Amazonía Investiga

Publisher:: Universidad de la Amazonía
Publication date:: 2022-08-09

ISBN:: 2322-6307

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Development of virtual learning systems based on artificial intelligence: International experience
The aim of the article is to study and improve the use of artificial intelligence in education by analysing international experience. The main methods used were general scientific methods, documentary analysis, standard statistics, and factor analysis. The study's main results demonstrate the rapid growth in the popularity of artificial intelligence in virtual learning systems in all the countries under consideration. The article reveals a tendency to increase the demand for these technologies. The study concludes that AI has an important role in the educational process and that future research should focus on evaluating its effectiveness in training specific specialists.
Teachers' perspectives on parental participation in the Individual Educational Program for students with intellectual disabilities
This study sought to investigate the factors influencing parental participation in the IEP for students with intellectual disabilities from educators’ perspectives, while discerning any statistically significant differences based on gender, academic qualifications, experience, and training courses. The descriptive method was used, via a two-part questionnaire, with the first section collecting demographic information while the second part containing 24 items dealing with factors contributing to the activation of parental participation in the IEP for students with intellectual disabilities from teachers’ perspectives. The findings indicated factors that play a role in activating parental participation in the IEP process can be classified into three types: factors related to parents, the teacher, or the educational institution. This study highlighted the importance of teacher awareness regarding the benefits of parental participation in their children’s IEPs. No differences were found between male and female teachers regarding the factors contributing to the activation of parental participation in the IEP. Conversely, significant differences were found by qualification. Teachers who had attained PhDs proved to be more aware of the factors contributing to the activation of parental participation in the IEP. The findings of the study will provide educators and parents with information regarding parental involvement in the IEP process
The new political marketing, or ideology of buen vivir
The present investigation constitutes a review and reflection of the new behaviors of political organization and alternative laws that are developing in South American countries, in which we expose various perspectives from which we carry out the theoretical description of old and new concepts, socio-historical and culture-politics. Concerning the theories and ideas built to interpret them, these force us to focus our gaze on those institutions, discourses, strategies, and procedures that were traditionally part of the understanding of what politics and law were. This relation is why, in the face of disenchantment or loss of faith in politics, in our opinion, explanations cannot continue to be constructed that insist on the distances between rulers and the governed, on the crisis of institutions, or the triumph of individualism, in the current era. Therefore, it is necessary to reflect on how technological advancement can lead to a false premise about the ease of political marketing and the impact it has had in Ecuador in recent years, including the application of technology and the design of propaganda as a resource to reach the population and position itself as a political brand.
Factors influencing students' academic achievement: evidence from University of Ha'il Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ensuring transparency and publicity of local budgets in Ukraine in the face of new challenges
The article analyzes the essence and features of transparency and publicity of local budgets in Ukraine and abroad using advanced foreign experience. The need to ensure transparency and publicity of local budgets is substantiated. International ratings of openness and transparency of local budgets are considered. Successful projects and practices in ensuring budget transparency and publicity are analyzed. The features of ensuring budget transparency and publicity in war conditions are determined. Recommendations are proposed to increase the transparency and publicity of local budgets in Ukraine in the face of new challenges. To achieve the goals of this article, general scientific and special methods were used, such as the structural-functional method (to study individual tools, successful projects, and practices in ensuring transparency and publicity of local budgets), comparison method (comparison of data openness across countries, successful projects, and practices in ensuring budget transparency and publicity). All this made it possible to develop measures to ensure transparency and publicity of local budgets in Ukraine in the face of new challenges.
Consistency of quality management contours for the development of industrial enterprises on the basis of target contour planning
To solve the problem of the qualitative development of industrial enterprises, which lies in the inconsistency of the contours of the quality of the development of the scientific task. The article proposes a methodical approach to the planning of the consistency of the contours of the quality management of the development of industrial enterprises based on the planning of the target contour based on the three-level system model and the means of multifactor modeling, the use of which will allow the management of the industrial enterprise to monitor the state of achievement/failure to achieve the planned development goals and timely identify the cause of this phenomenon during the normal process of management coordination, destabilization and recovery. As a result of modeling and simulation experiments, a bank of levels of operations for various purposes and source data is obtained. The obtained sets of action sequences can be used as "road maps" in case of a real critical situation. The proposed approach can be used to develop options for future plans for qualitative development of the enterprise by setting a target situation for a certain future moment in time and finding a sequence of intermediate situations of qualitative development of the enterprise, which leads to setting a goal.
Organized crime in the global context: emerging threats and effective responses
Alternative forms of resolution of labor disputes
The purpose of the article is to identify effective alternative forms of labour dispute resolution based on the analysis of theoretical information and practical experience of their application in the modern world and the possibility of their use in Ukraine. The methodological basis of the work is the methods of analysis and synthesis, comparative law, logical and legal, abstract and logical methods, and the method of generalisation. The author identifies the features and advantages of using the main alternative forms of labour dispute resolution: conciliation, direct negotiations, mediation, arbitration, and mediation. The author examines the international experience of using alternative forms of labour dispute resolution (France, Bulgaria, Poland, and the United Kingdom). The reasons for the low prevalence of the use of alternative forms of labour dispute resolution in Ukraine are: lack of legislative regulation or gaps in it; low level of public awareness; lack of qualified specialists (arbitrators, mediators). The author identifies the appropriate measures for the effective implementation of alternative forms of labour dispute resolution in Ukraine, which will reduce the burden on the judicial system, and resolve labour conflicts more quickly, efficiently, and with lower material costs.
Teaching professional competence in preschool education
The article clarifies the theoretical foundations of the content of the teacher's professional competence; we will single out the types of professional competence of the educator in the context of readiness to work in the environment of the preschool education institution, on which the maturity and formation of the specialist are based in professional activity. At various stages of our research, the following general scientific research methods were used: theoretical and empirical. The professional competence of the educator in the context of readiness to work in the environment of the preschool education institution was studied, its main components were substantiated; the skills that the teacher's professional competence should include are listed; the stages of formation of professional competence of future educators are shown. In accordance with the modern educational conditions of the formation of the professional competence of the teacher, the structure of the system of professional training of teachers of preschool education institutions is considered. During an experimental study (we surveyed students of pedagogical specialties), we discovered the effectiveness of using Wikitechnologies for the formation of the professional competence of an educator in the context of readiness to work in the environment of a preschool educational institution.
Influence of educational environment on the formation of skills among future professionals
This research aims to explore the impact of educational environment factors within higher education institutions on the process of shaping professional (Hard Skills) and social competencies (Soft Skills) of future professionals. The proposed study falls within the realm of mixed-method scientific inquiry, as it encompasses the synthesis of theoretical analysis of scholarly concepts relevant to the article’s core ideas, a factor analysis of empirical data collected to quantify the influence of external and internal educational environment factors, as well as qualitative generalizations drawn from the results of the factor analysis. Empirical data collection was conducted through the observation of a student group (n = 925) utilizing methods such as surveys, questionnaires, testing, and interviews. The findings of this research are valuable for informing the implementation of models for graduates of higher education institutions. The study revealed that future professionals are expected to have not only hard skills but also develop soft skills, the formation of which should occur in parallel.