Mobile learning plays a pivotal role in the students' academic progress. Main objectives of this article were to examine the effectiveness of mobile learning in view of students' academic progress, to describe the students' preference for mobile learning, to examine the scope of use mobile learning by distance learners. The study was qualitative…

Teachers today must not only be prepared to use technology but must also know how to use it (Butler, D., K. Marshall, and M. Leahy. 2015. "Shaping the Future: How Technology Can Lead to Educational Transformation, 1st ed." Dublin: Liffey Press). The purpose of this study was to explore two primary physical education initial teacher…

The proliferation of mobile devices and mobile applications has changed the way people communicate, work, and study, namely in higher education contexts. However, users have very different application usage habits from each other, and the data collecting instruments that typically support the studies usually rely on the perception that users…

We propose a novel model for learning environments to target the characteristics of digital natives and to improve informal learning practices, i.e. the exploration, discovery and self-monitoring of learning content and the reflection on learning activities. The Mobile Playful Learning Environment (MPLE) model is defined as consisting of seven…

Purpose: The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore and describe the communication technologies that community college students perceive are effective ways to receive information from their college. A secondary purpose was to explore and describe communication technology channels students perceive would be effective ways to receive…

Sleep is critical to teen physical and mental health, daily function, and school performance. Yet, sleep deficiency is prevalent among ethnoracially diverse teens. The purpose of this community-engaged focus group study was to explore multilevel influences on teen sleep from teen and community stakeholder perspectives and to use this information…

Children's social lives are mediated increasingly by digital tools, thereby making new modes of home-school-world relationships possible. In this context, children's digital out-of-school social practices continue to be associated with risk. Children are construed as an "at risk" and vulnerable population by adults who frame children's…

In Computer-assisted language learning (CALL), the relationship between learner background and classroom-based digital language learning has been widely studied; however, little attention has been directed to informal digital learning of English (IDLE), a crucial subdomain of inquiry of CALL. Building on our prior IDLE study, this explanatory…

This study investigates the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) implementation and its pedagogical impact in enhancing students' English listening skills in English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) contexts across Asian countries. Data were collected from 147 English language teachers from Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Taiwan, China, and the…

The aim of this study is to create an activity by means of technology integration in the foreign language learning of primary school students. A quantitative research method was used in the study. The research was conducted in the fall semester of 2021-2022. A total of 248 voluntary primary school students who continued their education in…

Media technologies make it simple for students to access accurate information wherever and whenever they want at a lower cost, however, many studies show that children do not see a difference between the real world and the fictional media world until they reach the age of 12. This study aims to determine primary school students' professional…

The Turkish government made a significant decision in 2012 to transform its educational system and improve educational outcomes through technology. For this purpose, a consortium among different ministries initiated the "Movement of Enhancing Opportunities and Improving Technology" (FATIH) project with the aim of providing each K-12…

This paper is based on a systematic literature review of published research on the educational application of Virtual Lab. The paper focuses on the use of the mobile Virtual Lab application for learning science practicals in rural school context. This paper analyses the theoretical aspects of using VL in teaching and learning of science practical…

The current study investigated the contribution of a mobile application for self-directed and autonomous learning of academic vocabulary among English as a Foreign language (EFL) university students. Furthermore, we examined the long-term impacts of mobile-assisted vocabulary learning, by using a pre-, post-, and delayed post-test design. The…

Accessibility of mobile phones has offered prospects for researchers to discover their influence on education. English language teaching is not exclusive in this matter. This research was conducted to understand how English language teachers at Saudi Arabian university were adopting mobile learning in classrooms. The aim of this concurrent…