Information Technology Disciplines Research Articles

Multimodal Context Creation and Teaching of Primary School English Based on Modern Information Technology

In the context of the Internet era, the new curriculum reform of English is in full swing, and people are not only aware of the importance of English, but also realize the significance of the transformation of English classroom. Based on the social background, under the guidance of multimodal discourse analysis theory and constructivist learning theory, the integration of information technology and English discipline constructs a multimodal real context, which provides a new teaching mode for the high-quality development of English teaching.

AssignmentWatch: An Automated Detection and Alert Tool for Reducing Academic Misconduct Associated With File-Sharing Websites

Academic misconduct stemming from file-sharing websites is an increasingly prevalent challenge in tertiary education, including information technology and engineering disciplines. Current plagiarism detection methods (e.g. text matching) are largely ineffective for combatting misconduct in programming and mathematics based assessments. For these reasons, the development of an effective, automated monitoring tool would provide significant benefit in the struggle against misconduct. To address this challenge, this paper reports an innovative software tool named AssignmentWatch which supports academic integrity by actively monitoring for the upload of assessment content online, with a focus on file-sharing websites. This monitoring and alert notification system reduces the time burden on educators by automating the detection process. The design of AssignmentWatch focuses on early detection which enables educators to take early action. This could include preventative education, or removal of content before it is utilized by students. Through this, AssignmentWatch can reduce incidents of misconduct. The software tool is open source and made freely available to the community. AssignmentWatch was validated under controlled conditions, followed by field testing in 30 assignments, across 16 subjects and 5 higher education institutions. AssignmentWatch was found to effectively detect uploads on a variety of websites, generally within 24 hours. In field testing, AssignmentWatch received positive feedback from educators with 8 out of 10 educators stating AssignmentWatch aided academic integrity and 7 out of 10 users stating AssignmentWatch helped identify assignment content online.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF FUTURE TEACHERS WITH THROUGH OF MOOCs

The article defines the direction of professional training of future teachers who can dynamically respond to changes taking place in education. The development of innovations in the field of Education corresponds to the emergence and development of the innovation environment and methods of its management. The article examines the innovative educational environment, the educational space, the concepts of the innovation process, conducts a theoretical analysis of research and practices in the formation of the innovative environment in an educational organization, identifies the internal and external components of the educational environment. The problems of a systematic approach to the training of a teacher of vocational training in the context of information formation are considered in this article. The essence of the pedagogical system as the basics of improving the professional training of a teacher of vocational training is revealed. These processes are based on the content of technological support, including pedagogical technology. To solve the tasks and test the research hypothesis, the following methods were used: study and analysis of philosophical, pedagogical, psychological and methodological literature, legal documents; study and generalization of advanced pedagogical experience of teaching in pedagogical and classical universities; analysis of the content of mathematical and information technology disciplines within the framework of the studied problem; observation, modeling, questioning, expert assessment, pedagogical experiment, statistical processing of results.

The Application of "Three Comprehensiveness " Model in Chinese Primary School Labor Education

Objective: This paper focuses on the comprehensive development of the five education programs in schools, truly leveraging the important role of labor education. The school conducts practical research on the "Three Comprehensiveness" model curriculum system of labor education, which involves full participation, comprehensive implementation， interdisciplinary integration, to enable students to acquire labor skills, learn cooperation and cultivate new generations who understand, know and love labor.
 
 Method: Conduct research using sampling and testing methods.Using a simple random sampling method, 100 Grade 6 students were selected from Min’an Primary School, Nantou Town, Zhongshan City. The research was conducted by questionnaire survey of students, teachers and parents, teacher interview.Through SPSS reliability and validity analysis, students' labor concepts, labor skills and labor values are analyzed.Through the action research method, observe the changes of students in labor habits and labor values.
 
 Result: All students participate in labor education, which is carried out through a combination of on campus and off campus education, integrated with the seven disciplines of Chinese, mathematics, English, science, art, physical education, and information technology. This enables students to increase their labor knowledge, acquire labor skills, cultivate good labor habits, and establish correct labor values.
 
 Conclusion: Understand the level of labor awareness, attitude, skills, daily life, labor education, labor value, and labor habits of sixth grade students; The integration of labor education in the seven disciplines of primary school Chinese, mathematics, English, science, art, physical education, and information technology; By investigating students, education, and parents' attitudes towards labor education, we can understand the methods and approaches for cultivating labor education both on and off campus.

Research on Influencing Factors of Electricity Consumption in China Based on Grey Theory and Big Data Technology

With the development and application of computer theory, electronic information technology, economics and other disciplines, more and more models are being used to discuss electricity consumption factors. Thesis based on actual data of China, this paper discusses the influence of economic growth, electricity price, urbanization level, industrial structure, science and technology investment level and opening degree on electric power consumption level of our country, and analyses the influence of grey correlation analysis method. To drive electricity consumption, the first is to optimize and upgrade the industrial structure, and the second is to further improve the level of urbanization. The research results of this paper have certain reference value for relevant managers and government departments to formulate policies.

Soil Classification using Machine Learning and Crop Suggestions

Abstract: India is a predominantly agricultural nation. Agriculture is currently the most significant emerging sector in the actual world and the key industry and economic pillar of our nation. The discipline of agricultural information technology has recently undergone significant changes that have made crop yield prediction an intriguing study topic. Crop yield prediction is a technique for estimating crop production using many characteristics, including temperature, rainfall, fertilisers, pesticides, and other climatic variables and parameters. The use of data mining tools is quite common in agriculture. Agriculture uses data mining tools to forecast agricultural production for next years and evaluates these strategies. This method provides a succinct study of K-Nearest Neighbour (KNN) and Support Vector Machine-based agricultural yield prediction.

Advances in Integration, Wearable Applications, and Artificial Intelligence of Biomedical Microfluidics Systems.

Microfluidics attracts much attention due to its multiple advantages such as high throughput, rapid analysis, low sample volume, and high sensitivity. Microfluidics has profoundly influenced many fields including chemistry, biology, medicine, information technology, and other disciplines. However, some stumbling stones (miniaturization, integration, and intelligence) strain the development of industrialization and commercialization of microchips. The miniaturization of microfluidics means fewer samples and reagents, shorter times to results, and less footprint space consumption, enabling a high throughput and parallelism of sample analysis. Additionally, micro-size channels tend to produce laminar flow, which probably permits some creative applications that are not accessible to traditional fluid-processing platforms. The reasonable integration of biomedical/physical biosensors, semiconductor microelectronics, communications, and other cutting-edge technologies should greatly expand the applications of current microfluidic devices and help develop the next generation of lab-on-a-chip (LOC). At the same time, the evolution of artificial intelligence also gives another strong impetus to the rapid development of microfluidics. Biomedical applications based on microfluidics normally bring a large amount of complex data, so it is a big challenge for researchers and technicians to analyze those huge and complicated data accurately and quickly. To address this problem, machine learning is viewed as an indispensable and powerful tool in processing the data collected from micro-devices. In this review, we mainly focus on discussing the integration, miniaturization, portability, and intelligence of microfluidics technology.

Formation of the Bachelors’ Communicative Competence Implementing the Informational Technologies in the Stidy Process

The purposes of the article. The new digital stage of society's development has caused a huge jump in information technologies. Now, for the efficient functioning of the economy and society, it is necessary to have well-formed communication competences. The methodology is based on such general scientific methods as analysis, synthesis, generalization, and the statistical method is also used. Scientific novelty. Electronic document management, e-learning and cloud technologies, the development and use of social networks cause a change in the content of education in the preparation of future specialists. The implementation of the competence approach in higher education, the formation of communication competence, taking into account the modern informatization of society, is very important. Of course, the acquisition of communication skills is regulated by the standards of higher education, because it is an important component of the educational process. For the specialty 029 "Information, library and archival affairs" for the first (bachelor) level of higher education, the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated 12.12.2018 No. 1378 was approved, which determined the formation of communication competencies that will be needed by future specialists. The article analyzes the data of the experiment, which was conducted on the basis of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences West Ukrainian National University, to define the level of formation of students' communication competence in accordance with their use of information technologies during the educational process. Conclusions. It was determined that the overall understanding of the interpretation of the electronic information and educational environment is correct, but there is no formed attitude towards information communication competence as such. Also, students are very interested in information technology disciplines and have a desire to learn new subjects. Keywords: communicative competence, information technologies, bachelor's degree, Information, library and archival work.

Follow the Money: Analyzing Darknet Activity Using Cryptocurrency and the Bitcoin Blockchain

Transactions on the darknet are notoriously difficult to examine. Prior criminological research has generally used web scraping and qualitative text analysis to examine illegal darknet markets. One disadvantage of this process is that individuals can lie. Fortunately for researchers, the currency used for transactions on the darknet, cryptocurrency, is designed to be tracked. In this article, we examine transactions from a former darknet marketplace, AlphaBay. Using the blockchain, we examine the interconnectedness of both legal and illegal cryptocurrencies. In addition, we provide a structured approach to quantitatively examine the Bitcoin blockchain ledger, offering both the tools and our own experiences for other researchers interested in such approaches. While cybersecurity, information technology, accounting, and other disciplines can examine the financial data itself, we believe that criminologists can provide additional benefits in pattern analysis and organizing the context and theory around the transactions. Our results show that cryptocurrency transactions are generally identifiable (90%) and involve likely illegal transactions, transactions that attempt to obfuscate other transactions, and legal transactions. We end with a discussion of newer cryptocurrencies and related technology and how they will likely shape future work.

Role of Telemedicine and Digital Technology in Public Health in India: A Narrative Review.

There are still many areas of India without proper medical facilities. In such a setting, technology can play a facilitating role, particularly in reaching out to remote locations and offering a greater standard of care at a lower cost. The method of treating and diagnosing patients remotely through communication networks is known as telemedicine. When more patients get access to telemedicine, payers take more notice of how much less expensive it is than traditional medicine, and doctors are aware of its benefits. Telemedicine is a more beneficial technology that can expand access to preventive treatment and may lead to long-term health. Telemedicine has the potential to greatly affect public health. This paper reviews the current state of the art of telemedicine in India.Nearly 50 years ago, telemedicine was shrugged off as a complicated, expensive, and inefficient technology. Because of how quickly the information technology and telecommunications disciplinesare advancing, telemedicine is today a viable, dependable, and useful technique. Practitioners and medical experts from a variety of fields have experienced success with telemedicine. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for strong primary healthcare networks for a more effective public health response during health emergencies and exposed the fragmentation of healthcare delivery systems. Although primary care is the first point of contact between the general public and the healthcare system, it has not recently grown much focus or funding. Even in the post-COVID-19 environment, telemedicine offers the potential to get through enduring barriers to primary care in India, such as a shortage of qualified medical professionals, issues with access, and the cost of in-person care.Telemedicine has the power to speed up the delivery of universal health coverage while strengthening primary care. There is a widening gap between people and those who offer basic health services as the population in India has grown, and the average lifespan has increased. Telemedicine helps with palliative care, early identification, a better cure, prevention, and rehabilitation in the treatment of cancer. Due to a shortage of primary care delivery networks and referral units, secondary and tertiary care facilities' health systems are overworked.To successfully use telemedicine, proper planningand operating processes are required. Thus, the development and implementation of telemedicine will improve patient care and India's primary healthcare system in thefuture. Finally, telemedicine's cost-effectiveness will likely be its most significant outcome.

Flexible Manufacturing for the Promotion of Companies

There are companies that add a free souvenir to the sale of their products; they contribute to increase the satisfaction of their "heavy users" in their purchases by receiving an extra gift. A very good promotional strategy is to periodically update this souvenir, and generally this strategy is applied according to the results of a market research on the identified tastes of the customers, and then marketing should be used for the design of the gift products. The souvenir suppliers need to have processes that can be adapted to each change requested by their customers, they must have flexible manufacturing. A review of the literature on the promotion of products destined to customers through gifts was conducted, as well as the fundamental aspects to consider in flexible manufacturing for promotional purposes. It was found that it is necessary to have technology for information management that integrates the disciplines of flexible manufacturing, marketing, information technology, design, and costs for souvenir suppliers to effectively meet their commitments; they will have the information in real time; digital information management will involve innovation in the information systems of enterprises: supplier, customer, advertising, and souvenir designer; it will involve business-savvy CIOs; it will also involve digital twin simulation and automation of the production process for effective implementation of flexible manufacturing.

The Academic Discipline of Information Technology: A Systematic Literature Review

Aim/Purpose. This paper aims to answer the research question, “What are the development phases of the academic discipline of information technology in the United States?” This is important to understand the reason for the growing talent gap in the information technology (IT) industry by reviewing the evolution of information technology across time, how the discipline was formed, evolved, and gained independence from other information and computing disciplines. Background. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the shortage of IT professionals in the workplace. The root reason for this talent shortage requires understanding from both industry and academic perspectives in order to implement effective initiatives to prepare, recruit, and retain diverse IT professionals at an early stage. Methodology. This paper used a systematic literature review methodology and retrieved 143 primary studies from the ACM and IEEE Xplore digital libraries to review the development phases of the IT discipline as a contributing factor in understanding why, when, and how the population of professionals in IT and other relevant computing disciplines has changed and continues to fluctuate. Thematic analysis was applied to the abstracts of the primary studies, which spanned the period of 1982 to 2021. Contribution. This paper contributes to the understanding of the discipline of IT in the US and contributes foundations to researchers and educators who are working on strategies to fill the talent gap. Findings. Based on the thematic analysis in this paper, the academic discipline of IT has evolved over four phases across a timeline from 1982 to 2021. These phases were: Phase 1 (1982-1991) – Advent of Information Technology; Phase 2 (1992-2001) – Industry IT & DevOps; Phase 3 (2002-2011) – Information Technology and Management in Evolving Industry, Academia, and Research Areas; and Phase 4 (2011-2021) – Information Technology Research & Education. Recommendations for Practitioners. IT occupies an independent disciplinary space from computer science, computer engineering, and information systems. The paper suggests that practitioners seeking to fill the talent gap in IT invest in enabling its academic programs. Recommendations for Researchers. The depth of the IT disciplinary space and its continued evolution over time is ready for exploration. Continued research in this area may yield a better understanding of its role in society, the skills needed to succeed, and how to build programs to empower students with these skills. Impact on Society. Examining the discipline of IT and understanding its independence and interrelated connection with other computing disciplines will help address the shortfalls in academia across the nation by identifying the distinction between each discipline and creating comprehensive programs, degrees, and curricula suitable for various students and professionals across all educational levels. Future Research. Future research will integrate papers’ introductions and conclusions in addition to abstracts, increase the number of databases and reviewers, as well as incorporate papers that focus on other information and computing disciplines such as computer science and information systems to explore the possibility that IT as a discipline was initially practiced in an existing information or computing discipline before it gained independence.

The Role of the Discipline of Information Technology: A Systematic Literature Review

Aim/Purpose. The goal of this publication is to explore methods for advancing student success in technology related disciplines via improved program classification and selection within higher education. Background. Increased demand for information technology (IT) professionals has been cited as a challenge in many fields including cybersecurity and software development. Many highlight the challenge as not just a numbers gap but a skills gap when comparing industry needs to the curricula in traditional disciplines within higher education. Closing the gap by increasing the number of skilled graduates remains a critical challenge we must address. Methodology. This publication leverages a systematic literature review to identify factors that classify existing higher education programs within the discipline of information technology. Contribution. Research in this area can act as a catalyst to increase relevance of IT related programs as well as graduation rates in technology and engineering. Findings. Authors analyzed forty-four primary studies and found that 56.8% of the publications referenced programs that meet the IT framework definition although they were not classified as IT programs. The findings and further analysis highlight direct challenges between program classification and the potential impact on student success. Recommendations for Practitioners. Research in this area is relevant for academic administrators, private sector executives and others working to increase the technology pipeline. Recommendations for Researchers. Researchers may benefit by exploring thematic analysis as a means of generating relevant classifications and taxonomies that highlight opportunities for improvement in a broad set of subject areas. Impact on Society. Research in this area can serve as a catalyst to increase graduation rates in programs related to technology and engineering. Future Research. This area would benefit from further research by comparing program success rates within varied disciplines. Future research may also produce a classification process.

Increasing Secondary Education Students’ Understanding of the Information Systems Field

Information Systems (IS) among other Information Technology (IT) disciplines has been concerned with student recruitment while students in secondary education have little knowledge of the field and few end up choosing it as their career. We piloted an IS-oriented entrepreneurship course in a Finnish secondary school (aged 16-19) to examine how we can change student understanding of the IS/IT field. We gathered data through observation, questionnaires, essays, and teacher interviews, and returned two years later for a follow-up inquiry on how the course lived on in the school. In this article, we examine what kind of value was created for the stakeholders and study the negotiation of meanings around the image of IS/IT by the students and the teacher. We contribute insights on the collaboration that serves as a form of marketing of IS education and point to factors that can affect the continued existence of this kind of course.

Fostering connections for professional identity formation: two case studies of Discord discipline-focused communities

This research focusses on the links between online communication environments in university teaching contexts and supporting students in their professional identity formation. The online communication environments studied have been formed with Discord (https://discord.com) to complement the learning management system by providing informal chat-based environments. These environments can be easily maintained beyond semester limitations and membership is independent of enrolment status with the teaching institution. The first of two case studies is situated in the disciplines of computer science, information technology, mathematics, and statistics. A Discord community of current and past students and academics has been active for over three years. This community has developed organically and provides students with a variety of support – for specific courses and for their disciplines more generally, for making connections with others, and for gaining insights into their future professions. The second case study examines the introduction of Discord in support of a second-year veterinary sciences course. The learning design of the course aims at connecting knowledge to practice, and at helping students to understand the links between course content and professional work. Discord was introduced as a first step towards establishing an online community of students, academics and veterinary professionals. In interviews with students (first case study) and academics (second case study) the links between the Discord communities and professional identity formation are examined.

MANAGEMENT OF PROFESSIONALLY-ORIENTED STUDIES OF INFORMATIVE SUBJECTS FUTURE TEACHERS OF TECHNOLOGY

The article deals with the problem of management of professionally-oriented teaching of Information technology disciplines of future technology teachers. The criteria for the formation of information competence of future technology teachers are identified. Levels of formation of information competence of future technology teachers are characterized: high, medium and low. The methodology of professionally-oriented teaching of Information technology disciplines of future technology teachers is grounded, which includes: content design, integration of traditional and innovative organizational forms and methods, application of active and interactive teaching technologies; their functions, tasks, a set of necessary and sufficient, special professional knowledge and skills that are formed in logically-based process of studying Information technology disciplines. Research-experimental work on the determination of the effectiveness of the method of professionally-oriented teaching information disciplines to future technology teachers was conducted. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the experimental work to confirm effectiveness of the methodology of professionally-oriented teaching information disciplines to future technology teachers was investigated. The results of the experiment revealed positive dynamics of formation of information competence of future technology teachers (in the experimental groups a high level of formation of information competence increased compared to the establishing stage by 23.85%; medium – by 11.95%, and low one decreased by 35.8%. In the control groups dynamics is insignificant).

Relationship modeling and short‐term prediction analysis between public attention and teaching research

AbstractAnalyzing the relationship between Internet attention and teaching research can provide a reference for extracting and identifying research hot spots in the discipline. Currently, many kinds of literature obtain social hot‐spot information based on a single platform, such as the Baidu Index, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), and Web of Science. Still, they ignore the common information reflected between the Baidu Index platform and the professional academic platform and the lack of relationship demonstration between them. Therefore, based on the CNKI database and Baidu Index platform, the most critical data statistical analysis service platform in the Internet era, this article proposes a relationship modeling and prediction framework (RMPF). First, RMPF analyzes the relationship between public attention and teaching research from the perspective of “high school information technology” by word frequency analysis and Pearson. Second, RMPF constructs the relationship model between them using leave‐one‐out cross‐validation. Third, RMPF predicts the development of subject teaching and research using the autoregressive integrated moving average model and multiple regressions. The results show that the correlation coefficient between public attention and teaching research is more than 0.65 from the perspective of “high school information technology,” showing a strong positive correlation. In recent years, the focus of high school information technology discipline tends to be integrating multimedia technology, cloud classroom, artificial intelligence, and other technologies and disciplines. In addition, discipline literature volume growth will slow in the next 2 years, with an average annual publication of 350 articles. The overall number of literature decreased by about 120 compared with 2020. Based on the proposed RMPF, this study clarifies the relationship between subject attention and teaching research through experimental demonstration and provides an implementation framework reference for researchers of relevant literature.

The Effect of the Use of Information Technology, Social Media and Work Discipline on Employee Productivity at PT Kencana Sawit Indonesia Solok Selatan

<em>The aim of this study is to analyze the influence of Information Technology, Social Media, and Work Discipline on Employee Productivity at PT Kencana Sawit Indonesia South Solok. Data collection methods used are questionnaires and literature review. The questionnaire is using Agree-Disagree Scale with a scale of 10 points and the sample collection method used is total sampling with a sample of 50 employees at PT Kencana Sawit Indonesia. The analysis technique is using validity test, reliability test, normality test, heteroscedasticity test, multicollinearity test, multiple linear regression analysis, T test, F test and coefficient of determination. Based on the calculations, regression equation obtained is <strong>Y = 0.602X1 + 0.364X2 + 0.562X3 + e</strong>, with a coefficient of determination is 68.4%. These results indicate that Information Technology (X1), Social Media (X2) and Work Discipline (X3) variables have a significant and positive effect on Employee Productivity (Y). This study only examines the influence of Information Technology, Social Media, and Work Discipline on Employee Productivity in industrial companies, to further research of the effect of Information Technology, Social Media, and Work Discipline on Employee Performance, besides that it can use research objects in other industries and can use samples of more than 50</em>

СОЦИАЛЬНАЯ ИНЖЕНЕРИЯ, НЕСОВЕРШЕННЫЙ ЧЕЛОВЕК

The article introduces the concept of "Social Engineering". This term is used for a broad range of malicious activities accomplished through human interactions. The previous year has seen an enormous increase in the studies related to social engineering. This increase is partly due to the increasing number of social engineering attacks and partly due to people's inability to identify the attack. The authors define the subject of social engineering from a Cyber Security professional perspective. A literature review from the information technology, psychology, and business disciplines explains the interconnected nature of the topic as well as the necessity to comprehend it from multiple viewpoints. The article presents several case studies of successful attacks performed as well as their efficacy.

School Leadership Development Program on the Performance of Secondary School Heads

The research was conducted to find out the effect of school leadership development programs on the performance of secondary school heads. The major objectives of this study were to investigate the effectiveness of the school leadership development program on the professional and administrative development of secondary school heads. The study was qualitative in nature. The population of this study comprised all the heads of secondary schools in Pak pattan. Thus, all the headteachers of male and female public secondary schools were selected as a sample from each selected tehsil. For the purpose of qualitative data collection, ten senior teachers of secondary schools who were acting as the vice of the heads were taken as the sample. A structured interview was developed for data collection. The research recommended expanding the circle of the school leadership development program to the other school heads particularly the newly upgraded schools for the betterment of the whole public education sector.The study recommended planning and designing further training for those having less expertise and skill in the disciplines of service rules and information technology.