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Lauren Margulieux; James Prather; Masoumeh Rahimi – Educational Psychology Review, 2025
Failure can be an effective tool for learning, but it comes with negative consequences. Educators and learners should practice strategies that leverage the benefits of failure while managing its negative consequences on learners' motivation and persistence. Towards that goal, this paper examines the biological effects of failure on learning to (1)…
Descriptors: Biology, Failure, Learning Processes, Priming
Moström Åberg, Marie – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
The need of being able to foster transformative learning (TL) has increased due to the demands for continuous development in today's work life. Previous research has proposed six core elements to foster TL; however, in these a process perspective is missing. By using an adaptive approach and inspired by action research, drawing on teachers'…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Context Effect, Prior Learning, Learning Theories
Karmijn van de Oudeweetering; Jeremy Knox; Mathias Decuypere – Learning, Media and Technology, 2024
This paper examines the enactment of feedback in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), focusing on analytics dashboards. Building on scholarship that recognizes data practices as entangled and 'messy', the paper problematizes the model of the feedback loop that assumes that analytics dashboards 'feed back' data to instructors and/or learners…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Learning Analytics, Instructional Design, Student Role
Maguatcher, Jeremie; Hulda, Grace; Ning, Ru – Online Submission, 2022
Since the end of the 20th century, autonomous learning has become a popular research topic in education and has received much attention from researchers. The acquisition of Chinese as a second language requires learners to practice autonomous learning and develop their language learning ability. The present study used the theory of autonomous…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Foreign Countries, Chinese, Second Language Learning
Andrea L. Schuman; Alaa Abdalla; Jennifer Case; David B. Knight – Chemical Engineering Education, 2025
Study abroad attempts to prepare students to effectively work in a multi-national environment. This study compares students' experiences in a unit operations laboratory course offered in multiple modalities: at students' home university, and four- and eight-week study abroad. The results examine the impact of support on students' learning and…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Program Length, Comparative Analysis, Educational Experience
Heuchemer, Sylvia; Martins, Elena; Szczyrba, Birgit – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2020
Innovative teaching concepts such as problem-based learning (PBL) can make a difference in an academic setting, particularly when dealing with diversity, and support the successful completion of students' studies. Introducing new approaches to teaching requires the professionalization of the teaching staff and the development of new tools. As a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Problem Based Learning, College Faculty, College Students
Rajbhandari, Mani Man Singh – Online Submission, 2018
Theoractive learning is an essential ingredient that can complement various academic theories, making them easier to apply to a learning environment. Although it appears that theoractive learning is the effect of the beneficial causes of teaching and learning in certain contextual settings; theoractive learning is, however, actions-oriented and…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Learning Theories, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries
Bintoro, Henry Suryo; Sukestiyarno, Y. L.; Mulyono; Walid – European Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Spatial thinking has roles to facilitate learners to remember, understand, reason, and communicate objects and the connections among objects that are represented in space. This research aims to analyze the spatial thinking process of students in constructing new knowledge seen from the field-independent cognitive style learners based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spatial Ability, Thinking Skills, Cognitive Processes
Su, Huanan; Ma, Fengyi – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2021
This paper aims to further understand the future development of literacy theory and language learning in contemporary Chinese universities through the research on the current situation of EFL students' literacy in Chinese universities and the teaching characteristics of contemporary Chinese teachers. In this study, literature analysis method,…
Descriptors: Literacy, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Curran, Andy; Seo, Kay K. – American Journal of Distance Education, 2018
Sound effects and music can be used to complement instructional narrations in recorded media presentations. College students (n = 143) participated in a study examining the effects of music and sound effects on learning outcomes when compared to voice-only narration. Four groups of participants listened to a recorded short story and answered…
Descriptors: College Students, Multimedia Instruction, Multimedia Materials, Acoustics
Hui, Yan Keung; Li, Chen; Qian, Sheng; Kwok, Lam For – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2019
In educational psychology, the theories of interest and self-determination have been well studied to find the relationships between learning attitudes and learning outcomes. However, the instructional design and the learning behaviors are the two missing elements which have not been fully investigated in the learning process. Therefore, we…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Interests, Blended Learning, Self Determination
Beyersmann, Elisabeth; Wegener, Signy; Nation, Kate; Prokupzcuk, Ayako; Wang, Hua-Chen; Castles, Anne – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
It is well known that information from spoken language is integrated into reading processes, but the nature of these links and how they are acquired is less well understood. Recent evidence has suggested that predictions about the written form of newly learned spoken words are already generated prior to print exposure. We extend this work to…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Morphology (Languages), Morphemes, Reading Processes
Stegall, Jennifer – Journal of International Students, 2021
This qualitative phenomenological study examined how 11 international students experienced learning English within an intensive English immersion program, which used an integrated skills approach for language learning. Participants included seven males and four females from Africa, Asia, Central America, Middle East, and South America. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Foreign Students, Immersion Programs, English (Second Language)
Wang, Junhua – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2019
In the field of intercultural business and technical communication, intercultural communication has been a regular topic in curriculum for decades; various teaching approaches exist for developing students' cultural awareness and helping them achieve a theoretical understanding about the concept of culture, cultural differences, and cultural…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Business Communication, Teaching Methods, Cultural Awareness
Pennings, Mark; Cushing, Debra Flanders; Gomez, Rafael; Dyson, Clare; Coombs, Courtney – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2019
International short-term study tours are a fast-growing format for outbound education and provide exciting experiential learning opportunities for students in the creative industries disciplines. This success has encouraged researchers to seek a comprehensive view of the various concrete experiences that contribute to student learning during study…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Design, Creativity, Learning Processes