The rollout of technological advances in tertiary teaching and learning continues unabated. Concerns around staff lag in acceptance and adoption may overlook hidden influences. While considerations to address the digital divide and digital equity for tertiary students has been a growing social justice issue since the 1980s, what of the academic…

The question of what drives learners to adopt and use certain technologies over others, generally referred to as technology acceptance in the literature, is of interest to educational technology researchers, to policymakers, and developers in educational institutions. Technology acceptance models can inform adoption and implementation decisions.…

Flipped classrooms are an instructional strategy that is becoming popular in educational contexts, particularly higher education. The principle of Flipped Classroom is that events that have traditionally taken place inside the classroom now take place outside the classroom and vice versa. Various studies have reported increased student performance…

The advent of Web 2.0 technologies such as Twitter are reflective of an improved capacity for global educative collaboration. Yet there is an absence of research determining the potential of social media within Health and Physical Education Teacher Education (HPETE). The aim of this paper was to therefore determine pre-service teachers' (PSTs)…

Mathematics teachers are increasingly encouraged to incorporate computer-based technology in their classrooms, but these tools require strategic use in order to provide any substantive improvement to student understanding. This paper reports on how three middle-school mathematics teachers leveraged one particular tool, PhET interactive simulations…

To date, research on student engagement in a flipped learning approach has almost entirely focused on students' emotional engagement. This study further explores students' engagement through the additional constructs of behavioral and cognitive engagement in a UK pre-service teacher education context. Data were gathered from learning analytics,…

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of using Web 2.0 tools in teaching on teacher candidates' attitudes towards using technology and instructional materials in the classroom environment, within the context of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). To this end, a training program was given to 46 teacher candidates in various…

This study used open coding to analyze 662 idea-units that 44 preservice teachers expressed about successes and challenges related to technology integration in literacy lessons in a reading methods class. Data sources included reading responses, self-reflections on videos of their lessons, and Collaborative Peer Video Analysis. Eleven categories…

Recent years have brought the need for new pedagogical approaches that appeal to the involvement and participation of learners in the learning process. One of these approaches is the flipped classroom, which gives to learners the possibility to prepare for the next class, through pre-recorded video lectures and close-ended problems. Many studies…

When using Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) on university modules, international students unfamiliar with such platforms face navigational as well as linguistic barriers. Short, intensive language courses may not spend time on VLE orientation and rationale, with the result that students do not receive clear guidance on exactly how to move…

Purpose: Physical education teacher education is one of the most difficult subjects to transition online due to its inherent embodiedness in nature. Anticipating the challenges of transitioning courses during COVID-19, we explored our experiences teaching physical education teacher education online during emergency remote delivery. Method: Using a…

Mathematics is a powerful tool for modeling motion, but while motion is a popular context for applying linear and quadratic functions, research demonstrates that students struggle to connect mathematical representation of motion--especially graphical representations--to the real world (Börner et al., 2019). Some students' difficulties with motion…

As use of artificial intelligence (AI) has increased, concerns about AI bias and discrimination have been growing. This paper discusses an application called PyrEval in which natural language processing (NLP) was used to automate assessment and provide feedback on middle school science writing without linguistic discrimination. Linguistic…

This study explores the use and attitudes towards generative AI (GenAI) tools among students with disabilities in higher education (HE), addressing a gap in existing research on accessibility and inclusivity challenges for marginalised groups. Informed by a prior study and affordance theory, we surveyed 124 students with various disabilities,…

The current study examined the psychometric properties of the Teachers' Goal Orientations for Professional Learning Scale (TGOPLS) in the context of learning and using information technology. The participants were 866 kindergarten teachers from 58 kindergartens in China. Based on a randomly split sample, the authors used Group 1 (n = 433) for…