This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the major themes in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications for personalized learning, derived from a Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) examination of top educational technology journals from 2014 to 2023. Our methodology involved collecting a corpus of relevant journal articles, applying LDA…

The scope of work-integrated learning (WIL) has expanded and evolved globally and is a recognised pedagogy that enhances graduate employability, strengthens students' personal attributes, and affords a personalised learning experience. Despite abundant research and discourse on WIL, misconceptions about what WIL is and how WIL educative…

This study explores the interplay between educational technology adoption, online community participation, self-paced learning, and graduate students' health promotion skills in physical education programs. It investigates how these factors facilitate or hinder skill development by examining teaching techniques and interventions in graduate…

Although individuals with intellectual disability need sex education, little is known about the instructional practices of sex educators. To fill this gap and explore how instruction is appropriate and applicable to individuals with intellectual disability, we interviewed 58 U.S. sex educators about their instruction. Using thematic analysis, we…

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the experiences of Early College High School (ECHS) adjunct instructors teaching dual enrollment college courses in a southern region school district. Through interviews with ten ECHS adjunct instructors, the study examined the factors contributing to their success, their professional…

While educators worldwide are moving towards the universal design for learning, it is also essential to ensure learners are suitably assessed. Assessments and learning profoundly reciprocate one another as assessment may inform the learning practices, and vice versa. Resonating the aforesaid view, PutraPacer was developed as a customizable tool to…

The purpose of this study was to assess the implementation of differentiated instruction using technology within pre-service teacher education programs. Pre-service teachers were presented with a survey prior to entering the professional development workshop on differentiating instruction through technology. Through the pre-survey data, the…

The aim of this study is to examine if differentiated instruction benefits the mathematical thinking process of gifted and talented students in Malaysia. Differentiated instruction is a student-centered technique in which instructors act as facilitators. It is doubtful, however, if differentiated instruction has a beneficial effect on the overall…

Engaging preclinical medical students in the curriculum is challenging. To address this challenge, the investigators developed and implemented self-paced polling with recorded lectures, in which students answered audience response questions at their own pace. In 2021, we retrospectively assigned second-year medical students (N = 165) as Active or…

The teaching of fundamental movement skills (FMS) such as catching, throwing, running, jumping and rolling is widely accepted as the cornerstone of physical education in the primary school. However, there is limited debate about the use of different pedagogical approaches when teaching FMS. In this article, advice is offered for teachers vis-à-vis…

This action research aimed to evaluate the impact of personalized reading plans on first-grade students' reading engagement and comprehension. Personalized reading plans were created for each student based on their interests and reading abilities within an e-book library. Qualitative and quantitative data were gathered from 10 first-grade students…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to build a personalized learning intervention system, which can support students' personalized learning, improve teachers' teaching efficiency and students' learning effect. Design/methodology/approach: The research proposes a personalized learning intervention method based on a collaborative filtering…

This study investigated how 46 pre-service teachers (PSTs) planned for differentiation of instruction in mathematics. Content analysis was utilized to explore the differentiation strategies included and student characteristics considered in PST plans and how PSTs used differentiation strategies and student characteristics to differentiate lesson…

This study examined the contribution of teachers' engagement in collaborative professional learning, engagement in individualized professional learning, and job satisfaction to their professional capital development using structural equation modeling. The study tested three hypotheses: teachers' level of engagement in collaborative professional…

The purpose of this study was to examine teacher educators' self-efficacy and perceived practices of differentiated instruction in Ethiopian primary teacher education programs. To this end, a mixed research approach was employed. As research participant, 400 instructors who had been teaching in teacher education colleges of Amhara regional state…