Online teaching transition during COVID-19 school lockdown elicited challenges for teachers and schools across the globe. The existing literature on the impact of COVID-19 in the education sector is predominantly descriptive and focused on the difficulties faced by teachers during the process of transferring into online teaching, mainly in the…

Despite knowing that academic motivation and engagement influence academic outcomes, it is unclear how students' motivation and engagement in face-to-face versus online courses differ. This mixed methods study examines whether preservice teachers' motivation and engagement in the same course, with the same instructor, in the same semester is…

This essay focuses on the role of humanities faculty in the modern university and the impact of technology on that role.

The present case study aims to compare collaborative writing activities produced on the Padlet website on the internet and in a face-to-face (F2F) environment. This study for which criterion sampling was used included two different groups, both of which were formed with four people. For the triangulation of the case study, texts produced F2F and…

The classroom closure during the first semester of 2020 entailed decisive changes in higher education. Universities have become more digital in both the availability of e-resources and pervasive devices and how students communicate with lecturers and classmates. Learners adapted their study habits with a growing role of self-paced, internet-based…

In this study, a three-week sample application for the use of the WebQuest method in Turkish language teaching was developed, and the effectiveness of the application was tried to be determined through a "achievement test" and students' views. The study employed the mixed methods design, in the quantitative stage of the study,…

The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has changed the way higher education delivers materials to students. The purpose of this study is to compare the pros and cons of teaching Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition (Soils 446), a class with a history of being taught live and online, from both the live and online perspectives. For our comparison, the…

"To learn about X, observe what happens to the system when X is removed." What happens to the higher education student experience when, during a pandemic, so many of the avenues for building a sense of belonging are radically and fundamentally disrupted? How should we respond as individuals, a collective and a sector, to redress this?…

The 'Moss Safari' activity was developed to assist with knowing which organisms to look for when observing a drop of water squeezed from moss for the first time. In this case study, the activity was introduced online to 34 trainee science teachers. This was followed by a post-session questionnaire evaluating their experience of the Moss Safari.…

The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching effects on nearly every aspect of society, including education. This study investigates educational research conducted in the United States during the COVID-19 school closures to increase our understanding of student, parent, teacher, and school leader experiences with remote learning in a K-12 context.…

Distance or online learning is more than simply uploading and delivering learning resources to learners but in fact, it is a process that provides learners with autonomy, responsibility, flexibility and choice. This can be a challenge for many academic teachers. In 2020, as universities globally shifted to online learning, in response to the…

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a drastic shift of face-to-face teaching and learning to remote/online teaching and learning at all levels of education worldwide. Active student engagement is always a challenging task for educators regardless of the teaching modalities. The degree of challenge for active student engagement increases significantly…

In early 2020, the COVID-19 virus hit many places, including New York City, with such a force that nobody could have foreseen the events following its spread. The education system was pushed to transition itself to meet with 21st century technology. This study explores this disruption in the education system and how middle school teachers in…

The problem addressed was post-secondary faculty's continued resistance to learning and using eLearning technology to its maximum capacity to achieve learning outcomes in concert with the often-biased samples in research on the change process and faculty perceptions of their transition from direct instruction to eLearning. Most research on faculty…

This study evaluated the stress experienced by teachers as a result of the shutdown of schools in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic and the shift to digital teaching. A five-item scale, the Coronavirus Questionnaire (CQ), was created to capture the stress caused specifically by the changes schools had to make as a result of the…