Education Research Centre Research Articles

Towards Enhancement of Students Achievement in Physics Using Concept Mapping Strategy and Guided Discovery Method

This study investigated the relative effectiveness of Concept Mapping Strategy (CMS) and Guided Discovery Method (GDM) in enhancing students achievement in Physics. Gender influence on students achievement was also examined. A total of one hundred and fifteen (115) secondary school Physics students were involved in the study; the research work was carried out in the Wukari Education Zone of Taraba State. This research work adapted a quasi-experimental research design involving pre-test and post-test. Three research questions and three hypotheses were raised. Physics Achievement Test (PAT) was used for data collection. The items of PAT were subjected to item analysis. The reliability coefficient of the instrument was obtained using Kuder-Richardson 20 formula is .8. Mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions, while Analysis of Covariance was used to test the hypotheses formulated at .05 significance level. From the analysis, it is revealed that a statistically significant difference exists in the mean academic achievement scores of students taught physics using CMS and those taught using GDM in favor of CMS. Gender differences are not statistically significant in the mean academic achievement scores for both CMS and GDM groups. It is evident from the findings of this study that the use of CMS could provide a good way for students to learn Physics. It is recommended, based on the findings of the study, that Physics teachers should be encouraged to use a CMS while teaching Physics concepts to actively involve the students in identifying relationships in concepts. Government should utilize the services of various professional bodies like the Science Teachers Association of Nigeria (STAN) in collaboration with the Nigeria Educational Research and Development Centre (NERDC) to organize seminars, workshops, conferences, in-service training and symposia to inform and train physics teachers on the use of innovative teaching method especially concept-mapping.

The Promotion Value of Educational Evaluation Research Center in Inclusive Education

The Promotion Value of Educational Evaluation Research Center in Inclusive Education

Investigating the Interplay Between Participation in a STEM-Focused Student Success Program and Workforce Participation on STEM Undergraduate Degree Completion.

This study longitudinally tracks students participating in a STEM-focused intervention program to investigate workforce participation patterns and their association with degree completion in a STEM field. Using longitudinal data from the University of Houston's Education Research Center, this study examines the extent to which students participating in a STEM intervention program require additional work to fund tuition and other life expenses. Findings demonstrated a negative effect of workforce participation on college completion and showed that minority students were more likely to participate in the workforce while also receiving financial support from the STEM program compared to peers from other racial backgrounds. Results inform institutional and financial aid policies, as well as admission criteria as it relates to broadening access of under-represented students in STEM.

Regarding Mari Swingle's Editorial on Neurofeedback Practice

It was encouraging to read Dr. Swingle's article, “Neurofeedback, Where Are We and Where Are We Going?” (2021, Biofeedback, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 59–70). Dr. Swingle believes that well-trained and well-informed providers are necessary in order to provide appropriate neurofeedback services. She notes that providers should be well informed about research, presumably applied research. We would like to elaborate that providers should be skilled in the critical assessment of research, including why different research designs are necessary to draw valid conclusions.One disappointment in Dr. Swingle's otherwise excellent article is that she implies that double-blind randomized controlled trials are not necessary. She suggests that there are imperatives to perform double-blind controlled research that are spurred by the pharmaceutical industry, and she additionally discounts the use of placebo controls. She does not consider that research designs are not imperatives or laws, they are ways to reduce threats to validity, especially in cases of biofeedback and neurofeedback study, where nonspecific factors can play a huge role in outcomes. In addition, treatment providers can subtly (and not so subtly) influence the outcome of an experiment if they know which condition a subject received. Applied psychophysiology is already thriving in neurology and psychiatry in the form of electroencelphogram assessments for seizure disorders and polysomnography for sleep staging and sleep disorders. In the area of treatment, electroconvulsive therapy and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) have thousands of controlled research articles accessible in PubMed. The question is whether people who want to have a meaningful role in behavioral healthcare and optimal functioning would be interested in including neurofeedback among their efforts.Consider the following: (a) people will not believe that neurofeedback works simply because we believe it does; (b) getting meaningful funding for studies that do not contain control, and especially blinded ones, is very difficult; (c) many nascent fields such as contact thermography have died on the vine or become vestigial due to a lack of convincing evidence supporting their assertions or were dropped because properly performed studies showed their techniques were ineffective; and (d) many fields such as rTMS have become widely accepted because they provide adequate evidence of efficacy using accepted techniques such as placebo-controlled studies or longitudinal studies with objective outcome measures. Such techniques are not tools of the pharmacological industry nor were they developed by it. Rather, the pharmacological industry has adopted placebo-controlled studies because they are the best designs to show that a technique, process, medication, and so forth may work better than placebo factors alone.Graduate programs, such as the Applied Psychophysiology program at Saybrook University, the Applied Psychophysiology program at the College of Certified Psychophysiologsts, or the Clinical Psychophysiology elective diploma program at the Advance Education Institute and Research Center (AEIRC), would be major vehicles for accomplishing the objectives of developing clinicians and trainers who are broadly knowledgeable in anatomy and physiology and the fundamentals of psychophysiology, as well as what research designs are available and why they are important. Students are expected to demonstrate their critical reasoning and research skills in papers, theses, and dissertations. With this rich background providing tools for critical thinking, students proceed to master skills at applying psychophysiology for assessment, stimulation, and biofeedback/neurofeedback training. In that light, Dr. Swingle's article seems to be making a good case for graduate-level education as the next step in the applied science of neurofeedback.

Effects of a Linear Innovation Policy in Non-linear Innovation Sectors: Empirical Study in Strategic Sectors of the State of Mexico

This article takes up the discussion of the different models of innovation to understand science, technology and innovation policy in Mexico. The main objective of this research is to identify the effects of the innovation policy in Mexico in strategic sectors of the State of Mexico, through public policy instruments focused on encouraging technological innovation in companies in the State of Mexico. Another objective of this study is to add to the development of the theoretical framework of the innovation policy that helps to design better instruments that promote innovation in diverse technological sectors. The main instrument for promoting innovation in companies in Mexico, recognized in the last 20 years, the Innovation Stimulus Program (PEI), is analyzed to find out the impact of a public policy instrument that follows a linear model in companies of strategic sectors of the State of Mexico that follows a non-linear model of innovation. PEI serves companies of different sizes and purposes, it operates under three modalities: INNOVAPYME (aimed at micro, small and medium-sized companies), INNOVATEC (aimed at large companies) and PROINNOVA (companies of any size that present proposals in connection with at least two Higher Education Institutions or Research Centers). For this study, the focus is oriented to companies from strategic sectors of State of Mexico that are dedicated to innovation activities in the areas of the chemical, agro-food, health, automotive, new materials and plastics technology industries, technologies focused on sustainable development, and information technologies. The main strategic sectors of innovation defined in the State of Mexico follow a non-linear model of innovation, but government programs dedicated to encouraging innovation in companies seem to focus on linear innovation processes. Regarding the methodology, quantitative methods are used to know the effect of policy instruments in strategic sectors of the State of Mexico, a microeconomic analysis is supported through the Survey on Innovation and Technological Development (ESIDET) 2017. By knowing the effects of the main instrument of innovation policy in Mexico, it is possible to identify the role of the state government to strengthen these efforts, complement or improve them. The results present some concrete recommendations on the design of public policies to achieve the greatest benefits in investment in STI to promote regional technological innovation in strategic sectors.

Studies in historical linguistics at the Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

This article analyzes major directions, achievements, and prospects of studies in historical linguistics accomplished by the department of the history of Ukrainian of the Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine within 30 years since its foundation. The department has focused on the Ukrainian glotogenesis and dialectogenesis and their ProtoSlavic origins, the history and structure of Church Slavonic in its East Slavic recension as attested in Old Ukrainian records and used on the Ukrainian ethnolinguistic territory in the 10th—13th centuries, and the history of the Ukrainian orthography. At the moment, three general research areas are in the center of scholarly interests, which are editorial studies of linguistics sources, historical lexicography, and the academic history of Ukrainian. Together with the historians of language working at different Ukrainian educational institutions and research centers, the department continues publishing the book series Ukrainian Written Records of the 11th—13th centuries. In 2019, the department coordinated a scientific seminar series dealing with the historical and lexicographic project Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of the Late 17th—18th Century. It starts working on a monograph to present theoretical and methodological principles of the dictionary ompilation. Together with the South Ukrainian Historical Word Formation Center (founded in 2004, Zaporizhzhia), the department is working on the 5th volume of the academic book A History of the Ukrainian Language. Word Formation containing a generalized study of word formation of the nominative elements of Ukrainian. Keywords: historical and linguistic research, editorial studies of linguistic sources, historical lexicography, historical word formation

Teacher Competencies and Qualifications for Support Services in Special Education Institutions

The purpose of this research is to discuss teacher competencies and qualifications in special education schools, special education classes, counseling and research centers (CRC), and special education rehabilitation centers (SERC) for providing educational support services (ESS) to individuals with special needs (SEN). This research was designed as qualitative research, and focus group interviews were chosen as a data collection technique. Sixty-two teachers working in CRCs, SERCs, special education schools, and classes participated in the research. A descriptive analysis method, which is used in qualitative research methods, was used in order to analyze the research data. The findings of the research were examined under six themes. It was found that the teachers (including special education teachers) had difficulty in teaching skills and concepts, interfering problem behaviors, providing sexual education with students and parent training, communicating with families in their native language, planning a student’s individual education planning (IEP), assessing students formally and informally, and adapting to technology for the goals of IEP. Furthermore, in an inclusive education system, teachers do not/cannot offer support services to those with diverse languages, religions, cultures, and sexual orientations. On the other hand, this research concluded that teachers who spoke with students and families in their native language were more effective in improving students.

Bray, M. (Ed.) (2021): Shadow Education in Africa. Private Supplementary Tutoring and its Policy Implications (Hong Kong: Comparative Education Research Centre, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong), 114 pp. ISBN: 978-988-14241-9-8

Bray, M. (Ed.) (2021): Shadow Education in Africa. Private Supplementary Tutoring and its Policy Implications (Hong Kong: Comparative Education Research Centre, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong), 114 pp. ISBN: 978-988-14241-9-8

Exploring Reliability and Factorial Validity of Responsible Talk and its Impact on Cooperative Classrooms

The aim of this study was to validate an instrument which enables the evaluation of talk which maximizes student performance during different segments of interaction-interactivity throughout a complete learning sequence. Based on works developed by the Learning and Research Development Center of the University of Pittsburgh, a scale was developed that gathered the most relevant behaviors of each proposed dimension by researchers from this university center. The scale was used to develop a core subject for a final year Bachelor of Arts degree in Primary Education at a university in Spain and was applied to the 65 students (M = 19, F = 46) taking the subject. The data analysis used an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) that yielded a reliability of α = 0.922. EFA revealed a final interpretable three-factor structure, and the factorial solution comprised 87.86% of total variance. Results show that the talk that students use has three purposes: to constitute an effective group for learning, to build knowledge and to verify its acquisition. The results are discussed in terms of input from the Center for Research in Education and Educational Technologies at the Open University and the Learning Research and Development Center of the University of Pittsburgh.

11 Principles Every Educational Organization Should Be Implementing

Many articles and reports issued by educational institutions and research centers discussed the basic requirements that should be implemented by universities, schools, vocational schools, training centers and other categories of educational institutions to assure they can provide quality of education. Although these references have been widely used to achieve quality in education, still differences in requirements may exist. Hence the importance of shedding lights on the International standards ISO 21001 published in 2018 by the International Organization for Standardization. In this article, the author highlighted on the implementation of 11 principles of quality education stipulated in this Standard. In this context, he touched upon the social responsibility principle and the related 7 core subjects (building a governance system, the rights of learners, practicing in a fair operating way, students issues, the development of community, protecting the environment, administrative and academic staff practices) (ISO 26000: Guidance on social responsibility, 2010) that distinguish the ISO 21001 from other international standards and made it a tool that could be applied by educational institutions to create their shared value strategies. In this context, the authors heard the voices of instructors and analyze their views concerning the implementation of the twenty-three requirements mentioned in the ISO 21001, through diffusing surveys to instructors working in educational organizations in Lebanon. The results indicated that 19 of the requirements are being applied effectively. Keywords: Standard, Social Responsibility, Quality Education, Shared Value DOI: 10.7176/JEP/12-33-01 Publication date: November 30 th 2021

Effect of barriers to creativity on innovation in small and medium enterprises: Moderating role of institutional networks

Creativity has been recognized as a critical factor in innovation development companies. Small companies find it more difficult to develop creative activities and achieve innovation, thereby affecting their competitiveness significantly. In this study, we examine the barriers to creativity in a sample of 154 manufacturing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Chile. The barriers related to the environment, managers, and employees, which limit the development of creativity, were examined. Besides, the moderating role of institutional networks was studied. Results show that (1) creativity positively affects innovation in SMEs; (2) environmental barriers impact barriers related to on both managers and employees; (3) managers' barriers influence employee barriers; and (4) employee barriers negatively impact creativity, although this negative effect is diminished by the moderating effect of developing activities with institutional networks, such as higher education institutions, research centres or business associations. These results have important implications. Managers should encourage greater cooperation between companies and universities and be mindful of their impact on their employees. Government policies that encourage and support collaboration with SMEs can enable companies to be competitive and develop innovation, directly impacting employment and economic growth in a country.

Legal provision for medical aid and medical service in Ukraine

In the process of any human right exercising there is always an issue related to the quality of received service or aid especially in the healthcare sector. Authors analyzed applicable legislation of Ukraine regulating the provision of medical aid and services with the use of the following methods – analysis, interpretation, hermeneutics, systemic-structural. During the research were analyzed applicable legislation which contains medical aid and service definitions and peculiarities of its regulation. According to the results of regulatory framework analysis, we can state that definitions “medical aid” and “medical service” are mutually reinforcing as medical aid comprises relevant procedures. Comparison of these phenomena also can be performed based on other criteria, namely: subjective composition (professional medical staff will always be the provider, in case of emergency cases – persons whose duty is to provide primary medical aid as part of their activity; medical services are provided by state and municipal facilities along with higher educational establishments and research centers, i.e. not only medical staff; payment (regarding the subject – free of charge or paid; services are paid per se except if covered by relevant budget category); financial guarantee.

The Mediating Role of Spiritual Experiences With Ego Strength on Adaptation to Dialysis

Background and Objectives: In the care and treatment of patients in need of dialysis, spiritual experiences as a method of problem-solving in crises and problems can facilitate adaptation to dialysis. This study investigated the mediating role of spiritual experiences with ego strength on the adaptation to dialysis. Methods: The statistical population included all patients in need of dialysis referred to the Educational-Research Center of Abu Ali Sina Hospital in Shiraz City, Iran, in 2019. Out of them, 120 patients were selected by a convenience sampling method. The study data were collected through the Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale (DSES), ego strength, and adaptation to disease. Then, the obtained data were analyzed based on structural equations in Amos v. 21 software. Results: The findings showed that ego strength is significant with spiritual experiences and adaptation to dialysis. But the relationship between spiritual experiences and adaptation to dialysis is not significant. Also, the direct and indirect effects of the variables showed that ego strength as a predictor variable and spiritual experiences as a mediating variable could predict adaptation to dialysis (P<0.01). But the ego strength through spiritual experiences cannot predict adaptation to dialysis. Conclusion: According to the research findings, ego strength can predict disease adaptation in dialysis patients, but daily spiritual experiences cannot lead to disease adaptation in dialysis patients.

Teacher profile of teachers who attend the Educational Research and Teacher Training Center.

In the configuration of the teacher profile, the way in which the teacher represents his professional function and the way and intensity in which he feels challenged by others plays a decisive role. To know the predominant type of profile in teachers who attend courses at the Educational Research and Teacher Training Center from the National Medical Center Siglo XXI (NMC SXXI). Cross-sectional study in professors who attended the aforementioned center, where the Questionnaire for the Assessment of Teaching Methodology was applied to know if the teaching profile was focused on teaching or learning. 43 professors were included, with an average age of 40.84 ± 6.7 years. 65% came from general hospitals (GH). The majority disagreed with teacher-centered education, while learner-centered education had a high agreement; however, when comparing medians, no significant difference was found. Although there was a clear significant difference in the learner-centered profile in terms of those under 40-years-old, both genders as well as teaching background, especially within the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) (p = 0.000) and more specifically in the NMC SXXI Specialties Hospital (p = 0.001) and at the GH (p = 0.000). There is a dominant trend in the learner-centered teaching profile; however, it was higher for teachers with teacher preparation within IMSS than outside this institute, as well as for professors from the Specialties Hospital and GH.

EMERGING EDUCATIONAL DESIGN IN ONLINE TRAINING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Universities are living in a time of major transitions regarding the challenge of rethinking and transforming the current pedagogical models so they can respond to the needs of the global knowmad society. In this study, the Design-Based Research (DBR) approach is used to address the improvements of two emerging pedagogical designs in e-learning in the university context: the model of the Center for Research in Education and ICT (CIIET) of the University of Santiago de Chile (Chile) and the model developed by the Education Node research group of University of Extremadura (Spain). The main focus of these models is the student, who by developing activities based on the resolution of a contextualized problem and using new strategies, accompanied by open resources for resolution, resulting in a learning outcome that can be achieved and measured through assessment. This work aims to advance in identifying of some pedagogical keys for the design of online training scenarios that promote environments of production, research, and open dissemination of best practices, to experience new creative forms and collaborative learning, which have emerged within the hyper connected society and the net-culture. Keywords: instructional design, higher education, open educational resources, research-based design

The Relationship Between Writing Anxiety and Writing Self-Efficacy of Students Learning Turkish as a Foreign Language

The study aimed to determine the relationship between writing anxiety and writing self-efficacy of students learning Turkish as a foreign language. The study sample consisted of 247 international students at B1 and B2 levels at the Turkish Education Application and Research Center of a foundation university. The Writing Anxiety Scale for Learners of Turkish as a Foreign Language, developed by Şen and Boylu (2017), was used to determine students’ writing anxiety. There were 13 items and two factors on the scale: Action-Oriented Anxiety and Environmental Oriented Anxiety. The Writing Self-Efficacy Scale for Turkish Students who Learn Turkish was developed by Büyükikiz (2012) to determine the students’ writing self-efficacy. This two-factor scale had 16 items and explained 56.85% of the variance. The research was designed based on the relational screening model. SPSS 21.0 package programs were used to analyze the data. The study results indicated a significant positive relationship between writing anxiety and writing self-efficacy of students who learned Turkish as a foreign language. Besides, there was no significant difference between the Turkish learners’ scores from the writing anxiety scale and their language level.

Expotecnología 2020

Expotecnología 2020 was an event that took place in the city of Cartagena de Indias, from November 4 to 6, 2020, with the slogan “Development of Engineering and Innovation in the scenarios of the 4th Industrial Revolution.” This eighteenth version was a meeting that brought together the scientific and academic community in spaces for the dissemination and transfer of knowledge, where innovation was the essence and a fundamental part of the event. Expotecnología was created in the Faculty of Engineering Sciences - FACI, of the Antonio de Arévalo University Foundation - UNITECNAR and in this version it maintained as mission, the development of the interaction between science, technology and society, through establishing of knowledge networks and academic and professional cooperation. The main objective was to address the challenges that emerge from the everyday life of the engineering community, the problems immersed in the development of projects and programs of Higher Education Institutions (IES), organizations and research centers at the national and international level. In the development of the day of presentations in a virtual way, it was possible to promote the dissemination of the research work of professionals, teachers and students from all areas of engineering, framed in four (4) thematic axes, as follows:• New technologies: Big data, Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Software Engineering, Education and new technologies and Mobile Applications.• Petrochemicals and process control: Materials Science, Instrumentation and Control Systems, Robotics and Automation and Industrial Maintenance.• Electricity, electronics and telecommunications: IoT, Fiber optics, Digital Signal Processing, Wireless Networks, Mobile Communications, Power Systems, Energy Storage, Smart Grids, Renewable Energies, Operation and Distribution, Energy Dispatch, Energy Markets• Construction Summit: Modern Building Systems and Computational Modeling.On this occasion, the event was attended by 483 people, representatives from 25 national and 12 international universities. 97 virtual presentations were made, of which 66 articles were selected for this volume of the IOP Conference Cycle: Materials Science and Engineering and 19 articles for the book Engineering, Innovation and the fourth industrial revolution., After a process of Peer Review. The plenary conferences were in charge of 2 national and 8 international speakers.List of Invited speakers, Organizing Committee, President, Technical committee, Scientific Committee, Special thanks are available in the pdf.

Target Identification of Oldenlandia diffusa Extract for Anticancer Property

Abstract Objectives Oldenlandia diffusa Rox has been known as a medicinal herb to treat lung and stomach cancer. However, its molecular mechanism has not been fully elucidated. This study was aimed to investigate the anticancer effects of Oldenlandia diffusa extract (EOD) and to identify a target of EOD. Methods EOD was extracted from dried Oldenlandia diffusa with 50% of ethanol, followed by quantification of ursolic acid (UA) and oleanolic acid (OA) as standard substances. To check the cytotoxiticity of EOD, MTT assay was performed for A2780 and A549 cells in various doses. Swiss Target prediction software was used to investigate the activity of UA and OA. cBioPortal and Oncomine Data were analyze for mutational status and RNA expression levels in diverse cancer cells of the candidate target, respectively. TCGA Data from Human Protein Atlas was used to query correlation between expression levels of candidate genes and overall survival times. Results EOD inhibited the growth of the cells in a dose-dependent manner. The 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) for A2780 cell was 160 μg/mL of EOD for 48hrs and A549 cell viability was decreased to 75% at 800 μg/mL. Swiss Target prediction reports of two pentacyclic triterpene acids, UA and OA, revealed strong interactions with PTP1B in silico tests, which is indirect evidence of capacity. PTP1B mRNA expression was elevated in cancer cell, especially in lung and ovarian cancer. PTP1B amplification or over-expression was significantly associated with poor overall survival of ovarian and lung cancer patients. Conclusions These data suggests that PTP1B might be a direct target of EOD containing high level of ursolic acid to exert anti-cancer property in ovarian and lung cancer. Funding Sources This study was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea to Y.J.P and S.J.P. DGK is grateful for financial support from Brain Korea Four Project (Education Research Center for 4IR-Based Health Care).

A Role of Alkbh5 at the Early Stage of Cell Differentiation in C2C12 Cells

ObjectivesN6-methyladenosine(m6A) is one of the most abundant mRNA modifications, controlling mRNA metabolism including splicing, stabilization, and translation efficiency. Although it has been reported that m6A was involved in cellular differentiation process, its underlying molecular mechanism is not fully understood. The object of this study was to discover ALKBH5, a m6A demethylase, as a key regulator in early myogenesis and adipogenesis using C2C12 model. MethodsTo identify the epigenetic modifier, we compared publicly available GEO data sets from two independent adipogenic and myogenic differentiation models. M6A levels of mRNAs were measured by dot blot assays upon differentiation. C2C12 cells were maintained under myogenesis or adipogenesis media(±rosiglitazone) for 5–8 days. Alkbh5 knockdown using siRNA and overexpression using GFP-tagged cDNA plasmid were transfected into cells 2 days before confluence. Gene expression analysis was done by qRT-PCR, following RNA isolation and conversion into cDNA. Oil-red-O staining was conducted to detect lipid droplets. Myotube length and width were measured by giemsa staining. ResultsWe found Alkbh5 as a common epigenetic modifier, expression of which was significantly different in both early myogenic and adipogenic cells, compared to undifferentiated cells. Consistently, m6A levels, measured by dot blots, decreased during myogenesis(day 2), while increased during adipogenesis(24h). To examine if modulation of Alkbh5 expression affected cell differentiation, we conducted both Alkbh5 knockdown and overexpression in C2C12 myoblasts, followed by differentiating stimulation into myotube and adipocyte by appropriate media. Knockdown of Alkbh5 facilitates lipid accumulation, while overexpression of Alkbh5 represents significant increase in myotube length and width. Expression of myogenesis and adipogenesis markers were consistent with the phenotypes. ConclusionsThese results suggested that Alkbh5 had an important role in determination of cell fates towards myogenesis over adipogenesis at the early point of cell differentiation. Funding SourcesThis study was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea the Korean National Cancer Center. JYC was supported by Brain Korea Four Project(Education Research Center for 4IR-Based Health Care).

E-Learning Integrated STEM Education Center (eLISE) in Asia: A Reflection Case Study of Taiwan and Vietnam Research Project

Objective:This article describes the implementation plan, advance and future directions of the academic and educational research center eLISE (e-Learning Integrated STEM Education Center) whose foundation intends to narrow the collaboration between Taiwan and Vietnam in e-Learning and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) in the framework of the New Southbound Policy[1], a long-term project announced by the Taiwanese government to strengthen the partnership with South Asian countries.
 Originality / contribution:This article contributes to the reflection about the promotion of international cooperation in innovation, scientific and technological research as well as the analysis of public policies guided towards e-Learning and STEM innovation.
 Information collection method / strategies: The stages of the research and innovation process were (1) Innovation e-Learning and STEM Instruction teaching material and module: test application, teacher workshops and interviews (2) Innovation e-Learning and STEM assessment through CloudClassRoom observation with Gamified Electronic Audio Response System and Google Bert. 
 Conclusions: The description of the implementation of eLISE, the explanation of the development of innovative curriculums and teacher workshops, as well as the talent exchange and the cooperation between industry and academy, highlights the importance of cultivate talents and workforces educated through STEM and e-Learning, seeking regional development and prosperity for both, Taiwan and Vietnam.
 
 [1] Office of Trade Negotiations, executive Yuan, Bureau of Foreign Trade, T. M. of E. A. New Southbound Policy Guidelines and Action Plan. (Taipei, 2017).