Instructors are the most important component for the development of a Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) because of many MOOCs have been developed by instructors and offered free of charge. In this study we examine the benefits of sharing and course design actions during the enforcement of a MOOC. In this study a qualitative research design, case…

This study was carried out to examine the confidence of faculty in providing culturally responsive teaching from both a student and faculty perspective within the helping disciplines of counseling and social work. Researchers hypothesized that students and faculty would report higher percentages of confidence in being part of a culturally…

Scholars of communication, teaching, and learning have been calling for more research on the instructor-student relationship to be studied from an interpersonal perspective. To answer these calls, we conducted a two-step scale development study, first to derive participant-generated responses concerning undergraduate student relational maintenance…

The aim of the article is to present ways of resolving the situations related to cyberbullying and cyberaggression that occur in Polish schools. The research fills a gap (taboo subject) in the means of solving crisis situations related to attacks on teachers that occur online. The qualitative research (online interviews) conducted in Poland at the…

Introduction: Originally, the concept of emotional labor comes from the sociological work of Hochschild (1983. "The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling." Berkeley: The University of California Press). In recent decades, it has also been defined in approaches of a more psychological nature within a variety of professional…

Instructors often provide feedback to their class in multiple ways. One way is through their follow-up behaviors, which are the specific strategies instructors implement after active learning activities. These behaviors could play an important role in student learning as students receive feedback from the instructor. However, there is little…

This article analyses Mexican English teachers' social class-based stereotypes attributed to secondary and preparatory school students. These students are deemed lazy, have no aspirations and come from "hostile" or "backward" environments that allegedly explain their lack of academic engagement and inability to undertake an…

Virtual reality-based teaching training helps to overcome the limitations of traditional microteaching, especially in terms of the authenticity and complexity of simulated teaching scenarios. However, most of the existing related studies focus on the enhancement of trainees' teaching skills and relatively neglect the characteristics of teaching…

While literature exists on the topic of faculty bullying, there is a gap regarding investigating faculty bullying as a gendered problem. There is a need to understand how gender contributes to the "sense-making processes in bullying situations'' as gender inequalities in faculty positions persist, particularly at research-intensive…

Elementary classroom teaching involves complex emotion labour with a wide range of often co-occurring positive and negative emotions. How teachers engage in the executive function of regulating their emotions in the classroom can influence the quality of instruction they provide and promote their own well-being. The objective of this study was to…

Background: Much is known about the positive effects of teachers' self-efficacy on instruction and student outcomes, but the processes underlying these relations are unknown. Aims: We aimed to examine the effects of teacher self-efficacy for student engagement (TSESE) before a lesson on teachers' nonverbal immediacy (NVI) and their enthusiastic…

Background: Teachers' emotions while teaching are associated to how they teach. Prior research has evidenced such associations mostly based on teacher or student ratings of different teaching behaviours. Aims: This study examined the extent to which teachers' self-rated lesson-specific positive and negative emotions are associated with the…

This article aims to identify and discuss the psychological learning environment in conflict situations between teachers and children in Zambian kindergartens. The article is informed by Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 concerning quality education, more specifically target 4a; to "provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective…

In this study, we examined how variables such as the age of faculty members, autism awareness, and readiness to work with individuals with autism predict their attitudes toward individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. This study included 240 faculty members from various faculties. Data were analyzed using stepwise multiple regression analysis.…

We explored the relationship between teachers' perceptions of transformational leadership and organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) in Taiwan's six-year high schools and whether work engagement moderated the relationship between the principal's transformational leadership and teachers' OCB. A total of 310 valid questionnaires were collected…