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There has been a marked increase in internship participation in recent decades. Many students who take cooperative programs consider internships to be the most appropriate entry point into their chosen careers. However, few studies have investigated factors related to internships from an engagement-value perspective that can influence the intention to continue doing internships with firms. This study concluded that academic self-efficacy was positively related to school and firm engagement; school engagement did not significantly relate to, but firm engagement did positively relate to the perceived usefulness of internships; and perceived usefulness of internships was positively related to intention to continue doing internships.

The application of social media in education, including the learning of artistic performance, is becoming increasingly popular. The research on the acceptance of artistic performance through social media is accumulating. Therefore, this study employs an integrated approach based on the technology acceptance model (TAM) to examine dance learners experiencing YouTube by combining design features and factors to explore the acceptance. A survey from the online dance learning fellowship was distributed to recruit YouTube users. Confirmatory factor analysis was adopted to confirm reliability and validity, and a structural equation modeling test by VisualPLS with maximum likelihood estimation was performed to identify the relationships among the constructs. The results suggest that attitudes toward learning dance positively contribute to both perceived usefulness and ease of use of YouTube. Also, both of the factors are important in terms of enhancing YouTube users' attitudes. Furthermore, positive relationships exist between YouTube users' attitudes toward using and intention to use. This study contributes to the extant literature by identifying the decisive impact of the acceptance of YouTube applied to dance learning, and a new perspective extending the TAM by measuring YouTube users' experience of intention to use is provided as a reference for further studies.

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When contextualizing educational methods, teachers can focus on constructivism to develop inquiry materials as STEAM subject matter for use in schools. However, there is little research concerning what STEAM teaching resources teachers view as inquiry with hands-on STEAM instructional material for use in kindergartens. Therefore, this research used a spiral developmental course design with action research to apply a teaching inquiry and hands-on STEAM model focusing on lesson development for kindergarten children via a one-year workshop. The lesson development process of this research included a total of six stages, allowing 24 participating teachers to analyse the STEAM elements from their original lesson plans, then make revisions according to a model, including: prediction, do/observation, quiz/discussion, and explanation/ transfer (PD/OQ/DE/T). After the initial lesson plan was completed, teaching experiments were conducted, and the lesson plan was adjusted through reflection and revisions based on the suggestions of domain experts during the implementation process. Finally, 48 PDOQDET inquiry and hands-on based STEAM lesson plans were developed. Thus, it is proposed that the inquiry and hands-on i-STEAM modules developed using the PDOQDET approach can represent exemplars illustrative of an enriched design constructivist paradigm to support students’ i-STEAM learning in kindergartens. Keywords: early childhood education, hands-on learning, inquiry teaching, lesson plan design, STEAM