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Hybrid Learning Method in Teaching English for Medicine at the University of Bisha: Lecturers’ and students’ Perceptions
No full textThis study explores the implementation of hybrid learning, specifically through the Blackboard Learning Management System, as a pedagogical model in higher education. The purpose of the research is to examine the benefits and challenges associated with hybrid learning from the perspectives of lecturers and students, with a focus on its application in specialized disciplines such as medicine. The study adopts a qualitative design, employing semi-structured interviews, classroom observations, and document analysis to collect data from lecturers and students engaged in hybrid learning environments. The findings reveal that hybrid learning offers significant advantages, including enhanced flexibility, accessibility, and the integration of theoretical and practical knowledge. For lecturers, it facilitates innovative teaching strategies, fosters professional development, and enables efficient course management. For students, hybrid learning promotes self-discipline, time management, and active engagement while providing opportunities for real-world applications and lifelong learning. However, the study also identifies several challenges, including technological limitations, increased workload for lecturers, and skill gaps in navigating digital platforms. Additional issues, such as maintaining student engagement in asynchronous components, limited interaction in online activities, and assessment complexities, further underscore the need for targeted interventions. The research concludes that while hybrid learning is a transformative approach to modern education, its success requires robust technological infrastructure, comprehensive training for users, and institutional support. These measures can help address the identified challenges and optimize the benefits of hybrid models. The study highlights the importance of innovative pedagogical practices, tailored interventions, and a supportive digital ecosystem to enhance the effectiveness of hybrid learning, particularly in specialized and evolving academic fields such as medicine. This research provides valuable insights for educators, administrators, and policymakers aiming to implement or improve hybrid learning frameworks, contributing to the broader discourse on educational innovation in the digital age
Active Participles in Bisha Colloquial Arabic
No full textActive participles have been extensively studied across various languages and some Arabic dialects; however, their specific characteristics in Bisha Colloquial Arabic (BCA) remain unexplored. This study seeks to address this gap by providing a comprehensive description of active participles in BCA, focusing on their morphological and syntactic features. Data were collected from two primary sources: classroom interactions involving undergraduate students and content from social media platforms. These sources provided rich examples of active participle usage in diverse contexts. The analysis identified and categorized active participles into three main types: nominal, deverbal, and adjectival. The analysis revealed distinct characteristics for each type of participle. Nominal participles exhibit fully nominal properties, such as forming construct states, accepting adjectival modification, and functioning as noun phrases. Deverbal participles retain verbal traits, including aspectual marking, argument structure, and adverbial modification, closely mirroring their corresponding verbs. Adjectival participles, by contrast, function as standard adjectives, agreeing in gender, number, and definiteness with the nouns they modify. Additionally, BCA participles follow the faʕil morphological template, aligning with Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) in their derivation. However, BCA diverges from MSA by simplifying agreement rules for gender, number, and definiteness, prioritizing ease of communication. Despite these differences, BCA participles retain several features common to MSA and other Arabic dialects, particularly those of southern Saudi Arabia. This study demonstrates that active participles in BCA display a dynamic interplay of nominal and verbal characteristics, offering a unique linguistic balance. The findings contribute valuable insights into the structure and flexibility of active participles across Arabic varieties
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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