Long-distance Education Research Articles

Effectiveness of an Informationized Teaching-management Strategy to Enhance Performance in National Nursing Licensure Examination: A Quasi-experimental Study

Objective: This study was to verify the effectiveness of an information-based teaching-management strategy applied during students’ clinical internship, designed to improve their performance in the National Nursing Licensure Examination (NNLE) Methods: All nursing students of eleven classes from grade 2017 in a vocational school were included (n=547). Considering the convenience of operational interventions, the experimental group consisted of students from Class 8, where the teacher in charge is the first author (n=49). The control group (n=498) comprised individuals selected from the other ten classes, with each class serving as an independent control group. From January 2020 to April 2021, a teaching-management strategy containing two stages was implemented in both groups from the students’ one-year clinical internship until the overall review period. In addition to this, a cloud-based knowledge-review program (e.g., layered teaching, four-step method, and paired assistance) was used in experimental group. The main outcome measures were the scores and pass rate of each examination. Results: Experimental group performed better than control group in both the simulation tests and the NNLE, in which the pass rate was 100%, showing a statically significant difference (P<0.01). Conclusion: Information-based teaching-management strategy is beneficial for long-distance education during students’ clinical internship, and it can effectively help students prepare for the NNLE to get a higher score.

The Use of Tele-Education in Medicine, During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Commentary.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a disease caused by a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), emerged initially as an isolated illness in December 2019 and later progressed to a global pandemic. Hard-hit areas were lockdown, massively disrupting medical education activities. Tele-education, previously used as a means of long-distance education emerged as a solution in the field of medical education. Tele-rotations for medical students, journal clubs and lectures via Microsoft teams, medical conferences via zoom, residency, and fellowship interviews online, all emerged during this pandemic. Some medical students and trainees found it enjoyable, cost-effective, time saving, feasible, unbiased, and preferred mode of education. Challenges related to supervision, availability, affordability, diminished communication, disturbance of streaming, or distractions due to environment. Tele-education has had a boom in the era of COVID-19. Research is needed further on effective mentoring and supervision of trainees via tele educational teaching models.

Edutainment as a Modern English Teaching Technique: a Case Study of Lingua-Socio-Cultural Competence Development of Students Majoring in Interpreting and Translation

The vast majority of present-day students belong to the so-called digital generation, which can be characterized by a number of unique cognitive features formed as a result of the extensive use of digital gadgets and modern technology. New means of interacting with reality and new strategies of cognitive information processing have created a demand for updating the repertoire of traditional teaching techniques. The edutainment technique has the capacity to satisfy this demand. Purpose. This article aims to provide a case study of applying the edutainment technique to develop lingua-socio-cultural competence of the students majoring in interpreting and translation. Methods. The article reviews recent advances in the edutainment technique implementation. The author analyzes the results of the practical application of this technique during English lessons. Results. The case study has shown that the application of the edutainment technique increases the students’ interest in the topic and motivation to study, boosts attention span through the activation of the emotional sphere, and improves the satisfaction from learning. Edutainment also facilitates understanding of complicated, culturally specific topics, helping to develop lingua-socio-cultural competence. While using the edutainment technique, it may be necessary for the teacher to perform the function of an edutainer, i.e., not only provide explanations of cultural contexts but engage students in them. Conclusion. The edutainment technique is beneficial for both the student and the teacher. This technique, by design, satisfies the cognitive preferences of the digital generation as well as the technological requirements of long-distance education, which, after the onset of the pandemic and the war, has become the norm in Ukraine.

Transition to online teaching during COVID-19 pandemic: Perspective of higher education teachers from India

Objectives: This cross-sectional, anonymous and questionnaire-based study was undertaken to analyse online teaching experiences during COVID-19 lockdown in higher education from teachers’ perspectives. This was thought to help in improving long-distance education. Materials and Methods: An online survey was conducted to collect both quantitative and qualitative data from higher education teachers. Results: Benefits identified by online teachers indicate that distance education can cater to a large group and helps the students to access educational resources. Major challenges faced were internet connectivity (78.80%), increased workloads (68.80%) and lack of personal communication with students (84%). They believed that the online mode of teaching is the only alternative for students in such an extraordinary situation. It can be valuable for additional discussions but cannot replace traditional offline teaching. Conclusion: Suggestions pointed toward providing internet facilities and electronic databases to students and the necessity of faculty development programmes.

Study on the Application of Long-distance Education in Middle School English Reading Teaching

The important characteristic of modern distance education is to develop various kinds of teaching activities in the network environment. English is the language of the information age. It is the obligation and responsibility of English teachers to construct and perfect English teaching model of network environment by taking advantages of Internet teaching ．This thesis mainly discusses the function and characteristics of net—work teaching, the main teaching procedures of long-distance English reading education and the countermeasures that middle school English teachers must take in order to improve the quality of long-distance English reading teaching.

Perceptions About Augmented Reality in Remote Medical Care: Interview Study of Emergency Telemedicine Providers.

Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have increasingly appeared in the medical literature in the past decade, with AR recently being studied for its potential role in remote health care delivery and communication. Recent literature describes AR's implementation in real-time telemedicine contexts across multiple specialties and settings, with remote emergency services in particular using AR to enhance disaster support and simulation education. Despite the introduction of AR in the medical literature and its potential to shape the future of remote medical services, studies have yet to investigate the perspectives of telemedicine providers regarding this novel technology. This study aimed to understand the applications and challenges of AR in telemedicine anticipated by emergency medicine providers with a range of experiences in using telemedicine and AR or VR technology. Across 10 academic medical institutions, 21 emergency medicine providers with variable exposures to telemedicine and AR or VR technology were recruited for semistructured interviews via snowball sampling. The interview questions focused on various potential uses of AR, anticipated obstacles that prevent its implementation in the telemedicine area, and how providers and patients might respond to its introduction. We included video demonstrations of a prototype using AR during the interviews to elicit more informed and complete insights regarding AR's potential in remote health care. Interviews were transcribed and analyzed via thematic coding. Our study identified 2 major areas of use for AR in telemedicine. First, AR is perceived to facilitate information gathering by enhancing observational tasks such as visual examination and granting simultaneous access to data and remote experts. Second, AR is anticipated to supplement distance learning of both minor and major procedures and nonprocedural skills such as cue recognition and empathy for patients and trainees. AR may also supplement long-distance education programs and thereby support less specialized medical facilities. However, the addition of AR may exacerbate the preexisting financial, structural, and literacy barriers to telemedicine. Providers seek value demonstrated by extensive research on the clinical outcome, satisfaction, and financial benefits of AR. They also seek institutional support and early training before adopting novel tools such as AR. Although an overall mixed reception is anticipated, consumer adoption and awareness are key components in AR's adoption. AR has the potential to enhance the ability to gather observational and medical information, which would serve a diverse set of applications in remote health care delivery and education. However, AR faces obstacles similar to those faced by the current telemedicine technology, such as lack of access, infrastructure, and familiarity. This paper discusses the potential areas of investigation that would inform future studies and approaches to implementing AR in telemedicine.

Design of virtual electrical laboratories for performing steady state and transient response of R-L, R-C and R-L-C circuit

This paper delves into the concept of virtual electrical laboratories, offering a comprehensive exploration of their design and functionality. A user-centered perspective is employed to analyze existing limitations and underscore the critical need for improved usability in virtual lab design. The study proposes practical applications aimed at swiftly enhancing the efficacy of these virtual environments, focusing on experiments involving R-L-C, R-L, and R-C circuits for both steadystate and transient responses. Using JavaScript, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the paper introduces a validated methodology through real-time experiments conducted in the laboratory and on the proposed virtual lab platform. The versatility of this approach positions it as a viable solution for implementation in various domains, including electric machines, power systems, and circuit theory labs. In alignment with the growing trend of long-distance education, where students seek engagement in diverse experiments from their homes, this paper contributes to the evolution of virtual electrical laboratories.

Review: Architecture, State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital

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Scientific and communicative interaction in HEIs during pandemic

This article aims to identify the benefits of the online platform for scientific and communicative interaction in HEIs during the pandemic. Pedagogical experiment during the academic year 2020/2021 was chosen as the main method of research, which included the study of the Mentimeter's effectiveness (online platform) and a students' survey at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts (KNUCaA). Results. The study showed that the use of the Mentimeter platform resources significantly increases the level of the student audience interest in the course material and during the study as a whole. This platform was involved by the teachers to work with students during the lecture or for educational purposes. Also, it was aimed to get feedback from students about the subject course content or the lecturer's methodological developments. Online surveys, created with the platform's help, allow establishing synchronous communication with the students during the lecture session remotely. Students' evaluation of the communication component of distance education under such conditions has higher rates. Communicative practices, which implementation into educational process contributes to the formation of open, communicative educational environment in modern institution of higher education, under long-distance education are of great importance not only for learning.

Design of Distance Education System for Ideological and Political Courses of Electronic Engineering Specialty Based on Big Data

According to the existing literature, the existing engineering ideological and political curriculum distance education system has the problems of long response time and few concurrent users, which cannot meet the development needs of the professional talents of electronic engineering. Therefore, the design and research of the long-distance education system of the ideological and political course of electronic engineering specialty dependent on big data is proposed. Based on the analysis of the demand of distance education system, the overall structure of the distance education system is designed. The design of the system business functions mainly includes login verification module design, instant communication module design, online classroom module design, video answer module design and video back-view module design, and design the server cluster load balancing strategy according to big data technology, so as to realize the operation of the remote education system of the ideological and political courses of electronic engineering. The design system is shorter than response time while compared with existing system. and the number of users is more. It is fully proved that the design system has better application performance.

STUDI EFEKTIVITAS PEMBELAJARAN ONLINE MELALUI APLIKASI ZOOM CLOUD MEETING TERHADAP HASIL BELAJAR SISWA

THE EFFECT OF VOCABULARY MASTERY ON ESSAY WRITING SKILLS DESCRIPTIONOnline learning is a combination of learning that continues with the seperation between teacher and learners and their learning using learnin resources through technology and communication and other media. Long-distance education is know as e-learning and as for this research, it focuses on problem that result from students’ learning in online learnig and aimed at learning how effective long-distance learnig can be. And the methods used library research and can be decoded online learnig through Zoom make learning effective, because of the many supporting features it provides duringteh Covid-19 pandemic.

Application of telemedicine in the COVID-19 epidemic: An analysis of Gansu Province in China

This paper analyzes the application of various telemedicine services in Gansu Province, China during the COVID-19 epidemic, and summarizes the experiences with these services. In addition, the satisfaction levels of patients and doctors with the application of telemedicine in COVID-19 were investigated, the deficiencies of telemedicine in Gansu were determined, and recommendations for modification were proposed. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has broken out in China, and Gansu Province in Northwest of China has not been spared. To date, there are 91 local COVID-19 cases and 42 imported cases. 109 hospitals were selected as designated hospitals during the COVID-19 outbreak, and most of them were secondary hospitals. However, it was unsatisfactory that the ability of medical services is relatively low in most of secondary hospitals and primary hospitals. Therefore, we helped the secondary hospitals cope with COVID-19 by means of remote consultation, long-distance education, telemedicine question and answer (Q&A). Our practical experience shows that telemedicine can be widely used during the COVID-19 epidemic, especially in developing countries and areas with lagging medical standards.

An English Learning System Based on Mobile Edge Computing Constructs a Wireless Distance Teaching Environment

The development of information technology and the progress of the educational information process provide technical support for the construction of a distance learning environment for learning English. Online teaching mode is a new thing for people, and it is more and more accepted by people familiar with it. We summarize and analyze the texts of short messages generated by students’ online learning, so as to fully understand students, make effective adjustments to the classroom, guide teachers’ teaching practices, optimize the classroom, and improve students’ learning, practical, and innovative abilities, in order to study the effect of online teaching on improving the ability and skills of learning English efficiently. This paper builds wireless distance teaching based on the English learning system of mobile edge computing and uses the method of case analysis and literature analysis to collect data from the database. A model was built based on online teaching, and a large number of relevant documents were read and analyzed through the literature survey method. The results of the study show that online teaching can effectively improve students’ oral and reading abilities. Students’ oral and reading abilities are about 30% higher than traditional teaching methods, and the awareness of cooperation among students has also increased by 80% compared to before, which solves the problem of popularization and improvement. The contradiction and the resolution of polarization and the transformation of underachievers, so that students’ personalities can be brought into full play and development, and college education will be on the track of quality education. This shows that the wireless long-distance teaching environment constructed by the English learning system based on mobile edge computing can play an excellent role in improving English ability.

Choose Your Own Adventure: Gamified Course Design in History of Science

To combat high dropout rates and low motivation for online courses, we gamified a history of science course. To do so, we used an online educational program called 3DGameLab to convert what had been a well-liked face-to-face lecture and discussion course to an online format, for the purposes of long-distance teaching and learning. Within 3DGameLab, we prepared approximately three times as much content as would be taught in a face-to-face class. Clear tasks and immediate rewards in the form of experience points (XP) contributed to a transparent motivational system as compared to traditional grading. In this course, students completed their assignments asynchronously. Sustaining engagement is challenging in this format due to student self-management, but, with the game mode, students could repeat their attempts to pass a quest (a lesson) until they succeed (submit a passable response). The feedback cycle was short, and we found that students tend to persevere in the face of failure when they get rapid feedback, rather than quit. To test the adaptability of the asynchronous, gamified format, we also designed this course as a hybrid course. Students remained engaged when the feedback was quick, and the tasks were clearly set. We did not perform a quantitative study; the purpose of this article is to share a design study of our methods and subsequent experience with these modalities.

Artificial Intelligence as a Resilient Tool for Fighting Inequalities in the COVID-19 Crisis

Can artificial intelligence (AI) be a sustainable way to help solving the Covid-19 global problem? What does the way how welfare states, charity organizations and labour markets are dealing with the pandemic crisis tells us about the AI capacity for reducing exposition of underprivileged groups to the desease? It is becoming more and more visible how the new coronavirus pandemic is affecting specifically the most deprived and vulnerable groups, and also the big difference that welfare states and their policies make. What did the pandemic show about the relations between social inequality, welfare state provision and AI? This presentation will discuss the role of AI as a tool for public policies fighting inequalities that were amplified during the Covid-19 crisis. It will be analysed how the welfare state, the labour market and social communities are already incorporating AI tools and how this can eventually produce more resilient paths. Accelareted and amplified by the Covid-19, several processes of AI penetration in health, education, healthcare, social security, public administrations, labour and surveillance of citizens, became a subject of public discussion. Artificial intelligence is currently a process of long-term change in health and biotechnologies, long-distance education, teleworking, automation, robotization, consumption behaviours, surveillance and human enhancement. An in-deep analysis of the Portuguese case will support the lessons that can be learnt from AI and its use in public policies in a context of pandemic crisis, leading to a set of political recommendations, to promote its application as a resilient tool to fight inequalities.

Application and Exploration of Artificial Intelligence and Edge Computing in Long-Distance Education on Mobile Network

In response to the demand for high-quality electronic information talents in the mobile network industry, in the situation of artificial intelligence (AI) to promote technological innovation, this paper conducts an overall design in the target system, curriculum system, teaching platform, teaching mode and teaching case. The practice education mode of teaching practice, engineering practice, innovation practice, and enterprise practice, which aims to improve students’ ability to solve complex engineering problems, is constructed. The mode breaks geographical boundaries between schools and enterprises to build the through-through experimental teaching course system based on artificial intelligence and edge computing and design a medical image intelligent analysis system project case based on Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which improves students’ practical ability, engineering design ability, scientific research innovation ability, enterprise practice ability and mobile network application capabilities. At the same time, the hardware portability of the edge computing platform provides good conditions for long-distance education and the mobile network. This method is a beneficial attempt to cultivate high-level, diversified, and creative electronic information talents.

Live European School of Oncology e-Sessions (e-ESO).

The European School of Oncology (ESO) embarked on an online educational project, starting with live sessions in 2008 (e-ESO). Our scholars and young oncologists identified the need to be offered independent high-level online education with contributions from experts around the world, free of charge and available at any moment. We report on various types of e-sessions, such as grand-rounds, highlights, debates, clinical cases and other sessions. Our audience has grown over the last decade, reaching 11,123 users who have viewed a total of 77,041 sessions since the beginning of 2008. Moreover, our activities on social media platforms have enhanced our visibility, reaching more physicians around the globe. Due to the recent events surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, online education has proven to be of great value in offering long-distance teaching. We have analyzed the growth of our audience and its attendance over the last 12 years.

Long-distance learning in the globalized world: contemporary tendencies and experience of their implementation

The article is dedicated to the challenges of implementation of long-distance learning in the contemporary globalized education space. The article analyzes the theoretical grounds and contemporary tendencies of long-distance learning, represents practical experience of its implementation during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Ukrainian and international educational practice. The efficient asynchronous instruments for online learning have been revealed and the positive features of long-distance education for realization of competence and customized student-oriented education have been defined. We see the prospect of further research in theoretical and technological development of the issue of forming information and communication competence as well as implementation of long-distance learning in the system of education of Ukraine.

Application of Internet of Things and Virtual Reality Technology in College Physical Education

College physical education is an important component of the higher education system and national health plans. Promoting the scientific and modern construction of the physical education teaching system in colleges and universities is conducive to enhancing the science and effectiveness of higher education. Aiming at the problems of single teaching methods and insufficient long-distance teaching ability in the current physical education teaching process of colleges and universities, based on virtual reality technology, this paper designs and proposes a college physical education virtual reality system consisting of the Internet of Things, cloud platform and mobile client. This system collects relevant data from the Internet of Things and interacts with the virtual reality scene in real time, rendering the scene through the cloud and experiencing virtual reality through the mobile terminal. After the requirements analysis and system framework design of the virtual reality system for physical education in colleges and universities, the system's main functions and data warehouse, software architecture design and system testing process were carried out. Through the analysis of specific trial cases and user feedback information of a college, it shows that the designed virtual reality system of college physical education has good application and promotion effect, and provides a scientific reference for deepening reform of college physical education Suggest.

Mudança organizacional x sociedade - O impacto dos serviços educacionais a distância na realidade dos usuários

Considering Long Distance Education (LDE) and the insertion of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the educational process, as an impactful organizational change promoted by Teaching Institutions, the objective of this research is to describe how long distance education services provided by the Institutions of Itaporanga – PB pole, change the reality of its users. In order to achieve this goal, a field research was conducted, aiming to: Identify and describe the educational institutions that provide LDE services at Itaporanga pole; historicize the process of the inclusion of LDE in the services of these institutions; check the benefits that this organizational change has brought about in people’s lives; highlight the need and importance of access to knowledge that this change has brought to Itaporanga society and neighboring regions. A questionnaire was applied to LDE students who are still taking their courses or the ones who have completed their degrees. It was also used with the Coordination of the Federal university of Paraíba (UFPB), State university of Paraíba (UEPB) and Federal Institute of Paraíba IFPB courses offered in Itaporanga – PB pole. After quantitative and qualitative analysis of the data, results indicated that the LDE is an organizational change promoted by the studied institutions that provides the population of Itaporanga with knowledge. It also promoted a change in the use of this technology.