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Ahmet Sami Konca; Burcu Izci; Ahmet Simsar – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) has received widespread attention worldwide and technology companies designed educational applications (apps) focusing on STEM. Young children have access to tablets and smartphones and they engage with a variety of apps every day. Prior research showed that young children learn from…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Computer Oriented Programs, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology
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Kim Andreassen; Jordina Quain; Emily Castell – Health Education Journal, 2024
Background: The pathologisation of people with disability1 has long affected the educational quality of the sexuality education they receive. Whilst concern for people with disability has been growing in some comprehensive sexuality education settings, the quality of education in these spaces is variable and typically accommodations for people…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Sex Education, Equal Education, Access to Education
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Tan, Sema – Gifted Education International, 2022
During the school closure in the COVID-19 pandemic, students with special needs including gifted students faced many challenges in terms of educational support. The Turkish Ministry of National Education released a mobile app named "I am special, I am in education" to overcome these challenges. This study aimed to explore how gifted…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Academically Gifted, Gifted Education
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Ekoç, Arzu – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2021
Mobile language learning applications have changed how language is learned and have opened new windows for potential learners. At the convenience of our time, place, comfort and pace, we can learn or revise a language through our mobile gadgets. From the reviewed literature, it is evident that more data is needed to understand the users' views…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Computer Oriented Programs
Pelletier, Kathe; Robert, Jenay; Muscanell, Nicole; McCormack, Mark; Reeves, Jamie; Arbino, Nichole; Grajek, Susan – EDUCAUSE, 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm, with new AI-powered tools such as ChatGPT opening up new opportunities in higher education for content creation, communication, and learning, while also raising new concerns about the misuses and overreach of technology. Our shared humanity has also become a key focal point within higher…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Trends, Higher Education
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Koomson, William K. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
The purpose for this study was to add to the body of research and to further examine how mobile learning can help remedy the limitations e-learning poses for students who live in Ghana with lack of access to electrical power and internet connectivity issues. Qualitative approach was employed with a total sample size of 807 students, composed of 58…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Mediated Communication
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Bell, Adam Patrick; Bonin, David; Pethrick, Helen; Antwi-Nsiah, Amanda; Matterson, Brent – International Journal of Music Education, 2020
The purpose of our study was to examine how hacking -- as discussed and displayed by participants of Monthly Music Hackathon NYC -- could inform making music education practices more accessible and inclusive, if at all, for people with disabilities. Free and open to the public, Monthly Music Hackathon NYC hosts non-competitive community-based…
Descriptors: Music Education, Students with Disabilities, Access to Education, Community Programs
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Yu, Eunjyu – Journal of Educators Online, 2020
This article identifies factors that help Generation Z students succeed in a fully online learning environment for communication skills. Out of a diverse number of learner characteristics, the learners' home institutions significantly impacted their preference for instructional delivery modality. The participants described a flexible schedule and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Age Groups, Online Courses, Blended Learning
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Amanda Bastoni; Jayson Seaman; Andrew D. Coppens; Cindy L. Hartman – Connected Science Learning, 2024
This article describes methods and findings from a study focused on youth living in rural communities in northern New Hampshire who struggle with accessing STEM learning opportunities because of economic underinvestment and geographical isolation. These challenges also negatively impact researchers hoping to learn how rural youth benefit from…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Informal Education, STEM Education, Citizen Participation
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Pierce, Glenn L.; Cleary, Paul F. – Education and Information Technologies, 2016
Historically implementing, maintaining and managing educational technology has been difficult for K-12 educational systems. Consequently, opportunities for significant advances in K-12 education have often gone unrealized. With the maturation of Internet delivered services along with K-12 institutional trends, educational technologies are poised…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Technology, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Change
Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2018
Higher education has long been viewed as a social elevator. The path to a higher education credential, however, is complicated for students from low-income and/or minoritized communities. This report provides a snapshot of digital tools designed to help students with college exploration, college admissions, and financial planning. To set the…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Higher Education, Access to Education, Low Income Students
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Qian, Kan, Ed.; Bax, Stephen, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2017
With the rise of the internet and new communication technologies, language learning has moved beyond the classroom walls. This volume presents a range of important studies on innovative ways for learning languages outside the classroom. Chapters discuss MOOCs in the UK, Belgium, China, and Italy for studying a range of languages, research on new…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Yan, Gongjun; Rawat, Danda B.; Shi, Hui; Alnusair, Awny – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2014
Online courses provide students flexible access to class at anytime and anywhere. Most online courses currently rely on computer-based delivery. However, computers still burden instructors and students with limited mobility and flexibility. To provide more convenient access to online courses, smartphones have been increasingly adopted as a mobile…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Computer Oriented Programs
Pasnik, Shelley; Moorthy, Savitha; Hupert, Naomi; Llorente, Carlin; Silander, Megan; Dominguez, Ximena – Education Development Center, Inc., 2015
The study presented here addresses the question of how time spent viewing and playing with PBS KIDS educational, non-commercial media at home, in family settings, can foster positive outcomes for children and parents/caregivers. The study focused on PEG+CAT, a first-generation transmedia program designed to promote children's mathematics and…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Mathematics Skills, Access to Education, Public Television
Halasz, Ida M. – 1984
This study was conducted to help the staff of the National Academy for Vocational Education at the National Center for Research in Vocational Education to determine what methods of electronic communications technology would be feasible for providing inservice training for vocational educators throughout the country. It was determined that the use…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Audiovisual Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Conferences