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Group-Based Assessments to Improve the Job-Readiness
Group-based assessments have been recognized as one of the ways of developing work-ready attributes in project management graduates. Tasks should be based on a real-world context and be sufficiently challenging for students. The group should create a team charter to establish expectations and ground rules for group members. Group assessments should include team member peer evaluations and oral presentations to curb social loafing. Academics should be actively involved in giving regular feedback, training students about teamwork, and communicating their expectations to students. The research findings are useful to inform project management academics about the design and administration characteristics that need to be considered to achieve the ultimate purpose of group-based assessments in polishing the job-readiness attributes of project management graduates. 
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  • 26 Aug 2022
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Emotion and Learning
Students’ affective states describe their engagement, concentration, attitude, motivation, happiness, sadness, frustration, off-task behavior, and confusion level in learning. In online learning, students’ affective states are determinative of the learning quality. 
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  • 19 May 2023
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Innovating Occupational Safety Training
Digital games have been successfully applied in different working sectors as a highly-engaging occupational safety training method. Nonetheless, they found a very limited application in agriculture. Engagement in safety training is widely acknowledged to play a pivotal role in promoting occupational safety in the agricultural sector. Based on a scoping review of 42 studies, the present entry discusses how occupational risks are addressed during game-based safety training in different productive sectors and how this can be transferred to agriculture. 
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  • 05 Mar 2021
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Promoting AI Literacy for Children
The advancement of generative AI technologies underscores the need for AI literacy, particularly in elementary Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics (STEAM) education.
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  • 06 Dec 2023
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Six Thinking Hats
Six Thinking Hats was written by Dr. Edward de Bono. "Six Thinking Hats" and the associated idea parallel thinking provide a means for groups to plan thinking processes in a detailed and cohesive way, and in doing so to think together more effectively.
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  • 14 Oct 2022
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HyFlex Learning Research and Practice
Relevant work on HyFlex learning were primarily carried out at the tertiary level of education, with an emphasis on issues in respect of teachers’ and students’ perceptions, experiences, and behaviours. Most of the practices were mediated by technologies, which were primarily used for course delivery, course management, and in-class/off-class communication.
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  • 30 Jun 2023
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E-Portfolio in Higher Education Students’ Employability
The e-portfolio (EP)  in the professional life seems to be a personal homepage or electronic curriculum vitae (CV). At its most complex, it can become a person’s digital identity.
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  • 29 Jun 2022
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COVID-19 and International Student Enrollment for Higher Education
International students’ mobility was not spared in terms of the negative impact of COVID-19 on higher education. Due to globalization and digitalization in the 21st century, the demand for knowledge and professional skills, as well as knowledge exchange at higher education institutions, have increased significantly. International higher education has entered a new deepening stage of globalized development in line with the global knowledge society. The global characteristics of higher education have become increasingly prominent because they enable young graduates to become citizens of the world and not restricted to one’s home country alone. Most of the world’s colleges and universities have implemented projects, programs, and diversification strategies to promote internationalization. The concept and strategy of international higher education is to promote the integration of higher education into global development. Most tertiary institutions have adopted strategies to promote international higher education globally.
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  • 22 Apr 2022
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The Internationalisation of Higher Education
The number of international students enrolled in tertiary education outside their home countries has increased significantly. This enrollment increment is due to the global demand for higher education, the perceived value of studying at prestigious or highly ranked higher institutions abroad, and better employment opportunities in the home or host country after graduation. Host countries reap economic and workforce benefits from the presence of international students in their universities. Because of this, many countries are now attempting to attract international students through academic promotion, quality education, common culture, and by forming social and diplomatic relationships. Their higher education institutions adopt various strategies in response to globalisation and internationalisation, a signal that there have been profound structural and social initiatives as educational providers have invested in sustaining global relevance and survival. 
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  • 17 Nov 2023
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The Impact of COVID-19 on E-Learning
Due to its severity, the outbreak of COVID-19 led to unprecedented levels of social isolation that affected educational institutions, among others. Digital technologies such as cloud computing and video broadcasting helped the adoption of e-learning during the crisis.
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  • 18 Dec 2023
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Culturally Relevant STEM (CReST)
Convergence education, driven by compelling or complex socio-scientific problems, is an approach to bring cultural relevance into secondary STEM education. National trends show the need to increase the STEM workforce by leveraging educational research and innovative practices within the secondary level to increase student interest prior to graduating high school.
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  • 04 Mar 2024
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Non-Textual Elements in Sustaining ESL and EFL Learning
The use of non-textual elements has been regarded as an effective teaching approach to support English as a second language (ESL)/English as a foreign language (EFL) learners in language learning. Much of the research regarding non-textual elements has shown that they have significantly contributed to learners’ motivation, active participation, and communication.
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  • 13 Jan 2023
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E-Report
e-Report - transnational virtual study circles: e-learning supports for tutorship and learning groups - is a communitarian project (funded by European Community - Leonardo da Vinci Program (EAC/11/04), 2005 – Procedure C) aiming at the constitution of a repertory of reference material with regard to the development of innovative methods in the field of e-learning system for educational projects and also for distance learning in VET. The activities of research, experimentation and analysis are combined with the use of ICT with massive use of tutoring activities, learning groups and transnational virtual study circles.
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  • 30 Sep 2022
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Nature-Based Education and Well-Being among Youth
The world has changed radically, and people now live in an era of an abundance of information and contacts. The standard of living has never before been so high in many Western countries, but at the same time, the first quarter of the 21st century has been turbulent in many ways and is characterized by an increasingly harsh social climate. Public debate has hardened, and polarization has increased. The world and everyday life have changed significantly in a short time. These are aspects that also affect the everyday lives of our young people and, thus, their opportunities for well-being. The range of choices for young people has never been so wide as today, but this seems to come with a price, as our individual choices and actions are portrayed as crucial to our future. Many young people feel that it has become more difficult to make the right choices in life, and research shows that young adults are increasingly worried about their future. Many youths feel that there are too many possibilities and too many decisions that should be made, and they feel pressure that too much is required of them.
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  • 04 Jan 2024
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Next Generation Science Standards in the US
K-12 science education in America has long been criticized for not preparing scientifically literate students who are prepared to engage in science-as-practice. Bearing this in mind, the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) recommend engaging students in eight science practices to build their knowledge of and proficiency in science.
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  • 07 Nov 2023
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Conceptual Advances of Learning Trajectories
One way to conceptualize professional noticing comes from the three skills described by: (1) identifying the relevant aspects, (2) interpreting the students’ understanding, and (3) decision making actions. Regarding the first skill, the teacher identifies significant mathematical elements that students use when solving a given mathematical task (mathematical dimension); in the second skill, the teacher interprets the mathematical understanding of students by connecting the significant mathematical elements, identified in their responses, with cognitive aspects (cognitive dimension); and in the third skill, the teacher uses the interpretation of the students’ understanding to decide the actions necessary to improve the teaching process (didactic dimension). Professional noticing can be developed in suitable teaching environments. The recognition of conceptual advances helps to interpret students’ thinking and learning trajectories which are effective tools to structure and develop professional noticing.
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  • 04 Jul 2022
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Educator Effectiveness
Educator effectiveness is a K-12 school system education policy initiative that measures the quality of an educator performance in terms of improving student learning. It describes a variety of methods, such as observations, student assessments, student work samples and examples of teacher work, that education leaders use to determine the effectiveness of a K-12 educator. The drive for educator effectiveness programs stem from Race to the top where states were awarded points for meeting educational policies based on the teacher's effectiveness. This policy was the basis of the emergence of statewide educator effectiveness programs. Educator effectiveness programs vary from state to state. Typically, an educator effectiveness program describes a cycle of observations and assessments that apply to different groups of teachers during an academic year. New teachers are evaluated more frequently, and veteran teachers are evaluated across multiple year cycles. Evaluated teachers have multiple scheduled classroom observations and conferences with the evaluator in addition to unannounced classroom observations. A controversial aspect of The purpose of evaluations is to help educators determine what is effective in their practices and provides them a medium to reflect upon and change their practice to help teachers become more effective.
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  • 16 Nov 2022
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Transformations of Religiosity during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
Diseases and plagues of all kinds have accompanied humans from the very beginning. The civilizational advancements, expansion of empires, population growth and climate change every so often influenced the emergence and spread of various types of epidemics. In limit situations, such as illness or death of a loved one, people often turn to religion for support and to religious content. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unique changes in rituals and religious services. Religious practice was restricted due to the closure of churches or a reduction in the number of participants. Indirect participation in religious practices, through the media, was proposed as an alternative.
  • 704
  • 05 May 2022
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Social Media and Artificial Intelligence
Prior to and during the pandemic, social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook emerged as dynamic online spaces for diverse communities facilitating engagement and learning. As with all technology, social media is also riddled with complex issues and unfortunately, is increasingly considered unsafe. The emergence and popularity of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT, Lensa AI, and Canva Magic Write present new challenges and opportunities and cannot be avoided by the educational communities.
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  • 25 Jan 2024
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Academic Migration and Epistemological Value
The internationalisation of higher education (IoHE) has become a prominent topic in higher education research. While there is increasing institutional and governmental commitment to IoHE, it is important to consider the actual outcomes of these processes critically. Despite the significant issues raised by the academic migration of professors, researchers, and post-docs regarding migratory trajectories and epistemological aspects of scholarly work, this area of research remains understudied. This research adopted a qualitative approach, drawing on semi-structured interviews with migrant scholars pursuing academic careers in Portugal. The findings suggest that a complex interplay of factors influences the pursuit of an academic career by migrants, including the influence of institutional and governmental policies regarding science and the impact of marketisation of higher education institutions that have jeopardised academic career possibilities.
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  • 24 Jul 2023
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