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COVID-19


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Interpersonal Meaning Analysis of Donald Trump’s Remarks on COVID-19 Outbreak(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

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منبع: جستارهای زبانی دوره دوزادهم آذر و دی ۱۴۰۰ شماره ۵ (پیاپی ۶۵) 384-361

کلیدواژه‌ها: COVID-19 interpersonal meaning SFL mood system Cialdinis persuasion principle

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This study is conducted to reveal the types of mood, speech function realizations, and the persuasion strategies applied to Donald Trump’s clauses in his three remarks regarding the issue of COVID-19. Discourse analysis is applied to analyze the data. The applied mood types and speech function realizations are then correlated with Cialdini's principles of persuasion to see the persuasion principles applied in the three remarks. The results show that the President's three remarks are dominated by declarative mood with three most frequently used speech functions: statements of fact, statements of opinion, and statements of the assertion. In terms of Cialdini's persuasion principles, the speaker uses all of the six principles in his three remarks, except the principle of preference employed only in the third remark. The other five principles, namely authority, consistency, social-evidence, reciprocity, and rareness/scarcity, are contained in the three remarks with their persuasive purposes. In Cialdini's persuasion principles, the clauses used by President Trump reveals the strategies of taking advantage of his powerful authority in his remarks, showing his consistency while delivering the remarks, expressing his best efforts for his inhabitants, and showing successful evidence in overcoming the pandemic compared with other countries’ endeavors.
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Investigating the Relationship between Engagement and Achievement in Iranian Online English Classes in the COVID-19 Era

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منبع: Research in English Education Volume ۶, Issue ۴ (۲۰۲۱) 75-90

کلیدواژه‌ها: Online education Engagement Engagement Perception achievement COVID-19

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Online education, as a type of distance education, has attracted the attentions of administrators, instructors, and students in recent decades. In the midst of the Covid-19 epidemic, online education has become an unavoidable need. Students' participation in such programs may have an impact on their learning and achievement. The current study looked at the link between engagement and achievement in online classrooms. As a result, the study used a correlational design to address the research questions using Dixon's Online Student Engagement Scale and a researcher-created achievement exam. The questionnaire was developed in 2015 and comprises four categories and 19 items on a seven-point Likert scale. In 2020, the questionnaire was modified with Google Form and distributed to 297 students enrolled in general English courses via a university LMS. The second instrument was a 40-item test of reading comprehension developed by the researcher. The examination was created on the basis of reading theories and was given as a final exam. The one-sample t-test findings indicated that students’ achievement and engagement levels are adequate. Quantile regression revealed a strong link between top achievers’ engagement and achievement. However, bivariate correlation revealed no statistically significant link between typical students’ engagement and achievement. However, students’ level of engagement perception was satisfactory. The concept of engagement applies to high achievers but not to ordinary or low performers, making measurement error possible.
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A Comparative Study of COVID-19-Related Native and Nonnative News Headlines in Terms of Rhetorical Devices(مقاله پژوهشی دانشگاه آزاد)

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منبع: The Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice, Vol.۱۴, No.۲۸, Spring & Summer ۲۰۲۱ 245 - 261

کلیدواژه‌ها: COVID-19 native and non-native newspapers news headlines Rhetorical devices

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News headlines like other pieces of writings use rhetorical devices. They are regarded as the initial informative and persuasive part of news stories. The goal of the present study was to analyze COVID-19-related native and non-native news headlines chosen from two main online news websites in Iran and England in terms of number and degree of utilization of sub-types of rhetorical devices. To this end, the 6-week corpus including 489 headlines relevant to corona-virus news (282 headlines selected from the BBC and 207 from the Tehran Times) were analyzed. Shams (2013) and Picello (2018) taxonomies were used to analyze all news headlines. The findings showed that ten rhetorical devices were found in these headlines. Alliteration was used most frequently, following closely behind were metonymy, rhyme, rhetorical question, depersonalization, hyperbole, metaphor, pun, cliché, and euphemism. Both alliteration and metonymy were frequently used in the headlines of the news stories. However, just simile and allusion were found in the Tehran Times headlines, but not with high frequency. The findings can provide insights into the understanding of rhetoric-specific conventions in news headlines for ELT teachers and students. Also, English teachers can use news headlines as authentic teaching materials in their language classrooms.
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A Review of “Economics in the Time of COVID-19” by Baldwin and Mauro

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منبع: نقدنامه اقتصاد سال اول بهار و تابستان ۱۴۰۰ شماره ۱ 115-124

کلیدواژه‌ها: Pandemic economics COVID-19 Economic impacts Economic policy

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This review provides an assessment of the collection of contributions on the economic issues of COVID-19. The paper focused on the structure of the book and chapters’ content, quality of the publication, missing topics, predictions, and the pandemic effects on poverty and inequality. As the book is written during the initial stages of the pandemic, it does not contain the digital economy, cryptocurrency, health economics issues, sovereign debt, and resilience. The book is a useful text for graduate students in Economics and illuminating for economic policies during the COVID-19 pandemic._x000D_ This review provides an assessment of the collection of contributions on the economic issues of COVID-19. The paper focused on the structure of the book and chapters’ content, quality of the publication, missing topics, predictions, and the pandemic effects on poverty and inequality. As the book is written during the initial stages of the pandemic, it does not contain the digital economy, cryptocurrency, health economics issues, sovereign debt, and resilience. The book is a useful text for graduate students in Economics and illuminating for economic policies during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Prioritising the Key Factors Influencing the Adoption of Mobile Wallets: an Indian Perspective in Covid-19 Era(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

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منبع: Journal of Information Technology Management , Volume ۱۳, Issue ۴, ۲۰۲۱ 161 - 182

کلیدواژه‌ها: Mobile wallet adoption Key adoption factors (KAFs) Fuzzy TOPSIS COVID-19 New normal

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The purpose of this paper is to identify and prioritise mobile wallet (m-wallet) key adoption factors (KAFs). 9 KAFs are proposed by authors on the basis of a systematic literature review. Authors have proposed one novel factor influencing adoption called 'contactless transactions' due to pandemic and new normal post-Covid-19. This has resulted in a total of 10 KAFs. The fuzzy TOPSIS approach is proposed to rank these key adoption factors (KAFs). Sensitivity analysis has also been conducted to check the robustness of the study. Examining the literature indicates that this study is among the first attempts to prioritise key adoption factors (KAFs) using fuzzy TOPSIS. The results show that perceived security, trust, performance expectancy, perceived ease of use and contactless transactions are among the top 5 adoption factors. The findings of this research will be beneficial for both academicians and practitioners. The key adoption factors (KAFs) proposed in the paper will help practitioners develop strategies for building a wider acceptance of m-wallet among customers. Moreover, the fuzzy TOPSIS technique discussed in this paper will apprise managers about critical factors to be focused upon. This study will provide an integrated framework for academicians to carry out further research in the field of mobile wallets.
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Anxiety and Depression among Tertiary Level Students in Bangladesh during COVID-19 Outbreak(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

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منبع: Iranian Journal of Health Psychology, Volume ۳, Issue ۱ - Serial Number ۵, March ۲۰۲۰ 19 - 30

کلیدواژه‌ها: Anxiety Depression COVID-19 Bangladesh students

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Objective: This study aimed to find out anxiety and depression among tertiary level students in Bangladesh during COVID-19 outbreak. Method: The online survey design was used in this study. To measure anxiety and depression, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) scales were used. Binary logistic regression was performed to assess the impact of several factors on the likelihood that respondents would report that they had a problem with anxiety and depression. Results: The strongest predictor of binary logistic regression of reporting anxiety was gender (OR: 2.848; 95% CI; 1.836-4.417; p < .001) indicating female students had about 2.9 times more likely to report anxiety than male students controlling for all other factors. The duration of using social media (OR: 0.567; 95% CI; 0.329-0.978; p < 0.05) was also affecting the level of anxiety of the students. Depression was getting affected by the present living place (OR: 0.507; 95% CI; 0.316-0.814; p=.005). Conclusion: This study showed that students were having different level of anxiety and depression. Gender, the present living place and the duration of using social media were the significant factors for anxiety disorder. Depression was also getting affected by the present living place and the duration of using social media.
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The comparison of health-related behaviors in individuals with and without COVID-19(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

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منبع: Iranian Journal of Health Psychology, Volume ۴, Issue ۱ - Serial Number ۷, March ۲۰۲۱ 79 - 86

کلیدواژه‌ها: COVID-19 Compliance behaviors coping health behaviors pandemic

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Objective: According to the importance of health precautions and preventive behaviors against COVID-19, the present study aimed to compare health-related behaviors in individuals with and without COVID-19. Methods: This study was causal-comparative and descriptive. The sample of the study was 30 persons with a history of COVID-19 infection and 61 normal individuals who were selected in available from men and women in Rasht in 1399. To collect data the Clark and et al compliance behaviors against COVID-19 questionnaire (2020) was used. Results: The results of multivariate analysis of variance showed that there were differences in health-related behaviors among individuals with and without COVID-19. In other words, the average of Perceived Invulnerability scores are higher in individuals with COVID-19 and Health Precautions and Health Importance in them, is less than normal individuals. Conclusions: These findings indicate that there are gaps in health behaviors related to COVID-19 area which awareness in this area can have a positive effect on the quality of health-related behaviors.
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The Outlook of the World Order during the COVID-19 Pandemic Era(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

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منبع: Iranian Review of Foreign Affairs, Volume ۱۱, Issue ۳۱ - Serial Number ۱, January ۲۰۲۰ 113 - 142

کلیدواژه‌ها: COVID-19 Multilateralism Global Crisis World order Security

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The Coronavirus phenomenon should be considered as an issue that will cause damage to other countries in the context of international interdependence. At the same time, the structure of the international system has placed a responsibility on China, as well as on international organizations and other countries in the fight against this transnational threat. China wants to change its international face, from security and disruptive acting to economic-security acting and protesting the existing international order. As a result, such events tend to have the least impact on the country's international relations and, above all, at the international level, overcoming this crisis will benefit it. At the international level, given China's position in the international economy and the interdependence of many countries, while overcoming this dependence on other areas and the interaction of the economy of all international countries, the Corona crisis is a matter of cooperation and convergence. Currently, under the auspices of the United Nations and the World Health Organization, countries are trying to do their utmost to help reduce this devastating phenomenon. The US approach so far, unlike Japan, which has been trying to resolve the crisis, has been more concerned with China's fear and instrumental use of the crisis to compete with China and define itself as a superpower. In contrast, pro-multilateralist countries, especially US allies in Europe, have used a pragmatic approach to focus on their national interests and help resolve the international crisis.
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Investigating Public Speaking Anxiety Factors among EFL University Students through Online Learning(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

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منبع: Applied Research on English Language, V. ۱۱ , N. ۱ , ۲۰۲۲ 21 - 38

کلیدواژه‌ها: anxiety factors COVID-19 public speaking public speaking anxiety online learning

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As in many other countries, universities in Indonesia have been closed since March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, and lecturers have been forced to adapt to online learning. Students in this online course admitted to feeling anxious when studying public speaking. This descriptive quantitative study aims to analyze the potential factors (English oral proficiency, personality, lecturer's scoring criteria, classmates' responses, pronunciation, audience familiarity, unfamiliar speech topic, preparedness, English grammar, vocabulary) affecting the students' public speaking anxiety at four different stages. The respondents of this study were 60 undergraduate students. A questionnaire adapted from McCroskey (1970) was used, and data were analyzed using descriptive statistics of IBM SPSS statistics 26 software. The findings of this study revealed that the factors affecting the students' public speaking anxiety through online learning varied by stages. Through online learning, English oral proficiency and topic familiarity could be the most influential factors on students' public speaking anxiety. The findings of this study are useful for educators in helping EFL students overcome their public speaking anxiety and enabling them to perform better in public speaking.
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The Impact of Coronavirus on Globalization: Evidence from Different Regions in Asia(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

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منبع: World Sociopolitical Studies, Volume ۵, Issue ۲, spring ۲۰۲۱ 225 - 254

کلیدواژه‌ها: Asian Regions COVID-19 Generalized Method of Moments Globalization Panel Data

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It is generally accepted that COVID-19 is one of the most serious challenges the countries have faced since the end of World War II. The coronavirus, as an external shock has reshaped economic structures and lowered integration among countries. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on the globalization level of countries, which were classified into five Asian regions based on the United Nations geoscheme. To this end, an econometric method of estimation is employed based on the quarterly data pertaining to the study’s variables from 2010 to 2020. Results indicate that the pandemic has had a more severe negative impact on the globalization level of more developed countries in Asia, whereas it has had a smaller negative impact on less developed regions, such as those located in Central Asia. In this regard, Japan and China can be named as two economies in which the Coronavirus has had a greater negative impact on the level of globalization. It can be highlighted that the pandemic and its related consequences, such as protectionism (trade and capital de-liberalism) and travel restrictions are not considered as potential threats for all Asian countries. What constitutes a threat for various countries depends on the country’s economic nature, political stability, economic size, and globalization nature. Therefore, for globalization recovery, no unique pattern could be applied to all Asian countries, each having to determine useful practical policies based on its  economic mechanism and interactions with respect to both regional and global variables. 
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The Remote Higher Education over COVID-19 Pandemic: the Case Study of Provisions and Priorities of the University of Tehran's Official Website(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

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منبع: World Sociopolitical Studies, Volume ۵, Issue ۲, spring ۲۰۲۱ 255 - 294

کلیدواژه‌ها: COVID-19 Iran Quality Education Remote Higher Education University of Tehran

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The COVID-19 pandemic brought instructional and administrative possibilities and problematics in higher education internationally. In such conditions, the developing countries suffered challenging times for less personnel preparedness, deficiencies in technological infrastructure, and restricted sources of finance for investing. This study argues that Iran's higher education was already pressured under the UCMs before the emergency transition to online education. It therefore focuses on the University of Tehran (UT), one of the most affluent Iranian universities, which stands as a role model in quality and excellence at the national and regional scales. It employs the reflexive thematic analysis method to  cover a comprehensive body of COVID-driven content at UT’s website, including news, administrative notes, and announcements on new official regulations, teaching guidelines, and consultative commentaries for mental well-being. It provides an analytical model based on three major themes, A) students: technical and emotional support vs. onerous regulations, B) prosociality and social responsibility, C) instructors at University of Tehran: highly expected simultaneously ignored. These major themes entail different subthemes and motifs that unveil UT’s developing solutions and obstacles to foster fruitful exchange within the UT community. 
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Corporate Resilience and Performance in Food Industry SMEs During COVID-19(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

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منبع: World Sociopolitical Studies, Volume ۵, Issue ۲, spring ۲۰۲۱ 333 - 366

کلیدواژه‌ها: Corporate performance Corporate Resilience COVID-19 Food Industry SMEs

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The small and medium entrepreneurs’ and managers’ main interest is to avoid the problems resulting from the economic and social crisis during COVID-19. One way to prevent these problems is to increase the organizations’ resilience to achieve optimal business performance. Resilience helps with business continuity and performance, simultaneously assisting social, economic, and cultural policymakers and planners in their tasks. This study investigates the impact of  corporate resilience dimensions on performance in the food SMEs industry in Iran during the COVID-19 era. After reviewing the literature on organizational resilience (planned and adaptive) based on Porter’s value chain, the effects of  five dimensions (human resources, marketing, finance, supply chain management, and services) on corporate performance were assessed. Ninety-five questionnaires were collected from food industry SMEs using the simple random sampling method. SPSS 26 and SMART PLS 2.0 were used to analyze the data. The results of data analysis with Partial Least Squares (PLS) showed that all dimensions had a positive effect on corporate performance because all the items  had high t coefficients (t > 1.96). With GOF, the overall validation of the model is high. Appropriate changes in Porter’s value chain components (Human Resources, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain Management, and Services) under the COVID-19 influence have a positive effect on performance. 
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Managing Infodemic on COVID-19 Related Issues: ‘Building Resilience to Misinformation’ in IRNA and FARS News agencies Instagram Pages(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

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منبع: World Sociopolitical Studies, Volume ۵, Issue ۲, spring ۲۰۲۱ 367 - 398

کلیدواژه‌ها: COVID-19 fake news Infodemic management Instagram Mainstream media misinformation

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The present article aims to investigate the modality of coverage and infodemic management regarding COVID 19 by the two Iranian mainstream media i.e., IRNA and Fars News Agency. To investigate the modality of infodemic management, the article specifically examines ‘building resilience to misinformation’. To reach this aim, content analysis has been used. Data for this study were selected from the Instagram pages of Fars News Agency (@fras_news) and Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) (Irna_1313) from February 19, 2019, the day of the official announcement regarding the first Coronavirus case in Iran, until October 25, 2021. In total 218 items were collected, out of which 64 cases were from IRNA and 154 were from Fars News Agency. Both news agencies were examined in terms of infodemic type, Infodemic themes and infodemic sources. The results of the study indicated that in terms of infodemic type, Fars mainly focused on fake news; while IRNA concentrated on prevalent public questions and concerns regarding the Coronavirus. In terms of infodemic themes, both news agencies focused on Corona phobia and vaccination. The results of the study indicate that social networking sites are the main sources of spreading infodemic regarding COVID-19. 
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Cultural and Social Context for Patients’ Coping with COVID-19: Experiences from Tehran Hospitals(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

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منبع: World Sociopolitical Studies, Volume ۵, Issue ۳, summer ۲۰۲۱ 577 - 601

کلیدواژه‌ها: COVID-19 culture generational differences post-traumatic growth social compatibility

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Two years after the beginning of the pandemic, various strains of COVID-19 continue to affect relatively all regions and countries in the world. Each country responded to the pandemic based on its facilities, approaches, beliefs, and costumes. The main objective of this research is to study the responses, as well as the social and cultural approaches of COVID-19 patients in Iran. Twenty patients, who recovered from COVID-19 in Tehran, participated in this phenomenological and descriptive-interpretative-based research. The extracted profile includes social black holes, individual and social reactions to COVID-19, as well as outlooks on the different aspects of COVID-19 and post-traumatic growth. The findings of the study suggest that the patients face problems such as economic difficulties that coincided with the pandemic, as well as a lack of adequate medical equipment. This led them to ambivalence, which in turn prepared them for change; patients eventually reached a degree of acceptance and achieved post-disease growth.
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A Secure and Efficient Approach for Issuing KYC Token As COVID-19 Health Certificate Based on Stellar Blockchain Network(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

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منبع: International Journal of Web Research, Volume ۳, Issue ۱,Spring-Summer ۲۰۲۰ 42 - 49
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Today's world is struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic, as one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. During the lockdown caused by this disease, many financial losses have been inflicted on people and all industries. One of the fastest ways to save these industries from the COVID-19 or any possible pandemic in the future is to provide a reliable, fast, smart, and secure solution for people's health assessment. In this article, blockchain technology is used to propose a model which provides and validates the health certificates for people who travel or present in society.  For this purpose, we take advantage of blockchain features such as being unchangeable, errorless, distributed, and a single point of failure nonexistence, high security, and proper use in protecting people's privacy. Since a variety of antibody and human health proving tests against the virus are developing, this study tries simultaneously to design an integrated and secure system to meet the authenticity and accuracy of different people's health certificates for the companies requiring these certifications. In this system, on the one hand, there are qualified laboratories that are responsible for performing standard testing and also providing results to the system controller. On the other hand, entities that need to receive health certificates must be members of this system. Finally, people are considered as the end-user of the system. To provide test information for the entities, the mechanism of KYC tokens will be used based on the Stellar private blockchain network. In this mechanism, the user will buy a certain amount of KYC tokens from the system controller. These tokens are charged in the user's wallet, and the user can send these tokens from his wallet to any destination company, to exchange the encrypted health certificate information. Finally, considering the appropriate platform provided by blockchain technology and the requirement of a reliable and accurate solution for issuing health certificates during the Covid-19 pandemic or any other disease, this article offers a solution to meet the requirements.
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Iranian University Students’ Learning Satisfaction with Online Classes during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed-methods Study(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

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منبع: Iranian Journal of Learning and Memory, Volume ۴, Issue ۱۵, Autumn ۲۰۲۱ 57 - 68

کلیدواژه‌ها: Iranian Universities online classes COVID-19 Students Learning Satisfaction

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With the abrupt emergence and development of the COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face classes have been replaced with online classes (OCs) on an unprecedented scale in Iran. To improve the quality of OCs, it is quite essential to examine to what extent students are satisfied with them. With this aim, the current mixed-methods study purported to examine university students’ learning satisfaction with OCs at Ayatollah Borujerdi University. For the quantitative part, a total of 509 university students, including males (N=34) and females (N=475) filled out a modified version of the Satisfaction with Online Classes Survey (SWOCS) developed and validated by Bolliger and Martindale (2004). For the qualitative part, a sample of 20 students, consisting of males (N=9) and females (N=11) completed a reflective written statement disclosing their perceptions of OCs. Findings evidenced that the participants are moderately satisfied with OCs. In addition, the results of Friedman test documented that all the sub-factors of SWOCS played an important role in the participants’ learning satisfaction with OCs. Complementary with the quantitative findings, the qualitative results yielded five overarching themes: “instructors are a critical factor for students’ learning satisfaction’, ‘familiarity with technology affects students’ learning satisfaction’, ‘course set-up shapes students’ learning satisfaction’, ‘interactions with others are vital’, and ‘students’ learning satisfaction is closely correlated with outcomes’ Finally, a range of implications is proposed for different stakeholders.
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Measuring Satisfaction of Some Postgraduate Engineering Students at Shiraz University about Virtual and Remote Laboratories

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منبع: Iranian Distance Education, Volume ۳, Issue ۲, Summer & Autumn ۲۰۲۱ 9-23

کلیدواژه‌ها: Virtual labs Remote labs Satisfaction Postgraduates COVID-19

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The purpose of this case study was to measure satisfaction of some postgraduate engineering students at Shiraz University about virtual and remote laboratories. The participants were 18 electrical engineering students selected from Shiraz University through purposeful samples. The studied variables in order to measure the satisfaction of remote laboratories included students' focused attention during the use of the virtual laboratory (FA), perceived usefulness of virtual lab (PU), virtual lab approval by students (Confirm), students' satisfaction with the virtual laboratory(Satisfaction), fun and enjoyable virtual lab (Play), easily perceived by students in using a virtual lab (PEU), Attitude to the virtual laboratory (Attitude), tendency to use the virtual lab continuously (ICU), quality of virtual laboratory design (QD). Results revealed that students' satisfaction with the virtual laboratory was above the middle standard rating. Furthermore, from the students' point of view, the quality of the virtual laboratory had a significant effect on their "Satisfaction" with the virtual laboratory (Sig. 0.000, B = 0.885), and from the perspective of the students, the QD had a significant effect on ICU (Sig. 0.000, B = 0.937). Finally, the regression analysis showed that the QD had a significant effect on students' attitudes toward the virtual laboratory (Sig. 0.000, B = 0.885).