{"title":"Counselling in Times of the Coronavirus and Beyond","authors":"Julia Schieber","doi":"10.38069/EDENCONF-2020-RW-0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.38069/EDENCONF-2020-RW-0035","url":null,"abstract":"An effective classification and coding system has been designed, developed, and implemented in one of the world’s mega universities, named IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University). This system classifies and categorises the various courses of each programme depending upon the nature and description of the courses involved. A suitable and acceptable numbering convention system has been structured for the academic programmes and courses involved. The codes assigned are found to be quite versatile and helps to quickly identify the course level, discipline, and revision version, etc. Also colour codes have been provided in the coding system presented since colours are found to be the unique and commercial medium that appeals to all visually and sensitizes mind quickly and differently. The classification and coding system presented takes care of any ambiguity that may arise while providing data and information, and communicating with internal and external agencies/stakeholders that include learners, teaching, and administrative university staff. The system presented would also be quite helpful for (a) Study material printing division of the university in sorting effectively and quickly supplying the study material to the learners, and, (b) Examination division of the university in quickly and efficiently scheduling the examination datasheets without and overlapping. The classification coding system acts as an effective quality management information tool to make an informed decision to resolve the various day-today challenges in managing and monitoring the university academic programmes and courses. Further, the presented system would facilitate to improve the overall working efficiency of the university education system and help to provide quality education system to its learners. Keywords: Open and distance education; Coding","PeriodicalId":315718,"journal":{"name":"EDEN Conference Proceedings","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116978096","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}
A. D. Santis, C. Bellini, Katia Sannicandro, T. Minerva
{"title":"Students’ Perception on E-Proctoring System for Online Assessment","authors":"A. D. Santis, C. Bellini, Katia Sannicandro, T. Minerva","doi":"10.38069/EDENCONF-2020-RW-0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.38069/EDENCONF-2020-RW-0018","url":null,"abstract":"Online exams organization increased during the Covid-2019 pandemic. E-proctoring tools represented one of the systems used to take tests and monitor students’ behaviour and integrity. Previous studies on the theme analysed the ease, technical issues and reliability of the system, students’ academic results and digital skills in using online tools, effect of proctored testing on anxiety and performances. The paper presents the results of the questionnaire administered to 541 students at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia to define how the use of e-proctoring systems for exams affects students’ perceptions about their performances and teachers’ role and impacts on concentration, attention, time management, anxiety, understanding, and motivation. The sample was predominantly divided into two equivalent groups in the answers: students who found positive elements in the experience, and students who saw the anxiety worsening using Smowl; students who were ready to use this tool with or without teachers also in the future, and students who found worrying the distance from the teacher. The exception to these results is students in Digital Education course degree who demonstrate greater confidence in proctored testing. The inquiry underlines teachers’ necessity to accurately design the exams and communicate with students in all teaching moments (include assessment).","PeriodicalId":315718,"journal":{"name":"EDEN Conference Proceedings","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133392714","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":"Students’ Perspectives and Strategies on Studying at Home in Times Of Covid-19 Learnings from Podcast Conversations and an Online Survey","authors":"Laura Eigbrecht, U. Ehlers","doi":"10.38069/EDENCONF-2020-RW-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.38069/EDENCONF-2020-RW-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Since spring 2020, higher education institutions all over Europe and worldwide have had to quickly adapt to the new situation provoked by the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. Most institutions have changed their study mode to pure online studies, with face-to-face studies in university buildings temporarily being abolished. Equally, other university facilities such as libraries had temporarily been closed, this meaning for most students that the major amount of study time was to be spent at their homes. In the dawn of a new academic year and with higher education institutions looking for new ways and strategies to cope with recent and future challenges, students’ experiences and their reflections on their last semester should be heard and considered when planning the next ones. Two interview series released as podcasts and an online survey have aimed at collecting students’ voices on their recent study experiences and their reflections on the future of higher education. Results indicate a high need of fostering self-organizational skills, an appreciation of a new flexibility brought about by digitization as well as concern for aspects such as social isolation and digital social presence.","PeriodicalId":315718,"journal":{"name":"EDEN Conference Proceedings","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129711806","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":"Educators Competences Facing Challenges of Digital Transformation: A Brazilian Experience","authors":"C. Gusmão, C. Oliveira","doi":"10.38069/EDENCONF-2020-RW-0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.38069/EDENCONF-2020-RW-0045","url":null,"abstract":"Since March 11, the world has faced a major transformation in daily life, especially in the functions of professionals, with the announcement of the Covid-19 pandemic. New practices were implemented, and, in the educational area, educators began to deal directly with the evident need for technical and emotional skills in professional practice. The United Nations Development Program indicates, including through a framework, the importance of applying skills in professional practice. Education is no different, the program established those that should be the four pillars of education for the 21st century: learn to know, learn to do, learn to live and learn to be. Within this context, this article presents actions taken for in-service training of public-school teachers in the State of Rio de Janeiro.","PeriodicalId":315718,"journal":{"name":"EDEN Conference Proceedings","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126161153","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}
A. Volungevičienė, J. M., Justina Naujokaitienė, Giedrė Tamoliūnė, Rasa Greenspon
{"title":"Teacher Practices in Using Learning Analytics to Enhance Learning in Blended Online Studies","authors":"A. Volungevičienė, J. M., Justina Naujokaitienė, Giedrė Tamoliūnė, Rasa Greenspon","doi":"10.38069/EDENCONF-2020-AC0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.38069/EDENCONF-2020-AC0007","url":null,"abstract":"While higher education institutions (HEIs) are exploring innovative ways to enhance and facilitate learning experience of students and so to improve the overall quality of studies, technology enhanced learning (TEL, henceforth) becomes inevitable. Having explored the possibilities and benefits of TEL, HEIs encourage teachers to develop blended online courses in virtual learning environments, to use new tools and solutions available for student learning monitoring and enhancement and to research how these practices are successful and what are the factors that make impact to teaching and learning success. This paper aims to identify teacher practices how the use of learning analytics in virtual learning environment may enhance learners’ engagement in blended online studies in HE.","PeriodicalId":315718,"journal":{"name":"EDEN Conference Proceedings","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132314291","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":"Ethical Codes and Learning Analytics","authors":"S. Downes","doi":"10.38069/EDENCONF-2020-AC0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.38069/EDENCONF-2020-AC0003","url":null,"abstract":"The growth and development of learning analytics has placed a range of new capacities into the hands of educational institutions. At the same time, this increased capacity has raised a range of ethical issues. A common approach to address these issues is to develop an ethical code of conduct for practitioners. Such codes of conduct are drawn from similar codes in other disciplines. Some authors assert that there are fundamental tenets common to all such codes. This paper consists of an analysis of ethical codes from other disciplines. It argues that while there is some overlap, there is no set of principles common to all disciplines. The ethics of learning analytics will therefore need to be developed on criteria specific to education. We conclude with some ideas about how this ethic will be determined and what it may look like.","PeriodicalId":315718,"journal":{"name":"EDEN Conference Proceedings","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132049873","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}
Jake Hilliard, Karen Kear, Helen Donelan, Caroline Heaney
{"title":"The Impact of Emotions on Student Participation in an Assessed, Online, Collaborative Activity","authors":"Jake Hilliard, Karen Kear, Helen Donelan, Caroline Heaney","doi":"10.38069/EDENCONF-2020-AC0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.38069/EDENCONF-2020-AC0012","url":null,"abstract":"There is growing recognition of the importance of emotions in academic online learning contexts. However, there is still little known about the role of emotions in social and collaborative online learning settings, especially the relationship between emotions and student participation. To explore this relationship, this study used a prospective longitudinal research design to follow 46 distance learning students throughout a 3-week assessed, online, collaborative activity. This approach allowed the fluctuating and dynamic aspects of emotions to be explored as well as the relationship between emotions and student participation in the collaborative activity. Self-report data were gathered using a semi-structured online diary at five time points throughout the task (once at the start of the collaborative activity, three times during the activity, and the final entry after the activity had finished). Findings revealed that learners generally perceived pleasant emotions (such as relief, satisfaction and enjoyment) to have positive impacts, or no impact, on participation, whereas unpleasant emotions (such as anxiety, frustration, and disappointment) were generally perceived to have negative impacts, or no impact, on participation. Interestingly, however, anxiety, and to a smaller extent frustration, were perceived by a number of students to have positive impacts during the activity. To conclude this paper, implications for educators are highlighted.","PeriodicalId":315718,"journal":{"name":"EDEN Conference Proceedings","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124724271","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}
Margarita Teresevicienè, Elena Trepule, Rasa Greenspon, Nilza Costa
{"title":"Digital Badges for Students’ Assessment and Recognition – A University Case","authors":"Margarita Teresevicienè, Elena Trepule, Rasa Greenspon, Nilza Costa","doi":"10.38069/EDENCONF-2020-AC0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.38069/EDENCONF-2020-AC0006","url":null,"abstract":"The main goal of the paper is to describe current practice and experience of one university in application of digital badges with particular attention to two research questions: What are the purposes of issuing digital badges to students? How digital badges are used in fully online or blended learning studies referring to student’s assessment and recognition? A case study design has been selected in order to analyse real-life issues and practices. Virtual learning environment and characteristics of meta data of digital badges have been analysed. The results of the analysis indicate that majority of digital badges were issued in order to assess students’ knowledge, skills, and competencies while the rest of the digital badges were issued to acknowledge personal features ant to motivate. However, recognition using digital badges does not take please at the University. Findings indicate that teachers need trainings on the development and application on digital badges in order to offer transparent procedures when the system itself gives digital badges to students after their fulfilment of predefined criteria to make assessment process more objective.","PeriodicalId":315718,"journal":{"name":"EDEN Conference Proceedings","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133205368","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":"Improving the Financial Knowledge of the Older Generation – The Plekhanov University Experience","authors":"O. Grishina, D. Tutaeva, A. Grishin","doi":"10.38069/edenconf-2019-ac-0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.38069/edenconf-2019-ac-0034","url":null,"abstract":"It is not a secret that the level of social development of some certain society is not least of all characterized by the attitude towards the senior and older people. The problems and challenges faced by these groups of citizens have never been easy to solve, and in the modern world, they became even more complicated. Among the challenges that have become particularly relevant in recent years, the first that is worth mentioning is the accelerated development of technologies, above all – informational ones. Often, senior and older people are not able to adapt quickly to these changes, and at best, they experience problems in their daily life. In the worst case, this situation leads to the fact that these categories of citizens become “lagging behind”, which is especially painful for people who are specialists in their fields. Despite their knowledge and often invaluable experience, their working competencies are rapidly becoming obsolete. This not only significantly hinders the effective work of such people, but also puts them in a vulnerable position in the labour market, and often becomes the cause of personal psychological problems.","PeriodicalId":315718,"journal":{"name":"EDEN Conference Proceedings","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117169495","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":"Free Digital Distance Learning for Employability and Social Inclusion: The Perceptions of Migrants Living on the Maltese Islands","authors":"Joseph Vancell, Teemu Patala, A. Bruce","doi":"10.38069/edenconf-2019-ac-0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.38069/edenconf-2019-ac-0017","url":null,"abstract":"Asylum seekers are still moving, in great numbers, from Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) and the Middle East to the European Union (EU) to seek protection from political oppression, war and poverty, as well as to reunite with family, and benefit from entrepreneurship and education (EC, 2017; EU, 2018). The UNHCR (2019) notes that 68.5 million people were forcibly displaced from their native countries. Mediterranean EU Member States are seeing an ever-growing influx of illegal migrants, through land and sea routes. During the first month of 2019, 6,727 migrants arrived in Europe, of which 5,685 were sea arrivals through Malta, Spain, Greece and Italy – the strategic entry points to the EU. In the previous year, Malta took 1,445 arrivals. The issue of mass migration and population movement has dominated European discourse for at least 40 years. Since the invasion of Iraq and the various destabilization efforts against countries like Libya, Syria and Afghanistan, however, an entirely new phenomenon has erupted onto the centre stage – millions of people fleeing failed States, violence, terrorism and despair. Especially in the case of Syria (now in its fifth year of war) the problem of millions seeking to depart from the chaos has become huge. We are now entering a period of real transition however. Far from the malicious impact of war and violence, new problems arise around family fragmentation, emotional trauma, and the need to rebuild lives.","PeriodicalId":315718,"journal":{"name":"EDEN Conference Proceedings","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115201635","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}