Several learning technologies have been explored in higher education around the world. Learning has become more mobile, massive, open, flexible, blended, informal, audio-visual based, highly collaborative, and activity driven. While the traditional classroom still exists, it is being challenged. Increasingly checking emails in front of a PC or…

Background: Mindfulness can help college students with key challenges they face relating to weight gain and stress-induced emotional eating and binge eating. Little is presently known about the extent to which students are aware of mindfulness, their conceptualization and understanding of it, and the barriers as well as the facilitators of…

This study investigated teachers' conceptions of technology integration into their teaching from two renowned technical and vocational education (TVE) institutes in New South Wales, Australia. Thirteen teachers were interviewed using qualitative techniques informed by the phenomenographic approach. The analysis of the data revealed that TVE…

In preparing pre-service teachers for their professional practice in the information age, we need to impress upon them that the children in their classrooms will be Digital Natives, with skills for digital fluency rather than skills in the orthodoxy 3Rs developed with talk, chalk and board; paper, pencil and pen. Since most of our pre-service…