This study investigated the factors influencing content creation among Nigerian varsity students and the effect it has on their academic performance and individual improvement. Through interviews and empirical studies, this research looked at the motivations, challenges, and benefits related with content creation among Nigerian library and…

Background: Information literacy supports individuals' academic abilities of critical thinking and reasoning which enable them to quickly grasp new ways of learning. It helps build long-term learning as it motivates and improves critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Students mostly use applicable resources such as books and the internet to…

Studying in digital learning environments highlights the skills needed to regulate one's own learning. In youth, students are acquiring and developing these skills, but for many students, effectively self-regulating their learning is challenging. To design support in this regard, an in depth understanding of how and why their self-regulated…

Flexibility in distance education is often regarded as an inherently positive concept. Taking a more critical approach, this article distinguishes between "temporal-spatial flexibility," defined as enabling students to choose the time, pace and place of their studies, and "pedagogical flexibility," defined as offering education…

While the COVID-19 pandemic has affected many educational practices, it has also acted as an amplifier, accelerating emergent trends. One such trend concerns the nature of distance doctoral education that, even before the pandemic, was characterised by conceptual ambiguity. This article re-considers the meaning of "distance doctoral…

The objectives of this research were 1) To analyze the current conditions, desired conditions and influencing factors that subjective well-being of private university students. 2) To develop the sustainable educational management strategies for enhancing subjective well-being of private university students. 3) To evaluate the feasibility and the…

Given the high degree of autonomy and epistemic competencies required for university learning, students need the ability to make rational decisions rather than relying on heuristics and intuition. Previous cross-sectional findings indicate positive relations between rational thinking and university academic outcomes, but longitudinal research is…

This paper examines the concept of joyful teaching in higher education and discusses common themes associated with it, as well as presents challenges. It is this concept of joyful teaching that we believe should be discussed and explored in greater detail, especially as it is an emerging concept with decolonizing pedagogies. This study uses 29…

We are one Indigenous and three settler academics struggling with the question of what decolonizing means for us in our educational practices at three universities, located in different parts of the territory called Canada and Turtle Island. Drawn to the idea of Decoding the Disciplines as a process for this work, we found ourselves critiquing…

Using masculine forms in surveys is still common practice, with researchers presumably assuming they operate in a generic way. However, the generic masculine has been found to lead to male-biased representations in various contexts. This article studies the effects of alternative gendered linguistic forms in surveys. The language forms are…

The purpose of this study was to validate a proposed theoretical model of adolescent internet gaming disorders from a reality-virtual perspective. A questionnaire survey was conducted using random stratified cluster sampling on 3,058 middle school students with internet gaming experience, drawn from four middle schools in a province in northern…

This study analyzes the combined influence of gender stereotypes, sexism, positive attitudes toward gender-based violence (AGV), and negative attitudes toward sexual diversity on the gender-bashing of trans and gender-diverse (TGD) people. 2,141 Spanish adolescents participated, of whom 50.5% identified as a girl, 47% as a boy, and 2.5% as other…

Historically settler and Indigenous childhoods have been defined in educational terms. However, scholarship has tended to focus on policy, curriculum, gender and the place of Indigenous Maori children as colonial education subjects, with less emphasis on settler children's experiences or responses. This article explores this through a case study…

This concept paper introduces a special section on "Parenting Across Cultures: Bridging Commonalities and Specificities in Parental Control and Warmth." In this article, we explore how parental control and warmth manifest and function across diverse cultural contexts, emphasizing both common patterns and culturally specific practices. We…

This article explores the role of education in shaping new ideals of womanhood in the Late Ottoman Empire, focusing on the women's magazine "Kadinlar Dünyasi" (1913-1921). By utilising George Mosse's conceptualisation of stereotypes as positive constructs together with David Tjeder's countertypes, the study investigates how the emerging…