The ongoing war in Ukraine highlighted the urgent need to develop democratic competences, including critical thinking, intercultural communication, cooperation and active civic participation, to preserve democracy during adversity. This study explored how integrating action learning within Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)…

This paper offers an example of what a sensuous approach to food and taste education can look like by investigating the role of learners' senses when taste experiences are translated into words and drawings. The context of the Reggio Emilia approach -- and specifically the food atelier setting -- creates a space to explore food and taste based on…

This research moves beyond the conventional students-as-partners discourse to explore student-student partnership practices in higher education, addressing research gaps regarding such partnerships in inter-institutional and non-Western contexts. Through a qualitative study of a student-initiated virtual service-learning project which involved…

Purpose of this study was to create thematic web connection links for distant education. Aim of the web connection links was to summarize and visualize the relationship of each effective factor with other factors. To create the thematic web connection links, the effective factors on distant education were tried to be determined. Data was collected…

Recent studies have shown that children with developmental language disorder (DLD) often face challenges in emotion recognition (ER) skills, which impacts their social and behavioural outcomes. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a flexible online intervention in meeting the individual needs of children with DLD, focusing on ER…

This study of the usage and effectiveness of Exact Path is based on student data from a large school system in the United States and student-level application usage data from Exact Path pilot implementation in the 2022-23 school year. Edmentum's Exact Path program personalizes digital student learning resources through diagnostic assessments,…

Nowadays, many universities around the globe have offered distance learning to their students in addition to the traditional face-to-face learning mode. Furthermore, a number of universities have multiple campuses, thereby requiring these universities to adopt a multi-campus learning model. This setting creates numerous teaching and learning…

This study explores students' perceptions of Open Educational Resources (OER) and their impact on cognitive and affective learning. Based on the Rowell's (2015) framework, the research, employed by a mixed-methods approach, combined questionnaire data and semi-structured interviews from a group of students enrolled in an ESP course utilizing OER.…

To meet student demand for responsive, adaptable, and up-to-date online courses, educators and learning designers need tools to analyse student interactions with their peers, educators and learning resources. Learning Management Systems (LMSs) store large volumes of detailed user data, but offer only limited, pre-set reports and visualizations to…

This study examined the educational engagement and achievement effects of Chicago Connected, a COVID-19 pandemic-era broadband internet expansion initiative led by Kids First Chicago, the City of Chicago, Chicago Public Schools (CPS), philanthropic donors, and other stakeholders. It aimed to connect 100,000 students in 60,000 households to free…

Background/purpose. This research aims to analyze the influence and test the effectiveness of using an e-module based on sustainable development goals (SDGs) with the conceptual change model-cognitive conflict approach (CCM-CCA) integrated with local wisdom on students' critical thinking skills. Materials/methods. This research employed a…

Background/purpose: Smartphones have evolved into indispensable learning tools, offering continuous access to information across both formal and informal educational environments. Recent research illuminates the complex interplay between students' academic engagement (SAE), digital competency (DC), and the digital informal learning (DIL)…

The global shift to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic presented unique challenges for learners with special educational needs (LSENs), particularly in terms of parental involvement, which has been insufficiently explored in previous research. Although existing studies have highlighted the critical role of parents in supporting their…

Dialogic classroom discussions where students collaboratively share and reason through complex ideas are critical for achieving ambitious reform goals for student learning. However, K-12 classroom talk is predominantly characterized by monologic, "teacher-centered" discourse patterns that have proven exceedingly resilient to change.…

The Partnership for Integration of Computation into Undergraduate Physics (PICUP) was founded in the mid-2010s to assist educators with the challenges of integrating computation into physics curricula. In addition to in-person trainings and hosted educational materials, PICUP uses a Slack Workspace to continue collaboration and discussion…