In this study, an obstacle unlikely faced by teacher is the lack of innovation in the learning model employed. The teachers are still being the center of learning resources so that they are made to correct the perception by creating a learning model that students prefer. This study aims to provide a new design in environment-based-learning (EBL) to improve geographical skills and to encourage students to think critically, innovatively and to come up with solutions. This research was development study of environment-based-learning in geography teaching. Learning media used covered syllabus, lesson plans, student modules and EBL teaching materials. Samples consisted of 32 students aged 1314 years who were purposively selected. Data collection techniques were a compilation of observation, interviews, questionnaires documentation, and test. Data were analyzed from the syllabus, study plan, and student module validation along with instructional media, teacher and student response questionna.....

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Disaster preparedness is an absolute prerequisite for the development of disaster risk reduction. This means that there is no awareness of danger disaster, then the high possibility of both physical and material losses is an inevitable matter. It is a must for humans to be sensitive and care for various possible disasters that can occur in the vicinity stay. Education on disaster mitigation needs to be introduced to the community. This is important to create residents who are responsive and ready for disaster. This paper aims to develop learning media supported by the use of smartphones to increase literacy about volcanic eruption disaster mitigation. This study using research and development with the 4D model. The results of this development are mobile encyclopedia packaged in a smartphone application as a media for volcanic eruption disaster mitigation education. Media and material validation show that the product being developed is very good and worth testing. Besides, the results o.....

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Social media applications are one of the promising tools in facilitating the educational process. Among these applications, WhatsApp was recently suggested as one of the most popular applications used by students. However, there is a scarce of a framework that can fully utilize the WhatsApp for educational purposes. To bridge this gap and to draw upon the social constructivism framework, the aim of this study is to develop a social constructivism framework for WhatsApp (SCFW) that enables both formal (in-class) and informal (off-class) learning environment. The SCFW framework is based on the principle that educators can use WhatsApp closed groups to enable learners to construct and share knowledge with their peers. This has been accomplished through the integration of four aspects, including device aspect, social aspect, learner aspect, and teacher aspect. ? 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG...

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To identify the most frequent factors that showed significant results in the previous literature of social media, a quantitative systematic approach of 713 studies was conducted. The results showed that perceived enjoyment (PE), subjective norm (SN), self-efficacy (SE), perceived critical mass (PCM), facilitating conditions (FC), perceived compatibility (PC), and information quality (IQ) were the main frequent factors that showed significant results in the reviewed studies. Accordingly, this research aims to develop a comprehensive theoretical model by extending the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) with those factors to investigate the students? behavioral intention to adopt social media in higher education. The developed model is validated using the partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique through data collected from 655 students studying at eight colleges/universities situated at eight governorates in Oman. The findings showed that PE, PCM, PC, and IQ p.....

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This study aims to examine the Relative Importance Index (RII) that influences online learning in the subject of Geography. The study adopted survey research design involving five secondary schools in the state of Perak, Malaysia consisted of 135 preuniversity students selected via simple random sampling method. Data were collected through a questionnaire developed by the researchers. The questionnaire was composed of 45 items to measure interest, acceptance, and effectiveness. The collected data were analyzed via SPSS software using descriptive analysis and RII analysis. Findings of the study revealed that the statement; ?when learning there is an interesting video display? had the highest RII value (RII = 0.8933), while ?I prefer to learn through the internet because any time I can learn ?received the second highest RII value (RII = 0.8296) for the factor acceptance criteria. For the learning effectiveness criteria, the ?online learning factor created curiosity to me in the subject o.....

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In the current new era of digital, e-commerce platform has been growing rapidly. Thus, this research aimed to study the determinants affecting customer perceived e-service quality (PeSQ) towards e-retailing shopping site in Malaysia and to examine the most significant determinants of e-service quality towards customer PeSQ from e-retailing shopping site in Malaysia. In order to study this, the researchers have selected 384 respondents as sample using Google Form questionnaire distributed online. For the finding analysis, the researcher used SPSS software with explanatory factor analysis test of the data. It depicted that there were exactly five factors extracted in the research. Multiple regression tests were used to find the most significant factor. The results showed that privacy as the most significant predictor but reliability was not significant in the research. Copyright ? 2021 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd...

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Context and background: Corona virus (COVID) has rapidly gained a foothold and caused a global pandemic. Particularists try their best to tackle this global crisis. New challenges outlined from various medical perspectives may require a novel design solution. Asymptomatic COVID-19 carriers show different health conditions and no symptoms; hence, a differentiation process is required to avert the risk of chronic virus carriers. Objectives: Laboratory criteria and patient dataset are compulsory in constructing a new framework. Prioritisation is a popular topic and a complex issue for patients with COVID-19, especially for asymptomatic carriers due to multi-laboratory criteria, criterion importance and trade-off amongst these criteria. This study presents new integrated decision-making framework that handles the prioritisation of patients with COVID-19 and can detect the health conditions of asymptomatic carriers. Methods: The methodology includes four phases. Firstly, eight important lab.....

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In order to achieve phytoremediation during agricultural production, it is essential to identify high genotypes yield that is able of accumulating many types of heavy metals not in the edible parts which have significant nutritional value but in the non-edible parts. This study conducted to estimate the heavy metal ATPases 5 (HMA5), Phytochelatins synthase (PCs) and metallothionein 2 (MT2) genes expression in plant Vicia faba in response to an elevated concentration of copper and zinc in nutrient media. Using Quantitative Real-Time PCR (RT-qPCR) technique, the results of hydroponic culture methods with high concentrations of copper (75 �Mol / L) and high concentration of zinc (500 � Mol / L) showed high expression level for the three genes of Vicia faba plant compared with control. Established that the expression of the genes under the influence of copper ion was higher than the expression under zinc ion influence. Besides that, gene expression increased with increased exposure tim.....

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Educational games are generally perceived as less interesting and engaging as compared to entertainment or video games. The stigma of having created for entertainment purposes is hindering teachers or lecturers from using educational games in formal educational contexts. Hence, there is a need to learn from experienced and successful video game designers in order to make educational games engaging, particularly on providing game players the immersive user experience (UX) through an emotional context. This study was conducted to examine the attitude, experiences and understanding of prominent game designers in the Southeast Asia region on the concept, definitions and elements of UX when designing immersive games. The designers were interviewed and the recordings were transcribed on verbatim basis to allow coding for narration. The outputs of the narration were mapped on to an emotional context, specifically for designing immersive educational games. The findings revealed that the primar.....

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We designed an at-home experiment on the inverse square law of light as an alternative to a standard in-campus experiment during the COVID-19 pandemic. The collaborative experiment uses smartphones with remote instructor?s support. ? 2021 The Author(s)...

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