While online teaching involves a range of contemporary digital tools, there are strong indicators for an ongoing place for video in a new digital learning world. For example, the use of video during the pandemic, to urgently translate on-campus lectures to online content, refocussed the argument on the role of video into the next phase of digital…

This study, aimed to determine how teachers' technostress levels changed during the COVID-19 outbreak. Within the scope of the study, data were collected from a total of 599 teachers, including 295 teachers before the COVID-19 outbreak and 304 teachers after the beginning of the outbreak. The Teachers' Technostress Levels Defining Scale developed…

Digital technologies are becoming more embedded and prevalent in everyday life. One leading technology, Virtual Reality (VR), is well-positioned to extend its impact past the gaming industry and move deeper into education, particularly in university settings. Embracing digital technologies is essential in keeping marketing education relevant.…

Educational technologies have the potential to expand access to education to a wider range of people, including those currently without access to high-quality learning opportunities. However, this promise is largely unfulfilled (see S. Protopsaltis and S. Baum, "Does online education live up to its promise? A look at the evidence and…

This chapter outlines the use of interactive textbooks or tutorials in the form of iBooks that were developed as a major output of the proPIC project. All of these iBooks can also be retrieved on the accompanying project website. Interactive textbooks or tutorials are documents, software, or other media digitally created for the purpose of…

The study aims to evaluate how distance social studies courses were conducted during the pandemic, in line with teachers' experiences. The semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 social studies teachers working in various provinces of Turkey in this study, which was carried out with interpretative phenomenology design, one of the…

The purpose of this study was to measure teacher self-efficacy--that is, teachers' confidence in implementing one-to-one learning with Chromebooks and creating engaging lessons--to discover what training and/or materials, if any, are required to successfully implement a one-to-one Chromebook program at a middle school in Dutchess County, New York.…

In recent years there has been an increased push for K-12 computer science education. A major reason for this push is the growing evidence that introducing young children to coding can enhance their interest and promote their learning of foundational skills needed to thrive in today's technologically rich world. However, little research has…

This paper examines the impact of self-directed pronunciation practice using "Google Translate" (GT) on the acquisition of French liaison (the production of latent consonants when they appear in consonant-vowel contexts across words: /z/ in le/za/mis 'the friends'). Second-language (L2) French learners completed homework activities on GT…

This paper deals with a solution allowing digital universities to extend the functionalities of their distance learning platform to offer a secure solution for the dematerialization of assessments. Currently we are witnessing the rise of digital universities, this is the case in Africa, particularly in Senegal. We are witnessing strong growth in…

This dissertation details a qualitative case study regarding building-based leadership in schools with established 1:1 technology programs of 3 or more years in length. The researcher reviewed relevant literature. For the study, the researcher administered a screening survey to teachers in Southwestern Pennsylvania to identify 1:1 programs meeting…

It is not uncommon for teachers to feel neglected when leaving a traditional one-and-done professional development workshop. Too often teachers are left to fend for themselves as they begin to implement new strategies into their teaching. Teachers need and deserve continued support as they attempt to carry out the lessons learned in these…

The field of instructional technology coaching is still relatively new, consequently there is little research on the topic (Desimone & Pak, 2017). The purpose of this inquiry was to explore the use of instructional technology coaches within one Midwestern region by examining the perspectives of coaches themselves. Data were gathered through…

This dissertation provides an in-depth linguistic description and analysis of the discourse in a target domain of digital games, a domain referred to as "single player offline role-playing games." Gaming discourse from this domain is represented by a 4.8-million-word corpus of spoken and written language extracted from the digital files…

This exploratory case study aimed to understand how the sudden and abrupt transition to distance education due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic of 2020 highlighted the vast differences in levels of readiness for adopting distance education among the public-school districts throughout the State of Connecticut. It explores the reasons behind the…