The aim of this study is to explore preschool teachers’ perception of the application of information communication technology in Taiwan using qualitative methodology in the form of interpretive phenomenology. Snowball sampling was used to select fourteen preschool teachers from public preschools. The data was collected from fourteen preschool teachers using one-to-one, semi-structured in-depth interviews, each of which lasted for one to two hours based on the guidelines for semi-structured interviews. The interviews were taped, recorded, and transcribed for the main textual analysis, which was based on a thematic analysis. Five themes were identified: (1) a formative and explorative growth process, (2) information devices: at once plentiful and limited, (3) decisions between control and freedom, (4) parent-teacher communications, and (5) trend-driven resource integration. Suggestions and implications for the utilization of ICT in classroom practice and its implementation in the curriculum are discussed.

This study examined the effects of school administrative support on teaching practice research programs using the importance–performance analysis (IPA) model. Teachers’ emotions, the importance they attributed to certain elements of the administrative services, and their satisfaction with the service quality of the administrative system were explored. To satisfy teachers’ needs and improve the service quality of administrative support, gaps in service quality between expectations and reality need to be identified. Participants were full-time teachers who had applied for teaching practice research programs at a university in Taiwan. A questionnaire on satisfaction with administrative support was developed and distributed to 102 teachers, 86 of whom returned valid responses. The results were analyzed using a paired t-test, regression analysis, and IPA. The teachers were most concerned about briefings regarding the application process and the administrative services the received, and they were most satisfied with these administrative services (t = 4.595, p < 0.001). Administrative service was the main factor contributing to teachers’ satisfaction. Seminars or workshops on writing and consultation for budgeting were the top priorities to improve the administrative support system. Suggestions for enhancing school administrative services based on these results are also provided.

The aim of this research is to identify students’ perception of the utilization of wikis, LINE, and flipped teaching strategies in a Research Methodology course at a university in Taiwan. Q-methodology, a combination of qualitative and quantitative research, was employed for this study, and...

This qualitative study was conducted to investigate international students’ conception of the internationalization of business education in Taiwan. Qualitative data was collected in the form of field notes and transcripts of semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 32 international students from various business schools in Taiwan. The participants expressed four descriptive categories of conception, which were identified using a phenomenographic approach. These findings led to several implications, as well as some recommendations to improve the content and context of the sustainable international program in order to ensure more effective learning outcomes in this era of mandatory educational reform.

Both augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) devices have been widely adopted in industries and for personal usages. Doctors can now use VR devices to perform pathological assessments. In addition to traditional input devices such as handheld controllers, advanced input techniques such as ray-casting (RC) and hand gesture manipulation (HGM) have been developed. However, comparisons of the performance of these techniques have not been reported. The objectives of this study were to test the hypotheses that using the RC technique is more time-consuming and more difficult than using HGM and that object shape is a significant factor affecting both the time to complete the task and rating of difficulty. Thirty participants joined an experiment. They wore a Microsoft HoloLens 2 headpiece to perform the virtual object transferring tasks. The results show that the movement time using RC was significantly longer than that (9987.8 ms vs. 4840.3 ms, p < 0.001) of using HGM. The rating of difficulty of RC was also significantly higher than that of HGM (2.56 vs. 1.51, $p_{\mathrm{Holm}}<0.001$). Details of the effects of the interaction method and object shape, together with the considerations of gender and movement direction, were discussed. In addition, two movement time models were developed. The R² values of these models show that the fitness of both models is adequate. However, the prediction error of the integrated model is relatively higher than that of the HGM-specific one due to the volatile nature of the RC tasks. This study is novel in providing scientific data to compare the performance of an AR device using RC and HGM, which will contribute to the advancement of AR technology.