Lecture Information Research Articles

EXPLORING VIETNAMESE NON-ENGLISH-MAJORED FRESHMEN'S ENGLISH-SPEAKING ANXIETY AT A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY IN VIETNAM

The study investigates Vietnamese non-English-majored freshmen's speaking anxiety. 297 non-English-majored freshmen enrolled at a public university in Vietnam answered the Questionnaire of Speaking Anxiety. The results show that participants had a moderate level of English-speaking anxiety, with female students having a higher level of speaking anxiety than male students. To provide insights into sources of speaking anxiety, anxiety-provoking situations and strategies that students use to cope with speaking anxiety, follow-up qualitative data was collected. 24 students from the pool of participants were conveniently recruited and randomly assigned to five focus groups, who answered the semi-structured interview questions. The findings show that students experience a higher level of speaking anxiety when they are called to answer questions by their teacher in class and during a speaking test, and to make an oral presentation than when they perform a role-play in front of the class and work in groups. Besides, students attributed their speaking anxiety to their English-speaking abilities, the nature of teachers' questions, fear of losing face and being judged, and fear of receiving low scores. To cope with speaking anxiety, students reported using social and cognitive strategies. The study provides helpful information for English lecturers to understand the nature of students' speaking anxiety and help students tackle speaking anxiety.

An Exploratory Data Analysis for Synchronous Online Learning Based on AFEA Digital Images

The spread of COVID-19 throughout the world has affected the education sector. In some higher education institution, such as Polytechnic Caltex Riau (PCR), it is mandatory for students to participate in synchronous or asynchronous learning activities via virtual classroom. Synchronous online learning is usually supported by video conferencing media such as Google Meeting or Zoom Meeting. The communication between lecturers and students is captured as an image as evidence of students’ interaction and participation in certain learning subjects. These images can provide information for lecturers in determining students’ internal feelings and measuring students’ interest through facial emotions. Taking this reason into account, the current research aims to analyze the emotions detected in facial expression through images using automatic facial expression analysis (AFEA) and exploratory data analysis (EDA), then visualize the data to determine the possible solution to improve the educational process’ sustainability. The AFEA steps applied were face acquisition to detect facial parts in an image, facial data extraction and representation to process feature extraction on the face, and facial expression recognition to classify faces into emotional expressions. Thus, this paper presents the results obtained from applying machine learning algorithms to classify facial expressions into happy and unhappy emotions with mean values of 5.58 and 2.70, respectively. The data were taken from the second semester of 2020/2021 academic year with 1,206 images. The result highlighted the fact that students showed the facial emotion based on the lecture types, hours, departments, and classes. It indicates that there are, in fact, several factors contributing to the variances of students’ facial emotions classified in synchronous online learning.

Online Learning Process and Results in Indonesia

The focus of this research is (1) to describe and analyze how the process of online lectures at Universitas PGRI Semarang, and (2) to describe and analyze how the results of the implementation of online lectures at Universitas PGRI Semarang in suppressing disparities in higher education quality. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to monitor and evaluate the implementation of online learning at Universitas PGRI Semarang through the mechanism of online learning guidelines by the Quality Assurance Institute. This research uses a mixed method or often referred to as a mixed method. Data collection for the online lecture process was captured by using an online lecture implementation questionnaire filled out by students and lectures via googleform. The second data is student learning outcomes/achievements downloaded from the Universitas PGRI Semarang Lecture Information System (SIP). The results of the implementation of online lectures at Universitas PGRI Semarang are still not in line with expectations. Because students who carry out online lectures are not necessarily in a place with stable internet access, even though on the other hand online lectures require good internet access not only from the lecturer side but also from the student side. The limitations experienced by these students can cause the understanding of the material that has been delivered by the lecturer can not be maximized. The conclusion of the implementation of lectures are still not maximized so that it needs to be addressed immediately by increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of learning, one way is by providing education quota assistance or carrying out blended learning by taking into account the principles of the Covid-19 prevention protocol.

Development of IOT Based Digital Display Board for Students’ Lectures Update

Technology is generally improving the advertisement sector and the use of electronic medium in communication system is on geometric rise due to its flexibility, attractiveness, speed and efficiency. Various methods of information dissemination have been adopted from the use of posters, traditional billboards to electronic billboards. This work presents the development of an IOT (Internet of Things) based display board for Engineering Students in Federal Polytechnic Ile Oluji, Ondo State, Nigeria for lecture update using wireless communication channel (wi-fi); this provides ease and comfort of updating the content from remote location in the wireless network range. The command is sent to the digital display board through the Mobile Application interfaced with the wireless module to give regular update and seamless communication with students.
 The digital board basically contains a digital display module, a 5volts DC power pack, a wi-fi card, Microcontroller and Light Emitting Diodes. The administrator sends out message through the mobile led art light application to keep students updated on their lecture information. The text is received through the wireless module connected to the application and transferred to the microcontroller which decodes the message for users. The decoded message will automatically switch ON and OFF appropriate LEDs in order to display respective message sent which scrolls on the display. The display board can accept texts in different modes and styles as provided in the mobile application. The display board is useful in academic environment to regularly update students on lectures and other relevant information.

KESEIMBANGAN KEHIDUPAN KERJA DALAM MENJALANKAN PERAN GANDA STUDI PADA MAHASISWA UNIVERSITAS PAMULANG

It is a challenge for each individual who carries out more than one concurrent role in his life (Dual Role) as experienced by Pamulang University Students. Roles need to be aligned and strategies need to be implemented to avoid problems. Problems such as work, family and college conflicts have the potential to occur. This study aims to determine work, family and college conflicts and explore various strategies to overcome conflicts used by Pamulang University students in carrying out multiple roles. Qualitative research methods were used for this research. Data were collected through interviews and questionnaires. Respondents who became the subject of this study were determined through three criteria. The collected data were analyzed and concluded. Research results Work, family and college conflicts experienced by Pamulang University students are caused by pressure in lectures such as, lecture materials, coursework, lecture time, time to do college assignments, tuition fees, missing lecture information, forgetting to do college assignments, problems knowledge. While the pressure at work such as, a lot of work volume, complex work that requires extra brain performance, short time to complete work, infrastructure that is considered lacking, the presence of a leader who does not fit, co-workers who are less comfortable, canteen menus that are considered inadequate. expensive. In addition, the dual roles that are carried out simultaneously also cause their own pressure, for example the pressure to complete work and college assignments at the same time. Various strategies taken by students in carrying out multiple roles in order to minimize conflict and even to resolve conflicts and can lead students to achieve the desired goals. The strategy adopted is adjusted to the type of conflict that exists. Every conflict, pressure requires resolution separately or not the same between one pressure with another pressure.Keywords : Work Life Balance, Multiple Roles

Critical thinking in evaluation instruments at BSE Indonesian language

This article aims to describe the diversity of critical thinking contained in the evaluation instrument at BSE Indonesian SMA 2019/2020 Academic Year. This study uses a qualitative approach by applying the principles of content analysis. The data sources in this study were 541 evaluation instruments spread over eight teaching materials, namely compiling procedural texts, studying explanatory texts, managing information in lectures, lectures, studying life in short stories, preparing propoquestions, designing scientific papers, assessing works through reviews, and plays. The results showed that there were 189 evaluation instruments relevant to critical thinking aspects. Determines the credibility of a source and distinguishes between relevant and irrelevant as much as 22 or 11.6%. Identifies and evaluates unspoken assumptions and identifies biases that exist as many as 19 questions or 10.1%. Identifies the point of view as much as 100 questions or 52.9%, and evaluates the evidence offered to support as much as 7 question or 3.7%. These findings indicate, that efforts to develop critical thinking aspects in the evaluation instrument of BSE Indonesian SMA have been well developed.

PROBLEMS OF APPLICATION OF ACTIVE LEARNING METHODS IN PHYSICS AND METHODS OF SOLUTION

This article discusses the problems that arise when using active methods of teaching physics in the educational process according to the updated curriculum, and ways to solve them. The analysis of documents, survey methods, analysis of the results of scientific research on the topic. Analysis of domestic and foreign articles. As a result of the study, problems, difficulties and a number of ways to solve them were identified when using active teaching methods by teachers of physics and natural science. In addition, the classification and benefits of active teaching methods are presented. Examples of active physics lessons, practical exercises are considered. It guides students in solving theoretical problems and issues of daily life. It is convenient to systematize a large amount of information in lectures and practical exercises, where the main issues of the topic are explained and recommendations for independent study of the material are given. The results of scientific research can be a useful and auxiliary tool for students, young professionals, teachers of physics and natural science in higher and special educational institutions.

Association Between Social Media Use and Depression Among University Students

The most widely used social media such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook have changed the way we communicate with others especially amongst youth. It has been a major part of such activities in their lives. However, the most alarming situation is that youth are mostly students. It has been identified that those who spent more time online have evidenced more symptoms of depression. On that note, this study concerns to (i) identify the level of depression and (ii) to find out the relationship between social media and depression among them who are among undergraduate students. In order to retrieve the data, a set of questionnaire was distributed to 150 students of local university in Malaysia, that consists of three sections which are demographic information, Social Media Addiction Scale-Student Form (SMAS-SF) and Beck Depression Inventory 2nd Edition (BDI-II). There were two variables analyzed using Pearson correlation test. In short, the result showed that there is a correlation between social media and depression, r=0.199, n=150, p=<0.01. From this finding, it depicts that social media is significantly related and have positive relationship to depression among students involved. This study also provides such valuable information for counsellors and lecturers to identify students who have suffered depression and could help them to manage the problem. It also creates awareness among parents to be more alert with their children’s emotion.

Psychological Problems Encountered by EFL Students in Speaking Class at Universitas Islam Riau

The target of the study is to give perspectives to the English teachers or lecturers about the psychological problems encountered by students. It also will be used as the basic information for teachers or lecturers to find the best way in teaching and learning English especially in English speaking skill classroom. This study was a qualitative design that would be analyzed in form of description and were collected from the second semester students of English Study Program of Universitas Islam Riau. The questionnaires were distributed to 15 students while five out of them were interviewed to assure their responses towards 18 statements in the questionnaire. Moreover, the questionnaire comprised statements that based on the psychological problem that consist of low of self-confidence, anxiety, and low of self-esteem. It was found that the students faced the psychological problem. The problems that prominently encountered by the students was low of self-esteem, which stated that they were unable to speak in English as well as most of their friends. Then, they felt they had not much to be proud during the class due to several problems. Most of the students tend to feel they were failure, because they have not improved their speaking skills yet, due to several problems which encounter them at the same time.

Klasterisasi Tingkat Masa Studi Tepat Waktu Mahasiswa Menggunakan Algoritma K-Medoids

The period of study on time is one of the parameters of a student's success in completing college to obtain a bachelor's degree. A student is said to have completed his studies on time if he is able to complete his studies less than or equal to the predetermined time. Academic Provides facilities to find out the estimated time of student graduation. By providing information on which students are included in the cluster, they can complete their studies on time and which students do not complete their studies on time. In this study, the data processed were data from students who had graduated in the previous year. Then the data is processed using rapidminer software. This study applies the K-Medoids algorithm in clustering. The result of testing this method is to determine the student clusters who can complete the study period on time and the student clusters who cannot complete the study period on time. This research is expected to contribute to the campus in evaluating the tendency of students to complete their studies on time or not. The results of the evaluation of performance can produce information for study programs, lecturers and students in making policies

Stories and scenarios: Lecturers’ use of fantastic hypothetical events

A number of studies have examined the occurrence of stories in lecture contexts, and have suggested that stories can encourage student engagement and the acquisition and retention of lecture information content. Some of these studies have analysed story structures in terms of Labov and Waletzky's model (1967) or the more elaborate model developed by Martin (2008). Such models work well for stories that recount events that took place in past time, but they do not capture another type of story, the hypothetical scenario, sufficiently well. Drawing on prior research into stories in lecture discourse, and ‘Imagining Scenarios’ (Ädel 2010, 2012), we identify and describe passages in lectures where listeners are invited to imagine a fantastic hypothetical situation. Scenario identification criteria were developed, and examples were extracted from the British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus, the Engineering Lecture Corpus (ELC), and the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE). Novice EMI lecturers may understandably be nervous about straying away from the delivery of facts and into the realms of fantasy, but our findings suggest that scenario-telling is part of the experienced lecturer's repertoire, and is an engaging way of elaborating abstract technical terms, concepts, or arguments central to a disciplinary topic.

Brief ELT in Digital Classroom for Lazy Creative Lecturers (Option After Post Pandemic Recovery): Lecturers’ Perspectives

This paper provides essential information for lecturers and educational institutions to think creatively in teaching English via online. The rapid development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the Covid-19 emergency made lecturers and educational institutions think harder than usual. Higher education has used a powerful learning pattern and strategic policy to overcome the problem namely structure and unstructured online learning platform. The research aimed to find what platform is suitable in higher education and how lecturers create particular activity using HOTs to make students to think creatively. It also underlined that this new platform provides useful options that not only offers material delivery features but also an interactive communication feature. There were selected 10 lecturers of ELT in higher education level being interviewed and separated into two group users of structured and unstructured digital learning models. The distribution was based on their experience on teaching English using both models. This study analyzed interviews with lecturers who are experienced in usage of structured and unstructured online Learning platform. The findings were discussed by resuming and then drawing the conclusion through interpreting the findings. The findings from these data illustrated that these new learning patterns had a significant impact on students' cognitive and psychomotor abilities. Moreover, this model also significantly affected institution quality control.

Communicative and Collaborative Aspects in Indonesian Electronic School Book Evaluation Instruments

This study aims to examine the diversity of communicative and collaborative aspects contained in the evaluation instrument in Indonesian BSE. This study uses a qualitative approach by applying the principles of content analysis. The data sources in this study were 541 evaluation instruments spread over eight teaching materials, namely compiling procedural texts, studying explanatory texts, managing information in lectures, studying life in short stories, preparing proposals, designing scientific papers, assessing works through reviews, and performing plays. The collected data were analyzed using research criteria based on the indicators of communicative and collaborative skills found in the Guidelines for Implementing 21st Century Skills in 2013 Curriculum in SMA and published by Dit. PSMA Directorate General of Primary and Secondary Education. The results showed that overall, the evaluation instruments relevant to various communicative competence indicators were 110 questions or 20.33% while the evaluation instruments relevant to various indicators of cooperative competence were 81 questions or 14.97%. This percentage shows that the communicative and collaborative competences in the evaluation instrument in Indonesian BSE have been developed quite well.

Lecture Information Service Based on Multiple Features Fusion

Information service is always a hot topic especially when the Web is accessible anywhere. In university, lecture information is very important for students and teachers who want to take part in academic meetings. Therefore, lecture news extraction is an important and imperative task. Many open information extraction methods have been proposed, but due to the high heterogeneity of websites, this task is still a challenge. In this paper, we propose a method based on fusing multiple features to locate lecture news on the university website. These features include the linked relationship between parent webpage and child webpages, the visual similarity, and the semantics of webpages. Additionally, this paper provides an information service based on a main content extraction algorithm for extracting the lecture information. Stable and invariant features enable the proposed method to adapt to various kinds of campus websites. The experiments conducted on 50 websites show the effectiveness and efficiency of the provided service.

Planning information systems Kuliah Kerja Nyata (KKN) Institut Pendidikan Indonesia Garut

Kuliah Kerja Nyata (KKN) is an intraculicular education activity multidisciplinary is carried out at outside campus including the practice of Higher Education Tri Dharma namely community service and carried out routinely every year. With the complex problem of KKN it is necessary to design a governing information system kuliah kerja nyata activities so that it runs well and smoothly, starting from planning activities, surveys, registration, grouping, monitoring, evaluation and reporting. Lembaga Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat (LPM) as a manager of KKN experiencing many problems, by making an analysis of system design system design real job lecture information is a solution to the problem the implementation of Kuliah Kerja Nyata runs effectively and efficiently, because with a real job lecture information system all activities can well organized, although at present there is an information system Kuliah Kerja Nyata running for registration and finance, but it is not yet comprehensive for other activities and is still conventional in nature. The focus of the objectives of this study is to produce a design planning analysis information system in the form of information needs with the required entity making it easier to develop KKN information systems with an approach Geographic Information System (GIS) with the application of progressive Web App for easier implementation. The purpose of this study to make the analysis of real working class information system to improve administrative services better.

Smartpens: Note-Taking Technology for Students with Learning Disabilities

For students with learning disabilities (SWLD), note-taking during lectures and discussions is a cognitively demanding task. The multitasking elements of recording verbal information and the temporal nature of a verbal lecture make it difficult for SWLD to record notes effectively. Smartpens are new technology that can help students to become better note takers by storing verbal lecture information and syncing it up later when students amend their notes. This article provides an overview of the research on smartpens, including two smartpen strategies that improved the note taking of SWLD, and tips for teachers about how to use these strategies in the classroom.

Intelligent query optimization and course recommendation during online lectures in E-learning system

This article explores the possibility of disaggregating query/question information in e-learning system online lectures or course recommendations. Information arrangement includes reading, parsing and classification of inquiry/question messages. Data extraction is a kind of shallow content processing. It finds a set of predefined applicable content in the feature language archives and performs common language processing through artificial intelligence strategies. During online lectures, many problems emerged in the listener’s minds, and the development of query optimization systems is of great significance to the evaluation of problems in online lectures. The results shows that our proposed method improve the classification of action verbs to a more accurate level. Later, we evaluated our proposed method, and measured a very high macro average for all one-sixth of the cognitive domain. We also provide the analytical examination in which we compared the designed method with the state of the art methods. The results indicate that the proposed method outperform the traditional methods

Speaking Skills: What Arabic Language Students Do in Simulation Activity?

Language skills, especially speaking skills, are necessary for mastering of a foreign language. Many strategies were applied in class setting to achieve the skills with several activities. Many researchers have suggested various activities to develop speaking skills for Arabic language. Among these activities are drama, role play, simulation etc. Each activity has different execution to meet the objective of language learning. This study aims to explore the strategies of Arabic language speaking skills among students through paired simulation activities. The qualitative approach is fully utilized through journal notes and observation check list. Four Arabic lecturers were involved in journal notes relating to their observations of strategies used by students in general. Meanwhile, a total of 12 respondents were selected by observing their simulation performances, especially in terms of language items. Then descriptive analysis was carried out to stipulate the data with the concentration on learning strategies for speaking skills of the students and language performance regarding the use of speaking Arabic during simulation activity. This study generally found that Arabic language learners practice speaking skills with the support of other strategies such as memory, writing and reading strategies. Meanwhile linguistics items produced by respondents in the activity have common errors including lexical choice, grammatical structure and morphological aspect. In the nutshell, simulation activity has significantly affected on students learning strategy and provides essential information for Arabic language lecturers to assist their students in improving their language performance especially speaking skills.

Problematika Pembelajaran Daring Mata Kuliah Geometri Transformasi di Masa Pandemi Covid-19

This study aims to analitis the problems of transformation geometry learning at the semester of the 2019/2020 academic year which are carried out online, then attempt to determine solutions and follow-up online learning based on the results of the evaluation. This research is a descriptive qualitative research. The research technique used was a survey technique. The research was carried out on students in semester 4 of the 2019-2020 academic year study program of mathematics education, FKIP Muhammadiyah Kotabumi University in the Transformation Geometry subject with 30 respondents as the object of research. The instrument used was in the form of a questionnaire consisting of 9 questions. The conclusions of this study are 1) it is better if lecturers in online learning use an application that is agreed upon at the beginning of the lecture and is easily accessible to students, 2) it is better if you prepare learning media / materials in the form of digital learning videos that can be accessed via YouTube, WhatsApp, or Instagram. etc., 3) uploading the syllabus, RPS, and material in the learning application, 4) providing lecture information must still be through the learning application and also shared via the WhatsApp Group, 5) providing a grace period for submitting assignments, 6) Continuing to carry out formative and diagnostic assessments for get feedback and return the results of UTS and UAS to Students.

The impact of semantic annotation techniques on content-based video lecture recommendation

Increasing videos available in educational content repositories makes searching difficult, and recommendation systems have been used to help students and teachers receive a content of interest. Speech is an important carrier of information in video lectures and is used by content-based video recommendation systems. Although automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcripts have been used in modern video recommendation systems, it is not clear how annotation techniques work with noisy text. This article presents an analysis on a set of semantic annotation techniques when applied to text extracted from video lecture speech and their impact on two tasks: annotation and similarity analysis. Experiments show that topic models have good results in this scenario. Besides, a new benchmark for this task has been created and researchers can use it to evaluate new techniques.