Finance: Teaching, and Learning, Online

2021 ◽  
pp. 0258042X2110673
Author(s):  
Uday Damodaran
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Virtual Platform

I began teaching finance ‘online’—or ‘virtually’—long before the pandemic. It was in 2004 that I first taught on a virtual platform; and I continued teaching on various virtual platforms right up to 2019, the year before the pandemic. The programs offered on these platforms were mostly targeted at working executives. The classes were beamed during the evenings, or on weekends. Each student was participating in a maximum of three hours of classes per day.

Virtual learning solutions in COVID-19 era: University Italian Ophthalmology department perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 112067212110155
Author(s):  
Carla Enrica Gallenga ◽  
Luca Agnifili ◽  
Rossella D’Aloisio ◽  
Lorenza Brescia ◽  
Lisa Toto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Virus Spread ◽  
Surgical Simulator ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Academic Activities ◽  
Virtual Platform ◽  
Initial Results

Introduction: Few months after the COVID-19 pandemic burst, many aspects of the human life, including education, dramatically changed. Because of the lockdown measures taken to limit the virus spread in Italy, in-person teaching and learning have been interrupted in all health care disciplines and readapted in virtual formulae. Methods: As academic ophthalmology departments, we had to maintain the educational needs of medical and orthoptic students, internships, surgical training of residents, as well as to cover the scientific update of health care personnel (HCPs), and the continuation of research and academic activities. To assure these needs we ideated an educational strategy and a team, which was then translated on a multichannel virtual platform created with Microsoft Teams. Results: In this platform there were 21 channels organized in a public view mode, open to all Team members, or in private view mode to separate non-permanent HCPs, internships, residents, and students’ tasks, from permanent HCPs tasks. Virtual channels were dedicated to provide theoretical lessons, clinical cases, surgical video, internal meetings and webinar, to offer news from scientific societies, requests of appointments from biomedical companies, links with ophthalmological websites, to move forward research projects, to participate at institutional academic duties, and to obtain feedbacks from users. Residents continued their training on surgery using a surgical simulator, after consulting an agenda uploaded into the dedicated virtual channel. Conclusion: These positive initial results should represent a boost to rapidly proceed with the development of even more versatile virtual learning solutions, given that the forecasts for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic are not encouraging.

scholarly journals Valoración del uso de la plataforma virtual Moodle como recurso pedagógico en la enseñanza universitaria de la informática

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Manuel Claro-Vásquez
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Virtual Platform ◽  
The University ◽  
Trabajo Colaborativo ◽  
Estudiantes Universitarios

ResumenEl presente artículo describio las valoraciones que hacen los docentes sobre los usos de la plataforma virtual como un recurso de enseñanza y aprendizaje en los cursos de informática de la Universidad de Santander, sede Cúcuta.  Para la recolección de la información necesaria para la investigación se empleó una encuesta aplicada a ocho profesores pertenecientes al Departamento de Sistemas de la Universidad. Esta encuesta se complementó con una entrevista semiestructurada centrada en las experiencias subjetivas de tres docentes. Entre los resultados más relevantes aparece que los profesores que participaron en el estudio utilizan frecuentemente la plataforma virtual como complemento para el desarrollo de sus cursos. El manejo apropiado de la plataforma se lleva a cabo como un proceso dinámico e interactivo de tal manera que el profesor constituye la base fundamental de la construcción de ideas en su entorno y muestra que el uso de la plataforma virtual en la formación de los estudiantes universitarios ha logrado que se reflexione sobre las técnicas elementales de la educación y puedan ser aplicadas en los procesos de enseñanza basados en la formación virtual.Palabras clave: recursos pedagógicos, espacios virtuales de aprendizaje, plataforma virtual Moodle, trabajo colaborativo Assessment of the use of the Moodle virtual platform as a pedagogical resource in the university teaching of computer scienceAbstractThis article describes teachers’ assessments regarding the uses of the virtual platform as a teaching and learning resource in informatics courses of the University of Santander, Cúcuta. As a means of collecting the information necessary for the investigation, a survey of eight professors belonging to the Systems Department of the university was carried out. This survey was complemented by a semi-structured interview centered on the subjective experiences of three teachers. Among the most relevant results, it appears that the professors who participated in the study frequently use the virtual platform as a complement for the development of their courses. The appropriate management of the platform is executed as a dynamic and interactive process, in such a way that the teacher functions as the fundamental basis for the construction of ideas in its environment. Furthermore, it demonstrates that the use of the virtual platform in the training of university students has managed to reflect on the elementary techniques of education and can be applied in teaching processes based on virtual training.Keywords: pedagogical resources, virtual learning spaces, Moodle virtual platform, collaborative work, Valoração do uso da plataforma virtual Moodle como recurso pedagógico no ensino universitário da informática.Avaliação do uso da plataforma virtual Moodle como recurso pedagógico no ensino Universitário de informáticaResumoResumo: Este artigo descreve as avaliações feitas pelos professores sobre os usos da plataforma virtual como recurso de ensino e aprendizagem nos cursos de informática da Universidade de Santander, Cúcuta. Para a recolha das informações necessárias para a investigação, foi utilizada uma pesquisa aplicada a oito professores pertencentes ao Departamento de Sistemas da Universidade. Esta pesquisa foi complementada por uma entrevista semi-estruturada centrada nas experiências subjetivasde três professores. Entre os resultados mais relevantes, parece que os professores que participaram no estudo freqüentemente usam a plataforma virtual como complemento para o desenvolvimento de seuscursos. O gerenciamento apropriado da plataforma é realizado como um processo dinâmico e interativo, de tal forma que o professor é a base fundamental da construção de idéias em seu ambiente e mostra que o uso da plataforma virtual na formação de estudantes universitários conseguiu refletir sobre as técnicas elementares de educação e pode ser aplicado em processos de ensino baseados em treinamento virtual.Palavras-chave: recursos pedagógicos, espaços virtuais de aprendizagem, plataforma virtual Moodle, trabalho colaborativo 

Tracking Values in Web based Student Teacher Exchanges

2012 ◽  
pp. 167-183
Author(s):  
Thomas Hansson
Keyword(s):  
Student Teachers ◽  
Teacher Knowledge ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Soft Systems ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
Vocational Student ◽  
Virtual Platform ◽  
University Course

When vocational student teachers communicate on a virtual platform in a combined campus and web based university course they focus on the contents of teaching and learning. However, in communicating professional teacher knowledge they implicitly express their personal values too. Without giving it much thought, they embed values in their verbal entries and they assess embedded values in their peers’ texts. This article introduces a soft systems model for categorizing the influence of values on web based interactions.

scholarly journals Emerging Applications of Blockchain Technology on a Virtual Platform for English Teaching and Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Ping Wang ◽  
Shuhan Qiao
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Visual Experience ◽  
English Education ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Teaching Platform ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Data Layer ◽  
Virtual Platform ◽  
Business Layer

To extend a broad application of blockchain technology to the fields of online English education, this paper aims to improve a virtual platform for English teaching and learning of landscape design majors, mainly composed of presentation layer, business layer, and data layer by analyzing the performance of the proposed algorithm, and comparing with other existing algorithms. In the platform, through the service layer, the communication between the presentation layer and the data layer is completed, and the data in the data layer is transferred to the presentation layer. The user first establishes a connection with the server in the presentation layer. Using the transmitted data information, the server assigns an identifier to the user and establishes a role model. Users can download the teaching courseware through the server and simulate the real learning scene by controlling the interaction of XAML files. The results show that the virtual teaching platform makes the interconnection of users (students and teachers), machines, and things at any time and any place; realizes information self-verification, transmission, deep unsupervised learning, and management; and gives students a more realistic visual experience in high security.

scholarly journals Innovative Scenarios in the Teaching and Learning Process: A View From the Implementation of Virtual Platforms

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Heriberto Gonzalez Valencia ◽  
Jakeline Amparo Villota Enriquez ◽  
Maria Eufemia Freire Tigreros
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Material Design ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
Research Article ◽  
The Social ◽  
Virtual Class ◽  
Virtual Platform ◽  
Asynchronous Methods

In this research article an analysis and evaluation of virtual learning spaces is carried out. To address this process, three (3) academic virtual platforms were selected, Moodle, Blackboard and Jimdo. The methodology used was of a descriptive type, applying the synchronous and asynchronous methods of virtual teaching established in each of the Institutions. A description and evaluation of each virtual platform was carried out taking into account four identified criteria: the technical and material design; instructional design; tutorial action and the virtual class. The evaluation using educational platforms generated scenarios of innovation from the social view since it allowed both the teacher and student to rethink the evaluation not only as an instrument but as a transversal process linked to different fields such as: social, cultural, economic, etc.

scholarly journals Virtual learning solutions during the COVID-19 pandemic a University Italian Ophthalmology Department Perspective

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Mastropasqua ◽  
rossella d'aloisio ◽  
Lorenza Brescia ◽  
Lisa Toto ◽  
Rodolfo Mastropasqua ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Virus Spread ◽  
Surgical Simulator ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Academic Activities ◽  
Virtual Platform ◽  
Initial Results

Abstract Background Few months after the COVID-19 pandemic burst, many aspects of the human life, including education, dramatically changed. Because of the lockdown measures taken to limit the virus spread in Italy, in-person teaching and learning have been interrupted in all health care disciplines and readapted in virtual formulae. Methods As an academic ophthalmology department, we had to maintain the educational needs of medical and orthoptic students, internships, surgical training of residents, as well as to cover the scientific update of health care personnel (HCPs), and the continuation of research and academic activities. To assure these needs we ideated an educational strategy and a team, which was then translated on a multichannel virtual platform created with Microsoft Teams. Results In this platform there were twenty-one channels organized in a public view mode, open to all Team members, or in private view mode to separate non-permanent HCPs, internships, residents, and students’ tasks, from permanent HCPs tasks. Virtual channels were dedicated to provide theoretical lessons, clinical cases, surgical video, internal meetings and webinar, to offer news from scientific societies, requests of appointments from biomedical companies, links with ophthalmological websites, to move forward research projects, to participate at institutional academic duties, and to obtain feedbacks from users. Residents continued their training on surgery using a surgical simulator, after consulting an agenda uploaded into the dedicated virtual channel. Conclusions These positive initial results should represent a boost to rapidly proceed with the development of even more versatile virtual learning solutions, given that the forecasts for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic are not encouraging.

scholarly journals Is E-Learning for Primary School Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic a Boon or Bane?

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Sukanta Chandra Swain
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Primary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Virtual Platform ◽  
Teaching Learning

Pandemic due to the deadly virus Covid-19 has put the entire world in complete lock-down, that too, for months together. India has locked-down the entire country for more than two months. Schools, Colleges and Universities were to be closed immediately putting everything in halt. Classes were abruptly suspended and examinations were to be postponed indefinitely. Education at all levels got affected hugely. Higher education institutes (HEIs) of India that are embedded with technology blend teaching-learning system, used electronic mode for teaching and learning, i.e., e-learning, immediately after the announcement of first phase of lock-down. Following the trend, some of the primary Schools of the country also adopted the virtual platform for teaching-learning. On this backdrop, it is necessary to unfold whether the stakeholders of primary education are ready for virtual platform of teaching-learning. Thus, the objective of this paper is to establish on the basis of personal interviews among 50 parents of primary School students and 30 primary School teachers.

scholarly journals Online Learning Media: English Education Department Students’ Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Benni Ichsanda Rahman Hz ◽  
Ernita Daulay
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Education ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Great Consideration ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Virtual Platform ◽  
Teaching Learning

<p class="AbstractText">The use of virtual learning media is now being daily needs since global pandemic appears. All educations units must use virtual platform to ruin learning process. This study is aimed to investigate the effectiveness of virtual media platform used by lecturer from students’ perspective, in teaching and learning process of English education students in Public Speaking subject. Besides, the research focuses on analyzing how effective the media is from students’ point of view. This study is a case study approach, that is natural qualitative. The study involved university students, conducted on one biggest university in Medan, Indonesia, majoring in English Education. The participants were surveyed through questionnaire distributed through Google Survey. The questionnaires and interview were conducted to assemble the data related to students’ experiences in using certain online media given by the lecturers, both provided by the institutions and other platform. By their response, Zoom Cloud Meeting is the most effective media in teaching-learning process, where 79% of them say so. It is followed by Whatsapp, where 41.30% respondents choose it. This findings hopefully will be great consideration for the researcher and other parties, to apply the chosen media in teaching learning process, as students expect in their response.</p>

scholarly journals Prediction of student academic performance using Moodle data from a Further Education setting.

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rory Joseph Quinn ◽  
Geraldine Gray
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Warning System ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Common Source ◽  
Student Academic Performance ◽  
Learning Management ◽  
Virtual Platform ◽  
Education Courses

Increasingly educational providers are being challenged to use their data stores to improve teaching and learning outcomes for their students. A common source of such data is learning management systems which enable providers to manage a virtual platform or space where learning materials and activities can be provided for students to engage with. This study investigated whether data from the learning management system Moodle can be used to predict academic performance of students in a blended learning further education setting. This was achieved by constructing measures of student activity from Moodle logs of further education courses. These were used to predict alphabetic student grade and whether a student would pass or fail the course. A key focus was classifiers that could predict likelihood of failure from data available early in the term. The results showed that classifiers built on all course data predicted student grade moderately well (accuracy= 60.5%, kappa = 0.43) and whether a student would pass or fail very well (accuracy= 92.2%, kappa=0.79). However, classifiers built on the first six weeks of data did not predict failing students well. Classifiers trained on the first ten weeks of data improved significantly on a no-information rate (p<0.008) though more than half of failing students were still misclassified. The evidence indicates that measures of Moodle activity on further education courses could be useful as part of on an early-warning system at ten weeks.

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