In the post COVID-19 era, technology is now an integral part of the curriculum where in-classroom learning has been replaced by fully online and blended teaching. The rapid change to novel online learning environment, have left students exposed to the risks of techno stress. Given the dearth of studies on students, this research seeks to…

Technology has transformed the work practices of higher education teachers (HETs), leading to stress associated with using such technology, known as technostress. Technostress in the higher education context has predominantly been framed in a negative light, assuming that harmful techno-stressors lead to adverse outcomes. Moreover, most…

This article investigates justifications by academic professionals regarding part-time faculty working conditions, and it is based on sixty-two qualitative interviews in two disciplines at three post-secondary schools. While each university or college had its own justificatory strategy to claim their use of part-time professors was legitimate,…

The effectiveness of classroom management has the effect of improving the sense of accomplishment and happiness of teachers. However, many pre-service teachers have often failed to be fully prepared in terms of training, making them have a significant gap with senior educators in terms of classroom management skills. This gap raises a critical…

In a series of three video-recorded assignments over a 6-week period, undergraduate music education students (N = 16) enrolled in an instrumental methods course described aloud what they were thinking about as they practiced a three-note melody on a secondary brass instrument. Later, I completed a content analysis of the students' practice…

Background/purpose: Teachers' professional identity is viewed by the researchers as a dynamic process, evolving through both professional training and accumulated experience, rather than a fixed construct. This study explores the dynamic formation of professional identity in Kosovo ECE teachers, based on Kelchtermans' (2009) and Canrinus et al.'s…

Recent English as a foreign language (EFL) research has focused on flipped learning as one of the innovative teaching methods for enhancing language learning quality. Given this recent attention, this study examines the impact of the flipped classroom method on EFL students' reading comprehension. With the use of quasi-experimental mixed method…

Research suggests that transgender and gender-diverse (T&GD) adolescents experience lower levels of well-being than their cisgender peers. Schools can play an important role in addressing this issue by creating safe spaces for T&GD youth that support and celebrate gender diversity. The current population-based study investigated…

This research seeks to investigate the variables that might affect university-level students' internet habits, their e-learning self-efficacy and academic achievement in a technology-enhanced teaching and learning environment. To attain the aforementioned objective the Information System Success (ISS) and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) were…

This study investigated academic acculturation among international STEM and non-STEM students at U.S. universities using a mixed-methods approach (20 interviews and institutional career data from 2019 to 2023). The findings reveal that STEM students navigate structured pathways under pressure from research, whereas non-STEM students encounter…

Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the key factors influencing preschool teachers' sustained use of Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC) technology in educational settings. While prior research has extensively examined initial adoption, little attention has been given to understanding the continuous intention of preschool teachers…

This study assesses government initiatives on global physician shortages using SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The aim of this study was to identify and evaluate educational strategies to increase medical graduates by the SWOT-AHP Model. A systematic review was conducted to…

This study investigates the effectiveness of Virtual Simulation Systems (VSS) in improving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training outcomes for vocational nursing students through a cluster randomized controlled trial. A total of 100 second-year nursing students from Sichuan Health Rehabilitation Vocational College were divided into an…

Current statistics in the UK and internationally continue to indicate concern with teacher retention. This small-scale qualitative study explores how harmonious passion can contribute to continued teacher motivation, adopting the duality of passion model. Two teachers participated in a semi-structured interview, within a primary school in…

The benefits of learner-instructor interaction in traditional face-to-face educational settings is widely acknowledged. However, we have a limited understanding of how to improve such interactivity in online settings. This study finds that instructor humility is key to learner-instructor interaction in virtual settings: it indirectly affects…