The onslaught of COVID-19 has fundamentally upended the landscape of learning in universities. Learners from diverse backgrounds were abruptly forced into the sphere of online learning. Therefore, question arises whether learners from different backgrounds or learners' characteristics, together with their learning environment, would impact the…

Online learning provides a variety of benefits to the educational experience, including accessibility and flexibility, but is often limited in terms of peer-to-peer interactions and relationship development. Using media richness theory as a guiding framework, this study extended prior research to determine the impact of using richer channels in a…

Foreign languages have been studied since the beginning of civilization; in the past few decades, there has been increased interest in understanding the role of motivation in learning a foreign language. Less than a quarter of studies on learning languages other than English (LOTE) have studied motivation. The purpose of this quantitative…

Many college students experience poor wellbeing (e.g., loneliness, depression, anxiety, and stress), have low levels of physical activity (PA) engagement, and engage in behaviors that threaten wellbeing. Academic PA and wellness courses can promote not just physical health but assist students in developing sustainable solutions to improve…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how online adjunct nursing faculty describe their experiences overcoming challenges in creating a caring teacher-student relationship throughout the United States. Noddings' Ethic of Care provided the foundation for this study as the theoretical lens that shaped the research…

This research has examined the perspectives of college professors in providing online instruction in higher education. The professors were randomly selected from a four-year university in an urban community in the Midwest. They were of various ages, backgrounds, and different years of experience. They provided answers to questions about providing…

This research study was conducted to explore faith integration and learning practices and its possible effect on student and faculty relationships. The research study utilized a phenomenological approach to collect data. Eighteen students and 10 faculty participated in this study. Participants were asked questions about faith integration and…

This qualitative descriptive study explored the perceptions of students enrolled in online doctoral programs in the United States regarding how they defined and described connectedness as it relates to their online programs. The theoretical foundations of this study were Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory and Bowlby's attachment theory. Two…

This qualitative study will focus on students' views toward their sense of connection and engagement within the postsecondary environment amid the unexpected, forced learning environment which resulted from the COVID-19 Pandemic that caused a global shutdown at the beginning of March 2020. This research is relevant to any college presidents or…

The Dunning-Kruger effect refers to low performing individuals' tendency to overestimate their performance. The metacognitive deficit is thought to be responsible for this inflated self-assessment observed among the low performers. The present study investigated whether the Dunning-Kruger effect occurs in college students during online distance…

In many collegiate level statistics courses, the focus of the learning outcomes is often on the analysis of data after it has been collected. Students are provided with clean data sets from previous studies to practice statistical analysis, but receive little to no application as to the amount of time and effort that goes in to collecting good…

Academic emotions of learners are important for academic achievement. For the online learning platform, it is of great value to gain insight into the academic emotion of the course in appropriate time interval from the platform. We crawled a large number of student comment texts from MOOC, and used deep learning algorithms (BERT models) to perform…

Student engagement is critical for meaningful learning and can be impacted by teaching methods, tools, and course content. Online student engagement continues to be challenging because online classes offer fewer ways to engage with professors, peers, and the university than in-person classes. PlayPosit is a video teaching tool that incorporates…

Higher education institutions provide critical opportunities for students to acquire the skills necessary to enter the STEM workforce and serve as vital partners in the STEM educational-occupational pipeline. It is important that colleges and universities ensure that all undergraduates interested in STEM professions have the opportunity to see…

An online module for final-year master's students has been developed over a 5-year period. The module allows equitable experiences for students studying in person at the University of York, at a university abroad, or undertaking an industrial placement. Distinctively, the module was designed around the use of modern research papers, published by…