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More and more educational institutions have been moving towards delivering courses and programs at a distance. Although asynchronous online courses overcome the constraints of time, students feel isolated due to the lack of real-time...
The study explored the development of a valid assessment tool for job negotiation competencies using the Evidence Centered Design framework. It involved the creation of a competency model, evidence models, and task models that guided the...
Problem solving skills have been widely used to achieve desired outcomes in everyday life and professional contexts. To solve a complex problem in a real situation, people need to improve causal reasoning and systems thinking. Causal...
This study is a quantitative, quasi-experimental inquiry into the effectiveness of motivational instructional strategies on undergraduate math students' subject learning. Secondarily, it examines the effects of the motivational...
Learning support has been utilized widely in self-paced learning environments. However, researchers have not yet reached a consensus regarding if the learning support will benefit learning, or how to design learning support so that it...
Teaching thinking skills, the use of cognitive and metacognitive strategies, to enhance literacy and reading comprehension knowledge and skills has been the subject of ongoing work by researchers and educators. There have been...
Productive failure refers to an instructional strategy that tasks students with attempting to solve a complex and/or ill-structured problem prior to instruction about the topic. In their problem-solving attempts, the students are...
Scaffolding is a type of instructional support that helps students to complete a learning task that exceeds their current ability. Scaffolding plays an important role in augmenting other instructional approaches, such as problem-based...
The purpose of this study was to develop, refine, and validate a conceptual model of Group Work Contribution (GWC) explaining how undergraduate students participate in and contribute to group work. In addition, this study intended to...
Nature exposure has been found to alleviate mental fatigue and increase performance on tasks requiring focused attention and working memory. Performance in various sports is impacted by mental fatigue and degree of focused attention....
Learning support with conceptual and/or procedural knowledge for problem solving is a powerful and frequently used approach to help students improve their academic achievement in GBL. The study is warranted in the body of research on how...
The purposes of this study were to investigate the structural relationships among the factors that affect online learners’ satisfaction with the learning experience, and to develop a structural model that explains online learners’...
The study examines faculty-librarian OER partnerships in adopting or developing OERs for faculty’s classes. The courses represent the Psychology, Mathematics, Education and Geography disciplines and range from undergraduate to graduate...
This study explored whether guided reflection using predetermined prompts can enhance preservice teachers' development of technology integration self-efficacy (TISE) beliefs. A quantitative approach and a quasi-experimental, pre- and...
Traditional Instructional Systems Design (ISD) has focused upon measurable learning, but the emerging emphasis on informal methods of learning, combined with powerful mobile computing devices, is turning the spotlight to mobile...
Effects of Different Types of Annotations on College Students' Foreign Language Learning in the Synchronous Multimodal Computer-Mediated Communication Environment
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of different types of annotations on college students’ foreign language learning in the synchronous computer-mediated communication environment. One hundred and forty-seven second year...
Computational thinking (CT) is an analytical thinking approach to solving daily problems by utilizing fundamental concepts of computer science. In the past decade, CT has been regarded as an essential life skill to be taught to everyone, ...
Although blogs have been used in online learning environments with optimistic expectations, the distributed nature of blogs can pose some challenges. Currently, we do not have a robust collection of tested blogging strategies to help...
Use of real, authentic whole tasks in training has been the focus of current instructional theories and practical educational approaches (Merrill, 2002; Reigeluth, 1999; van Merrienboer & Kirschner, 2001). However, teaching authentic...
Motivating learners to participate and interact in online discussions is a challenge faced by many instructors. Despite clear guidelines, learners do not always participate in online discussions and do not meet the expected participation...
The global diffusion of the Internet and the rise in affordable digital electronic devices has exponentially increased the access to culturally authentic materials (Hadley, 2001). Foreign language educators can take advantage of this...
This research investigated the effects of embedding knowledge-check questions in temporal locations within video lectures and their impact on students’ perceptions and performance. The students’ perceptions focused on their views on both...
Computer-based simulations are commonly used to train students when it is exceptionally expensive or very unsafe to practice the skill in the actual situation. Despite the promise of simulative environments, there is an inadequacy in the...
Many secondary students in the United States are struggling to find success in math creating a preparation gap in the U.S. STEM workforce. Based on national and international assessments, little improvement has been made over the past...
Understanding individuals' attitudes towards cybersecurity and their performance of risky cyber behavior is essential to understanding the problem of cybersecurity. Technology cannot protect everyone from every cyber threat. If an...
The study examines how a training workshop on teaching in a recently introduced active learning classroom at Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan) helps faculty participants integrate active learning and shift their teaching to an active...
The purpose of this study was to explore teenagers' use of affinity spaces on social media platforms for self-directed informal learning. This research also examined teenagers' perceptions of the advantages of social media for informal...
My dissertation examined the effect of adaptive prompts in virtual reality (VR) based social skills training on social skills of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In my dissertation, adaptive prompts refer to an instructional...
Virtual reality (VR) has been considered as a promising platform for teacher education or teacher training. While the current literature has reported the benefits of VR, researchers suggest that scaffolding should be provided to make...
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