This study aims to explore the political involvement of Kazakhstani youth prior to and following the tragic events of January 2022 in Kazakhstan. The utilization of social media played a crucial role in mobilizing Kazakh youth during the widespread protest against authoritarian governance in January 2022. The tragic events served as a catalyst,…

The Community E-learning Resource Center (CeLRC) has enabled faculty members and students to have access to the online facility at higher education institutions in collaboration with the Local Government Units (LGUs) and the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Tech4Ed centers available in the area. It specifically…

While Internet of Things (IoT) devices have increased in popularity and usage, their users have become more susceptible to cyber-attacks, thus emphasizing the need to manage the resulting security risks. However, existing works reveal research gaps in IoT security risk management frameworks where the IoT architecture -- building blocks of the…

Self-regulation has been found to be integral to academic learning in traditional classroom environments. Social cognition theory highlights the significant relationships between academic self-efficacy, internet self-efficacy, and work experience in years on self-regulation in the context of traditional classroom learning. However, there is a…

This paper investigated the awareness and use of Web 2.0 tools by students at BA ISAGO University, Botswana. Structured questionnaires were used to collect data from the targeted respondents. The results revealed that students are quite familiar with most Web 2.0 tools, such as Facebook, Twitter, media sharing tools, Google Drive, and instant…

As literacy and reading evolve, it is important to identify and describe the strategies and skills used in constructing meaning. This study examines online multimodal reading (OMR) strategies: those used in constructing meaning from multimodal information sources (e.g., images, audio, written words) on the Internet. Participants read online…

Advancements in internet technology have fundamentally changed how companies conduct their business activities, leading us into a business analytics (BA) era. In this article, the authors aim to investigate factors that could shape students' career choice considerations toward BA jobs after they have been exposed to BA course content in an…

As digital technologies increase in their capacity to generate, display, and disseminate visual materials via spaces like social media, there is a need for pedagogical practices that support meaning making with visual texts. The purpose of this paper is to present a pedagogical framework for teaching visual literacies with social media memes using…

This study investigates the impact of transnationalism on Chinese international graduate students' literacy practices in online information seeking. Using phenomenological interviewing, weekly diaries, and focus group data, the study found that these students actively engage in recursive, dynamic, and flexible online information-seeking literacy…

Objective: Uptake, adherence, and dropout rates for Internet-based programs for depression are in need of improvement. Excessive user burden (eg, heavy content, extended duration) may undermine engagement and precipitate dropout. To address this problem, an alternative format was proposed: Brief Interactive Training Sessions (BITS). BITS target a…

Since the beginning of the global pandemic in early 2020, online learning has largely replaced face-to-face learning worldwide. In Jordan, online learning has been implemented using various online tools and platforms. The purpose of the present study was to ascertain the attitudes of 579 undergraduate students in Jordan toward online learning,…

Access to technology and devices is necessary to deliver high-quality learning experiences. Schools and students that don't have access are at a disadvantage. But giving all students access isn't as easy as it seems. Competing budgetary priorities, uncertainty about the most effective products and services and other constraints make it difficult…

School rating websites are increasingly used by parents to assess the quality and fit of U.S. K-12 schools for their children. These online reviews often contain detailed descriptions of a school's strengths and weaknesses, which both reflect and inform perceptions of a school. Existing work on these text reviews has focused on finding words or…

Rapid technological advancements have fueled the need for the integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) into education systems worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic's impact on education prompted a shift towards remote distance learning, exposing significant vulnerabilities within the system while creating a digital divide. This…

This study investigates and compares the quality of Google-translated texts (GTTs) across writing genres (narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive) with EFL student--generated texts (SGTs), and explores students' attitudes toward Google Translate (GT) output. In a mixed-methods design with a computational approach to text analysis, this…