Diploma Projects for LAB Equipment Rental - How Students Can Help University in the Covid-19 Era

Covid-19 pandemic hit a giant blow on in-person education. This was especially difficult when teaching laboratory related exercises. In this paper we show that we can treat this hardship as an opportunity, and engage students into creating tools that help their colleagues. In this particular case we present diploma projects that constituted equipment rental apps. We show that such form of diploma increases motivation and leads to nice results. © 2022 IEEE.

The well-being of music educators during the pandemic Spring of 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many aspects of life, including the instructional practices of music educators. The purpose of this study was to examine music teachers' well-being following the disruptions in schooling that resulted from the pandemic in the Spring of 2020. We also investigated how disruptions may have affected music teachers' perceptions of their efficacy and the status of the profession. A questionnaire was completed by 2,023 music teachers who were members of the National Association for Music Education. We collected data related to (a) demographic and institutional information, (b) well-being, (c) teaching efficacy, (d) the impact of the pandemic upon the profession, and (e) the impact of the pandemic upon student learning. The questionnaire included the PERMA Profiler, a measure of well-being, and a portion of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21). Both PK-12 and collegiate teachers reported significantly lower levels of overall well-being and significantly higher levels of depression than published norms. Additional analyses examined the relationship of individual difference and teaching context variables to the well-being measures, perceptions of teaching efficacy, and perceptions of the pandemic's impact on student learning.