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Mengjiao Zhang – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The rise of Artificial Intelligence technology has raised concerns about the potential compromise of privacy due to the handling of personal data. Private AI prevents cybercrimes and falsehoods and protects human freedom and trust. While Federated Learning offers a solution by model training across decentralized devices or servers, thereby…
Descriptors: Privacy, Cooperative Learning, Natural Language Processing, Learning Processes
Steven Ullman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Modern Information Technology (IT) infrastructure and open-source software (OSS) have revolutionized our ability to access and process data, enabling us to tackle increasingly complex problems and challenges. While these technologies provide substantial benefits, they often expose users to vulnerabilities that can severely damage individuals and…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Security
Nouf Alghamdi – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study aims to investigate the level of self-efficacy amongst instructors regarding the various components of the TPACK model in their teaching within Saudi Arabia. TPACK represents a viable nexus between technology and educational content, creating successful educational technology integration. Existing research demonstrates a need to study…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
Deborah Anne Irwin – ProQuest LLC, 2022
One-to-one devices provide the opportunity to develop 21st century skills, improve academic learning, access information, and increase student independence. Prior to the one-to-one initiative, device use among the teachers of students with dyslexia had included low-level integration. The administration at this site made the decision to implement a…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Technology Integration, Teacher Attitudes, 21st Century Skills
Jane Asantewaa Appiah-Okyere – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigated the interplay of digital capacity building (skills) and infrastructure (Internet access) in shaping teaching and learning practices in a rural community. Educators in rural areas, especially in developing nations, face difficulties in accessing digital resources and Internet connectivity, which hinder the integration of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Information Technology, Technology Integration, Rural Schools
Ellen Dougherty – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this eight-week study was to analyze how a multi-age primary community utilized the technology available to them from an activity theoretical perspective. In addition, it was aimed at exploring how the technology provided opportunities for second language development. The study relied on Cultural Historical Theory (CHAT) and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sociocultural Patterns, Learning Theories
Stout, Wendy Rose – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this exploratory collective case study is to discover how geospatial education can meet the geospatial workforce needs of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the emerging intelligent web mapping era. Geospatial education uses geographic information systems (GIS) to enable student learning by increasing in-depth spatial analysis and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Case Studies, Labor Force Development, Geographic Information Systems
Idleman, Brandee – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A lack of fundamental information literacy skills for college students can be a barrier to academic success. This study sought to investigate how the availability of asynchronous and mobile-friendly learning modules in Canvas impacts students' information literacy learning and to improve students' information literacy skills at a community college…
Descriptors: Integrated Learning Systems, Information Literacy, Community Colleges, Asynchronous Communication
Dapko, Richard Jason – ProQuest LLC, 2016
In the broad field of education, studies have been done to understand the ways in which adult learning, development, and transformation are fostered in travel contexts. Such studies mainly used the experiential learning and transformational learning theoretical frameworks to look at participants' lived learning experiences from travel. However,…
Descriptors: Travel, Phenomenology, Qualitative Research, Interviews
Ya-Li Wu – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The number of international students who pursue higher education in Western countries, such as the US, increases yearly. Asian international students are a significant proportion of international students from different countries. Numerous researchers have identified various challenges encountered by this group of international students, including…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Foreign Students
Choi, Jung-Min – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The primary concern in current interaction design is focused on how to help users solve problems and achieve goals more easily and efficiently. While users' sufficient knowledge acquisition of operating a product or system is considered important, their acquisition of problem-solving knowledge in the task domain has largely been disregarded. As a…
Descriptors: Photography, Test Results, Investigations, Computer Software
Zhang, Gaoming – ProQuest LLC, 2010
From a learner-as-creator perspective, this study investigates how second language learners use technology, especially computers and the Internet, to construct their language learning environments. This study also attempts to identify factors that affected the frequency of technology by second language learners. Participants were 102 Chinese…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Educational Technology