Undergraduate Students Expertise Level of Utilising Social Media for Instruction

Acclimatising podiums that are not destined for instruction is not a laidback chore but is attainable with suitable strategies and arrangement for educators and scholars. Social networks have amalgamated many students into an online world in exploring relationships, finding and acquiring obligatory evidence for their erudition and research. This research aims to explore availability, utilisation and expertise level of the social media platform for learning, and the influence of gender on the utilisation. A structured questionnaire was administered on 450 students across universities in Kwara state. The reliability coefficient of 0.90, and 0.81 using Cronbach’s alpha was deduced. Statistical tools of mean, t-test and Variance (ANOVA) were employed to analyse data for the study. Findings of the study revealed that undergraduates’ expert level on utilising social media for instruction was intermediate and there was no noteworthy difference between undergraduates’ expertise level in the adoption of social media for instruction. The study concluded that undergraduates have average expertise skill on the adoption of social media for instruction. It was recommended that lecturers in tertiary institutions use most social media platforms to teach students as this will boost their proficiency.

The Role of Parents during the COVID19 Pandemic in Croatia

Like many other areas, the educational system is challenging during the time of pandemic of the coronavirus. In the first half of the 2020 year, many schools had online lessons. The same situation was in Croatia, where we had online teaching from March to May in all elementary schools. Thus, the educational system started with fast-changing in terms of online teaching and learning methods. Distance learning has brought many families into specific situations because the help is normally provided to students by the teacher; in this situation, the parent had to do it. Because of that, parents were in a situation where they had to work online or “in vivo” and help their children learn new content. This was especially difficult for parents with a slightly lower level of education, parents who spent much time away from home at work, and especially for parents whose livelihoods called into question their lives, so in addition to organisational, some other socio-economic and emotional difficulties. Thus, this paper aims to research parents’ attitudes about distance learning and their role in these situations during the school year 2020/2021. As we expected, teachers wanted more cooperation with parents and parents wanted more understanding from teachers and not so many exercises in a short time.

Prappctices in Physics For Engineering Students

Digital technologies are changing our communication way and are crucial and essential in our everyday lives, entertainment, study, and work. The educational sector incorporates more and more Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to create a more creative, participatory and socialising learning environment. In this challenging context, some prAPPactices with embedded use of apps have been introduced in our Physics laboratory as part of the new active teaching strategies to increase student satisfaction and motivation. We present three examples of the most representative newly introduced prAPPctices regarding acoustics, lighting and elasticity in our subjects in two different degrees (building engineering and mechanical engineering). Students become main actors in a smarter, portable, reproducible, and more exciting learning environment and the teacher role is set on a second layer. Creating a new, more exciting, personal and customised working and learning environment has improved student’s engagement and satisfaction and the quality of the laboratory reports with direct and positive consequences on the grades.

How to Prepare Students for the 4th Industrial Revolution Society

This paper aims to examine how universities prepare students for meeting the job needs in the 4th industrial revolution society and suggest a curriculum to meet the students’ needs. In order to achieve the research goal, a survey method was used. According to Wikipedia, the 4th industrial revolution consists of various technological components such as mobile devices, Internet of things Platforms, big data, and augmented reality. This study attempted to determine whether the university’s curriculum is designed to prepare students for obtaining the knowledge and skills necessary in society. It also examined how students perceive their abilities to handle technologies and get jobs in the changing society. Based on the data analysis, suggestions were made to adjust a curriculum design for future changes.

Croatian Teachers During COVID-19 Pandemic

The teacher plays a central role in every education system. In addition to imparting knowledge and perfecting students’ skills, the teacher is also a role model on a socio-emotional, moral and speech level. However, its role has changed throughout history and depended on culture and lifestyle. Today, the education system around the world is facing a major test, and thus the role of the teacher as the central person of this process is being tested. Namely, the pandemic caused by the coronavirus switched teaching to the online form in 2020, to which some countries were less and some more ready. In the Republic of Croatia, distance learning was performed for three months in the first half of the year, and in the second half of the year, there are three models of teaching: distance, live and a combination of these two models. Given the experience of distance learning, on the one hand, there was less activity of students in completing tasks, poor understanding of the content of the material, the high workload of parents, but also many inconsistencies of teachers who in a concise time had to transfer their work entirely online (without prior education). On the other hand, it has been observed how much both students and parents are beginning to understand the importance of the teacher figure in the learning and teaching process and how difficult it is to replace teachers’ living word with any form of online teaching. That is why this paper aims to examine teachers’ attitudes about experiences with distance learning, and comparative analysis to determine the most common difficulties, challenges, and successes of this form of teaching by comparing it with classroom teaching. It is expected that the changes brought by distance learning will accelerate the digitalisation of the educational process, but also increase the understanding of the critical role of teachers as the centre of the educational process.

A Critical Study of the Principles and Approaches to Needs Analysis

English language materials and courses are developed to cover the skills that learners require to master. In the domain of English language teaching, Needs Analysis (NA), also known as Need Assessment, is a process that aims to investigate the present level of English language learners and identify what they need to know. The NA process is unanimously accounted for as a crucial feature of English language learning, especially for teaching materials, learning activities, testing, and developing assessment programs. Due to its vital role, a great deal of research has been conducted on this process, and several approaches have been suggested for it in the literature. This paper aims to provide an overview of the needs analysis as well as its fundamentals and concepts. This paper also presents a review of previous research methods developed for NA and their strengths and limitations.

The Effectiveness of Mentoring in ELT Context

In their beginning stages of learning, the teachers require more practical ideas on how to choose and behave effectively to be a successful teacher. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of mentoring as a tool for aiding teachers’ development and teacher’s portfolio assessment of the teaching skills of Iranian ELT teachers. Classroom observation via a checklist and an interview was used to examine the effectiveness of mentoring in the Iranian ELT context. The findings indicated the effectiveness of mentoring in teachers' teaching skills and some of its shortcomings.

Public Budget in Early Childhood Education: A Proposal for Evidence of Expenses with Students Attended in the Municipalities of Mato Grosso State

This study aimed to propose a structure that makes it possible to highlight budget expenditures with children’s education students. The methodology used was descriptive, with qualitative data and obtaining the bibliographical and documentary data. The secondary data were obtained through the Information System on Public Budgets in Education (ISPBE) and School Census. Both made available by the National Fund for Education Development (NFED), with 137 municipalities in Mato Grosso that reported information to ISPBE the financial year 2015. The results suggest that it is possible to improve the legal, managerial, and social control of information, starting with the budget structure, using resources already existing in the municipalities. The contribution of the research is to suggest the mandatory inclusion of expense finder in the draft legislation that is going through the process in the National Congress, replacing the text of Law 4.320/64, which will bring greater security and reliability of the information declared to the ISPBE, besides evidencing how much in fact it invests in education in the country, especially in child education and also to improve transparency and fight against corruption.

The Effects of Compliance on the Results of Management of Support Foundations of Public Universities

This work proposes to study Support Foundations that are private non-profit organizations which support public universities by managing their teaching, research and extension projects. These foundations are inserted as the Third Sector Institutions. The research targets verify if the compliance level affects the surplus probability of support foundations. The sample includes thirty-four support foundations. The accounting statements analyzed were the balance sheet; the deficit and/or surplus demonstration; the statement of changes in shareholders’ equity; the cash flow statement and the explanatory notes for the years 2014, 2015 and 2016. The analysis was performed by a checklist, including 31 (thirty-one) items. It is important to highlight that the data estimation was developed using the logit estimator, on a robust error panel and was included time and state dummies. The results showed that 55% (fifty-five per cent) of the Support Foundations comply with the current legislation. Once foundations are according to the legislation, its surplus probabilities decrease.