There continues to be an increase in enrollments in various computing programs at academic institutions due to many job opportunities available in the information, communication, and technology sectors. This enrollment surge has presented several challenges in many Computer Science (CS), Information Technology (IT), and Software Engineering (SE)…

Adult students have different backgrounds, knowledge, experiences, abilities, interests, and learning needs. Hence, teaching all learners the same way is not the most effective. Individual differences should be considered. Exposing a whole class to one set of content, exercises, and assessment activities is unrealistic. In other words, to learn…

Education has changed more in the last twenty years than in the previous 100 years. This fact is due to the onslaught of online learning opportunities through web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies that allow users to interact almost seamlessly with other people and content. Rapid change brings with it the potential for new challenges about how students…

This book helps non-Pacific educators inform their work with Pacific learners and their families. There are differences in understandings of the values important to many Pacific people between Pacific and non-Pacific heritage educators. Pacific values of Belonging, Family, Love, Service, Spirituality, Reciprocal Relationships, Respect, Leadership,…

The purpose of this inquiry was to explore why women teachers who are dissatisfied with their career remain in education and to explore who they are "becoming" when they make the decision to continue teaching. The inquiry embraced a theoretical framework that values both human and non-human entanglements called material feminism. This…

The aim of this study is to identify the attitude of science teachers towards the usage of Frog VLE in teaching and learning primary science. The sample consisted of 148 science teachers in Cameron Highlands and Taiping (45 male and 103 female). Data is collected by questionnaire which contains 40 questions with 5 Likert scale. The independent t…

Understanding Black female college students' experiences, and what influences their persistence in higher education requires a need to center Black female college students in research, policy, and practice. Black women have continued to vastly outnumber Black men with higher enrollment in institutions of higher education. They have intersectional…

The need for new and innovative alternatives to traditional high schools has never been greater. Alternative schools operate today as a secret, hidden educational system, often providing much needed support for at-risk students. These schools often have little to no accountability for student achievement. Enrollment at alternative schools is…

Virtual education has been steadily growing since the late 1990s. Early research was primarily focused on the comparative studies between brick-and-mortar schools and virtual or hybrid schools. While the research over the past two decades has grown substantially and now includes broader topics such as for whom virtual education seems to work well…

The goal of this research was to examine teacher perceptions of high school student learning and engagement in the online learning environment due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The research was valuable in order to design, plan for, instruct, and assess students; to make technical, instructional, and student engagement modifications; and to create…

The purpose of this article is to offer a narrative review of research on effective language learning environments for learners in the digital era. To do this, a search strategy was employed to retrieve both conceptual analyses and empirical studies, initially including whether published as journal articles or book chapters. The collected data…

Background: Decades of research demonstrating the critical role of executive function (EF) and other regulation-related skills on children's short- and long-term outcomes has generated interest in measuring and cultivating these critical skills in early childhood and elementary school children (e.g., Bull et al., 2008; Moffitt et al., 2011). Most…

In associating death with education, this paper explores how the death register, and in particular the denial of death, is reflected in the treatment of contemporary education, aiming to construct the future as an object of knowledge for providing certainty and authority. Through a reading of Gert Biesta's theoretical considerations, I discuss how…

This study compared high school students' test scores using online instruction and traditional instruction. It is not known if, or to what extent, there is a statistically significant difference between students' academic performance in Algebra 1 when using online versus traditional instruction. This research study uses Zimmerman's self-regulated…

This study presents six teacher participants through a narrative inquiry that examined their teaching using inquiry-based instruction infused in global perspectives at various school settings from the following parts of the world: Malaysia, Wyoming, Maine, South Korea, Austria, and Lebanon. This study involved all six participants to share their…