A growing number of students studying abroad in Asian countries face a common linguistic experience: the language of instruction in the courses they follow is English, which is not the language of the host country and international students whose L1 is neither English nor Korean must thus need to (re)construct their academic and personal…

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into higher education has rapidly transformed the learning environment, with significant implications for pre-service teacher education. AI tools such as adaptive learning platforms and virtual simulations offer opportunities to enhance instructional design and develop essential teaching…

Early sensory differences may cascade into later social-communication difficulties in autism, yet their impacts on broader functional outcomes have remained understudied. This study aimed to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the longitudinal impacts of sensory patterns, including sensory hyperresponsiveness, hyporesponsiveness, and…

This case study began in the first semester of 2013 as part of an integrated English course offered at a public university in Costa Rica. Data were collected at three intervals--2013, 2019, and 2020--to explore the experiences of several professors who taught visually impaired or blind students. The research is grounded in the personal experience…

In 2019, I taught a 10-week online Course for students of a University BA degree. The Course was a conversion of my 4-week 2017 MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), "What and How to teach with Video." The content, expounded with 12 videos, consisted of two fields: "Potent Pedagogic Roles for Video" and "Pedagogic Video…

This study's sought to identify and fix problems with teaching strategies used in engineering courses at a TVET college in South Africa's Mpumalanga area. A Phenomenological, explorative, and descriptive research approach was used to capture the experiences of educators in choosing effective teaching approaches. Convenience sampling was employed…

Background: Strengths-based employment services focused on the abilities of people with intellectual disabilities challenge traditional, deficits-based orientations. Within the presence of hope, which sustains collective effort toward a preferred future, such employment services may stimulate social change. Therefore, the presence of hope was…

This study reports on our exploration of the relationship between racism, campus responses, and the sense of belonging and resource engagement among Students of Color at US community colleges. Using data from the Center for Community College Student Engagement's (CCCSE) 2021 Race/Ethnicity survey, we explored personal and witnessed experiences of…

Crossing from the world of academics into the realm of industry has been chilling for some STEM graduates, including community college students. This work adds to the existing literature on workplace preparedness and pedagogical practices in a sample of students pursuing computer and information sciences at selected community colleges. Using data…

Minimal scholarly attention has focused on the transfer experience of Latinx/a/o students who enroll at private universities. Utilizing multi-methodological qualitative methods (i.e., significant circles and testimonios), this study investigated the transfer receptive culture at private universities during the first year of transfer. Participants…

Online course delivery has increased in prevalence, particularly due to the onset in 2020 of the COVID-19 pandemic. Biomedical engineering laboratory courses pose unique challenges when transitioning to a remote or hybrid space. Here, we describe a novel approach to online lab delivery to improve student learning and engagement in a required…

This paper reports the results of a qualitative study that used in-depth interviews to understand the experiences and perceptions of six pre-service teachers as they engaged in microteaching at a tertiary institution in Hong Kong. Using a framework grounded in dialogism and positioning theory, the study describes the ways in which different…

Disruption to the status quo in education erupted from a worldwide pandemic in 2020. COVID-19 pushed university teaching to emergency online teaching. This disruption intersected with a national and international call for racial justice in the US and internationally. Challenges and new learnings emerged as teacher and learners worked to co-create…

Social work programs are preparing professionals to respond to natural disasters and global pandemics when they arise. However, literature on the learning experiences of students in the social work classroom with synchronous instruction during a natural disaster or global pandemic is limited, as is documentation of the experiences of social work…

Choral conducting is a complex and multi-faceted leader role. Leading music is a particular kind of leadership through the prominence of gestural communication, and it is a ubiquitous phenomenon across a variety of social settings, musical genres, and ensemble types. Despite the variety, colloquial writing as well as academic research implicitly…