This article focuses on educational technology as applied in the context of programs and institutions that offer completely distance education courses. All education in the 21st century is digital education in that the use of networking, text and image creation and editing and search and retrieval of information punctuates the life of almost every…

Technologies have swept the world in every aspect of life including the education system. And therefore, the purpose of this research is to find the challenges encountered in implementing technologies in language teaching and learning in Indonesia. This study was a quantitative method in nature. The participants of the study were randomly chosen…

The use of technology has now become an integral part of higher education in Malaysia because of its positive outcomes in teaching and learning. Despite its use, students are not able to fully benefit from its full potential. This study investigated the use of digital annotation tools in Interactive Reading for Academic Disciplines to facilitate…

The purpose of this study was to investigate prospective middle school mathematics teachers' views on the flipped classroom. 41 third-year undergraduate students who were enrolled in the mathematics education department participated in this qualitative study. The study was conducted in the Statistics and Probability course and lasted for 11 weeks.…

The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that can impact the adoption of mobile apps for teaching-learning process focusing on the girls' school in rural India. The hypotheses were proposed and a conceptual model has been developed. There is a survey work conducted to collect the data from different respondents using a convenience…

With the proliferation of technology and the Internet, the way education is delivered has undergone a rapid change in different educational settings. Whilst a large amount of research has investigated the implementation of mobile technologies in education, there is still a paucity of research from a teaching perspective across disciplines within…

Despite the importance of preparing students to write successfully in their academic and professional careers, instructors often struggle to sustain student focus on the complex and demanding nature of the writing process. In response, we conducted a pilot project at a university located in urban Los Angeles using a wiki-enhanced and blended…

This paper has explored teachers' integration of ICT in a primary school practice, in particular how the content and its subject matter emerge in teachers' preparatory discussions and how they are enacted in the classroom. The theoretical foundation lies in the tradition of "Didaktik" and the analysis focuses on the teachers' choices of…

Digital technologies such as multi-representational tools have the potential to enhance the learning of mathematics. In light of this potential, there is a ubiquitous call to integrate such tools into mathematics teaching. However, these technologies are still underused. Teaching with technology is not an easy task and teacher competencies such as…

This yearlong study explores how digital technologies are used during literacy instruction in the critical year of third grade. We analyzed technology use in 16 classrooms across six geographically and socioeconomically diverse schools. We examined the multiple layers of technology's influences on teachers' instructional decision-making and on…

In many Singapore schools, there are large class sizes comprising about thirty to forty students in each class. In such large classes, the opportunities for interactions between teachers and their students and among students can be limited, especially when teacher-centred, didactic teaching practices are adopted. This small-scale research project…

When discussing mobile learning (or M-Learning), many educators tend to focus on the affordances of the technology. In this article, the authors feature the M-Learning Framework as a way to view the effective use of mobile devices. The framework includes three key features: (1) authenticity; (2) personalization; and (3) collaboration. These…

A core element of systems thinking is perspective taking. Perspectives help people distinguish between salient and irrelevant information, take particular types of actions, and make sense of the world. In this article, we consider what systems thinking and perspective taking means for designers in education. First, we present a framework,…

This short note presents and discusses an interesting area partition result related to a parallelogram. It is, then, shown how proving the result, and understanding why the result is true based on the principle of conservation of the area of triangles with the same base and between the same parallel lines, leads to further generalizations to…

Online learning remains one of the most powerful enablers and accelerators for realising higher education studies by enhancing teaching by means of innovative technologies and pedagogies. However, the success rate of students studying through Open and Distance Learning (ODL) remains very low. Therefore, institutions of higher learning in Namibia…