Ideal Learning Research Articles

Exploring Lecturers' Attitudes in Online Learning: Phenomenological Studies at Private Islamic Colleges in South Sumatra

This study aims to explore the attitudes of lecturers in online learning in the environment of the South Sumatra Private Islamic Religious University. The research method used is qualitative with a phenomenological approach. The subject of this study is a lecturer who teaches at the South Sumatra Private Islamic Religious College and the chairman of the PTKIS South Sumatra Forum. Data collection techniques through interviews, observation and documentation. Data analysis uses the model formulated by Creswell, first reading the entire data, second doing coding, third applying the coding process, fourth describing the theme to be presented in the qualitative report, and fifth interpreting the data. Based on the results of the study, it was found that online learning has not been accepted as an ideal learning system because it is considered ineffective to be implemented in the environment of the South Sumatra Private Islamic Religious University. This is caused by several factors, namely, 1) inadequate digital infrastructure and financial capabilities, 2) lecturers' technological competence that has not been maximized, 3) A more emphasized factor is the desire to maintain a face-to-face system to maintain an emotional or inner connection between lecturers and students that is considered better than virtual interaction. Islamic education actually has dynamic principles that open up opportunities to adapt to the development of science and technology. Suppose it relates to curriculum, media or learning tools and methods. Then the solution is to use a blended learning model.

Teachers’ CALL professional development in synchronous, asynchronous, and bichronous online learning through project-oriented tasks: developing CALL pedagogical knowledge

The popularity of online education has prompted computer-assisted language learning (CALL) teachers to attend online teacher professional development (OTPD) courses. Online education has necessitated a deeper look into online delivery in professional development courses. Hence, an exploratory qualitative case study was conducted to investigate how synchronous, asynchronous, or the blend of both, called bichronous online learning, could develop teachers’ CALL pedagogical knowledge through project-oriented tasks. In light of data from technology-review projects and discussions, it was revealed that bichronous online learning benefited teachers significantly in acquiring CALL pedagogical knowledge, specifically in selecting, developing, and evaluating CALL materials. Bichronous online learning incorporates the best affordances of synchronous and asynchronous modalities. The findings showed that synchronous and asynchronous modalities complement each other and should not be substituted for each other. This study could be considered a contribution on account of informing the community of inquiry about the pedagogical affordances of bichronous online learning and proving that bichronous online learning is an ideal learning setting to aid CALL teacher education programs.

Analisis Kurikulum Merdeka Belajar Materi PAI pada Kelas 10 SMK Negeri 1 Depok Yogyakarta

The purpose of this study is to analyze the Merdeka Curriculum Learning (Kurikulum Merdeka Belajar) in the subject of PAI (Islamic Religious Education) and moral character applied at SMK Negeri 1 Depok Yogyakarta. The main goal of the Merdeka Curriculum is to prepare students for spiritual maturity, wisdom, and noble character. This research uses qualitative library research method and involves the analysis of content description. Data is collected through observation, in-depth interview, and documentation study. The results of the analysis indicate that the Merdeka learning achievement formulation contains comprehensive competencies and scope of materials in the form of narratives that are adjusted to the developmental stage of students in phase E for grade 10. The ideal learning objective formulation consists of two components: First, attitude, knowledge, and skills competencies; Second, the content, which is core knowledge. The learning objective flow formulation describes the coverage and stages of learning from the beginning to the end of the phase in a linear manner.

Analysis of Wattpad E-Community: A Model-Based Virtual Collaboration

This study conducted an Analysis of Wattpad E-Community: A Model-Based Virtual Collaboration. Specifically, it sought to answer the following: (1) What information can be obtained based on the analysis of Wattpad E-Community in terms of (a) strengths, (b) weakness, (c) opportunities, and (d) threats?; and (2) What program can be proposed based on the S.W.O.T analysis of Wattpad E-Community?. This descriptive-quantitative research collected data via survei which were analyzed and interpreted using Weighted Mean, ranking, and verbal descriptors. The SWOT analysis indicated that ideal platform, learning experience, and sociable environment are among the group’s strengths, whereas excessive liberty, technical difficulties, and exclusivity belong to its weaknesses. In addition, the discovered opportunities in the group include possibility to meet and learn from professionals/expert, development of online learning community, and potential feasibility in data gathering, while possibility to transfer to another e-community, cyber security hazards, and frequent power outages are considered as threats. Therefore, it is recommended to propose the implementation of Project VIBE (Virtual, Interactive, and Boundless Engagement), alongside the application of the improvements and revisions generated from the results of the SWOT Analysis.

Critical literacy through Information and Communication Technologies in the primary educational systems of Spain and Switzerland: A comparative study based on the example of WebQuests

In this present paper, a comparative study between the Spanish and Swiss primary educational systems took place, investigating whether WebQuests are used in the foreign language lesson for the instruction of critical literacy in multilingual environments. The modern learning environment requires student-centred teaching, with new technologies creating ideal learning conditions which, although they carry many risks, have advantages over traditional ones, creating a lively learning and collaborative environment. In the case of WebQuests, searching for information on the internet ceases to be an arduous process, since it is guided. In addition, it enhances and promotes reflection, critical thinking, creativity, discovery and presentation of new information, delving into real-life issues and situations which are key elements of critical literacy.

Factors Affecting Parents' Intention of Sending Children to Study Abroad: A Study From Vietnam

<p style="text-align: justify;">In recent years, there is a growing number of Vietnamese students applying to study abroad at a younger age. Instead of waiting until adulthood, many Vietnamese parents decide to send their offspring to study abroad early from high school. This study was conducted to analyze the factors affecting the intention of Vietnamese parents to send their children to study abroad. The dataset includes 350 responses, in which parents of middle and high school students having the intention and willingness to send their children to study abroad are respondents. The research results show that perceived value, perceived risk, and three variables of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) model affect the intention to send their children to study abroad with the ability of explanation 53.4%. In detail, Attitude (influenced by Success, Modern self, and Traditional self) has the most significant influence (30.9%) on the dependent variable. On that basis, some suggestions are proposed for international educational organizations and study-abroad counseling centers to help them give the right orientation to Vietnamese parents about studying-abroad. Besides, proposing some recommendations for domestic educational institutions, international educational institutions, and educational management agencies in Vietnam, in order to improve the quality of education and training, creating an ideal learning environment that meets international standards for students, and simultaneously attracting international students to Vietnam.</p>

The role of the natural history museum in promoting word learning for young children

AbstractAlthough strong claims have been made about museums being ideal word learning environments, these are yet to be empirically supported. In the current study, 152 four‐ to five‐year‐olds children (81‐M, 71‐F) from minority backgrounds were taught six vocabulary items either in a museum, in their classroom with museum resources, or in their classroom with classroom resources. At test, children taught in their classroom with museum resources produced significantly more correct responses than children taught in the museum or in their classroom with classroom resources. Children were also significantly better at retaining the target vocabulary items than recalling them. These data demonstrate how context can impact word learning and point to the benefits of a collaborative relationship between schools and museums to support children's language development.

Swedish students’ everyday school life and teachers’ assessment dilemmas: peer strategies for ameliorating schoolwork for assessment

In contemporary ways of thinking about education there is an enhanced focus on individual students’ results and less on students’ collaborative processes for attaining good results. This may appear peculiar, given that the Swedish curriculum for the nine-year compulsory school states that students should be given opportunities to compose texts together with others and give and receive feedback on them. This is also in line with societal desires to motivate students to take responsibility for their lifelong learning. The evolving ethnographic research design, comprising observations, audio-visual recordings and follow-up interviews with students at a Swedish lower secondary school (Years 8 and 9), investigated the informal social strategies that students enacted when doing formal schoolwork and how they reflected on them. Goffman’s (1959/1990) dramaturgical metaphors of the back region, front region and impression management were applied as theoretical points of departure. The findings showed that some students worked hard at their schoolwork in ways that corresponded with societal desires and ideal learning curves. Other students aimed at more effortless achievements and relied heavily on peers and digital devices when taking shortcuts to produce formal assignments. These students’ potential learning curves showed a broken arrow of knowledge development, resulting in assessment dilemmas for teachers and possible mismatches in their grading.

Early detection of Parkinson's disease using machine learning

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting 60% of people over the age of 50 years. Patients with Parkinson's (PWP) face mobility challenges and speech difficulties, making physical visits for treatment and monitoring a hurdle. PD can be treated through early detection, thus enabling patients to lead a normal life. The rise of an aging population over the world emphasizes the need to detect PD early, remotely and accurately. This paper highlights the use of machine learning techniques in telemedicine to detect PD in its early stages. Research has been carried out on the MDVP audio data of 30 PWP and healthy people during training of 4 ML models. Comparison of results of classification by Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest, K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) and Logistic Regression models, yield Random Forest classifier as the ideal Machine Learning (ML) technique for detection of PD. Random Forest classifier model has a detection accuracy of 91.83% and sensitivity of 0.95. Through the findings of this paper, we aim to promote the use of ML in telemedicine, thereby providing a new lease of life to patients suffering from Parkinson's disease.

Development and Implementation of a Medical School Course Integrating Basic, Clinical, and Health Systems Sciences.

In recent years, significant steps have been made in integrating basic science and clinical medicine. There remains a gap in adding the third pillar of education: health systems science (HSS). Core clerkships represent an ideal learning venue to integrate all three. Students can experience the value of integrating basic science as they learn clinical medicine in environments where HSS is occurring all around them. We outline the creation of Sciences and Art of Medicine Integrated (SAMI), a course that runs parallel with the clerkship year and integrates basic science and HSS with clinical medicine. A complete description of the planning and implementation of SAMI is provided. We include the participants and educational setting, the goals and objectives, and the structure of each session. To encourage the integration of basic science, HSS, and clinical medicine, students utilize a series of tools, described in detail. Examples of each tool are provided utilizing a case of a patient presenting with obstructive sleep apnea. We successfully implemented this course with positive reception from students. This course represents a step not only toward the integration of HSS with basic science and clinical medicine but also an advancement in training future clinicians to provide high-value care. Future curricular development must consider the validation of a measure of clinical reasoning that assesses a student's ability to think in a cognitively integrated fashion about basic science, HSS, and clinical medicine demonstrated by enhanced justification of clinical reasoning and a more holistic approach to planning patient care.

Unsupervised multimodal domain adversarial network for time series classification

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) is an ideal transfer learning method, which can use labeled source data to improve the classification performance of unlabeled target data. At present, the UDA methods for Time Series Classification (TSC) only use time-domain data or frequency-domain data as the input, and ignore fusing them, resulting in insufficient feature extraction and inaccurate source-target distribution alignment. Therefore, we propose an unsupervised Multimodal Domain Adversarial Network (MDAN) for TSC tasks. Specifically, we adopt two feature extractors for the time-domain and frequency-domain feature representations, and employ-three classifiers to perform TSC of source data for training the two feature extractors; Then, we fuse the time-domain and frequency-domain feature representations of source and target data, respectively, input them into the unified domain discriminator for unsupervised multimodal domain adversarial learning, and combine the proposed Time-Frequency-domain Joint Maximum Mean Discrepancy (TF-JMMD) to accurately align the source-target distributions; Finally, we select CNN or ResNet18 as the feature extractors to carry out comprehensive experiments, and the results demonstrate the SOTA performance of MDAN.

PENERAPAN SISTEM PEMBELAJARAN SHIFT YANG IDEAL DI KABUPATEN SUMBA TIMUR

Learning from homeapplied in East Sumba is a distance learning Shift. This Shift learning system is done by dividing class levels. This research is R and D research, that focus on application of implementation, the application of the results of previous studies which is the development of the ideal distance learning model in East Sumba by using Addie model. The implementation of the Shift Research Results Guidelines was carried out in Kambera Public Middle School with quesioners, interview and FGD as data collection technique. The results of this study indicate that in: 1) preparation stage, the principal, parents and regional government has conducted a distance learning shift in accordance with the guidelines, while students and teachers have not implemented the preparation according to the guidelines because many students do not prepare health protocol devices while many teachers do not prepare props and video learning; 2) Implementation stage, students, teachers, principals and regional governments have conducted a distance learning Shift in accordance with the guidelines, while parents are not in accordance with the guidelines because parents do not accompany students in carrying out Shift learning at school; 3) Evaluation stage, students, teacher, principals, and local government has conducted a distance learning Shift in accordance with the guidelines, while parents are not in accordance with the guidelines because parents do not accompany students in taking the results of the evaluation of children in school and do not provide feedback to the assessment results.

Investigating the Relationship Between Linguistic Competence, Ideal Self, Learning Engagement, and Integrated Writing Performance: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach.

Existing studies on L2 motivation have established a significant association between ideal self, learning engagement, and academic achievement, but few have examined the internal relationships between these variables in the L2 writing domain. In addition, students' linguistic competence, a fundamental element of writing achievement, remains underrepresented in most research on L2 integrated writing (IW). Considering that learner motivation and engagement may vary across different tasks, this study invited 589 Chinese secondary school students to complete tasks of story continuation (as an IW task) and linguistic competence, as well as a questionnaire relating to ideal writing self and engagement. Structural equation modeling results showed that: (a) linguistic competence was a significant direct predictor not only of students' writing achievement but also of their ideal L2 writing selves; (b) despite the significant contribution of ideal L2 writing selves to the three kinds of learning engagement, only behavioral engagement was a distinctive and unique mediator that materialized students' inner psychological drive towards writing performance. The pedagogical implications are discussed.

Persepsi Mahasiswa Tentang Pembelajaran yang Ideal Membentuk Lulusan Berdaya Saing di Era Millenial

Ideal learning in the millennial era is especially important for students of the PAI study program, where the mold of the PAI study program will later become a figure that builds the morals and character of students in the millennial era. In order to prepare the Millennial generation which is expected by the nation, religion and state in facing challenges in the era of globalization, it is necessary to have serious attention from the government in the field of education that is more targeted and measurable so that the results can be felt and utilized for the benefit of the nation and the State. Students' perceptions of learning in the PAI UIN-SU study program are appropriate for students of the Islamic religious education study program. Because the learning that is applied is suitable for Islamic religious education majors, namely, to form ideal PAI teacher candidates. As with learning educational planning then studying various learning strategies, teaching the teaching profession and so on. Which basically refers to the aim of the PAI study program, which is to form ideal PAI teacher candidates.

Design and exploration of university fluid simulation course

With the development of the times, fluid simulation technology has been used in university courses. As many university courses are too theoretical and difficult to understand, in order to achieve better learning results, the author believes that visualizing abstract concepts with simulation tools can help promote the course and enable students to achieve ideal learning results. This course introduces CFD, a fluid simulation tool. Through learning this course, students can more deeply understand the principles of fluid mechanics and enhance their understanding and application ability of theoretical knowledge through simulation practice.

Supplemental Material for Prerequisites for learning in networked immersive virtual reality.

There has been growing interest in using virtual reality (VR) as a solution for many of the challenges facing distance education, such as fostering a sense of connectedness with classmates. However, implementing VR in distance education has its share of challenges, such as hardware accessibility and a scarcity of content which match curricula. In this exploratory, mixed-methods study, we examined 19 students’ use of head-mounted displays to meet with classmates inside social VR. For 4 weeks, students worked together in small groups on various tasks inside a virtual environment. We present quantitative results on attitudes foundational to fostering ideal learning environments. Entitativity (“group-ness”), enjoyment, realism, and presence did not change over time, likely due to a small sample size resulting from technical difficulties in collecting data. We present qualitative observations on instructors’ and students’ experiences across time and with VR use, and how these may inform curricula development. First, it is critical to provide ample training time to allow students to grow accustomed to the medium before investigating how response to VR changes over time. Without learning how to use VR first, students cannot learn inside VR. Second, we discuss task type and content considerations within and outside of VR and provide recommendations on how to reduce cognitive load and encourage social interaction. Third, we address technological and social issues that are likely to arise. Overall, we focus on ways to create a sense of connectedness and reduce psychological distance and challenges that may disrupt meaningful interactions from taking place.

Prerequisites for learning in networked immersive virtual reality.

There has been growing interest in using virtual reality (VR) as a solution for many of the challenges facing distance education, such as fostering a sense of connectedness with classmates. However, implementing VR in distance education has its share of challenges, such as hardware accessibility and a scarcity of content which match curricula. In this exploratory, mixed-methods study, we examined 19 students’ use of head-mounted displays to meet with classmates inside social VR. For 4 weeks, students worked together in small groups on various tasks inside a virtual environment. We present quantitative results on attitudes foundational to fostering ideal learning environments. Entitativity (“group-ness”), enjoyment, realism, and presence did not change over time, likely due to a small sample size resulting from technical difficulties in collecting data. We present qualitative observations on instructors’ and students’ experiences across time and with VR use, and how these may inform curricula development. First, it is critical to provide ample training time to allow students to grow accustomed to the medium before investigating how response to VR changes over time. Without learning how to use VR first, students cannot learn inside VR. Second, we discuss task type and content considerations within and outside of VR and provide recommendations on how to reduce cognitive load and encourage social interaction. Third, we address technological and social issues that are likely to arise. Overall, we focus on ways to create a sense of connectedness and reduce psychological distance and challenges that may disrupt meaningful interactions from taking place.

The Relationship Between Chinese EFL Learners’ L2 Motivational Self System and Willingness to Communicate

This study explores the relationships between the L2 motivational self system (L2MSS)—Ideal self, Ought-to self, and Learning experience—and the willingness to communicate (WTC) based on the results of a questionnaire survey of 120 freshmen from English majors (English, Business English, Translation). The results demonstrate that: (1) in the L2MSS, the ideal self has the greatest mean of 3.83, and the WTC has a mean of 3.74. Overall, each value is in the upper-middle range. (2) The ideal self, the ought-to self, and the learning experience are positively correlated with the WTC in a significant way, among which the correlation coefficient of the learning experience is the largest one, being 0.593. (3) In the L2MSS, the ideal self and the learning experience can significantly predict the learners’ WTC. The study suggests that it may be more effective in motivating students’ WTC if teachers can guide students to establish a positive ideal self and build a good teacher-student relationship in the teaching process.

Effects of the Instruction With Liushu on Mandarin Learners’ Chinese Character Achievement and Motivation

This study examines the effects of instruction with Liushu on Chinese character achievement and motivation of Mandarin learners through an experiment. A total of 133 Mandarin beginner learners from Laos were assigned to the experimental group (37 male students, 31 female students) and the control group (42 male students, 23 female students). Liushu was used to conduct Chinese character teaching for ten weeks in the experimental group. It was found that instruction with Liushu has a positive effect on learners’ Chinese character achievement, especially the ability to infer the meaning and pronunciation of Chinese characters. Also, it motivates Mandarin learners’ Ideal L2 Self and L2 Learning Experience more than conventional instruction. As a final contribution to this study, we presented a correlation analysis between Chinese character achievement and motivation as well as some insights.

Nurse administrators as the cause of moral distress among nurse educators: A qualitative research study.

This study aimed to investigate the causes of moral distress among nurse educators. Educational administration factors can cause moral distress among nursing faculty members. Despite this, limited attention has been paid to addressing these factors. Highlighting and addressing these factors is now an essential element of organizational success. A descriptive phenomenological design was used to explore nursing faculty members' lived experiences of nursing faculty members of moral distress. Qualitative data were collected from 10 faculty members using a semi-structured interview framework. Five themes emerged a) administrative support deficit, b) administrator-faculty member rapport, c) sense of powerlessness, d) marginalization in the decision-making process, and E) being forced to work in opposition to the nursing profession value system. This study provides common themes as they pertain to causes of moral distress in academic settings. Nurse administrators can play a vital role in preventing moral distress by providing management that demonstrates human caring values and advocates for nursing faculty. Preventing moral distress in academic settings is essential to reinforce and exemplify an ideal learning environment for nursing educators and nursing students.