Even though digital technologies are ubiquitous in education, assessment methods continue to employ traditional assessments even though they are inadequate to provide information about a student's reasoning and conceptual understanding. Digital-based assessment models allow students to demonstrate higher-order skills while integrating digital…

This report aims to take the pulse of each vital element of digital learning and offer steps to recovery through child-centered, equity-driven and innovative solutions, particularly as technologies and digital learning have come center stage since COVID-19. The five interlinked vitals for effective digital learning proposed in this brief are: (1)…

This study intended to analyze IUM Nkurenkuru student's perceptions on the use of e-learning during the COVID-19 lockdown. The study employed a quantitative methodology whose data was collected from a sample of 115 respondents, using the Google form which was sent to students via WhatsApp application. Probabilities value was used to analyze how…

A strong perception of classroom community has been linked to student satisfaction, perceived learning, and persistence. However, there is limited research on classroom community and the use of online tools with English for Academic Purposes (EAP) students, a population that typically has low completion rates. This study builds on the literature…

Learning management systems (LMS) are one of the most used educational technologies in higher education. It has been argued that LMSs have not reached their full potential since most are used for distributing materials, not for improving interaction and communications in classes. To better understand what influences LMS tool use, this study used…

This qualitative case study responds to a significant gap in the literature in the area of gamification for vocabulary study among international students in higher education. It aims to respond to a call for a more in-depth qualitative analysis of gamification techniques on student learning experiences in comparison to the more commonplace…

The purpose of this quantitative correlational-predictive study was to determine if and to what extent the factors of e-learning technology acceptance predict job satisfaction when potentially mediated by learning culture in a population of U.S. salespeople. The theoretical framework is based on a model containing four factors of e-learning…

The integration of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) and multimedia has become a popular area of research in higher education and in the context of English language teaching and learning. The problem addressed in this study was that English as a second language (ESL) teachers encounter barriers and challenges in integrating ICTs and…

Given the increase of secondary students receiving instruction through virtual learning environments in the last two years, research is needed to explore the environmental factors that impact student achievement while learning online. This quantitative study used Strange and Banning's (2015) four types of learning environments, Physical, Human…

Developing students' transferable knowledge is a primary goal of education. In complex domains such as statistics, however, students often develop brittle and inflexible understanding that does not transfer successfully to real world problems or new contexts. This dissertation explores one approach to facilitating students' development of…

Online courses have become an important part of a student's academic career. The variety and number of online course offerings grow each year. Unfortunately, there are a few drawbacks to current online courses, including differences between success rates of general education courses and their face-to-face counterparts. Current research indicates…

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on Shuya University. For a year, the students had to do all their academic work online, which has turned out to be both intellectual and emotional lockdown for them. Now that the students are back at the campus, there has been a significant fall in the students' motivation to study and a rise in…

This report describes how entrepreneurship competence is embedded in vocational education and training (VET) in Latvia. It complements existing knowledge with examples of methods, tools and approaches that can help policy-makers, VET providers and other stakeholders build better entrepreneurial learning ecosystems. The report is based on the pilot…

As Customer Success Manager to an edtech company focused on Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) assessment, it is my job to understand secondary science educators' NGSS assessment needs and design meaningful professional learning experiences accordingly. However, my teaching background is in the elementary grades in a state that did not adopt…

The Global Teaching Institute (GTI) at Tokyo International University (TIU) was founded in 2013 with 10 faculty members and now in 2022 has 55 faculty members. In order to provide students with similar learning opportunities while improving and supplementing their general English vocabulary, the writers of the present paper, decided in phases,…