Professional Online Research Articles

Integrated factors affecting intention of COVID-19 preventive behaviours including vaccination in Korea.

The aim of the study was to determine the multiple potential contributing factors in preventive behaviours, including COVID-19 vaccination for an effective campaign strategy. This is a descriptive correlation study to examine the effects of the behavioural outcome, attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioural control, optimistic bias and social stigma on the intention of preventive behaviour, based on Ajen's Theory of Planned Behaviour. The survey was performed by a professional research company online from 16-19 July 2021. Two hundred and thirty-three participants who had not been vaccinated against COVID-19 at the time of data collection completed the survey. Perceived benefit, perceived behavioural control and social stigma are significantly associated with intention of preventive behaviours. The factors engaging in preventive behaviour presents us that our society is strongly influenced by social groups. Social groups influence decision-making in intention of preventing behaviour. Public education using social networks can increase such desirable behaviour.

GROUP DYNAMICS AND COMMUNICATIONS: SELECTION OF TOOLS TO SUPPORT STUDENT PROJECT LEARNING

In the modern conditions of globalization and widespread digitalization, cooperation between people in virtual environments is becoming an important condition for the success of both individuals and teams. This trend is also reflected in the education industry, and in the context of a high degree of uncertainty in access to educational resources and communication tools caused by the COVID-19 pandemic or military operations on the territory of Ukraine, the need to use flexible methodologies is actualized not only in training future IT specialists. At the same time, the use of online support tools for project-based learning and Agile project management contributes to the improvement, and under certain conditions is the only way to organize, cooperate between members of dynamic teams, form students' digital competence and soft skills, and gain professional experience. Based on the results of the analysis of scientific publications, Jira, Asana and Notion were identified as the most common IT project management tools and Trello - to support project-based learning and manage Agile teams. The results of a survey conducted among 1st and 4th year students of the Faculty of Information Technology of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (NULES) as part of the implementation of diagnostic measures in the study of the discipline "Group Dynamics and Communications" are the basis for determining the effectiveness of using Trello as a means of supporting student project-based learning, the importance of students gaining educational experience of online project interaction and group dynamics, as well as creating conditions for early professional self-determination of students and gaining experience in professional activities and online interaction. It has been confirmed that professional experience has the greatest influence on the choice of project-based learning support tools: students with professional experience more often choose professional tools for the implementation of educational projects.

Internal system for ensuring academic integrity in higher education institutions

The integration of the domestic higher education system into the European Higher Education Area has led to the implementation of a system for upholding academic integrity standards in the practices of higher education institutions. At the legislative level, the new edition of the Law of Ukraine "On Higher Education" was adopted in 2017. The National Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education played a significant role in introducing the system of ethical norms compliance in domestic higher education institutions. Since 2019, the agency has been accrediting educational programs, during which participants in the educational process are required to disclose their practices and procedures for adhering to academic integrity. In October 2019, the National Agency approved "Recommendations for Higher Education Institutions on the Development and Implementation of a University System for Ensuring Academic Integrity" based on the best European and domestic practices. A content analysis of the recommendations indicates that the university system for ensuring academic integrity consists of the following components: 1) normative framework (codes, regulations); 2) structural units and authorized commissions (commissions, support groups); 3) informational base (websites, sections, informational and methodological materials); 4) tools for implementing the principles of academic integrity in the educational and research activities of the university (professional development, online courses, lectures and training, informational-consultative support); 5) tools for monitoring compliance with academic integrity in educational and research activities (surveys of participants in the educational and research process, checking works for signs of academic plagiarism).

线上和线下形式的专业实践活动对心理学专业大学生实践能力提升的影响——以《变态心理学》课程为例

线上和线下形式的专业实践活动对心理学专业大学生实践能力提升的影响——以《变态心理学》课程为例

Особенности обучения письменной интернет-коммуникации в неязыковом вузе

Importance. An important problem of using written digital texts as a means of teaching professional written communication in a non-linguistic university is posed. The purpose of the research is to show how modern digital technologies can effectively organize educational activities in the subject-language training of written communication of future specialists in the field of international business. Research methods. The following research methods were used: general theoretical (analysis, synthesis, generalization, specification, functional method) and practical (description, observation, surveys, conversations, statistical analysis method). Results and Discussion. Using internet-resources (news sites, professional online magazines), various tasks are offered that contribute to the formation of effective written communication skills. On the basis of step-by-step activity, the development of discursive skills in the professional sphere takes place, the formation of skills for critical comprehension of processed information, the ability to create a secondary written text. Conclusion. Teaching students to work with digital text is one of the priority tasks of professional foreign language training of a specialist today. Successful mastering of written internet-communication allows students, working with digital resources, to form skills of diversification of the orientation of the profession, its movement towards the development of new digital practices.

МАРКЕТИНГОВЫЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ И ЦИФРОВАЯ ТРАНСФОРМАЦИЯ: ВЫЗОВЫ И РЕШЕНИЯ

The article is about assessing the role of digital transformation in the modern development of the field of marketing and marketing research. Based on a review of existing literature and interviews of experts, the types of research technologies associated with digitalization are identified. Particular attention is paid to the evolution of online surveys as the preferred method of the data collection in modern marketing research. An issue of the representativeness limitation in the online survey data is addressed and best practice solutions to minimize the error in the results of professional online surveys are considered

Construction of E-commerce for tourism and agricultural products based on Internet of Things technology under the background of big data

With the rise of big data processing technology and agricultural product Electronic business platform (E-COMMERCE), the varieties and channels of agricultural product sales are becoming more and more diversified. It is not popular among the E-COMMERCE, resulting in users not being able to accurately find the products that suit them in the first time. Therefore, the agricultural product E-COMMERCE has become an important means to efficiently meet individual needs. Combined with the technical characteristics of the Internet of things (IOT) and the development trend of online retailers, it provides professional online logistics services and other value-added services throughout all links of logistics for logistics enterprises, suppliers, manufacturers, retailers, partners, customers, governments and banks. Based on the analysis of the current development status of China's agricultural tourism product online retailers, combined with the characteristics of tourism consumption in the era of experience economy, this paper puts forward the innovative development strategy of China's agricultural tourism product E-commerce.

Professional online communication of a student in conditions of sustainable development of social systems

The article presents a description of the internal predictors of student success as a subject of communication in digital professional communities. The determinants of student success as a subject of modern communication in the digital environment are described. The role of communicative control, empathy, the chosen strategy of behavior in a conflict situation in the implementation of productive communication is shown. An analysis of the features of the manifestation of internal predictors of student success in the context of interaction in professional digital communities is presented. The introduction presents an analytical review of psychological research on student success as a subject of communication in digital professional communities. Clusters of factors that determine the success of students' communicative activity in the digital professional and educational environment are generalized and typified. The aim of the study is to study the success of a student as a subject of communication in digital professional communities. The study used a method of communicative self-control, an empathy scale, a test for studying behavior strategies in conflict. The article describes the main results of the study of self-control in communication, the level of empathy and the strategy of behavior in conflict as predictors of student success as a subject of communication.

Investigating older consumers’ acceptance factors of autonomous vehicles

Although autonomous vehicles are expected to provide various benefits for older consumers regarding physical and social health and successful aging, they do not show a high acceptance rate. This study develops the research model to explore the external and internal factors affecting baby boomers’ acceptance of autonomous vehicles based on the Automation Acceptance Model. We conducted an anonymous online survey with a professional online research company to examine the research model. Based on the results, we propose the implications of improved mobility due to autonomous vehicles on the healthy life of older consumers.

Online workouts and fitness instructors’ physical autonomy in times of the Covid-19 pandemic

This paper adds to the limited number of studies about physical autonomy and practice shifts among fitness instructors who responded to the change brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic and moved their professional activity online. I conceptualize physical autonomy as the ability of moving unrestrained and unhindered. I apply the online–offline ethnography to explore the interdependencies between digital media/technologies and the embodied practices of fitness instructors in online workouts. I also pay attention to fitness instructors’ perception of their physical autonomy in the world of online training during the pandemic. This article shows that instructors’ capacity for action has become more and more dependent on new technology.

Sociolinguistic Credo of a Foreign Language Teacher: The Case of Digital Classroom

The last two years saw a dramatic increase in the use of digital classrooms due to the new pandemic realities. Internet platforms and social networks offer teachers many options for interacting with their students and colleagues. Online communication differs from face-to-face communication in many aspects and for linguadidactic purposes should be reconsidered from a sociolinguistic point of view. The aim of the study is to explore sociolinguistic aspects of teachers’ nature in online intercultural communication. The study relies on a questionnaire and interviews to collect data about students’ level of sociolinguistic awareness, their ideas about professional online interaction, and their views on sociolinguistic difficulties. The research provides a comparative analysis of the sociolinguistic competence status in Russian and European methodology. The paper introduces the list of internal and external features that influence interlocutors’ sociolinguistic behavior during intercultural communication online. The results suggest that there are a lot of digital factors that determine the communication outcome. The term “sociolinguistic credo” and its definition are presented. It is admitted that external and internal peculiarities should be taken into account in order to train future foreign language teachers effectively. There should be equality of cultures, especially on the Internet where it is easy to lose all cultures behind avatars.

The Scene of Village and Farm Stores in Saxony-Anhalt

The importance of village and farm stores for providing rural needs is steadily increasing. Since there are hardly any insights concerning the development of the village and farm shop scene in Saxony-Anhalt to date, an attempt was made to map the scene as completely as possible based on freely available data. The results show a broadly established scene with sometimes highly professional online marketing, which compared to discounters and full-range stores loses in attractiveness especially in terms of opening hours.

НОВІ ІНФОРМАЦІЙНІ ТЕХНОЛОГІЇ В УМОВАХ ДИСТАНЦІЙНОЇ ОСВІТИ

The article examines the possibilities of using new information technologies in the professional activity of a subject teacher, with the aim of improving various approaches to learning, focused on the development of the student's intellectual potential in the conditions of distance education. Competence - includes a set of interconnected qualities of a person (knowledge, abilities, skills, methods of activity) that are set in relation to a certain range of subjects and processes and necessary for high-quality productive activity in relation to them. Competence is a person's possession of appropriate competence, which includes his personal attitude towards it and the subject of activity. Competency approach is an approach that focused on the result of education, and the result is not the amount of information learned, but the ability of a person to act in various problem situations. In our work, we focused on the issue of formation and development of informational competence of subject teachers. By the information competence of the subject teacher, we will understand not only the use of various information tools, but also their effective application in pedagogical activities in the conditions of distance education. According to the new regulation on certification, if a teacher does not own a computer, he cannot be certified to the first or higher category. To increase the level of the teacher's information competence, it is recommended to: participate in seminars of various levels regarding the use of new information technologies in educational practice; participate in professional contests, online forums and forums; use a wide range of digital technologies and tools (text editors, image processing programs, presentation preparation programs, electronic spreadsheets) in preparation for lessons, electives, and project activities; ensure the use of Internet resources; form a bank of educational tasks that are performed with the active use of new information technologies; to develop own projects regarding the use of new information technologies in the conditions of distance education. It is also considered how the use of new information technologies facilitates the activity of the teacher in conducting classes. Possibilities of using new information technologies at all stages of conducting a modern lesson in the conditions of distance education. Key words: new information technologies, information competence, multimedia presentation, distance education.

Addressing the unique needs of graduate and professional student leadership identity online, in‐person, and through turbulent times

From differences in brain development to balancing complex roles, the needs of graduate students significantly differ from undergraduates and yet often go unacknowledged. In this article, I explore how these differences can be taken into account when supporting graduate student leadership identity during turbulent times and beyond through in-person and online leadership development programs.

Digital Technologies for the Assessment of Oral English Skills

The assessment of oral skills in the learning process of a foreign language is very important for promoting the improvement of these competences. Furthermore, digital tools can be useful for making this task easier for teachers and promoting their collaboration based on professional online communities. In this article, we present the AROSE platform, a new digital tool developed to help secondary education teachers assess their students’ oral skills in English as a foreign language. To evaluate this platform, we have promoted an international online community of secondary education teachers in a project funded by the Erasmus+ programme. The research has been developed using a design-based research methodology. Three different iterations of the platform design process were carried out. We have used a mixed method combining focus groups (of both teachers and experts), observation forms, and questionnaires for teachers. The main results obtained demonstrate the need among teachers to integrate technology to improve the evaluation process. The AROSE platform successfully caters to this need, as demonstrated by the significant data on the use and satisfaction of its users.

Practice of Course Ideological and Political Resources Construction Based on Online and Offline Teaching

Taking online and offline teaching resources as a link to realize the coordinated promotion of Ideological and political education and professional teaching is a feasible path for curriculum ideological and political construction. Therefore, under the background of new liberal arts construction, this paper takes the construction process of teaching resources of logistics management major of Wuhan Textile University as an example, analyzes the driving force of curriculum ideology and politics on professional teaching online and offline. Starting from driving learners' learning initiative and learning sustainability, in the organization of curriculum ideology and politics teaching resources, the ideological and political elements of traditional culture and socialist core values are run through the teaching materials and MOOC, then an online and offline teaching resource system is built based on curriculum ideology and politics. On the cooperation online and offline of curriculum ideological and political teaching resources, it has formed the online and offline cooperation strategy of curriculum ideological and political teaching resources with case as the carrier, "theory, practice, case and ideological and political" integration, and the multi-objective, three-dimensional and real-time cooperation, which finally promoted the coordinated development of curriculum ideological and political teaching and professional teaching.

Development and evaluation of an online course on nanotechnology for the professional development of chemistry teachers

ABSTRACT Professional development courses help teachers integrate new content knowledge into the high-school curriculum. Designing practical online courses for this purpose is challenging, particularly in emerging fields such as nanotechnology. In this study, we evaluated such a course in three complementary dimensions: (1) knowledge, (2) the complexity of learners’ understanding, and (3) learners’ difficulties during the course. We evaluated the first aspect using a pre–post-knowledge test, the second using the Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome (SOLO) taxonomy applied to the course's assignments, and the third by analyzing online activity reports and semi-structured interviews. Three cohorts comprising 95 teachers participated in this course from 2016 to 2019. Our multi-dimensional analysis revealed that teachers’ knowledge of nanotechnology concepts improved. They were able to connect the advanced content they learned to the high-school chemistry curriculum at different levels of complexity. The evaluation process also enabled us to identify difficult sections of the course. These findings can contribute to designing the curriculum of future professional development online science courses in terms of the intended learning outcomes.

The Use of Close Friends on Instagram, Help-Seeking Willingness, and Suicidality Among Hong Kong Youth: Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Study.

BackgroundSocial networking sites (SNSs) have gained popularity in recent years for help seeking and self-distress expression among adolescents. Although online suicidal expression is believed to have major benefits, various concerns have also been raised, particularly around privacy issues. Understanding youths’ help-seeking behavior on SNSs is critical for effective suicide prevention; however, most research neglects the impacts of the private SNS context.ObjectiveThis study aims to examine youths’ private SNS use via the new Instagram feature, Close Friends, and its association with both online and offline help-seeking willingness as well as youths’ suicidality.MethodsThis study employed an exploratory sequential mixed methods approach with a combination of explorative qualitative interviews and a systematic quantitative survey, targeting youth aged 15-19 years in Hong Kong. The motivations for utilizing Close Friends and concerns regarding online expression were addressed in the focus group and individual interviews (n=40). A cross-sectional survey (n=1676) was conducted subsequently with eligible secondary school students to examine the prevalence of Close Friends usage, their online and offline help-seeking willingness, and suicide-related experiences.ResultsA total of 3 primary motives for using Close Friends were identified during interviews, including (1) interaction and help seeking, (2) release of negative emotions, and (3) ventilation and self-expression. Most participants also highlighted the privacy concerns associated with public online communication and the importance of contacting close friends for emotional support. Survey results showed that use of Close Friends was quite prevalent among adolescents (1163/1646, 70.66%), with around 46% (754/1646, 45.81%) of respondents being frequent users. Differences by gender and school academic banding were also revealed. Regarding help-seeking intentions, youths were generally positive about seeking help from peers and friends offline (1010/1266, 79.78%) yet negative about seeking assistance from online friends or professionals with whom they had not yet developed a real-world connection (173/1266, 13.67%). Most notably, frequencies of Close Friends usage were differentially associated with online and offline help-seeking willingness and youths’ suicidality. Compared with nonusers, those who had ever used the feature were more likely to seek offline support (adjusted odds ratios [AORs] 1.82-2.36), whereas heavy use of Close Friends was associated with increased odds of online help-seeking willingness (AOR 1.76, 95% CI 1.06-2.93) and a higher risk of suicidality (AOR 1.53, 95% CI 1.01-2.31).ConclusionsThe popularity of Close Friends reflects the increasing need for private online expression among youth. This study demonstrates the importance of Close Friends for self-expression and private conversation and inadequacy of peer support for suicidal adolescents. Further research is needed to identify the causal relationship between Close Friends usage and help-seeking willingness to guide the advancement of suicide prevention strategies. Researchers and social media platforms may cooperate to co-design a risk monitoring system tailored to the private SNS context, assisting professionals in identifying youth at risk of suicide.

Perceived Effectiveness of Virtual Mentoring and Coaching on Teachers’ of ELL’s Pedagogical Practices During COVID19

The purpose of this mixed methods study was to determine teachers' perceptions of Project Massive Open Online Professional Individualized Learning (MOOPIL) Virtual Professional Development and the role it played in their pedagogical practices as they transitioned from face-to-face to online instruction during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic. We applied a mixed method approach to understand the experiences of educators engaged in virtual professional development, virtual mentoring and coaching, and an online learning community during a global pandemic in the Spring of 2020. Participants reported various ways Project MOOPIL impacted their experiences as educators. Teachers’ personal experiences in online learning through Project MOOPIL provided insight into the comparable experiences of students who were immersed in online education as well. Teachers reported a successful transfer of knowledge from this experience to their new distance learning domains that not only catered to the needs of ELs in their classes but to native English speakers as well. Furthermore, through their participation in VPLCs and engagement in Project MOOPIL VMC, participants demonstrated the ability to access and benefit from virtual collaborative support even when life got challenging. In this study, we examined virtual professional development intersectionality, distance learning, and the needs of emergent English speakers.

The COVID-19 Crisis as an Evolutionary Catalyst of Online Psychological Interventions. A Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis

The COVID-19 pandemic has been an opportunity for professionals and clients to experience online interventions; even though many challenges were faced, many resources were identified. This systematic review investigates the experience with online psychological interventions during the pandemic to understand the effect on online practice during such unprecedented times. A systematic review was conducted following the PRISMA guidelines and thirty-seven studies were included in the review. The results pointed out two overarching themes: The practical implications of shifting to an online setting and Professionals’ experiences associated with engaging in the shift, with a number of themes describing the implications and practical limitations of online interventions; together with professionals’ attitudes, changes in the therapeutic relationship and intention of use in the future. This review provides a report of professionals’ experience with online psychological interventions during the pandemic and points out the needs and proposals identified by professionals for practising online in the future.