Today's University Students Research Articles

THE ROLE OF ISLAMIC SPIRITUALITY IN INDUSTRIAL TRAINING FOR AGRICULTURAL STUDENTS

The spiritual aspect is an essential element that needs to be emphasised among today's university students. It can shape their behaviour, actions, and decisions. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to identify the extent to which the programs conducted by the Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology can shape the spiritual values of students before they undergo industrial training outside the campus through placement in agricultural and plantation agencies throughout Malaysia. The Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Sabah Branch, Kota Kinabalu campus, was selected as the case study organisation for this qualitative study. 13 students participating in the program conducted by the Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology who were interviewed using a semi-structured format. Thematic data analysis was used to analyse the collected data. Overall, the findings of the qualitative study show that the program or activity carried out plays a role in increasing the spiritual value of students in terms of mujahadah al-nafs and fostering the character of al-ihsan.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNET WEB 1.0 TO WEB 3.0 AND ITS EFFECTS ON ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION

The World Wide Web has quickly become one of the primary resource of information that comes to mind for many people in many fields. The development of the internet, which has more and more application, is grouped as Web1.0, Web2.0 and Web 3.0. Today, the web, which started with Web 1.0, has become a virtual world where people can actively participate. With this development of technology and its effect on every aspect of our lives, educational practices have also begun to change. Especially with the pandemic, the tools of Web 2.0, online learning opportunities, internet resources and communication platforms have been better understood and started to be used more actively in education. Architectural education, like many other fields, has been affected by the spread of the internet and its being a source of information. In the light of these data, the study focuses on the reflections of the learning opportunities and resources that have developed with the internet on today's university students. For this purpose, formal and informal online internet-based learning environments examined in this study. In order to collect data in the research, an online internet survey prepared and applied to a group of architecture and interior design students within the limitation of Eskişehir Technical University. Questions were asked about expanding resources, tools, deficiencies in education and what their dream education is like. In the study, the evolution of the internet, the changing needs of architectural education, the offers and demands of teachers and students in different generations, students and the evolution of the internet were investigated by considering generational differences. As a result of the study in which 47 students participated, the current state of architectural education was determined from the eyes of the students in the light of the answers given.

Family Subjective Socioeconomic Status and University Students' Online Shopping Addiction: A Gender-Based Analysis.

Online shopping addiction has surged among today's university students. Previous studies have focused on individual and network factors, whereas neglecting family-related roles. This study examined the relationship between subjective socioeconomic status (SSES) and university students' online shopping addiction (OSA) using the life course model of consumer behavior, and explored the chain-mediating role of vanity and materialism, and the moderating role of gender. We surveyed 635 students from two universities in Henan Province, China, using self-administered scales and questionnaires assessing subjective SES (SSES), OSA, materialism, and vanity. The results showed that SSES is negatively associated with OSA. Materialism played a mediating role, whereas vanity and vanity-materialism played a suppressing role between SSES and OSA. A direct relationship between SSES and OSA was found only in men, whereas the indirect path of SSES-vanity-materialism-OSA was found only in women. These results enable better recognition and understanding of the family's role, including family economic status, in university students' gender-specific OSA. They also advance the understanding of the transmission mechanism between family economic status and university students' OSA and promote better recognition and awareness of the family's role in university students' gender-specific OSA.

Anxiety and Stress Levels Associated With COVID-19 Pandemic of University Students in Turkey: A Year After the Pandemic.

The outbreak of COVID-19 has been affecting the daily lives of almost everyone and puts huge psychological pressure on people worldwide, including Turkey. Anxiety and stress levels among university students were already a public health concern. Our study aims to demonstrate the anxiety and stress levels of university students in Turkey after the outbreak of COVID-19 according to the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) and COVID Stress Scale (CSS). CAS is a brief mental health screener to identify probable cases of dysfunctional anxiety associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, and CSS was developed to understand and assess COVID-19-related distress. An online questionnaire was administered to active 1,265 university students in Turkey between February 27 and March 8, 2021, via Google forms. The questionnaire consists of three parts that assess participants' demographic information, anxiety, and stress levels related to the pandemic. According to CAS and CSS analysis, anxiety and stress levels were associated with each other and influenced university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both were associated with gender and family member loss. The academic year of students had a relationship with anxiety. It was observed that the danger factor was the highest stressor in university students in Turkey related to the novel coronavirus, followed by contamination fears. Both factors were shown as moderate stressors. As a result of the study, it was revealed that anxiety and stress associated with the COVID-19 pandemic are now included in the social, academic, and physical burdens of the university years, which are decisive and important in terms of mental development and psychological health of the person. It is essential to ascertain the long-term effects of COVID-19 and take effective precautions to support the physical and mental health of today's university students accordingly.

Gamification of University Subjects

The masterly lesson, tedious and lacking in motivation for today's university students, provokes a passive attitude from them in the classroom. If they also use their mobile phones to escape from the classroom, the situation seems to get worse. Low attendance rates and poor academic results are some of the consequences of a serious problem: the lack of commitment of students to their learning process. Incorporating elements of games, together with new technologies, may be a possible solution. Thus, in the academic year 2018/2019 the classes of the subject Operations Management II taught throughout the fourth year of Business Administration and Management Degree offered by the University of Cadiz were gamified with Kahoot! The students felt more motivated and their grades improved in comparison to the previous year. In addition, a comparison was made with the results shown in the exams of the academic year after the gamified activity.

Application of Creative Teaching

The 21st century is an era of information, technology, knowledge application, innovation, and globalization. The purpose of education is not only to provide knowledge but also to extend knowledge across many disciplines and national and ethnic boundaries. Education requires teachers to guide students to expand the depth and breadth of their learning and to make global connections. The Executive Yuan's 2017 white paper on vocational education stresses that people in the technical and vocational education fields must adopt innovative thinking, be innovative in practice, and be prepared to engage in interdisciplinary collaboration. Creativity is the ability to present and/or do something in a unique and unconventional manner that ends up improving or enhancing that activity in some way. Therefore, creative teaching is the teaching of normal content differently (such as flipping classroom teaching, creative thinking teaching methods) in combination with information technology media such as the Kahoot app or through participating in international competitions. Today's university students are members of the so-called Z generation, a generation that is very comfortable with using technology products such as the Internet, smartphones, and computers as learning tools. Thus, teachers should make full use of these products to connect with their students, and creative teaching should promote knowledge transfer by using learning styles that Z-generation students prefer and by guiding students to extend their learned knowledge. Education quality is a key indicator of national competitiveness. One way to improve competitiveness is to begin by understanding the experience of others. This column invites nursing educators to share their experiences in creative teaching and international competition, with articles hopefully inspiring readers to explore and develop their own innovative thinking.

Building a university traditions programme for the 21st century

Today's university students use social media and technology as much as, if not more than, face-to-face communication for networking and involvement on campus. Universities must not only recognise this, but learn to use the digital media available in innovative ways; namely, for promoting campus traditions and rituals. University traditions are brand assets that can be used to form the university image, helping to distinguish its students and alumni from other academic institutions. Many universities have traditions programmes that inform the university community of traditions, events, and other affinity-building activities and how to take part in each. A majority of these programmes, however, are not measured and are difficult to manage. Ithaca College, a small liberal arts school in Upstate New York, took their traditions programme one step further with a digitalfirst approach. This paper presents the authors' experience in launching a digital traditions programme - a social media initiative using a gamified smartphone application - built to enhance the student experience. Qualitative data gathered from programme participants indicate that student participation in traditions can affect engagement, retention and connection.

Learning Motivations, Styles and Expectations of Students – a Survey at the University of Debrecen

Based on the experience of the authors, today's university students have different learning habits, expectations of learning and knowledge compared to previous generations. This raises the question of how traditional teaching, teaching methods effectively suited to their development. In this study, the authors examined with quantitative method the expectations of bachelor and master students concerning the business education at university. The survey was conducted among university students assessing whether students with different BSc/BA or MSc/MA majors show the willingness to continue their studies, and the authors were interested in their expectations concerning the business higher education. The authors also tried to find answers in the survey how well-prepared the students feel for the offered opportunities by today's market environment, or may prefer proceeding with their studies. Among the issues authors searched what are the most effective ways of learning for them, based on learning style, what motivates them to continue learning. What kind of education form is preferred by them to continue studying? They also respond the need of having theoretical and practical knowledge and the importance of developing practical life skills. In addition, it has also been surveyed what other expectations the students have in continuing their studies with regard to the institutions. The authors of this paper are working as team coaches at the Team Academy Debrecen. In the last six years, they worked with numerous teams and have experiences in developing students' skills in teams.
 JEL Classification: A22

"What Today's University Students Have Taught Us”

Today, more students in the US are attending university than ever before. An unprecedented number of these students were born digital—meaning digital technologies have been a constant feature in their lives. For these young adults, information literacy competencies are always being formed, practiced, and learned. Project Information Literacy (PIL) is a series of ongoing quantitative and qualitative research studies in the US that investigates what it is like to be a university student in the digital age. This research study has investigated how students find information and conduct research—in their words and through their experiences—for coursework, use in their everyday lives, and, once they graduate, in the workplace and their communities. Since 2008, more than 11,000 university students at nearly 60 US higher education institutions have been surveyed or interviewed, making PIL the largest study of information literacy ever conducted. Results from PIL’s studies have concluded students’ information competencies are put to the test in the vast information landscape they inhabit. Furthermore, finding and using information is exponentially more complex than it was a generation ago, especially since the information landscape has shifted from one of scarce resources to one of overload. In this keynote, five research takeaways were presented from PIL’s eight studies: (1) Students find research more difficult than ever before, (2) getting started is the hardest part of research, (3) frustrations begin with finding context, i.e., big picture, information-gathering, language, and situational context, (4) search strategies are based on predictability, familiarity, and efficiency, and (5) evaluation is the one information skills most learn to use. Discussion included implications of these findings for teaching, learning, work, and librarianship in the 21st century.

Today's university students and their need to connect

Higher education is rapidly changing and university instructors are presented with new types of students for whom technology is a significant influence. They perceive technology as a way of life and express a need to feel connected at all times. With increasingly diverse university classroom, technology integration is both a challenge and an opportunity. Supportive communication is important in the promotion of relationships and essential in a university classroom. A convenience sample of 390 students was surveyed to investigate the perceived influences of technology on relationships, including preferences, usage and time with technologies. Results indicated that technology makes communication easier, allows students to stay in touch with more people, and have relationships that would otherwise not be possible. Implications of this study suggest positive influences of technology on academic work, performance and maintenance of relationships, but disadvantages such as increased stress, addictive feelings toward technologies, and increased misunderstandings in relationships and conflict.

Integrating Multimedia ICT Software in Language Curriculum: Students’ Perception, Use, and Effectivenes

<span>Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) constitute an integral part of the teaching and learning environment in present-day educational institutions and play an increasingly important role in the modern second language classroom. In this study, an online language learning tool Tell Me More (TMM) has been introduced as a supplementary tool in French and German first and second-year language university classes. At the end of the academic year, the students completed a questionnaire exploring their </span><em>TMM</em><span> usage behaviour and perception of the software. The survey also addressed aspects of the respondents' readiness for self-directed language learning. The data were then imported into SPSS and underwent statistical analysis. The results of the study show that 1) relatively few of today's university students are open to the idea of voluntarily using ICT for independent language practice; 2) grade, price, and availability of alternative means of language practice are the most important factors affecting the students' decision to purchase and use ICT software; 3) there is a relationship between the students' decision to buy and use ICT software and their readiness for self-directed learning.</span>

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Confronted by today's epidemic of corporate meltdowns, broken institutional paradigms, unethical decision making, and demand for innovative competencies in order to remain competitive, managers and college educators are challenged to re-evaluate the training and development pedagogy currently in place. Specifically, we need to better understand the motivations and beliefs of the emerging leaders who will be charged with problem-solving and finding solutions to these conditions. While leadership as a research stream is robust, empirical research measuring the antecedents and drivers to leadership for Millennials (i.e. individuals born between 1982 and 2003) is scant, and what evidence does exist is contradictory. Our study is designed to better understand Millennials as emerging leaders by addressing the importance of the relationship between the intrinsic motivators of flourishing and religiosity and Millennials' leadership development activities. Today's university students are learning and questioning the role of the leader and their future in this society as change agents and champions of values that are more consistent with their belief systems. Leaders are confronted by demands for problem-solving, continuous innovation, technology, diverse workforce and changing relationships and values requiring new levels of competencies, knowledge, skills and experience unprecedented in workplace history. Thus, an opportunity exists to re-examine leadership as it applies to our new environmental and societal contexts and to factor in the faces of our emerging leaders.

The functions and norms that drive university student volunteering

Abstract Young adult volunteers are vital to the current and future operations of nonprofit organizations yet many countries report low and declining volunteer participation by this group. Moreover, university students are a particularly under‐utilized and under‐researched segment of potential young adult volunteers. As such, the current study examines the functions and norms that drive university students to volunteer. A survey of 282 students indicates that the Volunteer Functions Inventory (VFI) does not adequately explain the volunteering of today's university students. For instance, t‐tests reveal that the importance of the VFI functions among current students differs significantly to the importance of the functions among the previous generation of students. Also, factor analysis shows that the structure of the VFI model is unstable for the current sample while multiple regression reveals that the VFI explains only 11% of university student volunteering. In contrast, χ2‐tests indicate that volunteering by university students is dependent on the observed volunteering of primary reference group members (i.e., parents, siblings, close friends). The results suggest that nonprofit organizations may need to revise their recruitment strategies for today's university students: rather than appealing to the functional benefits of volunteering, positioning volunteering as the ‘normal’ thing to do may be more successful. Further research is needed to develop a richer understanding of reference group influences on the volunteering behavior of today's young adults. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

DIALOG CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION PROGRAM (CIP) IMPLEMENTED IN A CONSORTIAL ACADEMIC LIBRARY ENVIRONMENT — A CONTINUING DISCUSSION

Today's university students have now, and will have in the future, greater information needs than ever before. As end‐users, they will take the skills they learn and the knowledge about the resources used to fill those needs with them into the workplace and beyond. In an effort to provide undergraduates at the University of Maryland with these skills, the University of Maryland System (UMS) solicited proposals for projects to enhance undergraduate education. In July 1994, The Council of Library Directors was awarded three year funding for their proposal for implementation of access to 150 DIALOG Classroom Instruction Program (CIP) files, part of the online database service of Knight‐Ridder Information Inc., using the UMS online public access catalogue as a gateway to these files. The University of Maryland System consists of 13 academic institutions situated throughout the state of Maryland. This project is being implemented by four of those institutions, refecting differences in demographics, geography and academic disciplines. They include a large, urban research university; a suburban university with concentrations in science and engineering; an urban non‐traditional university of upper‐level undergraduates majoring in business and pre‐law; and a rural university with various majors, including education and business.

学生の意識とCAIを導入した授業の学業成績

We are now faced with the situation that every student wishing to enter a university or college is able to do so. Because of this, today's university students represent a wide range of interests and levels of understanding. The number of students who are unable to understand the lectures and so lose their will to learn is also increasing. Conventional university educational systems may not be able to change enoutgh to address this problem effectively. New teaching using CAI and CMI has been performed to teach "semiconductors" to students who have diversified interests or a poor understanding. Examination and questionnaires were given to evaluate the effect of various CAI coures-ware on understanding and interest in "Semiconductors" at the end of the term. From the results of the questionnaires on learning attitude, college life and academic interests, students were divided into three groups. The first group has strong desire to do every thing about his college life. The second studies hard to obtain good results. The third enjoys his college life. The relation between the results of examination and three groups is investigated.