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The Postgraduage Certificate in Information Technology at the University of Auckland is a bootcamp-style transition programme for students without prior programming experience. The programme's part-time variant, designed for working professionals, has traditionally been offered with intensive evening classes, with extensive tutor and instructor support. Spurred on by the COVID-19 pandemic, our University has moved this part-time variant fully online. Benefits of the online offering include a wider, more inclusive audience and flexibility of student learning schedules. However, it has introduced several pedagogical challenges, including but not limited to how instructors can continue to provide meaningful support, feedback, and student engagement in an online environment. In this paper, we reflect on our experience, analyse qualitative and quantitative feedback such as student evaluations and grades, and provide recommendations for those wishing to undertake a similar transformation in the future. © 2023 ACM.
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This study explores students' preferences for the various online learning activities that leveraged digital learning tools. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected from 23 education major students who learned online during the COVID-19 pandemic. Students found the multimodal activities effective in making them stay focused, engaged and acquire new knowledge and skills at a deeper level. © ICCE 2022.All rights reserved.
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COVID-19 has taken educational protocols to different track. Online education is the way to execute process smoothly. There are various tools that are providing services to fill the pain points. Role of emerging technologies can't be denied. Extended and mixed reality plays a vital role here. Our purpose is to analyze the same in this paper. Second objective of this paper is to develop novel framework to define extended and mixed reality for online learning Fig.∼\ref{fig1}. Testing has been done on four Indian universities and schools to identify the effectiveness of proposed framework. © 2022 IEEE.
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The emergence of educational technological tools and applications have changed the ways of teaching and learning among students and teachers in online learning, especially with the sudden outbreak of COVID-19 all over the place, forcing the educational sector to completely be shifted from traditional classroom to online learning. However, despite the rise of the educational technologies in online learning setting, the problem of English communication skills especially in written form faced by students is being emphasized as one of the urgent matters that requests more attentions and solutions. The problem also includes the students lost their motivation to communicate in English language, in online learning setting particularly. Through literature, it is found that the implementation of feedback provision and the utilization of learning analytics are regarded as one of the effective ways in improving students' written communication skills and motivation to communicate in online learning setting. However, very limited studies focusing on such area are found in language education. As a result, it is necessary to propose a conceptual framework of implementation of both feedback provision and learning analytics in language education context to improve English communication skills in online learning. Therefore, this study is intended to provide a conceptual framework on improving English communication skills in online learning through the utilization of feedback provision and learning analytics. This could serve as a roadmap for future research into this topic. Furthermore, the ways to implement this framework and the implication of the framework are also discussed in this paper that can contribute for literatures. © 2022 Association for Computing Machinery.
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Today electrical learning or online learning is inevitable. This is evident with the COVID-19 pandemic causing education to be adjusted to be 100% online. This technique affects many courses that are usually taught in class and requires some workshops for working in a team. Product development and design is a course that requires a lot of adjustment from working and learning in class to be online. However, there is no explanation to guideline about which online methods and applications are suitable for this course. This paper, therefore, aims to design an online learning course for two product development and design courses that have different teaching conditions and environments by applying different online methods and applications such as live teaching and video, google classroom, and the SUT X-lane. An assessment comes from the results of the survey and scores of assignments and exams. Results show that teaching by recording video and conference video have their potential and is suitable in different environments and conditions regarding participants and time. However, teaching methods are not the main factor for the efficiency of studying. Self-controlled is an important factor for learning, which is high in mature students. Assignments and workshops can be done online by working on an online platform such as Padlet, Zoom, and Line applications. Some tasks that require laboratory such as creating physical products however could not be fulfilled by the online platform. This should be achieved if the online course is expected for future education. © 2022 ACM.
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This is a Work in Progress (WIP) Paper. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, chemical engineering departments from around the world shifted their course offerings from in-person to online instruction almost instantaneously. The AIChE Education Division immediately responded to this educational shift by developing five Virtual Communities of Practice (VCPs) that provided faculty with professional development opportunities and support networks during this time. Virtual community creation, size and scope of the VCPs, and surveys related to the impact of this initiative are presented. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021