Teacher's Assistant Application

With the start of the online teaching due to the COVID restrictions, the dynamics of the classes changed, and the Internet applications took a big swing in the education process. Before the COVID pandemic, teachers were forced to learn how to use web tools to deliver more productive teaching to pupils. But despite all the efforts of teachers and institutions to invest in quality online education, we are all witnesses that online instruction does not achieve the same effect as the teaching with a physical presence. We conducted several surveys in secondary and primary schools in the local area. The results lead to the conclusion that the attention of pupils and the quality of teaching is reduced compared to education with a physical presence. Teachers use paper notebooks, online teaching tools, online meeting scheduling tools, online assessment tools, and online homework tools from different sources. Surveys with teachers have also shown that they have difficulty dealing with inconsistent tools, paper records and most of the various software they use in their online teaching. This paper will examine the possibilities of the existing online applications for the above-mentioned teacher's needs. Following our survey results, we're creating an online tool that puts all the essential needs together, such as - keeping pupils' attention during classes, digitizing the teacher-led record section, quickly and easily assessing pupils, managing homeworks, working in groups on projects and automation of the previously listed processes. The main focus of this paper will be on our innovative application that will contribute to the work process of the teachers.

Teacher's Assistant Application

With the start of the online teaching due to the COVID restrictions, the dynamics of the classes changed, and the Internet applications took a big swing in the education process. Before the COVID pandemic, teachers were forced to learn how to use web tools to deliver more productive teaching to pupils. But despite all the efforts of teachers and institutions to invest in quality online education, we are all witnesses that online instruction does not achieve the same effect as the teaching with a physical presence. We conducted several surveys in secondary and primary schools in the local area. The results lead to the conclusion that the attention of pupils and the quality of teaching is reduced compared to education with a physical presence. Teachers use paper notebooks, online teaching tools, online meeting scheduling tools, online assessment tools, and online homework tools from different sources. Surveys with teachers have also shown that they have difficulty dealing with inconsistent tools, paper records and most of the various software they use in their online teaching. This paper will examine the possibilities of the existing online applications for the above-mentioned teacher's needs. Following our survey results, we're creating an online tool that puts all the essential needs together, such as - keeping pupils' attention during classes, digitizing the teacher-led record section, quickly and easily assessing pupils, managing homeworks, working in groups on projects and automation of the previously listed processes. The main focus of this paper will be on our innovative application that will contribute to the work process of the teachers. © 2022 IEEE.

Ambient Assisted Living and Personal Health Records – Requirements and Challenges

We face enormous medical and health services demands due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This fact implies that the healthcare sector does not manage to cope with the considerable pressure from patients who experienced Covid-19, from which some fail to survive. The hospitals and medical practitioners everywhere were faced with significant stresses, and they were unable to cope with these problems. The patients were scared and unsatisfied with medical help, and the healthcare staff was exhausted everywhere. One of the solutions was implementing the concept of e-health with the usage of e-PHR of the patient and using some components of ambient assisted living (AAL), telemedicine, and telehealth. Many sensors for measuring vital signs of life are available on the market. Some applications can collect these data from IoT devices (sensors), wearables, or other devices that can help monitor the patient’s healthcare condition in a pandemic situation. In this way, healthcare professionals can access patients’ vital conditions and take actions such as e-prescription and e-referral. In the paper, we highlighted some aspects of possible healthcare improvement for the patients using AAL devices who can assist in improving access to medical and healthcare professionals, especially for the patients with chronic diseases, some disabilities, the elderly and children. This concept is based on the e-PHR concept, which understands that the patient owns their data and can access their e-Personal Health Record. © 2022 Copyright for this paper by its authors.

Educational achievement and satisfaction during traditional, online and combined classes among students following intensive workplace related courses

Following the Covid pandemic, significant disruption occurred in every aspect of the daily lives of people across the globe. Education was not an exception - the whole educational process for people around the world had to stop and freeze for a while, so that migration from the offline, class-based and face-to-face education to a completely online, remote method of conducting classes can be implemented. This switch happened literally overnight and was not optional, but necessary. Each party involved in the educational process didn't have time to systematically prepare for this change;instead it had to adapt and on a large scale even improvise. Long-term consequences from this major shift from offline to online type of facilitating educational activities are yet to be seen. In this study, the student's achievement and satisfaction while visiting offline, online and combined classes are measured, compared and conclusions are made based on the results from the groups that have been subject of our study. The data has been collected from students visiting intensive workplace related courses in the field of computer programming for a period of 10 months. The conclusions focus on what are some of the best ways to utilize the educational process in the future, which activities are robust enough and do not reflect changes in student behaviour when organized online and which activities are crucial to be held in a traditional class manner with a final goal - retain and increase student's achievement and satisfaction. © 2021 IEEE.

Use of IT in Higher Education and Training - Social learning through outdoor quiz game app

Learning in higher education is no longer by listening to a professor and handing in assignments. At the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, the Knowledge Management (KM) study programme has been developed over several years. From introducing Flipped Classroom, the development has been to make the students develop their own assignments based on the issues of KM they are able to unveil at their own workplaces. The practice on this is done by working to develop short cases to solve in the classroom rather than giving lectures. The lectures over the textbook and curriculum are provided by streaming video and podcasts and the students are encouraged to download and watch/listen prior to the seminars. A short introduction is provided at the start of the seminars, but not as elaborated as in the videos and podcasts. The students tend to stay indoors and work. To investigate how breaking up the indoor stay and to continue the learning process during a 'break' outside, we have developed quizzes from the curriculum. They have to download an app and in groups solve the quizzes that pop up when they close in on the designated area on the map in the app. In the app, the areas are marked by icons in the shape of berries (blueberry, raspberry, cloudberry, etc.) on a map. They have to go to the area in order for the quiz to appear. The quizzes are up to now developed by the lecturers. The students have during the Covid-19 pandemic been working in solitude and thus lost the important factor of social learning. Attempts to make the students work in group have only to a certain extent been successful. As well as 'black screens', the number of students 'fading out' when trying to divide the students into 'breakoutrooms', to support the social learning processes, are too high. Encouraging the students to go outside and work in groups to solve the quizzes allow the student to also discuss other issues than just the curriculum, and to get to know each other outside the classroom. The data are collected our data through in-depth interviews and group interviews with the students. The collected data will show how the students perceive a) to work on the quiz, b) to solve the quiz, c) to work in groups outside the classroom and how this support a) their learning outcome and b) their social learning situation. © 2021 IEEE.