Covid-19 as an Agent of Change in Teaching and Learning Stem Subjects

Makamure, Chipo; Tsakeni, Maria

doi:10.33225/jbse/20.19.1078

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“…On the other hand, as several studies mentioned, technology and engineering students have been seriously affected by the distance education that inhibited the practice and the use of specific technological tools (Arroio, 2020;Asgari et al, 2021;Makamure & Tsakeni, 2020). For lecturers, distance teaching/learning proved confusing, which slightly reduced the quality of teaching compared to the regular type of study (Rizun & Strzelecki, 2020).…”

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The Usefulness of Online Learning During the Covid19 Pandemic as Perceived by Engineering Education Students: A Multidimensional Model

Gorghiu

Pribeanu

Manea

et al. 2021

JBSE

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With the unprecedented crisis created by the Coronavirus pandemic, online teaching and learning became a global solution - embraced by the whole world - that tried to cover, at least in part, in part the problems encountered by the educational systems. An exclusively online format of teaching and learning proved to be a challenge for both the didactic and the learning process. Although the extant research during the pandemic is very abundant, there are few approaches addressing the different perceptions reported by university students enrolled in various programs. This research aims to explore the usefulness of online learning as perceived by civil engineering students, from a multidimensional perspective. A multidimensional model has been developed that manifests on four dimensions: social usefulness of online lectures, the usefulness of online learning platform, learning effectiveness, and, usefulness for school performance. The results show a relatively low perception of the online learning usefulness in an exclusively online educational context, which disables active learning through hands-on experience in laboratory and real-life building sites (considering the regular study process). The model has been cross-validated on a sample of students enrolled in various educational programs then the differences between samples have been analyzed and discussed. Keywords: Covid-19 pandemic, engineering students, learning platform, online education, perceived usefulness

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The Usefulness of Online Learning During the Covid19 Pandemic as Perceived by Engineering Education Students: A Multidimensional Model

Gorghiu

Pribeanu

Manea

et al. 2021

JBSE

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“…The university LMS had to be complemented by a social media platform that was easily available and cheap in the transition to online learning. Social media platforms play a significant role in building online classrooms (Saadatmand et al 2017;Makamure & Tsakeni, 2020). Therefore, the teaching presence was established mainly through recorded material posted on the LMS and the social media platform for the preservice to download at a convenient time when they connected their devices to the internet from both the LMS and WhatsApp.…”

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“…LMSs and Web 2.0 tools such as social media and web-based office tools such as Google and Microsoft are some of the IoT-enabled technologies used to build online learning ecosystems (Scott et al, 2016). Makamure and Tsakeni (2020) observed that the WhatsApp social media platform played a significant role in building online classrooms during the COVID-19 pandemic. The advent of online learning has also influenced teacher education.…”

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Transition to online learning by a teacher education program with limited 4IR affordances

Tsakeni

2021

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This study used the community of inquiry (CoI) framework and the affordances of Internet of things (IoT) to explore how the faculty of education of a rural campus of a university transitioned from face-to-face to online modes of instruction. In this qualitative interpretive study, data were collected through open-ended questionnaires from four purposely selected teacher educators and five final-year bachelor of education preservice teachers. Thematic content analysis techniques were used to analyze the data collected. The findings indicated the tensions experienced by the teacher educators as they negotiated the limited IoT affordances to ensure effective teaching, cognitive, and social presence in the newly formed online classrooms. Some of the tensions included the choices that were made on whether to use synchronous or asynchronous modes of instruction and the selection of effective communication modes. The teacher educators used a combination of the official learning management system (LMS) tools of the university and a social media platform as way of navigating the limited 4IR environments experienced by the preservice teachers.

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“…In Makamure and Tsakeni [13], ordinary level mathematics and science teaching was investigated in line with the STEM education goals provided by the Internet of Things in online classrooms. As a result, it was concluded that teachers revealed their experience with this transition and that they chose specific Web 2.0 tools to create online classrooms.…”

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Determining the Readiness Status of University Students in STEM Education and Distance Education Course

Zaitseva

Sizova

Chauzova

et al. 2021

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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This research, Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) and remote training on information given and university students in STEM, and distance education classes integration on the emphasis and work, STEM and remote training on course to integration on the information given is intended. On the other hand, STEM education and distance education with related re-search support in order to ready distance education presence, levels were in-vestigated. The study was applied during the 2020–2021 fall semester. The quantitative research method was used in the research. This research study comprises groups that have been created by 520 4th grade reading Science In-formation Teacher candidates of universities. University Students ‘STEM and Distance Education Ready presence, Survey’ was applied. Data and survey were collected online. The collected data were analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences software. Research on the results based on students’ training and daily lives for technology support needs that heard, their needs education and their their lives ease it provides to the results, fur-ther STEM and related studies in the literature even more writing space font contribution will provide, also STEM Education ‘ready presence, status, re-mote training ready presence, status on by more high that the result was reached.

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Covid-19 as an Agent of Change in Teaching and Learning Stem Subjects

Cited by 13 publications

References 33 publications

The Usefulness of Online Learning During the Covid19 Pandemic as Perceived by Engineering Education Students: A Multidimensional Model

The Usefulness of Online Learning During the Covid19 Pandemic as Perceived by Engineering Education Students: A Multidimensional Model

Transition to online learning by a teacher education program with limited 4IR affordances

Determining the Readiness Status of University Students in STEM Education and Distance Education Course

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