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Aim/Purpose This study examines the impact of transitioning from in-person classrooms to remote online business education and provides analysis of key factors impacting course and instructor ratings as well as strategies for higher education institutions to provide engaging instruction. Background "Zoom”ing into teaching and moving out of traditional classrooms during the COVID-19 pandemic has been a path full of twists and has impacted student perceptions of courses as well as instructors. One challenge has been to make the quality of synchronous online instruction perceived by students as positive as classroom-delivered ones. Methodology We analyze primary data collected in the course evaluation process from Business & Accounting students over six semesters between Fall 2019 to Spring 2022, covering pre-pandemic instruction in the classroom and the conversion to virtual instruction via Zoom. A total of 1782 observations for 38 courses were examined using mean comparison, regression and correlation analyses, and pairwise comparisons. Contribution We provide insights from the evaluation of those instructors who were able to make their Zoom-delivered courses perceived by students as equivalent or better than room-delivered ones. Specifically, clear presentation, stimulating delivery, providing feedback and encouraging discussion were positively correlated with successful online classes. Findings We find that there is a clear downward shift in course and instructor ratings as the change to synchronous online delivery was made. However, in the Spring of 2022, even though instructors and students were still not completely back in the classroom, both instructor and course ratings moved back closer to the pre-pandemic levels. The parameters associated with instructor ratings, such as providing feedback, clear presentations, stimulating sessions, and encouraging discussion, showed similar downward fluctuations. Also, aspects related to course content were affected by the transition to online modality, including training on critical thinking quantitative analysis, research and writing abilities, and overall usefulness of the content. Moore's model of Transactional Distance helps explain these changes. Recommendations We recommend that practitioners allow sufficient time for students and faculty for Practitioners to learn through online instruction delivery and supply training for both populations in adapting to learning in this delivery mode. Recommendations The disruption in higher education caused by COVID-19 has provided a wealth for Researchers of information on the pluses and minuses of online delivery. Careful inspection of trends can help provide guidance to higher education leaders. Impact on Society One of the many changes the COVID-19 pandemic brought was the opportunity to try alternate ways of connecting and learning. This study shows how this experience can be used to guide the future of higher education. Future Research Further research is needed to explore the in-depth reactions of students and faculty to the switch from classroom to online delivery, to explore whether these findings can be more broadly applied to other subjects and other types of universities. © 2022 Informing Science Institute. All rights reserved.
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Early research finds that all across the world suffered from a virus named Covid-19. It affects each individual's life, business, and economy. The impact of the pandemic in the healthcare sector and daily routine life are highly disturbing and during this period use of IoT increases. This paper focuses on healthcare, daily life, education, and businesses during the covid-19 and technology impact in everyone's life. To take the perception of students and professionals, 65 respondents give their perception, in which a few of them are understudies and others are working employees. Based on survey results it is observed that how IOT impact businesses and everyone's daily life. © 2022 IEEE.
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Cloud computing has become the infrastructure that supports people's daily activities, business operations, and education delivery around the world. Cloud computing-based education platforms have been widely applied to assist online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper examines the impact and importance of cloud computing in remote learning and education. This study conducted multiple-case analyses of 22 online platforms of higher education in Chinese universities during the epidemic. A comparative analysis of the 22 platforms revealed that they applied different cloud computing models and tools based on their unique requirements and needs. The study results provide strategic insights to higher education institutions regarding effective approaches to applying cloud computing-based platforms for remote education, especially during crisis situations. © 2022 ACM.
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The relevance of the study is due to the importance of accessible, quality education that meets modern challenges and leads to scientific and technological progress of the economy, civilized society. The aim of the study: the article aims to comprehend the importance of legal registration of digital and distance education, investing in this sphere as factors of economic and technological progress acceleration, renewal of production capacities in general. Methods of research: general scientific, as well as general, private scientific, private legal methods, which allowed a comprehensive substantiation of the thesis that the digitalization of the educational process is forced in the conditions of COVID-19 and that at the same time it is a progressive, inevitable step into the future. Results of the study: the digitalization of the educational sphere is analyzed;the necessity of accepting the Education Code in the Russian Federation is justified, which could absorb the entire legal and regulatory framework in the field of education and science, as well as contribute to the transformation of educational law in the digital economy. Practical Importance: Materials of the article are of practical value for lawmakers, politicians, researchers in the field of development of digital formats of the educational process. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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The covid-19 pandemic has brought changes in various sectors like healthcare, business, education and economy. Due to the large spread of covid-19 in a lot of countries there is shortage of hospital beds, oxygen supply and healthcare workers. So, the pandemic generated need to use smart pioneering technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things to monitor patient in an effective way. In this research paper a prototype is proposed based on IoT and AI for monitoring home quarantine covid-19 patients. Wearable IoT devices automatically collect information like oxygen level, temperature of body, etc. with the help of integrated sensors. Coughing is one of the most noticeable symptoms of people infected with covid-19. Frequency of cough is detected using Tensor flow library of Deep learning model. This prototype is a way to make IoT sensors smarter enough to detect coughs with the help of a trained model. Coughing dataset is collected and labelled manually. Dataset is self-created and categorized into cough and noise. Cough detection is based on MFCC features using DNN and CNN. The use of these technologies can bring a quick transition in healthcare to avoid risks caused with the life of human beings. © 2022 IEEE.
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ASTRAX has been conducting a project called ASTRAX ACADEMY (Private Space Business Development and Education and Training School) in Japan since 2017 to prepare for the private space age. Until now, we have been conducting lectures in classrooms in a classroom format and using facilities such as various spaceship simulators and commercial space mission support control centers. However, due to COVID-19, it has become difficult to conduct the courses. Therefore, we have been transforming all the courses into an online format and using various existing tools to conduct the classes efficiently. In the future, we plan to make the classes digital and multilingual so that students can learn not only in Japanese, but also in various languages such as English, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, and so on. In the age of space travel, there will be an increase in the number of multinational people conducting missions simultaneously. The common language may be English, but if we can support various languages in the education stage, it will lead to further expansion of our services and market. To do so, we are deliberately moving in the direction of multilingual space education. In this paper, we will introduce the method of digital transformation and multilingual education that ASTRAX is planning to implement. Copyright © 2021 by ASTRAX, Inc. All rights reserved.