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Education & Educational Research
Renee Kaufmann, Jessalyn I. Vallade
Summary: Online learning can be lonely, but connecting with others can help alleviate this loneliness. The study emphasizes the importance of instructors in building and maintaining rapport and a positive climate for students.
INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
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Education & Educational Research
Barry Bai, Jing Wang
Summary: This study explored the role of growth mindset, self-efficacy, and intrinsic value in self-regulated learning and English language learning achievements in Hong Kong primary school students. The findings indicate that different motivational beliefs influence the use of self-regulated learning strategies in different ways. Monitoring and effort regulation significantly contribute to English language learning achievements, while goal setting and planning do not predict English language learning achievements. The study suggests that growth mindset is a stronger predictor of self-regulation than self-efficacy and intrinsic value.
LANGUAGE TEACHING RESEARCH
(2023)
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Education & Educational Research
Ming-Puu Chen, Li-Chun Wang, Di Zou, Shu-Yuan Lin, Haoran Xie, Chin-Chung Tsai
Summary: This study explored the effects of augmented reality (AR) enhanced theme-based contextualized learning on junior high school students' English learning effectiveness, motivation, and attitude. The results showed that captions did not impact knowledge comprehension, but English proficiency played a significant role. Higher proficiency learners performed equally under different caption conditions. Overall, students demonstrated positive motivation towards AR-enhanced contextualized learning, with higher proficiency learners being more motivated.
COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING
(2022)
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Education & Educational Research
Justine Ferrer, Allison Ringer, Kerrie Saville, Melissa Parris, Kia Kashi
Summary: The design of online learning environments can influence students' learning experiences and play an important role in enhancing motivation and educational engagement. However, attitude toward online learning does not affect the relationship between intrinsic motivation and engagement.
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Education & Educational Research
Wendy C. Birmingham, Lori L. Wadsworth, Jane H. Lassetter, Tyler C. Graff, Evelyn Lauren, Man Hung
Summary: This study investigates the psychological, physiological, academic, and financial responses of college students to the COVID-19 induced campus shutdown and reopening. Findings indicate that students experienced stress, depression, loneliness, lack of motivation, difficulty focusing on schoolwork, restless sleep, appetite changes, job loss concerns, and difficulties coping. Most students expressed a desire to return to campus and believed in the effectiveness of social distancing, while opinions on testing and mask-wearing varied.
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN COLLEGE HEALTH
(2023)
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Education & Educational Research
Troy Heffernan
Summary: This paper highlights how student evaluations of courses and teaching can be influenced by racist, sexist, and homophobic prejudices, as well as biases against certain disciplines and subject areas. The evaluations may lead to stress and anxiety for the educators being assessed, and can impact hiring, firing, and promotional decisions in the education sector.
ASSESSMENT & EVALUATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION
(2022)
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Education & Educational Research
Valeria Varea, G. Gonzalez-Calvo, A. Garcia-Monge
Summary: This study explores the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on physical education (PE) and pre-service teachers. The findings suggest that pre-service teachers struggle to adapt to the new PE arrangement, leading to feelings of precarity, fear, and insecurity. The shift in PE also alters the pedagogical affects, particularly in terms of physical encounters with students.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORT PEDAGOGY
(2022)
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Education & Educational Research
Ahmed Tlili, Ronghuai Huang, Boulus Shehata, Dejian Liu, Jialu Zhao, Ahmed Hosny Saleh Metwally, Huanhuan Wang, Mouna Denden, Aras Bozkurt, Lik-Hang Lee, Dogus Beyoglu, Fahriye Altinay, Ramesh C. Sharma, Zehra Altinay, Zhisheng Li, Jiahao Liu, Faizan Ahmad, Ying Hu, Soheil Salha, Mourad Abed, Daniel Burgos
Summary: This study conducts a systematic literature review of the Metaverse in education, revealing the research trends, focus, and limitations. Findings show a research gap in lifelogging applications in educational Metaverse and a generational difference in the design of Metaverse. Additionally, there are few studies on mobile learning, hybrid learning, and micro learning, and no studies focused on using the Metaverse in education for students with disabilities.
SMART LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
(2022)
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Education & Educational Research
Tzu-Yu Tai, Howard Hao-Jan Chen, Graeme Todd
Summary: VR technology can provide learners with simulated, immersive, and interactive virtual environments for authentic learning activities. This study examines the effect of VR via mobile-rendered HMDs on EFL learners' vocabulary learning. The results show that mobile VR significantly improves vocabulary learning and retention compared to videos. VR-mediated vocabulary learning is found to be motivating and beneficial, contextualizing vocabulary in virtual environments with multimodal support and real-time interactivity.
COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING
(2022)
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Education & Educational Research
Mariusz Kruk
Summary: This study examines the effects of Second Life on English students' willingness to communicate, motivation, language anxiety, and boredom. The data analysis suggests that these variables undergo changes during the visits, influenced by various factors.
COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING
(2022)
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Education & Educational Research
Da Tao, Pei Fu, Yunhui Wang, Tingru Zhang, Xingda Qu
Summary: This study investigated the impact of MOOC characteristics on user acceptance through a self-reported questionnaire completed by 668 college students. The results showed that usability and perceived quality had a strong indirect impact on behavioral intention and perceived effective use through the mediators of perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and perceived enjoyment.
INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
(2022)
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Education & Educational Research
Bianka Malecka, David Boud, David Carless
Summary: The development of student feedback literacy has the potential to address issues in current feedback practices. This paper discusses three key mechanisms for embedding feedback literacy within the curriculum, including eliciting, processing, and enacting, and illustrates them through enhanced variations of existing practices. Further empirical and longitudinal research is needed to investigate how students elicit, process, and enact feedback in different contexts and how curriculum design impacts the development of student feedback literacy.
TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
(2022)
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Education & Educational Research
Thomas K. F. Chiu
Summary: This qualitative study used self-determination theory (SDT) as a framework to examine K-12 student engagement and disengagement in online learning. The findings suggest that online learning environments that promote autonomy are more likely to engage students cognitively and foster lifelong skills, while environments lacking emotional attachment, equipment and resources, and where students perceive digital incompetence and ineffective learning experience, suppress cognitive and emotional engagement.
INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
(2023)
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Education & Educational Research
Amir Ashrafi, Ahad Zareravasan, Sogol Rabiee Savoji, Masoumeh Amani
Summary: In the last few decades, universities and higher education institutes have widely adopted learning management systems (LMS) for electronic learning and teaching. However, most research has focused on initial acceptance of LMS, and few studies have examined factors influencing students' intention to continue using LMS. This study proposes an integrated model to investigate these factors and finds that perceived usefulness is the strongest predictor of continuance intention, while attitudes and satisfaction have no significant influence.
INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
(2022)
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Education & Educational Research
Timmy H. Tseng, Shinjeng Lin, Yi-Shun Wang, Hui-Xuan Liu
Summary: This research paper aims to investigate the drivers of teachers' acceptance and use of MOOCs from the perspective of the extended unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT2). The findings reveal that performance expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, and price value facilitate teachers' behavioral intention to adopt MOOCs.
INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
(2022)
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Education & Educational Research
Ching-Yi Chang, Han-Yu Sung, Jong-Long Guo, Bieng-Yi Chang, Fan-Ray Kuo
Summary: This study presents an exploratory research using SVVR technology embedded with social learning theory for childbirth education training and compares the learning performances of nursing students in SVVR classroom learning and traditional instruction. The experimental results indicate that SVVR can enhance nursing students' learning motivation and satisfaction, showing its potential for improving childbirth education.
INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
(2022)
Review
Education & Educational Research
Jose Maria Fernandez-Batanero, Marta Montenegro-Rueda, Jose Fernandez-Cerero, Inmaculada Garcia-Martinez
Summary: Information and Communication Technologies have played a significant role in improving quality of life, but their potential in education is still developing. This study provides a systematic review of the literature on digital competencies and teacher professional development, identifying research trends and potential directions for future studies. The findings highlight the lack of teacher training and insufficient ICT training as challenges in this field.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF TEACHER EDUCATION
(2022)
Review
Education & Educational Research
Bokolo Anthony, Adzhar Kamaludin, Awanis Romli, Anis Farihan Mat Raffei, Danakorn Nincarean A. L. Eh Phon, Aziman Abdullah, Gan Leong Ming
Summary: This study systematically reviews and analyzes 94 research articles on blended learning (BL) published from 2004 to 2020, aiming to provide insights into the theoretical foundation of BL adoption and implementation in higher education. The findings identify the constructs and factors influencing the adoption of BL by students, lecturers, and administration, as well as the practices involved in BL implementation.
TECHNOLOGY KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING
(2022)
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Education & Educational Research
Hannu Savolainen, Olli-Pekka Malinen, Susanne Schwab
Summary: The study found that teachers' self-efficacy beliefs have a positive impact on attitudes, with this relationship existing among both male and female respondents, as well as novice and expert teachers. Strengthening teachers' efficacy for inclusive practices is likely to change their attitudes towards a positive direction.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
(2022)
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Education & Educational Research
Sarah Mercer
Summary: The teaching profession, including language teaching, is highly stressful with high rates of burnout and attrition. This study focuses on the wellbeing of English language teachers working in the private sector in Malta, revealing the influence of the business model and working conditions on their wellbeing. Positive aspects such as enjoyment of teaching and positive relationships with colleagues and students are also highlighted.
LANGUAGE TEACHING RESEARCH
(2023)
