This study examines the opportunities and challenges of employing ChatGPT in higher education, identifies essential user competencies, and evaluates its impact in the absence of formal policy guidelines. A qualitative case study design involved interviews with 10 faculty members and 10 students at a federal university in the United Arab Emirates.…

ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, is the most buzzing word in academia recently. Due to its ability to provide instant language support and generate diverse educational resources, it has emerged as a powerful tool in ELT (English language teaching). This study aims to explore ELT teachers' perception and usage of ChatGPT as a teaching tool in the…

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has profoundly reshaped how graduate students conceptualise, design and conduct academic research in higher education. While current metrics predominantly focus on technology acceptance and usage patterns, they often neglect the diverse cognitive engagements in graduate students' integration of GenAI…

Background/purpose: In the context of digitalization, education systems are evolving at a fast pace into adaptive, inclusive, and data-driven paradigms. This study explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing modern learning methods in the areas of personalization, real-time feedback, and intelligent tutoring systems. It presents…

Background/purpose. This study examined the application of the AI language model ChatGPT in enhancing the teaching and learning of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). The study involved 524 participants, comprising faculty members, teachers, and students, and utilized surveys to assess their perceptions of the benefits and challenges of ChatGPT.…

Purpose: Prosodic sensitivity, or the ability to perceive suprasegmental features of speech such as lexical tone in Cantonese and lexical stress in English, has been recognized as an essential component of reading acquisition. However, the specific pathways by which it influences reading comprehension remain unclear. This study evaluates how…

In the virtual realm, also referred to as the metaverse, users generally communicate using avatars. This metaverse is viewed as a prospective tool in different industry types, and in this regard, researchers have examined its significance in education owing to its increasing reach. In fact, it has been widely accepted that Information System (IS)…

Within the context of Saudi Arabia's digital transformation strategy, "Vision 2030", the issue of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in higher education is gaining momentum, changing the form of the formative assessment procedure and its perception. Given the scope of interests in the functions of Arabic Natural Language Processing…

The U.S. is facing a skills shortage brought on by an aging population approaching retirement and a shortfall in the number of young workers with the educational attainment needed to meet labor-market demands. This report explores what is causing the skills shortage and details how the shortage of workers with education and training beyond high…

Teachers increasingly view their profession as unsustainable, with more than 60% of teachers reporting experiencing burnout in 2024. While it is known that teachers matter profoundly, there is still much to learn about how they spend their days and how the use of their time influences both their own well-being and student learning. This literature…

Statistical studies performed mainly in the U.S. have depicted that students with disabilities (SWDs) are excluded from the educational process and are prone to several gaps and barriers in terms of special accommodations, learning opportunities, and socio-emotional support in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM)-Science,…

As society is ushered into the Age of Intelligence, so are higher education institutions (Occhipinti et al., 2024). However, the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies within colleges and universities in the United States remains controversial (Crompton & Burke, 2023). Despite concerns around ethics (McDonald et al., 2025;…

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has been increasingly used to facilitate and evaluate EFL academic writing, but few studies have been conducted on business writing. Furthermore, little empirical research has evaluated the quality of the GenAI-generated templates. An approach using English GenAI-generated templates as feedback…

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, school closures across the country have altered the way educators teach and provide services to students. Engaging technologies in learning environments have become the primary mechanism delivering curriculum and maintaining the intellectual wellbeing of students. With the accelerated expansion of technologies…

This study aimed to examine the importance levels of mathematics-specific trend variables in PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) 2003 and 2012 in predicting mathematics performance across years with a two-step analysis method. The sample of the study was 9703 Turkish students (N[subscript 2003]=4855 and N[subscript 2012]=4848)…