Over the past few decades, technology-enhanced learning has positioned instructional design as a crucial catalyst for academic innovation within higher education. The emergence and rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) are now reshaping instructional design practices. This review study reveals a rapidly expanding ecosystem of AI tools…

This article examines the integration of task-based learning (TBL) and blended learning in teaching traditional Chinese musical instruments, focusing on how these approaches address limitations in conventional instructional methods. While previous studies have highlighted the theoretical and practical implications of task-based and blended…

In response to rapid technological advancements, higher education institutions face an urgent need for innovative, competency-based learning systems to address workforce development challenges. This research aims to design and validate the competency-based MOOC system architecture using microlearning objects, referred to as the digital MicroLearn…

Persistence and graduation rates for students from low-income backgrounds are much lower than their peers. One high-impact practice aimed at improving success rates is the first-year seminar, but practitioners have expressed a need for guidance on improving the course to support students better. Utilizing a design-thinking framework, we developed…

There is a noticeable growth in the number of systematic reviews published in open, distance, and digital education (ODDE), with a growing focus on flipped teaching and learning, particularly in higher education, emphasizing the need to consolidate evidence and findings under one comprehensive review. This umbrella review aims to thoroughly…

This article examines how two content courses in the first and second semesters of a master's program were redesigned to promote problem-based learning (PBL). In both cases, the syllabi were revised to emphasize problem-orientation, group work, and exemplarity. The impetus for these changes was a study reform initiated by the department…

Despite the availability and potential usefulness of demographic and contextual data in many quantitative studies within engineering education, the preference for ANOVA over regression models remains prevalent, often without clear justification. A mapping review of literature from the EJEE and JEE spanning 2012-2022 identified 98 studies using…

What would it look like to create a mentoring program specifically designed for transfer students, supporting them from pre-arrival to their graduation day? Whereas transfer student transition programs are often created with a deficit mindset or modeled after first-time, first-year research, these higher education professionals sought to create a…

This study focuses on a design and making project carried out in a Finnish school and situated within the schedules of a multidisciplinary learning module and English as a foreign language. A group of technology students led the project as part of their university studies. Design and making are a recent development at school that allows the ideals…

Learning post-qualitative inquiry emerged as a new activity in education. The aim of this article is to reveal the learning peculiarities of post-qualitative inquiry among education researchers, adapting PRISMA 2020 (Page et al., 2021a, 2021b, 2021c), the main principles and thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006). The scientific articles…

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly changing and influencing the advertising and graphic design industries. GenAI is reimagining workflows and modifying the skills required for new graduates to secure their first jobs. Agencies are investing in AI technologies, and creative departments are leveraging GenAI for client engagement…

Group design research studies can provide evidence to draw conclusions about "what works," "for whom," and "under what conditions" in special education. The quality indicators introduced by Gersten and colleagues (2005) have contributed to increased rigor in group design research, which has provided substantial…

Real-world design settings can be complex, ill-structured, open and typically uncertain and/or ambiguous about their goals and solution paths. This study contributes to understanding how to work with these types of problems in a course project setting. The main objective of the study is to identify, propose and validate a set of practical…

Background: Several studies have reported that inservice and preservice teachers hold narrow and stereotypical perceptions of engineer and engineering. However, only a few studies attempted to examine interventions which improve their perceptions. Purpose: This study aimed to explore the preservice science teachers' (PSTs) perceptions of engineer…

Teachers play an active, creative and innovative role in online learning so that student learning outcomes get maximum results. One of the efforts made is to develop animation learning media based on local wisdom in online learning. Animation media chose because students tend to be more interested in exciting things around them. To achieve this,…