Digital stories play an important role in the rapidly evolving digital world. These stories, which are digitally reimagined copies of classic stories, use textual, auditory, and visual cues to try to influence the audience. Images, movies, animations, sound effects, and music are examples of these components. Interactive elements in digital…

With growing research attention in artificial intelligence in education (AIED), there is a profusion of systematic reviews that have investigated AI integration in a wide variety of educational contexts, including PreK-12 schools and higher education. Even though existing systematic reviews have explored effects of AI on education, few studies…

Multimedia-based education focuses on utilizing various digital media elements, such as text, images, sound, video, and animation in learning material. In this second-order meta-analysis, 14 first-order meta-analyses were included to investigate the effect of multimedia-based education on learning outcomes. In addition, moderator analyses were…

Playful learning has immense potential and relevance across all educational levels, from early childhood to university settings. However, play is often dismissed as an activity reserved only for young children and is ignored in higher education The purpose of this practitioner article is to share instructional strategies and insights in order to…

Scientific journals play a critical role in disseminating knowledge, and staying up to date with research findings in a particular field can be challenging given the vast number of journals and research topics available. Therefore, there is a need for researchers to occasionally summarize the main research topics in order to help fellow…

This meta-analysis study aimed to comprehensively examine the effect size of STEM practices on the development of students' problem-solving skills. By combining the results of 25 individual studies, the researchers can gain a holistic understanding of the overall impact of STEM approaches. Consequently, these studies were categorized according to…

The Digital Education Accelerator supported 21 digital education solutions over three years, providing structured guidance, expert mentorship, testing, showcasing, and validation opportunities. As part of the European Digital Education Hub, the programme aimed to foster innovation by helping teams refine their solutions, scale their impact, and…

Effective Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) benefit from three interrelated dimensions of learning identified by UNESCO: cognitive, social-emotional and behavioural. The latter two of these are especially relevant to mindful compassion pedagogies, and the purpose of the literature review presented…

Taking a dialogic approach, this edited book engages in analysis and description of dialogic discourse in a number of different educational contexts, from early childhood to tertiary, with an international team of contributors from Australia, Finland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The chapters focus mostly on dialogic face-to-face discourse,…

An unprecedented pandemic caused higher education and P-12 educators reimagining their definition of a classroom, however, it did not change the definition of "Good Teaching". Undoubtedly, moving a course that was designed for face to face and hybrid delivery to a fully online "remote teaching" environment posed certain…

Drawing on a synthesis of foundational and extant Funds of Knowledge (fk) scholarship that traces the framework's theoretical origins and development, this manuscript proposes a unified corpus of six core tenets for fk, as an extension to current theoretical understandings of the framework. These six core tenets are commonly cited individually…

Interest in computational thinking (CT) in the scientific community has increased significantly in the last 4 years, as evidenced by the numerous systematic reviews carried out. However, there is a lack of reviews that update the emerging conceptualization of CT and which also examine the roles of the school curriculum and teachers in the face of…

To increase the number of teachers of colour teaching science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in schools in the United States (US), teacher educators and preschool-to-higher education (P-20) teachers must engage with increasingly multicultural student populations through the practice of "culturally relevant education"…

Computational thinking (CT) is considered a fundamental skill that everyone in the 21st century should have. Game-based learning (GBL) may be used to teach CT, and it's necessary to clarify how to design and implement game-based CT teaching. The literature was systematically searched for empirical studies published between 2011 and 2021.…

This study aims to explore the current structure of curriculum development studies for immigrants and to compile and present academic studies based on determined criteria. In this survey-model-based study, the content analysis method, which is listed among the qualitative research methods, was used for the classification of academic studies. The…