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Althubaiti, Alaa – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2021
Today, most medical research depends on statistics, and interpreting these is crucial as the world tries to improve health outcomes. Medical students are at the front line in this effort but many have negative attitudes toward statistics. To assess this and offer recommendations, this study evaluates the attitudes of medical students in Riyadh,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Student Attitudes, Medical Research
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Stamov Roßnagel, Christian; Fitzallen, Noleine; Lo Baido, Katrin – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
The constructive alignment (CA) of university teaching has received considerable attention from a policy-making perspective, but much less so from a student perspective. Against this background, we explored the relationships between CA and student motivation, and between CA and perceived learning demands. Fifty-six students from two second-year…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Undergraduate Students, Learning Strategies, Difficulty Level
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Qashou, Abeer – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
The tremendous and rapid developments in the information and communications technology sector as well as mobile devices have resulted in modern technologies, one of which is Mobile Learning (M-learning). M-learning is a new technique for learning that helps students to do their educational activities and access the learning materials easily…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Avsec, Stanislav; Savec, Vesna Ferk – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2021
Science and technology (S&T) plays a central role in today's knowledge- and technology-based society. The transfer of S&T from the education system to the economy should be promoted by teachers using innovative behaviour as an important aspect of providing high-quality education. Several studies have found that a mismatch exists between…
Descriptors: Science Education, Technology Education, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers
Chow, Rebeca Isabel – ProQuest LLC, 2019
As higher education continues to integrate technology, the counselor education field has evolved and recognized the importance of graduate students' attitudes towards technology acceptance of a wide array of technology in their training programs (Burt, Gonzalez, Swank, Ascher, & Cunningham, 2011; Kennedy, 2011; Orr, 2011; Sabella, Poynton,…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Graduate Students, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Weerathunga, Prageeth Roshan; Samarathunga, W. H. M. S.; Rathnayake, H. N.; Agampodi, S. B.; Nurunnabi, Mohammad; Madhunimasha, M. M. S. C. – Education Sciences, 2021
This study examined the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and related events on the use of e-learning, as well as other key determinants of it. The data were collected from 1039 university students in Sri Lanka. To examine the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, which was viewed through the lens of precipitating events, on the intention--behaviour…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
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Zhao, Shu; Kinshuk; Yao, Ying; Ya, Nan – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
Mobile social media are increasingly being used in education. They provide an effective way to address the imbalance between teaching supply and demand for older adults. However, few studies have investigated which factors contribute to older adults' intention to use mobile social media for learning. This study uses a sequential explanatory mixed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Tawafak, Ragad M.; Alfarsi, Ghaliya; Jabbar, Jasiya – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2021
With restrictions on face-to-face clinical consultations within the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges faced by healthcare systems in delivering patient care, alternative information technologies like telemedicine and smartphones play a crucial role. A wide variety of smartphone applications employs high-tech mathematical and programming…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
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Shekhar, Prateek; Borrego, Maura; DeMonbrun, Matt; Finelli, Cynthia; Crockett, Caroline; Nguyen, Kevin – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2020
Recent research has supported the use of student-centered teaching practices, such as active learning, because of its effectiveness in improving student learning and retention when compared with traditional, lecture-based teaching practices. Despite evidence supporting the effectiveness of active learning in improving STEM undergraduate education,…
Descriptors: Negative Attitudes, Student Reaction, Active Learning, STEM Education
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Quaid, Ethan Douglas; Pack, Austin; Barrett, Alex James; Zhou, Litong – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This short paper reports the findings of a study exploring English for Academic Purposes (EAP) students' behavioral intention to use a high-immersion Virtual Reality (VR) system for learning paragraph structure. The study measured relationships between variables that may lead to learners' intention to use the high-immersion VR Reality system…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Computer Simulation, Student Attitudes, Intention
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Teoh, Ai Ping; Tan, Yen Shi – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2020
This study aims to understand factors that affect the behavioural intention of manufacturing engineers in Malaysia to use e-learning in the workplace. Two hundred usable online questionnaires were collected from respondents who were engineers in Malaysian manufacturing companies. The data were analyzed using SPSS and Smart PLS version 3.2.6.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Manufacturing Industry, Behavior, Intention
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Baki, Rahmi; Birgoren, Burak; Aktepe, Adnan – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2018
The full potential of e-learning, a trend that is of growing importance lately, will not be reaped unless the users fully utilize the system, triggering extensive research to be conducted in order to provide valuable insight on a myriad of variables influencing user acceptance in e-learning systems. The main purpose of the study is to determine…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Value Judgment, Difficulty Level