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Essel, Harry Barton; Vlachopoulos, Dimitrios; Tachie-Menson, Akosua; Johnson, Esi Eduafua; Baah, Papa Kwame – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2022
Chatbot usage is evolving rapidly in various fields, including higher education. The present study's purpose is to discuss the effect of a virtual teaching assistant (chatbot) that automatically responds to a student's question. A pretest-posttest design was implemented, with the 68 participating undergraduate students being randomly allocated to…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Artificial Intelligence, Teaching Assistants, Undergraduate Students
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Koruga, Nikola; Nainwal, Rohit; Ayisi-Addo, Angela Kyerewaa – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2023
Objective: The purpose of this research was to understand the significant changes and challenges regarding teaching experiences during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis in three universities, one each in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The study provides information on how teachers adapted to online teaching under COVID-19 conditions. Methods: We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Higher Education, Educational Technology
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Thakrar, Jayshree; Zinn, Denise; Wolfenden, Freda – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
The challenges to teacher educators in sub-Saharan Africa are acute. This paper describes how the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) consortium is working within institutional and national policy systems to support school-based teacher professional development. The TESSA consortium (13 African institutions and 5 international…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Consortia, Educational Resources