Purpose: The purpose of this research is to assess the impact of the synchronous online teaching strategy on higher degree research students, particularly those dealing with isolation. The aim is to enhance their coping mechanisms and writing productivity, fostering a supportive learning environment. Design/methodology/approach: This study…

Objectives: People who stutter (PWS) experience stigma-based health inequalities that can negatively impact their quality of life. Yet, few interventions in the literature are explicitly designed to address these systemic disparities. The Responsible Innovation in Health (RIH) framework offers a promising foundation for developing health…

Educator attention is critical for student success, yet how educators distribute their attention across students remains poorly understood due to data and methodological constraints. This study presents the first large-scale computational analysis of educator attention patterns, leveraging over 1 million educator utterances from virtual group…

This study investigates the efficacy of artificial intelligence in facilitating networked learning that aids educators in creating inclusive and academically responsible learning environments in Indian English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classrooms. Designed as a qualitative case study, the intervention involves twenty participants from an…

This study examined school outness, school climate, and country inclusivity to assess their associations with bias-based bullying and cyberbullying among sexual and gender minority youth (SGMY) in Europe in 2020-2021 (N = 12,764; M[subscript age] = 16.07; 69% female; 43% cisgender girls; 31% bisexual). Outness was positively related to bias-based…

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly influenced substance prevention work, exacerbating existing challenges and providing new opportunities for community-based substance prevention networks (CSPNs). CSPNs are interorganizational networks that include various providers, such as nonprofits and government agencies, that collaborate to provide…

This study investigated the effectiveness of online forum-based collaborative learning versus traditional instructional methods for vocabulary acquisition among English as a foreign language learners. Twenty-one first-year translation and interpreting students participated in a comparative study examining two distinct vocabulary teaching…

Interdisciplinary complex problem-solving relies on psychologically safe teamwork where individuals feel confident to speak up with unique knowledge, or voice dissent. Existing studies on psychological safety (PS) have mainly concentrated on developing diagnostic tools and categorising the antecedents to psychologically safe interactions in…

The lack of preparation among emergent bilinguals (EBs) teachers has raised concerns over the past few years, resulting in professional development (PD) explicitly geared toward teachers of EBs. This paper presents a study that used data from a larger randomized controlled trial study intended to provide virtual professional development (VPD) and…

Background: The World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) is a global non-statutory, not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation that announced a recognition programme for regulatory agencies in 2010, responding to an accreditation policy by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) in the US. While WFME's role has…

Intercultural contact (IC), affording interactions between individuals from different cultures, should be an accessible goal in promoting intercultural (communicative) competence (ICC) in additional language learning context. IC happened either directly through in-person interaction or indirectly through exposure to cultural elements such as…

This study examines how peer evaluation functions in global virtual teams, a setting that reflects the collaborative demands of contemporary international business education. The authors tested whether peer evaluation subscales, total peer-report score, and various indicators of team diversity predict team performance, assessed by instructors in a…

Critical media literacy needs to be seen as a central component of language teacher education, especially in the postdigital age. One underexplored dimension, however, is digital assessment literacy and in particular digital feedback literacy (Schluer, 2022a). Even though recent years witnessed a proliferation of digital technologies for feedback…

The use of serious games has been shown to be effective in different subjects of primary education, but they can also help in tackling bullying. A serious game on this subject aimed at primary school students has been developed using RPG Maker software. These resources should be designed considering usability, so that any of their users (teachers…

This account of practice offers practical examples of the use of reflective journaling and WhatsApping as part of a novice action learner's practice on her undergraduate degree programme. The action learning set was part of a degree apprentices programme which required the first author to complete a work-based learning module involving the…