ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Teaching EFL in the Local Culture: Tunisian Students of English as a Case Study
Author: Sellami-Sellami, Yosra
Date: 2021-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,College Freshmen,Student Attitudes,Student Motivation,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,Cultural Differences,Student Interests,Ethnocentrism,Global Approach,Language Proficiency,Barriers,Language Teachers,Teacher Role

This research explored the attitudes and motivations of first-year students of English enrolled at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities of Sfax, Tunisia, during the academic year 2018-2019 towards learning English as a foreign language. Attitudes and motivations were investigated according to three variables: culture shock, interest in the English language, and ethnocentrism. Analysis of the relationship between language and culture paved the way for examining students' reactions towards learning English as a foreign language. Students feel very differently about English as a way of knowing the world, networking, and living a full life of a global citizen. Attitudes range from discomfort, anxiety, and confusion. A questionnaire was used to collect data about students' attitudes and motivational orientations towards learning English as a Foreign Language. The study indicated that most students do not like English-speaking people and reject some of their cultural values. It also showed that these students choose to learn English primarily for instrumental reasons. This paper concludes with solutions aiming to reduce the difficulties teachers of English as a Foreign Language encounter in the local Tunisian cultural context.
Guided Self Paced Learning through an Online Course on Basics of Nature Cure in India
Author: Sarkar, Kalyan
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Independent Study,Online Courses,Medicine,Folk Culture,Diabetes,Diseases,Life Style,Course Descriptions,Social Media,Information Technology,Foreign Countries,Holistic Approach,Health Education,Teaching Methods,Video Technology,Asian Culture

The field of pure nature cure, health and holistic education are very important for human well being. To achieve the real health and happiness, education is the key. The genesis of this online course on Basics of Nature Cure lies in overcoming of some ailments which the author of this article suffered such as diabetes, ankylosing spondylitis, chronic rhinitis etc. These all done just by modifying the lifestyle and the philosophy. This article describes the course and its delivery process using Social Media and other technology platforms.
Opportunities for Educational Diplomacy in South Asia
Author: Pandey, Umesh Chandra
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Open Education,Distance Education,Geographic Regions,Regional Cooperation,International Relations,Sustainable Development,Space Sciences,Satellites (Aerospace),Educational Development

The South Asia is at the focus of Post 2015 developmental agenda primarily because of the largest concentration of poor population. Though the region is growing at the rate of 6% during past 20 years the inequalities are on rise. It is a major impediment in the realization of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The glaring socioeconomically inequalities in the region call for major educational interventions in the region. Open and Distance Learning systems (ODL) have emerged as a viable option due to its potential to smooth out inequalities. However the growth of these systems has been largely uneven in the region. Whereas some of the countries have been able to develop world class capabilities to design and deliver such programmes, the smaller countries have little policy level sensitization on these matters. The Quality, Scope and Diversity of these programmes make them ideal option for Educational Diplomacy. Regional Cooperation based on ODL can help the South Asia to achieve SDGs. Such soft diplomatic initiatives will build &quot;People to People Contacts&quot;, create workforce to Strengthen Trade, develop Mutual Appreciation and Trust in South Asian Communities. Further it will counter the hard diplomatic interventions of developed countries and balance the geopolitical environment of the South Asian region. This article evolves a perspective for networking of ODL institutions for meeting the emerging developmental needs and describes the issues which come across such a networking.
Instruction of Mathematics in Higher Education in the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Turkey
Author: Ardiç, Mehmet Alper
Date: 2021-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Mathematics Instruction,College Mathematics,Teaching Methods,COVID-19,Pandemics,School Closing,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Distance Education,Foreign Countries,College Faculty,Teacher Attitudes,Barriers,Conventional Instruction

The purpose of this study is to determine how mathematics instruction is carried out at the higher level of education in COVID-19 pandemic and what are the effects of these teaching activities. In the study, the case study model was used in which 30 lecturers with expertise in mathematics from 20 different universities in Turkey participated. In the study, the opinion form was used as a data collection tool. Descriptive analysis and content analysis methods were used in analyzing the data. It was found that before the pandemic, the use of technology in mathematics education by the lecturers was quite rare and at a basic level. In the pandemic process, it was observed that lecturers conducted their teaching synchronously or asynchronously with the traditional teaching approach, as before the pandemic, with distance education as the teacher-centered approach. It was understood that the main problems encountered during distance education were the difficulties encountered in teacher-student interaction and the inability to carry out assessment and evaluation activities in a healthy manner. It has been observed that the problems encountered especially in assessment and evaluation make it difficult to understand the actual impact of teaching mathematics during the pandemic on student learning. In fact, it was found that at the beginning of the pandemic, universities gave various instructions to their lecturers various trainings on distance education. However, these instructions were usually technical in scope and insufficient to overcome the difficulties encountered in the process, so that mathematics instruction was carried out with an understanding of 'emergency distance education&quot; rather than formal distance education. On the other hand, the experience of distance education gained during the pandemic process had a positive influence on the views of a significant proportion of the lecturers on the integration of technology in mathematics education.
Short Message Service (SMS) as an Innovative Mobile Learning Approach in Malaysia
Author: Marzo, Roy Rillera
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Telecommunications,Handheld Devices,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Written Language,Student Attitudes,Undergraduate Students,Student Centered Learning

Mobile phones usage had extensively penetrated into the world. A study done by the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) found that in the first quarter of year 2010, the penetration rate for cellular phone in Malaysia is 121 per 100 inhabitants. Penetration rate over 100% occurs because of multiple subscriptions (Adnan, 2012). Malaysia has the second highest mobile penetration in South East Asia after Singapore (Baharom, 2013). The learners appreciated the text messages and felt that SMSes had helped them to stay focused and engaged in their studies. SMS emphasized learner-centered, where the learner can access information anytime, anywhere in order to build their skills and knowledge. SMS is also a community-centered where the learners were required to collaborate and share their views on the discussion topic enhancing constructive learning experience. This article presents the importance of SMS as an innovative approach for mobile learning in Malaysia.
English Language for Refugees at Higher Education
Author: Ipek, Omer Faruk
Date: 2021-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Refugees,College Students,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,Language Teachers,Student Attitudes,Resilience (Psychology),Student Experience,Coping

After the massive immigration caused by the war in middle east, English language filled the communication gap between the people of host counties and refugees. Framing the study with language learning for resilience, in this qualitative case study, the status of refugee students at a Turkish higher education foreign language institution has been investigated to find out: (a) educational background of refugee students, (b) refugees' current state of language learning for resilience, and (c) instructors' positions on English education for resilience. Two Iraqi, one Syrian refugee students and their two language teachers participated in this study. To collect data, semi-structured interviews were conducted. The results showed us that although these students are coming from different educational backgrounds, they hold similar beliefs about English education and have hopes for their future. It is implied that with special and intensive assistance, being competent in English language will open the gates to global opportunities for refugees.
Brazil&apos;s Social Justice Policies for Higher Education: What Can We Learn from Asia?
Author: Nery, Matheus Batalha Moreira
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Social Justice,Educational Policy,Teaching Methods,Foreign Countries,Higher Education,Enrollment Trends,State Universities,Student Financial Aid,Online Courses,Distance Education,Educational Opportunities,Low Income Students,College Attendance,Access to Education,Confucianism,Decision Making,Educational Strategies,Federal Aid,Educational Finance,Elementary Secondary Education,Models,Comparative Education

Brazil tertiary education has evolved substantially in the last 20 years. The policies set up by the Brazilian government aimed at different targets. There were actions to expand the enrollments in the country's public universities, mainly through a program called Reestruturação e Expansão das Universidades Federais (REUNI). The government also invested in increasing the enrollments in private universities and colleges through the government students' loans program, called Programa de Financiamento Estudantil (FIES), and through a grant program, called Programa Universidade para Todos (PROUNI). And finally, the policymakers also encouraged the development of online distance learning programs as a way to compensate for the lack of higher education opportunities in the areas located far away from Brazil's most developed cities. The FIES and PROUNI were implemented as social justice policies to create opportunities for students from lower-income families to pursue a higher education degree. However, There are claims that the social justice subsidy model adopted by the Brazilian government isn't sustainable. On the other side of the world, countries from Asia-Pacific are exploring different strategies to increase both enrollments and quality in tertiary education based on Confucian principles. This Confucian Model led scholars to believe that the Asia-Pacific countries were ready to compete against the tertiary education offered in the western hemisphere. Therefore, firstly, the author's analysis focuses on the pivotal decisions that shaped Brazil's higher education system. In sequence, the author examines some key learning points from the Asia-Pacific countries that adopted a tertiary education strategy based on the Confucian Model. The author proposes that to ensure the Brazilian social justice policies efficacy the country's policymakers should consider developing a more comprehensive rationality involving a long-term thinking strategy for its primary, secondary and tertiary education, mixing government funds and social engagement, in a course of action that can boost academic quality and enrollments. In summary, the author presents recommendations to policymakers, scholars, and HEI administrators regarding the development of Brazilian social justice policies for tertiary education.
Distance Education in Brazil: Quality and Democratization of Access Go Hand in Hand
Author: Sathler, Luciano
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Distance Education,Foreign Countries,Educational Quality,Access to Education,Higher Education,Undergraduate Students

The objective of this article is present the scenario of higher education offered at as distance learning mode in Brazil better known and to demonstrate that the students' academic performance has no significant differences comparing to face-to-face qualifications, which demonstrates the effective incorporation of new technologies and methodologies. It was analysed the only large-scale parameter whose data are public and can be compared vis-a-vis, by the years 2015 and 2016. It also aim to draw attention to distance education as a way that can be expanded to establish multilateral research networks, exchanges and partnerships that work on the complementarities and different challenges of The BRICS Network University, established in 2015.
New Languages for the History: Transformations Mediated by the Digital Technology
Author: Matta, Alfredo
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,History Instruction,Knowledge Level,Databases,Geographic Information Systems,Geography,Computer Simulation,Educational Games,Open Educational Resources,Maps,Cooperation,Networks

Based on the 15 years long analysis on the investigation about the relationship between Research and Knowledge in History and the Development of Digital Technology for the teaching and research in this knowledge area, comes up an interpretation of the new contributions that the digital technologies are bringing for the knowledge in History, from the innovations on the content and the interpretations, up to the several innovations on the way that the knowledge in History starts to interact with the several subjects potentially interested parties: researchers, teachers, students, citizens of several origins and interests. The technologies of the information - TI are starting, it seems to, a new stage of the dialogue among this knowledge field and others, but also with the potentially interested subjects, which start to get closer and with more critical potential of the knowledge in History.
Perspectives on a Graduate Online Course That Modeled Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to Teach UDL
Author: Parra, Julia
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Attitudes,College Faculty,Teacher Attitudes,Online Courses,Technology Education,Access to Education,Instructional Design,Graduate Students,Student Educational Objectives,Learning Processes,Student Centered Learning,Diversity,Learner Engagement,Brainstorming,Problem Based Learning,Case Method (Teaching Technique),Multimedia Instruction,Democracy,Assignments,Learning Activities

The purpose of this article is to provide the instructor and learner perspectives of an online learning technologies course that used Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles to support the teaching of UDL. Course design was based on current standards and literature related to online course design including ADDIE, Quality Matters Standards, and Universal Design for Learning (UDL). The qualitative study was conducted during Spring 2018 at the conclusion of an online course titled, &quot;Universal Learning for Online Course Design&quot; at a Southwestern University in the US. The instructor provided a design narrative and four graduate students who participated in the course provided learner narratives that were reviewed and analyzed by two external researchers. The findings from this study support continued improvement of course design for the next iteration of the UDL Course, as well as providing ideas for other educators interested in implementing UDL concepts in their courses.
The Intersection between Real and Virtual in Contemporaneity through 3D Modeling for the São João da Bahia Theater in Brazil
Author: Gomes, Maria Antonia Lima
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Museums,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Computer Simulation,Graduate Study,Theaters,History

This article is the result of the experience as a teacher and historian, and especially of the doctoral thesis, defended in the year 2017, through the Graduate Program in Education and Contemporaneity at the State University of Bahia, construction of a 3D modeling solution for the São João da Bahia Theater, considered as a pole and reflection of the praxis of the Savior of the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries. The conception was developed from the problem of the inexistence of a modeling in the socio-constructivist perspective for the São João da Bahia Theater. In this way, the research aimed at possibilities for the subject, understood here as intellectual in the Gramscian perspective, to be a historian of oneself (subject subject), to build new knowledge (metacognition) through meaningful learning, mediated by the practice of visitation and interaction with the museum proposed.
Review of the Views of Secondary School Maths Students on Skills-Based Questions
Author: Nayiroglu, Büsra
Date: 2021-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Secondary School Students,Secondary School Mathematics,Mathematics Instruction,Foreign Countries,Secondary School Teachers,Mathematics Teachers,Teacher Attitudes,Mathematics Skills,Mathematics Tests,Textbook Content,Faculty Development,Educational Resources,Test Items,Achievement Tests,Mathematics Achievement

In this study, secondary school mathematics teachers' the opinions related to skills-based questions that are compatible with the LGS (High School Transition Exam) question style were examined. Qualitative research methods were adopted in the study. Mathematics teachers working in secondary schools in various parts of Turkey participated in the study. The data is collected via the semi-structured interview form via the &quot;Google drive&quot;. Content analysis was used in data analysis. The findings revealed that maths teachers did not agree with the achievements of their skill-based questions, and that the maths course's teaching programs and textbooks were not sufficient to provide effective guidance on skills-based questions. It turns out that teachers need a new course processing process for skill-based questions such as LGS questions. Therefore, it was discovered that they were experiencing a shortage of resources. It was also identified that teachers needed to read books and need in-service training as skill-based questions are questions to understand and interpret what they are reading. Recommendations were made in accordance with the results.
The Teaching Design and Application of Diversified Open English Educational Resources in Open Distance Learning in China
Author: Li, Xia
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Open Educational Resources,Distance Education,Electronic Learning,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Blended Learning,Content and Language Integrated Learning,Computer Science Education,Foreign Countries

As the main content, the design quality of diversified Open English Educational Resources in Open Distance Learning will directly affect the learners' learning interest, learning motivation and learning validity. Its practical optimization design is the important way to arouse the distance learners' learning efficiency. This article brought directly out of the CDIO Initiative. Based on the characteristics of the engineering, we analyzed and researched the computer English teaching architecture (Conceive); Designed the computer English learning content (Design), Used the diversified Open English Educational Resources in Open Distance Learning and the excellent global IC3 learning platform to teach (Implement), in support of E-learning English environment, we used the Blended-learning to improve computer English listening, speaking, reading, writing ability , in the same time, we can also guide the students to complete the study, testing, and computer skills (Operate).
Reformations and Promoting Active Learning via Course Based Research [CBR] at the University of Fiji
Author: Chand, Ravneel Rajneel
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Active Learning,Foreign Countries,Student Research,Undergraduate Students,Learner Engagement,Instructional Effectiveness,Biology,Science Education,Student Attitudes

Learning and teaching is geared to provide lifelong skills to its pupils -- who are able to contribute to the economy not only as physical capitals, more so as human capitals with the source of wealth for social and economic development. At the backdrop of this vision is the University of Fiji's five years Annual Strategic Plan 2017-2021, that relentlessly pursuits to develop a knowledge society through the University's work-ready graduates. One of the undergraduate courses in the field of Science is exactly road mapping its course to expose learners to a great degree of research through hand-on research experience. This paper aims to investigate the merits of entailing Course-Based Research (CBR) practice in Science at undergraduate level at a tertiary institution. The paper further attempts to explore the plausible benefits of tying research experience at undergraduate study that is primarily content heavy and theoretical in nature. The paper provide recommendations for courses pitched at undergraduate level to consider entailing research experience in their programmes given the benefits it provides to learners venturing into the work field.
Reforms through E-Governance in Distance Education in India
Author: Santosh, Sujata
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Governance,Distance Education,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Planning,Program Implementation,Progress Monitoring,Higher Education,Educational Administration,College Admission,Electronic Libraries,Educational Resources,Management Information Systems,Web Sites,Barriers

Electronic Governance (E-governance) in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) System is the utilization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for the governance and management of the ODL institutions. This includes planning, implementation, and monitoring of university programs, projects, and activities. Interest in e-governance is growing with the increasing use of information and communication technology (ICT) by government to improve the quality of governance and service delivery. ODL system, commonly known a distance education, has evolved as an effective medium to support the increasing demand for education of a variety of learners, in a developing country like India. In the 21st Century, most of the learners entering the ODL institutions are digital natives. This makes it more important that the e-governance is an integral part of the ODL system to deliver cost-effective education, with dedicated learner services, and improved processing of transactions within the institution, and between the government and other agencies. In this paper we discuss about e-governance in distance education context. We also highlight some of the important initiatives such as implementation of enterprise resource planning solution, online admission system, national open and distance learners' library and information network, taken by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), a premier Open University in India, towards e-governance. The paper also discusses various issues and challenges related to the planning, development and implementation of e-governance projects and initiatives in an ODL institution.