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{"title":"CHALLENGES OF ONLINE LEARNING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC","authors":"Mirela Ionita, Veronica Păstae","doi":"10.12753/2066-026X-21-023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12753/2066-026X-21-023","url":null,"abstract":"The sudden migration from traditional to online education in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a major challenge for any educational approach and has shown that e-learning paradigms need to be revisited for situations when this type of education totally replaces conventional methods for long periods.\u0000 Adapting e-learning to the conditions imposed by the pandemic obviously transcends the objectives of the initial concept. The improvisations that schools, in general, were forced to do quickly, substituting full-attendance education with distance learning, showed that in such situation, education can only have \"crisis results\". We believe that most failures in implementing online education come from interaction during communication. If one can overcome the technical malfunctions, the problems of limited interaction and poor communication have unpredictable consequences on the educational process and, further, on long-term social activity. Online learning as a substitute for conventional education brings about the same problems as traditional education, in terms of the risks of demotivating students, but this risk is even higher, given the artificiality of mediated communication.\u0000 In this article we aim to adress the relationship between technology and user in the teaching process, from the perspective of communication and to review the main interaction factors that demotivate students during online learning. To this end, we will mainly analyze aspects of preparing, teaching and evaluating educational activities at university level. The article is largely based on findings and exemplifications from our direct activity and draws on the scientific apparatus of e-learning, mainly from the perspective of end-users. This article does not aim to put forward final value judgements about the quality or opportunity of online education, but only wants to emphasize that, even in this particular situation, the principle of correlation between expectations and performance applies.","PeriodicalId":235442,"journal":{"name":"eLearning and Software for Education","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124046717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"INTEGRATION OF ONLINE EDUCATION TO TOURISM EDUCATION: CROSS CULTURAL STUDENT VOICES","authors":"M. Altinay","doi":"10.12753/2066-026X-21-044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12753/2066-026X-21-044","url":null,"abstract":"Covid-19 pandemics had great impacts both in the manufacturing and service industries. Tourism is one of the service industries that had been affected in all its dimensions. Tourism services were heat as all modes of transport to a great extend have stopped after covid-19, but education continued by introducing on line systems all over the world including tourism education. Just before covid-19 the developments in tourism contributed to foreign exchange earnings, growth of the economies and also to employment. This paper aims to evaluate perceptions of tourism education students on online education. Self-reflection task was conducted to gather data from 98 tourism students. It is revealed that students had difficulty in using technological facilities, coping with project-based activities and in using new modes of teaching and learning. As a result of covid-19 higher education systems together with tourism and hospitality education has moved to non-traditional tourism education such as hybrid and online education from traditional classroom settings. The resent changes have significantly changed the way instructors teach and engage students to this education environment. Innovative, cooperative strategies and technologies are needed to remove barriers on online education. This study aims to answer the questions on the perceptions of students regarding online education from students that have different cultures and also shed a light on the challenges and opportunities of online education in tourism. Qualitative research design was used for reflection report. Despite student life has become difficult online education contributed a lot to the student's academic life for personal development.","PeriodicalId":235442,"journal":{"name":"eLearning and Software for Education","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117314792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"PILLOTING 3D CAD FOOTWEAR COURSES WITHIN SKILLS 4 SMART TCLF PROJECT","authors":"Maria Costea, A. Mihai, A. Seul, Bogdan Sârghie","doi":"10.12753/2066-026x-21-155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-21-155","url":null,"abstract":"This article approaches the piloting stage of 42 trainees involved on MOOC courses for 3D CAD Footwear Developer, developed under Skills 4 Smart TCLF project. S4TCLF it is a project oriented to enhance the modernisation and competitiveness of the EU Textile, Clothing, Leather, and Footwear industry, through the development of a sustainable upskilling and reskilling strategy, which is supported by a communication campaign to attract social, economic and political actors. The project consortium is made from 22 partners within 9 European countries. The 3D CAD Footwear Developer is one of the 8 qualification profiles for which a training course was developed in our European partnership. The course responds to the industry needs and fulfil educational requirements by tackling knowledge and skills related to the footwear product design and styling process, manufacturing stages and technologies, 3D CAD modelling and virtual prototyping, 2D CAD pattern engineering, 3D/2D CAD of lasts, soles and heel, which all together correspond to the level 5 of the European Qualification Framework (EQF). The MOOC courses for 3D CAD Footwear Developer were published on the Iversity learning platform, part of the Springer Nature. A chapter of this course is structured in 3-5 video lectures supported by audio voice. At the end of the chapter an assignment task is proposed to be solved in order to continue with the next chapter/unit. The guided trainees were questioned and assessed by the S4TCLF project staff at different times. The aim of the piloting session was to obtain feedback and to assess the added value of the teaching materials.","PeriodicalId":235442,"journal":{"name":"eLearning and Software for Education","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131224144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"SECURITY AND DEFENCE HIGHER EDUCATION IN PANDEMIC TIMES: MEASURES ADOPTED AND NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR THE FUTURE","authors":"E. Spinello, G. Torbidone, M. Marchisio, S. Rabellino","doi":"10.12753/2066-026x-21-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-21-010","url":null,"abstract":"The pandemic crisis started in the middle of the last academic year and disrupted timetables and programs designed months in advance. This forced all Schools and Universities to re-organize quickly all the didactic activities in a different way according to the new needs. Also, in the field of Security and Defence Higher Education it was necessary to design new models of teaching and training. Officers, in order to be able to operate in national and international very complex contexts, cannot postpone some training and could not lose, in terms of quality, their specialized education. This change was more difficult because their preparation includes theoretical and practical activities. In this paper, we analyze the measures assumed by the University of Turin in cooperation with IT-Army Education and Training Command and School of Applied Studies, for military and civilian students of the Bachelor Degree and Master Degree in Strategic Sciences. The presence of a Digital Learning Environment, already used as support to the face-to-face teaching, was very important and allowed to adopt quite easily flexible digital methodologies in distance, blended and hybrid teaching and learning. Despite this, it was fundamental to support and train teachers for developing more digital competences and producing new interactive materials and to strengthen the infrastructures in terms of hardware, software and updating of the classrooms. We discuss this transition by using students' and teachers' answers to two questionnaires and through the analysis of students' activities, difficulties encountered and solutions found. The outcomes in such a challenging and demanding context are generally positive and offer new opportunities and new perspectives for the future of Security and Defence Higher Education.","PeriodicalId":235442,"journal":{"name":"eLearning and Software for Education","volume":"53 55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131122733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"SOFTWARE SYSTEM FOR THE ANALYSIS OF COMFORT PARAMETERS IN SUSTAINABLE TEXTILE FINISHING WITH A SERIES OF NATURAL DYES","authors":"Ramona Budeanu","doi":"10.12753/2066-026x-21-164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-21-164","url":null,"abstract":"A strong and current research concern aims at the development of sustainable processes and products made from natural materials, such as natural fabrics and natural dyes. Ecological dyeing with natural dyes is a topical issue in the field of textile finishing. Currently, the role of finishing in textile dyeing has become increasingly demanding, requiring a careful balance between the compatibility of different finishing products and the application of the processes used, having the purpose of offering textiles important comfort characteristics. In this context, the problem to be solved concerns finding the balance regarding the compatibility of textile materials with different finishing products and processes used for this purpose. The experimental research carried out in this paper aims at analysing the parameters of thermosphysiological comfort in case of linen and hemp fabrics after the dyeing process with natural dyes Madder Rubia, Logwood, Weld, Cochenille, Chlorophylle. The paper suggests the development of a software system composed of an online MySQL database server, and a desktop application, running on the Windows operating system, developed on the .NET platform, using the C # programming language. This software system aims at storing and determining comfort features such as resistance to vapor passage, resistance to air passage, by saving and using the necessary values through the database created. The database is designed in such a way that it can be extended to other types of textiles and dyes, as well as to other experimental values for comfort features. The final results will appear in the \"data\" table for the observation, interpretation and choice by users, in order to be used for developing sustainable clothing products. The software system was created both with the purpose of calculating and storing the experimental results obtained, in order to be used by researchers, students and specialists in the field, as well as of finding fabrics dyed with natural dyes, which are optimal in choosing the best options to be suggested for the development of textile products in a sustainable and ecological context. At the same time, this software system can be used both in research activities the results of which would result in the obtainment of sustainable products, and as an e-learning tool in teaching-learning activities.","PeriodicalId":235442,"journal":{"name":"eLearning and Software for Education","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126505176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ONLINE EDUCATION DURING A TIME OF PANDEMIC: TEACHERS' PERSPECTIVE OF ONLINE EDUCATION, DIGITAL COMPETENCIES AND THE POST-COVID-19 LEGACY","authors":"Oana Mosoiu, Raluca ana Medesan, L. Popa","doi":"10.12753/2066-026X-21-030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12753/2066-026X-21-030","url":null,"abstract":"In the recent years, the scholarly debate on the importance and development of digital competences within the teaching profession has become increasingly nuanced. While the dimensions and depth of the concept remain highly appraised, it remains unclear the extent to which teachers nowadays are closer to developing adequate digital competencies and whether online teaching itself is considered a beneficial practice. Studies have shown different levels of prejudices in students' learning and well-being during the pandemic, so the question is: do teachers adjust their online teaching practices so as to increase learning outcomes, while considering the well-being of students? The present paper tries to address these issues accordingly, by means of on online quantitative study that was carried out between January 1st 2020 - January 28th 2021, on a sample of 1267 Romanian respondents. The questionnaire illustrates the teachers' experience of online education during the COVID-19 pandemic and the central dimensions of our analysis consisted of: the teachers' perceived progress on digital skills; trust in own digital competences; the level of trust offered by the courses attended on delivering online lessons; the perceived benefit of using digital skills in teaching from the perspective of students' learning outcomes; a general evaluation of all educational tools offered by online education; and the extent to which the methods and applications of online education will be integrated in the future. The results point to a positive self-assessment of teachers' digital skills, as well as an important willingness to implement the online education tools back to the everyday classrooms.","PeriodicalId":235442,"journal":{"name":"eLearning and Software for Education","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116924449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE TACTICALPAD SOFTWARE USED IN THE TRAINING OF A PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM HAS A DECISIVE CONTRIBUTION IN OBTAINING PERFORMANCE","authors":"Ciprian Panait","doi":"10.12753/2066-026x-21-192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-21-192","url":null,"abstract":"This work is aimed to determine the efficiency of the use of TacticalPad software in the preparation of a professional team. Study of the literature revealed a number of technical means, which offer a wide range of options to the coaches, in order to objectify and direct the preparation process. The practical experience in performance football has allowed me to identify the software mentioned above, as distinct means, which stands out from the multitude of technical solutions already existing, by the option that allows the user to create football-specific exercises in the form of 2D and 3D graphics and what is even more important, to present the means created in motion, this option being the one that exceeds the technical limitations of most existing software. \u0000The study involved the implementation of TacticalPad in the performance strategy of a professional premier league club in Oman, being used during the preparation period, the pre-competitive period and the beginning of the competition period. The above mentioned software has been used 4 times in the preparation process structured on 6 or 7 days microcycles, as follows:\u00001. creating the means of training in 2D, 3D format and presenting in motion these means, before the start of the training, in the standard, usual presentation of the program;\u00002. tactical analysis of specific training moments;\u00003. scouting;\u00004. tactical analysis of training and official games;\u0000The results obtained and the quality of the game of the team to which we implemented TacticalPad, can be a starting point in the continuous development of football performance, advocating for the use of this application in training and competitions, based on the considerations mentioned at length in this paper.","PeriodicalId":235442,"journal":{"name":"eLearning and Software for Education","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124041166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"TEACHING DIGITAL IN PANDEMIC TIMES: RECALIBRATING THE CLASSROOM FOR WEB 3.0 STUDENTS","authors":"M. Popescu, Filofteia Repez","doi":"10.12753/2066-026X-21-057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12753/2066-026X-21-057","url":null,"abstract":"In post pandemic times when looking forward to the normality is the focus of everyone's attention, research areas abound in papers spinning around the same topic- COVID-19. From disinformation to a mired economy, to the effects on global mobility, education, health, social and political aspects, all papers observe, analyze, count and draw conclusions on what COVID-19 meant for the whole world. Studies vary from a national level approach to the international, continental and global, with a specialist or generalist approach, from analyses on figures from economy and tourism to lexical analyses on occurrences of news topics or frequently used words, to measure society in terms of psychological unrest and confidence, after an invariable introductory section about the context and time COVID-19 first started and where it initiated, to stages of the virus spread and sectors affected. Looked at on the long term, education along with general and mental health are among the most frequently brought under lenses mainly due to the long term isolation consequences on social evolution. In this context, the present paper aims at highlighting the need for a recalibration of the educational process, to tune in with a virtual area, to accommodate a differently represented type of student and a variety of pedagogical approaches to adapt the syllabus and tailor activities to facilitate learning in an environment which has been recently re-purposed to fit and last, to answer and to teach. The universal tool-bag is extremely generous, the technological support products are abundant in apps designed for educational purposes, while the key to set it all in motion is creativity, attention to students' needs, a proper selection of the pedagogical resorts and of the content, in a close combination with specificities of online communication in such contexts. A comparison will be drawn between two apps used for formal synchronous learning, three types of students, and four components in class management, all having one goal, the knowledge transfer.","PeriodicalId":235442,"journal":{"name":"eLearning and Software for Education","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129831753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF THE IPAD ON FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION BY SAUDI CHILDREN DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC","authors":"Reima Aljarf","doi":"10.12753/2066-026X-21-013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12753/2066-026X-21-013","url":null,"abstract":"Since March 2020 until now, children have been studying online due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Since children are studying from home and having more free time than before, they are using their iPads for entertainment and learning purposes. This study is investigating the differential effects of the iPad on first and second language acquisition by Saudi children during the Covid-19 Pandemic. The subjects consisted of 78 parents and 118 children. The children sample was divided into 3 age groups: 1-6 (kindergarten), 7- 9 (grades 1-3), and 10-12 (grades 4-6). Interview-surveys with parents revealed that the iPad is more effective in helping children under the age of 6 in language learning than older children. Older children mainly use the iPad to play games and watch movies. \u0000\u0000More children under the age of 6 use the iPad to learn English than Arabic (46%) because they go to international kindergartens, lived abroad with their parents, and their parents are English instructors. Young children learn the alphabet, numbers, and new vocabulary such as names of animals, colors, fruits, seasons, continents from special apps, games, cartoons, movies, nursery rhymes, stories, and flash cards. The apps are interactive and use color, animation, audio, and video. Children can use and re-use the apps any time and as many times as they wish. Negative effects of the iPad include bad handwriting, and some children are not interested in print books. \u0000\u0000The presentation will report the results in detail and will give recommendations for better use of the iPad.","PeriodicalId":235442,"journal":{"name":"eLearning and Software for Education","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124698849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE POWER OF REWARDS - CASE STUDY","authors":"Ramona-Cristina Balanescu","doi":"10.12753/2066-026x-21-120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-21-120","url":null,"abstract":"We live in a modern, dynamic and ever-changing society. Thus, the organisations, the Managers, as well as the Employees must adapt. The change is an on-going challenge, materialised through modernisation/ progress / development. The 21st century employee provides modern working spaces, state-of-the-art technology, new management and communication strategies, as well as modern employee incentivising and rewarding methods. \u0000Throughout their personal or professional pathway, the individuals are motivated by certain goals and objectives they set for themselves. The Manager's task is to identify the Employees' reasons and coordinate them towards reaching performance. Furthermore, appropriately rewarding the Employees can lead to recording better results within the organisation they are a part of. The employees may be motivated by being granted both financial and non-financial rewards by the Employers. If, for certain employees, the financial rewards are enough, for others, receiving non-financial rewards may increase their intrinsic satisfaction. Some indicators of such are: satisfying their needs of affiliation to a group or to a team, understanding and successfully accomplishing the allocated work tasks. Receiving encouragements will lead to an increase in the Employee's confidence, which will determine, in turn, an increase in the degree of complexity of the performed tasks, and their climbing the corporate ladder, respectively. Which are the best solutions for the Managers who wish their company survived by providing high-quality product/services, while counting on the high-quality of their employees? How are the ones staying with the firm motivated not to leave for the competition or go West, where the financial, political and social stability leads to a safer and more relaxing life? These are the focus of the case study described in the article herein.","PeriodicalId":235442,"journal":{"name":"eLearning and Software for Education","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121104032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}