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Student perspectives on using virtual reality to create informal connection and engagement: The Challenge of Educating EU Professionals
No full textFollowing the global pandemic, educators relied heavily on live videoconferencing options and online meeting spaces to host class in lieu of traditional, in-person classroom learning. Yet, exhaustion and Zoom fatigue fueled a lack of engagement in such online spaces, while simultaneously the need for more informal connection to support learners’ emotional well-being emerged. This study aims to better understand how online learners perceive the use of virtual reality (VR) as an alternative platform to informally connect and engage with one another, and to ascertain the impact on their satisfaction and motivation for such engagement. Specifically, the investigation sought to examine participant perceptions of social presence felt, the ability to connect and exchange informally, and the impact on motivation, digital literacy, and satisfaction overall. Following the global pandemic, the world grew to rely more heavily on technology to maintain workflow, synchronous meetings, and connection (Vargo et al., 2021). Videoconferencing platforms (such as Zoom, Skype for Business, Google Hangouts, GoToMeetings, and Cisco WebX) replaced live, in-person meetings, classrooms, and offices. In particular, higher education institutions rapidly transitioned to online and hybrid modalities using learning management systems (LMS) and supportive asynchronous communication tools (such as document sharing repositories, screen sharing/recording tools, virtual workboards and workspaces). Although these tools afforded a way to remain connected while learning and working remotely, individuals also began to suffer from an abundance of screen-time and overscheduled synchronous meetings using these technology-supported meeting spaces–leading to “Zoom-fatigue”, distraction, and a lack of interest in online social events (Fosslien & Duffy, 2020; Wiederhold, 2020). During this time, researchers also discovered the need for more intentional and informal opportunities to socially connect with classmates, peers, and colleagues–demonstrating the detrimental effect of isolation, anxiety, and burn out as a consequence of unanticipated remote working and learning (Brooks et al., 2020; Hwang et al., 2020; Toscano & Zappala, 2020; Wang et al., 2020). While individuals and organizations sought to combine (and simultaneously felt overwhelmed by) the use of synchronous and asynchronous tools to maintain productivity, they also unearthed the need for informal, social connection and engagement to support the emotional aspects lost from the move to these online environments (Toscano & Zappala, 2020). However, utilizing the same work-based platforms (LMS and videoconferencing) proved to be somewhat exhausting, unmotivating, and lacked the authentic feel of the social environments they tried to replicate–from the office water cooler to celebratory events to informal conversations over coffee (Fosslien & Duffy, 2020; Wiederhold, 2020). InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching 29 With an understanding that learning and working remotely were essential tasks at hand, the importance of supporting the social and emotional needs of our learners and workers became evident. In particular, the need for meaningful social engagement, informal exchange, and (for lack of a better word)–fun! Yet, given the lack of motivation or interest to socially connect, using the same technologies that were leading to exhaustion and fatigue, this investigator sought to explore options to address this need by using virtual reality
Hidden in plain sight : capturing freshmen emotional experiences and their effects on performance at university
No full textSuccess at university has been traditionally explained by students’ effort and intelligence. This thesis looks at academic success through a factor commonly ignored in academia, students’ emotions. In an attempt to help first years at Maastricht University perform better, our findings show that the emotions about learning , their amount of control towards study activities and the importance attributed to it, determine performance over an entire academic year. Overall, this research offers insight and suggestion on how we can engage students – emotionally and intellectually – in their learning process in order to achieve academic success
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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