Intelligent conversational agents have been implemented as virtual assistants in mobile applications to facilitate, engage, and interact with users for optimal learning experiences. With 24/7 availability, providing instant and consistent responses, chatbots, as a type of intelligent conversational agent, will help benefit the learning…

The emergence of digital technologies and a more global and digital society has brought about the need to develop and educate in Digital Citizenship, as well as to study how youth are taught to participate and learn citizenship in a digital age. This paper aims to explore the role of digital and socio-civic skills development, as facilitators for…

This study aimed to determine the direct and indirect effects of digital literacy, self-awareness, career planning on student achievement of prospective teachers of education and technical and vocational training (TVET). This type of research is ex post facto with quantitative data. The method used was comparative causal differential with path…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess Japanese university students' readiness for taking e-learning language courses. The focus is placed on students' self-analysis of their abilities to use their smart devices for remote language learning activities. Design/methodology/approach: Japanese university students' readiness for the shift…

Women have a strategic role in managing and exploiting environmental potential. However, women particularly in tourism still face many obstacles in terms of capital resources, transformation and information, as well as the knowledge and skills of managing local potential. Through the action research method, this activity attempted to investigate…

The relationship between the digital literacy levels of Social Studies teacher candidates and their attitudes towards distance education was investigated in this study. In addition, attitudes of teacher candidates towards distance education and their digital literacy levels were compared in terms of gender, year of education and income variables.…

The paper explores possibilities and constraints for adopting Information Communication Technology (ICT) as a pedagogical tool among teachers and students in community secondary schools (CSSs). The study used five CSSs located in rural peripheral in Serengeti District. Simple random and purposive sampling procedures were used to select a sample of…

The purpose of this study is to develop a valid and reliable "Education 4.0 Competency Determination" scale. The study was conducted in two sessions: In the first session, exploratory factor analysis was applied to 308 students, and then a confirmatory factor analysis was applied to another group and conducted with 172 students. As a…

This study assessed tutors' level of ICT competencies and factors that influenced application of ICT-pedagogical competencies in teaching in two Teachers' Colleges. It adopted the level of ICT competencies from the UNESCO ICT-Competence Framework for Teachers. A self-rating questionnaire was used to collect numeric data involving 70 tutors. Two…

The primary objective of the research reported on here was to decide whether a combined framework of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and technological pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK) could be a valid and reliable model to predict Indonesian pre-service science teachers' (PSTs') actual use of technology (AUT) during teaching…

In this research, it is aimed to analyze technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) studies published in the field of primary school teachers and preservice primary school teachers by using thematic content analysis. In this research, 20 articles and 8 dissertations were analyzed by using thematic content analysis method. Each study was…

This study aims to determine the perceptions of pre-service teachers regarding the concept of a "digitally competent teacher" through metaphors. The participants consist of 510 pre-service teachers. According to the findings, metaphors for a digitally competent teacher were classified under three themes: digital competence, pedagogical…

"In the spring of 2020, educational professionals rushed to suddenly and unexpectedly shift to remote teaching in light of the COVID-19 pandemic" (Boltz, Yadav, Dillman & Robertson, 2021). During this time, "Schools and universities had to quickly adapt to a distance learning model…." (Stevens, Stevens, & Grady, 2021)…

Modern cities produce areas of poverty, despite their overall wealth. These pockets of living can exacerbate societal problems, especially because the opposite end of the societal spectrum is often close by. This paper examines an educational initiative in one such district, called Claymore, in the suburbs of outer Sydney. The project deployed a…

This study is aimed at investigating the ethical behaviors performed by students in online classes. It is descriptive qualitative research. Observation and questionnaires as well as informal interviews for lecturers and students are the tools of data collection. 10 lecturers and 66 students participated in this research. Only a small number of…