Strategies to Bridge Equitable Implementation of Telehealth.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the rapid scaling of telehealth limited the extent to which proactive planning for equitable implementation was possible. The deployment of telehealth will persist in the postpandemic era, given patient preferences, advances in technologies, growing acceptance of telehealth, and the potential to overcome barriers to serve populations with limited access to high-quality in-person care. However, aspects and unintended consequences of telehealth may leave some groups underserved or unserved, and corrective implementation plans that address equitable access will be needed. The purposes of this paper are to (1) describe equitable implementation in telehealth and (2) integrate an equity lens into actionable equitable implementation.

The Ontological Problem in the Digital Age

The approach that is detailed below is the disposition, from the philosophical criticism, for the establishment of the ontological debate in the digital age, attending to the human situation immersed in a new reality where the original questions about being and being emerge recursively, its temporality. The discussion is based on the expansion and use of the term ontology in the face of Heidegger's response about language as the house of being and the questioning of the question of who generates it, making it the center of the ontology where the digital is presented as a being at hand to lighten the question of being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic as an extreme situation that humans are going through.

Neoliberalism crisis and fundamental shifts in Africa's higher education provision in the 21st century

This chapter explores the circumstances in the global south that have been reshaping teaching and learning practices, with particular focus on the African context. Anchored on a literature review strategy, the chapter explores some of the key pressure points in the higher education context that have been the trigger of reforms in the core practice of teaching and learning in recent years. In particular, the chapter discusses the neoliberalism crisis associated with the coronavirus pandemic in higher education, drawing attention to the inequalities that it ignited: not all students were affected in the same way;not all universities or colleges were affected in the same way;and not all students had the learning technologies required to carry on their education in the same way. Alongside the COVID-19 concerns, the chapter reflects on other pressure points for change including developments in digital technologies and the internet and changing students and changing higher education markets in sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that these forces are among a wave of influences that higher education institutions across the African continent cannot ignore. They form a blend of neoliberal reforms that are pressurising academics to change pedagogical models and threatening certain core values of a university: academic freedom, autonomy, and truth. The chapter develops the argument that although multiple pressures-arising from the pervasive influences of technology and the COVID-19 pandemic-are mounting on the higher education sector to reform its pedagogical practices, it should not be at the expense of perpetuating injustices, particularly among students. © 2022 by Byron A. Brown.

Sentiment Analysis on Medical Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Shops Customer Reviews

Online shopping through e-commerce sites is becoming more prevalent with the expansion towards a more digital age in our society together with recent factors such that of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Through Machine Learning and the concept of Sentiment Analysis, algorithms would be able to identify the sentiment of reviewers by processing the words used in the sentence. The research aims to determine the reliability of star ratings compared to sentiment analysis and which classification algorithm suits best for text classification by Filipino customer reviews in Shopee for Medical Personal Protective Equipment or PPEs. It also aims to identify the best classifier model to use in terms of its performance. The study was divided into two models: star ratings and sentiment analysis. Both data sets performed different preprocessing techniques and tested for Naive Bayes and Support Vector Machine classification models, and their performance measures were obtained. The findings of the study show that star ratings and annotated reviews present high similarity in terms of the sentiment and polarity classified per review. In terms of the best performing model, Support Vector Machine achieved the best scores for the performance measures among the tests. © 2022 IEEE.

Exploring skill requirements for the industry 4.0: A worker-oriented approach

Emerging technologies are shaping the world of work, thus creating an increasingly digital industry, also known as "Industry 4.0”. Thus, examining skill requirements becomes essential to facilitate organizational adaptation to this technological revolution. The aim of this study was to explore the perception of skill requirements of workers of a highly technological manufacturing company. In Study 1 (n = 671), an exploratory factor analysis was carried out to identify relevant groups of skills. A year later, in Study 2 (n = 176), we confirmed the factor structure through a confirmatory factor analysis and we conducted a latent growth curve analysis to examine potential changes of the previous skill requirements due to the lockdown and the forced remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings showed that cognitive, functional business, strategic and managing people skills are considered as important resources for the industry 4.0, being the functional business skills increasingly relevant in time 2. Moreover, we identified differences between managers and subordinates regarding such skills. We discuss theoretical and practical implications for skills development in the digital age.Alternate :Tecnologías emergentes están dando forma al mundo del trabajo, creando así una industria cada vez más digital, también conocida como "Industria 4.0". Por tanto, examinar el requirimiento de habilidades se vuelve esencial para facilitar la adaptación organizacional a esta revolución tecnológica. El objetivo de este estudio fue explorar la percepción de las habilidades requeridas por los trabajadores de una empresa manufacturera altamente tecnológica. En el Estudio 1 (n = 671), se realizó un análisis factorial exploratorio para identificar grupos relevantes de habilidades. Un año después, en el Estudio 2 (n = 176), confirmamos la estructural factorial a través de un análisis factorial confirmatorio y realizamos un análisis de curva de crecimiento latente para examinar posibles cambios en las habilidades requeridas debido al confinamiento y el trabajo remoto forzado durante la pandemia del COVID-19. Los resultados mostraron que las habilidades cognitivas, funcionales del negocio, estratégicas y de gestión de personas se consideran recursos importantes para la industria 4.0, siendo las habilidades funcionales del negocio más relevantes en el tiempo 2. Además, identificamos diferencias entre gerentes y subordinados con respecto a tales habilidades. Discutimos las implicaciones teóricas y prácticas para el desarrollo de habilidades en la era digital.

Fraud Detection Model Using Semi-supervised Learning

Everything is moving to online platforms in this digital age. The frauds connected to this are likewise rising quickly. After COVID, the amount of fraudulent transactions increased, making this a very essential area of research. This study intends to develop a fraud detection model using machine learning's semi-supervised approach. It combines supervised and unsupervised learning methods and is far more practical than the other two. A bank fraud detection model utilizing the Laplacian model of semi-supervised learning is created. To determine the optimal model, the parameters were adjusted over a wide range of values. This model's strength is that it can handle a big volume of unlabeled data with ease. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

Learning in the Digital Age: Power of Shared Learning Logs to Support Sustainable Educational Practices

During the COVID-19 pandemic there was a rapid shift to emergency remote teaching practices and online tools for education have already gained further attention. While eLearning initiatives are developed and its implementation at scale are widely discussed, this research focuses on the utilization of data which can be logged in such eLearning systems. We demonstrate the need and potential of utilizing learning logs to create services supporting sustainable quality improvement of education. Learning and Evidence Analytics Framework (LEAF), is the overarching technology framework with affordances to adopt evidence-based practices for education. It aims to promote learning for all by introducing data-driven services for personalized approaches. © 2023 The Institute of Electronics.

A Virtual Reality Lab for Automotive Service Specialists: A Knowledge Transfer System in the Digital Age

Under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an accelerated transition from the traditional form of knowledge transfer to online learning. Our study of 344 automotive students showed that the success of this transition depends on the readiness to introduce special digital tools for organizing knowledge and conducting practical forms of classes. In this regard, a modern digital form of organizing and transferring knowledge to automotive service engineers in the form of virtual laboratories was developed and presented in the article. The work scenarios, functionality, and minimum technical requirements of virtual laboratories as software systems are described and reviewed in the paper. The rationale for the effectiveness of the application, based on the results of using 109 university students in training practice, is presented as a result of the research. An analysis of the distributions of the student survey results and their training progress revealed differences at the p = 0.05 significance level. This confirmed the hypothesis that the use of methods for teaching engineers special disciplines and language skills using VR technologies is much more effective than the traditional one. An increase in students' interest in learning was revealed, and their performance improved markedly. This proves that the immersive nature of VR technology makes it possible to better assimilate the studied material, increase the level of motivation of future car service specialists, and also allow the organization of the transfer of knowledge online. The very process of knowledge transfer becomes the point of acquiring new digital competencies necessary for high-tech industries. © 2023 by the authors.

Each discipline is different: teacher capabilities for future-focussed digitally infused undergraduate programmes.

Disciplines in Higher Education have their own interpretations of what is essential knowledge that influences what is taught, how teaching occurs, and the role of digital tools. Disciplinary culture is dynamic and evolving, informed by disciplinary research and technology improvement. During the COVID-19 pandemic, digital solutions enabled ongoing teaching when undergraduate courses could not be taught on campus, in lecture theatres, seminar rooms, laboratories, or in the field. Using digital tools and changes in teaching practices has created a context where Higher Education teachers must consider how future learning and teaching should occur. To explore this, a cross-discipline team used appreciative inquiry framed in complexity theory to examine how teaching in undergraduate programmes is changing in the digital age and implications for Higher Education teachers. The research identifies how digital technologies influence undergraduate programmes in Applied Statistics, Computer Science, Critical Indigenous Studies, Geography, and Information Systems. Analysis of the case studies identified how disciplinary culture, context, and technology combine to influence pedagogical practice and digital capabilities needed to teach in undergraduate programmes. We conclude that Higher Education teachers require capability in appropriate pedagogical practice that aligns with disciplinary culture and the technologies available.

The Cloud-powered Hybrid Learning Process to Enhance Digital Natives' Analytical Reading Skills

Analytical reading is a necessary cognitive skill for advancing to other skills required in the digital age. Thailand is focused on the instructional development and use of digital media to enhance the digital natives' analytical reading skills, which will assist learners of all ages in effectively and quickly adapting to changes in the digital environment. After the COVID-19 pandemic situation, educational institutions in Thailand have begun to embrace a hybrid learning approach like never before. The limitations of the existing learning process for boosting digital natives' analytical reading skills are the lack of integration between reading techniques, hybrid pedagogies, and emerging learning technologies to enhance learners' seamless learning experiences. Thus, this study aims to propose the Cloud-powered Hybrid Learning process (Cp-HL process) to enhance digital natives' analytical reading skills. This study consisted of two main stages in the research methodology: 1) learning process development;and 2) learning process evaluation. The developed Cp-HL process had four main learning phases: (1) preparation for hybrid learning;(2) presentation for interactive learning;(3) practice with analytical reading;and (4) progress reports on analytical reading skills. All the experts agreed that the newly developed Cp-HL process performed extremely well in terms of overall suitability. © 2023, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications. All Rights Reserved.

Transdisciplinary Communication as a Meta-Framework of Digital Education

Dynamic transformation of the knowledge economy, enhanced by Industry 4.0/5.0 development and rise of the networked society in the Digital Age, emergency digitization of all social communicative spheres due to pandemic measures have imposed dramatic changes onto transdisciplinary overlap in different areas of human knowledge and experience, induced by the cross-sectorial job market demands of university level education, curriculum design and learning outcomes. The Covid-19 pandemic induced amplified digitalization measures in the higher education sphere. This end-to end digital shift in the educational processes (communication, content, outcomes and outputs, skills) heralded the introduction of metadisciplinary dimensions of learning – digital, hybrid and, blended. These meta-disciplinary dimensions can be considered conduits of vertical (endocentric) and horizontal (exocentric) transdisciplinary of digital education as a communicative system. Applied trans-disciplinary lens contributes to the solution of holistic modeling of processes and results of updating models and mechanisms of the highly dynamic communication system of education in the digital environment as a whole and its individual formats in the emergency digitization measures of different types. Copyright 2022. © by the International Institute of Informatics and Systemics. All rights reserved.

The Dark Side of Social Media: How Does Criminal Law Behave?

The paper focuses on the mechanisms, offences and practices connected to unchartered (underdeveloped) crimes in the information society. The virtual world represents a central part of modern (modem) life, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Omnipresent social media, media sharing platforms, chat sites, web forums, and blogs radically change the way current societies operate. These instruments attract more and more attention from public security planners. This type of research is a normative legal study. The approach used is the law approach and conceptual approach. The legal material consists of primary and secondary legal materials. Basically, the Criminal law system has to adapt to social media to emphasise the legality principle (structure of cases in point) and guarantee measures (prohibition of broadening liability) in the post-modern world. This topic shall look at the role and the problems of criminal law related to multiple profiles, analysing the criminological aspects proposed below.

Understanding and Designing Technologies for Family Health Routines: Supporting Children in the Digital Age

Child health and well-being are declining in the U.S. with decreases in physical activity and preventive medical visits [19] and increases in child anxiety and depression, and especially since COVID-19. Children's health-related routines are developed and maintained within families to ensure that health-enhancing behaviors occur. In middle childhood, children have the capacity to be involved in tracking and planning routine health behaviors. However, technologies for family routines do not typically involve children's input. Additionally, children, parents, and researchers disagree on the extent to which technology should be a part of children's routines. Thus, it is important to study the role of technology in children's routines and the extent to which they want autonomy support. I apply a theoretical perspective that frames family routines as a form of collective behavior that renders health-related behaviors automatic, and that rely upon artifacts to prompt such automatic behaviors (e.g., teeth brushing). The dissertation uses an interview study and participatory design sessions with child-parent dyads to explore the nature of children's health-related routines in the digital age to better understand: (1) the role, if any, technology plays in family routine development, maintenance, and performance, (2) the impact of these uses on child health and well-being, (3) how parenting style influences these uses, (4) how children want technology to support their health and well-being, and (5) the extent to which children want technology to support autonomy in the development, maintenance, and performance of family routines. This dissertation will inform the design of family informatics tools that can provide autonomy support, which can positively influence child health and well-being. © 2022 Owner/Author.

Psychological fortitude model for digitally mindset working adults.

Introduction: The inception of Industry 4.0 (which includes smart digital technologies and intelligence), as well as the rapidly enforced adoption of the technological revolution due to the lockdown regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic, brought new situational demands, challenges and opportunities for both employees and organizations across the globe. Individuals are required to develop personal enablers (both intrapersonal and intradigital attributes) to optimize their psychological fortitude. Research on the intrapersonal resources needed by employees to have the fortitude to adapt to remote working conditions as a result of the digital era, is currently lacking. The igital era brought about the question of how individuals' career adaptability and career wellbeing (as a set of agile adaptable attributes) relate to their perceptions of the value-oriented psychological contract, and whether these intrapersonal resources can contribute to a psychological fortitude model for remote working employees. Method: This study utilized a survey method to investigate the correlations between agile adaptable attributes and the valueoriented psychological contract of global digital-mindset human resource and financial service organizations. Based on further canonical correlations, structural equation modeling was conducted to develop and recommend a psychological fortitude model for remote working adults in the digital age. Results: Close theoretical and empirical associations were found between career adaptability and career wellbeing (as agile adaptable variables) and the perceived value-orientated psychological contract. Discussion: This study proposed a psychological fortitude model (consisting of intrapersonal resources) that organizations and career practitioners can use as a basis to enhance employees' psychological fortitude in the digital age, as well as for further career research.

EVALUATION OF MEETING EFFECTIVENESS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF DIGITAL TOOLS

Meetings are an integral part of every company. During the meeting new ideas are generated, experiences are shared, decisions are made;therefore, it is necessary to make meetings more effective and productive. In today's digital age, which development was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, different digital tools are being created which help to organise various meeting management stages in a more qualitative way. With the help of digital tools, it is possible to significantly facilitate the observance of meeting plans, preparation of the meeting minutes and sending meeting minutes to the participants. This study is based on data collected from a specific focus group that provided information about their company and meeting management experience. This group was selected as potential clients of meeting management tool Meetinch. Using the Chi-square Independence Test and Principal component analysis the quality of meeting organisation and the readiness of meeting organisers to pay for a meeting management tool depending on other factors were examined. It was concluded that planning a meeting and summarizing the results are important for a quality meeting organisation. The readiness of companies to pay for a meeting management tool depends on the sector of the company, number of employees, the number of participants at the meeting and the possibilities of summarising the meeting results. © 2022, Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies. All Rights Reserved.

Decision-Making in the Pediatric Emergency Department-A Survey of Guidance Strategies among Residents.

(1) Introduction: Working in an emergency department requires fast and straightforward decisions. Therefore, decision guidance represents an essential tool for successful patient-centered care. Beyond the residents' own knowledge and experience, printed books have been the primary source of information in the past. The aim of this study was to discover which strategies current residents use the most and to identify alternative quick reference strategies in the digital age. (2) Materials and Methods: This study analyzed the responses of a short questionnaire directed at 41 residents in a single pediatric emergency department (32 pediatric and 9 pediatric surgery residents) over a period of one month. (3) Results: Thirty-three (80.5%) residents answered the entire questionnaire. Strikingly, responses indicated that printed books are still pivotal in guiding decision-making. In addition, the acquisition of information via computers or smartphones plays an increasing role. However, the opinion and council of the attending physician is still of great value to the residents and is not to be underestimated. Overall, most of the residents would prefer to have access to a specially designed smartphone application. (4) Conclusions: Certainty and validity are essential in decision-making in a pediatric emergency department. Although printed books and attending physicians are still considered as reliable sources of information, internet-based information plays an increasing role. In order to provide the best up-to-date and most recent information, a validated and consistently updated smartphone application could be a useful option.

Digital [Business;Transformation] Strategy: A Systematic Review Could companies benefit from a consolidated road to transformation?

New reality imposed by months of quarantine days caused by the global spread of COVID-19 affected mostly every industry. In this new digital age, new technologies are being incorporated continuously introducing new shapes of businesses. Companies able to adapt have a high probability of survival but, even now, digital transformation is still a challenge for traditional nondigital companies. A digital business strategy could guide the inevitable transformations that digital technologies trigger. This paper presents a systematic review of current literature on digital (business and/or transformation) strategies with the objective to identify, evaluate and interpret published research that could bring some light to the relevant aspects and pitfalls that should be considered in a digital transformation initiative. The review investigates what is known about the risks and multi-industry aspects in a digital strategy and the results show statistical data, gaps in current research and models of successful implementation. © 2022 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved.

A technology lens into the operationalization of resiliency and sustainability post Covid-19

Increasing concerns regarding the effects of climate change coupled with extraordinary societal challenges have correspondingly heightened the need to operationalize resiliency to foster socio-economic inclusivity, liberal politics and sustainable development. Technology, society, the environment and ecology are inextricably interwoven and, the inherent vulnerabilities of any delineation of systems are subject to complex transient, intransigent and evolutionary stressors arising from supervening casus fortuitus and other vis major events. This paper posits that memory is an elementary form of technology, and reiterates the view that nature's endowment of enduring memory founds the twinned concepts of resilience and sustainability. The discourse expounds the uncertainty spectrum in terms of opportunity, risk, reliability and resilience and reinforces the belief that the fusing and application of the various forms of technology provide the means for operationalizing resiliency and sustainability in the current digital age of the anthropocene era of Society 5.0. © 2022 IEEE.

Higher Education to Support Sustainable Development: The Influence of Information Literacy and Online Learning Process on Chinese Postgraduates’ Innovation Performance

Digitalization provides opportunities for sustainable development. Cultivating postgraduates’ digital skills is an important task of higher education to support sustainable development (HESD). As a crucial way of cultivating digital skills, high-quality online learning processes are of great significance to achieve “Quality Education”, in line with the 2030 sustainable development agenda. Based on Biggs’s 3P (Presage-Process-Product) learning model, this study focused on the whole learning process and explored the relationship among postgraduates’ information literacy, online platforms, online knowledge-sharing processes and their innovation performance. The analysis of a questionnaire survey of 501 Chinese postgraduates showed that (1) information literacy has a positively predictive effect on postgraduates’ innovation performance;(2) different online learning processes lead to different learning results. Compared to the quantity-oriented online knowledge sharing process (Qty-KSP), the quality-oriented online knowledge sharing process (Qlty-KSP) is related to better innovation performance, which opens onto this study’s third finding: (3) Qty-KSP and Qlty-KSP play a parallel mediating effect between postgraduates’ information literacy and their innovation performance. Compared to Qty-KSP, Qlty-KSP is a more powerful intermediary variable, which leads to this study’s fourth finding;(4) an efficient online learning environment can contribute to higher-quality online learning process, thus improving postgraduates’ innovative performance. This study suggests that policy makers should develop postgraduates’ digital skills for sustainable development in the digital age. This can be achieved by (1) cultivating postgraduates’ information literacy;(2) encouraging them to practice high-quality online learning processes;and (3) providing an efficient sharing platform for sustainability, resilience, and digitalization in higher education.

A Comparative Analysis of Various Models for Assessment of Trust in Digital Age Accelerated by Covid-19

The Coronavirus pandemic has made Irreversible changes in our society and the business world. Almost all aspects of the business and daily routine have shifted to the digital platforms and various forms of personal, indirect communications and suit the current environment in guarding us against coronavirus. The outbreak also brought a refreshing load of creativity in the people who found new ways to solve everyday problems. The key to solving problems is effective communication. With the help of mobile devices and computers, people were able to change their environment so that their expression of thoughts and their tasks of daily routine got aligned with social media platforms. People express themselves as if they are not going to get another chance to express themselves. They use doodles, poetic tweets, and many other forms of colloquial language. Using mixed language such as Hinglish became a norm for the commoner. In this research work, an attempt has been made to review techniques that can be used to work trust models from which meaning insights can be drawn in times such as covid-19 pandemic. From this study it can be inferred that no single approach of modeling complex scenarios such trust in times of covid-19 can be done. There is an urgent need to take inspiration from multiple techniques and approaches to assess the trust level in the digital society. © 2021 IEEE.