Papers by Giorgio Cecchi
Communications in computer and information science, 2023
Conference Papers by Giorgio Cecchi
16th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN24), 2024
Distance learning has been a critical approach for education during the last years. A lot of inve... more Distance learning has been a critical approach for education during the last years. A lot of investments have taken place in the current years to support, promote and facilitate distance education. Within the online courses the main actors remain the students and instructors. Therefore, the current study focuses on the interaction among these two partners and investigates their mutual preferences from the point of view of students. To succeed in examining the students' preferences a structured questionnaire survey has been developed. This questionnaire records the participants' profile, distance education views and then examines the students own learning preferences, their fellow students' desired learning preferences and what the students consider as ideal teaching styles for their instructors. The survey managed to collect 222 responses. Then, the data has been inserted into SPSS, and created a database with variables that were equal to 124. Apart from the descriptive statistics, the focus is on the association analysis among the preferences stated in the questionnaire survey by the participating students. The findings present significant associations. A great number of associations were identified between the students' characteristics and learning preferences of the participating students as well as their stated preferences regarding the desired teaching styles of their instructors. It should be mentioned that in essence, the current study will present selected correlated learning and teaching preferences and try to explain the underlying facts. Among the pool of identified associations, it is interesting to highlight that a positive correlation exists among the learning preference to discern the material through watching a demonstrative presentation of the information and the two qualities / abilities of the instructor to carefully set priorities and then stick to them and furthermore the instructor's tendency not to easily allocate class time so that the most important things receive the most coverage.
16th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN24), 2024
The proposed study focuses on Distance education. Distance learning and teaching has gained a lot... more The proposed study focuses on Distance education. Distance learning and teaching has gained a lot of momentum during the last couple of years. Instructors are called to transform the courses from face to face towards online teaching. This transition is very challenging. The approach to teaching online is very different in comparison to face to face teaching. The whole process of online teaching needs to reengineer the traditional teaching process. The central person is the instructor. It is the person that orchestrates the educational process. In this context, it is necessary to examine the profile of the instructor. As a result, the current paper focuses on the instructors' attributes, their teaching styles and at the same time the students' learning styles. A structured questionnaire survey has been implemented. The survey managed to collect 63 responses from faculty members. The purpose of the questionnaire was to record the instructors' profile, their teaching preferences and finally instructors stated their preferences regarding the students' learning styles. All the collected data was inserted into an SPSS database. Several statistical analyses took place. A core analysis was the crosstab analysis that revealed the associations among Instructors attributes and teaching styles and their desired students' learning styles. The analyses' results presented significant associations among the stated preferences. In some cases, significant associations were identified among Instructors and Students preferences and in specific cases these preferences were expressed with the same degree of approval. Instructors that moderately have a preferred way of doing things and do not much like to do things in other ways are associated with students that moderately prefer tasks, projects, and situations that allow working with competing approaches, with multiple aspects or goals that are equally important. The study will be presenting significant associations and descriptive statistics with emphasis on Italian university instructors.
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Papers by Giorgio Cecchi
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