Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have gained rising popularity as a transformative approach to making education accessible to a global audience. This bibliometric review aims to map the evolving landscape of MOOCs research from 2008 to 2023, analyzing 2,026 Scopus-indexed articles using VOSviewer 1.6.20. The findings highlight a publication…

Students' attitudes towards distance education can be shaped by the compatibility of their learning styles with this new educational environment. The study aimed to investigate whether various variables and e-learning styles predict student's attitudes towards distance education. The present research was conducted on 387 students enrolled in the…

With the improvement of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs, online learning has become a viable means for teaching and learning. Nonetheless, online learning is still facing various challenges. The challenges include lack of support and loneliness experienced by learners. Adaptive online learning is one of the means that researchers…

Many professionals are confronted in their practice with clients who show post-traumatic symptoms (PTS). "Trauma-informed practice" helps professionals recognize, understand, and appropriately respond to the effects of trauma. This work presents the "Trauma-Informed Practice for Workers in Public Service Settings" -- TIPS…

Second language teaching approaches that were originally proposed for classroom context are used for blended learning context as well as distance learning contexts regardless of their fundamental differences in terms of applicability, accessibility, objectives, designs and theoretical bases. Such theoretical and practical incompatibilities served…

The automation of learning object recommendation and learning styles detection processes has attracted the interest of many researchers. Some works consider learning styles to recommend learning objects. On the other hand, other works automatically detect learning styles, analyzing the behavior of students in intelligent tutorial systems in…

In a plural, complex, and diverse society, the school faces many challenges. Teachers must prepare their students for future professions, unthinkable nowadays, and the digital competences of teachers and students are one of the axes of an advanced school. This book presents a set of works rigorously elaborated by authors of different disciplines,…

This study aimed to investigate preservice teachers' e-learning styles and their attitudes toward e-learning and present the relationship between them via a correlational survey model, a quantitative method. The study group was composed of 322 preservice teachers. The Demographic Information Form, the E-learning Styles Scale, and the Attitude…

Background: Distance education is a growing sector in higher education but continues to lag in medical imaging education. Educators continue to utilize the traditional teaching method stating technology as the major challenge to adding distance education to their curriculum. Lack of faculty development and information technology support are the…

This paper highlights adult female learners' perception and experiences with blended distance education (DE) program in the University of Ghana. It specifically investigates female students' experiences with male and female tutors' tutoring styles, learner support services, the use of educational technology as well as the extent of the…

This study aims at determining students' attitudes towards distance education/online learning through a scale developed by the authors and determine the relationship between these attitudes and e-learning styles. The study carried out on students of Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University Faculty of Medicine using the online system of the university,…

Increasing the quality of education with the use of technology has been one of the main goals of education for many years. In this direction, e-learning systems have attracted great interest from higher education institutions and large-scale investments have been made in these systems. The transition to online education worldwide with the effect…

Academic writing presents a range of challenges for students, particularly those enrolled in distance university institutions. These challenges encompass various facets such as understanding citation and referencing, developing a distinctive writer's voice, mastering academic discourse, paraphrasing, summarising, and adhering to academic…

Online education increases in popularity for traditional and nontraditional undergraduate students, albeit some learners complete while others drop out. This case study focused on the experiences of 2 groups of Anglophone Caribbean students who enrolled in undergraduate online degree programs in the academic year 2013-2014 at a regional Caribbean…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify a framework to support adaptivity in e-learning environments. The framework reflects a novel hybrid approach incorporating the concept of the event-condition-action (ECA) model and intelligent agents. Moreover, a system prototype is developed reflecting the hybrid approach to supporting adaptivity…