Modern University Research Articles

Information Transmission and Visual Image System Construction on WeChat Public Accounts of Colleges and Universities -- A Case Study on Jiangsu University

Objectives: This study aims to make the public platforms of modern colleges and universities more propagating and more accommodating to the use demand and psychological needs of the public. With the WeChat public account of Jiangsu University as an example, this study is based on the Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) and combines the characteristics of the official WeChat public account of Jiangsu University. A Jiangsu University official WeChat public account customer satisfaction model was built according to the user evaluation of the usefulness, usability, enjoyment, appearance, and perceived information quality of WeChat public accounts. Methods: Focusing on vision and the readings of WeChat tweets from the Jiangsu University public account, we conducted two-factor analysis of variance to observe the participation behaviors of users. Thereby, the concrete strategies for Jiangsu University to build its vision system on its WeChat public account were systematically analyzed.

INTERVENçÃO NUTRICIONAL NA FADIGA PÓS-TREINO EM ATLETAS UNIVERSITÁRIOS

ABSTRACT Introduction: The modulation of post-training fatigue in colleges and universities is an important part of today's physical education. The adjustment of sports fatigue is a fundamental aspect of modern college physical education, and its control is of great importance for the elevation in the sport level of athletes. Objective: Explore the effects of nutritional intervention on post-training fatigue in college athletes. Methods: 40 athletes were randomly selected as volunteers for the research, divided into control and experimental group, and practiced the same type of exercise and same intensity. The athletes in the experimental group took food in strict accordance with the food mixture described in the article, while the control group kept their regular diet unchanged. After the experiment, sports training was performed, followed by muscle creatine enzyme measurement and laboratory analysis of blood urea. These data were compared and analyzed with those before the experiment. Results: After adjusting the dietary structure, the CK and Bu indices of the athletes in the experimental group showed a downward trend, indicating that adjusting the nutritional structure can effectively improve the post-training fatigue of college athletes. Conclusion: It is recommended that physical education teachers and college coaches adjust the lifestyle and dietary structure according to the actual situation of the students, aiming to promote integral development and improved sports performance. Level of evidence II; Therapeutic studies - investigation of treatment outcomes.

Early Modern Universities: Networks of Higher Learning. Anja-Silvia Goeing, Glyn Parry, and Mordechai Feingold, eds. Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 31. Leiden: Brill, 2021. xviii + 502 pp. €144.

Early Modern Universities: Networks of Higher Learning. Anja-Silvia Goeing, Glyn Parry, and Mordechai Feingold, eds. Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 31. Leiden: Brill, 2021. xviii + 502 pp. €144.

ABOUT THE ONLINE COURSE "RUSSIAN LINGVOMED" FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL STUDENTS

Digitalization in a modern university is an opportunity to develop educational technologies in a new way: the Internet comes to the fore with accessible web sites and tools for creativity and development of both a teacher and a foreign student. Websites are publicly accessible media channels that provide unlimited opportunities for users to receive and transmit information. Cyberspace creates a large-scale information exchange, interactive range in which each participant of information can become an active user. In the digital space, a creative teacher can edit and publish his own materials, introducing a huge number of users to his accumulated works. This article is devoted to the problem of a new form of additional Russian language training for international medical students for clinical practice in 3-4 courses with English language of instruction, undergoing course training in Russian to prepare for professional practice in medical institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in which the interaction of a teacher and an international student is carried out at a distance and reflects all the inherent learning process components (goals, content, methods, organizational forms, learning tools) implemented by means of Internet technologies. Key words: digitalization, continuous online learning, Russian as a foreign language, Russian Lingvomed, international medical students, cyberspace.

Роль университетов в развитии предпринимательского потенциала студенческой молодежи

The article considers the role of the academic environment of universities in developing the entrepreneurship among students. The entrepreneurship in the Russian Federation is currently going through a new stage of development, a separate area of support is developing the youth entrepreneurship, including the student entrepreneurship, which is expressed, among other things, in launching the Federal Project “Platform of University Technological Entrepreneurship”. There has been analyzed the methodology of The Princeton Review & Entrepreneur ranking of the US and European universities that develop students’ entrepreneurship including a list of educational courses, measures to support student entrepreneurial initiatives, and a system of educational entrepreneurial events. The rating of entrepreneurial universities of the Russian Federation developed by the Expert RA agency is considered. This rating does not take into account the degree of development of the internal entrepreneurial environment of universities; the basis for the formation of the rating is the career results of the graduates. A standardized survey of students of the Institute of Economics and Entrepreneurship conducted in one of the leading universities of the Volga Federal District demonstrates a rather high interest among students in the development of entrepreneurial competencies and recognition of the importance of the university platform for the development of their business ideas. Two models for the development of the internal entrepreneurial environment of the university are proposed: educational and financial. It has been stated that the leaders of modern universities introducing elements of the development of entrepreneurial competencies in the main educational programs must take into account the difference in students’ interest groups. The degree of mastering the entrepreneurial competencies by a group of students should not affect their academic results.

Reformatting Russian University in Hybrid War: Practice-Oriented Model

The process of fragmentation of the global economy, which began in 2022, has put on the agenda a radical restructuring of the university system of the Russian Federation in the direction of increasing its practice-oriented orientation. The aim of the article is to substantiate the starting scenario of the reform on reconfiguration of personnel, organizational and managerial subsystems of Russian universities. In particular, it presents the general architecture of the practice-oriented model of Russian universities, taking into account the existing progressive experience. The required changes in personnel policy of the new three-level model of student education (x+y+z) and how they should be coupled with organizational changes within universities are disclosed. The principles of recruitment for modern universities, involving the implementation of the formula of combining three competencies "3-K", the model of teaching "3-U" and the principle of combining different places of work are considered. The mechanism for involving students in the production process is structured by: planning the structure of training and targeted training; senior year internships and a system of letters of recommendation; introduction of a system of working off budget education by distribution; organization of employment centers in universities; practice-oriented reorganization of graduate and doctoral studies. Issues of revising and updating curricula and disciplines in the social sciences are raised, as well as measures to debureaucratize the university system.

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONCEPT OF A SMART UNIVERSITY IN TERMS OF DISTANCE EDUCATION

A theoretical analysis of the requirements of modern society for distance education was carried out, which emphasizes the importance of introducing Smart Education. The main functions of Smart Education, which meets the society’s need for open, high-quality distance education, are substantiated. It is noted that Smart Education implements not only basic didactic principles, but also relatively new ones: interactivity, adaptability of learning, flexibility of the educational process. For their implementation, the structure of a Smart course is defined, the development of the components of which is ensured by the use of smart technologies. The needs of the development of the concept of a Smart University are substantiated and its characteristic features are determined. It is established that the implementation of the concept of a Smart University should include scientific research, staffing, educational process, management and marketing of educational institutions, use of modern information technology and digitalization. A strategy has been developed to implement the concept of a Smart University, which is based on the combination of four components "4T": technologies (digital technologies, educational content in free access for students, providing feedback to teachers and students, automation of administrative tasks), tactics (student-centered model, which is based on the appropriate facilities), talents (competent teachers who have a complex of professional competencies, and smart students who are able to develop and improve themselves in the future professional field), traditions (traditions that are supported by modern requirements with prospects for the future). The use of Smart technologies ensures the implementation of the tactics of organizing the activities of a modern university, which is aimed at developing talented students and teachers’ professionalism, taking into account the experience and traditions of classical education. The implementation of the Smart University strategy will help create a modern educational environment and provide access to open distance education.

Transformation of University Library Activities in the Conditions of Modern Challenges

Objective. The article analyzes the activity of the university library under conditions of transformational changes caused by the unification of the book collections of 4 higher education institutions, while solving the problems of activity in the conditions of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Methods. The research was conducted by reviewing publications related to the practical use of remote forms of work of modern university libraries, summarizing the experience of the Scientific Library of the State Biotechnology University (SL SBTU) in the organization of work under conditions of activity restructuring in wartime. Results. Reviewing publications and studying the experience allowed us to find the best ways and lead changes, as well as to address the challenges of reorganization in the conditions of online activity. The approaches and methods presented in this study are based on the author’s personal experience as a university library manager, as well as on the experience of library managers around the world. During the research, the author determined that the main response of the Scientific Library of SBTU to the challenges of time is theoretical justification, practical testing, mobility and timeliness of the tasks of information support of scientific and educational processes in the conditions of remote work. Conclusions. Originality of the work consists in expanding ideas about the possibilities of using remote work forms in the activities of the university library, which is an important factor for evaluating the effectiveness of its management activities. Practical value. The obtained results can be used to improve the management of university libraries in the conditions of transformational changes.

Студенческий кампус как конкурентное преимущество частного практико-ориентированного вуза

The subject area of the article is the improvement of the competitive position of a private Russian university focused on training, including professional entrepreneurs, due to the presence of its own suburban campus. The article suggests a variant of its creation that is accessible to any large and market-successful non-state university. Unlike the most famous foreign universities that are in the top 100 [1] and have built their campuses at the expense of their own high incomes, or from Russian federal universities funded from the budget, even the largest domestic private universities do not have the resources to build full-fledged campuses according to existing standards. Therefore, at the first stage, it is advisable for them to focus on the purchase of small country boarding houses from among the departmental rest houses built in Soviet times. The requirements for the organization of the work of such a campus are formulated, including work and rest modes for both students and university teachers. The final part of the article clarifies the educational technologies that are most adapted for the considered variant of the organization of training. The purpose of the article is to argue the expediency of creating suburban campuses as a necessary element of the infrastructure of a large private university practicing entrepreneurship training. To achieve this goal, the following tasks are solved in the study: to formulate and briefly argue the main competitive advantages that the presence of a suburban student campus provides to a modern university, regardless of its organizational and legal status; to propose and justify a low-budget option for creating a suburban campus, available not only to state federal universities using budget allocations for this, but also to private institutions of higher professional education; to formulate the basic requirements for the organization of the campus, as well as for the work and rest regimes of direct participants in the educational process.

“Case Study” method and its application in teaching “Business English” for international law specialty

Although case study methods remain a controversial approach to data collection, they are widely recognised in many social science studies especially when in-depth explanations of a social behaviour are sought after. This article, therefore, discusses several aspects of case studies as a research method. The purpose of the article is to study of the case study method that can be applied in modern teaching at universities, which is aimed at formation of individual readiness for effective cross-cultural interaction and professional comtetitiveness at the global labour market. In particular, the main tasks of the ongoing study are to: firstly, single out the main features, advantages and limitations of the case study method; secondly, demonstrate by means of samples of three Business English case studies and legal case introduction that can be useful in shaping professional competencies of modern university students during the studying process. The outcomes of the ongoing research have witnessed that case study method has the strengths and weaknesses of both forms of inquiry. Weaknesses are: firstly, the case studies involve analysis of small data sets, that may lead the researcher to gain some insights about trends in relevant industries; secondly, the data is “real life” in the sense that some objects have been chosen as the source of the data, however, the studies involve “small-in” data. Strengths are: firstly, the case study method involves detailed, holistic investigation; secondly, the data can be collected over a period of time, and it is contextual.

ETHICAL FOCUS IN TRAINING FUTURE BUSINESS LEADERS AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL

In the contemporary world, there is a growing need for socially responsible and ethical leadership. Therefore, training future business leaders in the field of professional ethics and social responsibility is an important task of modern university education. To solve it, the participation of scientists and university teachers in the creation and implementation of advanced methods for the development of professional ethics of students is necessary. The aim of the study was to check the effectiveness of training future business leaders in professional ethics at university level using a new methodology created by the authors. In order to verify the hypotheses, an experiment was conducted. Additionally, the questionnaires and tests completed by the participants were analysed. The results of learning according to the new methodology, which confirm the expediency of its use for the development of parameters of professional ethics in future business leaders, are presented. The methodology described in the article can be used by university teachers to train future business leaders, as well as by organizational psychologists to conduct trainings with business leaders and personnel of enterprises and institutions.

Improving the components of health-saving technologies in a modern university

Nowadays, one of the important missions of higher educational institutions is the organisation and introducing students to a culture of health. The purpose of this study is to propose a strategy for the development of health-saving technologies by implementation of project activities into the educational process based on the Physical Education Department at the State University of Management for the formation of competencies in the chosen professional activity. The sociological survey was carried out among students at the State University of Management. The questionnaires included questions on students’ attitudes towards physical culture as an integral component of a healthy lifestyle. The degree of interest of the respondents in project activities in general and on the basis of the Department of Physical Education at the university, in particular, to improve the acquired professional competences was determined. The results of the study point to the need to modernise approaches to the formation of healthy lifestyle values, including the organisation of physical culture events, the development of a marketing plan to attract mass attention to the sports life of the university, where the main role is given to self-education and the realisation of the individual’s potential through active participation in university sporting life.

Restoration of the Roman Catholic Church Music Traditions of Galicia (From the Nineteenth Century)

The purpose of the research is to highlight the prerequisites and conditions for the development of organ and singing performances of Roman Catholics in Galicia at the intersection of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which influenced the current state of church music development. Research methodology. Based on the principles of objectivity and impartiality, the prerequisites for the development of Roman Catholic music in Galicia since the nineteenth century are considered. The comparative-historical method is used to draw chronological parallels of introducing the Roman Catholic rite to Ukrainian and Polish lands. The structural-functional method was used in the consideration of the process of liturgical performance traditions’ renewal of Roman Catholic music, which began in the nineteenth century and appeared in Galicia due to close interaction with the countries of Western Europe. The influence of the Caecilian and Bernardine movements on sacred art is noted. The historical and retrospective method was used to recreate the historical and social problems of the development of spiritual art in the 19th-20th century. The local and Western European resolutions of the 20th century and several official documents that influenced the renewal of church performance were emphasized. The socio-cultural method was used to indicate the influence of organ schools of the leading musical and educational centers in Lviv, Krakow, Tarnow, and Przemyśl on the improvement of the professional competence of performers. The cultural method was used to cover several artistic and spiritual events with the participation of secular and spiritual groups, thanks to which previously unknown composers have been introduced into scientific circulation. The scientific novelty of the research is that the article highlights the historical and cultural poly-confessional specifics of different ethnic groups' coexistence in the little-studied Galicia. The state of liturgical practice in the Roman Catholic rite is presented, the reasons for the emergence of the Caecilian movement in Europe and its influence on Roman Catholic church singing traditions in Galicia are illuminated, and the importance of official documents of the RCC is emphasized. Some vocal and choral educational institutions and schools for organists in Lviv, Krakow, Przemyśl, and Tarnów were mentioned. Attention is drawn to the intensification of the organization of musical life in the region and the emergence of publishing houses that contributed to the rapid reform of Roman Catholic liturgical performance since the nineteenth century. Conclusions. As a result, it was noted that the church music of the Roman Catholic rite of Galicia in the twentieth century underwent significant updates, returning to Gregorian chant and the canons of polyphonic liturgical music, and the improvement of the level of organ and singing performance led to the study of relevant subjects in modern universities.

First evaluation of an app to optimize and organize the processes and assessments in dental clinical courses

BackgroundDigital teaching and learning tools, such as computer/mobile apps, are becoming an important factor in modern university education. The objective of our study was to introduce, analyze, and assess an organization and dual assessment app for clinical courses in dental medicine.MethodsThis was a survey-based study of dental students from the clinical study phase (4th/5th year; 8th/10th semester) of a department of prosthetic dentistry at a German university hospital about the benefits of a novel web-based and mobile app for organization and dual assessment of dental clinical courses. A total of eight questions were answered in an anonymous online survey. Data were analyzed using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, followed by an exploratory data analysis (α < 0.05).ResultsThe app was given an average grade of 2.4, whereby 56.9% of the respondents rated the app with a grade of 2 (2 = good). In all, 94.6% of the study participants had not experienced any technical problems when using the app. Concerning the assessment, teaching doctor assessment (51.5 [IQR: 44.0]) was rated significantly better (p = 0.002) than self-assessment (39.5 [IQR: 32.8]).ConclusionsThis investigation evaluated a newly introduced app to optimize dental clinical course workflows and assessment. The organizational feature was rated as good, while the daily self- and teaching doctor assessments were evaluated as less important. The results outline how the use of app technologies can provide an infrastructure for managing organization and daily assessments in dental education.

Digital university: Approaches to the concept definition

Introduction. The modern period of development of higher education is directly related to the ongoing digital transformation of public relations. The changes that occur in universities, in their external interactions and functions, basic principles and value-normative foundations, require methodological analysis and research.Aim. The aim of the research is to analyse the theoretical approaches to disclosing the concept and essence of digital universities.Methodology and research methods. The mix-method was used as a research design: qualitative analysis (studying the content of theoretical sources and context, analysing the content of a concept) and quantitative analysis (scientometric analysis of publications and keywords in databases).Results. The study showed that in the methodological terms, there is a problem of defining the concept of “digital university”: there are several theoretical approaches based on different understanding of the phenomenon and its role in the digital development of the university. The methodological problem is complicated by the urgent need to systematise the practical activities of modern universities, which classify themselves in one way or another in the “digital” format; therefore, this is much more difficult to do without a coordinated approach to the concept itself.Scientific novelty lies in an attempt to systematise theoretical approaches to defining the concept of “digital university” and the problem of the absence of a holistic interdisciplinary approach has been identified.Practical significance of the study is associated with the need to develop a regulatory model of a digital university based on a holistic concept for the subsequent analysis of the activities of universities. The results of the analysis can be used in scientific discussion to further define the concept of “digital university” and develop a general model of a digital university.

The Organization of Library Services for the Readers in the Context of the History of the Library at the Count Bezborodko’s Nizhyn Law Lyceum

The services provided by the libraries at the institutions of higher education in Ukraine are characterized by considerable structural and content changes, the analysis of which is one of the most important tasks in the investigations of university libraries. It is necessary to learn historical experience which greatly influences modern university library and defines main directions of its activities, providing services for readers in particular, In order to realize all the changes in the library activity and reveal its main tasks, it is necessary to learn historical experience which significantly influences present day university library and determines the main directions of its activity, concerning, in particular, the needs of readers. The article highlights the problems in the organization of the library structure, establishing and functioning of additional libraries, namely, a library for students, pupils, a gymnasium, in the context of the history of the Count Bezborodko’s Law Lyceum (1840-1875). The contribution of the administration of the educational establishment to the development of the library is investigated. The aim of the investigation is to reveal the characteristic features, peculiarities, and tendencies in providing library services in the historical period of the library development at the Count Bezborodko’s Law Lyceum. The ways of improvement which facilitated differentiated

Higher Education as a Set of Elements for Building the Future of Modern Youth

The modern university is increasingly focused on student subjectivity, that is, the activity is aimed not at constructing the future of students, but at constructing a subject that can determine and shape its future. But do students connect their current studies with their future life and work? The article examines how modern students evaluate the set of conditions, opportunities and tools that the university gives them to design their future. The purpose of the article is to identify the factors that determine in the minds of young people the connection between learning in the present and what is expected after completing training in the future. The empirical basis of the work was the data of the VIII stage of monitoring the students of the Sverdlovsk region, which are the results of a questionnaire survey of 2000 students from 13 universities of the Sverdlovsk region. The study examined the attitude to study, satisfaction with the quality of training, the use of various forms of education, and the opportunities offered by the university. As a result of the analysis, two groups of factors were identified: objective (a set of opportunities provided by the university) and subjective (personal responsibility and awareness of students). Their combination determines whether students perceive their studies as relevant for their future and whether they note the connection of the acquired knowledge, skills, and competencies with future life and work. It is concluded that the university should not only provide new educational opportunities for students but also engage in the formation of awareness and responsibility of students in designing their future. The results and conclusions presented in the paper will be useful to university management in designing various practices, forms, and methods of working with students. The article may also be of interest to researchers and the general public.

An International Institution Embedded in the Nation-State: Moving beyond the “Either/Or” Paradigm of the Globalization and (Re)nationalization of the Modern University

In this essay, we take up the call of this review symposium to explore how the emergence of (new) nationalisms affects the university’s status as a “global institution.” We challenge the binary view that there is an inherent tension between the “national(ist)” and the “global” role of the university, whereby either its global character is reducing its national distinctiveness, or its nationalist appeal is challenging its global tendencies. This binary positioning, we argue, obscures the compound and context-specific understandings of both (new) nationalism and higher education. To make our case, we draw on our current comparative study on the impact of neonationalism on European higher education. We start with a discussion of neonationalism and how our conceptualization informs the debate on the “national” and “global” interaction. We then provide a snapshot of some of our empirical findings on the impact of neonationalism on higher education policy in Denmark and the United Kingdom to shed light on the complex ways they interact. Through this reflection, we hope to advance discussion on how to research the (re)nationalization of higher education in the context of an increasingly globalized system.

The role of digitization in revitalizing the course system at Northern Technical University

Northern Technical university in Iraq relied in their education on the course system, this system was characterized by some kind of difficulties. A questionnaire was distributed to professors, technicians, administrators, and students subject to the curriculum system as a secondary source for collecting data and information. The study found that NTU as a young and modern university has an infrastructure supported by an electronic educational administrative information system, It provides an integrated digital platform for teachers to participate extensively in lectures, courses, scientific and practical workshops, create interactive lessons, create assignments, tests and assessment through a solid and efficient platform that facilitated the student to complete his homework and duties in the time available to him by notifying them and informing them by sending an email that includes educational content and information and communication technology urged the university to continue with the course system. The study dealt with data analysis using structural equation modeling and the confirmatory factor analysis strategy as a means to measure the observational variables represented by the digitization axes, which in turn matched the measures of statistical analysis Amos.

The Strategic Plan of the Information Technology Deanship - King Abdulaziz University- Saudi Arabia

IT has now become an integral part of modern university life to the extent that various IT institutions are required to act as partners within the academic institutions rather than just providing them with secure and reliable IT infrastructure and services. Thus, in light of these successive accelerating developments, and keeping pace with the vision of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 2030 in relation to developing the higher education system that focuses on granting Saudi universities a great deal of administrative and financial independence, the Deanship of Information Technology at King Abdulaziz University works hard to activate its leading role in providing modern technical services for various sectors inside and outside the university through framing and preparing a new strategic vision in line with the changes taking place in the work environment at the university. Essentially, this new vision takes into account the fact that King Abdulaziz University is a research and educational institution at a global level with global interests and with constantly increasing technological environment demands that are vital to support its overall competitiveness and success. By the end of this article, the willingness of our community members to meet and engage in a deep and comprehensive discussion of the strategic strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the IT environment “based on the use of the SWOT approach” is in itself a solid evidence of our community’s excellent ability to work together towards achieving a set of common ambitious goals. Ultimately, the process of planning and designing the strategic plan allowed participants from all over the campus to interact with each other and reach a common understanding of the university’s technological goals and the strategic actions required to achieve those goals namely in relation to supporting innovation in research and education, helping people use technology more effectively, and providing secure services and systems for all the university environment components.