Electronic Learning System Research Articles

A Robust Structure for Quality and Safety in a Large Academic Radiation Oncology Practice

Quality and safety programs (QSP) are critical to ensure zero patient harm and are a cornerstone for high reliability organizations. The purpose of this study is to assess the strength and structure of a QSP in a large academic radiation oncology practice. Beginning in July 2016, a new electronic incident learning system (ILS) was implemented for reporting safety concerns in our large, radiation oncology practice, comprised of a primary institution plus 6 campuses including a proton center, with 889 employees, including 65 fully credentialed radiation oncologists, 7 newly on-boarded radiation oncologists, 78 medical physicists, 60 nurses, 47 medical dosimetrists, 105 radiation therapists, and 21 advanced practice providers. We also initiated an electronic system for capturing quality assurance peer review of all radiation treatment plans, including single-fraction radiosurgery, boosts, and palliative treatments. Here we review the safety reporting and quality outcomes of our large department for fiscal year 2017 (FY17 – Sept 2016-Aug 2017) using descriptive analyses. A total of 9,124 new patients were treated with a total of 171,500 external beam radiation treatments in FY17. More than 1,800 reports were submitted through the ILS during FY17. There were no level 1 (state reportable) events, three level 2 events, 132 level 3 events, and 1,667 level 4 (near miss) events. The level 2 events were further investigated, including two formal root cause analyses. The most commonly reported issues were scheduling errors caused by Radiation Oncology (10%), ineffective communication (6%), and record and verify concerns identified at time of medical physics initial plan review (5%). A total of 9,653 patient radiation treatment plans were evaluated as part of the quality assurance peer review process, of which less than 1% (n=82) had major revision recommended, 3% (n=299) had minor changes suggested and 7% (n=711) were approved with discussion. Based on analysis of the ILS reports in FY17, communication and scheduling remain challenging areas for our practice and will be the focus for improvement in FY18. The success of our quality assurance peer review process exceeds the requirements of radiation oncology accreditation bodies in the Unites States and serves as a model for other radiation oncology practices.

Evaluation of the Electronic Learning System of Medical Education (Case Study of Shahid Beheshti Medical School)

Evaluation of the Electronic Learning System of Medical Education (Case Study of Shahid Beheshti Medical School)

The Use of Information and Communications Technology to Foster the Competitiveness of the Entrepreneurial Organizations within the Education and Science Sector

In recent years, a new market trading in cryptocurrencies and instruments based on them has been formed. The market of this paper addresses the use of information and communications technology to optimize the operation of institutions of higher learning and scientific organizations, boost their competitiveness through the systematization of their business processes, and enhance their qualitative characteristics. The author looks into employing information and communications technology to organize the institution’s distance learning systems, electronic educational environment, and electronic (online) learning system. The paper emphasizes that the use of information systems is of particular convenience with regard to setting up electronic research and scholarly libraries, which could be accessed over the Internet from just about anywhere in the world regardless of their actual physical location. Along with practical aspects, the author also examines some of the issue’s regulatory foundations and some of the compliance practices related to it. The paper stresses that, in a climate when virtually any object is vulnerable to attack by intruders, of particular relevance is the issue of ensuring information security both domestically and globally. The author concludes by drawing a set of inferences that are both of a practical nature and of a theoretical one.

Development of Web-Based Electronic Learning System (WELS) in Improving the Effectiveness of the Study at Vocational High School “Dharma Nusantara”

The background of this research question comes from teachers of the vocational high school in Indonesia who are difficulties and not sure apply WEB-Based learning to students of Computer and Network engineering program. To answer that question, researchers are developing a learning model based on Electronic Learning Systems (WELS) web-based. The development process is done through Research and Development Approach. From this WELS model, then used in learning on computer technique and network technique and the result is quite effective. Then tested the level of relationship between WELS with the level of effectiveness obtained, the results showed a positive and significant relationship on vocational school students in Indonesia, especially in vocational high school "Dharma Nusantara". In order to produce better future research, we recommend that further research is undertaken by examining other factors that may contribute to and influence the improvement of WELS for all vocational high schools in Indonesia.

Multimedia based IoT-centric smart framework for eLearning paradigm

Multimedia content boosts the learning trends. This paper is aimed to presents an electronic learning system based on Internet of Things (IoT) for the synchronous and asynchronous communications. The infrastructure of IoT provides the adaptable, scalable and open access for the eLearning paradigm. The multimedia-based IoT-centric environment is suitable to enhance the effectiveness of the delivery of learning contents. Students can take full advantage of 7As of IoT, which provides the opportunity to the students that they can access everything on the internet at any time and place. It creates a flexible eLearning paradigm for the teachers and students. The proposed eLearning modeluses sensors to detect the student location, temperature, and mobile camera to identify the student activeness in thelearning environment. Virtual campuses are controlled from a centralized location that may be called the head office. The MAQAS framework provides the solutions to the problems and analyzes the results for the efficient and connected eLearning paradigm. The MAQAS system is used to answer student’s queries, which are responded to automatically by agent-based question answering system. The results show that the students’ participation towards learning and teacher’s pedagogy are more efficient in synchronous and asynchronous modes. Performance evaluated by comparison to the existing question answering Live QA Trak, Quora Yoda QA Live and AskMSR-QA with MAQAS.

Electronic Learning System for Duhok Polytechnic University

Nowadays, the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) made deep effects in the human life. But still the communication style in most Kurdistan-Region Government sectors is still at the beginning steps. So, the trend is to move towards the E-government system in order to overcome the problems of traditional style. E-university is a field belongs to the E-government. Hence, electronic learning is an important direction within E-university. This direction treats with learning-style and the communications between the academic-staff in one side and students in other side at the universities and keep-tracking their activities during studying-year. The current style of communication needs to be improved by benefiting from the new technology capabilities. However, the universities of Kurdistan Region suffer from lack of using new technology and building the E-university system will push other whole sectors towards the E-government system. As an important direction within Electronic Duhok Polytechnic University (E-DPU), this thesis produces an efficient proposed learning system called Duhok Polytechnic University Electronic Learning System (DPU-ELS). The proposed system serves to: DPU presidency, four colleges and eight institutions belong DPU. The proposed system consists of nine modules that provide four groups of services. First group relates with student services: Lecturers Feedback, Discussion Forums and Course materials that include: Lectures, Assignments, Schedules, Marks and Objections. Second group relates with department services: Academic Staff Authentication, Clearance and Summer Training. Third group relates with Lecturer: Preparing Course Materials and Discussion Forums. And fourth group relates with institution and university services: Exam Committee, Quality Assurance, Curriculum and Statistics.There are two different study-systems at DPU, two years for institutes and four years for colleges. So, the proposed DPU-ELS is designed according to the structure of DPU. These two different studying systems are depended just at polytechnic universities. The proposed system is implemented and tested practically for six institutions located at three different campuses: Duhok, Zakho and Shekhan. The students and staff of the selected institutions participated with implementation and obtaining the results that been evaluated by using System Usability Scale (SUS). The evaluation score of the questionnaire is (71.82%) which can be considered as a good percentage. Another step towards the E-government is the ability of copying this system at any other Kurdistan university. The proposed system has been designed and implemented using the tools: (MySQL, HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, Ajax and Bootstrap).

A study on computing and e-learning in the perspective of distributed models

Electronic learning systems have been an area of interest for researchers in the past few decades as it offers flexible, reusable, scalable, available, affordable services to a wide variety of users including content generators, content users, and content managers. E-learning system involves digital content development, administration, and delivery of learning contents that can be made available even to remote locations. In the advent of huge digital content available on the internet, an effective e-learning system requires collaboration among the content creators, users, and administrators, further, it requires huge computational power and storage capacity. Presently, the system focuses mostly on the delivery of content to learners rather than concentrating on the effective storage and efficient retrieval of the content based on the skill of the individual learners. Several approaches have been attempted towards the personalised content delivery based on the basic skill of learners. However, the system maintained a repository of verified contents relatively than a validated content. In order to maintain a validated content for efficient retrieval, distributed models with respect to a different perspective of validation may be fruitful. This paper studied various distributed models that are developed in the domain of e-learning with respect to the learning environment, learning objects and learning style.

Розвиток дослідницької компетеності магістрантів спеціальності "Соціальна робота" у процесі роботи з електронним навчальним курсом "Професійне спілкування іноземною мовою"

The article presents the peculiarities of the development of research competence of masters in the specialty "Social Work" in the process of working with the electronic training course "Foreign language professional communication". The content and structure of the discipline, the main forms of work, and criteria for assessing student knowledge and program results are presented. The role and place of the system of electronic learning, in particular, EEC "Foreign language professional communication (5th course, SP, full-time department)" were determined in the formation of the scientific competence of future masters. According to the educational-professional program of training specialists in specialty 231 Social work it has been determined that the academic discipline "Foreign language professional communication" provides the formation of such general professional competencies that one way or another ensure the formation of research competence: the ability to search, process and analyze information from different sources; the ability to improve and develop professional, intellectual and cultural levels; ability to teaching, formation of future students of professional knowledge, skills and abilities, education of active life position. Among the programmatic results of studying the discipline the following are defined: the ability to use foreign sources in fulfilling the tasks of research and applied activities, to speak a foreign language, on professional topics, both verbally and in writing. On the basis of the analysis of the e-learning course concrete forms and methods of developing the research competence of future specialists in specialty 231 Social Work are presented. Among the tasks that contribute to the development of research competence are as follows: send a written answer in an essay format (up to 10 sentences) - the topic is related to the motivation block for continuing education; to develop and present their own idea for the development of scientific knowledge in the future on the basis of Forsyte technology; Using the reference vocabulary and expressions suggested below describe the methods you applied in your own research; pick up the bibliography for your own research and arrange it according to APA style requirements; prepare an abstract to the article according to the sample and requirements for the structure of the abstract.

A study on computing and e-learning in the perspective of distributed models

Electronic learning systems have been an area of interest for researchers in the past few decades as it offers flexible, reusable, scalable, available, affordable services to a wide variety of users including content generators, content users, and content managers. E-learning system involves digital content development, administration, and delivery of learning contents that can be made available even to remote locations. In the advent of huge digital content available on the internet, an effective e-learning system requires collaboration among the content creators, users, and administrators, further, it requires huge computational power and storage capacity. Presently, the system focuses mostly on the delivery of content to learners rather than concentrating on the effective storage and efficient retrieval of the content based on the skill of the individual learners. Several approaches have been attempted towards the personalised content delivery based on the basic skill of learners. However, the system maintained a repository of verified contents relatively than a validated content. In order to maintain a validated content for efficient retrieval, distributed models with respect to a different perspective of validation may be fruitful. This paper studied various distributed models that are developed in the domain of e-learning with respect to the learning environment, learning objects and learning style.

Recommended system of personalized corporate e-learning based on ontologies

Corporate e-learning is becoming general, the use of electronic learning systems is constantly expanding. Corporate training is characterized by the availability of a corporate knowledge base, which is constantly expanding. In order to achieve stable development of company, transparency and access to knowledge and information is necessary. This ensures a thorough understanding of the executed work by all employees of the company. Therefore, a key objective in this context is a generalization, accumulation and transmission of corporate knowledge to any employee of the company under the corporate training. In addition, it is crucial to find the suitable content in the learning process in order to save time and quickly get involved in the workflow. Thus, new systems are needed that can effectively recommend the necessary educational material for users on the basis of their preferences.

Utilization of Electronic Learning System in Swat Rural Areas

As developments in electronic technologies i.e. personal computers, laptops, tablets, mobiles and wearable devices, the way of learning is also changing. Therefore, utilization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has great important role in schools and colleges. ICT is using by students, teachers and societies in District Swat, KP, Pakistan in the form of mobiles internet (for social contact and chat), computers internet (for knowledge exploration and entertainment) and multimedia (for teaching and learning). One of the difficulties involved in rural areas’ students of District Swat is that they cannot join class rooms due to their poor livelihood condition and far away from schools and colleges. Especially most of the females of rural areas of Swat do not come to schools and colleges for their family tradition and culture. Various questions were examined in every aspect of educational technologies in this study. We surveyed 50 responded randomly at District Swat from different schools and colleges and discovered that the responded were generally positive and have great interest about e-learning in Swat. The use of proposed electronic system for the learning, the literacy rate will increase in rural areas and students will achieve their individual goals.

Analysis of structural components of the E-learning system

The research proposes a methodical approach to structuring the e-learning system. The list of participants in the educational process in the system of electronic learning is formed and their detailed analysis is carried out. The specific features of the tools and information space of e-learning are explored. The structure of the subject area of e-learning is designed, on the basis of which it is possible to make decisions on the coordination of the processes taking place in the application of e-learning

Factors Creating an Educational Atmosphere in Cyberspace: A Qualitative Study

Background: Because of the developments and advancements in information technology (IT), unparalleled opportunities have been provided in electronic arenas; among them, electronic learning (e-learning) systems have brought attention to the facilitation of education. Since educational environment is a factor influencing the success of educational programs, the current study aims at evaluating the factors that create the educational atmosphere in cyberspace. Methods: The current study employed a qualitative content analysis approach and a targeted sampling method. A total of 11 students and 13 faculty members were recruited by a semi-structured interview in 2015. The interviews were continued separately for both students and lecturers up to the saturation of sample size. After the interview data were qualitatively analyzed. Results: After the data analysis, 685 codes were extracted out of the qualitative data, which were reevaluated in several stages and classified into 38 subcategories. Then, 13 categories and 6 domains (The status of virtual education, learner support, teaching skills, evaluation, professionalism and professional ethics, and self-efficacy) were created. Conclusions: Since the educational environment is an inseparable part of a curriculum, the factors creating an educational atmosphere in cyberspace are critically important and necessary for the qualitative and quantitative evaluations of the curriculum and prediction of educational outcomes. Keywords: Educational Atmosphere, Cyberspace, Qualitative Study, Content Analysis

Sosialisasi Panduan Elektronis Pembelajaran Tajwid Berbasis Macromedia Flash (Tempat : Pondok Pesantren Modern Islam Assalaam Surakarta)

The purpose of this research is to develop and test an electronic learning system asan alternative learning media to read Al-Qur’an. The creation of this learning systemhas through some steps. The steps are references searching, data collecting, systematic creating, and testing. This process involves data collecting from tajwid books and video recording. The capacity of this system is 179 MB including 1.655 files consisting of 1 .exe file. 769 .swf files, 734 .flv video files, 151 mp3 files, and 3 folders. The resulted video has an extention .flv which has a size as big as 250 x 180 pixel. Frame Rate 15 fps, and Bit Rate 260 kbps. The resulted audio extents mp3 that has a Bit Rate 128 kbps, stereo channel and resolusion 16 bit. The questioners that are devided to the 20 users show that this programm is better and completer than tajwid books sold.

Comparative study for Knowledge and Attitudes of Virtual and Non-Virtual Students towards E-Learning

Introduction: Today, Electronic Learning System is an important teaching method in the world. E-learning is a relatively new teaching method in Iran and the world, so considering knowledge and attitude of students as an important element of educational system is necessary. The aim of this study is the comparison of knowledge and attitude of virtual and non virtual students towards E-learning.

Application of an Electronic Problem-Based Learning System in Undergraduate Medical Education Program

Objective: The objective of this article is to introduce the e-PBL application experience of a medical faculty in undergraduate medical education program. Materials and methods: The special software for e-PBL application was developed and experienced. The application of e-PBL was carried out in the last two blocks of the Phase 3 program. During the last two blocks, third year students participated in the synchronized e-PBL sessions in small groups. After two years’ pilot studies, E-PBL was applied to all third-year students during the Multisystem and Life Cycle blocks in the years, 2015 and 2016. Students engaged in the phases of PBL steps, orally and in written forms. Sessions were student-centered and tutors only undertook the duty of assessment by monitoring the groups externally and making use of the session records and reports. Results: During the first year application, in light of students’ and tutors’ feedbacks, external motivation sources were identified to be crucial for effective sessions. During the second year application, performance of the groups increased compared to the first year through the implementation of summative assessment criteria and there was a decrease in technical problems. Conclusion: Considering the advantages and restrictions of e-PBL application, a plan was made to carry out the same synthesis blocks at the end of the third year program for consecutive years.

IMPLEMENTATION OF LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS: DISTANT LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES AS TEACHERS’AID

The article is a case and looks into the experience of Kazan National Research Technical University named after A. N. Tupolev in the field of organizing network electronic educational environment based on LMS Blackboard and LMS MOODLE and developing electronic university services for implementing higher education and supplementary vocational education programs. The main aim of the article is to demonstrate the experience of using distance technologies for teaching the skills of working with LMS Blackboard and legal norms of labor and fire security to university lecturers. The article reviews peculiarities of social and informational space in which educational services are implemented nowadays and the new ways of communication and information interaction created by the new environment. Benefits of main university processes based on distance learning technologies are presented. The authors point out the challenges of organizing distance learning, in particular, lack of lecturers, capable fusing distance learning technologies in the teaching process professionally, technically and psychologically. Distance learning peculiarities for university lecturer are described. The structure of electronic informational and educational environment of KNRTU-KAI and open model of academic knowledge as a result of using network information technologies are presented. Conducted research gives reasons for conclusions on the need for changing the idea of educational services delivery due to accumulating and transforming the set of academic knowledge, economic benefits, interaction between users and network educational environment. In order to organize student - centered learning it is necessary to implement a set of tasks of electronic educational and informational environment formulated by the author. The value of the article is in describing practical recommendations on implementing electronic educational resources in the context of open academic knowledge concept, popularization of DLT among university lecturers and employees. The article is of interest to the practitioners of university academic knowledge informatization and researchers in the field of knowledge management in higher education. In future researchers will be able to perform more detailed empiric work on creating electronic learning systems within the framework of academic knowledge open model on the basis of network information technologies.

STUDENTS STANDING BEFORE THE DISTANCE LEARNING IN INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION

The priority direction of updating the education system is the introduction of modern information and communication technologies, which provide further improvement of the educational process, accessibility and efficiency of education, preparation of the young generation for life in the information society. The analysis of the problem of using information and communication technologies in the educational process confirms that the transition to computer-oriented learning technologies, creation of conditions for their development, testing and implementation, a rational combination of the newest means of teaching with the traditional ones - a complex educational task that needs to be solved A whole complex of psychological and pedagogical, organizational, educational, methodological, logistical and other issues. And among them - the development of appropriate educational and methodological support for the use of information retrieval systems, hypermedia, multimedia, telecommunication and network technologies; The formation of information culture of teachers and students, their preparation for the practical use of information and communication technologies in their professional activities. The use of information and communication technologies and the possibilities of Internet resources in the educational process of higher educational institutions has an innovative, progressive character and a tendency to develop and spread to all educational institutions in Ukraine. The use of electronic learning systems provides an opportunity for flexible learning of students in the interactive educational environment, the formation of skills for independent work, conscious attitude to learning. The article is devoted to the consideration of ways to increase the efficiency of the process of teaching students in higher educational institutions through the introduction of modern information and communication technologies. The urgency and necessity of application of information and communication technologies in the educational process as requirements of the present are considered. The main advantages and disadvantages of using information and communication technologies in the process of learning are determined. The authors disclose the main difficulties faced by students in the educational process of a higher educational institution.DOI: https://doi.org/10.28925/2414-0325.2017.3.8088

Potential of Cost-Effective Mobile Learning in Resource and Bandwidth Constrained Environments

E-learning has received significant research attention over years in order to ensure reliability, availability and cost-effectiveness through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The evolvement of mobile computing devices especially smartphones brings prospects in overcoming the inherent limitations of the Internet when accessing contents on web. Among the potential opportunity revealed includes the ability to work offline. Therefore, this study aims at analyzing the existing online and offline electronic-learning systems in order to explore the uniqueness, technical problems and opportunities in this field. Similarly, this study proposes synchronization and caching solution for cost-effective electronic-learning content delivery. The proposed approach synchronizes contents from the remote servers to local database in mobile computing devices for offline use. It therefore contributes to reliability, cost-effectiveness, timely and increase motivation in learning activities.

Use of Social Networks in Open and Distance Education: What Sociology Students Share?

Facebook, Twitter, forums, blogs, and Wikis are the leading social web applications. Social Web is one of the most active electronic learning systems. Therefore, learners are able to interact with other learners and influenced by these interaction. InMap, Wolfram Alpha and Facebook Insight are the examples of analytics supported Social Web applications. In this study, 12 different Facebook groups and fan page oriented Anadolu Univesity, Open Education Faculty, Sociology Program, were investigated. Posts, comments and answers on the fan pages and the groups are subjected for content analysis. Inductive content analysis was used for qualitative data collected. Qualitative data were given in tables, tables were separated into appropriate groups, codifying applied for related themes in the groups and major themes were acquired. In analysis of data, NVIVO package software was utilized. According to the results of the research, it was determined that students share mostly about exam services, lessons orientation and accreditation of the distance education program. Keywords: social web; open and distance education; social networks; content analysis; sociologyÂ