This article discusses the urgent aspects of online learning didactics. They are comprised of, for instance, organization and methods of organized learning, main principles of actions aimed at practical orientation; their objective is combination of the methods of distance learning, formation of efficient skills of students with social mediation,…

The text seeks to discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the educational sector considering the rise and expansive of a learning-market. The spread of contagion directly affected educational systems across the globe. Remote education emerges as a solution by governments to reduce the consequences of the suspension of classes. The use of…

Restrictions on physical gathering due to COVID-19 has compelled higher education institutions to rapidly embrace digital technologies to support teaching and learning. While logistically, the use of digital technologies offers an obvious solution, attention must be given to these methods' pedagogical appropriateness, mainly how students engage…

Today, the speed of the development of technology has various effects in many areas. In the field of education, some concepts, methods, techniques, theories and models come to the fore with the effect of technology and attract the attention of researchers. One of them is blended learning. Blended learning is a learning process in which both…

Although geometric transformations are functions, few studies have examined students' reasoning about these two important concepts. The purpose of this study was to examine the various ways students reasoned about functions in the context of pre-constructed, dynamic sketches of geometric transformations. We found that, regardless of prior…

Transfer of knowledge to future generations has always been performed by people since existence of early humans. Today, with the developments in technology, education is presented in several ways and through a wide variety of tools such as two- or three-dimensional learning contents, animations, video conference lessons and interactive…

This article reports on a unique collaboration between principal and teacher preparation programs within one college of education at a rural university in southeastern United States. The collaborative project worked to meet both the need of teacher candidates to receive instructional feedback and coaching on their teaching and the need of…

There exists an increasing demand for online education; however, faculty may question the value of online courses as they grapple with making a connection between the face-to-face classroom and the online learning experience. Much research has focused on factors relating to student engagement, although we posit that faculty engagement represents…

The purpose of current study was to investigate the level of students' self-efficacy, specifically the use of Information Communication Technologies and performing academic tasks for online courses. A quantitative descriptive survey was conducted to explore the problem. The participants were selected from two departments (Arts and Computer…

The past 40 years have been characterized by an ongoing shift in the rationale underlying the use of educational technologies -- an earlier emphasis on efficiency and engagement has been overshadowed by a vision centered on educational technologies' capacity to facilitate authentic learning in the inauthentic school context. However, despite its…

In modern higher education, there was a change in the educational paradigm, when the emphasis shifted to the formation of competencies. The goal of the competence approach is to improve the quality of education, which is impossible without the use of educational technologies that guarantee a steady effective result. The priority of teaching…

Developing student agency is a critical aspect of higher education and, in particular, digital education. In this sense, the capacity to understand what constitutes agency in digital contexts of education and evaluate students' digital agency is now crucial. In contrast to traditional approaches to student agency in digital contexts that subsume…

Due to its immersive and interactive nature, 360-degree video is becoming ever more popular. However, little is known about the public's viewpoints and attitudes regarding the use of this emerging technology in educational contexts. This study reviews the research evidence for 360° video, virtual learning environments and social media and presents…

The purpose of this paper is twofold. We first present a methodological framework for the analysis of embodied interaction with technology captured through video recording. The framework brings together a social semiotic approach to multimodality with the philosophical and theoretical roots of embodied cognition. We then demonstrate the…

Conferences are widely recognised as a central component of academic life, providing important opportunities for dissemination of research, professional networking, and extending scholarship. Notwithstanding this, concerns are increasingly voiced around such factors as the environmental and sustainability aspects of conference travel and hosting,…