Dynamics of the Attitude of Students of the Faculty of Legal Psychology to Study in Different Modes of Study Caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic

The article examines the change in the attitude of students of the Faculty of Legal Psychology to study during the period of easing sanitary restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pan-demic. The results of a longitudinal study conducted from December 2021 to May 2022 are presented. The sample consisted of 90 students of different courses studying in the specialty "Pedagogy and psychology of deviant behavior”. The attitude to study, determined using the questionnaire "My studies at the university” by O.A. Voronina, was compared in distance and mixed (full-time-distance) modes of study. According to the sample as a whole, a change in the transition from distance learning to a mixed learning format was revealed in both general satisfaction with learning and its individual aspects — emotional and evaluative attitude, satisfaction with the specialty, the ratio of internal and external motivation of learn-ing. The differences in the dynamics of the attitude of students of different courses to study are recorded and discussed. Additionally, students' opinions on the advantages and disad-vantages of studying in different modes were clarified. It is proposed in case of a change in the training regime to monitor the attitude of students to study and, if necessary, to carry out remedial work with student groups or individual students. © 2023, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education. All rights reserved.

Methodology for Monitoring Vital Signs in Virtual Classes Using Low-cost Sensors in Online Classes

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have led to certain patterns in the different actions people take. One of the areas in which this pandemic has impacted most strongly is related to educational activities and children were the most affected. They went from studying in their schools where they have all the conditions, to a physical space at home. This strong change in the environment added to the high levels of contagion, have caused students to present certain manifestations such as the level of stress which can be manifested by many factors such as the main vital signs such as oxygen saturation and heart rate. In this paper we present a methodology to perform these measurements in order to evaluate these measurements when students are attending classes from home. © 2022 ACM.

Taking Class Seriously

This article critically analyzes the human rights perspective upon what has emerged as one of the most significant socioeconomic and political challenges confronting many millions of people residing within high-income, liberal-democratic societies: rising poverty and socioeconomic inequality. This article argues that international and domestic human rights law and the social and political imaginaries of the wider human rights community largely fail to adequately diagnose and effectively respond to poverty and inequality within high-income, liberal-democratic societies. As a political and ethical doctrine founded upon a normative commitment to social justice, human rights should be taking the lead in efforts to condemn, understand, and develop responses to the poverty and inequality which blight the lives of many millions of people within many of the world's most affluent and, allegedly, most "liberal” societies. Human rights law has historically not done so. We, as a community, have not done so. This article offers a specific explanation for this continuing failure, by focusing upon the absence of any concerted recognition of or engagement with social class as it contributes to and compounds our exposure to poverty and inequality. Human rights remain largely blind to the many ways in which social class is intricately connected to poverty and inequality. The human rights community within high-income, liberal-democratic societies characteristically fails to take class seriously. Building upon previous writing in this area, this article explains why class is rarely recognized or engaged with by the human rights community. This article also sets out the basis for how we might begin the task of overcoming this highly damaging class blindness, to set the stage for what the author asserts as an urgent need if human rights is to provide the kind of political and ethical leadership required to effectively engage with poverty and inequality in affluent societies: the degentrification of human rights.

Design of virtual learning experiences for microcontroller programming during COVID-19 pandemic

The social distancing imposed by Covid-19 impacted the development of educational activities at all levels. Engineering education was specially challenged by the suspension of face-to-face activities, which paused the development of laboratory practices. The present work accounts for the design of virtual learning experiences in a Microcontrollers course. The free online tools 'Tinkercad Circuits' and 'Arduino' were used to simulate circuit programming and connections. These tools also allowed remote collaboration between students and teachers during lockdown. The results of the Mechatronics Engineering students (n=30) show that programming skills and hardware knowledge were developed. Additionally, the activities had a positive response from the students. On the other hand, according to the psychomotor domain taxonomy, the students had obstacles to their full development. It is concluded on the importance of integrating simulation to the development of activities and laboratory practices, as well as the advantages of hybrid teaching formats. © 2023 IEEE.

Saudi EFL University Instructors' Perceptions of Online Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This study aimed to investigate the EFL university instructors' perceptions of online education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The participants were 32;87.5% of them were females while 12.5% were males. They belonged to many higher educational institutions in Saudi Arabia. Data were collected using an online questionnaire. This questionnaire included four parts which were (1) the participants' demographic information, (2) the advantages of online education during the COVID-19 pandemic, (3) the disadvantages of online education during the COVID-19 pandemic, and finally (4) the effectiveness of online education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results revealed that most of the participants had a more dominant positive attitude regarding online learning activities although some of them claimed that there were some negative aspects that should be taken into consideration. Online education is fundamentally characterized by its flexibility, being chargeless, and enabling EFL instructors to think creatively and improve their performance. However, the lack of regulating sinful activities such as cheating, lack of face-to-face social interaction, and poor accessibility to the internet connection were essentially the three significant disadvantages of online education that most of the participants agreed on. Based on the findings obtained, this study provided some recommendations as well as suggestions for further research.

Interaction with Immersive Cultural Heritage Environments: Using XR Technologies to represent multiple perspectives on Serralves Museum

Museums have increasingly been using digital approaches to explore new ways to provide new experiences with Cultural Heritage (CH). The need for these solutions exploded with the COVID-19 pandemic forcing museums and cultural organizations to move towards a digital transformation to engage their audiences. Although, with a lack of guidelines on how to create eXtended Reality (XR) experiences with multiple perspectives for CH environments. This project aims to provide Museums with novel approaches to include interactive and immersive activities targeted at the cultural assets of their exhibitions and educational activities. Firstly, we will map and critically access current participatory practices in museums;then, we will develop a new methodology for creating and implementing experiences using XR technology in a range of workshops. The concept of multiple perspectives on cultural heritage will be explored through the application of co-creation practices, towards engaging different communities with cultural heritage contents from Serralves Museum. © 2022 ACM.

Examining the Roles of School Principals in the Emergency Distance Education Process

Bu araştırmanın amacı acil uzaktan eǧitim sürecinde okul müdürlerinin rollerinin incelenmesidir. Araştırma, nitel araştırma olarak tasarlanmıştır. 2020-2021 Eǧitim öǧretim yılında Batman ilinde gerçekleştirilen araştırmada ölçüt örnekleme yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Araştırmanın çalışma grubu, ilkokul ve ortaokullarda görev yapan ve en az bir yıllık yöneticilik kıdemine sahip 40 okul müdüründen oluşmaktadır. Veri toplama aracı olarak yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme formu kullanılmıştır. Veriler elektronik olarak toplanmıştır. Çalışma grubundan elde edilen veriler araştırmanın alt amaçları çerçevesinde içerik analizine tabi tutulmuştur. Araştırma sonuçlarına göre, okul müdürleri acil uzaktan eǧitim sürecinde okullarında bilgilendirme ve hazırlık çalışmaları gerçekleştirmişlerdir. Bu süreçte öǧretmenler yönelik olarak planlama ve yetiştirme çalışmaları yaptıkları, onları teşvik ettikleri, onlarla iletişim kurdukları ve onlara ortam saǧladıkları;öǧrencilere yönelik olarak süreci tanıttıkları ve eǧitim faaliyetleri gerçekleştirdikleri ve velilere yönelik olarak da süreci tanıttıkları belirlenmiştir. Ayrıca okul müdürlerinin Covid-19 sürecindeki acil uzaktan eǧitime yaklaşımlarının başarılı, başarısız ve yetersiz olmak üzere üç farklı şekilde olduǧu ortaya çıkmıştır.Alternate :The purpose of this research is to examine the roles of school principals in the emergency distance education process. The research was designed as a qualitative research, and the criterion sampling method was used in the study conducted in Batman during the 2020-2021 academic year. The study group consisted of forty school principals who work in primary and secondary schools and have at least one year of management experience. A semi-structured interview form was used as a data collection tool. Research data were collected via e-mail. The data obtained from the study group were subjected to content analysis within the framework of the sub-objectives of the research. According to the results of the research, school principals carried out informing and preparatory activities in their schools during the emergency distance education process. In this process, they conducted planning and training activities for teachers, encouraged and communicated with them, and provided them with an adequate environment. They also introduced the process and carried out educational activities for students and informed parents about it. Additionally, it was revealed that school principals' approaches to emergency distance education in the Covid-19 process were categorized into three different ways: successful, unsuccessful, and inadequate.

Teaching Analytical Instrumentation Through Remote Access – A Gas Chromatography Perspective

An approach to online laboratory exercises for analytical chemistry students with demonstrated practical exercises through the use of remote-controlled gas chromatography (GC) instrumentation is discussed. The approach allows for a practical-based learning activity to be carried out by students who are unable to attend in-person laboratory exercises and was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learning activities focused on the operation of GC instrumentation were completed prior to a research-based analysis activity being conducted by students. At the end of this experiment, the students are expected to understand, independently operate, and learn how to achieve better separation through the manipulation of GC settings, such as split/splitless injections, carrier gas flow rate, and oven temperature, and apply principles of GC to a practical application. Additional flexibility from this approach could also be beneficial during postpandemic and/or in the circumstance where students cannot physically attend the class.

The impact of online presentations on reducing the introverted EFL learners' stress and anxiety

PurposeThis study aims to focus on how online presentations have a positive effect on the anxiety of the students, especially students who are introverted by nature and always suffer from anxiety and stress while performing face-to-face presentations in the classrooms, which negatively affect students' performance and, thereby grade.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopted a quantitative research design to obtain a broader perspective. An online questionnaire, developed using Google Forms, was accessed by 239 female undergraduate students from Level 1 to 8 of the English Department at the College of Languages and Translation in King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia. The questionnaire consisted of 15 closed Likert-type questions. The Arabic translation of the questions was included in the questionnaire to make the participants more comfortable answering the questions as all the participants' L1 is Arabic.FindingsWith the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020, COVID-19 became a global health issue and significantly impacted education worldwide. With this, a digital transformation took place, resulting in a total e-learning distance education system. This type of technology enhanced distance learning approach had to be adopted as social and physical contacts were limited globally to mitigate the transmissions of the virus. Accordingly, all lectures, learning activities, tests and other forms of evaluation were conducted via distance e-learning. When oral presentations were conducted online, a new reality emerged in this changed situation. This study sought to prove that online oral presentations positively reduce introvert EFL learners' anxiety and stress.Research limitations/implicationsThe study was conducted using a small number of samples;thus, to gain substantial insight, future research could be conducted with a greater number of samples from diverse demographic backgrounds. Teachers' perceptions of online oral presentations could also be considered in future studies since education consolidates between learners and teachers. In addition, as this research explored English language major students only, further comparative studies can be conducted including students from other disciplines, which may lead to new insights and issues related to online presentations. This study used a questionnaire as a data collection instrument. It is recommended to use qualitative tools such as interviews, focus group meetings, journals and student diaries in future studies so that more information about in-person presentation anxiety can be discovered.Originality/valueParticipants' opinions, procured through the questionnaire of this study, can bring new insights for educators and policymakers to incorporate online presentations as one of the mainstream assessment methods for tertiary-level courses.

Outreach and educational activities of ALICE in the times of the pandemic

The onset of the COVID pandemic in 2020 stopped all outreach and educational activities with in-person participation. The ALICE collaboration soon adapted to the new situation imposed by lockdowns and other restrictions. The multitude of online tools and platforms available allowed us to continue reaching out to the public. In-person visits and talks were replaced by virtual visits and virtual talks, done with dedicated equipment and allowing remote audiences to see the experiment and interact with scientists. Masterclasses for high-school students were also adapted and were held online;web-based versions for the analysis programs were developed, making it easy for students at home to take part in this exciting hands-on activity and become scientists for a day. This new format made it possible to reach out to new audiences, both students and general public, who normally would not have the opportunity to travel and participate;it also motivated more colleagues to be involved in outreach. We will discuss how these online activities were implemented and the experience gained. © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Students' Perceptions towards Hybrid Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The process of digital transformation is recognized as a significant shift that requires time and frequently encounters resistance and avoidance from employees. The spread of COVID-19 compelled instructors and students to immediately transition all educational activities to take place online rather than undergoing the more gradual shift that was originally planned. To deal with the bad situation caused by the Covid-19, hybrid learning was employed. This paper explores students' perceptions towards hybrid learning implementation in a practical college in Vietnam. The research used a qualitative method. The samples were 250 students who were taking hybrid courses at the institution during the pandemic. Content analysis was used to process the qualitative data. The results reveal they were well-prepared with technology and stationery for the hybrid class. Flexibility, effectiveness, student engagement, convenience, and personalization are perceived benefits. Technical issues and distant student interaction must be addressed. Also, for onsite students, the fear of being infected by Corona virus and the distraction caused by the online group should also be considered. © 2022 Association for Computing Machinery.

Drug Discovery in Real Life: An Online Learning Activity for Bioinformatics Students

During COVID-19 lockdowns, online learning activities had to be developed for the Undergraduate and Masters by Coursework Bioinformatics students at RMIT University. Therefore, we designed an integrative, industry-based research assignment, which guided the students through a drug discovery project from target identification to lead optimization. The students were able to utilize this real-life scenario to apply multiple diverse but complementary bioinformatic principles to analyze biological and chemical data leading to meaningful predictions. This activity was utilized as a final assessment of the students' knowledge.

Using memes to promote student engagement and classroom community during remote learning.

As colleges moved to online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, many instructors found it difficult to maintain student engagement and classroom community in the virtual environment. We developed a semester-long activity for a molecular biology research methodology course where students created, and shared original memes related to course content with peers through group chat. Surveys and semi-structured interviews revealed that the exercise was effective in promoting student engagement, a sense of community, and relieving stress.

Investigation of bacteria and detergent residues on undergraduate students' dinner plates in dormitories during university lockdown.

The COVID-19 outbreak has disrupted undergraduate students' experiments since their access to the laboratory is limited. To address this problem, the bacteria and detergent residues on undergraduate students' dinner plates were investigated by the students in the dormitories. Five different types of dinner plates from 50 students were collected, which were cleaned with detergent and water in the same way and naturally dried. Then, Escherichia coli (E. coli) test papers and sodium dodecyl sulfonate test kits were used to understand the bacteria and detergent residuals. Commonly available equipment such as a yogurt maker was used for bacterial culture; detergent analyses were performed using centrifugation tubes. Effective sterilization methods and safety protection were achieved by dormitory available methods. According to the investigated results, the students found the differences in bacteria and detergent residuals between different dinner plates and made suitable choices for the future.

The Influence of Risk Factors on the Online Customer Experience Model for Beauty Products during the Covid-19 Pandemic

The results of research conducted by Katadata in 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic hit Indonesia showed that beauty products had the 2 highest sales after fashion. On the other hand, during the Covid-19 pandemic (social restrictions imposed), where not everyone was allowed to gather face-To-face, educational activities at school and college were conducted online. Everyone generally uses beauty products, however, during a pandemic, beauty product sales are still the 2nd highest. From this situation, this research was conducted with research questions, how do risk factors affect the Online Customer Experience Model specifically for beauty products during the covid-19 pandemic. This study uses 436 respondents who are customers of beauty products. This study uses quantitative methods with the Structural Equation Model and Partial Lease Square (SEM-PLS) techniques. It was found that the risk factors affecting the Affective Stage of 0.183 (18.3%), the risk factors affecting the Cognitive Stage of 0.127 (12.7%), the risk factors influencing the 0.225 (22.5%), the effect of risk factors on perceived control of 0.394 (39.4), the influence of factors risk of 0.089 (8.9%) on Repurchase Intention, the effect of risk factors on Trust in Online Shopping. The results of this research are very useful for industrial product development, especially the beauty industry. © 2022 ACM.

Teren etnologic În perioadă de criză. Note la o descriere de caz 1

In the first months of 2020, the whole world was affected by the restrictions caused by the authorities' attempts to stop the spread of SarsCov2 as far as possible. Initially, the most effective measure was quarantine, which could slow the spread of the virus. In Romania, the first case of Covid19 was confirmed on 23 February 2020, and after a period of hesitation, the national authorities imposed the quarantine on 15 March, i.e., a series of restrictions on the movement of persons and on participation in events involving more than eight persons. Obviously, the introduction of this special regime for the movement of persons affected all areas of social and economic life, including its vital branches, such as the industrial and educational activity. Of course, under these conditions, the first temptation of any ethnologist was to observe the transformations of the rhythms of life, practicing a kind of armchair ethnography and transforming into the observed "field" even their own home, their own life or the lives of those close to them, but also what came to them from the outside world via online. In contrast to these approaches, this paper studies several cases where, through contractual obligations, the ethnologist had to do the field in the classical sense of the term, i.e. to observe real (not virtual) communities, located far away (even geographically), and to participate in their social and cultural life. The constraints imposed by quarantine practically forced ethnological fieldwork to reinvent itself, making researchers reflect on the criteria for selecting their informants under the new conditions, on the manner of interacting with them, on the logistics involved in producing interviews and, last but not least, on the ethical implications of approaches of this kind. The remote field experiences of two projects were presented and analyzed: Educational and Networking Tools on Development of Authentic Performance for Professional Integration - PAN and Colecţie digitală a patrimoniului alimentar românesc si transfer spre societate - FOODie. Analyzing in particular the interviews conducted in the FOODie project, the paper highlights a number of advantages of remote fieldwork, such as: the possibility to overcome quarantine restrictions, the possibility to make a quality video recording, the openings of a collaborative ethnology. A number of difficulties of this type of remote research are also highlighted, such as: communication difficulties due to lack of direct interaction, internet signal fluctuation problems, difficulties in understanding some aspects due to ignorance of the informant's living space.

The Willingness to Communicate in English Among Domestic Students in an International Online Class

The results revealed that personal characteristics, learning experiences, teaching practices, language and learning tasks, classroom management, and peer interlocutors with whom the students communicate are the factors affecting the students' willingness to communicate in English (Pattapong, 2010). [...]concerning WTC research, most of studies have taken student perception, student competence, and factors driving and restraining the WTC. [...]turning to the classroom environment, research findings by Pattapong (2010), Amalia and Asib (2019), Sylvia et al. [...]during the Covid-19 outbreak, the teaching and learning processes in all levels of education were carried out virtually, as revealed in Ferdiansyah et al. [...]the teaching and learning processes carried out online need to be investigated to determine the degree to which the mode of learning affects the students' L2 WTC.

Validation of Factors Affecting Learning Experience in Emergency Remote Teaching

For more than 2 decades, online or e-learning has been the major approach to distant education. However, a new variant of online learning AKA emergency remote teaching or ERT has emerged and increasingly becoming popular. ERT refers to the temporary transition of educational activities (instruction, assessment, advising) from the traditional to online to avert the crisis. This differs from a typical online or e-learning wherein educational activities are intended to be delivered online and are thus carefully designed, planned and implemented to fulfill this intention. With regards to existing literature, few publications have identified the differences between online learning and ERT, and expressed concerns over the quality of educational activities in ERT. Currently, studies that validate student learning experience in ERT are lacking in literature. ERT is an emerging pedagogical approach that was widely adopted in Spring 2020 due to COVID-19, hence it is imperative to validate its impact in students' learning experience as well as instructors' teaching experience. In this research, we focus on the following research question: what factors affect students' learning experience and instructors' teaching experience in an emergency remote teaching? To answer this question, we collected data from 240 students and 98 instructors during the implementation of ERT in our institution in Spring and Fall of 2020. Using a combination of ANOVA and Turkey's Honestly Significantly Difference (HSD), we analyze the data to determine the factors that can be used to predict student learning experience and teaching experience in ERT. Our results of this study will inspire more studies in ERT and inform effective delivery of instructional activities in time of crisis. © 2022 IEEE.

Outreach and educational activities within the EEE cosmic ray network

The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) network consists in a sparse array of telescopes based on Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers, installed in high school buildings all over the Italian territory and at CERN. Besides the many research activities concerned with extensive air shower detection, long distance correlation studies and additional physics results obtained during the last decade, the EEE project is extensively employed for educational and outreach activities, constituting a unique opportunity to promote a fruitful and close collaboration between students, high-school teachers and researchers. The involvement is at all levels, from the construction of the chambers during short stages at CERN over the past 15 years, with the participation of several hundred high-school students and teachers, to the installation, monitoring and data taking with the telescopes by high-school teams, to masterclasses, physics lectures, data analysis sessions and joint discussions on the results and their interpretation. Recent developments of the EEE network led to the installation and use of additional detectors in the Arctic region and on board of sailing ships, to measure the cosmic ray flux over large latitude intervals. Periodical remote and in presence (pre-Covid era) meetings allowed in these years a large participation (several thousand people) from the high-school community to the EEE activities. National and local outreach initiatives in cosmic ray physics are also carried out around Italy by the EEE network, as a contribution to the dissemination of science among young people. © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Distance Learning Scheme with Remote Desktop Application for Mikrotik Configuration Practice in the Covid-19 Pandemic Era

The research aims to reveal the potential of online learning schemes through remote desktop applications used in practical learning of Mikrotik configuration. During the Covid-19 pandemic, almost all educational activities are carried out online. Learning is increasingly dependent on information and communication technology (ICT). Innovation in the field of education is of high urgency. This study was conducted by applying the ADDIE model. This model is divided into five stages: analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. The evaluation stage is carried out at every other step. This research involves students as the test subjects. The results of the study indicate that the proposed learning scheme has the potential to be implemented and developed further. In particular, the proposed learning scheme has produced good learning outcomes, where students have achieved at least 75% of the material well. In addition, the learning responses by students also resulted in good responses. © 2022 IEEE.