11 research outputs found
Digital Tools for Innovative Higher Education Teaching - A Scoping Review of Empirical Studies
Since the COVID-19 pandemic has outbursts, changes in the teaching process are observable. What was a temporary countermeasure against the pandemic is now considered a didactic tool. More and more teachers and entire higher education institutions decided to permanently implement digital tools or innovative teaching methods into the didactic process. The continuous development of technology fosters innovation in the teaching process. It allows teachers to use newer and newer teaching tools, better and better adapted to the real needs of students. The main goal of this article is to point out, by a scoping review of the papers published between 2020 and 2023, the digital tools used in the teaching process at the higher education level. The review focuses only on the original articles written in English, which present studies on implementing innovative digital teaching tools. The article is a form of a preliminary catalog of didactic tools used at the higher education level in the last three years, with their quantitative presentation. The tools have been categorized according to the technologies they use and then assigned to the scientific disciplines in accordance with the OECD classification in which they were used
Using a General Extended Technology Acceptance Model for E-Learning (GETAMEL). A Literature Review of Empirical Studies
This paper examines peer-reviewed empirical studies using the General Extended Technology Acceptance Model for E-learning (GETAMEL). We have created a framework for examining the effects of the set of external variables on e-learning acceptance. The study reviews the independent variables (Experience, Subjective Norms, Enjoyment, Computer Anxiety, and Self-efficacy), and dependent variables (Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, Attitudes Towards Using, Intention to Use, and Actual Use), path coefficients, theoretical backgrounds, and the type of studies performed on the e-learning systems in the literature review. The paper examines the state of current research on the topic and points out gaps in the existing literature. The objective of the paper is both to provide an overview of the literature and to investigate the reasons for e-learning acceptance. As a result of the study, we present the mean values of the relations between variables adequate for the GETAMEL model in all the reviewed works. The findings of the review provide insight for further studies and the use of the GETAMEL model
Human Mobility Restrictions and COVID-19 Infection Rates: Analysis of Mobility Data and Coronavirus Spread in Poland and Portugal
This study examines the possibility of correlation between the data on human mobility
restrictions and the COVID-19 infection rates in two European countries: Poland and Portugal. The
aim of this study is to verify the correlation and causation between mobility changes and the infection
spread as well as to investigate the impact of the introduced restrictions on changes in human mobility.
The data were obtained from Google Community Mobility Reports, Apple Mobility Trends Reports,
and The Humanitarian Data Exchange along with other reports published online. All the data were
organized in one dataset, and three groups of variables were distinguished: restrictions, mobility, and
intensity of the disease. The causal-comparative research design method is used for this study. The
results show that in both countries the state restrictions reduced human mobility, with the strongest
impact in places related to retail and recreation, grocery, pharmacy, and transit stations. At the same
time, the data show that the increase in restrictions had strong positive correlation with stays in
residential places both in Poland and Portugal.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
COVID-19 and Higher Education: First-Year Students’ Expectations toward Distance Learning
The article deals with distance education, which as a teaching method had to be suddenly introduced in schools and higher education institutions as a result of the global pandemic situation. The paper captures the second wave of Poland’s pandemic situation in relation to global circumstances and the methods of conducting distance learning used across the globe. The purpose of this study was to investigate first-year students’ expectations about the education shift to distance learning. GETAMEL, which is the adapted General Extended Technology Acceptance Model for E-Learning, was used in the study. The study analyzed the influence of Experience, Subjective Norms, Enjoyment, Computer Anxiety, and Self-Efficacy on students’ expectations in the context of distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. To test the research model presented during the research, The Partial Least Squares method of Structural Equation Modeling was used. An online survey was created to conduct the research, which collected data from 670 Polish first-year undergraduate students. The acquired data were analyzed using the SmartPLS 3 software. The results of the research indicated that the most important factors that influence the feelings of students and can convince them to change from teaching in the classroom to teaching in the distance learning model are the feeling of pleasure in this form of education and a sense of self-efficacy. The results of this study may be of particular interest to education practitioners, including teachers, and a starting point for further research on e-learning models, including, in particular, the understanding of students’ expectations regarding distance learning
Distance Learning Support Measures for Teachers in Poland during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic made higher education institutions switch to distance learning in a very short period of time. The situation was challenging not only for universities themselves but also for the students and teachers. Some universities did not have the means, in terms of infrastructure, for a smooth transition to distance learning. Some teachers were not prepared for the extensive usage of ICT in their work. The pandemic developed dynamically, and it made it extremely difficult for both governments and universities to plan and implement firm solutions on how to conduct the teaching process. The presented paper focuses on the situation of Polish higher education institutions between March 2020 and March 2022. It reviews legal acts and ordinances introduced in the stated period, which focused on the sustainability of the teaching process, countermeasures for the spread of COVID-19 and the implementation of distance learning. The case of the University of Economics in Katowice, Poland, is used to show the correlation between governmental legal acts and those introduced by the university as part of the COVID -19 spread prevention and teaching process support
Visual communication - a humanistic face of it?
Komunikacja wizualna to proces dostarczania odbiorcom treści poprzez
medium oparte na zmyśle wzroku. W dobie nowych mediów to pojęcie wydaje się
szczególnie znaczące. Społeczeństwo informacyjne czerpie informacje głównie ze środowiska
komputerowego, a więc przede wszystkim przez zmysł wzroku. Dlatego tak
ważne jest, w jaki sposób poszczególne informacje są w Internecie prezentowane,
zwłaszcza w sytuacji, kiedy mowa o portalach opiniotwórczych.
Komunikacja wizualna jest tym typem komunikowania, który skupia się przede
wszystkim na zmyśle wzroku. W czasach dominacji, czy nawet tyranii obrazu, to właśnie
przeglądając np. strony internetowe, czerpiemy informacje dotyczące wielu dziedzin
życia. Pojawia się więc pytanie: czy komunikacja wizualna może uchodzić za nowy
wzorzec komunikacji w ogóle w społeczeństwie informacyjnym, a jeśli tak, jakie można
sformułować jej ogólne zasady?
Celem niniejszej pracy jest wskazanie tendencji w projektowaniu przekazu wiodących
polskich internetowych serwisów informacyjnych, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem
ich aspektu wizualnego, a więc odpowiedź na pytanie, czy komunikacja wizualna
stanowi w istocie humanistyczne oblicze technologii informacyjnych.Visual communication is a process of providing content to the users via visible
medium. Nowadays, in times of new media this term seems to be crucial. The network society
retrieves information mostly through computer-mediated-communication (CMC) which
means mostly through visual communication. That is why the importance of communication
and information design needs to be pointed out especially in case of news portals.
Visual communication is obviously related to eye-sight. In times of the tyranny of
images we gather information not by meticulous reading but mostly by just glimpsing at
some images provided. The question arises whether visual communication can be defined
as a new pattern of communication in network society in general, and if so, what its
rules can be distinguished.
The aim of the paper is to describe tendencies in information design among leading
Polish news portals emphasizing their visual aspect and, therefore, to answer the question
whether visual communication can be called “the humanistic face of IT”
Cultural events in communication of chosen Silesian universities
Organizacja wydarzeń kulturalnych może służyć zarówno promocji uczelni
wyższej, jak i budowaniu świadomości jej obecności w przestrzeni lokalnej. Jest formą
komunikacji, jaką organizacja podejmuje ze środowiskiem zewnętrznym, a która
często bazuje na jej misji. Spójność podjętych działań z celami organizacji może stanowić
jeden z elementów kreowania wizerunku uczelni, a co za tym idzie, budowania
relacji z otoczeniem w przestrzeni publicznej. Wydarzenia kulturalne z kolei stanowią
element wpisujący się w instrumentarium public relations, a także angażujący społeczność
lokalną. Cel artykułu to przedstawienie i analiza działań komunikacyjnych wybranych
śląskich uczelni wyższych, jakie te podjęły w roku akademickim 2017/2018 poprzez
zaangażowanie w działalność kulturalną.The organization of cultural events can be used to promote the university, as
well as to build awareness of its presence in the local space. It is a form of communication
that the organization takes with the external environment, and which is often based
on its mission. Consistency of actions taken with the goals of the organization may be
one of the elements of creating the image of the university, and thus building relationships
with the environment in the public space. Cultural events, in turn, are an element of
both the public relations and the involvement of the local community. The aim of the
article is to present and analyze communication activities of selected Silesian universities,
which they undertook in the academic year 2017/2018, through involvement in
cultural activities
Agnieszka Ogonowska, Grzegorz Ptaszek (eds.) (2013), Współczesna psychologia mediów. Nowe problemy i perspektywy badawcze (Modern Media Psychology. New Problems and Research Perspectives). Kraków: Oficyna Wydawnicza „Impuls”, pp. 251, ISBN: 978-8-378-50163-3
COVID-19 and Higher Education: First-Year Students’ Expectations toward Distance Learning
The article deals with distance education, which as a teaching method had to be suddenly introduced in schools and higher education institutions as a result of the global pandemic situation. The paper captures the second wave of Poland’s pandemic situation in relation to global circumstances and the methods of conducting distance learning used across the globe. The purpose of this study was to investigate first-year students’ expectations about the education shift to distance learning. GETAMEL, which is the adapted General Extended Technology Acceptance Model for E-Learning, was used in the study. The study analyzed the influence of Experience, Subjective Norms, Enjoyment, Computer Anxiety, and Self-Efficacy on students’ expectations in the context of distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. To test the research model presented during the research, The Partial Least Squares method of Structural Equation Modeling was used. An online survey was created to conduct the research, which collected data from 670 Polish first-year undergraduate students. The acquired data were analyzed using the SmartPLS 3 software. The results of the research indicated that the most important factors that influence the feelings of students and can convince them to change from teaching in the classroom to teaching in the distance learning model are the feeling of pleasure in this form of education and a sense of self-efficacy. The results of this study may be of particular interest to education practitioners, including teachers, and a starting point for further research on e-learning models, including, in particular, the understanding of students’ expectations regarding distance learning
Digital and Media Literacies in the Polish Education System—Pre- and Post-COVID-19 Perspective
Digital and media literacies refer to a specific set of skills and abilities. The range of these skills as they concern the educational process has been broadly discussed. In this paper, we analyzed the Polish educational system to determine the scope of the sorts of digital skills young people and students should achieve in order to be considered digitally and media literate. We compared sets of recommendations from the last ten years issued by different national governmental and nonprofit organizations for the Polish education system. We identified a set of skills that should be expected to be possessed by young people and students during their education. Additionally, we discussed results regarding the situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the shift from regular education to distance learning