Videoconferencing tools, like Skype, etc., are being increasingly used in language education worldwide. Despite assumed socio-affective and pedagogical benefits of using webcams in synchronous online ...language lessons, such as the feeling of co-presence or the possibilities of non-verbal communication, little is known about attitudes held by experienced online teachers towards webcams and their actual use of this tool during private online language lessons. This study interviews 20 experienced online language tutors and 20 adult students about their attitudes towards webcams and their use of webcams. The findings suggest that most teachers and students only used webcams at the start of their lessons for socio-affective reasons and discontinued the use of webcams after the first 2-3 weeks. Some common reasons for reducing the use of webcams were the perception of 'webcamming' as a more tiring mode, the feeling of self-consciousness and privacy concerns. The study calls for more research on the use of webcams, webcam-specific semio-pedagogical skills and suggests directions of future studies.
This research is the development of the online instruction with design-based thinking for the construction of creative products. The population of this research included experts and the first year ...undergraduate students from the Department of Educational Innovation and Technology, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University. According to the results, it is found that (1) the quality of the online lessons with design-based thinking is at a very high level, (2) the scores of learning achievement after learning the said online lessons are higher than those before learning these online lessons with a significance level of .01, (3) the scores of creative products created by the students after learning through the online lessons are at a very good level, and (4) the satisfaction toward the learning through online lessons with designbased thinking for the construction of creative products is at a very high level.
The purpose of this research is to propose a new educational method for group work exercises aimed at fostering ”future strategic design business producers”. This research paper presents the overall ...lesson plan for the group work exercise, focusing on the specialized subject ”Global Product Strategy II” of the Faculty of Business Management at Aoyama Gakuin University, which has been offered from 2015 to the present. The feature of the new educational method of the group work exercise is that it corresponds to P2M and further combines project-based learning and active learning. Online lessons were introduced in 2020 due to the influence of the new corona, and the next research purpose is to present a system concept of the hybrid learning platform that can handle both face-to-face lessons and online lessons.
In 2020, the spread of COVID-19 forced online education to popularity. At present, the online lessons of some colleges and universities still have a lot of problems. They fail to give full play to ...the advantages of the Internet information technology. Meanwhile, dilemmas exist in the aspects of teaching, learning and teaching platform. Based on all these problems, this paper starts from the present situation of online lessons of colleges universities during the pandemic period. Through research statistics and data analysis, this paper summarizes typical problems of online lessons during the pandemic period and puts forward the main approaches of using the Internet information technology to optimize online lessons.
The main objective of the D-VET project is to develop a methodology to help teachers to create online lessons in an efficient way. Other objective is to mobilize and incentivize Vocational Education ...and Training educators to take concrete actions for their upskilling and reskilling in the transition from paper to digital education and teaching. These objectives are in line with Vocational Education and Training priorities by contributing to innovation in vocational education and training and increasing its attractiveness. It was carried out a survey that intended to analyse the teachers' perceptions regarding their competencies in online teaching. The main conclusions of this study are that teachers reported that they spend more time preparing online classes and they have poor specific training in distance learning and difficulties in applying e-learning in VET.
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