The movements towards achieving sustainable goals among many countries have risen throughout the years. A part of the sustainable goals -- the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many universities to move to online learning to sustain students' education. Indeed, e-learning has been delivering through the website since 1960. There is a need to develop…

The rapid pace of globalization has contributed to the expansion of fully online programs and course offerings over the past decades. Additionally, the current COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the move to online instruction worldwide. Various challenges have become evident when transitioning to online education. Thus, this qualitative case study…

Professional development (PD) impacts educators' instructional quality and student outcomes. Quality PD opportunities that meet educators' needs can increase the retention rate. The rapid development of technology allowed education sectors to provide quality PD opportunities with online platforms and digital resources, allowing educators…

Higher education faculty face an array of challenges in designing instruction to meet the needs of a diverse student population. Frameworks aligned with Universal Design (UD) have demonstrated effectiveness in meeting the needs of diverse learners and two frameworks, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Universal Design of Instruction (UDI),…

Build collective teacher efficacy and students' mathematical thinking using the Mathematics in a PLC at Work™ lesson-design process. This second edition of the popular "Mathematics Instruction and Tasks" book guides preK-12 teacher teams in ensuring improved mathematics achievement. Gain new and enhanced understanding of…

Recent reforms in K-12 science education call for curricular materials that are designed to be "coherent for students." This form of coherence arises when the classroom community sees their science work as addressing their questions and problems. In enactment, the teacher sometimes has to improvise from the planned trajectory of the…

Digital academic reading tools on computers bring multiple benefits to higher-education students. Through structural equation modeling methods, this study contributes to the following findings: (1) Perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and lecturers' positive responses significantly predict students' positive attitudes toward digital…

This study focused on the development of teaching aids for the topic of Isometric Transformations for Form 2 students in Malaysia. The first objective was to determine the usability of teaching aids in the isometric transformations kit integrates gamebased learning (GBL) Method (KitTI Method) and the second objective was to examine the…

Real-world design settings can be complex, ill-structured, open and typically uncertain and/or ambiguous about their goals and solution paths. This study contributes to understanding how to work with these types of problems in a course project setting. The main objective of the study is to identify, propose and validate a set of practical…

Virtual humans are on-screen characters that are often embedded in learning technologies to deliver educational content. Little research has investigated how virtual humans can be used to correct common misconceptions. In this study, we explored how different types of narrative structures, refutation text and expository text, influence perceptions…

This book presents one possible pathway towards the advancement of translanguaging pedagogies: teacher-researcher partnerships. Although the existing literature alludes to the value of such partnerships, there is a lack of research that explicitly describes the complex processes of designing and implementing translanguaging pedagogies in primary…

This study revisits and extends McManus and Marsden (2019a) to better understand "how" and "why" providing additional explicit information (EI) about learners' first language (L1) alongside EI and comprehension practice in the second language (L2) improved the accuracy, speed, and stability of L2 comprehension of the French…

Cultivating children's creativity and imagination is fundamental to preparing them for an increasingly complex and uncertain future. Engaging in creative learning enables children to think independently and critically, work cooperatively, and take risks while actively engaged in meaningful projects. While current trends in education, such as maker…

Background: Several studies have reported that inservice and preservice teachers hold narrow and stereotypical perceptions of engineer and engineering. However, only a few studies attempted to examine interventions which improve their perceptions. Purpose: This study aimed to explore the preservice science teachers' (PSTs) perceptions of engineer…

Instructional design is defined as an organized and systematic procedure that includes the steps of analyzing, designing, development, implementing and evaluating instruction (Dick, Carey & Carey, 2015). This long-standing definition is being applied at the University of Mississippi, where the university's commitment to online education has…