabulary, while the formative one was aimed at expanding students’ range of vocabulary on a particular topic. The work was carried out in three stages: introducing new vocabulary; practicing and consolidating new material; using the target vocabulary in written and oral speech. Determining the range of students’ vocabulary, their word knowledge quality and ability to use target vocabulary at the control stage gives grounds to state the effectiveness of conditions for forming future language teachers’ lexical competence during the pandemic: using ICT and time-conditioned blended learning as a combination of traditional and distance learning.

Knowledge management systems usage: application of diffusion of innovation theory

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of technological antecedents on the usage of decision makers for the implemented knowledge management system (KMS) amongst Jordanian banks. This study extends the investigation by assessing the influence of knowledge or information quality on KMS usage. This study aims to assess whether knowledge or information quality is significantly correlated to system compatibility, relative advantage and complexity (technological antecedents). Design/methodology/approach The study model was developed by using Rogers’ diffusion of innovation (DOI) theory, on which seven hypotheses were developed. To examine these research hypotheses, a self-administered questionnaire was carried out with 341 decision makers who are using the KMS to perform their job-related activities. Structural equation modelling analysis of moment structures software was used for data analysis. Findings The findings revealed that decision makers usage of the implemented KMS’s is affected significantly by relative advantages, system complexity and knowledge quality, but not system compatibility. Moreover, the findings showed that knowledge quality is significantly correlated with DOI technological antecedents. Practical implications Bank managements are now in a better position to understand what kind of resources and supports are needed to achieve the maximum pay-off from KMS usage within their banks. This study has proved that it is not sufficient for Jordanian banks to focus solely on the system quality; they must also take the quality of knowledge or information (system output) as a critical factor that can affect their investments in KMS’s. Originality/value This study is one of the limited conducted studies to investigate the importance of KMS usage and related antecedents in the Arab world; particularly, in the context of the Jordanian banking sector. The findings of this study have contributed to the Jordanian financial sector for its vital evaluation of the KMS actual usage behaviour. Findings can be used by the Jordanian ministry of finance to improve the understanding of the factors influencing KMS usage in the financial sector. This study has contributed to reducing the gap of DOI literature amongst developed and developing countries, particularly in the Jordanian context.