In order to explore the correlation between students’ seat choice and interaction preference in the open gamification scenario, an experiment has been carried out on the platform of provincial ...virtual simulation experiment teaching center of a university, and tested the relationship between absolute distance, seat type, workstation type, and students’ interaction preference. The results show that in the virtual-reality fusion gamification scenario where students can move freely: (1) The inner circle students can stimulate the outer circle students’ willingness to invest in learning. (2) The task attribute and the seat distribution of the group may lead to the difference of students’ interaction preference. (3) Students are more likely to learn knowledge and skills by interacting with “people” rather than “object.” (4) Gender and major influence students’ experience of participating in gamified teaching. The results confirm that the interactive engagement effect of location does exist in immersive virtual-reality fusion gamification teaching scenario, and suggestions are put forward to adjust the effect of location through instructional design and teacher intervention.
Quality education involves three key identifiable components: teaching, student, and the environment within which teaching and learning takes place. Much of the existing literature has been devoted ...to the first two elements with the last of them being relatively disproportionately represented, particularly in a typical developing country context. The study deployed a mixed-method approach to explore lecturers’ views on the adequacy of a frequently-used teaching and learning space (lecture theatre complex) in the University of Cape Coast. A total of 106 respondents were recruited for the study using the convenience sampling approach and data was collected using a questionnaire which had both close and open-ended items. The findings suggest that the assessment of the facility revealed mixed results. While it was highly ranked on environment and ambiance, it scored poorly in ergonomics and technology. On the balance however, the data generally suggests that the lecture theatre complex largely did not measure up to respondents’ expectations as a standard teaching and learning facility. It is recommended that the building be redesigned or air conditioning be installed in the classrooms for more ventilation. Also, regular maintenance of the faculty will be useful to help it meet the exigencies of modern day teaching and learning at the tertiary level.
The article deals with the issues of children’s cultural and linguistic development in the pro-cess of foreign languages early learning and offers theory and practice foundation for children’s ...cognitive and intellectual development. The necessity of improving early language education in con-nection with the identified causes at the socio-pedagogical, scientific-theoretical and scientific-methodological levels is substantiated. The focus on the in-depth study of the classical theory of preschool children psychophysiolog-ical features is logically argued. Taking as a basis L.S. Vygotsky’s cultural and historical concept which includes D.B. Elkonin’s activity approach, the article determines the necessity of creating a teaching environment while providing a broad game basis as the main source of the subject, game and speech activity of the child acquiring cultural and linguistic material. The didactic organization includes the definition of the purpose, principles, requirements for selecting the content and development of modern technology for early developing foreign language teaching. Having adopted a number of educational and game methods after Klarin, the practice-oriented and scientifically-based language development of children is modified, the stages of work-ing with children on language material (presentation, comprehension of the content, involvement in speech activity, discussion of the lesson with children) are described, including both the didactic foundation and the child’s reaction to his/her learning activity. In group game activities, children learn to think, feel and act independently, to find mutual understanding with peers and the teacher, to criticize themselves for wrong actions, to represent the results of their work (to talk, describe, ex-plain, draw, select illustrative material). In conclusion, the results of children’s mastery of cultural and linguistic knowledge are given and a modern interpretation of children’s language development in the framework of an early learn-ing is proposed.
As the latest and most popular concept in the world, metaverse as well as its application and technology integration has attracted the attention of all walks of life including information, economics, ...management, design and education, etc. However, the definition of metaverse as a technology or an intelligent scene still has no unified consensus in the academic and scientific fields. We believe that the metaverse should be a key concept and emerging theory in the future field of wisdom. This research focuses on the evaluation of the importance of college teaching courses for future education in the context of the metaverse, and discusses which courses may be greatly affected by the concept of the metaverse. First, on the basis of analyzing the scholars’ understanding of the concept of the metaverse and related application research literature, we give the specific framework of this paper and the definition of the edu-metaverse, and propose a future intelligent teaching environment construction model based on the metaverse. It should be noted that our research is under the framework of the metaverse intelligent teaching construction model, and mainly focuses on the in-depth analysis of the teaching evaluation problem in colleges, which is a multi-attribute decision-making problem in the field of systems science. We propose an improved Pythagorean fuzzy multi-attribute decision-making method based on cumulative prospect theory, including improved scoring function, improved distance measure method, improved combination weighting method, etc., and construct a cumulative prospect value function. The proposed theory and method were applied to teaching courses of 10 majors in Chinese colleges to construct an importance evaluation indicator system. The importance of the courses was ranked, verifying the applicability and scientificity of the proposed method. The research content of this paper can provide a reference for the decision-making of Chinese education authorities. More importantly, the method proposed in this research is also universal, and can also provide theoretical support and experience reference for multi disciplines and fields, such as financial investment, engineering construction evaluation, enterprise management decision-making, and emergency management, etc.
The scientific literature has already identified the influence of thermal conditions on health and performance of students. However, users' opinions are often overwhelmed by normative evaluations, ...not receiving the necessary attention.
To quantitatively compare the influence of air temperature variability on the thermal perception of students from six air-conditioned teaching environments located in four regions of Brazil.
Three-day experiments were carried out in six environments. A thermal condition was proposed for each day. From that, the environmental parameters were measured and a questionnaire about the thermal perception was applied. Then, Generalized Linear Models were applied to obtain a measure of effect and hypothesis test and confidence interval were used to find comfort zones and compare environments.
The results showed that students from environments A, B, C and E felt less the effects of the increase in air temperature compared to students from environments D and F. In addition, students from environments A, B, C and E showed less perceptual variability compared to students from environments D and F.
Students acclimated to higher thermal conditions felt less the effects of the increase in air temperature, showed less perceptual variability and a higher degree of thermal adaptability.
To explore the defining attributes, antecedents, and consequences and identify the approximate concepts of smart teaching.
A concept analysis of smart teaching informed by Walker and Avant's ...classical concept analysis method.
Major databases: China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wangfang Data, VIP Database, Web of Science, PubMed, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Xplore Digital Library, Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library, Educational Resources Information Center, Scopus, and Science Direct were searched.
The search strategy yielded 5407 papers. Screening for inclusion resulted in a review of 32 articles.
Five attributes of smart teaching were identified as the participating groups, teaching process, teaching forms, components, and characteristics. Additionally, two antecedents were clarified: smart education philosophy and smart teaching environments. Finally, the consequences of smart teaching were identified as the generation and development of the wisdom of teachers and learners.
The conceptual attributes of smart teaching align with the characteristics of current teaching practice, which can provide conceptual support for theoretical and practical research on smart teaching and are of great significance for clarifying concepts, constructing theories, and promoting education and teaching reform.
•A concept analysis of smart teaching informed by the Walker & Avant classical concept analysis method.•Five attributes of smart teaching were identified as the participating groups, teaching process, teaching forms, components and characteristics; two antecedents were clarified as the smart education philosophy and smart teaching environments; and the consequences of smart teaching were identified as the generation and development of wisdom of teachers and learners.•As the carriers of the smart education philosophy, smart teaching is the important processes and means to achieve the goal of smart education and the most direct reflection of smart education at the teaching level.•Smart classrooms are an important process and key link in the implementation of smart teaching, and the realization of smart teaching depends on the establishment and development of smart classrooms.
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