Pub Date : 2021-01-14DOI: 10.36261/IJDEEL.V6I1.1431
Fouzia Malik, F. Ajmal, Zohran Jumani
Due to the wide spread of COVID-19, the educational institutes were closed on 20th March, 2020 and the individuals were advised to isolate themselves at home. This lockdown not only adversely affected the economy but all the educational activities were shut down which created a huge gap in students’ learning and knowledge all over the globe. This quantitative study was designed to explore the impact of COVID-19 on the education of higher level students in the context of Pakistan. The five point Likert Scale questionnaire was provided to the learners enrolled in intermediate, undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level. 74 respondents respond to the questionnaire. The data were analyzed through SPSS 23. The results of the findings revealed that students have been facing a lot of difficulty to grasp certain concepts during e-classes. The students lacked internet access along with not been given any prior guidance related to the usage of online platform. The challenges regarding online classes at the same time are being faced by the teachers as well along with the students. It was also analyzed that although teachers are providing all the necessary resources and feedback to the students but still students have been going through difficulties in grasping the concept, gaining knowledge and communicating with their teachers online. Due to immense number of online classes teachers have a huge workload on their part.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-14DOI: 10.36261/IJDEEL.V6I1.1429
Saba Shamim Qureshi, Naila Naseer
Current research explored correlation between distance learners’ self-concept and academic performance at post graduate level (M.A Education). The purpose of this research was to find out relationship between self-concept of students and their academic achievement. This was a quantitative study which used questionnaire as main tool of data collection along with the analysis of end of term result of students. To achieve the purpose of the study, distance learners (240) of Master in Education (M.A.) of AIOU were randomly selected by employing table of random numbers for sample selection. The study was delimited to Islamabad region and Rawalpindi region respectively. Data was collected through “Self-Concept Scale” developed by researchers. National language (Urdu) was used in the scale to make it more understandable for the respondents. The prototype of the scale was also content validated. In this regard, opinions of five educational experts were sought and their suggestions were incorporated in the final version of prototype. Data collection process was done through mail. Academic achievement was measured in three courses’ results 0512, 0652 & 0655. For data analysis, Pearson correlation was used. Analysis of results showed statistically significant positive relationship between self-concept of distance learners and their academic achievement. It was recommended that the future research and development studies may be conducted to design training programs for distance learners to enhance their self-concept.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.17706/IJEEEE.2021.11.1.11-20
H. Yeh, Tsung-Sheng Chang, Fenghung Kuo
Recommender systems solve the current information overload problem in the online world. By predicting and presenting relevant information, web users do not need to waste time searching and browsing for contents that they are interested in. However, in addition to the accurate contents, slogans associated catching the customers’ eyes are worthy of exploration. This study aims to discover the effects of various recommender slogans. Two categories of slogans were designed in the study: slogans associated with customer inputs and slogans associated with price promotion. Actual customers’ webpage clickstreams and purchase decisions were collected from a Taiwanese retail shopping Website. The effects of recommender slogans on product categories are different. Customers generally were drawn by the slogans associated with price promotion. This study brought to light the effects of different slogans on online shoppers. With the empirical findings, this study provides online retailers important guidelines regarding online customers’ behaviors towards the employment of recommender slogans.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.17706/ijeeee.2021.11.4.121-132
Kuo-Ming Chu, Hui-Chun Chan, Chi-Fang Liu
On account of its contagious nature, COVID-19 has resulted in various containment measures and mandatory isolation, affecting the personal interaction between students and instructors tremendously. In the absence of face-to-face interaction and traditional classroom teaching, computer-based learning has come out as the closest substitute for offline teaching. In addition, adult and youth students’ perceptions of courses’ effectiveness towards online learning as compared to traditional face-to-face learning have largely been overlooked and thus should be designed based on the needs of adult learners. This paper aims to fill this void in the literature, presenting results indicating all students’ positive perceptions towards e-learning and thus acceptance of this new learning system. It also empirically demonstrates the significance of e-learning in the time of this COVID-19 crisis. The results also point out surprising differences in students’ perceptions of the importance of communications and collaboration, effectiveness, and self-efficacy, and surprisingly differences exist between the performances of youth and adult learner groups. Under the current debates on the cost and teaching quality of higher education, the findings herein should help educational institutions in their improvement of higher education and student enrollment and retention.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.17706/IJEEEE.2021.11.2.42-50
Wilasinee Ponputtha, Panita WannapiroonWannapiroon, P. Nilsook
This research aims to develop a creative history learning model using digital storytelling through cloud learning to enhance analytical thinking. The research methodology is divided into 3 steps involving the use of digital storytelling through cloud learning to enhance analytical thinking. This involves 1) studying the creative history learning process, 2) developing the creative history learning model, 3) comparing the students’ analytical thinking scores before and after learning. The sample consisted of Mathayomsuksa 5 students of the Chonburi Sukkhabot School in the 2nd semester of the academic year 2019. The research instrument was an assessment of the students’ analytical thinking. Data were statistically analyzed with the use of mean and standard deviation measurements. The research findings were as follows 1) The creative history learning process using digital storytelling through cloud learning to enhance analytical thinking consisted of 4 steps: 1) The introductory stage included student orientation, specification of the learning objectives and historical topics; 2) The instruction stage included researching historical information, summarizing historical facts, creating digital storytelling media 3) The summary stage included presenting material by digital storytelling 4) Evaluation. The cloud learning resources used were Facebook Group, Google Drive, Google Form, and YouTube. The suitability evaluation score was at the highest level (x̅ = 4.63, S.D. = 0.41) 2) The students who learned through the creative history learning model using digital storytelling through cloud learning had analytical thinking scores after learning (?̅? = 26.13, S.D. = 1.63) which were higher than scores before learning (?̅? = 10.70, S.D. = 2.58). The results were statistically significant at the .05 level.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.17706/ijeeee.2021.11.4.151-158
Junhong Chang
Online teaching is a virtual teaching mode developed with the help of modern information technology, which is widely used in colleges and universities. Online teaching has the advantage of learning across time and space, but it also brings problems such as ineffective classroom management and poor learning effect. To improve the existing problems in the current situation, we need to do a good job in teaching preparation, strict management of teaching and learning process, timely feedback and improvement of the existing problems. Students, teachers, and organizations need to join efforts to improve the quality of teaching.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.17706/IJEEEE.2021.11.2.51-61
A. Taghipour, Shynar Murat, Panpan Huang
These days, internet-based electronic marketplaces (EMs) are widely expanded all over the world. They emerge in different industries, supporting the various exchanges of goods or services with and for different types of actors, and are following different business principles and models to face up to its competitors and fulfil its ambitions. Most observers have suggested that electronic marketplaces would emerge to prevail over the electronic business area. This article aims to propose a critical review based on existing literature, over the electronic marketplaces and imposes the supply chain management research in respect of this issue.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.17706/IJEEEE.2021.11.1.1-10
Abbott Po Shun Chen, C. Liu
Intelligence commerce is an important application and development of agricultural markets. From pesticide use to organic production, agriculture is developing progress that will benefit the world. This study uses an e-commerce platform and an AI (Artificial Intelligence) Chatbot as a way to develop intelligence commerce. This can solve why farmers do not participate in business activities, and also provide farmers with the co-creation value of establishing industrial clusters. In particular, intelligence clusters can create customer value and competitive advantage and can allow farmers to run their businesses sustainably.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.17706/ijeeee.2021.11.4.142-150
Dominika Koncova, I. Kremenova, J. Fabuš, Terezia Galovicova
The aim of the Paper is to inform about necessity of evaluating usability of websites and the tools that are appropriate to be used for it. Paper defines electronic services from different authors and differences that it creates. Paper states useful methodologies, that could be used for such evaluation and subsequently to parse it by using methodology of 360°. Lastly recommended methodology of 360° is then described in subsequential steps necessary for complex analysis. Conclusion states creation of possible information gap created by using this method, that needs further research.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.17706/IJEEEE.2021.11.2.73-84
N. Gwangwava
Rapid development in modern industrial technology require pragmatic approach in the learning environments. Practical skills need to be imparted early among learners so that they are ready for industry practice. Because of research orientation of tertiary and higher learning institutions, they are at a vantage point to be aware of modern technologies earlier than industry. Taking a strategic initiative further to be technology transfer centers, learning institutions can adopt learning factories (LFs). Modern day economies are backed by emerging small and medium enterprises (SMEs). These SMEs are mainly founded by young graduates who have superior advantages in terms of trending technologies learnt in institutions that are practical and technology orientated. Africa industrialization agenda is better promoted through a strategic initiative of learning factories. The article seeks to promote learning factories among Africa's learning institutions as a strategic initiative to spearhead industrial development, innovation, and rapid growth of SMEs.
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