Online Tutorials Research Articles

Student Soft Skills in Learning Support Services with Webinar Tutorials (Tuweb) and Online Tutorials (Tuton) : A Study in Indonesia Open University’s Postgraduate Program

This study aims to analyze students' soft skills in learning support services, namely webinar tutorial (tuweb) and online tutorial (tuton), and the relationship of the soft skills to the student's grades in both tuton and tuweb, Indonesia Open University's Postgraduate Program. Aspects of the soft skills developed were 1) teamwork; 2) communication through Tuweb's discussion forums; 3) oral communication; and 4) leadership. This study used a survey method with quantitative approach. The participants were 99 students from two courses. The research instrument was online survey questionnaire using Microsoft Forms. Data analysis used descriptive statistics, correlation, and regression analysis. The results of the study were 1) students' soft skills on tuton and tuweb have developed as expected; 2) teamwork and communication skills correlate with students' attendance and discussion; 3) oral communication and leadership skills do not correlate students' discussions and assignments; and 4) teamwork and written communication skills had the most significant contribution to the tutorials' grade compared to oral communication and leadership skills.

Perkembangan Berbagi Pengetahuan Pada Pendidikan Jarak Jauh

The development of knowledge sharing in distance education has become a significant topic in the era of globalization, supported by innovation and technological advancements. Open University (UT) is an educational institution that adopts a distance education model and utilizes information technology as a learning medium. UT employs various forms of e-learning, such as online tutorials, television programs, web resources, digital libraries, and more, to facilitate interaction among students, course materials, tutors, and fellow students. This article delves into how knowledge sharing management is crucial in the context of distance education, drawing insights from UT's instructional model and knowledge management theory. Knowledge management is considered essential for enhancing student performance during the learning process and in their future careers. The article also outlines how information technology serves as a tool to facilitate knowledge sharing in distance education. This research offers valuable insights into how knowledge management and knowledge sharing can be applied within the realm of distance education, particularly at institutions like Open University. It serves as a guide for other educational organizations seeking to enhance the effectiveness of their distance learning programs by implementing principles of knowledge management and information technology.

The evaluation of the processes of problem based learning tutorials: Online or face-to-face?

Objective: The purpose of this research is to evaluate e-PBL tutorials and compare these sessions with face-to-face PBL sessions.
 Patients and Methods: This research is a program evaluation study in which quantitative methods were used. In the research, four
 90-minute e-PBL sessions held between April and June 2020 were evaluated. Sessions conducted online were realised using the sevenstep
 approach in groups of 13-14 students and a tutor. Video recordings were analysed with the thin slicing method. In addition,
 various quantitative data on evaluation were analysed using multiple tools and materials, including the end-of-program evaluation
 form. Friedman test and Mann-Whitney U test were used in the analyses of quantitative data.
 Results: Upon evaluating the analyses of the feedback received from the students about the structure, content and process of the
 program regarding the e-PBL tutorials, the students gave a positive opinion of 80% or more. In regards with the cases, the students
 had positive opinions of over 80% in terms of “motivation for learning and researching”, “daily life and its relation to their individual
 development”, “suitability to their levels of knowledge and skills”, “reinforcement of topics”. Support, guidance and feedback received
 from the tutor as a group and individually during online tutorials were statistically significantly higher than the face-to-face PBL
 tutorials (P

Perspectives of ChatGPT in Pharmacology Education, and Research in Health Care: A Narrative Review

In the era of advanced Open artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the large language model tool known as chat generative pre-training transformer (ChatGPT) is gaining an increasing number of users in various fields such as healthcare, medical education, agriculture, and customer support due to its features like information retrieval, generating human-like conversations, and natural language processing. The purpose of this narrative review is to present the perspectives of ChatGPT in Pharmacology and Medical Education. And highlight the limitations of ChatGPT in these areas and draw the attention of policymakers in healthcare to implement such technologies while taking into consideration ethical issues. To collect information regarding the perspectives of ChatGPT in pharmacology and medical education. And highlight the limitations of ChatGPT in these areas. In health care, it helps in the drug discovery and development process, diagnosis, treatment, counseling, assisting in surgical procedures, pharmacovigilance, pharmacy, and so on. In medical education, this tool plays a crucial role in online tutoring, personalized assistance, grading, improvement in grammar, and so on. Despite the limitations, ChatGPT is helpful in healthcare, medical education, and scientific writing. To overcome such limitations of ChatGPT, like ethical issues, emotionlessness, providing information before 2021, the risk of biases, uncontrollability, lack of transparency, academic dishonesty, and so on, alternatives have been developed, but they also fail to entirely resolve the associated limitations. Looking at the current scenarios, there is an urgent need for comprehensive guidelines to address these limitations and provide a framework for appropriately utilizing AI tools in healthcare domains. This framework should also focus on maintaining a balance between human involvement and technological advancements.

SP11.12 Improving Radiology Scan Requests in Acute General Surgery

Abstract Background Junior doctors submit majority of requests for radiological scans in most surgical departments. We aimed to evaluate the accuracy of clinical information entered by referring doctors based on five define parameters recommended by a consultant radiologist in a tertiary hospital. Method All scans requested by clinicians within 48 hours of admission to the acute surgical receiving unit across two weeks were reviewed. Outpatient and ambulatory requests were excluded. The five required parameters were: clinical presentation, relevant past medical history, relevant blood results, clinical examination findings and clinical question. Education, in the form of posters and an online tutorial, were provided with the aim of improving scan requests. Data was collected on Excel and statistical analysis was performed using a paired t-test. Results Over two weeks, majority of 127 scan requests (21% USS, 64% CT scans, 15% MRCP) were made by doctors. Prior to our interventions, 60% of the defined parameters were included in scans request, with 83% of patients receiving their scans within 24 hours. This increased to 80% following delivery of medical education but this did not increase the number of scans performed within 24 hours. A paired t-test demonstrated a statistical significance between pre and post intervention scan requests (p=0.0471), however this did not correlate to shorter scan times. Conclusion Quality of scans improved following medical education in the form of posters and online tutorials. An induction tutorial on submitting quality scan requests would benefit referring clinical and radiologist on highlighting critical information required for timely scans.

FreeFlux: A Python Package for Time-Efficient Isotopically Nonstationary Metabolic Flux Analysis.

13C metabolic flux analysis is a powerful tool for metabolism characterization in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology. However, the widespread adoption of this tool is hindered by limited software availability and computational efficiency. Currently, the most widely accepted 13C-flux tools, such as INCA and 13CFLUX2, are developed in a closed-source environment. While several open-source packages or software are available, they are either computationally inefficient or only suitable for flux estimation at isotopic steady state. To address the need for a time-efficient computational tool for the more complicated flux analysis at an isotopically nonstationary state, especially for understanding the single-carbon substrate metabolism, we present FreeFlux. FreeFlux is an open-source Python package that performs labeling pattern simulation and flux analysis at both isotopic steady state and transient state, enabling a more comprehensive analysis of cellular metabolism. FreeFlux provides a set of interfaces to manipulate the objects abstracted from a labeling experiment and computational process, making it easy to integrate into other programs or pipelines. The flux estimation by FreeFlux is fast and reliable, and its validity has been confirmed by comparison with results from other computational tools using both synthetic and experimental data. FreeFlux is freely available at https://github.com/Chaowu88/freeflux with a detailed online tutorial and documentation provided at https://freeflux.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html.

The Effect of Students' Perceived Social Presence in Distance Learning on Their Willingness to Attend Online Guidance with Improved Social Presence: The Mediating Role of Usefulness, Utility, Chance, and Behavioral Intention

Four independent variables, social Presence, ease of use, usability, and risk, significantly affect students' intentions to interact in online tutoring on the Website. Social Presence is the dominant variable influencing students' intentions to interact virtually. These findings bring some implications for the distance learning management team that adopts the Website as their media. Social presence factors affect online guidance and counseling. It is analyzed from the potential of technological development, which is the purpose of this study to see the effect of social presence on the implementation of online guidance-the method used is multiple linear regression analysis, where this study identifies independent variables that affect the dependent variable through multiple regression hypotheses with 80 respondents. This study found that perceived social presence, utility, usefulness, and opportunity significantly influenced behavioral intention on online guidance by increasing social presence. In addition, behavioral intention was observed as the most dominant variable affecting students' intention to interact in distance learning.

The Problem of Affordable Education in Indonesia: The Emergence of Online Tutoring Service in Primary Education Level

The development of online tutoring services suggests that Indonesian education faces significant challenges. The purpose of this study is to investigate the issue of educational affordability that arises as a result of the creation of numerous tutoring services in Indonesia. This study used a descriptive research model and a qualitative methodology. This research data takes the form of literature from studies on the existence of elementary school tutoring institutions in Indonesia with all its issues, which are examined from a phenomenological point of view. The findings indicated that public mistrust in the caliber of education provided in formal schools contributed to the rise of online tutoring services at the elementary school level. Students are beginning to choose to employ online tutoring services due to tedious coursework and the ineffectiveness of learning implementation in traditional elementary schools. This article suggests that the government cooperate with the private sector and education innovators to create media and learning methods that are efficient, enjoyable, and still affordable for everyone to address the deficiencies in Indonesia's formal education system.

Development of Practical Learning Guides for Television Broadcasting Management Course

This research focuses to produce a learning media which is a guidebook of practical learning and complete practical learning media as well as making students easy in doing practical assignments during attending the online tutorial. This research is a survey study by quantitative approach. The quality of the guidebook and practical learning are viewed through the content validity by the expert and through descriptive analysis taken from the questionnaire given to the college students. The number of experts validating the data in this research is 3 (three) experts. Meanwhile, the number of college students assessing the quality of guidebooks and practical learning media in this research is 23 (twenty-three) college students. The data collection technique in this research used two instruments as product assessment instruments by the expert and college students. The technique of data analysis used two ways include 1) content validity and Aiken Formula verification, and 2) using statistics description. The result of the research shows that; 1) the assessment instrument of guidebook quality and practical learning media have occupied valid criteria with the index Aiken score average, which is 0.76, the result includes in the medium category; 2) the quality of guidebook and practical learning media of television broadcasting management show a good result. This case is based on the result of the descriptive analysis that has been done.

From Videogames to Teaching — Different Camera Perspectives in an Interactive Synchronous Online Tutorial

The global COVID-19 pandemic has required clinical skills training to be transferred to an online format. An interactive synchronous online tutorial with different camera perspectives was developed. In a survey, 79% of the students preferred the first-person perspective, which allowed students to view the abdominal examination through the examiner’s eyes.

Assessing Training Needs of Library and Information Professionals in Tanzania

Training needs assessment is an essential aspect in identifying and filling the knowledge and skill gaps among employees. This study was conducted to assess the training needs of library and information professionals in Tanzania. Specifically, the study intended to ascertain the types of training needs and the mode of delivering them. A descriptive research design was applied to conduct the present study. The online survey method was used to collect data from 92 LIS professionals who conveniently provided qualitative and quantitative data on training needs and delivery modes. Quantitative data were analyzed by using Statistical Product for Service Solutions (SPPS-Version 22). The qualitative data from open-ended responses were used to contextualize survey responses. The study reveals LIS professionals require managerial, technical, professional, and research training needs. In specific, the training needs in the aspect of technology appear to dominate. Besides, the study suggests generic training needs are less preferred. Regarding time for training, the findings suggest a one-week training session is adequate to accommodate both the theoretical and practical of a given topic. On training location, the study informs training conducted outside their institutions and regions enhances trainees’ participation. Effective and reliable library and information services delivery rely on the competencies library and information professionals have. Professional and generic competencies empower LIS professionals working to achieve the twenty first century’s demands. The study recommends inclusive planning and implementation of training programmes, diverse training, and participation in online tutorials and other distance learning programmes.

Economics Modules for Students of the Economics Study Program, State University of Medan T.P. 2022/2023

Learning during COVID-19, which is conducted through online tutorials, provides limited access to students to get information about teaching materials, including economics teaching materials, especially essential materials. As faculty, we are required to be more creative in anticipating this problem, so that the quality of learning has improved. For this reason, it is necessary to compile a module that can be prepared by students, especially modules of the economics course that are in accordance with the requirements of the curriculum of the Indonesian national qualification framework. This research aims to make a module that is relevant and suitable for use in the learning process. The method used is the research and development of Borg and Gall. This research was conducted with students of the Economics Studies Program of the Faculty of Economics of Medan State University with a population of all students who took the Microeconomics course 2022/2023. With samples divided into three, that is, 3 people for individuals, 6 people for small groups and 30 people for field groups. To see the feasibility, this draft of the module was validated by validators who are experts in their fields, and to see the technicality, this module was tested to the students. The results of this study show that this developed module should be used in economic

Exploring the impact of an online learning community to support student teachers on school placement

ABSTRACT This paper documents the design, implementation, and evaluation of an online learning community (OLC), within the Republic of Ireland, which set out to support student teachers in a hybrid space during their school placement experience. Guided by qualitative research, data collection methods included interviews and analysis of students’ forum postings. Key findings illustrated that the OLC provided a valuable learning context for student teachers. The presence of cooperating teachers, as online tutors, as well as a higher education institute tutor was recognised as critically important for facilitating the OLC. A significant conclusion to this study is that hybrid spaces, that are aligned with the practicum, can provide opportunities for dialogic reflection and enquiry within a community of learners. With the increased attention of adopting online pedagogical approaches, stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper offers two research-based design principles to facilitate OLCs that support student teachers on school placement.

Contribution of Online Tutoring in Promoting the Quality of Distance Learning for Moroccan Teachers

Contribution of Online Tutoring in Promoting the Quality of Distance Learning for Moroccan Teachers

Embedding equity: online tutor support to provide effective feedforward on assessments

Sustainable and innovative programs to support students in their transition to university and improve student progress rates and retention are in high demand and short supply. An institution-wide model was established for an online Embedded Tutor Program. The program supports commencing undergraduate students and is sustainable post-pandemic. Tutors with unit-specific knowledge were embedded in 98 first-year unit offerings across the university in 2022. Tutors met with students via Zoom to provide feedforward on a written assessment. Of the 1080 students who met with a tutor, assessment marks were on average 8% higher and cumulative unit marks were 15% higher, and the one-on-one tutor support improved students’ perceived confidence, overall learning and satisfaction. The Embedded Tutor Program had positive outcomes for all participants; however, students with multiple equity factors benefited the most from the support.

Analisis Penerimaan Learning Management System di Perguruan Tinggi Menggunakan Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)

This study aims to evaluate the utilization of the Learning Management System (LMS) by students of Universitas Terbuka (UT). The primary focus of this research is to comprehend the usage of LMS in higher education, with the research locations divided into three geographical zones: West (UT-Jakarta, UT-Surabaya, UT-Serang, UT-Pekanbaru, UT-Palembang, UT-Aceh), Central (UT-Pontianak, UT-Samarinda, UT-Makassar, UT-Kendari), and East (UT-Majene, UT-Mataram, UT-Palu, UT-Ternate, UT-Jayapura). The focus of the research is to identify factors influencing students not to participate in online classes, particularly related to the suboptimal utilization of the Online Tutorial service. In this study, 400 respondents were surveyed, all of whom are UT students. Data analysis was conducted using the SmartPLS application, utilizing the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The model involves both external variables and those within the TAM. The research findings indicate that the system quality significantly influences the use of LMS by students. Based on the gathered information, universities should enhance and regularly update features within the LMS to better support users efficiently.

The Effect of Advertisement, Word of Mouth, and Brand Awareness towards Buying Decision on "Ruang Guru Apps" in SMU Negeri XYZ Surakarta

Besides studying at school, online tutoring is a non-formal method of education delivery. One online tutoring is Ruang Guru's app, and it is still among competitors such as Zenius, tutoring conventional, and others. This research focuses on Ruang Guru's apps, which have always existed among students in Surakarta until now. This research uses descriptive quantitative. This research analyzes advertisements, word of mouth, and brand awareness toward buying Decision on Ruang Guru apps for students. The population is all SMU Negeri XYZ Surakarta students, with a total of 1.191 students, and about 100 students were selected as the respondent through a random sampling technique. Data collection techniques using questionnaires as primary data and documents from journals and books as secondary data. Data were analyzed using the Structural Equation Modelling - Partial Least Square (PLS). This research shows that advertisement and word of mouth significantly positively affect brand awareness. In addition, advertisement, word of mouth, and brand awareness positively affect buying decisions. Furthermore, advertisement and word of mouth significantly affect buying decisions through brand awareness. Therefore, it is suggested that companies continue to increase word-of-mouth promotions and advertisements related to consumer behavior in purchasing decisions.

Counseling Program Based on Android as Digital Consultation Media

Online tutoring can be provided ethically and have effective results. However, the context surrounding the application of online counselling is debatable, with limited research having been conducted examining the use of online counselling. This study aims to develop an Android-based e-counselling guidance program. This type of research is created using the Alessi and Trollip development model, which consists of 3 stages: planning, design, and development. The research subjects were 29 students and 1 teacher/counsellor. This study's data collection methods use questionnaires, tests and interview guidelines. The data collection instrument uses a questionnaire sheet. Data analysis techniques using qualitative and quantitative descriptive analysis. The research results are that the developed media is validated by media experts and material experts, with the validation results obtained an average score of 3.4 (very valid) and an average score of 3.7 (very valid) by media experts. E-Counselling guidance through field tests meets very practical criteria. The e-counselling guidance program facilitates the consultation process for students and teachers/counsellors, improving student learning outcomes. The study implies that e-counselling can be included in guidance and counselling services by school counsellors.

PENINGKATAN KUALITAS BELAJAR MATEMATIKA SISWA SMA PADAMU NEGERI MELALUI QUIPPER VIDEO

The purpose of this research is to create a mathematics learning technique to make it more interesting and also fun by carrying out online tutoring based on Quipper Video. This study uses qualitative methods with descriptive analysis. The research was conducted at Padamu Negeri Medan High School which carried out online tutoring. The results of this study are, (1) There is an increase in the quality of students' mathematics learning in the aspects of results, motivation, and aspects of the lesson plan. (2) The "Quipper Video" learning model has a positive impact on students' mathematics learning outcomes. (3) Students as research objects are excited and actively participate in mathematics learning activities through Quipper Video. (4) One of the supporting factors in creating Quipper Video online-based mathematics learning is a computer or android (5) Low motivation and lack of facilities also become inhibiting factors in the Quipper Video online-based mathematics learning process.

COVID-19 and online teaching in higher education: A discrete choice experiment

The Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus outbreak significantly impacted Ghana’s educational system, driving schools to close campuses and swiftly deploy online instruction. This study evaluated e-teaching in higher education amidst the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus by using the University of Ghana as a case study. Specifically, the study investigated university instructors’ preferences for online instructional strategies to enable higher educational institutions to transit smoothly into online teaching and learning. With the help of a face-to-face questionnaire administration, this cross-sectional study used a discrete choice experiment design to capture the responses of 230-course instructors. The analysis of the survey data obtained was possible using the multinomial logit model. Our results revealed that a recorded lecture video had the highest preference among the course instructors, breakdown of teaching content for approximately 30 to 45 minutes, providing online tutorials, and online support/video tutoring from teaching assistants were the important instructional attributes to help higher educational institutions transition into online teaching and learning.