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In a financial accounting course, it is important that students review the learning material multiple times throughout the semester. Nonetheless, procrastination behaviour is adopted by many ... accounting students. Procrastination behaviour, induced by low self-efficacy, is harmful as it leads to higher test anxiety. Hence, interventions are suggested to favourably influence procrastination. Based on Astin's (1984) theoretical Input–Environment–Output model, this study investigates the potential of voluntary online exercises — online formative assessments (OFAs) — to increase self-efficacy and decrease test anxiety. The setting involves a quasi-experiment in a financial accounting course. Quantitative OFA log data are used (N = 762), as well as survey data, measuring self-efficacy and test anxiety at the beginning and the end of the semester. Qualitative focus group data verifies if the quantitative results are in line with students' OFA perceptions. Findings show that (1) during the semester, students' self-efficacy decreases and test anxiety increases, (2) students using OFA experience an increase in self-efficacy, and (3) those students also tend to experience lower test anxiety. Students confirm these favourable effects based on their experiences with the OFAs. This paper contributes to accounting education by demonstrating how OFAs support accounting students to increase self-efficacy and decrease test anxiety. more

The application of information technology to self-assessment has received a lot of attention in recent years. Several previous studies have discovered a positive relationship between online ... self-assessment and academic performance. This study aimed to confirm the relationship between online self-assessment and learning outcomes and self-assessment skills among grade 11 students in Vietnam. With a total of 160 students, this research had been designed as quasi-experimental. The two groups did the self-assessment in different ways over the six weeks of impact implementation. To perform an online self-assessment, the intervention group employed interactive online exercises that delivered instant feedback on Liveworksheets. Throughout this period, the control group engaged in traditional self-assessment. The study found that the intervention group’s final test scores (7.7) were higher than the control group’s (6.3), and their self-assessment skills were more developed at the end of the study. The study confirms the positive relationship between online self-assessment and learning outcomes and self-assessment skills among grade 11 students in Vietnam. The findings suggest that online interactive exercises with immediate feedback can improve learning outcomes and that regular online self-assessment can enhance students’ self-assessment skills. Conceptually, this study contributes to the growing body of research on the application of information technology in education and gives insight into the potential of online self-assessment as a promising tool to promote student learning and development. The results of this study can serve as early data to investigate the effectiveness of online self-assessment in diverse educational settings. more

When switching to online teaching, the question arises about the feasibility, methods and form of transposing existing teaching materials into the Internet and creating new ones. The aim of the study ... is to show what opportunities electronic educational environment ViLLE, developed in Finland, has for teaching Russian as a foreign language and as a second home language. The material of the article include exercises created in this e-environment, and the methods of the research include various software and pedagogical solutions aimed at implementing the methodology. During research, starting in 2017, e-learning platform ViLLE has allowed the Russian language to find and to take its place in Finlands digital language teaching system. Different courses were created, with different sets of tasks and exercises that can be used by teachers and students of any educational institution. Some of the courses, among them those aimed at bilinguals, provide an opportunity to familiarize students with the included theoretical material. Having mastered the necessary minimum skills of using ViLLE, any teacher can independently modify tasks and exercises, combine them in the desired sequence and volume, and thus create courses adapted to the needs of their students. An integrated performance analysis system makes their work easier by allowing the teacher to focus on a specific language teaching problem. The results showed that among the existing electronic educational resources, online platforms and e-learning environments are the most essential tools for teaching a foreign/second language, since only they give the teacher the opportunity to independently plan and structure the entire educational process, manage it, use existing materials and create new ones, automatize certain functions, combine various educational events, and communicate with students. The article compares criteria for evaluating such resources and dividing them into two categories: (1) general criteria that include multi-functionality, the set of features provided by the environment, and compatibility with regard to encoding and format of training materials and other system components; (2) those considering needs of specific teachers and students and their resources, namely, resource administrating, creating tasks and courses, managing and monitoring the learning process. The future plans concern carrying out extensive monitoring of the effectiveness of the system in school and university teaching. more

У статті обґрунтовано актуальність застосування інтернет-технологій у медичних закладах освіти в умовах карантину під час пандемії COVID-19. Здійснено аналіз наукових джерел у контексті застосування ... інтернет-технологій в освіті. Метою статті є визначення результативності організації освітнього процесу за допомогою освітніх інтернет-технологій, зокрема освітнього блогу, ментальних карт та онлайн-вправ сервісу LearningApps, під час підготовки майбутніх лікарів і фахових молодших медичних бакалаврів під час вивчення фахових дисциплін. Висвітлено основні питання організації онлайн навчання студентів-медиків, також перевірено ефективність запропонованого підходу. Описано результати опитування майбутніх лікарів і молодших медичних фахових бакалаврів стосовно їх оцінювання сучасного викладання фахових дисциплін у медичних закладах освіти. Дослідження проводилось у Вінницькому національному медичному університеті та медичних коледжах Вінницького регіону в 2017-2020 роках. Освітній процес у дистанційному режимі охоплював онлайн заняття з використанням освітнього блогу Blogger, ментальних карт Mindomo та інтерактивних вправ сервісу LearningApps. На початковому етапі дослідження було визначено недостатній рівень професійних знань і практичних навичок студентів-медиків. Виявлено недоліки професійної підготовки майбутніх медиків під час вивчення фахових дисциплін, зокрема традиційність підготовки та обмежене використання ІКТ у медичних закладах освіти. Емпіричну базу на формувальному етапі педагогічного експерименту склали 247 студентів та 70 викладачів фахових дисциплін Вінницького національного медичного університету та медичних коледжів Вінницької області. На формувальному етапі педагогічного експерименту студенти контрольної групи навчалися за традиційною методикою, а їхні викладачі фахових дисциплін використовували традиційні технології навчання. Студенти експериментальної групи навчалися за інноваційними методиками, а їхні викладачі використовували сучасні інтернет-технології. У результаті майбутні медики експериментальної групи показали кращі результати, ніж студенти контрольної групи. Зроблено висновок, що використання Інтернет-технологій в освітньому процесі значно покращує якість та ефективність навчання, наближає студентів до реальних умов клінічного середовища, дає змогу якісно вдосконалювати свої практичні навички. Ефективність використання блогів, ментальних карт та онлайн-вправ LearningApps під час викладання фахових дисциплін була перевірена шляхом проведення комплексного клінічного оцінювання. Статистична перевірка також підтвердила ефективність впровадження інтернет-технологій. Перспективи подальших досліджень зумовлені необхідністю використання педагогічного досвіду онлайн-технологій в організації ізольованого дистанційного навчання в медичній освіті під час вивчення природничих, соціально-економічних та гуманітарних дисциплін у сучасних умовах воєнного стану в Україні. more

e-Learning has become increasingly important in chemical education and online exams can be an attractive alternative to traditional exams written on paper, particularly in classes with a large number ... of students. Ten years ago, we began to set up an e-course complementing our lecture courses Organic Chemistry I and II within the open-source e-learning environment Moodle. In this article, we retrace a number of decisions we took over time, thereby illustrating the challenges one faces when creating online exercises and exams in (organic) chemistry. Special emphasis is put on the development of MOSFECCS (MOlecular Structural Formula Editor and Calculator of Canonical SMILES), our new editor for drawing structural formulae and converting them to alphanumeric SMILES codes that can be submitted as answers to e-problems. Convinced that the possibility for structure input is essential to set up sensible chemistry quizzes and exams, and realising that existing tools present major flaws in an educational context, we decided to embark on the implementation of MOSFECCS which takes into account a number of didactic aspects. more

〔Aims〕This study sought to clarify how nursing students acquire fundamental skills through face-to-face and online learning paradigms.〔Methods〕This study comprised a text mining analysis of the ... reflections of nursing students enrolled at a nursing university during the 2019 and 2020 academic years.〔Results〕The word with the highest number of occurrences was “patient” in both the face-to-face and online exercises. The analysis extracted 10 student learnings from face-to-face exercises and 8 student learnings from online exercises.〔Conclusions〕At the beginning of face-to-face exercises, students were mainly in the psychomotor area based on the behavior of their own technology that they were interested in. Therefore, instructors should increase students’ awareness of the importance of nursing skills early in their studies and support them as they learn. The focus of online exercises was cognitive domains, and the material was mainly adapted from textbooks. Nursing instructors generate critical connections between knowledge and skills without focusing too closely on nursing students’ mastery of technical behaviors. more

Employee selection and group decision-making skills are critical for ensuring hiring is valid, meets organizational goals, and considers ethical and legal limitations. This exercise has participants ... role-play members of a search committee reviewing job finalists using shared and unique information. A novel twist to traditional hidden-profile exercises is introduced by including unique information inappropriate for employment decisions (e.g., health information, an old misdemeanor charge). By uncovering unshared details and deciding whether to discuss potentially biasing information, learners practice group decision making and consider legal issues. While exploring professional guidelines and best practices, the exercise acknowledges that managers occasionally know sensitive or potentially biasing information. Although primarily an human resource activity, the exercise includes a traditional hidden-profile variant with organizational behavior learning goals. Both variants are appropriate for learners across the organizational spectrum. A teaching note for adapting the in-person exercise for synchronous or asynchronous online delivery gives detailed instructions for popular learning management systems. more

〔目的〕対面演習とオンライン演習での日常生活援助技術に関する学生の学びを、演習後のリフレクションから明らかにする。〔方法〕2019年度と2020年度に、A大学看護学部において、日常生活援助技術を演習した学生のリフレクションを対象とし、テキストマイニング分析を行った。〔結果〕もっとも出現回数の多い語は、対面演習・オンライン演習ともに『患者』であった。対面演習では10個の学び、オンライン演習では8個の学びが抽出された。〔考察〕対面演習の初期には、自身の技術行動において気になった現象から精神運動領域を中心に学習していたことから、看護技術の根拠を早期に意識付け学習できるように教員が関る必要性が示唆された。オンライン演習では、教科書を中心に認知領域の学習をしていたことから、看護実践の際は自身の技術行動に集中しすぎず、知識を技術に結び付けられるように教員が関わる必要性が示唆された。

Technology and Education for Career Heights (Project TECH) was designed to help Temporary Assistance to Needy Families participants enhance their literacy through distance learning as a means to ... promote job retention and career advancement. The evaluative research presented in this report was intended to gather information from the participants of Project TECH about their experience with distance learning training curriculum. The report describes Project TECH and what happens when participants who are low-income workers are given a computer, basic training software, Internet access, and training coupled with instruction form a instructor who met with them face to face weekly and provided daily online coaching and instruction. It highlights participants' experience with online instruction and the use of computers in their homes, and it concludes with lessons learned from the project. The information is useful for those wanting to design and develop a distance learning program to increase adult literacy for families that needs to comply with Temporary Assistance to Needy Families work requirements and other demands. more

SubstanceAbusePrevention.org, a virtual Community, is a 3.5-year project initially funded by the US Department of Commerce, Technology Opportunity Program. Its purpose was "to determine what proven ... components of substance abuse prevention in 'real' communities can be effectively transferred into 'virtual' communities." Teens in drug treatment helped university researchers translate resiliency-based prevention practices into a Web site that would appeal to their peers. The 24 strategies tested fall in the categories of prevention exercises, games, multimedia, and information. This article describes the development process along with the lessons learned and future directions. The information is useful for those wanting to design and develop interactive Websites that address human service problems. more