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Background: Knowledge management is greatly aided by the important educational components of emotional learning and student well-being. Better information acquisition, retention and application can result from incorporating emotional learning into the educational system, which can also have a favourable effect on students’ general well-being. Students’ emotional learning skills may have an impact on their mental and physical well-being both inside and external of the educational setting. Improving theoretical success, decreasing substance usage, increasing general well-being and reducing violent behaviour are all possible outcomes of strengthening these abilities. This investigation’s objective is to explore how emotional learning affects students’ overall well-being. Also, it examines how emotional learning and students’ well-being relate to students’ academic achievement. Study participants were recruited across higher learning institutions from selected universities in India.

Problem statement: The study explores the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI), social–emotional learning and psychological well-being. Despite previous research showing conflicting results, this study aims to fill knowledge gaps by examining the impact of emotional learning on students’ happiness, life satisfaction, self-esteem and EI. The research aims to fill in knowledge gaps by examining predictors of student behaviour and attitudes, thereby enhancing the understanding of EI and its correlation with well-being.

Methodology: A structured questionnaire is developed with 26 questions and data are collected from 365 students of higher education in India. The collected data were analysed using SEM. By performing hypothesis testing we conclude that self-regulation, relationship skills, learning attitude and prosocial behaviour have a positive and beneficial impact on students’ well-being. Also, found that emotional awareness does not have a favourable and beneficial influence on the student’s well-being.

Findings: The outcomes show that self-regulation, relationship skills, learning attitude and prosocial behaviour have a positive and beneficial impact on student’s well-being. Also, found that emotional awareness does not have a favourable and beneficial influence on the student’s well-being. Overall, these results suggest some potential changes in our interpretation of the role that emotional learning plays in fostering academic performance, as its main function seems to be in mitigating the negative consequences of mental health issues.

Discussion: This study reveals five direct correlations that positively impact student well-being. The first hypothesis suggests that self-regulation positively impacts student well-being, while the second hypothesis suggests that emotional awareness does not. The third hypothesis suggests that relationship skills positively impact student well-being, while the fourth hypothesis suggests that learning attitude positively influences well-being. The fifth hypothesis suggests that prosocial behaviour positively influences student well-being.

Entrepreneurs are a product of their social environment. The manner by which they perceive opportunities; access or process information; and make decisions is, influenced by both social interaction, and their social background. Using insights from Socially Situated Cognition (SSC) theory, that posits one’s social environment can have a normative or informative effect on decision-making process we consider proximal social factors influencing the decision-making processes of student entrepreneurs. We propose that entrepreneurial education, networking, and incubation spaces provide direct information to students to aid entrepreneurial decision-making, and indirect informational cues that are situational, synergistic and omnipresent. Noting the multi-faceted and dynamic nature of the entrepreneurial journey of the student, we explore the potential effect of each of these factors on the student decision-making process. We discuss the implications of this inquiry from a researcher and educator perspective, and note the current challenges faced by student entrepreneurs in a socially distanced educational and entrepreneurial context. It is envisaged that this paper will serve as the basis for further thought and empiricism.

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The concept of Personal Knowledge and Information Management (PKIM) is based, among others, on two theories: Personal Information Management (PTM) and Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), which hitherto were both subjects of separate studies. Moreover, the concept of PKIM is related to IL, which is a concept of information skills and competences of individuals — a person who manages knowledge has to be information literate. Some of the empirical studies results in the field of PKIM, started in Poland and recently continued in Germany, are presented. As the research method an unstructured questionnaire with open questions was used.

Given the results of the survey as well as taking into account the subject literature, the concepts of PIM, PKM, and Information Literacy (IL) seem to be compatible and connected with each other. Our respondents perceive Knowledge and Information as well as knowledge management (KM) and information management (IM) in the context of learning and studying as integrated areas of interests. Although they do see differences between them, interconnections and relations seem more important. Furthermore, KM and IM are recognized as tools of coping with information overload. All aspects that have repercussions on KM and IM are related to three categories: personal characteristics, environment (macro and micro environment), and knowledge and information sources.

Wearable devices are starting to invade our daily lives at a rapid pace. Smartwatches are the most popular among these devices, but because of their novelty and the market, manufacturers are trying to understand which is the best way to approach this market and the kind of characteristics these devices might or might not have.

Students are usually technology enthusiasts and often fall into the “early adopters” category when it comes to new technologies. However, there is not much research work in the literature concerning smartwatches and the type of characteristics that should be considered when buying one of these products.

The present study aims to assess different smartwatch models to determine which is the most suitable for Portland State University (PSU) students. The methodology used was the Hierarchical Decision Model (HDM), a Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) method that decomposes complex problems and situations in a hierarchical fashion, dividing it into smaller fractions to make the problem easier to approach and assess. The method relies on experts’ judgments in order to assess the components of the model. After the experts have done their assessments, mathematical routines are applied and the relationships between components, as well as the best alternative to solve the problem, are presented.

The criteria contained in the model were based on a survey and on a literature review. The alternatives were chosen to represent the diversity of the market, and the experts were students who are technology-oriented and well informed about the products and the market. After the application of the model, an analysis is made on the main results (alternatives scores) and also the importance of each criteria and subcriteria.

Cooperative learning is a common teaching application in curriculum planning and learning in many departments in recent years. With students from different backgrounds at the department of design and questionnaire surveys, three dimensions of “Learning Motivation and Attitude”, “Cooperative Skills and Peer Interaction” and “Teacher-Student Relationship” were investigated. The results of the t-test showed that genders affected significantly the teacher-student relationship. In an educational system, there were significant differences in the three dimensions between the students in full-time and the night school. Grade analysis and verification results from ANOVA showed the full-time juniors had the most active participation in the cooperative learning model, followed by the full-time seniors and night school seniors. The research results also revealed that the students at lower grades had low participation in cooperative learning. The results provide a reference for academic research in design education and teaching models.

The global information glut, and rapid developments in electronic media and the World Wide Web (Web) within the last couple of decades, have brought about numerous changes to every society and economy. Recognizing this, the Singapore government envisaged a dire need for Singapore to be Information Technology (IT) equipped and skilled in every industry, beginning most importantly with education in schools. Specifically, the Ministry of Education (MOE) implemented rigorous plans for both schoolteachers and students to be outfitted with the necessary competencies. As a result, there ensued several educational reforms in schools. This paper gives an insight into the changes that have been taking place in the education system in Singapore with regard to the new policies on IT; an overview of the consequent challenges that teachers face and the changing roles that they have to assume; and finally a brief discussion on how these changes can be adopted more readily.

This paper summarizes the methodology and conclusions used on a master thesis that had the research aim of exploring how Web 2.0 and social networks are having an effect on users' information behavior. The method used for the collection of data was a semi structured interview, containing questions constructed according to the issues of Web 2.0 and social networks identified on the literature, along with typical features or characteristics of social networks. Purposive sampling was used to select the interview participants. The method for analyzing data was discourse analysis and a framework of categories was created to present the data in a certain order. This study identified various trends and tendencies in users' information behavior and some future directions for research were proposed. Findings of this type of study provide insights to users' information behavior in information systems, they could contribute to a better understanding of the users and to the design of such systems; this is relevant when it is necessary to build information systems from the point of view of users needs and behaviors, that is, by taking a bottom-up approach.