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At the onset of 2020, Covid-19 pandemic began and disrupted teaching and learning activities with substantial implications for resources and operations. Against this backdrop, the configural causal effects of task-technology fit, technology-induced engagement and motivation, gender, and residential location on learning performance are examined. The proposed association was tested with a dyad sample of faculty members and students (n = 16) using fuzzy sets (fsQCA) analysis. Results show that (i) task-technology fit, and technology-induced motivation emerge as necessary conditions for high learning performance; (ii) task-technology fit, technology-induced engagement and motivation are sufficient conditions for high learning performance among female students, (iii) task-technology fit, technology-induced engagement and motivation are sufficient conditions for high learning performance among students living in urban areas and (iv) task-technology fit is a sufficient condition for high learning performance among female students living in rural areas irrespective of technology-induced engagement and motivation. Implications for theory and policy prescriptions are offered for practitioners. No sponsor

*Elçi, Alev ( Aksaray, Yazar ), Author keywords Topics of prominence Abstract The increasing trend of using new media technologies and particularly social media (SM) among students provides an advantage for lecturers. Apparently their importance accelerated with the application of social distancing during a pandemic crisis such as the one World has been experiencing since the end of 2019. In this article, the stories of two academics are used expressing experiences, motives and perceptions on benefits and challenges of using SM to support teaching and learning in the classroom. The stories which form the data of the research describe how and why the participants started to use SM, their intended purpose and the ways of use. Besides, reasons, difficulties and positive as well as the negative sides are explored. The findings show that the virtual learning environments provided by SM facilitated the development of students’ enthusiasm and interaction with peers assertively, thus increasing the students’ participation. Because of emerging technologies, SM platforms surge and plummet quickly; therefore, it is important for institutions to either develop their platform or to subscribe to existing ones for effective knowledge sharing at an institutional level with clear ethical rules.

Higher educational institutions exert great effort to improve educational quality and effectiveness to cope with digital challenges in education. The impact of COVID-19 on education highlighted the importance of the achievement of sustainability in higher education. To overcome many of these challenges, faculty members need sustained professional development infrastructure embracing individual and institutional dimensions for enhancing educational qualifications. In this study, a quantitative method was employed to explore goals, individual needs, and institutional expectations of faculty in an international university in a developing country. The obtained survey data were analyzed using descriptive and non-parametric statistics (i.e., Kendall's coefficient of concordance, Kruskal–Wallis test, and Mann–Whitney U test). The findings demonstrate that the preferred goals of the faculty are found as developing skills in disciplinary knowledge, teaching and learning, and research. To achieve these goals, they favor certain capacity building activities and support services. Findings reflect the faculty's positive attitude towards multidimensional development, thus opening up to the global knowledge-based community. This study contributes to the existing literature as a pilot study to identify that faculty professional development needs are in line with student academic support.

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the digital transformation era and the evolution from mentoring to e-mentoring. One of the groups most affected by this situation is the mentees doing graduate studies. In this context, e-mentoring enables the mentee and mentor to carry out their academic study using digital technologies in mutual interaction, regardless of time and geographical space. This study is designed as a case study of the qualitative research methods where the study group consists of graduate students. Five main themes and 14 sub-themes are determined from the interviews with mentees on e-mentoring perceptions. According to the research findings, mentees prefer a two-stage approach in mentee-mentor matching. Mentees emphasize that they favor matching with emerging technologies at the first stage and finalizing the mentor selection process by mentee-mentor face-to-face negotiation in the second stage. Mentees also mention that besides some e-mentoring advantages, there are psycho-social benefits of face-to-face mentoring.

Technological developments have enabled the traditional nature of communication to evolve into group messaging. These developments gained momentum amid the COVID-19 process and brought instant messaging and social media communication to the forefront. WhatsApp, one of the most commonly used instant messaging applications for informal communication, has also started being favored more for formal communication in organizational management. WhatsApp has become a powerful professional communication tool that organizational administrators preferred, has become to serve organizational purposes as an alternative to formal information and document sharing platforms. This study aims to investigate whether WhatsApp messaging effectively serves organizational purposes in higher education, and evaluates how it is perceived and utilized by academicians. This case study is a type of qualitative research where the data collected from the workgroup are analyzed by descriptive analysis to obtain findings. Five main themes are derived from the analysis; namely group structure and characteristics, communication, cooperation, psycho-social impact, negative opinions, and related ten sub-themes were detected. According to the results derived from the study, the participants expressed mostly positive and some negative perceptions regarding the communication made through the WhatsApp groups established for administrative purposes., Teknolojik gelişmeler iletişimin geleneksel doğasının sayısal mesajlaşmaya doğru evrilmesini sağlamıştır. Bu gelişmeler COVID-19 sürecinde ivme kazanarak anlık mesajlaşma ve sosyal medya iletişimini ön plana çıkarmıştır. Anlık mesajlaşma uygulamalarından biri olan WhatsApp, biçimsel olmayan iletişimin yanı sıra biçimsel olarak da yönetim amaçlı kullanılmaya başlanmıştır. Örgütlerde yöneticilerin sıklıkla tercih etmeye başladığı güçlü bir iletişim aracı haline gelen WhatsApp’ın resmi bilgi ve belge paylaşımı platformlarının yerini alarak örgütsel amaca hizmet edecek şekilde kullanımı yaygınlaşmıştır. Yönetici akademisyenlerin konuya ilişkin yaklaşımları uygulamanın etkin kullanımı ve sürdürülebilirliği açısından önemlidir. Mesajlaşma uygulamalarının bu şekilde resmi bir niteliğe büründürülmesinin örgütsel amaca hizmet edip etmediğinin ve çalışanlar tarafından nasıl algılandığının araştırılması çalışmanın temel amacını oluşturmaktadır. Bu araştırma nitel bir araştırma yöntemi kullanılarak açıklayıcı/tanımlayıcı durum çalışması türünde desenlenmiş ve çalışma grubundan toplanan veriler betimsel analiz yapılarak bulgulara ulaşılmıştır. Yapılan analiz sonucunda; grup yapısı ve özellikleri, iletişim, iş birliği, psiko-sosyal etki, olumsuz görüşler olarak beş ana tema ve on alt tema belirlenmiştir. Çalışmadan elde edilen sonuçlara göre yönetsel amaçla kurulan WhatsApp gruplarından yapılan paylaşımlarla ilgili olarak çoğu katılımcı olumlu bazıları ise olumsuz görüş bildirmişlerdir.

WOS: 000463765500005, A synthesis of existing Industry 4.0 literature depicts that knowledge management and decision making strategies are crucial factors for organizations. This article highlights the need and develops a framework for knowledge management and decision-making style by reviewing existing management literature. This research proposes a framework that supports the relationship between knowledge management enabling factors (i.e., organizational member's collaboration, T-shaped skills, learning and IT-support) and organizational performance, and the mediating effect of knowledge creation process. The article also propose that decision-making style (i.e., intuitive and/or rational) will moderate the relationship between knowledge creation process and organizational performance. A set of propositions that represent anempirically driven research agenda, and also describe the relationships between the focal variables are presented to enhance audience's understanding within a business context.

Higher education has focused on adopting emerging digital technologies for teaching and learning in recent years. Regarding the technology changes in empowering skills of students, assessment in teaching and learning started to evolve from traditional to more alternative and finally to digital assessment. For example, augmented reality and learning analytics are becoming more popular in assessments. After a comprehensive literature review, this chapter explains the types of digital assessment methods, their advantages, and disadvantages for both faculty and learners. The role of faculty and needs for faculty development are put forward.

Student dependence on technology, higher education institution efforts of digitalization in teaching and learning, along with the faculty member hesitancy to adopt innovative technologies all contribute to current challenges in higher education. The focus of this chapter is on exploring the gap between student and faculty perceptions about utilizing technology in teaching and learning, in addition to enlighten institutional roles and strategies to sustain efforts for managing such environments and faculty development. Multiple research methods are used to derive insights. The findings point towards the need to increase knowledge base and to expand faculty development around digital teaching and learning strategies as well as fostering student faculty collaboration to improve learner engagement and performance. As a result of changing roles, the pedagogical methods and technological tools used in digital teaching and learning process should not be a sole decision of the institution, but as a result of a collaborative mindset of institution, faculty, and students.

This chapter identifies and assesses the role of faculty professional development centers in the future higher education institutions. Faculty professional development centers facilitate transition to digital teaching and learning; this can be affected only through implementing strategies and commensurate infrastructure. They thus provide desired digital knowledge, skill sets, and related competencies for the “next generation of learners.” Implementations in Turkey are surveyed and compared to the international scene. Conclusions are drawn on essential features that may be further enhanced for bettering faculty development facilities primarily in the context of universities in Turkey, and extensions to the international scene.

WOS: 000459570900003, Technology has many positive effects on education, but negative effects also exist. One of the negative effects is cyberbullying spreading out of school boundaries to the social networks. The increasing popularity of social media among youngsters engenders cyberbullies who exploit the virtual environment besides the usual emails. This distresses the students and adversely affects their families, teachers, and others around them. Although research studies mainly concentrate on prior education, there seems to be a need to investigate the situation in higher education. This study focuses on students studying technology and related disciplines, who are hence likely to be well connected with cyberspace, and explores their awareness about cyberbullying. The findings reveal that female students have significantly less awareness than males. This study will help address some gender issues in cyberbullying.

Elçi, Alev ( Aksaray, Yazar ) Elçi, Atilla ( Aksaray, Yazar ), Metacognition plays an important role in numerous aspects of higher educational learning strategies. When properly integrated in the educational system, schools are better equipped to build more efficient and successful learning strategies for students in higher education. Metacognition and Successful Learning Strategies in Higher Education is a detailed resource of scholarly perspectives that discusses current trends in learning assessments. Featuring extensive coverage on topics such as spiritual intelligence strategies, literacy development, and ubiquitous learning, this is an ideal reference source for academicians, graduate students, practitioners, and researchers who want to improve their learning strategies using metacognition studies.

Eğitimin ulusal sınırlardan küresel bir boyuta taşındığı ve bilgi toplumu olma yolunda politikaların ön plana çıktığı günümüzde, Türkiye’de yükseköğretim kurumları ve öğrenci sayısındaki büyümenin salt niceliksel değil niteliksel olarak da amaçlanması gerekmektedir. Bu nedenle bu kurumlarda çalışan öğretim elemanlarının mesleki gelişimi önem kazanmaktadır. Bu gelişimin temel hedeflerinden biri öğretim ve öğrenmeyi etkileyen faktörlerin önde geleni olan teknolojinin en etkin şekilde kullanılmasıdır. Bu çalışmada, yurtdışında teknoloji ile zenginleştirilmiş öğrenmeyi hedefleyen bir üniversitenin öğretim elemanı mesleki gelişim altyapısı gözlem ve görüşmelerle incelenmiştir. Nicel araştırma yaklaşımı ile öğretim elemanlarının kullandıkları teknolojik ortam, araç ve yöntemlere ilişkin veriler bir anketle toplanmıştır. Kurumda etkin temel girişimler, Öğretim Tasarımı Bölümü, Öğretim Elemanı Gelişim Komitesi ve Öğretim Elemanı Öğrenme Topluluklarıdır. Sonuçta öğretim üyelerinin, en çok çevrimiçi Öğrenme Yönetim Sisteminin kullandığı; materyallere erişim, ders etkinliklerini yönetmek ve öğrencilerle iletişimde yarar sağladıkları belirlenmiştir. Kendilerini geliştirmek için bir uzmana danışmayı daha çok tercih etmektedirler. Türkiye için önerilen, çevrimiçi eğitim ile öğretim elemanı geliştirme çalışmalarının ülkemizin kurumsal ve akademik yapısına uygun olarak ele alınmasıdır., Education expanding from national boundaries to global boundaries and being knowledge community at the forefront of policies, in Turkey, not only quantitative but also qualitative raise in number of higher education institutions and students must be aimed. For this reason, faculty development in such institutions should be emphasized. One of the main goals of development should be learning to use technology efficiently for teaching and learning. In this study, a university abroad aiming for technology enhanced learning, with infrastructure for faculty professional development in place, has been investigated in this research using observations and interviews. The technological environment that is used by the academic staff is determined with quantitative research approach and data were collected via survey. Instructional Design Department, Faculty Development Committee, and Faculty Learning Communities were the three main initiatives in the institution. As a result, they were mainly using Online Learning Management System; where accessing materials, managing course activities and communicating with the students were the benefits they claimed. Also they preferred to consult a specialist to develop themselves. In Turkey, it is recommended to consider online faculty development efforts suitable to the institutional and academic infrastructure needs of our country.

This chapter reports a metadata model for e-learning coordination based on content semantics grounded on Semantic Web concepts. To start with, e-learning models are surveyed identifying process content, such as phases, activities, data schema, rules and relations, so on, as relevant for a coordination model. The study looks into the mechanism of e-learning environment and how e-learning processes can be classified for purposes of activity coordination. A metadata model for coordination of e-learning is being sought as expressed in Semantic Web concepts and transcribed using the related languages like OWL, RDF, SPARQL and others. A learner centric proposal is advanced which augments the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee's industry leader Learning Technology System Architecture. Examples are worked out and future research directions are identified. This is a continuing research project on application of Semantic Web initiative in e-learning; i.e., design and development of markup and annotation tools, relevant ontologies and intelligent agents in meeting learner needs. © 2016 by IGI Global. All rights reserved.

Background and objective: Pulmonary rehabilitation is known to have beneficial effects in COPD patients. This study aimed to assess the applicability and efficacy of a pulmonary rehabilitation programme in a community hospital lacking specialist pulmonary rehabilitation services. Methods: This randomized, controlled, prospective study included a total of 78 patients. Questionnaires were used to collect data on sociodemographic characteristics, respiratory function tests, the Modified Medical Research Council dyspnoea scale, 6MWD, the Short Form-36 (SF-36) quality of life scale, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the St George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ). The experimental group underwent a pulmonary rehabilitation programme while the control group did not participate. The first, second and third month measurements for all parameters were compared between the two groups. Results: No significant differences in pulmonary function tests or dyspnoea scale (P > 0.05) were observed between the two groups. Significant differences were observed in the 6MWD measurements at the third month (P

The rapid and significant developments in technology are leading to different ways of doing industrial work. As a result, ‘efficient’ and ‘smart’ use of technology and Internet environments transformed business to the fourth industrial revolution introducing the term ‘Industry 4.0'. In this study, in order to satisfy the needs of industry, the workforce of the future is discussed. Besides, in this global transformation, the role ‘Faculty Members 4.0' of the faculty in higher education to develop themselves for using Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Environments is analyzed. Related research works have been gathered through a literature review; recommendations are advanced in carrying this important issue to the higher educational institutes’ agenda in order for them to develop local and international strategies. © The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology.