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Integrating Soft Skills into Online EFL Classrooms Using Problem-Based Learning with Challenge Questions

  • Seo, Ji-Young
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.58-65
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    • 2022
  • This study proposed a soft skill integration activity for online EFL classrooms and investigated student responses. Toward this end, this study recruited 54 college students taking an English Presentation and Discussion class in South Korea. Participants were assigned into high and low-proficiency groups based on the Test of English for International Communication. This study employed questionnaire, class video recordings, and interview to obtain responses. Moreover, problem-based learning with challenge questions was applied to develop soft skills in online synchronous classes. Responses were examined in terms of whether a difference existed according to English proficiency. Major findings of this study were as follows. Regardless of proficiency levels, participants reported improvements in their IT and problem-solving skills and exhibited positive attitudes toward live online presentations via Zoom. However, this study observed significant differences in communication and teamwork skills, perceived learning, and confidence. Interviews with students with low English proficiency levels revealed that they were negatively affected by the lack of non-verbal cues, mechanical skills, and socialization time provided by online classes. Based on these results, pedagogical implications and directions for future studies are discussed.

A study on Online boosting based Multi-target tracking system (Online boosting 기반의 다중객체 추적 시스템 개발)

  • Yang, Ehwa;Yu, Jeongmin;Jeon, Moongu
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2012.11a
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    • pp.364-366
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    • 2012
  • 본 논문은 다중 객체 추적 시스템에 관한 연구로서, Online boosting 을 기반으로 다중 객체 추적 기술이 개발되었다. 기존의 Boosting 기반의 추적 기술과는 다르게 객체들간의 구별을 좀더 명확하게 하기 위하여, 프레임과 프레임간의 객체들끼리의 연결 시 공간적인 제약조건과 시간적 제약 조건을 이용하여 Online Boosting 알고리즘을 설계하였다. 본 시스템에서는 멀리 떨어져있는 객체들간에는 연관성이 낮다는 점을 보다 강력하게 고려하였기에 추적하는 과정에서 물체들끼리의 연관 오류가 줄어들었고, 이는 몇 개의 범용데이터를 이용한 실험을 통해 증명하였다.

Consumer Type and Characteristics According to Word-of-Mouth Behavior (구전행동에 따른 소비자 유형과 특성)

  • Seo, Hyun-Jin;Lee, Kyu-Hye
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.27-38
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    • 2013
  • Word-of-mouth (WOM) communication (traditionally important in consumption) is expanding its influence into cyber space and is playing an important role in online shopping. Consumers who use online shopping might not readily make purchasing decisions due to information overload, lack of accurate product recognition, and the distrust of commercial information. Subsequently, people use WOM communication for a mutual interchange with others who share common concerns, interests, and purposes. This study examines the consumer characteristics, perceived risk on online shopping and benefits of online shopping according to WOM behavior that may significantly affect consumer actions. Factor analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA, cluster analysis, and Chi-square analysis were used for statistical analysis to identify the differences in consumer characteristics. Online WOM behavior consumers purchased more various items than offline WOM behavior consumers; however, the most influential purchasing factor was price regardless of WOM behavior. Offline WOM behavior consumers have shown higher perceived online shopping risks and benefits.

Difference of Risk-relievers between High Risk and Low Risk in Online Purchasing

  • Fang, Hua-Long;Kwon, Sun-Dong;Bae, Kee-Su
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.135-156
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    • 2014
  • The Online business model for purchasing agent service is getting more popular. However, consumers perceive more risk when buying products from foreign online purchasing agents (FOPA) than from common online sellers (COS). This study focuses on finding out how consumers manage risk when they perceive risk and what different risk-reliever strategies they use when buying from high-risk FOPA and low-risk COS. This study has proved the following two. First, when consumers perceive risk at online purchasing, they tend to select risk-reliever strategies, such as the use of communication media, online assurance mark, seller's record, and secure payment to mitigate risk. With the application of those risk-reliever strategies, they built trust with the seller. Second, risk-perception of FOPA influences usage of communication media and check of online assurance mark more strongly than that of COS. On the contrary, risk-perception of COS influences the check of seller record more strongly than that of FOPA. This study helps to explain why FOPA is proliferating, despite its inherent high risk due to the fact that buyers and sellers are separated in time and space and that buyers and sellers have different social and cultural backgrounds. This study also helps managers of E-commerce to relieve consumer's risk-perception and to build trust.

The Impact of Parental Style, Parent-Adolescent Communication on Parent's Perception Types of Online Game (부모의 양육태도, 부모-자녀 간 의사소통 방식이 온라인 게임에 대한 부모의 인식에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Jee Yeon;Doh, Young Yim
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.65-76
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    • 2015
  • This study attempts to investigate the parent's perception types of online game and their related factors. The data was collected through the online survey from 485 parents. As a result, the parent's perception types of online game were classified as 4 types. Each perception type shows differences in an attitude and reaction to online game and gender. Next, this study employed a multinomial logistic regression model to examine variables influencing the parent's perception types of online game. The result shows that parent's gender, controlling parental style, and problematic communication have statistically significant effects on the parent's perception types of online game. This study holds its significance in considering the game use of children in the context of parent-child relationship by exploring the parent's perception of online game and its influencing variables.

A Study of the Relationship between Perception and Activities in the News Replies -Focused on News Perception and Credibilities- (온라인 댓글 인식과 댓글 활동의 관계에 관한 연구 -댓글의 신뢰도와 인터넷뉴스 수용자의 수용경향 중심으로-)

  • Kweon, Sang-Hee;Kim, Ik-Hyun
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.42
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    • pp.44-78
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    • 2008
  • The present study explored the agenda setting effects of replies called "Daet-Gul", and perception of the news replies. This study has established three research questions: 1) the recognition of the online communication 2) the degree of the reading and writing on online spare 3) the amount of the effects on the online communication. This study is performed using survey method. The survey results indicated in that the participants are very passive readers and writers on the online spare. In addition, the survey repliers evaluated that replies' mechanical device and antigravitational speed have high score, whereas they marked low store in the content and credibility of 'the replies. Therefore, they did not estimate the effects of the replies highly. All the results indicate that 'the replies' is not the fundamental factors of the deliberative democracy. It's because online communication with 'the replies' are thought to be fated the abuse and slander. Therefore, it's essential to improve the online communication with 'the replies', through the introduction of the 'trackback', which is a sort of the 'remote replies'

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The Impacts of Communication Reinforcement on Performance of Learning in Web-PBL (Web-PBL환경에서 커뮤니케이션 강화가 학습성과에 미치는 영향)

  • Ko, Yun-Jung;Kang, Ju-Seon;Ko, Il-Sang
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.179-202
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    • 2006
  • The objective of this study is to identify the impacts of communication reinforcement on performance of learning in Web-PBL. Communication reinforcement is defined as the combination of information sharing and co-construction. As factors facilitating communication reinforcement, we propose learner's characteristics, task characteristics, and group characteristics. Learner's characteristics are collaboration-orientation, openness, holistic approach, and online community-orientation which reflects e-learning environment. Collaboration-oriented tasks as group projects were developed and given to groups with 5-6 members. The group characteristics are categorized into 'horizontal' and 'vertical', according to the patterns of communication between a group leader and members. To verify empirically the proposed research model, an experimental design was performed to learners who took on-line and off-line courses with group projects. We found important results as follows; First, field dependence has positive impacts on information sharing, and online community-orientation has positive impacts on co-construction. These results correspond with prior studies on relationship between field dependence and collaborative learning. Second, collaboration-oriented task directly impacts on information sharing, and indirectly affects co-construction, This result implicates that information sharing is pre-requisite of co-construction. Third, 'horizontal' was identified as a factor giving positive effects on information sharing and co-construction. This result implies that horizontal communication is very important to facilitate communication reinforcement.

The Perverted Labors in Online Journalism: A Case Study on the Online Newspapers' Editors in Korea (온라인 저널리즘에서 나타나는 왜곡된 노동: 우리나라 언론사닷컴 편집기자의 사례)

  • Kim, Wi-Geun
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.57
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    • pp.7-32
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the perverted labors of online newspapers' editors in Korea. Online newspaper editors' works were be influenced directly and indirectly by the printed newspaper, the parent company of online newspaper. Their labor conditions were poorer than online newspaper editors'. And online newspapers' editors didn't have status as professionals. They set a premium on Internet traffics on their works. For online newspaper editors' normal labor conditions, the most practical measure was to normalize the editorial system of online newspapers. How to raise the status of online newspaper editors was to secure the online newspapers' editorial right. And to conclude, to improve the quality of online journalism in Korea, the most urgent issue is to improve online newspaper editors' professionalism.

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A Study on the Due Process in Online Arbitral Proceeding for the International Commercial Disppute Settlement (국제상사분쟁해결(國際商事紛爭解決)을 위한 온라인중재(仲裁)에서 정당(正當)한 절차(節次)에 관한 연구(硏究))

  • Yu, Byoung-Yook
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.26
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    • pp.225-253
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    • 2005
  • Nowadays we does not hesitate to definite answer that the arbitration is the most developed dispute settlement out of court in the international commercial transaction. Online arbitration is desirable for the reasons of speed and cost effectiveness to settle the dispute about the international commercial transaction. Online arbitration is fast because it uses the communication technologies that allow information to be sent fast and efficiently. But in online arbitration too much speed and efficiency may lead to a violation of due process rights and consequently the online arbitration awards run a risk to be set aside or refused its enforcement under the international commercial arbitration mechanism. Speed and efficiency may conflict with the procedural guarantee characterizing each adversary dispute resolution process. As arbitration is exclusive of recourse to courts, a state must guarantee that arbitral proceeding should be satisfied with the claim rights requirement. The main question regarding the sources of regulation is particularly for the due process whether or not this is provided by the availability of grounds to set arbitral award aside. In other words, does it respect due process in the arbitration proceeding including information communication and technology under the online arbitration. In this paper it is discussed about how the main issue in arbitration should be implemented in online arbitration proceedings to cope with the due process requirements in national and international.

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Harmful Disinformation in Southeast Asia: "Negative Campaigning", "Information Operations" and "Racist Propaganda" - Three Forms of Manipulative Political Communication in Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand

  • Radue, Melanie
    • Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.68-89
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    • 2019
  • When comparing media freedom in Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand, so-called "fake news" appears as threats to a deliberative (online) public sphere in these three diverse contexts. However, "racist propaganda", "information operations" and "negative campaigning" might be more accurate terms that explain these forms of systematic manipulative political communication. The three cases show forms of disinformation in under-researched contexts and thereby expand the often Western focused discourses on hate speech and fake news. Additionally, the analysis shows that harmful disinformation disseminated online originates from differing contextual trajectories and is not an "online phenomenon". Drawing on an analysis of connotative context factors, this explorative comparative study enables an understanding of different forms of harmful disinformation in Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand. The connotative context factors were inductively inferred from 32 expert interviews providing explanations for the formation of political communication (control) mechanisms.