Educational Technology

The young student’s community of every society and all part of the world is aspiring to get the degree. But everyone is not the same as one another, each one is differed in getting degree as the result of what they wish to become in their life. In this context the College or University plays major role for providing/ offering degrees depends on the society’s need. The government’s role on the part of youths is to provide Education, Economy, Employment, formation of culture and utilizing manpower to nation. The colleges which has got sophisticated and produces the good result then it’s attracted many students. The same not much facility, poor quality of teaching and poor results of examinations is less attractive. Sometimes parent’s interest plays an important role for choosing degree of a candidate. The African country of Zambia has taken for the study area as one of the researchers is belonging to the study area. The sample of 10 higher secondary schools students (Grade 12 level) were taken for this study using stratified random sampling method. The questionnaire was converted into numerical data state in order to analyze the student’s interest in acquiring degree. The students were analysed with reference to location of student, type of institution. The data was analyzed by using SPSS software. The appropriate results were drawn and suggestions made to improve their perception on acquiring degree.

In-service training of teaches is a systematic process and wide infrastructure that requires extensive communication to execute any program in order to ensure maximum involvement of all those who are associated with educational enterprise, one or the other way like teachers, administrators, curriculum-developers, research workers, teacher trainers, specialists, etc. In-service training programs actually provide an opportunity to those who are trained but in experienced. This type of training facilitates professional learning and helps teachers to abreast themselves with the upcoming knowledge, educational developments and innovations but unfortunately there are numerous problems that interrupt when these programs are intended to commence. So in order to overcome expected problem, a model has been suggested in this article that will conducive for resolving problems of in-service teacher training and it will provide an insight in order to certify successful and more beneficial planning of such programs. Improvement in any education system can only be made when teachers are given upmost priority and their in-service training is considered mandatory in order to meet new challenges. In brief to deal with modern challenges, teachers’ professional development or in service training is imperative, as said by John Cotton Dana: “Who dares to teach must never cease to learn”.

Technical and Vocational Education (TVE) play an important role in shaping human labor so can meet the job market in the industry. Ministry of Education (MOE) has identified the importance of PTV to ensure the country's aspiration to become a developed country by 2020 is achieved. The transformation PTV which are being implemented by the Ministry of Education should be supported by all parties involved. While transformation efforts to upgrade the vocational schools and vocational colleges restructuring subject vocational secondary schools implemented, the strategy of sustainable development in the PTV should be given attention accordingly. There are seven strategies of sustainable development that has been introduced by (UNEVOC) to be discussed in this paper to help mainstream the program TVE in the country. Seven strategies have been outlined by the International Center for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (UNEVOC) will be discussed, namely: (i) Support and the country's vision, (ii) Support to investigate the state police PTV, (iii) Guidelines for planning and implementation, (Iv) Capacity building and training programs, (v) Support the development of materials, resources and learning equipment, (vi) Relationships and partners in PTV, and (vii) monitoring, evaluation and research continues

Conversion within quantities of same units and between quantities of different units is a thorny subject to students of Jasikan College of Education (Butterfield, Sutherland & Molyneux-Hodgson, 2000) and its treatment by tutors sometimes becomes very difficult such that most tutors resort to handling the subject theoretically/ abstractly. When this happens most students seemed not to comprehend the subject. In view of this, the DTML-Conversion model (i.e. D-Conversion model, T-Conversion model, M-Conversion model and the L-Conversion model) was designed. The DTML-Conversion Model is a model that has been designed by the researcher to make the teaching of conversion in measurement very easy to tutors and meaningful to students. The DTML-Conversion Model was tested on first year students of Jasikan College of Education. The researcher tested the DTML-Conversion model on 150 first year students in Jasikan College of Education by first teaching conversion using the traditional method which is the Conversion-factor for distance, time, mass and litre for a period of one month. A test was administered, collected and recorded, after which the DTML-Conversion model was introduced with similar test items. Comparison of the two test results showed that, students seemed to comprehend conversion in measurement with the DTML-Conversion model to the conversion-factor method.

The practice of FGM among some communities in Kenya, has been considered a major challenge to girl-child’s participation in education. However, some members of the same communities have embraced the alternative rites of passage for girls in which positive aspects of tribal culture are taught, such as self esteem, decision making, and respect for elders. This paper assesses the attitudes of teachers and learners towards female genital mutilation and alternative rites of passage based on a study conducted in Marigat District, Kenya. The selection of the study sample was done using stratified random sampling, simple random sampling and proportionate sampling. Schools were stratified into educational divisions from which 16 schools out of the total of 45 public schools in Marigat District were selected using proportionate random sampling. To get a specific school to participate in this study, simple random sampling was used. The respondents of this study included teachers and pupils from the selected schools, who were selected through simple random sampling. Questionnaires, interview schedules and document analysis were used to collect data. Descriptive statistical techniques such as the means, percentages and standard deviations; and inferential statistics (t-test) were used in analyzing the data using SPSS. From the study, majority of the respondents were of the opinion that FGM rite of passage does not maintain female chastity whereas others stated that FGM rite of passage does not increase male sexual pleasure. While majority of the teachers agreed that FGM rite of passage is an important part of identifying with cultural heritages, majority of the students were not of the same view. This disparity might have been due to the age and experience differences that exist between the two categories of the respondents. Since FGM and alternative rite of passage did not prevent girls from being promiscuous, the learners should be told by parents and teachers on the need to avoid sexual intercourse before marriage.

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is making a frantic effort in stamping out widespread examination malpractices, which has threatened its credibility for many years. To this the board is considering introducing e-exams for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Nigeria amidst a low level of computer literacy, Information Technology (IT) infrastructure and epileptic power supply in Nigeria. This research sets out to examine the modalities and viability of this venture, thereby suggesting a workable platform; a means of achieving this implementation.

Soft skills were essentials for students to enhance them to their career in future. Soft skills has been practiced since school days and being polished at higher level in higher learning institutions. The continuous of activities in high school and public universities were crucial to ensure the development of soft skills among students. Hence, this research are done to see the continuous of supply for soft skills activities between secondary schools and public universities. It is hoped that this article will supply awareness on the importance of continuity of the soft skills activities in high schools and public universities in order to ensure the development of the soft skills practiced among students.

Technology is being used by children and adults on a daily basis by way of web surfing, texting, social networking, interactive games, and in more ways. We are evolving technological society and in many ways have become dependent on its use. Thus, the use of technology and teaching students have to use it has become a high priority in the public schools. Modern technology tools that enable design, media production, self-expression, research, analysis, communication, collaboration, and computer programming are common place in various professions and disciplines, and facility with these tools is an essential part of becoming ready for college and careers. Interacting with digital learning environments that support the development of deeper learning skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, and inquiry is also crucial. Technology is a factor improving learning is the fact that technology is becoming such an integral part of our everyday world. The most jobs today require some type of technology use. Also, the students and adults are using technology on a daily basis to communicate, get information in multiple ways. The prevalent daily use of technology in people’s lives overall makes the use of technology very relevant to the students and provides a connection that will greatly benefit student learning.

The aim of present study was to examine the expectations of children about parental competencies in 21st century. The study was based on the purposive sample of150 students of grade 8 to 14 from schools and colleges located in Islamabad, Pakistan. The age of students ranged from 13 to 19 and above. The assumptions of the children about their parental competencies needed in 21st century were measured through administration of a questionnaire. Results revealed that children assumed their parents more competent in 21st century. Findings further depicted that as children grew up, assumption of children about competencies of their parents’ decreases. Results showed that children assume more competencies in their fathers as compared to their mothers.

With regard to the role of education and human resources in process of environmental rapid changes and globalization, the need to plan, design and implementation of educational objectives to any organization will be inevitable necessity. Implementation of this requires are using of successful and effective patterns in human resources training. For example, demands the total quality management patterns. In the field of Higher Education human resources, from the most successful models of total Quality Management, Can be named the Business Excellence Model and the Malcolm Baldrige Model that due to its successful application in many organizations, industrial and academic, there is very little research in the field of human resources in excellent and educational institutions In this article, we attempt to meanwhile introduce the Baldrige model, demonstrate the experience of using this pattern in higher education such as experience of Stout Wisconsin University and introduce the quality in education, challenges in establishment of this pattern in higher educational institutions, in the area of human resource development and training and excellent and educational institutions