The design of physical education (PE) lessons is an ongoing research project that encompasses elements such as teaching ideas, teaching objectives and teaching methods. Music is regarded as the ...pinnacle form of beauty and combining it with PE not only improves the effectiveness of PE lessons, but also increases the artistry of PE lessons. The purpose of this study is to examine the combination of music and cycling lessons in order to determine the effectiveness of cycling lessons in a musical environment. For study one, 95 undergraduate students were randomly selected to participate in the experiment in two conditions (
age = 20.00 years,
= 1.00 years): (1) with music, (2) without music. For study two, 10 students were randomly selected to cycle in three study conditions: (1) synchronous music, (2) asynchronous fast music and (3) asynchronous slow music. Heart rate (HR), rating of perceived exertion (RPE), Exercise-Induced Feeling Inventory (EFI) and sport performance were measured. There were significant differences in HR, RPE, EFI and exercise performance between the two conditions with and without music, and the group with music performed higher than the group without music. In study two, ratings of perceived exertion were significantly lower for the synchronous music condition at 25, 30 min of the steady state portion of the cycling trials. No significant difference between conditions were found in HR, EFI and sport performance. An innovative fundamental model for teaching physical education courses in a musical environment was developed, including five sections: (1) selection of teaching mode, (2) setting of teaching objectives, (3) teaching process and content arrangement, (4) teaching evaluation and (5) precautions. With the addition of a musical environment, sport performance can be enhanced by triggering students' emotions and cognition.
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.
This article investigates the concept of flipped learning in an online learning environment. It evaluates the case study of the award-winning flipped learning project carried out in the context of a ...beginners' level German module at The Open University, UK, during the academic year 2017/18. In particular, the article focuses on the similarities between distance teaching and the flipped classroom methodology, and possible complements. Based on the evaluation of the OU Flipping German project, the study also makes suggestions on how to implement elements of flipped learning in the provision of online teaching.
Different types of information sources that are inherent in the teaching environment generate a variety of informational fields and flows, which creates difficulties for students in choosing tools ...for processing, display and analysis of information. The purpose of the work is to show new opportunities that are provided due to geometrization of informational flows in the "student--informational teaching environment" system on an interdisciplinary basis. It allows comparing informational teaching flows with their graphic images--geometric models, which greater visibility contributes to their thorough research and analysis using interconnected parameters and statistical indicators. The use of unified means of exposing the structure of informational flows and fields facilitates the analysis of their spatiotemporal consistency. This will contribute to optimization of the teaching environment structure, the adaptability of which will give students a sense of efficiency while teachers will get new opportunities for creating innovative tools for teaching and self-education. Keywords: teaching environment, informational flows, graphic images, management structure, functioning cycle, formation of stress resistance, educational problems
Two common approaches to grouping students include an approach where students are grouped based on their aptitude and a cross-sectional approach where equal groups are formed and comprised of ...students of varied aptitudes. Instructional Grouping Theory is the study of how selection strategies impact the learning of group members. Using a non-biased, mathematically centric analysis, we found that a liked-skilled tiered grouping strategy is preferable to a cross-sectional grouping strategy when the goal is to facilitate the learning of all students. In addition, we found that a higher teacher-to-student ratio provides further benefit when analyzing the potential for facilitated learning.
Clinical teaching models are crucial for nursing students' learning experiences as students learn and socialise in a complex clinical context. An innovative clinical partnership model, employing ...hospital-based clinical teachers to provide supervision and university teachers to liaise with students, has been developed to facilitate clinical teaching and enhance learning experiences.
The study aims to explore nursing students' learning experiences under this clinical partnership model.
An exploratory qualitative study using focus group interviews.
Twenty-eight pre-registration nursing students at undergraduate and postgraduate level participated in this study.
Students formed four groups with each consisting of six to eight students. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to explore students' experiences and perceptions of clinical learning in the clinical partnership model. The data analysis was guided by an inductive approach using content analysis.
The narrative data relates to the clinical learning environment and experience. Nursing students found the clinical partnership model provided a conducive learning context facilitating their adaption to the new environment and integration with the healthcare team. Though students spent time developing mutual understanding with their clinical teachers, they were satisfied with the ample opportunities to practise and learn from their teachers. They appreciated the fact that teachers enriched their learning through bridging the theory-practice gap and acting as role models.
The clinical partnership model enriches students' learning experiences. It provides a student-centred learning approach and supportive clinical environment which engages nursing students in learning.
A busca por uma qualidade de ensino tem-se ignorado aspectos relevantes no processo de ensino aprendizagem. Assim, este estudo analisou as abordagens de estudo, percepções do ambiente acadêmico, ...motivação e preferências de aprendizagem dos acadêmicos em uma instituição de ensino superior localizada na região oeste do Estado do Paraná. Quanto ao método, utilizou-se de uma pesquisa de levantamento, abordagem quantitativa e natureza descritiva, as fontes de dados se deu por meio de questionário, apresentado por Ullah et al. (2011), que trata da percepção do ambiente acadêmico, preferências para diferentes tipos de curso, ensino e avaliação, motivação acadêmica e a abordagem de aprendizagem. No processo de análise utilizou-se de estatísticas descritivas, análise de confiabilidade, análise fatorial, testes de normalidade, análises de correlações, análise de agrupamentos e testes de comparativos de médias. Quanto aos resultados, verificou-se que a qualidade percebida possui um relacionamento mais forte com a abordagem profunda de estudo, preferência dos acadêmicos por cursos que tenham características de suporte de entendimento e, ainda, as variáveis habilidades, qualidade do ensino docente e recursos físicos, que fazem parte da avaliação o ambiente acadêmico, relacionam positivamente com a qualidade percebida.
Teachers' self-efficacy plays an essential role in shaping an effective teaching and learning environment. We investigated the factors influencing teachers' self-efficacy in three typical and ...influential East Asian countries: China, Japan, and South Korea. Data were sourced from the
2018 Teaching and Learning International Survey. We used hierarchical linear modeling to examine the effects of teacher-and school-level factors on teachers' self-efficacy. Results show that teaching years, teaching practices, disciplinary climate, teacher-student relationships, job
satisfaction, and social utility motivation to teach were significantly associated with teachers' selfefficacy in each location. In addition, at the school level, teachers in China who worked in private and urban schools had higher self-efficacy than those who worked in public and rural schools.
Implications for improving teachers' self-efficacy in East Asia are discussed.
This study describes the development and implementation of the Elementary School Teachers’ ePCK (EST:ePCK) questionnaire to measure teachers’ awareness about generalized PCK in the context of ...environmental education (EE). We compared responses of teachers who completed a graduate degree program designed to improve teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for EE with those who did not attend the program. This allowed us to consider the potential impact of such a program on teachers’ ePCK. Additionally, we examined what factors could contribute to differences in teachers’ awareness about ePCK beyond their participation in a professional development program. Findings show that teacher education programs can have a positive influence on teachers’ awareness about their own ePCK. However, in order to transform teachers’ classroom practices, programs need to offer more instruction about how to actually implement EE topics using integrative approaches and in real classroom contexts. Findings also suggest the need for additional research focused on understanding the kinds of PCK teachers need to be able to integrate instruction across several content areas and makes clear the need for programs to make explicit to teachers when program goals seek to develop different kinds of PCK.
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