An exploration of students' lived experiences of using smartphones in diverse learning contexts using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach

This study describes young people's experiences of using smartphones, by exploring what it means to acquire, possess, and create a purpose for these personal mobile devices within the complex and fluid contexts of formal and informal learning. Applying the principles and practices of hermeneutic phenomenology, this study's methods comprised the use of interviews and written reflective exercises. 12 youths ranging from 16 to 19 years old participated in 3 rounds of semi-structured interviews over a period of 6 months. The findings reveal that participants' smartphone appropriation is associated with self-identity and management of their image as it is perceived by salient others, including peers and teachers. Furthermore, the participants' smartphone use is dependant upon their perception of learning-value and subject to influences concerning the status of knowledge, from their peers, parents and the community at large. The findings would suggest that the significance that young people attach to this form of mobile device use and the transferability of such behaviours and uses across spaces, time and dimensions in learning contexts is critically a function of particular smartphone adoption at a cultural rather than pedagogic level. Further research including rich qualitative studies is suggested to better theorize the phenomenon of smartphone use in learning contexts through engaging with cultural and social perspectives

Lived experience of Indonesian nurses in Japan: A phenomenological study

Aim: The movement of Indonesian nurses via a bilateral agreement with Japan has led to a substantial number of migrants to work as nurses in that nation’s healthcare system. The purpose of this research was to develop a deeper understanding of the meaningful experiences of Indonesian nurses while working in Japanese hospitals. Methods: In this phenomenological study, sampling was purposive and was based on information shared by five Indonesian nurses. The data were collected in interviews; the analysis was thematic. Results: Six key themes were identified: (i) seeking better than before; (ii) communication challenges; (iii) the nursing examination as a culmination; (iv) differences in nursing practice; (v) cultural differences; and (vi) the benefits of living in developed country. Among these challenges, communication as the basis of shared meaning and understanding was viewed as a complex issue, by both patients and coworkers. Conclusion: The results of this study call for further intervention in supporting Indonesian nurses living in Japan in their struggle with the issue of communication. The emphasis on language acquisition for personal and professional objectives, and the bridging of cultural differences as well, should be considered in an international context

Teaching Speaking Experience Perceived By Sea Teacher Students Project of 11th Grade Students At Pangasinan State University (PSU) Integrated School-High School, Philippines: A Phenomenological Study

This research aims to investigate and describe the perceptions and problems faced by the student teachers who teach public speaking in grade 11, Pangasinan State University Integrated School-High School (PSU IS-HS), Philippines through SEA Teacher (Southeast Asean Teacher) program handled by Southeast Asean Minister of Education Organization (SEAMEO). The researcher employs descriptive qualitative method by using phenomenological approach. The technique of collecting data in this research uses semi-structured interview technique. The subjects of this research are four student teachers who teach public speaking in grade 11 of PSU IS-HS, Philippines. The objects of this research are the perceptions and challenges faced by the student teachers based on their experience while teaching in PSU IS-HS. The technique of analysis the data used in this research is hermeneutic phenomenology. The result of this research suggests that: 1) The student teachers’ perceptionin teaching through SEA Teacher project; 2) The student teachers’ challenges which had a limited time and minimum support of IT media in SEA Teacher program in PSU. Keywords: Teaching speaking, experience, student teacher’s perception, SEA Teache

A Systematic Study on the Development of Public Cloud Systems

The term "cloud computing" refers to a group of resources and services made available online. Internet-based computing lets devices and computers access shared resources, software, and information. Google applications, a product of Google and Microsoft Share Point, are a typical example of cloud services. A collection of information technology services known as "cloud computing" are offered to a client across a network on a leased basis with the flexibility to scale up or down the level of service needed. In order to demonstrate how cloud computing will make the corporate world easier, more efficient, and more specialized, its qualities will be presented with a number of examples in this article. We'll also define different cloud computing settings, cloud computing style, etc. The goal of this study was to ascertain if cloud computing might be used for learning and what advantages it offers in the creation of learning systems. Information technology advancement is now a creative, dynamic, and financially successful answer. Information technology has the answers to the problems and challenges the educational industry is now experiencing. Cloud computing is changing the way that information technology services are provided and made available to institutions so that they can have access to scientific and educational data. With several benefits over traditional systems, cloud computing technology offers a new paradigm in the delivery of computer services. This technology has recognized the significance of the service-oriented idea and developed a new system in the computer industry thanks to its impact and benefits. The potential of cloud computing has allowed us to advance the IT industry by one step. Large and well-known companies are now using cloud computing for their processing and storage. In this essay, we present a general overview of cloud computing and call attention to its advantages

How the Content of Learning Videos Should Be Made? (A Study on Prospective Primary School Teacher Students During COVID-19 Pandemic)

The pandemic period resulted in students having to learn from home by relying on a distance learning platform with most of the media used by educators in the form of learning videos or video conferences. This study aims to analyze how learning videos should be made so that the material contained in the learning videos can be conveyed properly to students in terms of video content, video duration, and various obstacles faced by prospective teacher students in obtaining good teaching materials in the form of learning resources and learning videos presented by educators. The data in this study were collected by means of a questionnaire distributed with Google Form. The questionnaire was distributed randomly to prospective elementary school teacher students in a study program at one of the state universities in Mataram. The questionnaire results were analyzed as a percentage of quantitative data. The results showed that 51% of respondents prefer learning videos with a duration of 5 to 10 minutes, as many as 60.5% of prospective teacher students prefer learning videos that contain material explanations of a topic of discussion than video tutorials, as well as the main obstacles for prospective teacher students in obtaining learning materials due to the limited quota of data packages and the internet network (signal) which is less supportive

The Effectiveness of Online Learning for Mathematics Students during the Covid-19 Pandemic

The spread of the Covid-19 virus globally continues to grow. The impact felt by Indonesia in addition to the many positive cases, economic, social and educational system problems. The learning process that has been carried out face-to-face has become undisturbed, so that the learning process changes its function to online learning. The purpose of this research is to obtain information on how to describe the implementation process of learning for students of the Pamulang University Mathematics Study Program during the Covid-19 pandemic as an effort for Higher Education to stop and break the chain of spreading covid-19. The research subjects were students of the Mathematics Study Program. Data processing was carried out by interviewing through cloud meetings and questionnaire response sheets using the google format. Interviews and questionnaire sheets were conducted with questions that were compiled and developed with related literature. Miles & Huberman's interactive analysis techniques were used in this study. This study obtained the results, namely, (1) students already have basic learning facilities such as leptops, computers, android-based mobile phones and internet networks; (2) The learning process has not been maximally carried out yet; (3) Lack of supervision from both lecturers and parents during the lecture or learning process; (4) The online learning process has the advantage of flexibility in time, encourages and trains students to study independently

Pembelajaran Daring di Tengah Wabah Covid-19: (Online Learning in the Middle of the Covid-19 Pandemic)

Pademi Covid-19 has disturbed the learning process in a face-to-face manner. Therefore online learning solutions need to be sought as an answer to these problems. The aim of the study was to obtain an overview of the implementation of online learning in the Biology Education Study Program of the Teaching and Education Faculty (FKIP) of Jambi University as an effort to suppress the spread of covid-19 in the campus environment. Research subjects were students of Biology Education Study Program. Data collected by telephone interview. Data analysis was performed using the interactive analysis technique of Miles & Huberman. The results showed that: (1) students already have the basic facilities needed to take part in online learning; (2) online learning has flexibility in its implementation and is able to encourage the emergence of learning independence and motivation to be more active in learning; and (3) distance learning encourages the emergence of social distancing behavior and minimizes the emergence of student crowds so that it is deemed able to reduce the potential for the spread of Covid-19 in the campus environment. Abstrak. Pademi covid-19 telah mengganggu proses pembelajaran secara konvensional. Maka diperlukan solusi untuk menjawab permasalahan tersebut. Pembelajaran secara daring adalah salah satu alternatif yang dapat mengatasi masalah tersebut. Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk memperoleh gambaran pelaksanaan pembelajaran daring di Prodi Pendidikan Biologi FKIP Universitas Jambi sebagai upaya menekan penyebaran covid-19 di Perguruan Tinggi. Subjek penelitian adalah mahasiswa Prodi Pendidikan Biologi. Data dikumpulkan dengan wawancara melalui zoom cloud meeting. Analisis data dilakukan menggunakan teknik analisis interaktif Miles & Huberman. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa: (1) mahasiswa telah memiliki fasilitas-fasilitas dasar yang dibutuhkan untuk mengikuti pembelajaran daring; (2) pembelajaran daring memiliki fleksibilitas dalam pelaksanaannya dan mampu mendorong munculnya kemandirian belajar dan motivasi untuk lebih aktif dalam belajar; dan (3) pembelajaran jarak jauh mendorong munculnya perilaku social distancing dan meminimalisir munculnya keramaian mahasiswa sehingga dianggap dapat mengurangi potensi penyebaran Covid-19 di lingkungan kampus. Lemahnya pengawasan terhadap mahasiswa, kurang kuatnya sinyal di daerah pelosok, dan mahalnya biaya kuota adalah tantangan tersendiri dalam pembelajaran daring

PENDIDIKAN JARAK JAUH DI SMK DAN KENDALANYA SELAMA PANDEMI COVID-19

Pandemi Covid-19 tidak hanya menutup bisnis dan membahayakan ekonomi dunia tetapi juga menghambat proses pendidikan. Penyebaran virus Covis-19 mengakibatkan 107 negara menutup sekolah sehingga siswa diwajibkan melakukan Pembelajaran Jarak Jauh (PJJ) dari rumah. Hal ini menyebabkan ketidak efisienan kegiatan belajar terutama pembelajaran praktik di Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan (SMK) sehingga siswa tidak optimal dalam menerima materi yang diajarkan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mencari tahu (1) dampak dan kendala dari Pembelajaran Jarak Jauh di SMK selama pandemi virus covid-19; dan (2) cara mengantisipasi atau mengatasi kendala tersebut. Penelitian berjenis studi kepustakaan ini menggunakan sumber data sekunder yang dikumpulkan melalui artikel ilmiah, buku, website, dan sumber-sumber lain yang relevan. Selanjutnya, data tersebut dianalisis secara kualitatif dengan model Miles and Huberman, yang terdiri dari pengumpulan data, reduksi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan kesimpulan. Temuan penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa di masa pandemi ini guru SMK harus mampu meningkatkan kemampuan berpikir kritis dan kreatif mereka karena meskipun dalam masa pandemi materi pembelajaran tetap harus tersampaikan dengan baik kepada siswa. Solusi yang dapat ditawarkan adalah dengan memanfaatkan media pembelajaran yang bisa diakses oleh semua siswa dimana saja dan kapan saja. Youtube dapat memberikan siswa maupun guru kebebasan dalam berekspresi, berkolaborasi di dalam dunia kependidikan, serta dapat mendapatkan pengalaman berharga dalam meningkatkan kapabilitas mereka. Siswa maupun guru dapat membuat suatu video berbasis kependidikan lalu mengunggahnya ke kanal Youtube. Lalu mereka dapat menonton dan memberikan tanggapan atas video yang telah diunggah, dalam bentuk saran, pendapat, maupun kritik terhadap materi yang diberikan

PENERAPAN, HAMBATAN, DAN KEUNGGULAN PEMBELAJARAN DARING TERHADAP PERILAKU BELAJAR MAHASISWA JURUSAN ADMINISTRASI BISNIS POLITEKNIK NEGERI SEMARANG

Online learning has become the main tool in the teaching and learning process during the Covid-19 pandemic, including for the entire academic community at the Department of Business Administration, Semarang State Polytechnic (Polines), where during online learning is required to use the Learning Management System (LMS) media, owned by Polines named Elnino, and is also equipped with several other supporting online applications that are tailored to the needs and comfort during the teaching and learning process, such as Zoom Meetings, Google Meet, Whatsapp groups, Google Classroom rooms, and others. While the learning method using video conferencing and one-way learning by providing materials and assignments to students are the most frequently used methods.This research uses an online survey method via google form to students in the Polines Business Administration Department who have implemented online learning in all existing study programs. The results obtained are that the application of online learning and the advantages of online learning have a partial effect on student learning behavior, while online learning barriers have no effect. Most of the respondents stated that the advantages of online learning are that it is flexible, and able to improve students' digital abilities, while the obstacles to learning are more limited quotas, internet connections, and learning which is sometimes felt to be less varied