6 research outputs found
Authoring in MOOC with Wizard Based Recommendations for Improving Learner Engagement
No full textAbstractIncreasing popularity of Massive Open Online Courses has raised the demand of effective tools to author them. In this paper we propose an authoring model that helps novice and intermediate teachers to create online courses with less effort and improved effectiveness for learners. This model enables teachers to author pedagogically rich online courses with limited effort and time. And help teachers author with least effort and evaluate them. The pedagogical model made is a combination of Bloom's Taxonomy and ARCS Motivational design to help in making motivating and engaging courses. The courses created are ensured to be pedagogical compliance by a pedagogical evaluation and ensured effective for students. This model helps novice teachers in authoring engaging and attentive courses for MOOC learners
Teacher Reinforcements Through the Lens of English Preservice Teachers
No full textThis study explores the perspectives of English preservice teachers on reinforcement strategies used by educators. Reinforcement, a key educational strategy, impacts student motivation, behavior, and learning outcomes. The research employs a convergent parallel design, integrating qualitative and quantitative methods, to analyze how preservice teachers perceive positive and negative reinforcement in classroom contexts. Findings indicate that positive reinforcement, such as praise and rewards, fosters motivation and confidence, while negative reinforcement, though occasionally effective in promoting discipline, can induce stress and hinder engagement. A balanced approach combining both strategies is highlighted as essential for creating supportive and effective learning environments. The study underscores the need for teacher training programs to emphasize reinforcement techniques that cater to diverse learner needs, ensuring equitable and quality education. By addressing these gaps, the research contributes to educational reforms aligned with global standards for fostering inclusive and learner-centered pedagogy
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No full text48 p. : ill.Features: A Different Way of Seeing (The author reflects on her positive experiences at “K”) / by Lindsay Ballard -- Four Years and Two Persons (The author reflects on her experiences at “K” and her “double consciousness” as a half black, half white woman) / by Rosie Onwuneme -- Sculptures "del Corazon" : The Art and Habitat of Brad Burkhart '71 (Thirty years after his Kalamazoo College graduation, Brad Burkhart continues to combine art and science in a dual career as sculptor and native plant landscape architect) -- In the Blood (Andrew Terrarella ’99 spent the summer after his first year of medical school in Ghana evaluating the effectiveness of that country’s diabetes management program) / by Antonie Boessenkool -- New Faces and New Talent (The professors are coming, the professors are coming! Seven new professors at Kalamazoo College this fall give us a sneak peek into who they are, and what they will bring to the College) -- Graduates Earn Fulbrights for Colombia and China (Two Kalamazoo College students, Sharika Crawford ’00 and Jeffrey Lung ’00, will use 2001-2002 Fulbright scholarships to conduct post-graduate research) -- Prominent Plan Biologist Reflects on Science at a Small Liberal Arts College (Kate VandenBosch ’77 delivered the keynote address of the 2001 Diebold Symposium) -- A Wired Community (“K” students will soon have on-line access to hundreds of alumni volunteers in the Career Network, as well as to internship, SIP, and employment opportunities) -- 25 25 (Professor of Religion Wally Schmeichel and Professor of Mathematics John Fink were honored for 25 years of service to the College) -- Luce Scholarship Winners (Jessamyn Margoni and Elizabeth Tank are the College’s third and fourth Luce scholars) -- Sports (Profile of MaryJane Valade ’01, Men’s Tennis wins 63rd consecutive MIAA championship, Football Preview, Volleyball Preview, Cross Country, Golf Previews, Soccer Previews) -- Making Adventure Home (Clara Berridge figured out how to make a big city home during her fall 2001 internship at the Philadelphia Center for Urban studies, and the experience was a valuable exercise in liberal arts learning) -- The Mathematical Formula of Poetry (A row of red phone lights blink impatiently as John Fink, professor of mathematics, does a live talk show at a Kalamazoo radio station and cures math phobias over the airwaves) -- The Art of Chen (Chens give art endowment to Kalamazoo College). Contributions by Richard Berman, Antonie Boessenkool, Caitlin Gilmet, Jeff Palmer
Hygiene knowledge and practices and determinants of occupational safety among waste and sanitation workers in Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic
No full textWaste and sanitation workers provide essential services to society. In most low-and middle-income countries, they are often mistreated and lack access to necessary personal protective equipment (PPE) and hygiene facilities that ensure occupational safety in workplaces. COVID-19 has also imposed serious health risks upon these worker groups. This study explores factors associated with poor occupational health and safety based on a conceptual framework. We conducted 499 surveys with five categories of waste and sanitation workers across ten cities in Bangladesh. We performed descriptive analysis and used Firth's logistic regression model following the conceptual framework. The analysis revealed consistent distinctions between workers considered to be in “safe” versus “unsafe” working conditions. The result showed that workers had not been adequately trained, not provided with proper equipment, and many had an informal status that prevented access to hygiene facilities. The workers who received occupational training, knew how to prevent COVID-19 by wearing a face mask, hand washing, and maintaining social distance, maintained protective measures, and practiced proper disposing of PPEs were more likely to be in safe condition. Initiatives to improve the situation of the waste workers who work in unsafe work conditions are still inadequate. Therefore, we recommend supplying proper protective equipment, ensuring a regular supply of gender-specific PPEs, and providing functional facilities necessary to practice personal hygiene and occupational safety, such as handwashing stations, changing rooms, and disposal facilities of used PPEs at the workplace. We also urge increased institutional management procedures, infrastructure that facilitates hygiene practices, and social policies to reduce occupational hazards for the waste workers in Bangladesh during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic
Recovering the Dalit Public Sphere: Vernacular Liberalism in Late Colonial North India
No full textThis article was originally published in Comparative Studies in Society and History. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000021. © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for the Comparative Study of Society and HistoryDrawing from publications by Swami Achutanand and the Adi-Hindu Mahasabha press between 1916 and 1940, this article examines the role of this north Indian Dalit organization in creating language and categories of liberalism in the Hindi vernacular. The Mahasabha poet-activists published numerous song-booklets in a variety of Hindi song genres to intervene in ongoing discussions on the subjects of representation and equality which they characterized as mulki-haq and unch-niche. Histories of liberties in late colonial India have typically examined its emergence within dominant Hindu and Muslim middle-class groups. This article uncovers the unique contributions of Dalit poet-activists who recognized the value of liberal ideas and institutions in challenging caste and abolishing “Manu’s Kanun” (lawgiver Manu’s Hindu law codes). It highlights the methodological importance of mohalla (neighborhood) sources usually located in Dalit activists’ houses in untouchable quarters. The chapbooks found in mohalla collections have enabled the writing of a new history of the Mahasabha’s activism and of the initiatives taken by poet-activists in founding a new Dalit politics in northern India. I explore the emergence of a Dalit literate public which sustained the activities of the Mahasabha and which responded with enthusiasm to its articulation of the new social identity of Achut (untouched) and a new political identity of Adi-Hindus—original inhabitants of Hindustan (India). Offering a new methodological approach in using mohalla sources and song-booklets composed in praise of liberal institutions, this essay makes a significant contribution to the recovery of a forgotten Dalit public sphere in early twentieth-century India.This article has emerged as part of a larger project on “A New History of Democracy: Dalit Spaces, Printing, and Practices in Twentieth-Century North India,” which has been generously supported by a Senior Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies, a Smuts Visiting Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, a Charles Ryskamp fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. I am most grateful to the anonymous CSSH reviewers whose careful reading and comments have clarified and strengthened the arguments of this article. Many thanks to Ajay Skaria, Douglas Haynes, Francesca Orsini, K. Satyanarayana, Sharika Thiranagama, Lucinda Ramberg, Mrinalini Sinha, Samita Sen, John Dunn, Lisa Mitchell, and the late David Washbrook. Please note that references to “untouchables” should be read in quotes
