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{"title":"ETHIC MODELS SHAPING (IM)MORAL IDENTITY IN (POST)PANDEMIC TIMES: A PROPOSAL FOR A LONGITUDINAL STUDY PROTOCOL","authors":"A. Luca, Ioana R. Podina","doi":"10.12753/2066-026X-21-176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12753/2066-026X-21-176","url":null,"abstract":"Moral identity - defined as \"a self-conception organized around a set of moral traits\" - is strongly linked to moral behavior. Recent theoretical approaches showed that moral identity - the same as social identity - may be influenced both by individual differences and situational factors. In the context of the current global pandemic, several social and moral identities emerged and will continue to develop as the situation unfolds, with consequences on peoples' moral decisions and actions. Children and adolescents may be especially vulnerable to negative consequences, who may be affected by numerous situational factors such as the emerging of polarisation concerning following rules, and it is yet unclear how this affects children and adolescents' mental health and morality, both in the short and long term. Others' behaviors and opinions may hold a strong effect on adolescents' moral development, and this influence may be especially salient in the case of significant others (i.e., parents, family, peers) who have the role of ethic models in adolescents' life. Therefore, we propose a theoretical protocol for a longitudinal study, exploring the long-term effects of others' perceived moral identity on adolescents' moral identity development, hypothesizing that the perception of the moral identity of ethical models is a predictor for change over time in adolescents' moral self-identity. Longitudinal designs are widely used in literature to explore the role of both individual differences and situational factors on specific outcomes, for this reason, we propose a latent growth model, exploring the individual change in adolescents' moral identity, in three different time points, measured every year, in the (post)pandemic context.","PeriodicalId":235442,"journal":{"name":"eLearning and Software for Education","volume":"26 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":"129982152","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":"USING MICROSOFT TEAMS TO DEVELOP ENGINEERING STUDENTS' TELECONFERENCING SKILLS - A CLIL APPROACH","authors":"Y. Catelly","doi":"10.12753/2066-026x-21-016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-21-016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Given the pandemic context effects on the higher education starting 2020, the entire instructional process, including the foreign language courses, has turned online, supported by the IT means available for the university. Therefore, gradually, courses were redesigned, in terms of content and methodological approach, to be adapted to the new environment, specific to synchronous online education, viz. for the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, the use of Microsoft Teams and the Moodle platform. Thus, by taking into account the quite predictable change in both the education and the future job needs of the engineering students/future employees, who will most probably continue to use synchronous online means for their daily activities, the focus of the foreign language course at bachelor level was necessarily shifted onto developing the trainees' appropriate soft skills for this type of environment. Certain features of the educational context described in the paper, namely: (i) the good technical profile of the learners, who are IT students with high computer literacy and good command of English, at least of B2 level, (ii) the availability of the Microsoft Teams and Moodle technical support in the university, (iii) the context of the practical course of language - English for Professional Communication - based on a core course book that, by its flexible structure, allows optimization required by the need to modernize/update both the content, and the didactic means used in implementing it, (iv) the language teacher's openness and adaptability to innovate, have been conducive to the design of a supplementary complete course book unit, centred on developing teleconferencing skills, and taught in the synchronous online mode, taking advantage of the very existence of the Microsoft Teams platform available for the course. The unit, whose design is based on communicative/eclectic pedagogical principles, is briefly presented in the paper, together with the rationale for its sections, which actually blend, as a CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) type of education, the teaching of content, i.e. knowledge of soft skills - teleconferencing skills, and language at B2/C1 level, respectively - thus making full use of the digital support available. Considering the way it combines teaching about teleconferencing skills by using precisely the Teams support, which is - and certainly, will be, for a long time in the future - specific for the application/use of such skills, in both study and working activities in real life, the proposed approach can be efficient, since it saves time, effort and costs for further in-house skills training of the future engineers at their (first) working places - which is exactly what most employers expect today from the academia.","PeriodicalId":235442,"journal":{"name":"eLearning and Software for Education","volume":"123 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":"134592231","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":"PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER CANDIDATES' ATTITUDES TOWARDS DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY","authors":"Yucehan Yucesoy, Başak Bağlama, Yasemin Sorakin, Meryem Bastas, Menil Celebi","doi":"10.12753/2066-026x-21-064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-21-064","url":null,"abstract":"The developments in the field of technology in the 21st century caused changes in the field of education, as in many fields. Technology undoubtedly facilitates human life when used properly. There are many benefits to using technology in education.Technology today makes people's lives easier and progresses rapidly with it. In the process of integration of developing technologies into the field of education, important studies are carried out on the international platform. In the 21st century world, as well as changes in every field, various innovations in science and technology have occurred. Education plays an important role in keeping up with the requirements of the present era. Technological innovations and developments affect the education system and teaching learning-process in this context. The technologies used in education are leaving their place to new technologies. Increasingly, they take their place in the classroom environment such as computer, projection, electronic board, distance education and the learning environment is moved to the network environment (Bulman & Fairlie, 2016; Sendurur & Arslan, 2017). Lectures can be strengthened with technological equipment. On the other hand, using technology in education makes lessons more attractive for students. At the same time, supporting narration with technological tools facilitates learning and increases retention. For this reason, the use and importance of technology in education has increased today and teachers' attitudes towards technology use are important. When evaluated from this point of view, it is thought that the research subject will contribute to the literature. This study aimed to determine primary school teacher candidates' attitudes towards digital technology. In this study, the primary teacher candidates studying at a private university in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) were examined on the technology attitudes of teachers in education. The study was conducted with the participation of 121 teacher candidates during 2019-2020 academic year. Attitude Scale towards the Use of Technology in Education was used to determine the attitudes of prospective teachers towards digital technology. Results are presented with descriptive statistics, tables, frequencies and percentages and discussed with relevant references from the literature and suggestions for future research and practices are provided.","PeriodicalId":235442,"journal":{"name":"eLearning and Software for Education","volume":"27 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":"131225458","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":"CHALLENGES OF EXTEND PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION (BASED ON NMSTU EXPERIENCE)","authors":"Yuliya Savinova, N. Zerkina, Elisabeth Lazarou","doi":"10.12753/2066-026x-21-116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-21-116","url":null,"abstract":"Enhancing engineering education is a challenging issue nowadays. The international project implemented within the program of Erasmus + KA2 Capacity Building in Higher Education # 586060-EPP-1-2017- RO-EPPKA2-CBHE \"Excellence in Engineering Education through Teacher Training and New Pedagogic Approaches in Russia and Tajikistan\" (acronym - EXTEND) contributes to solving this issue and aims to improve the quality of engineering education. The paper describes the importance of the quality of engineering personnel training, as well as goals and objectives of EXTEND project. The authors give the detailed information about the project calendar, its stages, and annual actions of the project participants from 2017-2021. The pandemic has intervened in the project during the third year of its implementation, therefore it was prolonged for one year more, till 2021. The paper shows the obstacles the project consortium faced under pandemic conditions, and the ways of overcoming them. In the process of online project implementation it was revealed that even despite the lack of face-to-face meetings, due to the joint efforts of partner-universities it was possible to continue the project fruitfully and achieve its results. The role of mentor universities is particularly emphasized. The authors describe the experience of one of the twelve project participants, Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University (NMSTU) in implementation of the project. This institution was in charge of the elaboration of the course \"Foreign Languages for Engineering. Academic Writing\", aimed at building future engineers and engineering teachers' soft skills. EXTEND project addresses a very important issue of engineering education excellence, and has been doing a prominent job in actually achieving that.","PeriodicalId":235442,"journal":{"name":"eLearning and Software for Education","volume":"70 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":"133634290","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 INCONVENIENTLY CONVENIENT ONLINE EDUCATION","authors":"C. Nistor, Doina Comanetchi","doi":"10.12753/2066-026X-21-031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12753/2066-026X-21-031","url":null,"abstract":"In many ways, 2020 was the year that has made a difference in everybody's life, although one cannot say that it was all for the better. At the respective time, the very few who could afford to work remotely were corporate employees who had chosen to do so for various (mostly personal) reasons, and who were envied by many other types of workers. When, under the pressure of the COVID-19 rapidly spreading threat, education made the switch from the classroom to the online, it was hailed as the beginning of a new era, bringing it into the 21st century. As expected, commentators, most of them outside the educational field, claimed that education-by-screen was the future, with the internet offering endless possibilities for knowledge growth, which, in turn, would give rise to a new learner - and to a new type of teacher, as well. However, as it often happens with theories, when they take a reality check, bad news came soon: computers may have brought cutting-edge technology into the classroom, but that was not enough. More and more voices were heard making comments about online learning and its (in)convenient nature, dwelling on the idea that, over the past year, remote learning has painted a different picture, leading to the conclusion that in-person education cannot and should not be replaced. How open and willing are students to embrace this new form of education is a question most teachers have probably asked themselves. The authors of this article have tried to formulate an answer based on a questionnaire administered to first-year students.","PeriodicalId":235442,"journal":{"name":"eLearning and Software for Education","volume":"56 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":"127645119","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":"E-LEARNING INSTRUMENTS FOR DESIGN BASED LEARNING IN TEXTILES","authors":"I. Radulescu, Carmen Ghiţuleasa, E. Visileanu, Luis Almeida, B. Malengier, Z. Stjepanovic, M. Blaga, Petra Dufková","doi":"10.12753/2066-026x-21-162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-21-162","url":null,"abstract":"Design Based Learning (DBL) is a modern concept of education for technical disciplines. The learner starts the educational process from end-user applications and understands theory by conceiving projects and solving real-life situations. In connection with Problem Based Learning and Project Based Learning, DBL is used to improve skills such as collaboration and communication between team members and to foster deeper learning. Two e-learning instruments have been conceived to support DBL. The concept of the first instrument links STEM disciplines with smart textiles prototypes within 56 educational modules in two approaches: from theory to practice (STEM to Smart) and from practice to theory (Smart to STEM). The modules are structured on seven chapters related to the manufacturing chain of smart textiles: fibres and yarns, materials and methods, virtual models, design prototypes, manufacture prototypes, data processing and testing. Each of these chapters includes four STEM basic disciplines: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry/material science and Electrotechnics. The instrument consists of a filter programmed in PHP for selection of the desired module. The second instrument presents 5 modules of textile design software tools in a four elements structure: Example, Theory behind the example, Software application and Quiz, for five themes: weaving, knitting, virtual prototyping of clothing, embroidery and experimental design. This instrument includes a navigation button programmed in HTML5. Both instruments support DBL due to their practice- centered and gamification approach. The instruments were performed with support of two Erasmus+ projects: Skills4Smartex (2018-2020) and the ongoing OptimTex (2020-2022). The impact achieved during pandemic restrictions by the e-learning instruments is further presented in the paper.","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":"115591237","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":"PROBLEMATICS OF THE EMIGRANTS' ACCOMMODATION IN A NEW EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN THE PERSPECTIVE OF TEACHERS AND THE PERSPECTIVE OF PUPILS.","authors":"A. Vieriu","doi":"10.12753/2066-026x-21-131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-21-131","url":null,"abstract":"The present study focuses on a comparative analysis between the perspective of teachers and the perspective of pupils' regarding the problematics of the emigrants' accommodation in a new educational context. The sample included a total of 102 Romanian migrant pupils, 40 male and 62 female pupils, between the age of 11 and 18, and 72 teachers within the Romanian Language Institute within the Ministry of National Education, teachers teaching the course on \"Romanian language, culture and civilization\" to migrant pupils in Italy, Spain, and Belgium. The pupils' adjustment was investigated by means of a questionnaire consisting of four subscales: linguistic adaptation, cultural adaptation, school adjustment and teacher-pupil relationship. The same questionnaire was applied both to the pupils and teachers. The findings confirm that, while Romanian migrant pupils have a satisfactory level of educational and linguistic adjustment, the social adjustment is less satisfactory. We also obtained a correlation between linguistic adaptation and school adjustment, linguistic adaptation and social adaptation, linguistic adaptation and teacher-student relationship, school adjustment and social adaptation, school adjustment and teacher-student relationship, social adaptation and teacher-student relationship. This comparative analysis was realized as a result of a larger research in which the empirical studies are interrelated. The first one investigates the adaptation of Romanian migrant pupils to the school abroad, through the teachers in the respective schools. The second study researches several dimensions of the Pupils' effective, real, situational adaption to a new educational context. This research resulted in a corpus of useful knowledge, most of which confirm the validity of the initial hypotheses and may become a supporting material for all the players involved in the proposed issue - pupils, their parents, teachers, and the school in the host-country.","PeriodicalId":235442,"journal":{"name":"eLearning and Software for Education","volume":"25 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":"115806513","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":"IS E-TRAINING A SUCCESSFUL METHOD FOR ATHLETES DURING COVID-19? AN ANSWER BASED ON A CASE STUDY","authors":"Iosif Sandor, S. Neag, D. Stan, E. Isidori","doi":"10.12753/2066-026X-21-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12753/2066-026X-21-007","url":null,"abstract":"Is E-training a successful method for athletes during COVID-19? An answer based on a case study\u0000\u0000The Covid 19 pandemic changed and reorganized all areas of human activities. The same thing also happened in performance sports at one team which start the season with a serious performance objective. The main changes concerned the training methods, which were not carried out in the usual way because people lived in a lockdown and used virtual apps for practice. \u0000This was a way of practicing training imposed by sanitary norms. Some athletes have presented illness symptoms and they took medicine. The impact on athletes of the pandemic has been studied and explored to a small extent by researchers. Also, the training has been scarcely innovated by adopting new models of teaching and learning.\u0000This study will present some innovative methods concerning the online training practiced by a football team that has been using different technologies offered by WEB.2.0.\u0000We have studied and interpreted a case study concerning a Romanian football team where 16 players and staff members were infected with the COVID-19 virus. The football players remained in isolation in different periods, and the coach led the training through virtual platforms. After describing the case study scenario, we will show the results of a survey administered to the players involved.\u0000After analyzing and interpreting the data, we will answer whether and to what extent, during the athletes' isolation, virtual platforms were really innovative and useful tools to achieve the sports training goals.\u0000\u0000Key Words: sport, e-training, case study, isolation, Covid-19","PeriodicalId":235442,"journal":{"name":"eLearning and Software for Education","volume":"88 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":"116443545","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":"ACCESSIBILITY AND EDUCATION: ARE WE FULFILLING STATE OF THE ART REQUIREMENTS?","authors":"I. Stefan, Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Niina Sallinen, A. Stefan, A. Gheorghe","doi":"10.12753/2066-026x-21-073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-21-073","url":null,"abstract":"Digital accessibility has been supported through several global initiatives, starting with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 Recommendation issued in 1999 and continuing with the WCAG 2.0 ISO 40500 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines or the DIRECTIVE (EU) 2016/2102 on the accessibility of the websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies, all aiming to make information, services, and functionalities of the Web accessible to as many people as possible. Applying such standards and recommendations in education remains an issue, as awareness on accessibility and its requirements is limited among those creating educational content, as well as among those designing and implementing educational web sites and applications. Research on digital accessibility has identified lack of awareness, resources, and specific training related to accessibility as key top challenges that need to be overcome in the next few years. The paper presents an overview of the accessibility features available in mainstream applications and tools that content creator can use to develop accessible and inclusive digital learning content and discusses the findings of an online questionnaire that aimed to gather insights on the availability, user-friendliness and use of accessibility features available in tools such as Open Office, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, PDF, videos and educational games. Findings have shown that digital accessibility practices are not widely spread, and that the road to a more accessible future is yet to be built. Findings have shown that digital accessibility practices are not widely spread, and that the road to a more accessible future is yet to be built.","PeriodicalId":235442,"journal":{"name":"eLearning and Software for Education","volume":"28 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":"128249086","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":"PROTOTYPING TUTORIAL FOR PROTECTIVE KNEE PAD DESIGN USING 3D PRINTING TECHNOLOGY","authors":"D. Viziteu, A. Curteza, M. Avadanei","doi":"10.12753/2066-026x-21-172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-21-172","url":null,"abstract":"The practitioners of activities such as bouldering or mountain climbing sometimes find themselves in the situation of needing textile equipment that offer protection without limiting the body mobility. Modern design implies a complex process, from concept, to modelling, to prototyping and testing. The paper presents a tutorial which is useful for training of all those involved in designing, modelling and manufacturing knee pads integrated into protective garments, using certain principles regarding ergonomics, impact force management, texture, weight etc. The use of modelling software such as Rhinoceros 3D and Grasshopper offer also a wide array of tools for creating a virtual model which be later evaluated in virtual strain tests.\u0000The next step is creating a physical prototype, in order to test and compare materials, textures and physical parameters. This is where 3D printing technologies come in, compacting the physical modelling and prototyping process and offering designers, manufacturers or students a better control over the whole design and development process. Parameters such as material, infill, shell thickness can greatly influence an object's behaviour under strain tests. The fact that it can be build a minutely accurate scale prototype of a model in a very short time, without having to deal with the logistic or acquisition of expensive precision equipment, is especially relevant in the current context of the pandemic. This offers the possibility to create several prototypes of knee pads, made from plastics of varying degrees of rigidity, with differing infill percentage and layout, which will be further tested in order to assess their fit with the needs of climbers. In this context, 3D printing offers a new perspective in prototyping, providing a compact solution for most of the challenges in developing new functional or protective textile products.","PeriodicalId":235442,"journal":{"name":"eLearning and Software for Education","volume":"1 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":"130114414","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}