Online Learning Era: Exploring the Most Decisive Determinants of MOOCs in Taiwanese Higher Education

Education does more than give students facts; it develops their potential and trains them to adapt to and improve their living environment. Through education, students formulate informed ideas about the interactions between people, things, and the environment. In an era of global environmental change, students must understand environmental problems and develop the knowledge and skills to help mitigate or solve them. The key concepts students learn and the ideas that influence students during wetland ecology-based outdoor education courses are thus worthy of investigation. This study summarized several key indicators through a literature review and an analysis of expert interviews. The literature review revealed nine indicators: ecological conservation, natural environment, biological habitat, individual development, environmental education, learning through practice, social culture, economy, and environmental quality. An expert questionnaire was used to apply interpretive structural modeling and integrate correlations among the indicators. Subsequently, the analytic network process was employed to establish the weights of assessing indicators. This study defined key indicators and provided analysis of the weighted results. These findings give teachers an academic basis for enhancing the design of related teaching curricula to achieve their teaching goals effectively.

Section: Application Of the Interpretative Structural Modeling Methodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Planning Wetland Ecology-Based Outdoor Education Courses in Taiwanese Junior High Schools

Liu

2017

“…Hence, in response to these research questions, not only the factor analysis ("FA") approach and entropy compared assessed ("ECA") model of qualitative analysis of multiple criteria decision making ("MCDM") methodology but also research concept, theories and methodologies regarding technological education from the extension of online education research results of Hsieh (2016bHsieh ( , 2017, are systematically and extensively cross-employed, deeply discussed, hierarchically testified and comprehensively induced the best solution of this research topic for the majority of academic HE students, empirical corporate onthe-job training employees and the general public. Subsequently, in terms of the rapid development and popularization of IT, wireless transmission and telecommunication technologies for online education comprehends the digital support for the digital technological features of voting, scaling, hypertext (relationship analysis), visualization, and the structuring of collaborative communication protocols (for example, Roberts Rules of Order in 1876), and the structuring, filtering, and organization of collaborative discourse content (Hsieh & Chan, 2016).…”

Section: Colleges Universities Totalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Most Decisive Online Education Determinants as Impacted by Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy

Hsieh

2018

Self Cite

“…Moreover, this positive effect is stable and lasts for over 10 years. Due to the importance of Internet technologies some researchers call present days "Online Learning Era" (Hsieh, 2016). The model of interactive educational environment that considers different learning styles and can be implemented in teaching computer science and engineering courses was introduced by Hamada & Hassan (2017).…”

Section: Analysis Of International Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Methodological Potential of Computer Experiment in Teaching Mathematics at University

Lin

Sokolova

Vlasova

2017

The study is relevant due to the opportunity of increasing efficiency of teaching mathematics at university through integration of students of computer experiment conducted with the use of IT in this process. The problem of there search is defined by a contradiction between great potential opportunities of mathematics experiment for motivating and developing modern scientific world outlook of students and beliefs about general methodology of cognition and between the lack of methodology for its implementation for teaching mathematics at university. The aim of the research is to explore methodological potential of computer experiment for improving the quality of teaching mathematics at university and to develop an appropriate methodology. The article describes student activities that allow using computer experiment for formation of individual research skills and skills of working with modern tools for solving theoretical and practical problems and presents methodology of studying certain sections of mathematical analysis including setting up problems that require experimental research of mathematical objects and their properties. The article may be used for content design of mathematics courses for raising motivation, preliminary studies of abstract notions, such as limit of a sequence and continuity, and organization of in-class, individual and research work of students aimed at exploring ways of scientific cognition and corresponding information technologies.