Self-organizing Learning Research Articles

Unleashing Creative Potential: The Impact of Self-Organized Learning Environments (SOLE) on Fifth Grade Students' Creative Thinking Skills

Education is a process of educating the nation's life and improving the quality in humans for moral improvement and intellectual training. This study aims to determine the effect of self-organized learning environment (SOLE) on the creative thinking ability of fifth grade students. This type of research is a quasi-experimental research with the non-equivalent control group research design. The samples selected were fifth grade students. The research instrument is a test of creative thinking skills and inventory. The data analysis used were normality test, homogeneity test, and hypothesis testing using independent sample t-test and paired sample t-test. The results showed that the level of creative thinking ability of the experimental class was proven through activity through analysis of the paired sample t-test hypothesis test tcount 10,187 > ttable 2,100 which means that SOLE has an effect on the creative thinking. Based on the research results, there are the effect of SOLE on the creative thinking skills of fifth grade students.

Virtual/Blended Delivery and the Future of Learning: A Reflection From Practice

This paper analyses teaching and learning practices in two diverse national contexts using reflection from experience. As an educator, I have experienced diverse teaching and learning contexts at different stages of my teaching journey. This diverse context experience, which ranges from my learning as a student in the traditional classroom environment in Nepal in the late 70s and early 80s with changing context of education delivery in early 2000 as an educator, and finally to the modern classroom environment with the virtual mode of delivery in the New Zealand tertiary sector, has encouraged me to reflect on my professional practice. I am using Mitra’s conceptual framework of the school in the cloud in my reflexivity. Sugata Mitra, through his school in the cloud concept, encourages disrupting the traditional system of education that acknowledges teachers as the core of knowledge. Instead, Mitra suggested that computer and the internet could act as a medium of knowledge without the active involvement of teachers. In this paper, I analyse and discuss how Mitra’s concept of self-organised learning could be applied to the future of learning in the 21st century.

Creative Thinking and Process Science Skill: Self-Organized Learning Environment on Watershed Conservation Material

Learning geography plays a role in developing creative thinking and science process skills in students. Creative thinking and process science skills can be used in developing new methods and solutions to solve problems in geosphere phenomena using innovative perspectives. This study uses a quasi-experimental type with a Posttest Only Design. In this study, a purposive sample method was applied with two groups: the experimental group from science class 1 using SOLE and the control group from science class 3 using conventional methods. The instrument uses an essay test to measure the level of creative thinking ability and an observation sheet to measure the level of science process skills. The data analysis used was the Independent-Sample T Test and the Mann-Whitney U test with a significance level of 0.05. The SOLE model significantly affects watershed conservation materials' creative thinking and science process skills. The significance value of the Independent-Sample T-Test of creative thinking skills was 0.001 0.05, and the significance value of the Mann-Whitney U Test of science process skills was 0.000 0.05. The internet's investigative process provides information and mindset in scientific concepts in predicting damage/problems and watershed conservation efforts. In addition, the internet investigation process helps students obtain various literacy and information.

مستوى التعلم المنظم ذاتياً لدى طلبة جامعة الشرق الأوسط في الأردن

Self-organized learning is an active structure process through which creative skills can be developed among the students of the various stages, it helps to train them to formulate ideas and express feelings well. So, this study aimed at investigating the level of self-regulated learning components among university students, and whether these components differ according to the student's gender and academic level. The sample of the study consisted of (331) male and female undergraduate students from Middle East University. To achieve the aims of the study, Ahmad's (2007) self-regulated learning scale was used. The results of the study revealed that the students' level of self-regulated skills on the rehearsing and memorizing component was high, whereas the level of the rest of the components was moderate, where male students scored significantly higher than female students on the goal setting and planning component. The results also revealed that there were no statistically significant differences in self- regulated learning and academic level. The study recommended more studies that address the effect of using self-organized learning strategies on academic attitudes and academic achievement.

Self-organized Learning from Synthetic and Real-World Data for a Humanoid Exercise Robot.

We propose a neural learning approach for a humanoid exercise robot that can automatically analyze and correct physical exercises. Such an exercise robot should be able to train many different human partners over time and thus requires the ability for lifelong learning. To this end, we develop a modified Grow-When-Required (GWR) network with recurrent connections, episodic memory and a novel subnode mechanism for learning spatiotemporal relationships of body movements and poses. Once an exercise is successfully demonstrated, the information of pose and movement per frame is stored in the Subnode-GWR network. For every frame, the current pose and motion pair is compared against a predicted output of the GWR, allowing for feedback not only on the pose but also on the velocity of the motion. Since both the pose and motion depend on a user’s body morphology, the exercise demonstration by one individual cannot easily be used as a reference for further users. We allow the GWR to grow online with each further demonstration. The subnode mechanism ensures that exercise information for individual humans is stored and retrieved correctly and is not forgotten over time. In the application scenario, a physical exercise is performed in the presence of an expert like a physiotherapist and then used as a reference for a humanoid robot like Pepper to give feedback on further executions of the same exercise. For evaluation, we developed a new synthetic exercise dataset with virtual avatars. We also test our method on real-world data recorded in an office scenario. Overall, we claim that our novel GWR-based architecture can use a learned exercise reference for different body variations through incremental online learning while preventing catastrophic forgetting, enabling an engaging long-term human-robot experience with a humanoid robot.

Citizenship Learning Through Self Organized Learning Environment on Students' Learning Styles

Civics learning innovation in meeting the profile of future teacher candidates in the cyber pedagogy space with Honey and Mumford's theoretical approach with 4 student learning styles, namely theoretical, reflector, pragmatic, and activist. This study aims to describe civics learning in the 4.0 education era through a self-organized learning environment on student learning styles in the PPKn Department, Faculty of Social Sciences, State University of Medan. This study uses a qualitative method, the informants are lecturers of Civics Innovation courses at the PPKn Department of FIS Unimed; 2018 students, 2019 and 2020 as well as PPKn learning content. Obtaining data by observation, documentation study, and focus group discussion were then analyzed by data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing. The results of this study indicate that student learning styles tend to show reflector characteristics because they are influenced by the student learning environment with existing policies and rules, starting from the pre-pandemic, pandemic, and post-pandemic environments the birth of the MBKM program policy. Students with three learning climate anomalies, namely pre-pandemic, pandemic, and post-pandemic, have an impact on the learning styles of students who feel that face-to-face learning in the classroom has a significant difference compared to online learning. Citizenship learning in the 4.0 era requires readiness and establishment as users (lecturers and students) on internet-based digital platforms. Civics content has experienced significant development due to the influence of the era of fast-paced change, access to information and communication goes hand in hand and is renewable in sharing citizenship issues both on ethnicity, national and global scale

Effect of the self-organized learning model (Pintrich) in improving lateral thinking in tennis for female students

Preparing educational units with the Pintrich self-organized learning model to improve lateral thinking in tennis for female students, Recognizing the effect of the self-organized learning model (Pintrich) in improving lateral thinking in tennis for female students, The research community was identified with female students of the second academic year in the College of Education for Girls (Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences) at the University of Kufa for the academic year 2021-2022, and their number is 40. The method of a lottery was used in selecting the sample. At first, fifteen female students were selected for the experimental group, then fifteen female students for the control group, and ten female students for the exploratory experiment. Thus, the percentage of the research sample is (72.72%) of the research community, Conclusions: The experimental group that implemented the educational units according to the Pintrich self-organizer in improving the lateral thinking in tennis for female students outperformed the control group, There are significant differences for the Pintrich self-organized learning model in improving the lateral thinking of female students between the control and experimental groups in favour of the post-test.

Designing and implementing a Learning Development Outdoors component for an MSc in HRD

ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to examine the contribution that Outdoor Learning Development (LDO) makes to a university postgraduate programme in Human Resource Development for international students with work experience. It establishes the rationale for LDO inclusion based on notable research contributions and differentiates the role and format of this event from conventional outdoor management development programmes through a focus on self-organized learning. The progression from individual learning to intra-group learning over the three days of the event is based on the interplay of action, theoretical inputs and self-evaluation. An emphasis is placed on purposeful conversation for shared learning, systems thinking and personal responsibility for seeking collaboration – essential elements in the life of real organizations. Individual reflective capability and group conversational processes for enhanced learning skills are stimulated in follow-up discussion after LDO with video input on key incidents. The learning achieved is generally observed to be beyond what conventional classroom activities can offer and sets in motion new thinking to consolidate and apply academic knowledge across the whole programme, providing a stimulus to career development.

التعلم المنظم ذاتيا لدى طلبة قسم علوم الحياة

The aim of the current research is the current research on learning on self-organized learning among students of the Department of Life Sciences, as well as on the educational differences of self according to a variable, the current research in students of sex, Department of Life Sciences, Qadisiyah University, College of Academic Education (2020-2021) and relying on the research method Descriptive, research sample size (100) male and female students in the Department of Life Sciences for the fourth stage, were randomly selected. The researcher has prepared a tool to achieve goals, which is the self-organized learning scale, which was completely destroyed from (32) items distributed into four domains by (8) paragraphs in each field, and the answer alternatives are (5) alternatives (that apply completely to me, that apply to me completely). The researcher extracted the psychometric from the distinction and validity of its apparent, logical and structural types, while the stability was extracted by the method of Alpha Crownbach's coefficient, as for the results, the opinions of having a significant level of self-organized learning, and also there are differences depending on the type variable For the benefit of the upper average they are females. Keywords: self،organized learning, life sciences

Integration of Critical and Creative Thinking Skills in Solving HOTS Questions through the SOLE Model on Counting Rules

One of the provisions of student to be able to answer the challenges of the 21st century is to be able to integrate critical and creative thinking skills in solving problems. The purpose of study was to determine the increase in integration of students’ critical and creative thinking through HOTS questions using the Self-Organized Learning Environments model in the Counting Rules learning topic at SMA Negeri 1 Yogyakarta. This classroom action research was carried out in two cycles, in which cycle consisted of planning, action, observation, and reflection. This study uses three stages in the SOLE model, namely Question, Investigate, and Review. Giving inquiry questions followed by the application of students’ knowledge in interesting and directed tasks in the student worksheets to increase curiosity and provoke students to start using their critical thinking skills. Solving LOTS, MOTS, and HOTS problem solving gradually train students to integrate critical and creative thinking skills. Each group presents the results of their exploration and investigation to improve the integration of critical and creative thinking skills of students. The result of observations on integration of critical thinking show that 15,63% of students are in very high criteria and 84,73% in high criteria. The same result is shown in the integration of creative thinking skills. The achievement test of student learning outcomes in the aspect of knowledge and skills is 87,50%. In this study also obtained the result of the implementation of learning is 93,33%. This research concludes that there is an increase in the integration of students’ critical and creative thinking skills in the Counting Rules.

Analysis of Students’ Statistical Literacy on Self Organized Learning Environment (SOLE) Learning Model

The purpose of study to described student’s literacy analysis using Self-Organized Learning Environment (SOLE) learning model. The low student’s statistical literacy ability as one of the abilities needed facing problems in today’s society. Therefore, the problem became background of this study. By utilizing Internet accessibility and the environment in the Self-Organized Learning Environment (SOLE) learning model, it was possible for authentic learning and twenty-first century development skills to mature. This study used to Self-Organized Learning Environment (SOLE) learning model, which students self-organized in groups and learned to use computers connected to the internet with minimal teacher support. This study also used mix methods. Students' statistical literacy ability using the Self-Organized Learning Environment (SOLE) learning model was analyzed by descriptively. The result of study was a statistical analysis of the literacy of 32 students with the following details: 28.125% of students had statistical literacy in the high category, 40.625% students had statistical literacy in the medium category, the remaining 31.25% students were in the low category.

Introducing Audio Podcasts into a Practical Laboratory Course for Pharmacy Students as a Novel Tool for Performance Assessment.

The use of digital tools can positively impact higher education for both scholars and faculty. In recent years, it has become apparent that podcasts are a suitable medium for use in teaching. They are provided almost exclusively by lecturers for students, with students passively listening to them rather than actively participating in their production. However, this could also be valuable for students. Therefore, this pilot study investigated the extent to which the creation of a podcast would be accepted by students as a method for capturing pharmacy students’ understanding of the learning content. The evaluation was performed as part of the “Clinical Chemistry” practical course, which was attended by third-year pharmacy students in groups of three. After passing the station dealing with practical clinical chemistry relevant diagnostic systems, the groups were asked to produce an educational podcast covering the essential content on the topics of urine test strips or pulse oximetry, respectively. Student attitudes toward the adoption of podcasts as a tool for performance assessment were determined with an anonymous and voluntary survey. The respondents reported that they had fun creating the podcast, which enabled them to look at the instructional content from a different perspective. Competencies such as social and communication skills and media literacy as well as self-organized and self-directed learning were also promoted. However, the students assumed that the tool is not ideally suited for dealing with extensive topics. Nonetheless, the students clearly support the continued creation of podcasts as a performance assessment tool. In addition, they suggest integrating podcasts into other courses within the pharmacy curriculum. This may also be related to the infrequent use of novel technologies, such as podcasts, in their education thus far.

The effects of learning with various noise on Gait Kinematics in 3-to-5-year-old children: a randomized controlled trial

BackgroundLack of the neuromuscular control during locomotion in the knee joint leads to an increased risk of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury in children. Hence, we aimed to explore the effects of a repetitive, model-oriented, and self-organized approach on lower limb kinematics during gait in children.MethodsIn randomized controlled trial, 36 children with 4 ± 0.79 years of age from the children gym were randomly (a lottery method) allocated into three groups, including (1) the model-oriented (n = 10), (2) Differential Learning (n = 11), and (3) control (n = 10) groups. Kinematic data of hip, knee, and ankle joints in the sagittal plane were recorded by a GoPro camera at the moments of heel-ground contact and toe-off the ground before and after a 6-week intervention (two sessions per week).ResultsThe results indicate a 35% post-intervention increase of ankle dorsiflexion (95% CI: − 5.63 _ − 0.96) in the moment of heel-ground contact in the model-oriented group; however, knee flexion (95% CI: − 1.05 _ 8.34) and hip flexion (95% CI: 3.01 _ 11.78) were respectively decreased by 20% and 20%. After the intervention, moreover, ankle plantar flexion (95% CI: − 9.18 _ − 2.81) and hip extension (95% CI: − 12.87 _ − 3.72) have respectively increased by 37% and 37%, while knee flexion (95% CI: 3.49 _ 11.30) showed a %16 decrease in the moment of toe off the ground. As for the Differential Learning group, ankle dorsiflexion (95% CI: − 5.19 _ − 1.52) increased by 33%, and knee (95% CI: 0.60 _ 5.76) and hip flexion (95% CI: 2.15 _ 7.85) respectively decreased by 17% and 17% at the moment of the heel-ground contact following the intervention. At toe lifting off the ground, the plantar flexion (95% CI: − 7.77 _ − 2.77) increased by 35%, knee flexion (95% CI: 2.17 _ 7.27) decreased to 14%, and hip extension (95% CI: − 9.98 _ − 4.20) increased by %35 following the intervention for the Differential Learning group subjects. Based on the results obtained from the one-way ANOVA, there was a significant difference between these groups and the control group in all kinematic gait variables (p ≤ 0.05). However, no statistically significant differences were found between the two experimental groups.ConclusionsThe results implied that the model-oriented repetitive and the self-organized Differential Learning approach were both appropriate to alter the kinematic gait pattern in the 3–5-year-old children. Previous research has almost exclusively recommended a model-oriented approach to change kinematic patterns and preventing non-contact motor injuries. However, the present study showed that the Differential Learning approach can help children to achieve the same goal by continuously changing environments and stimulating challenges.Trial registration: Current Controlled Trials using the IRCT website with ID number of, IRCT20130109012078N5 “Prospectively registered” at 14/5/2021.

The Effectiveness of Using Blended Learning in Developing Self-Regulated Learning Skills for Basic Stage Students from the English Language Teachers' Point of View

The study aimed to identify the effectiveness of the use of blended learning in developing self-organized learning skills for basic stage students from the perspective of English language teachers. A teacher and a teacher were chosen randomly. The results showed the reality of education about the effectiveness of using blended learning in developing self-organized learning skills among primary school students from the perspective of English language teachers. They are also keen on the basic stage because of its great role in refining the students’ personality and thought, in addition to the ease of electronic communication with students at any time, especially at this time and the developments in the region. In light of the findings of the study, it recommends conducting more educational studies on blended education and a role in the self-organized learning process in terms of its dimensions and applications in educational institutions and other institutions.

How and why minoritised communities self-organise education: a review study

ABSTRACT Minoritised communities have a long history of self-organising learning to meet their youth’s varied educational needs. Community education is a widespread societal phenomenon, yet a conceptual framework mapping the diversity of educational initiatives remained lacking. We bring together the body of academic work on community education in a systematic literature review and extract an array of cases. By regarding these cases through a conceptual framework based on their organisational form and their main objectives, we distinguish different types of community education and we deduce that different communities have different needs, which translate into different intended purposes. Distinguishing similarities and differences in community education across communities and countries is a necessary step in acknowledging the resourcefulness of minoritised communities in self-organising education, which is pertinent for stakeholders of community schools as well as for those researching community educational spaces.

Synesthesia and self-organizing learning: How are synesthetic concurrents generated and why do they not disappear?

Synesthesia and self-organizing learning: How are synesthetic concurrents generated and why do they not disappear?

A Trade-Off Task-Offloading Scheme in Multi-User Multi-Task Mobile Edge Computing

Mobile edge computing is a novel technique that can reduce computational burden of local terminal devices by tasks offloading, which emerges as a promising paradigm to provide computing capabilities near mobile users. In this paper, the task offloading decision to solve the queuing problem of tasks to be processed in the local terminals was being considered, with an application of Lyapunov theory to ensure the queue stability. Then, a trade-off model was formulated to minimize the delay and energy consumption to achieve a minimum execution cost. Moreover, an improved Dynamic Niche-based Self-organizing Learning Algorithm was presented to accelerate the speed of the search process to gain an optimal task offloading scheme. The simulation results provided supporting evidence that the proposed optimal scheme IDO could achieve a lower average energy consumption than LFO and a lower average execution delay than EFO under the scenarios of the waiting queue length varies within [10, 50], the number of users varies within [4, 20], and the number of tasks varies within [20, 100].

University of the Third Age at the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, the University of South Bohemia

The goal of the paper is to present almost 30 years of activities of the University of the Third Age at the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, the history of which started in 1992.The first discipline called Care of Humans and their Health was opened by the University of South Bohemia in the academic year 1992/93. The elderly were offered an educational six-term health and social program, while three hours of direct lessons and two counseling sessions a week (“senior Thursday) were subsidized. The students had to sit for unmarked and marked examinations, and to process and defend a thesis at the end of their study. In July 1995, 28 graduates were awarded a certificate on an extramural education in a festive ceremony. The implementation of the discipline of Care of Humans and their Health confirmed that even a non—professional leisure-time education could be provided at an “academic” level. A comprehensive view of education enabled to identify areas that should be taken into consideration during the education of elderly adults. They include areas relating to computer and functional literacy, cultivation of leisure time, culture of the interpersonal mutuality, and the human being (looking for the sense of life and higher goals).In the course of the thirty-year history of the University of the Third Age many activities have developed and the conception has extended. The new educational subject called Man in Health, Disease and Distress was transformed into a two-stage program offering the choice of the length and type of the educational program. The option A represented the choice of an integral and topically closed discipline while the options B and C represented the choice of the educational demandingness and inclusion in the European educational program called SoLiLL: Self-Organized Learning in Later Life. Furthermore, a conception of an extending program called Quality of life in the Old Age and other programs were offered to the elderly living in our region. As a part of the project activities, the elderly were involved in the projects of Phare a Interreg IIIA. The conception of the University of the Third Age at the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences of the University of South Bohemia enables the applicants to complete an integral educational program, lecture blocks/cycles with various topics, and, at the same time, a unique research program called “Golden Path” focused on the Czech-Austrian border area can be completed. The uniqueness of the educational research program is evidenced by two translated monographs called “Wallern und Wallerer (Volary a Volarští - Volary citizens and Volary)“ and „Der Goldene Steig“ (Zlatá stezka – Golden Path) by the indisputably most important expert and researcher of the Golden Path, a historian living in Bavarian Waldkirchen.

Self-Adaptive bagging approach to credit rating

We propose an enhanced bagging strategy based on self adaptive learning. Recent work in computational biology has seen an increasing use of ensemble learning methods due to their unique advantages in dealing with small sample size, high-dimensionality, and complex data structures. The proposed strategy has a unique advantage in dealing with classification tasks (i.e., credit rating in this study) with data on a relatively small sample size but a large number of heterogeneously distributed features. The self-organising learning mechanism makes the traditional bagging strategy more efficient in terms of model structure. Each submodel in the bagging network becomes a self-adapting base learner in credit rating. In order to prove the applicability and to measure the performance of the proposed method, we carried out a validation using three different traditional algorithms over both artificial datasets and real market data. The results of the proposed algorithm are, on average, better in most of the comparative experiments, while maintaining a model structure that is less complex.

A Training Program for Physics Teachers Based on Self-learning Strategies and Its Effect on Their Technological Enlightenment and Productive Thinking.

This paper aims to construct a proposed training program according to self-organized learning strategies for physics teachers and its effect on their technological enlightenment and productive thinking. The sample consists of (32) teachers and schools; (16) teachers as an experimental sample and (16) as a control sample. The tools are prepared, which are the Enlightenment Technology Scale, which was adopted by (Faez, 2016) consisting of (60) items. The Researchers have prepared the Productive Thinking Test, which consists of two domains: the Critical Thinking Field, which consists of (15) and the Creative Thinking Domain consisting of (9) situations. The stability of productive thinking is (0.88), and the results show that the proposed training program, according to some self-organized learning strategies, meets the training needs of the trainees with remarkable effectiveness to improve the level of their teaching and educational technological performance and achieve the desired goals. The training is influential in bringing about the transfer of training to their students in developing their attitudes towards self-learning. The recommendations are to; apply the training program to the applied students in colleges, reduce the burden on physics teachers, reduce the fear of physics and increase the efficiency of teaching and learning.