This research has thrown up many questions in need of further investigation.There was an expressive quantitative-qualitative research, which a common investigation form was used in.The dialogue item was also applied to discover if the contributors asserted the media-based attitude supplements their learning of academic English writing classes or not.Data recounted academic” insights toward using Skype as a sustaining implement for lessons releasing based on chosen variables: their occupation, year of education, and knowledge with Skype discovered that there were no important statistical differences in the use of Skype units because of medical academics major knowledge. There are statistically important differences in using Skype units. The findings also, disclosed that there are statistically significant differences in using Skype units due to the practice with Skype variable, in favors of academics with no Skype use practice. Skype instrument as an instructive media is a positive medium to be employed to supply academic medical writing data and assist education. Academics who do not have enough time to contribute in classes believe comfortable using the Skype-based attitude in scientific writing. They who took part in the course claimed that their approval of this media is due to learning academic innovative medical writing.
This research is done by the researcher to investigate kinds of ICT used by English lecturers for non-English Study Program students at IAIN Curup and to investigate the roles of ICT for the English lecturer at IAIN Curup. This research used descriptive quantitative Because the questioner's results were evaluated and explained in the explanatory form.The questionnaire used as the instrument to collect the data. Questionnaire about the ICT used by the English lecturers for non-English Study Program students at IAIN Curup and the role of ICT for English Lecturer. Five processes is used to analyze the data from questionnaires in this research. They are (1) data managing of research result, (2) reading/memoing of result, (3) description of result; (4) classifying of research result and (5) interpreting of research result. The result showed that the lecturers always used three types of ICR in teaching English in the classroom, they were the speaker, educational games, and website resources. The reason for them using three types of ICT because it was easy to use and cheap. In using the ICT, the lecturers have a different opinion about About ICT's role in promoting its learning operations. The use of ICT in the teaching and learning system had 7 (seven) roles. It is about the role of ICT in motivating, attracting, and enhancing the success of learners in studying English.
This paper represents an investigation into teachers barriers towards the use of E-curricula in teaching Arabic language. It explores questions about the approaches to teaching and the motivations of using E-curricula. The main research method used was semi structured interviews. Many factors were found to influence the use of E-curricula, some of them were surprising and revealing. An unwillingness to challenge or change traditional teaching methods can be assured. These findings contribute to a better-informed appreciation of the state of teaching as well as E-curricula in basic stage schools in Jordan.
This research is done by the researcher to investigate kinds of ICT used by English lecturers for non-English Study Program students at IAIN Curup and to investigate the roles of ICT for the English lecturer at IAIN Curup. This research used descriptive quantitative Because the questioner's results were evaluated and explained in the explanatory form.The questionnaire used as the instrument to collect the data. Questionnaire about the ICT used by the English lecturers for non-English Study Program students at IAIN Curup and the role of ICT for English Lecturer. Five processes is used to analyze the data from questionnaires in this research. They are (1) data managing of research result, (2) reading/memoing of result, (3) description of result; (4) classifying of research result and (5) interpreting of research result. The result showed that the lecturers always used three types of ICR in teaching English in the classroom, they were the speaker, educational games, and website resources. The reason for them using three types of ICT because it was easy to use and cheap. In using the ICT, the lecturers have a different opinion about About ICT's role in promoting its learning operations. The use of ICT in the teaching and learning system had 7 (seven) roles. It is about the role of ICT in motivating, attracting, and enhancing the success of learners in studying English.
This paper represents an investigation into teachers barriers towards the use of E-curricula in teaching Arabic language. It explores questions about the approaches to teaching and the motivations of using E-curricula. The main research method used was semi structured interviews. Many factors were found to influence the use of E-curricula, some of them were surprising and revealing. An unwillingness to challenge or change traditional teaching methods can be assured. These findings contribute to a better-informed appreciation of the state of teaching as well as E-curricula in basic stage schools in Jordan.
Enhancing Multimedia Communication Components in Instructional Consulting Ser...Waqas Tariq
Online consultation - one of the advancement of communication technology in consulting service is conducted electronically in various contexts such as online medical consultation, IT consulting and online financial service. It enables participants communicate in synchronous and asynchronous way (Caulat and Erik, 2006). Many consulting service in business context and health organization are making use of multimedia communication technology by conducting consulting service online. However, implementation of this technology in instructional consultation in higher education is not fully integrated. This may due to lack of investigation, analyzing and proper strategy planning on problem encountered by students and lecturer. This paper discuss about the limitations of typical instructional consultation and students’ perspective and perceptions on conducting consulting service online. The potentials benefits of communication components for students in higher education are determined by investigate their perceptions and perspectives on implementation of communication technology for instructional consulting service online. The limitations of typical instructional consultation that elicited from literature review are included in this quantitative research study in order to investigate precisely students’ response pertaining to instructional consulting service in higher education. Data was solicited from a sample of 130 students in College of Arts and Science (CAS), College of Business (COB) and College of Law, Government and International Studies (COLGIS) in Universiti Utara Malaysia via simple random sampling method. Student’s response to Five point Likert-type scale anchored by the terms Strongly Disagree (1) to Strongly Agree (5), Not Important (1) to Extremely Important (5) and Never (1) to Very Often (5). The finding of the research revealed that students were generally positive about potential of multimedia communication tools for traditional consultation system in higher education organization.
THE SUITABILITY OF SELECTED SOCIAL MEDIA FOR LANGUAGE EDUCATIONijejournal
This study determined the factors that influence the application of social media to teaching-learning process; investigated applicable choice of social media relevant in the teaching-learning process and; determined the impact of social media on students’ language learning. Descriptive survey research design was employed. The population consist all Basics 6-9 school pupils in Osun State, Nigeria. Multistage sampling procedure was adopted. 670 pupils were sampled using stratified sampling procedure. A selfdeveloped instrument titled ‘Social Media Teach (SMT)’ with reliability coefficient of 0.762 was used to collect data. Pearson correlation and simple percentages were used in analysis. The study found the factors influencing application of social media to teaching-learning process include ease of access to learning materials (77.5%); freedom of expression (62.5%); increase interaction (language use) between peers (60%) and; improving pupils’ language skills (55%). The factors accentuated that social media has a place in language education. Study also found some social media applications appealing to learners in language education in the study area to include Google+, YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The study further revealed positive relationship between the integration of social media into language education and performances in school (r = 0.245, p ˂ 0.05). Study concludes that the integration of social media in language education will improve language skills, expressions and school performance at basic schools.
The outburst of information technology in the later parts of the twentieth century has taken the whole world into its scope. There is an ever growing use of computers in the workplaces and universities. The purpose of this study was to measure the attitudes of the English language university instructors towards the use of computers. It was a descriptive study and data was collected by a survey. This study’s population consisted of two hundred university instructors equally divided into male and female. These instructors were randomly selected from different universities. The findings revealed that there was a significant difference between the views of the males and females instructors. Moreover, those who had no professional qualification had the highest mean score. The English language university instructors should be trained in the use of computers so that they might be able to use them more effectively in classroom settings.
High digital literacy is significantly needed by English teachers in the trend of industrial revolution 4.0 to promote a better quality of English teaching and learning. However, a significant number of English teachers, as well as pre-service teachers, still had low digital literacy scale and they were not ready to implement digital technologies into English teaching and learning process. This study was aimed to describe the digital literacy scale of graduate school students of English Education Department in a state university in Yogyakarta as pre-service teachers and their readiness toward the application of digital technologies in teaching and learning contexts. The research used mix-methods to collect both quantitative and qualitative data through Likert-scale questionnaires and interviews. The study revealed that the research participants had high digital literacy scales and readiness toward the application of digital technologies. Thus, those graduate school students as pre-service teachers could fulfill the requirements of professional English teachers in terms of digital literacy and improve the quality of English teaching and learning output by integrating digital technologies.
Presentation the internet in efl teacher educationmemogreat
This is a presentation of my paper entitled, "The Internet in EFL Teacher Education: Investigating the Possibilities and Challenges in a Pre-service Teacher Education Programme
ON THE USAGE OF DATABASES OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS IN MACEDONIAN EDUCATIONIJITE
Technologies have become important part of our lives. The steps for introducing ICTs in education vary from country to country. The Republic of Macedonia has invested with a lot in installment of hardware and software in education and in teacher training. This research was aiming to determine the situation of usage of databases of digital educational materials and to define recommendation for future improvements. Teachers from urban schools were interviewed with a questionnaire. The findings are several: only part of the interviewed teachers had experience with databases of educational materials; all teachers still need capacity building activities focusing exactly on the use and benefits from databases of educational materials; preferably capacity building materials to be in Macedonian language; technical support and upgrading of software and materials should be performed on a regular basis. Most of the findings can be applied at both national and international level – with all this implemented, application of ICT in education will have much
bigger positive impact
TEACHER EDUCATORS’ PERCEPTION TOWARDS PEDAGOGICAL BENEFITS OF WIKIThiyagu K
Wikis are considered to be one of the best ways of combining Information Communication Technology (ICT) with teaching and learning methodologies in a classroom, The application of blogs and wikis in higher education, particularly in teachers‘ preparation programs, has been documented very recently (Dunaway, Michelle. 2011). The majority of teachers are neither familiar, nor skilful in employing this tool in the process of learning. Exposure to this tool during pre-service and in-service preparation program is thought to be helpful in promoting willingness to use it in teaching career (Bassoppo-Moyo, 2006). Therefore, the current study is a trial to study reports on their perceptions towards the learning experiences they had during academic wikis and the advantages and disadvantages of incorporating this web technology into the curriculum. So that, the investigator proposed the title of the study is “Teacher Educators’ Perception towards the Pedagogical Benefits of Wiki in a Tirunelveli District”. The main aim of the study is to assess the perception towards the pedagogical benefits of wiki among the teacher educators of Tirunelveli district. Survey method is employed for this study. The investigator has chosen 150 teacher educators as a sample for the study in a random sampling technique. Finally the investigator concludes; (a) Average level perception towards pedagogical benefits of wiki among the teacher educators. (b) There is no significant difference in the mean scores of teacher educators’ perception towards pedagogical Benefits of Wiki with respect to their gender, age, subject, marital status, year of experience and educational qualification.
Enhancing Multimedia Communication Components in Instructional Consulting Ser...Waqas Tariq
Online consultation - one of the advancement of communication technology in consulting service is conducted electronically in various contexts such as online medical consultation, IT consulting and online financial service. It enables participants communicate in synchronous and asynchronous way (Caulat and Erik, 2006). Many consulting service in business context and health organization are making use of multimedia communication technology by conducting consulting service online. However, implementation of this technology in instructional consultation in higher education is not fully integrated. This may due to lack of investigation, analyzing and proper strategy planning on problem encountered by students and lecturer. This paper discuss about the limitations of typical instructional consultation and students’ perspective and perceptions on conducting consulting service online. The potentials benefits of communication components for students in higher education are determined by investigate their perceptions and perspectives on implementation of communication technology for instructional consulting service online. The limitations of typical instructional consultation that elicited from literature review are included in this quantitative research study in order to investigate precisely students’ response pertaining to instructional consulting service in higher education. Data was solicited from a sample of 130 students in College of Arts and Science (CAS), College of Business (COB) and College of Law, Government and International Studies (COLGIS) in Universiti Utara Malaysia via simple random sampling method. Student’s response to Five point Likert-type scale anchored by the terms Strongly Disagree (1) to Strongly Agree (5), Not Important (1) to Extremely Important (5) and Never (1) to Very Often (5). The finding of the research revealed that students were generally positive about potential of multimedia communication tools for traditional consultation system in higher education organization.
THE SUITABILITY OF SELECTED SOCIAL MEDIA FOR LANGUAGE EDUCATIONijejournal
This study determined the factors that influence the application of social media to teaching-learning process; investigated applicable choice of social media relevant in the teaching-learning process and; determined the impact of social media on students’ language learning. Descriptive survey research design was employed. The population consist all Basics 6-9 school pupils in Osun State, Nigeria. Multistage sampling procedure was adopted. 670 pupils were sampled using stratified sampling procedure. A selfdeveloped instrument titled ‘Social Media Teach (SMT)’ with reliability coefficient of 0.762 was used to collect data. Pearson correlation and simple percentages were used in analysis. The study found the factors influencing application of social media to teaching-learning process include ease of access to learning materials (77.5%); freedom of expression (62.5%); increase interaction (language use) between peers (60%) and; improving pupils’ language skills (55%). The factors accentuated that social media has a place in language education. Study also found some social media applications appealing to learners in language education in the study area to include Google+, YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The study further revealed positive relationship between the integration of social media into language education and performances in school (r = 0.245, p ˂ 0.05). Study concludes that the integration of social media in language education will improve language skills, expressions and school performance at basic schools.
The outburst of information technology in the later parts of the twentieth century has taken the whole world into its scope. There is an ever growing use of computers in the workplaces and universities. The purpose of this study was to measure the attitudes of the English language university instructors towards the use of computers. It was a descriptive study and data was collected by a survey. This study’s population consisted of two hundred university instructors equally divided into male and female. These instructors were randomly selected from different universities. The findings revealed that there was a significant difference between the views of the males and females instructors. Moreover, those who had no professional qualification had the highest mean score. The English language university instructors should be trained in the use of computers so that they might be able to use them more effectively in classroom settings.
High digital literacy is significantly needed by English teachers in the trend of industrial revolution 4.0 to promote a better quality of English teaching and learning. However, a significant number of English teachers, as well as pre-service teachers, still had low digital literacy scale and they were not ready to implement digital technologies into English teaching and learning process. This study was aimed to describe the digital literacy scale of graduate school students of English Education Department in a state university in Yogyakarta as pre-service teachers and their readiness toward the application of digital technologies in teaching and learning contexts. The research used mix-methods to collect both quantitative and qualitative data through Likert-scale questionnaires and interviews. The study revealed that the research participants had high digital literacy scales and readiness toward the application of digital technologies. Thus, those graduate school students as pre-service teachers could fulfill the requirements of professional English teachers in terms of digital literacy and improve the quality of English teaching and learning output by integrating digital technologies.
Presentation the internet in efl teacher educationmemogreat
This is a presentation of my paper entitled, "The Internet in EFL Teacher Education: Investigating the Possibilities and Challenges in a Pre-service Teacher Education Programme
ON THE USAGE OF DATABASES OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS IN MACEDONIAN EDUCATIONIJITE
Technologies have become important part of our lives. The steps for introducing ICTs in education vary from country to country. The Republic of Macedonia has invested with a lot in installment of hardware and software in education and in teacher training. This research was aiming to determine the situation of usage of databases of digital educational materials and to define recommendation for future improvements. Teachers from urban schools were interviewed with a questionnaire. The findings are several: only part of the interviewed teachers had experience with databases of educational materials; all teachers still need capacity building activities focusing exactly on the use and benefits from databases of educational materials; preferably capacity building materials to be in Macedonian language; technical support and upgrading of software and materials should be performed on a regular basis. Most of the findings can be applied at both national and international level – with all this implemented, application of ICT in education will have much
bigger positive impact
TEACHER EDUCATORS’ PERCEPTION TOWARDS PEDAGOGICAL BENEFITS OF WIKIThiyagu K
Wikis are considered to be one of the best ways of combining Information Communication Technology (ICT) with teaching and learning methodologies in a classroom, The application of blogs and wikis in higher education, particularly in teachers‘ preparation programs, has been documented very recently (Dunaway, Michelle. 2011). The majority of teachers are neither familiar, nor skilful in employing this tool in the process of learning. Exposure to this tool during pre-service and in-service preparation program is thought to be helpful in promoting willingness to use it in teaching career (Bassoppo-Moyo, 2006). Therefore, the current study is a trial to study reports on their perceptions towards the learning experiences they had during academic wikis and the advantages and disadvantages of incorporating this web technology into the curriculum. So that, the investigator proposed the title of the study is “Teacher Educators’ Perception towards the Pedagogical Benefits of Wiki in a Tirunelveli District”. The main aim of the study is to assess the perception towards the pedagogical benefits of wiki among the teacher educators of Tirunelveli district. Survey method is employed for this study. The investigator has chosen 150 teacher educators as a sample for the study in a random sampling technique. Finally the investigator concludes; (a) Average level perception towards pedagogical benefits of wiki among the teacher educators. (b) There is no significant difference in the mean scores of teacher educators’ perception towards pedagogical Benefits of Wiki with respect to their gender, age, subject, marital status, year of experience and educational qualification.
This exploratory study was aimed at evaluating a module on the basis of the constructivist learning strategies to enhance the students’ motivation in Statistics learning. The design and development followed the Universal Design of Learning principles. The design included flexible instructional materials, techniques, and strategies for differentiating instruction which benefited the students of English Education Department taking the Statistics course. The study used a survey covering of 33 students. The students’ and teacher’ responses to questionnaires revealed that the students’ motivation and satisfaction increased toward the Statistics course in which Universal Design of Learning using various means of representation, action, and engagement was applied. It also suggested that the module was effective and that the Universal Design of Learning Model from the learners’ viewpoint put more emphasis on instruction. Its content was suitable in designing and developing module on Statistics in the higher educational context in Indonesia. The study results are expected to reveal information on how to further improve the Statistics teaching and learning quality. The implications of the research are provided along with suggestions.
Recent Trends in E-Learning and Technologies IIJSRJournal
This work centers around the various advances accessible to help instructing and learning in e-Learning frameworks whose significance for schooling educators and framework designers is obvious. It is important to decide the most fitting e-learning advances to help the individual necessities in instructing, which make it conceivable to give the best learning freedoms to understudies, considering the current circumstance where instructive frameworks have quick requests got from the Covid 19 pandemic, which makes homeroom based instructive practices offer way to far off exercises. There are as of now drifts in the improvement of an assortment of accessible advances which might be outlined in Web environments and Virtual Reality among other arising advances; subsequently, the choice to utilize a specific innovation should be founded on strong exploration and obvious proof. This article audits a considerable lot of these e-Learning framework innovations and gives data, about their utilization, openings and patterns being developed.
Encouraging knowledge sharing using webIJMIT JOURNAL
As the technology continuous to advance, new technologies have emerged with the capability to
revolutionize knowledge sharing practices. Web 2.0 exemplifies such new technologies, which provides
dynamic way of interactions of people and businesses. In learning environment, Web 2.0 technologies
support and enhance teaching and learning of students. Therefore, the main aim of this study focuses on the
determining the ways to encourage knowledge sharing through web 2.0 technologies from students’ point
of views. A total of 287 students responded to the online questionnaire in International Islamic University
Malaysia (IIUM). Descriptive statistics was used in data analysis. The results show that students used web
2.0 technologies in learning and sharing knowledge among them. In addition, the study found eight items
on ways to encourage and enhance knowledge sharing among students in the University. These items
include Create Awareness, Provide facilities, Internet Accessibility, Ease of use, Encourage Teamwork,
Materials Availability, Improved and Response, and Motivation.
International Journal of Education (IJE)ijejournal
International Journal of Education (IJE) is a Quarterly peer-reviewed and refereed open access journal that publishes articles which contribute new results in all areas of Educatioan. The journal is devoted to the publication of high quality papers on theoretical and practical aspects of Educational research.
The goal of this journal is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on Educational advancements, and establishing new collaborations in these areas. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews are invited for publication in all areas of Education.
The way adults pursue their education through life is changing as the technology around us
relentlessly continues to enhance our quality of life and further enhances every aspect of the
different tasks we set out to perform. This exploratory paper looks into how every adult can
embody a comprehensive set of academic services, platforms and systems to assist every
individual in the educational goals that one sets. A combination of three distinct technologies
are presented together with how they not only come together but complement each other around
a person in what is usually referred to as a personal area network. The network in this case
incorporates an intelligent personal learning environment providing personalised content,
intelligent wearables closer to the user to provide additional contextual customisation, and a
surrounding ambient intelligent environment to close a trio of technologies around every
individual. Each of the three research domains will be presented to uncover how each
contributes to the personal network that embodies what one usually expects from an educational
institution. Three distinct prototype systems have been developed, tested and deployed within a
functional system that will be presented in this paper.
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Button, D., Harrington, A., & Belan, I. (2014). E-learning & information communication technology (ICT) in nursing education: A review of the literature. Nurse Education Today, 34(10), 1311-1323.
There is need for constant updating of informatics in fields such as nursing so as to help those in the fields to be able to learn and utilize the skills they learn in positive development of children and personal development. This resource is aimed at performing a study spread out across a ten year period identifying the issues which arise and affect both tutors and students in the context of e-learning systems. This study has been significantly the largest change in the field of medicine and nursing education where hospital training was moved to the tertiary sector. Also, the existing differences between computers and systems dealing with informatics depending on their use can prove successful to the users. Technology has also enabled for the creation and use of online data sources and libraries for purposes of referencing and gaining knowledge.
From this reference I will be able to review how technology has been used in developing an online database which can be used by learners and tutors in the field of nursing to gain information.
FernáNdez-LóPez, Á. RodríGuez-FóRtiz, M. J., RodríGuez-Almendros, M. L., & MartíNez-Segura, M. J. (2013). Mobile learning technology based on iOS devices to support students with special education needs. Computers & Education, 61, 77-90.
Recent advancements in technology have assisted in creation of avenues for students with special needs to be able to access equal education opportunities. Mobile applications can be developed for children especially with cognitive disabilities and other difficulties which may arise in the process of learning to help them gain knowledge and education better. These applications can be used as a tool for improvement and betterment of behaviors, helping them interact with the environment and other aspects of holistic growth such as helping in communication. These applications can be designed for Apple iOS devices due to their increased use in the American market however developments can be made to incorporate other platforms. However, there exists a number of applications which have already been implemented and have proven to be successful in helping in positive growth n children.
I intend to use this source to sow how technology can be used to teach children with disabilities and difficulties in learning. Technology can be harnessed and channeled to be used as a tool for education outside the school to help for better growth and development of a child.
Lai, K. W., Khaddage, F., & Knezek, G. (2013). Blending student technology experiences in formal and informal learning. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 29(5), 414-425.
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Digital self efficacy and language learning enhancement in an online settingJames Cook University
Shakaramia, A., Khajeheia, H., & Hajhashemi, K. (2013). Digital Self-Efficacy and Language Learning Enhancement in an Online Setting. Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research (JBASR), 3(11), 80-84.
Abstract: The importance of personal factors such as personality traits, learning strategies, self-esteem, and self-efficacy in the complicated task of language learning has been established for years. However, the introduction of computers, networks and their wide communication affordances, seem to impact many aspects of learning and teaching and particularly language learning and teaching. The storage place, manner, and magnitude of learning materials for example, have shifted from the human mind to portable digital storage places that consequently require different types of aggregation, retrieval, and usage of information. Noting the rapid communication of today through networking, ICT competency plays important roles with all its related applications and software that turn the talented user into an enhanced player in the wired world. It was the underlying premise of this research study to identify how freshman Iranian language students view their technology competencies and command to impact their socialization and web-assisted language learning process in the connected world of today.
It was found that most of the Kazerun Islamic Azad university students of English (34 freshman )show positive attitudes toward the adoption of online learning materials and web-based socialization applications such as facebook’s group tool and online forums as their preferred tool for discussion and interaction in the language learning course. At the end of semester the higher digital self -efficacy students scored higher in their conversation test compared to the lower digital self -efficacy students. Users with high computer self-efficacy not only benefit from their capability to use computer in their language learning activities, they would also benefit from group self-efficacy in their web-based language learning tasks and interactions.
Progressive Learning through Digital Transformation Reshaping Learning Facilityijtsrd
Education is the method of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge and development of the abilities of the mind. Education implies to discipline and development by means of study and learning. One of the foremost crucial benefits of education is that it improves personal lives and helps the society to run smoothly. Education should undergo a thorough digital transformation to be able to meet the wants of the young generation and digitalized future.With the advent in technology and with the perpetual increase in the strength of the students and the number of departments in the educational institutions, it is laborious to exchange the study materials between the students and the faculties. The main objective of the E Learning is to help the students get over the traditional methods of learning and make them accustomed to the internet .But the question remains how far the students and the faculties were able to adopt them self to the sudden shift and cope up with the changes .This paper tries to provide an insight on the condition of the students what was their expectation and perception. This research paper helps both the students and the teachers to know impact of digital transformation and the quality of facility learning for growth to survival. Dr. Veena Santhosh Rai | Spoorthi K P "Progressive Learning through Digital Transformation - Reshaping Learning Facility" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-1 , December 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd38103.pdf Paper URL : https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/other/38103/progressive-learning-through-digital-transformation--reshaping-learning-facility/dr-veena-santhosh-rai
Affective e-learning approaches, technology and implementation model: a syste...IJECEIAES
A systematic literature study including articles from 2016 to 2022 was done to evaluate the various approaches, technologies, and implementation models involved in measuring student engagement during learning. The review’s objective was to compile and analyze all studies that investigated how instructors can gauge students’ mental states while teaching and assess the most effective teaching methods. Additionally, it aims to extract and assess expanded methodologies from chosen research publications to offer suggestions and answers to researchers and practitioners. Planning, carrying out the analysis, and publishing the results have all received significant attention in the research approach. The study’s findings indicate that more needs to be done to evaluate student participation objectively and follow their development for improved academic performance. Physiological approaches should be given more support among the alternatives. While deep learning implementation models and contactless technology should interest more researchers. And, the recommender system should be integrated into e-learning system. Other approaches, technologies, and methodology articles, on the other hand, lacked authenticity in conveying student feeling.
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In our homes or offices, security has been a vital issue. Control of home security system remotely always offers huge advantages like the arming or disarming of the alarms, video monitoring, and energy management control apart from safeguarding the home free up intruders. Considering the oldest simple methods of security that is the mechanical lock system that has a key as the authentication element, then an upgrade to a universal type, and now unique codes for the lock. The recent advancement in the communication system has brought the tremendous application of communication gadgets into our various areas of life. This work is a real-time smart doorbell notification system for home Security as opposes of the traditional security methods, it is composed of the doorbell interfaced with GSM Module, a GSM module would be triggered to send an SMS to the house owner by pressing the doorbell, the owner will respond to the guest by pressing a button to open the door, otherwise, a message would be displayed to the guest for appropriate action. Then, the keypad is provided for an authorized person for the provision of password for door unlocking, if multiple wrong password attempts were made to unlock, a message of burglary attempt would be sent to the house owner for prompt action. The main benefit of this system is the uniqueness of the incorporation of the password and messaging systems which denies access to any unauthorized personality and owner's awareness method.
Augmented reality, the new age technology, has widespread applications in every field imaginable. This technology has proven to be an inflection point in numerous verticals, improving lives and improving performance. In this paper, we explore the various possible applications of Augmented Reality (AR) in the field of Medicine. The objective of using AR in medicine or generally in any field is the fact that, AR helps in motivating the user, making sessions interactive and assist in faster learning. In this paper, we discuss about the applicability of AR in the field of medical diagnosis. Augmented reality technology reinforces remote collaboration, allowing doctors to diagnose patients from a different locality. Additionally, we believe that a much more pronounced effect can be achieved by bringing together the cutting edge technology of AR and the lifesaving field of Medical sciences. AR is a mechanism that could be applied in the learning process too. Similarly, virtual reality could be used in the field where more of practical experience is needed such as driving, sports, neonatal care training.
Image fusion is a sub field of image processing in which more than one images are fused to create an image where all the objects are in focus. The process of image fusion is performed for multi-sensor and multi-focus images of the same scene. Multi-sensor images of the same scene are captured by different sensors whereas multi-focus images are captured by the same sensor. In multi-focus images, the objects in the scene which are closer to the camera are in focus and the farther objects get blurred. Contrary to it, when the farther objects are focused then closer objects get blurred in the image. To achieve an image where all the objects are in focus, the process of images fusion is performed either in spatial domain or in transformed domain. In recent times, the applications of image processing have grown immensely. Usually due to limited depth of field of optical lenses especially with greater focal length, it becomes impossible to obtain an image where all the objects are in focus. Thus, it plays an important role to perform other tasks of image processing such as image segmentation, edge detection, stereo matching and image enhancement. Hence, a novel feature-level multi-focus image fusion technique has been proposed which fuses multi-focus images. Thus, the results of extensive experimentation performed to highlight the efficiency and utility of the proposed technique is presented. The proposed work further explores comparison between fuzzy based image fusion and neuro fuzzy fusion technique along with quality evaluation indices.
Graphs have become the dominant life-form of many tasks as they advance a
structure to represent many tasks and the corresponding relations. A powerful
role of networks/graphs is to bridge local feats that exist in vertices as they
blossom into patterns that help explain how nodal relations and their edges
impacts a complex effect that ripple via a graph. User cluster are formed as a
result of interactions between entities. Many users can hardly categorize their
contact into groups today such as “family”, “friends”, “colleagues” etc. Thus,
the need to analyze such user social graph via implicit clusters, enables the
dynamism in contact management. Study seeks to implement this dynamism
via a comparative study of deep neural network and friend suggest algorithm.
We analyze a user’s implicit social graph and seek to automatically create
custom contact groups using metrics that classify such contacts based on a
user’s affinity to contacts. Experimental results demonstrate the importance
of both the implicit group relationships and the interaction-based affinity in
suggesting friends.
This paper projects Gryllidae Optimization Algorithm (GOA) has been applied to solve optimal reactive power problem. Proposed GOA approach is based on the chirping characteristics of Gryllidae. In common, male Gryllidae chirp, on the other hand some female Gryllidae also do as well. Male Gryllidae draw the females by this sound which they produce. Moreover, they caution the other Gryllidae against dangers with this sound. The hearing organs of the Gryllidae are housed in an expansion of their forelegs. Through this, they bias to the produced fluttering sounds. Proposed Gryllidae Optimization Algorithm (GOA) has been tested in standard IEEE 14, 30 bus test systems and simulation results show that the projected algorithms reduced the real power loss considerably.
In the wake of the sudden replacement of wood and kerosene by gas cookers for several purposes in Nigeria, gas leakage has caused several damages in our homes, Laboratories among others. installation of a gas leakage detection device was globally inspired to eliminate accidents related to gas leakage. We present an alternative approach to developing a device that can automatically detect and control gas leakages and also monitor temperature. The system detects the leakage of the LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) using a gas sensor, then triggred the control system response which employs ventilator system, Mobile phone alert and alarm when the LPG concentration in the air exceeds a certain level. The performance of two gas sensors (MQ5 and MQ6) were tested for a guided decision. Also, when the temperature of the environment poses a danger, LED (indicator), buzzer and LCD (16x2) display was used to indicate temperature and gas leakage status in degree Celsius and PPM respectively. Attension was given to the response time of the control system, which was ascertained that this system significantly increases the chances and efficiency of eliminating gas leakage related accident.
Feature selection problem is one of the main important problems in the text and data mining domain. This paper presents a comparative study of feature selection methods for Arabic text classification. Five of the feature selection methods were selected: ICHI square, CHI square, Information Gain, Mutual Information and Wrapper. It was tested with five classification algorithms: Bayes Net, Naive Bayes, Random Forest, Decision Tree and Artificial Neural Networks. In addition, Data Collection was used in Arabic consisting of 9055 documents, which were compared by four criteria: Precision, Recall, F-measure and Time to build model. The results showed that the improved ICHI feature selection got almost all the best results in comparison with other methods.
In this paper Gentoo Penguin Algorithm (GPA) is proposed to solve optimal reactive power problem. Gentoo Penguins preliminary population possesses heat radiation and magnetizes each other by absorption coefficient. Gentoo Penguins will move towards further penguins which possesses low cost (elevated heat concentration) of absorption. Cost is defined by the heat concentration, distance. Gentoo Penguins penguin attraction value is calculated by the amount of heat prevailed between two Gentoo penguins. Gentoo Penguins heat radiation is measured as linear. Less heat is received in longer distance, in little distance, huge heat is received. Gentoo Penguin Algorithm has been tested in standard IEEE 57 bus test system and simulation results show the projected algorithm reduced the real power loss considerably.
Cloud computing has sweeping impact on the human productivity. Today it’s used for Computing, Storage, Predictions and Intelligent Decision Making, among others. Intelligent Decision-Making using Machine Learning has pushed for the Cloud Services to be even more fast, robust and accurate. Security remains one of the major concerns which affect the cloud computing growth however there exist various research challenges in cloud computing adoption such as lack of well managed service level agreement (SLA), frequent disconnections, resource scarcity, interoperability, privacy, and reliability. Tremendous amount of work still needs to be done to explore the security challenges arising due to widespread usage of cloud deployment using Containers. We also discuss Impact of Cloud Computing and Cloud Standards. Hence in this research paper, a detailed survey of cloud computing, concepts, architectural principles, key services, and implementation, design and deployment challenges of cloud computing are discussed in detail and important future research directions in the era of Machine Learning and Data Science have been identified.
Notary is an official authorized to make an authentic deed regarding all deeds, agreements and stipulations required by a general rule. Activities carried out at the notary office such as recording client data and file data still use traditional systems that tend to be manual. The problem that occurs is the inefficiency in data processing and providing information to clients. Clients have difficulty getting information related to the progress of documents that are being taken care of at the notary's office. The client must take the time to arrive to the notary's office repeatedly to check the progress of the work of the document file. The purpose of this study is to facilitate clients in obtaining information about the progress of the work in progress, and make it easier for employees to process incoming documents by implementing an administrative system. This system was developed with the waterfall system development method and uses the Multi-Channel Access Technology integrated in the website to simplify the process of delivering information and requesting information from clients and to clients with Telegram and SMS Gateway. Clients will come to the office only when there is a notification from the system via Telegram or SMS notifying that the client must come directly to the notary's office, thus leading to an efficient time and avoiding excessive transportation costs. The overall functional system can function properly based on the results of alpha testing. The results of beta testing conducted by distributing the system feasibility test questionnaire to end users, get a percentage of 96% of users agree the system is feasible to be implemented.
In this work Tundra wolf algorithm (TWA) is proposed to solve the optimal reactive power problem. In the projected Tundra wolf algorithm (TWA) in order to avoid the searching agents from trapping into the local optimal the converging towards global optimal is divided based on two different conditions. In the proposed Tundra wolf algorithm (TWA) omega tundra wolf has been taken as searching agent as an alternative of indebted to pursue the first three most excellent candidates. Escalating the searching agents’ numbers will perk up the exploration capability of the Tundra wolf wolves in an extensive range. Proposed Tundra wolf algorithm (TWA) has been tested in standard IEEE 14, 30 bus test systems and simulation results show the proposed algorithm reduced the real power loss effectively.
In this work Predestination of Particles Wavering Search (PPS) algorithm has been applied to solve optimal reactive power problem. PPS algorithm has been modeled based on the motion of the particles in the exploration space. Normally the movement of the particle is based on gradient and swarming motion. Particles are permitted to progress in steady velocity in gradient-based progress, but when the outcome is poor when compared to previous upshot, immediately particle rapidity will be upturned with semi of the magnitude and it will help to reach local optimal solution and it is expressed as wavering movement. In standard IEEE 14, 30, 57,118,300 bus systems Proposed Predestination of Particles Wavering Search (PPS) algorithm is evaluated and simulation results show the PPS reduced the power loss efficiently.
In this paper, Mine Blast Algorithm (MBA) has been intermingled with Harmony Search (HS) algorithm for solving optimal reactive power dispatch problem. MBA is based on explosion of landmines and HS is based on Creativeness progression of musicians-both are hybridized to solve the problem. In MBA Initial distance of shrapnel pieces are reduced gradually to allow the mine bombs search the probable global minimum location in order to amplify the global explore capability. Harmony search (HS) imitates the music creativity process where the musicians supervise their instruments’ pitch by searching for a best state of harmony. Hybridization of Mine Blast Algorithm with Harmony Search algorithm (MH) improves the search effectively in the solution space. Mine blast algorithm improves the exploration and harmony search algorithm augments the exploitation. At first the proposed algorithm starts with exploration & gradually it moves to the phase of exploitation. Proposed Hybridized Mine Blast Algorithm with Harmony Search algorithm (MH) has been tested on standard IEEE 14, 300 bus test systems. Real power loss has been reduced considerably by the proposed algorithm. Then Hybridized Mine Blast Algorithm with Harmony Search algorithm (MH) tested in IEEE 30, bus system (with considering voltage stability index)- real power loss minimization, voltage deviation minimization, and voltage stability index enhancement has been attained.
Artificial Neural Networks have proved their efficiency in a large number of research domains. In this paper, we have applied Artificial Neural Networks on Arabic text to prove correct language modeling, text generation, and missing text prediction. In one hand, we have adapted Recurrent Neural Networks architectures to model Arabic language in order to generate correct Arabic sequences. In the other hand, Convolutional Neural Networks have been parameterized, basing on some specific features of Arabic, to predict missing text in Arabic documents. We have demonstrated the power of our adapted models in generating and predicting correct Arabic text comparing to the standard model. The model had been trained and tested on known free Arabic datasets. Results have been promising with sufficient accuracy.
In the present-day communications speech signals get contaminated due to
various sorts of noises that degrade the speech quality and adversely impacts
speech recognition performance. To overcome these issues, a novel approach
for speech enhancement using Modified Wiener filtering is developed and
power spectrum computation is applied for degraded signal to obtain the
noise characteristics from a noisy spectrum. In next phase, MMSE technique
is applied where Gaussian distribution of each signal i.e. original and noisy
signal is analyzed. The Gaussian distribution provides spectrum estimation
and spectral coefficient parameters which can be used for probabilistic model
formulation. Moreover, a-priori-SNR computation is also incorporated for
coefficient updation and noise presence estimation which operates similar to
the conventional VAD. However, conventional VAD scheme is based on the
hard threshold which is not capable to derive satisfactory performance and a
soft-decision based threshold is developed for improving the performance of
speech enhancement. An extensive simulation study is carried out using
MATLAB simulation tool on NOIZEUS speech database and a comparative
study is presented where proposed approach is proved better in comparison
with existing technique.
Previous research work has highlighted that neuro-signals of Alzheimer’s disease patients are least complex and have low synchronization as compared to that of healthy and normal subjects. The changes in EEG signals of Alzheimer’s subjects start at early stage but are not clinically observed and detected. To detect these abnormalities, three synchrony measures and wavelet-based features have been computed and studied on experimental database. After computing these synchrony measures and wavelet features, it is observed that Phase Synchrony and Coherence based features are able to distinguish between Alzheimer’s disease patients and healthy subjects. Support Vector Machine classifier is used for classification giving 94% accuracy on experimental database used. Combining, these synchrony features and other such relevant features can yield a reliable system for diagnosing the Alzheimer’s disease.
Attenuation correction designed for PET/MR hybrid imaging frameworks along with portion making arrangements used for MR-based radiation treatment remain testing because of lacking high-energy photon weakening data. We present a new method so as to uses the learned nonlinear neighborhood descriptors also highlight coordinating toward foresee pseudo-CT pictures starting T1w along with T2w MRI information. The nonlinear neighborhood descriptors are acquired through anticipating the direct descriptors interested in the nonlinear high-dimensional space utilizing an unequivocal constituent guide also low-position guess through regulated complex regularization. The nearby neighbors of every near descriptor inside the data MR pictures are looked during an obliged spatial extent of the MR pictures among the training dataset. By that point, the pseudo-CT patches are evaluated through k-closest neighbor relapse. The planned procedure designed for pseudo-CT forecast is quantitatively broke downward on top of a dataset comprising of coordinated mind MRI along with CT pictures on or after 13 subjects.
The cognitive radio prototype performance is to alleviate the scarcity of spectral resources for wireless communication through intelligent sensing and quick resource allocation techniques. Secondary users (SU’s) actively obtain the spectrum access opportunity by supporting primary users (PU’s) in cognitive radio networks (CRNs). In present generation, spectrum access is endowed through cooperative communication-based link-level frame-based cooperative (LLC) principle. In this SUs independently act as conveyors for PUs to achieve spectrum access opportunities. Unfortunately, this LLC approach cannot fully exploit spectrum access opportunities to enhance the throughput of CRNs and fails to motivate PUs to join the spectrum sharing processes. Therefore, to overcome this con, network level cooperative (NLC) principle was used, where SUs are integrated mutually to collaborate with PUs session by session, instead of frame based cooperation for spectrum access opportunities. NLC approach has justified the challenges facing in LLC approach. In this paper we make a survey of some models that have been proposed to tackle the problem of LLC. We show the relevant aspects of each model, in order to characterize the parameters that we should take in account to achieve a spectrum access opportunity.
In this paper, the author provides insights and lessons that can be learned from colleagues at American universities about their online education experiences. The literature review and previous studies of online educations gains are explored and summarized in this research. Emerging trends in online education are discussed in detail, and strategies to implement these trends are explained. The author provides several tools and strategies that enable universities to ensure the quality of online education. At the end of this research paper, the researcher provides examples from Arab universities who have successfully implemented online education and expanded their impact on the society. This research provides a strategy and a model that can be used by universities in the Middle East as a roadmap to implement online education in their regions.
In this paper, a low pass filter based on T-Shaped resonator is presented. The T-Shaped resonator consists of meandered lines and rectangular patches. Also, the LC model and transfer function of the proposed resonator is presented. For suppression of spurious harmonics, a bandstop structure consists of hexangular patches and open stubs has been utilized. Finally, the wide stopband microstrip lowpass filter with cutoff frequency 2.72 GHz has been simulated, fabricated and measured. The LPF has good characteristics such as wide stopband and insertion loss lower than 0.18 dB in the passband region. The rejection level is less than -20 dB from 2.98 up to 21.3 GHz. The filter size is 10.5 mm×12.7 mm, or 0.131 λg× 0.158 λg, where λg is the guided wavelength. The measured and simulated results of the filter is in good agreement with each other, which show the merits of low insertion loss and wide stopband.
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08 20272 academic insight on application
1. International Journal of Informatics and Communication Technology (IJ-ICT)
Vol.9, No.2, August 2020, pp. 140~140
ISSN: 2252-8776, DOI: 10.11591/ijict.v9i2.pp140-150 140
Journal homepage: http://ijict.iaescore.com
Academic insight on application and challenges of software
to develop educational medical english writing
Jafar Asgari Arani
English Department, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received Nov 12, 2019
Revised Jan 20, 2020
Accepted Feb 2, 2020
This research has thrown up many questions in need of further
investigation.There was an expressive quantitative-qualitative research, which
a common investigation form was used in.The dialogue item was also applied
to discover if the contributors asserted the media-based attitude supplements
their learning of academic English writing classes or not.Data recounted
academic” insights toward using Skype as a sustaining implement for lessons
releasing based on chosen variables: their occupation, year of education, and
knowledge with Skype discovered that there were no important statistical
differences in the use of Skype units because of medical academics major
knowledge. There are statistically important differences in using Skype units.
The findings also, disclosed that there are statistically significant differences
in using Skype units due to the practice with Skype variable, in favors of
academics with no Skype use practice. Skype instrument as an instructive
media is a positive medium to be employed to supply academic medical
writing data and assist education. Academics who do not have enough time to
contribute in classes believe comfortable using the Skype-based attitude in
scientific writing. They who took part in the course claimed that their approval
of this media is due to learning academic innovative medical writing.
Keywords:
Academic
Education
Skype
Medical Writing
University
This is an open access article under the CC BY-SA license.
Corresponding Author:
Jafar Asgari Arani,
English Department, Faculty of Medicine,
Kashan University of Medical Sciences,
Islamic Republic of Iran.
Email: J.Asgari@yahoo.com
1. INTRODUCTION
To make it easy to communicate, and collaborate with various people applying a variety of teaching
methods such as writing, link allocating, and voice or video evidences., some social networks as Skype, Twitter,
and Linked-in only to make it possible to probably transmit, collect and assign information. Information and
communication technology (ICT) has been a critical component of teaching and learning in higher education
over the last few decades. One particularly important trend we have recently witnessed with regard to the use
of ICT is the increasing reliance on Skype tools not only in everyday jobs, but also within specialized and
educational environments [1]. To approach academics’ educational necessities, interests and claims, many
universities and colleges have developed a variety of podiums in these networks. Therefore, recently,
researchers have scrutinized the competence of these meetings in different teaching and learning
grounds [2, 3]. Many Android applications are at present being developed such as WhatsApp, Skype and GO
SMS Pro, the most stupendous messenger applications among the university's academics [4].
To take place to emphasize the ability of academics in scientific writing, the survey requires some
other new educational instruments in teaching [5].This is mostly as from the instructive stand point; academics
are used to the treating, traditional, and additional approaches of teaching and learning [6, 7]. The difficulty
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keeps on as Nowlan [8] concludes that interaction Boyer hour for academics and lecture is another obstacle to
be run intoed. According to him one or two hour of teaching and learning English per week is not sufficient to
allow the academics to implement and extend English and obtain academic writing skill. Therefore, there is a
need to find the resolution to the above dilemma specially in preparing setting to the academics to use English
language and learn the way to accomplish a valuable result even outer the classroom.
Using new technology can significantly improve blended learning [9], but can have a major role in
also supporting on-campus teaching. Skype have been employed in educational activities to admit course
substances, obtain information connected to students’ presentation, and to support argument and disclosing
between students and teachers [10]. It is therefore evident that these tools such as Skype can have a significant
involvement to new health care teaching, because these devices might present opportunities to develop teaching
and learning.
2. PROMOTING PREMISES TO SOCIAL MEDIA LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE
Designed for teachers attracted in incorporating features of social media with their educators, it is
momentous to remember the premise and present pedagogic positions monitoring language learning with
media. Along with Blyth [11], there are three special categories to language learning analyses [12].
a. Technical: Technical suppositions are those that explicates as an improvement stage, covering of explorative
and expressive researches. Researches aim at assessing the potential advantages of the individual tools,
attending to the means these instruments may change the perception of traditional learning in the classroom.
Appropriate to Blyth’s claims, studies in this part are suitable for teachers tracking to use a special social
networking instrument and illustrate further research in the area of social system.
b.Psycholinguistics: Psycholinguistic approaches to language achievement aim the significance of social
contacts and detaining. A collection of recent surveys [13, 14] have pointed to that Interaction Hypothesis in
language development is realized by person-to-person communication and the linguistic communications
that occur. In reality, prominent appraisal in CALL has long suggested the assessment of achievement issues
within a consistent, psycholinguistic agenda [15, 16].
c. Sociocultural: Language and social communication engage in recreation of a function in human growth, and
purpose as cultural concerns that may lead to the appearance of knowledge supplied by members of the
society [17]. Allowing for this mode this might supply social networking, online associations with other
learners and experts around the world can believably propose a rich site for socio-cultural language
management [18, 19].
These entire three hypotheses to language learning are confirmed to request the method the media
matches to the various forms.
3. BELIEFBASIS
The major justification behind this study is Self-Determination Theory (SDT). It is considered a
general theory of human motivation and personality concentrating on the dialectical associations between
growth-oriented human beings and social environments assisting or obstructing people’s stimulation to
recognize their prospection [20-23]. In their 1994 survey, Deci &Ryan and Krashen [24] set down three factors
augmenting self-determination in the classroom. Autonomy can be described as the level of principals that
academics have when they complete academic tasks and the quantity of option they have concerning when and
how to execute them [25]. This also occurs through the decisions they can make during the learning
progression [26]; these selections assist them become more self-sufficient and autonomous in making decisions
about their learning.
The Skype scenery, which is free from time and region limitations and makes access possible to
different people and reserves, helps academics solve their problems in their own time, to learn via an
opportunity presenting methodology and to learn separately. It can be anticipated that academics learning a
foreign language on educational Apps sense more self-sufficient than rest in a face-to-face collection. Honesty
refers to emerging and activating skills for the management and direction of the situations.
SDT defines honesty as the need to be effective in communications with the social environment while
practicing every moment to affirm and employ ones capacities and abilities [23]. Academic’ feelings of honesty
increase when they are certain that their learning activities and tasks adjust their knowledge and skills.
Moreover, the activities academics are anticipated to perform should be both interesting and stimulating in
order to devotedly raise contributors' motivation. Tasks should also provide contributors an opportunity to
respond and to believe immediate comment [26, 7]. Lastly, trust refers to a need for belonging to or trusting
on a group. Classrooms convene this standard through providing various opportunities of connection and
interconnection for academics. Reaction is in fact, one response to the need of confidence in participants and
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makes it possible for them to complain atopic and to help and constructively appraise each other, thereby
increasing their self-respect [28]. It is obvious that one of the most important positions of online social networks
is systematizing communication and social interaction [29]. Communication in these networks, other than
being free from time and space limitations, is possible with diverse types of forms such as audio, visual, written,
and short messages that are easy to use. Therefore, one may expect that the use of these networks will enhance
concerns of dependence in the scheme contributors. Academics learning a foreign language on educational
Apps feel more depended on other academics than do teachers in a face-to-face class.
4. CURRENT DIDACTIC CHANCES OF SKYPE
Dissemination and correspondence firstly realized in the online situation can be brought into the
classroom. English language educators can apply the creative didactic subjects positioned in the social
networking sites to get education of the English language. There are groups committed to learning English
languages in EFL and ESL circumstances on social networking sites. These groups provide their members with
regular modifications of grammar, vocabulary, and much new information. English language learners can also
entry links distributed on the group page by other members. Skype supplies diverse kinds of educational
chances for classrooms. Academics can connect with other academics, increase their information, and
cooperate with colleagues. They can employ Skype to allocate projects, improve their language skills, and
correspondence paper type about particular books and journal articles with other academics having tried the
same textbooks and articles or having offered their own plans to their group.
Skype, a software application for online communication, has been applied in classes at various levels,
offering much potential for teaching and learning [30-33]. Skype is an open instrument permitting users to
make printed, audio and video over the Internet applying power point, word, mp4, and so on. Although Skype
is a scientific instrument, its free version is being applied increasingly among teachers and schools involved in
people education schemes [34, 9]. For example, Skype is being applied to assist scholarly investigative
thoughts substitution. Academics in different parts of the world are joined, each is a native speaker of the
language with exclusive research ideas that the other wishes to be notified. In discussion and communication
over instructional channel, they take turn between the two scientific society’s languages [35].
Educators also supply Skype in single methods to meet educational goals. The videoconferencing
division of the software is priceless in that it supplies a way to join university instructors speaking different
languages, maintain virtual field trips, and extend to professionals in dissimilar areas of study. These practices
allow academics and opportunity to use what they are learning in the classroom to real-life practices and attain
further learning opportunities [36].
Skype in the classroom is a new free educational media that has set up on its website. It provides
teachers with a way to make their classrooms more expansive and appealing. Skype in the classroom is an
examination that teachers can sign up for that will permit students to meet up others, entertain and send
homework, and distribute ideas. Teachers can cooperate with each other around the world and plan different
new learning and training exercises for their class educational resources. There should be a variety of tracks in
Skype, in which L2 educators can contribute. Teachers can apply Skype's search tool to reach experts in their
scientific areas of their resolutions [37].
5. ENGLISH INSCRIPTION
The Skill of writing being shown to be one of the most complex language abilities learners are
believed to obtain [27]. In spite of spending many years raising their writing skills, most second language
learners (L2) of English are described with barriers in their attempts. These obstructions among others are
attributable to the difficulties of the writing skill [38]. Writing, as a complex and extended process, is further
finished harder for the L2 learner due to sociological, sociocultural, linguistic, and cognitive factors [39].
To improve writing difficulties tackled by L2 learners, some current surveys pursue [40] temporary
structure strategies in a blended instruction (face-to-face and online) class applying Skype to discover if
students' writing execution could be strengthened. Temporary structure refers to the procedure of supporting a
person to make a homework that is unfamiliar or further than his/her is capability. Through the temporary
structure process, learners are helped to do parts of exercises within their ability, and the adult
scaffolds the rest.
Macharaschwili and Coggin [41] illustrated the implementation of Skype in a blended classroom
situation. They advocated that the face-to-face communications provided through Skype proposed immediate
conclusion that would not be possible in an online gatherings. They indicated that face-to-face communications
using Skype for distance students led to student achievement and completion.
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The surveyor accomplished a survey to discover the impact of Skype for language learning
in Tandem [42]. Elia expanded to the argument that Skype language learning over “Mixxer” can be an
influential application to be widely supported and experimented. According to her study, Skype might be a
valuable mean and a trustworthy aid to EFL learners who always challenged problems in having written
connection with native speakers.
Beltrán [43].in a research analyses the function of Skype chat for rising writing skills. Beltrán pointed
out that it elevated students' stimulation by means of technology and was a chance to augment
the teacher's program.
Another investigator emphasized in a plan on the teaching and learning of English by means of Skype
conference calls Romaña Correa [44]. The research outcomes suggest that Skype might be asserted as an
inspiring computer-mediated communication channel to develop EFL learners' writing ability.
6. DISCUSSION APPRAISAL
As Gabriel [45] maintained conventional literacy alone is not adequate, unless it is developed by the
capability to attain knowledge and to converse with a wider collection of publish and electronic media. The
objective of this case study was to discover the awareness of teachers and academics about the efficiency of
Skype as a temporary structure device to raise academic accomplishment for learners in online remedial
English composition courses through communicating with their instructor.
As a result, the specific aim was to find out if Skype could be a successful tool for instructors to
propose temporary structure to underprepared academics for the gaining of English composition skills.
However, few studies have investigated the opinions of teachers and academics about the effect of Skype and
similar mutual Web 2.0 technologies on student accomplishment in online asynchronous learning
organizations. As Strang [46] asserted in a study on Skype in an online mathematics course explored that
academics who took part in Skype-led based received a statistically higher final score than those in the control
group. This investigation concentrated on the development of prepared academics, who due to their level and
advanced course had already verified academic success. The literature review shows that Strang did not
demonstrated whether Skype could be used to support and recover the learning and ability of first year online
college academics and students. In a college course to determine the capacity of Skype along with other Web
2.0 technologies, a recent pilot study by Chou [47] concluded that this media could be used to support online
collaborative learning. Chou found out that Skype, Podcasting, Skype, Blogging, and Wikis enhanced student
learning in online discussions. He implied that further research should be done to pertain the instructional
strategies into different learning environments. Parker, Boase-Jelinek, and Herrington [48] managed a
qualitative research to scrutinize how synchronous group communicate within Skype was used in arrange level
course for persevere teachers; how academics answered to it, and to what extent it resulted in an improvement
of groups learning. This research did not concentrated on constructing instructor-student interactions, nor does
it adjoin to the knowledge of whether or not Skype is adequate by low-learning academics to help recover their
learning. Macharaschwili and Coggin [41] utilized Skype in a group of doctoral academics who met face-to-
face in a classroom. Skype was incorporated to connect academics that were not present to the classroom
arguments. They investigated that Skype could be successfully used to connect distant learners to face-to-face
classrooms. Cohen and Burkhardt [49] proposed and applied a synchronous librarian orientation service via
Skype to teach educational information to university academics. They supervised group assemblies and a one
one-on-one session with a student who needed supplementary guidance. They reported that Skype to be well
situated for conveying information literacy instruction to groups of distant academics. They did not scrutinize
whether academics observed any growth as an effect of Skype meetings.
There is a wide choice of Malaysian teenagers spend a lot of time outside of class using social
networks like Skype, available in the literature Ab Manan et al [50]. It was because English is the language
normally employed in these Media. Examiners explained that there are potential advantages when using a
Skype collection in teaching ESL situations. The reason that rationalizes this situation is that “examiners
suppose that the features recommended by Skype, with careful management, can be used as a powerful
pedagogical instrument” (ibid, p. 1). The writers maintained that “blending conservative face-to-face teaching
with online learning movements does not only resolve teachers’ problem of insufficient class time but will
make learning more attractive to the techno savvy younger learners” (ibid, p. 1). As well, investigators like
Chenzi et al [51] have not treated Skype and other social networks into an ESL writing lessons in much detail.
There has been little quantitative analysis for them to find the different advantages when Skype and other
networks are used in the ESL lessons. Smethurst, [52] referred to the fact that an Australian educator has
applied Skype for inter-school discussions with the absence of the face-to-face relations. Skype supplied many
free services, together with voice and video data among persons from different geographical positions.
Davis [53] hypothesized that learners have been utilizing Skype in their classroom for several years with a high
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level of achievement and handiness. More and more English language teachers have selected for integrating
such promising technologies into their everyday teaching practices as such technologies can allow them as
teachers and grow their teaching as well.
Skype was chosen for an investigation since as Mongillo and Wilder [54] affirmed; writing is a social
proposal that necessitates the use of social forms. The prospective inferences for this research are that online
lecturers may assist to augment the writing of online, underprepared academics with poor writing abilities by
temporary structure knowledge via Skype to generate informal momentous learning relationships that will
permit academics to become autonomous and self-assured.
Macharaschwili and Coggin [41] applied Skype in a group of doctoral academics convening face-to-
face in a classroom. Skype was incorporated to connect academics not present to the classroom arguments.
They discovered that Skype could be successfully used to connect remote learners to face-to-face classrooms.
Analyzing lecturer and student awareness of the efficiency of Skype to temporary platform writing
improvement extended three studies [55-57], which established that synchronous tools develop skill stages and
that instructors or academics find value and significance in using the instruments.
Ciekanski and Chanier’s [58] investigation was one of a few that mostly concentrated on teaching the
writing procedure in an online synchronous setting, indirectly relating to three other elements of the present
project: Skype, temporary structure, and corrective freshmen writing. Tutors and academics gathered over a
10- week period for eight meetings that lasted about an hour and a half each. The aim of the course was to
expand professional English and capabilities in a group of academics who were less skillful in writing and
speaking English (referred to as false learners by Ciekanski and Chanier and had not performed English
between 15 to 30 years in a multimodal situation. This group was archetypal of the nontraditional academics
registering in online universities. The podium used in this research was Lyceum, allowing learners to “link and
communicate verbally in real time, contribute in text/chat, and study/adjust simultaneously textual or graphic
assembled work”.
Ciekanski and Chanier [58] came up with the fact that even when academics are engaged in the writing
procedure, they do majority of the steps through Skype, discussing what and how to learn, rather than using
the other styles for interfacing. They also perceived that learners counted on the devices of Microsoft Word
processing software along with other software applications, indicating they made changes to their writing while
using other instruments. Learners decided to contribute in multimodal discussion using synchronous means.
Academics used multimodal policies (i.e., verbal and nonverbal communication) more than monomials
policies. A multimodal knowledge situation assisted academics concentrated on the writing process more than
the consequences due to its process-oriented nature. The examiners identified that using video would have been
an interruption in this meticulous revision because speech is related to various types of writing. They also
required more investigation to be accomplished in the region of writing in an online multimodal setting. Thus,
the existing research on Skype assists to fill the gap because of its multi types comprising video, audio,
text/chat, and screen sharing.
According to Mongillo and Wilder [54], using online technologies intensified the need to understand
and write expository and explanatory writing, which were recognized as essential skills. It was helpful to the
current study because the research employed Skype as a medium, along with other resources to help academics
improve writing skills. Cohen and Burkhardt [49] research was proposed for librarians to help academics gain
information in all four skills. Curriculum planers distinguish and attend to communication and writing
shortages of nonnative-English-speaker academics [59] because American universities are comprised of
academics from different countries. Cheng [59] observed the effect of computer mediated communication
(CMC) and Vygotsky’s temporary structure theory on a group of graduate academics talking English as a
second language in a linguistic class. Cheng explicitly explained temporary structure for his study to denote
the “support for learning and dilemma solving concerning academic writing using CMC.” Because they supply
chance for academics to request and present explanations, the evidence presented in this section suggests that
Cheng assumed online argumentation forums in Skype gibbeted academics’ understanding. He declared that
an asynchronous setting is more contributing to assisting non-native speakers expand academic writing skills
because it has waited construction, which provides academics time to internalize and manage information.
Mongillo and Wilder [54] hypothesized that the online technological communication media, like Skype,
present disenfranchised and disconnected academics with the motivation communication and stimulation that
they require particularly because these academics are already skillful users of multiple technologies. Similarly,
Murphy has approved a wider viewpoint and Rodriguez- Manzanares [60] who claims that promoted the
necessity for technological mediums in distance education classes. Based on their survey, the means was
exhibited as online teachers supplied immediate, productive to academics, illustrated distress of academics’
improvement, personalized learning, and was available for instant receptiveness to academics’ necessities.
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7. SURVEY IMPLICATION
The conservative academic writing technique of teaching is not adequate in progressing the
academics’ scientific writing ability. This study is conducted to explore if educating the academics in the use
of circuitous LLS by Skype has any consequences on the learners’ LLS use and their academic
writing presentation.
The design of establishing blended knowledge to the English writing was commenced when the
college grounds encountered the difficulty of physical classroom among the academics of the university.
The subsequent phases had motivated the researcher to assume this project:
− Recommending the idea on applying the social network location, Skype for academics as a method of
instruction formally and informally
− Demonstrating the unlike levels of course incorporation at an instructors discarding.
− Supplying an option to the conventional lecture plan, forming an online classroom civilization, and
amplifying teacher-content, teacher-learner and learner –learner communication
− Developing educational assortment, support dynamic learning through a learning society
− Examining the efficacy of on-line studying societies through Skype social media
− Deciding a choice teaching instrument Skype teaching societies to stable the conventional classroom
knowledge is worth the cost of retooling and reforming
− Employing Skype, educators are capable to arrive at academics through new communication media and
supply academics with experience and familiarity to precious instruments.
8. INVESTIGATION QUERIES AND OBJECTIVES
8.1. Study inquiry
1. What are the members' stage English introductory class academics'‟ feelings by means of "Skype in
writing classes?
2. Is Skype helpful for progressing academics' stage introductory class academics‟ language writing
abilities''?
The research scrutinizes using Skype as an additional learning means outside classroom. Three
research questions were presented in the following:
1. What are the contributors' approaches toward Skype?
2. What are the contributor approaches toward learning outside classroom?
3. What are the contributors' approaches toward the Skype as a language-learning instrument in Basic
English classes?
4. Can Skype assist develop academics' accomplishment in English base classroom?
The examiner assumes that Skype will benefit the learners in the inspiring stage of the writing process
the most. However, the examiners are also open to explore how Skype might affect other features of writing
and stimulus as a whole. To ease the exploration concerning the efficiency of Skype in teaching and recovering
writing, the investigators prepared the following research questions:
1. How does Skype assist academics in their writing procedure?
2. What are some of the disputes teachers might face in assimilating Skype into the teaching of writing?
3. How does Skype manipulate the emotional field of the academics in writing skill?
8.2. Justification of analysis
The rationale of this case study was to discover the opinions of members about the efficiency of Skype.
It should be possible to apply provisional structure instrument to raise academic accomplishment in English
writing courses through cooperation with their lecturer. The result of communications between instructors and
academics using Skype on the gaining of writing skills of underprepared academics appears as the occurrence
of interest.
The survey is presumed to adjoin to linguistic knowledge about blended education to supply
educational designers with improved acceptance about what works and what does not concerning the plan and
the improvement of a blended classes. Finally, the results too will be helpful in facilitating decision makers
establish the needs for the improvement and expansion of the blended education methodology in university
situations. Having experimented years of teaching, the researcher is supposed to arrange some designs to meet
the educational needs of the academics.
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8.3. Contributers and assessment
The sample participated were academics of Kashan University of Medical sciences; all having
difficulties writing English well using selective sampling. This has to do with the reality that they are inclined
to be alive with each other in their own language civilization, and keep on using the Persian language.
9. PROCEDURE
9.1. Research Model
The research was a descriptive qualitative research and a general inspection form was applied, as the
goal of the research was to demonstrate the stance levels of the academics integrated in the study group towards
Skype application, a Web 2.0 tool, along with a range of sub-dimensions. It comprised an investigational plan
and the researcher scrutinized the academics in the setting to determine their feelings towards Skype
application.
9.2. Proposal
The project is a quantitative domain of research with a non-randomized control group plan using a
Skype group as experimental collection. The data analysis process selected in this research was a qualitative
facts analysis. As it was said by Dey [61], “a qualitative facts analysis engages investigating data in its bits,
and then ‘beating’ the bits together. It is a procedure of deciding data into ingredient parts to expose [their]
features, elements, and structure. Similarly, Corbin and Strauss [62] describe qualitative data analysis as “a
procedure of exploratory and inferring data to extract meaning, increase realizing, and expand
practical information.”
9.3. Contributers of the survey
The inspection happened at university the results for which were accumulated through a questionnaire
planned to extract academics' opinions toward the use of Skype site, as a public media, to maintain conventional
education method. The investigation questionnaires contained 34 items, developed by the examiner. The
academics’ reactions were noticeable in a straight line on the investigation. The questionnaire items were
prepared in the form of reports to which the student had to answer on five-point degree. This degree extended
between "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree."The questions were proposed to collect information about
academics' agreement with the use of Skype as a writing class instrument.
It was delivered to five technology education academics for appraisal to indemnify the legality of the
survey way. These members were requested to calculate the questionnaire technique and suggest any
modification that should assist the survey. Then, good comments were obtained and some approvals were made
and born in mind.
9.4. Process
Through this examination the lecturer:
− To produce a Skype site signifying the computer in education class notes and educations
− To disconnect the course Skype site from his personal page and interconnects with academics through it
− To notify the learners that they will not be watching their summary site, and regulating their site to “limit”
assures that they will not see anything the others does not desire them to notice.
− To deliver the course Skype site the texts, videos, pictures, and posts that are pertinent to the writing
course attempt in a weekly foundation.
− To assemble a “Skype Office Hours,” in order to allocate academics opportunities to interconnect with
him by Skype tool. This will offer them the chance to inquire writing inquiries or obtain extra criticism
− To declare for exams, quizzes, duties, or general college events that academics would be fond of.
10. DATA AND DISCUSSION
Along with research data, the students are amenable to utilize Skype in writing classes, and they are
of the thought that such application will augment their practices in learning writing, rationally and expressively.
The academics recognize that Skype-based scheme exercise was mainly hopeful and amazingly hopeful. In
company with the interrogation questions, the contributors maintained that the media-based method improved
their learning of academic English writing.
The data transmitted to the next examination question “What are the most and least part of the Skype
base checks that were employed throughout the course term” were shown in chart1. It disclosed, according to
the highest mean value, that the most significant item was number 7 with a mean value of 4.2. "I utilized the
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Skype base to locate dissimilar multimedia that assist simplify the class points “. It was detected that items 18,
34, 9, 24 were very significant and have the maximum means (4.1, 4.04). These data explain the members most
employed practices in the Skype base. The minimum mean was 2.9 for item 23. “The base was applied to
acquire the notes and marking homework.”
Table1. The rearranged assessment of points replies (derived from the highest average value)
Item# Statement Mean Std. Dev
7 I employed he Skype position to discover a new system assisting to make s the new idea simpler 4.2 1
18 The position was utilized to insert or eliminate classmates 4.1 1.026
34 It is assumed that employing Skype for knowledge seem as a dynamic knowledge and it is a fine
device in instruction
4.08 1,187
9 The Skype was used to deliver academics house works and implements to classes site 4.04 0.865
24 It was applied to know the course duties deadline 4.02 0.946
10 I t was used to acquire information about deadlines duties 4 1
20 Sky was applied to obtain information about the first, second, and final test times 3.94 1.008
8 I applied the Skype to get order about academics task and necessities 3.92 1.096
1 Skype provided me the opportunity to select the writing language 3.9 1.085
25 The Skype was employed to get information about day by day annotations from the lecturer 3.88 1.013
26 The site was employed to add, remove , update subject materials 3.88 0.992
11 The site was apply to get knowledge about lecturer Skype and remark 3.86 1.041
16 Skype was employed to perceive others feedbacks and replications to negotiations 3.86 1.099
28 Skype was exploited to get information about the classmates' work and development 3.86 1.061
13 I employed the conversation for fast interconnection with others after class time 3.82 0.905
33 Skype was employed to get revised materials about the individual page and messages 3.76 1.465
19 Skype was employed by lecturer to express our conversation and members 3.73 1.335
15 It was applied to talk about and reply questions shared the group of students topics 3.65 1.165
6 The Skype was used to comprehend class materials and speeches. 3.55 0.959
30 The Skype was employed to affix webs addresses that sustain the course topics 3.55 1.292
4 I used the Skype to obtain information about class vocabulary and orientations 3.53 1.12
3 Skype used to grasp information about class program and times 3.51 0.938
22 The site was used to broadcast each student duty 3.49 1.12
29 Skype was applied to save folders and matters as further recommendations 3.49 1.227
14 Skype was employed to append class reports and update news 3.43 1.099
17 Skype was employed to reply to other academics introduced images and materials or urgent like 3.31 1.025
21 It was applied to clarify complex idioms 3.22 3.22
23 Skype was employed to find the remarks and scoring training 2.9 2.9
Outcome answered to the next investigation dilemma "Are academics' opinions to using Skype as a
sustaining instrument for course provision vary founded on preferred variables: year of learning, past
knowledge with Skype, student occupation?” It disclosed that there were no statistically important variations
at (α = 0.05) in using Skype units because of academics majors. There are statistically important dissimilarities
at (α = 0.05) in using Skype units because of the year of study adaptable with the third and fourth year
academics. The answer also, described that there are statistically important variation at (α = 0.05) in using
Skype units because of the past practice with Skype unpredictable. In support of academics with no Skype, use
knowledge.
The data presented that using Skype position for academic writing reason is probably to be an inspiring
issue for teaching and learning development. The Skype position for this survey has generated an dynamic
learning atmosphere that could locate identical chances to present communication and have criticism from the
learners and his/her academics. The examiner as an academic in higher teaching stage was very aggravated to
apply social media, such as Skype and Twitter collections, as a teaching provision technique. It can be used in
implicit learning situations. Advanced education teaching as the investigator practices is leaving toward
applying the social media as a fraction of an implicit procedure between the learners and academics, and
between academics themselves as informal learning scenery. This research has thrown up many questions in
need of further investigation. If the debate is to be moved forward, a better understanding of setting needs to
be developed.
11. CONCLUSIONS
To sum up, it demonstrates that Skype base, as a social media is a valuable device to be applied to
offer writing themes and maintain learning. The principal theoretical implication of this study is that academics
experienced calm while using the Skype base. Academics recording for the course designated their agreement
of this media in learning academic writing. The data of this research was similar to those of other report
complete by investigator accomplished to discover the impression and approach toward the use of social media
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in universities. In general, the results of the research signify that member’s tendency in using Skype base, as
social media, encourage ,and provide them the chance to use technology in a helpful method. As the data of
the research demonstrated, the mainstream of academics amended their abilities rapidly to employ the Skype
proficiently. They sense that they support via this media in university and they have an efficiently learning
knowledge throughout the procedure.
It may be presumed that expertise should be employed as directive device for vocabulary achievement.
It has also been presented that this kind of education is favorable for distant language learners, as it significantly
constructs self-confidence and amplifies students' attraction in the subject. The motives could be the incidence
of contacts because of a developed language contribution. The survey illustrated that academics progressed in
writing skill and self-confidence after being depicted its techniques using Skype. The learners in the survey
realized this kind of instruction and were actually encouraged to challenge themselves to develop their English
writing. In addition, the contributors started remarking and forwarding some suggestions connected to the plan
subject to the teacher and to each other on Skype. The instructions via Skype appeared more attractive to
academics. Operating on the Internet and managing each other through Skype anytime and anywhere is
fashionable in these days.
12. DIDACTIC INSIUATIONS
Future Research
The evidence presented in this paper suggests that additional studies have to manage instruments and
procedures to motivate on issues to expand the other learning skills like writing via social systems. Skype and
other system media should be believed as an internalized situation.
More investigation and experimentation into the topic is strongly recommended to focus on the
position of the learners’ age and gender on the features of learning second language in a variety of cultures. As
well, it should be presupposed that some devices could determine their English acquaintance enduring online
instruments as Prensky [63] supposed that teachers in some situations might discontinue instruction, and initiate
permitting academics to learn by themselves. However, with a small sample size, cautious must be applied, as
the findings might not be valuable in every setting.
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