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The Relationship Between Synchronous Online Training Preference And Online Student Engagements, Saida Ulfa, Rex Bringula

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

Online training during the pandemic was commonly held using the synchronous learning method. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between synchronous online training preference, gender difference, and online student engagements (OSE). This study was analyzed with Structural Equation Model (SEM) by using SmartPLS 3 software. The participants of this study involved 35 online training participants and produced the following findings (1) synchronous online training preference has a positive relationship with OSE variables, (2) The relationship between OSE variables is positive, (3) a gender has a positive relationship with skills, participation, and performance, while gender has a …

Developing Scientific Article Writing Materials Using A Hybrid Learning Approach: Insights From An Indonesian Language For Foreign Speakers (Bipa) Program, Ah. Rofiuddin, Didin Widyartono, Gatut Susanto, David Pickus

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

This study aims to develop learning materials for writing scientific articles for international students using the hybrid learning approach. This approach was chosen by utilizing the advantages of offline classes combined with online classes. This approach is in accordance with the characteristics of students as millennials. For product development, we used a method consisting of product design, product design, production, and product testing. In the end, we produced learning materials to write scientific articles packaged in the form of a module of writing process-genre-based scientific articles with a hybrid learning approach for international students. The module consists of the debriefing …

Mapping Arabic Calligraphy Education Research Structure: A Bibliometric Analysis Between 2016 And 2021 Using Vosviewer, Nurul Murtadho, Mohammad Dawood

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

The purpose of this study is to present a bibliometric analysis of Arabic calligraphy research from the Scopus database from 2016 to 2021. This study identified 43 English documents for further analysis based on the query used and the document screening stages. In this study, Vosviewer was used to visualize the data, and Harzing's Publish or Perish is used to harvest data, calculate metrics, and analyze citations. According to our findings, Arabic calligraphy research publications are increasing, with the peak occurring in 2019, including in terms of citations. The findings indicate that research in language and arts is closely related …

Kesiapan Dan Motivasi Mahasiswa Dalam Mengikuti Pembelajaran Online Di Masa Pandemi Covid-19, Nur Indrianti, Ellen Chung, Ammar Hamid Adil

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

This study aimed to determine online learning readiness, motivation, and challenges for students in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Aspects considered in this study included supporting devices and skills to use them, independence in learning, self-control for successful learning, learning motivation, and online communication. The study was conducted using an online questionnaire and crosstabs analysis. The results showed that the students had a good readiness and motivation to do online learning during the pandemic. The most common obstacles included internet connection, limited data quota, unsupported devices, and lecturer learning methods.

The Effect Of Technological Literacy, Learning Facility, And Family Environment On Students’ Learning Motivation, Agung Winarno, Maria Yorozi Andini Fedin, Norlida Hanim Mohd Salleh

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

Student achievement is influenced by a variety of factors, both internal and external, such as school and home amenities. This study intends to assess the effect of technological literacy, amenities and learning environment on the learning motivation of SMK students during the pandemic. This is a quantitative Expos-Fact style of study. This study's population and sample consisted of 58 students majoring in Automation and Office Governance at SMK PGRI Turen; questionnaires and observations were used to collect data. Multiple linear regression test was employed for data analysis. The analysis reveals that technical literacy has a favorable influence on learning motivation, …

Official Closing, Dgs Committee

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

Official Closing

Topic for 2028 - chosen by symposiasts - Elaine Mahon and Anke Klitzing

Closing Remarks - Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire

Phenotypic Plasticity In A Stochastic Environment: Modeling Three Phenotypes And Environments, Sarah P. Williams, Marissa C. K. Douglas, Stephen C. Adolph

Spora: A Journal of Biomathematics

Phenotypically plastic organisms are capable of adjusting their phenotypes in a variable environment. Padilla and Adolph (1996) modeled this process and included a time lag between detection of an environmental change and the responding change in phenotype. We extended the Padilla and Adolph model from two to three discrete environments and phenotypes and analyzed the model computationally. Our results were consistent with their findings: the fitness advantage of phenotypic plasticity is higher when (1) the lag time is shorter, (2) the probability of environmental change is lower, and (3) the fitness disadvantage of mismatched phenotypes and environments is more severe. …

Modeling The Impact Of Treatment During An Ongoing Tuberculosis Outbreak, Bach Le, Anna Robicheaux, Jude Shive, Alana Wells, Erin N. Bodine

Spora: A Journal of Biomathematics

In response to a significant tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte and Johnson Counties, Kansas, this study presents a compartmental model of ordinary differential equations to evaluate the impact of standard antibiotic treatment. The model incorporates latent, active, and treated disease states. Parameter values were informed by epidemiological data and uncertain parameter value ranges were explored systematically through uncertainty analysis using constrained Latin hypercube sampling. Cumulative infections and deaths, and the basic reproduction number, were computed over a five-year simulation period. Sensitivity analyses using partial rank correlation coefficients identified symptomatic treatment rate and transmission rate as primary drivers of cumulative infections and …

Reviewer Acknowledgment, Antonina Lukenchuk

i.e.: inquiry in education

No abstract provided.

Hidden In Plain Sight: The Role Of Belonging In Shaping Pre-Service Teachers’ Motivations & Practices In A Paraprofessional-To-Teacher Pathway, Julie Sidarous Dr., Douglas Van Dyke Dr.

i.e.: inquiry in education

As school districts face persistent teacher shortages, paraprofessionals and school staff remain an untapped resource with immense potential. The purpose of this study was to explore the distinct benefits that school employees bring to the teaching profession when transitioning into roles as teachers of record. To deeply understand candidates' stories, this qualitative study employed Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to examine how preservice teacher candidates make sense of their own lived experiences. The findings reveal five key advantages these transitioning educators provide: deep community connections, practical institutional knowledge, resilience in high-need schools, expertise supporting non-traditional learners, and a profound desire to …

Belonging As The Bedrock Of Learning, Gloria Mcdaniel-Hall, Nina Weisling

i.e.: inquiry in education

The reasons why we teach are intensely personal. We give our hearts and souls to “the work,” though it is so much more than work to us. It is a calling, felt deep in our souls, to correct wrongs, to bend the “arc of the moral universe” all the way to justice, to realize the dreams that have been deferred at best and stamped out and denied at worst. Because at the core of each day, we find humans, students, families, and colleagues who are inherently worthy of learning, loving, and living a fulfilling life. Yet, for far too many …

Teachers’ Action Research Knowledge: From Knowing To Doing, Firdissa J. Aga Dr.

i.e.: inquiry in education

This quantitative study investigated the action research (AR) knowledge of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instructors at three Ethiopian public universities. Data collected via questionnaire from 57 instructors revealed that EFL instructors had respectively high and medium theoretical and practical knowledge of AR. Their theoretical knowledge and practical skills demonstrated a significant positive correlation (r = 0.43, p < 0.01). Furthermore, instructors’ preferences showed strong alignment with reflective rationality (context-specific, practitioner-led inquiry) over technical rationality (externally imposed, top-down approaches). While reported levels of reflection-on-action and reflection-in-action were high, tacit knowing-in-action-the deep, personal, often unarticulated professional knowledge-was notably low. This gap suggests that instructors’ AR understanding remains largely externalized, not yet internalized as embodied, intuitive practice. The findings suggest that empowering instructors to convert their tacit knowledge into explicit understanding through sustained, hands-on AR engagement is critical for authentic professional development and transformative classroom practice.

Applying The Framework Of Activity Theory As An Ongoing Complementary Planning And Evaluation Tool For Esl/Bilingual Programs. How To (Meet) And Go Beyond Compliance, Margaret Bouchard, Jason Stegemoller

i.e.: inquiry in education

In this conceptual article, the authors explore the use of Activity Theory as a tool to build a framework for designing, modifying, or evaluating ESL/Multilingual Programs. Demographics of immigrant and emerging multilingual students within educational systems are continually evolving. Educational systems with emerging multilingual students are particularly vulnerable to this phenomenon and must meet changing needs that are often driven by outside influences. These changes might include: increases in immigration from varying student ethnicities, societal/political trends, socio-economic level of a community, legal regulations, and advanced educational research. Designing and evaluating educational programs within a system of change can be a …

From “The Elephant In The Room” To “Being Comfortable With Discomfort”: A Teacher’S Complex Change About Social Justice Pedagogy, Jacquelynn S. Popp

i.e.: inquiry in education

This case study draws from complexity theory to examine one teacher’s social justice pedagogy development vis-à-vis three interrelated systems: a professional development context, the teacher’s school, and the teacher as an individual system. The study provides analysis of a teacher who participated in a five-year professional development network of experienced middle school social studies teachers and the author/researcher. The case study narrows in on one White teacher participant who taught mostly White students. It explores her developing conceptualizations and implementation of social justice pedagogy in her eighth-grade classroom, with a focus on her evolving racial literacy and how to support …

Ai Need Not Make One Slothful, Roy A. Kaelin Jr

i.e.: inquiry in education

As National Louis University seeks to plan and advance its way amid the potential perils and pitfalls of so-named artificial intelligence, one finds that with reasonable workflows and guard rails, the use of AI proposes both potential promise and prospect, to assist and augment the natural intelligence that students and teachers bring to the classroom, encouraging them to pursue STEM-related activities with the preparation and deployment of focused and directed AI-bots. This paper presents examples and a case study of that directed and focused approach, the incremental lessons learned to date, and a proposed path to advance worthwhile AI …

Living With Ai Within The Context Of Higher Education, Terry Jo Smith

i.e.: inquiry in education

This autoethnographic study examines how generative AI has entered higher education, reshaping teachers’ and students’ inner lives, relational practices, and institutional ecologies. Drawing on the author’s embodied experiences within the higher education landscape, the analysis consists of plugging in theory, research, policy, and current events as a means to connect individual experience with broader concepts, events, and structures (Jackson & Mazzei, 2022). The paper maps affective responses such as awe and anxiety, pedagogical tensions such as assessment, transparency, and trust, and political-economic drivers such as capitalism and policy. The study foregrounds methodological reflexivity, arguing that critical autoethnography can surface situated …

Exploring Ai In Higher Education: Reflections On Research-Informed Practices For Teaching And Learning, Angela Elkordy, Stuart I. Carrier, Jack Denny, Donna Wakefield, Ayn F. Keneman

i.e.: inquiry in education

This article examines how faculty at a college of education are integrating generative AI tools into graduate and doctoral educator preparation programs. Drawing on faculty inquiry and course-based observations across multiple contexts — including early childhood education, secondary education, special education, and doctoral programs in education — the article synthesizes emerging lessons and practices of  AI literacy development, pedagogical approaches, and instructional design. We present an evidence-informed, reflective account of faculty practice through the lens of the scholarship of teaching, exploring how educators are navigating AI content, literacy, and practices in real courses, what students are learning, and what instructional …

Ai-Powered Remixes: Using Generative Ai To Critically Examine Text, Genre, And Language In First Year College Writing, Lauren Anderson, Eric Vandemark

i.e.: inquiry in education

As generative AI tools become embedded in writing instruction, educators face urgent questions about how these technologies encode and reinforce language standardization — particularly for multilingual and multidialectal students. This practitioner reflection describes a series of AI-powered "remix" activities developed and refined in corequisite writing labs. Building on a prior action research study, this paper turns to the pedagogical questions that emerged after the study: how AI tools might be used not as writing shortcuts but as objects of critical inquiry. Drawing on frameworks including critical literacy, plurilingualism, culturally relevant pedagogy, and AI literacy, we describe four remix activity types …

Scaffolded Generative Ai In Instructional Planning: Supporting Teacher Candidates’ Culturally Responsive Teaching, Dr. Eun Kyung Ko, Xiaoning Chen, Vishodana Thamotharan, Julie Sidarous

i.e.: inquiry in education

As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) becomes increasingly embedded in instructional planning, teacher education programs must move beyond efficiency-oriented adoption toward equity-centered, pedagogically grounded integration. This mixed-methods longitudinal study examines a year-long, scaffolded approach to integrating GenAI within an early childhood teacher residency program, with a specific focus on culturally responsive teaching (CRT) instructional planning. Guided by the AI/I-TPACK and CRT frameworks, fourteen bilingual teacher candidates (TCs) participated in this study. Data sources included pre- and post-surveys of CRT self-efficacy, lesson plans and instructional artifacts, reflective coursework, and focus group interviews. Quantitative analyses revealed statistically significant gains in TCs’ CRT self-efficacy …

When The Output Looks Like Learning: Tertiary Algorithmicity, Unproductive Success, And The Case For Pedagogical Friction In K–12 Schools, Micah J. Miner

i.e.: inquiry in education

The rapid adoption of generative artificial intelligence in K–12 schools has outpaced educators' capacity to evaluate its effects on learning. This conceptual article argues that the dominant institutional responses treating AI as either an integrity threat or a productivity tool share an unexamined assumption that the fundamental nature of learning remains unchanged. Drawing on Walter Ong's media ecology and extending it through the concept of tertiary algorithmicity, the article offers a theoretical framework for understanding generative AI as a qualitative shift in the symbolic environment of schooling. For the first time, the prevailing communication technology ctively generates symbolic content, enabling …

Making Ai An Intelligent Tool For Our Schools: Using The Perceptions Of Administrators And Teachers In A Midwestern School District To Help Shape Our Educator Preparation Program, John A. Huss

i.e.: inquiry in education

This qualitative practitioner research study explored the attitudes and perceptions of administrators and teachers in a high-performing Midwestern school district regarding the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in K-12 education. While AI has rapidly emerged as a transformative force in society, its implementation in schools remains inconsistent, with limited policies, training, and usage. Semi-structured interviews with nine educators (three principals and six experienced teachers) revealed widespread interest in AI, but also significant uncertainty and uneven adoption. Educators reported using AI for administrative and instructional tasks, such as grading and resource generation, yet expressed concern over student overreliance and diminished critical …

Book Review: Hicks, T., & Turner, K. H. (2025). Teaching Writing In The Age Of Ai: Strategies For Teachers Of Secondary Students. Solution Tree., Benjamin N. Lathrop

i.e.: inquiry in education

Teaching Writing in the Age of AI: Strategies for Teachers of Secondary Students (Hicks & Turner, 2025) is written for an audience of secondary teachers and teacher educators, but any instructor who teaches or assigns writing will benefit from its insights. While the book's overall stance toward generative AI might be overly optimistic, it effectively addresses key concerns many instructors have about writing with AI, encouraging a critical stance and presenting some out-of-the-box ideas for writing instructive who want to be proactive about AI use in their courses.

Are We Up For An Adventure? Musings On Ai And Beyond, Antonina Lukenchuk

i.e.: inquiry in education

No abstract provided.

Methanol-Ethanol-Water Blends, Christophe Barro, Christoph J. Engelbrecht

Defensive Publications Series

The disclosure provides a method and fuel injection system for operating large internal combustion engines. It enables fuel flexibility by allowing an engine originally configured for a first main fuel, such as methanol, to operate on a different second main fuel, such as ethanol.

Key aspects of the disclosure include:

• Heating Value Matching: The engine receives a mixture of the second main fuel and an additive, typically water. The system controls the additive quantity to ensure the mixture's heating value remains within ±10% of the first main fuel's heating value.

• Dynamic Control: Because the lower heating value cannot always be …

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Privacy-Preserving Vpn With Zero Knowledge Proofs (Zkps), Niranjan M M, Medini Narasimha Bailkeri

Defensive Publications Series

Traditionally, VPN (both RA-VPN and S2S-VPN) uses username/password (eg., with EAP, RADIUS etc.), certificates, PSK, mac-address, auth-token etc., for authentication and later extended with Multi-Factor Authentication.

In general, to prove (especially as part of authentication), usually user need to reveal some of the information. The sharing of such information can reveal the identity, in-turn reveal the privacy information of the user. Hence we need a method, where-in user can prove that, they know the secret without even transmitting it. Such method should enhance privacy by having no password leaks, no key sharing, resistant to MITM attacks etc.,

Similarly, for the …

Solid State Forms Of Naperiglipron, Prashanth Venukathala, Venukathala Prashanth

Defensive Publications Series

The present invention relates to the field of pharmaceutical chemistry, specifically to novel solid-state forms of Naperiglipron. More particularly, the invention relates to a novel crystalline form, an amorphous form, and novel cocrystal forms (Nicotinamide, Citric Acid, and Succinic Acid) of Naperiglipron, and processes for their preparation showing enhanced solubility and physical stability.

Solid-State Forms Of Muvalaplin, Prashanth Venukathala, Venukathala Prashanth

Defensive Publications Series

The present invention relates to novel solid-state forms of Muvalaplin, including crystalline polymorphs, amorphous forms, and co-crystals, processes for their preparation, and their use in pharmaceutical compositions.

Amorphous Form Of Admilparant, Prashanth Venukathala, Venukathala Prashanth

Defensive Publications Series

The present invention relates to the field of pharmaceutical sciences, particularly to a novel amorphous form of Admilparant, processes for its preparation, and its pharmaceutical compositions with improved solubility and bioavailability.

Non‑Invasive Posterior Acoustic‑Vortex Clamp For Macular Drug Delivery (Poav‑Clamp V1.0), Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The POAV‑Clamp v1.0 is a non‑invasive, temple‑mounted, dual‑band ultrasound platform designed to enhance the penetration of topically applied macular therapeutics into the posterior segment of the eye. The system uses low‑frequency ultrasound to transiently increase posterior scleral permeability, combined with mid‑frequency vortex‑mode acoustic fields to induce vitreous micro‑streaming and directional transport toward the macula. When applied immediately after eye‑drop dosing, the POAV‑Clamp creates a front‑to‑back transport gradient that may significantly increase macular drug levels without injections. This disclosure is released as open, non‑patented, and free for global research, enabling any qualified laboratory or academic group to prototype, test, and validate …

Open Amd Delivery Testbed (O‑Amd‑Dt V1.0), Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

O‑AMD‑DT v1.0 is a fully open, modular, benchtop‑only testbed for evaluating drug penetration into posterior ocular analogs under ultrasound stimulation.

The system uses standardized, layered ocular phantom cartridges with microfluidic sampling ports, enabling quantitative measurement of drug transport through cornea, sclera, and choroid/retina analogs.

The platform integrates capabilities from UAAP v1.0, GCI‑267, GCI‑v3.1, VMR v2.5‑T “Titan”, and VABR‑v2.0, providing acoustic control, microfluidic sampling, and nano‑/micro‑carrier preparation.

This disclosure includes complete mechanical blueprints, phantom construction methods, ultrasound coupling geometry, microfluidic architecture, assembly instructions, and test protocols, enabling any laboratory to fabricate and use the system.