Online education is now a common mode of delivery to support continuous education and training for adults. A range of technological platforms and processes have evolved to make online learning more engaging and effective, notably since the pandemic. Notwithstanding the widespread adoption of online education, research shows that many adult…

Digital learning environments such as virtual laboratories have been proposed to augment or even replace conventional forms of teaching in recent years. While there is some evidence on comparable learning outcomes between real and virtual labs, empirical evidence on the effectiveness of virtual labs as compared to conventional face-to-face…

Social media educational tools represent an opportunity for higher education (HE) institutions to enhance postgraduate students' skills development. LinkedIn Learning can be used to complement classroom teaching and learning. However, the drivers and outcomes of this tool remain a gap in the literature. This study uses a cross-sectional research…

Novice teachers are more likely than their more experienced counterparts to leave the field teaching, which further exacerbates the national teacher shortage. This creates a need to take concerted steps to prepare and retain novice teachers. The Every Student Succeeds Act emphasizes using evidence-based classroom and behavior management practices…

In light of the rapid shift towards digital learning environments, assessing students' e-learning readiness is vital in developing countries, where unique infrastructural and socio-cultural challenges impact education. The study examines the e-learning readiness of 909 university students through the data collected using a self-developed…

E-cigarettes are a popular type of nicotine product among youth in the United States. Hispanic youth, one of the fastest growing populations in the United States, are second only to white youth for e-cigarette use. Analysis of the Parents' Resource Institute for Drug Education data was conducted to determine past 30-day e-cigarette use among…

Learner autonomy is widely acknowledged as playing a crucial role in successful language learning. However, less is known about how it functions and interacts with other key variables specifically in online settings where its role may potentially be even more significant. This study investigates the role of learner autonomy in learners' experience…

This study investigates the integration of makerspaces in early childhood education. It emphasizes the impact of play-based learning on children's cognitive development and attitudes towards learning. Quality early childhood learning encourages positive attitudes toward learning and school, fostering strength, confidence, and resilience. The study…

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…