Predicting factors influencing perceived online learning experience among primary students utilizing structural equation modeling Forest Classifier approach.

Introduction: Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the temporary closure of educational institutions led to the adoption of remote or online learning delivery. Challenges, especially for grade schools were evident. Objective: This study aimed to identify factors affecting the perceived online discussion experience of Filipino primary students through distance learning in the National Capital Region, Philippines. Method: Variables such as cognitive presence, teaching presence, social presence, and online discussion experience were investigated simultaneously by utilizing the structural equation modeling (SEM) and random forest classifier (RFC) approach. A total of 385 currently enrolled Filipino grade school student participants were surveyed. Results: Results show that cognitive presence has the most significant impact on the perceived online discussion experience, followed by teaching presence, and social presence. This study is the first study that analyzed the online discussion experience among grade school students in online education in the Philippines considering SEM and RFC. It was seen that highly significant factors such as teaching presence, cognitive presence, social presence, triggering events, and exploration will lead to high and very high learning experience with grade school students. Conclusion: The findings of this study would be significant for teachers, educational institutions, and government agencies to improve the online delivery of primary education in the country. In addition, this study presents a reliable model and results which can be extended and applied for academicians, educational institutions, and the education sector to develop ways in enhancing the online delivery of primary education worldwide.

Introduction: Au milieu de la pandémie de COVID-19, la fermeture temporaire des établissements d'enseignement a conduit à l'adoption de la prestation d'apprentissage à distance ou en ligne. Les défis, en particulier pour les écoles primaires, étaient évidents. Objectif: Cette étude visait à identifier les facteurs affectant l'expérience de discussion en ligne perçue des élèves philippins du primaire par le biais de l'apprentissage à distance dans la région de la capitale nationale, aux Philippines. Méthode: Des variables telles que la présence cognitive, la présence dans l'enseignement, la présence sociale et l'expérience de discussion en ligne ont été étudiées simultanément en utilisant l'approche de structural equation modeling (SEM) et de Random Forest classifier (RFC). Un total de 385 élèves philippins actuellement inscrits à l'école primaire ont été interrogés. Résultats: Les résultats montrent que la présence cognitive a l'impact le plus significatif sur l'expérience de discussion en ligne perçue, suivie de la présence pédagogique et de la présence sociale. Cette étude est la première étude qui a analysé l'expérience de discussion en ligne parmi les élèves du primaire dans l'éducation en ligne aux Philippines en tenant compte du SEM et du RFC. Il a été constaté que des facteurs très importants tels que la présence d'enseignement, la présence cognitive, la présence sociale, les événements déclencheurs et l'exploration conduiront à une expérience d'apprentissage élevée et très élevée avec les élèves du primaire. Conclusion: En outre, cette étude présente un modèle et des résultats fiables qui peuvent être étendus et appliqués aux universitaires, aux établissements d'enseignement et au secteur de l'éducation afin de développer des moyens d'améliorer la prestation en ligne de l'enseignement primaire dans le monde entier.

Conclusion: entanglements of islandscapes and tourism

The collection in this anthology exposes the multifarious entanglements that emerge on islands in the face of encounters with tourism. Multidisciplinarity lies at the heart of island studies and while the scholarship of islands is clearly a critical aspect of ensuing discourses, authors demonstrate how they arrive at this juncture using a variety of scholarly vantage points. At the tourism and islandscapes juncture, three key themes simultaneously emerge that illustrate the upshot of this crossover and how islands are the products of multiple knowing, translocal sites of everyday life and vulnerable adaptive social-ecological systems. The COVID-19 pandemic has offered islands dependent on tourism a measure of respite, while also highlighting the economic and social-ecological implications that the slump in tourism has wrought. Islandscapes and their encounters with tourism evoke a broad range of reactions and outcomes, and the perspectives in this anthology showcase that.

COVID-19 pandemic - Inequities and inequalities to exercise and their consequences on the physical and mental health of women with cardiovascular disease: recommendations on how to address the needs of women

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic disproportionately affects those with pre-existing conditions and has exacerbated gender inequalities. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death among Canadian women. Exercise improves physical and mental health and CVD management. Amid the pandemic, women are experiencing an increase in caregiving responsibilities, job insecurities, and domestic violence creating competing demands for prioritizing their health. Recommendations on how to meet the unique needs of Canadian women with CVD through exercise are provided. Novelty: Exercise recommendations amid the pandemic for women with CVD need to be flexible, feasible, and fun.

The purchase of organic fish in Bangladesh: Safeguarding against COVID-19

Based on the theory of planned behaviour and cognitive dissonance, this research investigates how consumers’ consciousness of the attributes of organic fish impacts the number of opportunities to purchase such fish at a safe social distance and how the consciousness of verbal recommendations affect the relationship between the consciousness of necessary social distance to safely buy organic fish and consumers’ intention to purchase the fish. Applying these two theories and adding a new variable—social-distance purchasing—into the model, the research contributes significantly to current literature. Using a stratified random sampling, this research collected 320 data points from high, upper-middle and middle-income consumers that have been analysed through Amos Graphics and PROCESS macro in SPSS for the structural equation modelling. The findings of the research provide valuable insights to reduce the infection from COVID-19 as well as enhances the external validity and generalisability of the consumers’ organic-food purchasing behaviour research. © 2020 The Author(s). This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.