Category: Learning Experiences, Student Learning & Learner Diversity

Enhance Your Student’s Perceived Learning, Attention and Motivation With Immersive Activities and Metaverse – Based Learning
This research was designed to test the effectiveness that immersive tools and activities, specifically metaverse-based activities, has on student learning. For this research, an experiment was designed with a control group and an experimental group in the course EM1009 – Business Model Innovation that is an Online Course lasting 5 weeks and was imparted in …

The Relation Between Mathematics Education Software and Mathematics Thinking Style
In this study the mathematics thinking styles and the need for using mathematics education software for students of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Department of Business at the Modern College of Business and Science has been identified. The study was conducted among 101 college students during the 2022-2023 academic year. To …

Teaching History and Social Sciences in Multicultural Classrooms in Chile
This work is part of the recently defended doctoral thesis. Its objective was to analyse the educational practices of History, Geography and Social Sciences teachers in multicultural classrooms in Chile, to contribute to the improvement of student inclusion. This research was carried out in public schools in Santiago de Chile, characterized by having a great …

Virtual Assistants as a Tool for Motivation and Autonomous Learning
Teachers have many resources at their disposal to improve the teaching process. Technology, if properly integrated, not only improves teaching, but also motivates students (Flores-Vivar & García-Peñalvo, 2023). The aim of this study is to identify whether the use of voice-enabled virtual assistants such as Alexa, Google Assistant or Siri improves the teaching-learning process. The …

Nexus Between Research and Teaching: Fostering Students’ Expectations of Research-Informed Teaching Approaches
Integration of research and teaching in higher education can provide valuable ways of enhancing the student learning experience, but establishing such integrative links can be complex and problematic given different practices and levels of understanding. This study contributes to the pedagogical literature in drawing on findings from students’ survey exploring perceptions of research-informed teaching, to …

Investigating the Challenges of Teamwork for 1st Year Undergraduate Engineering Students
Literature has shown that the ability to work in teams is one of the most highly coveted skills by engineering employers (Levy & Rodkin, 2016). On the Biochemical Engineering programme at UCL, teamwork is present across the programme curriculum and has seen consistently high levels of positive feedback in annual evaluation surveys. However as the …

The Value of Leisure Reading Among the Youth in A Higher Education Institution in South Africa
Some young adults like reading, but others struggle. They may not have learned the value of reading or how to read throughout their early schooling. Many children may grow up without local or worldwide information if they don’t read. Due to their bad social group, not reading may keep them busy and out of trouble. …

Toward Teaching Kids in Arab Countries Programming Skills: A Case Study
Teaching children to code has gained popularity in recent years, with many schools and institutions now providing tools and programs to get young learners started with computer programming. High-level programming languages, such as Python, Java, and C Sharp (i.e., C#), are often used in these educational contexts due to their simplicity and versatility. This article …

Digital Literacy: From Embodied to E-bodied Reading Experience
According to the approach of Embodied Reading (Malafouris, 2013; Mangen & Schilhab, 2012) the reading body and the reading brain get into a dynamic interaction with the pure materiality of the medium. During reading, this interaction of the Body-Brain-Medium Triad creates a complex reading experience, which “depends on direct experiences in the moment as well …

Enhancing Inclusion and Critical Thinking With Station Rotation Model: A Research Proposal
New pedagogies are quickly entering the educational landscape as educators scramble to provide students with the 21st century skills. Station Rotation Model, a type of Blended Learning is a student-centred method that creates more engaging, productive, and goal-oriented learning environments by leveraging technology. At the same time, teachers need more than one framework to meet …

An Examination of Elementary Students’ Reasoning Ability via Inquiry-Based Project Designed by STEAM Integration
This study describes inquiry-based methods, taught in elementary school setting, integrated with STEAM courses sessions that teacher candidates work with individual children. I examine fifty-six students’ (4th and 5th graders) reasoning ability, especially on mathematics and scientific justification, on teacher candidates’ STEAM lessons through the theory of inquiry-based methods. I employed a quantitatively descriptive and …

The Multifaceted Face of Creativity: Experiences of Music Educators and Performers in the Educational Process
Creativity has become a particularly significant component of any modern educational process. When scientists and researchers analyze creativity in the context of the education of future music educators and performers, we encounter many models, opinions, and concepts. This becomes a challenge to improve the creativity of learners effectively and rapidly. Purpose of the research – …

Students’ Perception of Their Experience in Courses Taught Through New Delivery Modes Compared to Traditional Modes
Since even before COVID-19, one of the most important challenges of Higher Education has been and continues to be the need for innovative and flexible educational methods. We could all agree that one of the goals of Higher Education is to equip students with a variety of intellectual and practical skills that, at the same …

Investigating the Usage of Labster and Its Future Implications for Industry and Academia
The unprecedented impact of COVID-19 on engineering education has resulted in lasting changes in the way educators teach as well as the way students learn. One of the most impacted areas was the inability of students to undertake laboratory training, which is crucial for engineering employability. In 2020-21, UCL Biochemical Engineering implemented the use of …

Respond to Diversity: Study of a Japan Nonformal Learning Program’s Remote Effect Fostering Cross-generational, Multicultural Relationships, and Disruption of Stereotypes
In response to the cumulative consciousness of learners’ diversity, it is vital to study the format of learning to better address the needs of learners today. Japan, where secondary education remains conventional, the study has been conducted since 2015 to examine the proposed nonformal learning program. The program, comprised of voluntary-based facilitators whose ages range …

Third Spaces and Benefits of Designing Food Safety Curriculum for Science Classes: Using Third Space to Promote Food Safety Learning
Food safety is one of the most important dimensions of food. With the growing number of food-borne illnesses, it is imperative to design curricula that address this important issue and equip students with the necessary knowledge to combat food-borne illnesses. Scholars have discussed the idea of using third spaces to bridge the gap between students’ …

Alternative Classroom Design’s Relation to Student Satisfaction, Learning Engagement and Perceived Teaching Effectiveness in a Malaysian University Setting
This study collected feedback from students and lecturers regarding “traditional” and “creative” (i.e. non-traditional) classroom designs. A sample of 140 current undergraduate and graduate students (male = 40, female = 100) and four lecturers (male = 1, female = 3) were surveyed regarding their learning experiences and impressions in “traditional” compared to “creative” classroom settings. …

From Fully Online to Face-to-Face Learning: A Qualitative Study of Malaysian Higher Education Students’ Agency in Learning following the Pandemic
Based on the concept of student agency which is an individual’s ability to manage their own learning, this study explores Malaysian higher education (HE) students’ responses in their transition back to on-campus learning following long periods of fully-online learning during the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic. Data from students at 13 Malaysian HE institutions were gathered through an online survey’s open-ended questions, exploring their perceptions of their …

Analysis of Automated and Personalized Student Feedback to Improve Learner Experience
Due to the vast amounts of data generated at educational institutions and need for teachers to personalize feedback to every student, having an automated feedback system to support educators is important. Data research teams at the Atlantic Technological University have developed an automated feedback system that sends lecturer feedback to student based on their performance …

The Creation Strategies, Participants’ Satisfaction and Learning Experiences of ‘Sure and Share’s Fact Check Detective Club’
‘Sure and Share’s Fact Check Detective Club’ is a project initiated by the Sure and Share Center, Thailand’s well-established fact-checking center under Thai News Agency. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic alarming situation during 2021-2022, the project with the main goal to enhance fact-checking knowledge and skills for 651 participants nationwide, aged 12-87 years old, had …

STEAM Implementation Analysis on Creative Thinking Skills of Middle School Students in East Java
The Covid-19 pandemic impacts each sector of life around the world, including the education sector namely, changes in the implementation of education. This impact is related to the implementation of learning that switches from online to offline. Students feel passive when learning offline. Science learning emphasizes that students should be active in STEAM project assignments. …

Research on the Relationship Between Reflective Practice and Academic Performance in Experiential Learning
This research is based on the manipulation of experiential learning, combined with feedback surveys of reflective practice. The implementation project is three learning activities of creative thinking, advertising script and video shooting in the advertising design course. Based on the learning effect of the project design, the participants go through the four processes of analysis, …

Savor a Kahoot!-Licious Classroom: Embodying Gamification in a Business School as a Recipe for Innovation Among the Digital Natives
Innovative teaching intends to create a resonant enhancement of learner competency and competiveness. This research intends to find whether the spice of innovative teaching has gone far enough to be carefully chopped, marinated, and blended for the digital natives. One of the main contributing factors for the learning benefits of technology is gamification which is …

Academic Self-Concept and Burnout of College Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
Academic burnout is defined as a reduction in an individual’s capacity to respond to stressful variables in education, such as academic tiredness, academic cynicism, and academic inefficacy (Tajeri Moghadam et al., 2020). It affects the learning process, academic performance, and ultimately the mental health of students. In contrast, self-concept is a protective factor for stress …

STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) Implementation and Challenges in Elementary Schools in West Java
STEAM education plays a crucial part in education in the 21st century. Teachers, being one of the most essential components of delivering education, play a crucial role in implementing STEAM learning. This study seeks to investigate the deployment of STEAM learning in primary schools and the obstacles elementary school teachers encounter in applying STEAM. This …

Communication Barriers in Times of Pandemic
The study sought to determine the communication barriers among students of Capiz State University, Mambusao Satellite College, in learning during this pandemic. The study used descriptive and qualitative methods. An in-depth interview using a semi-structured questionnaire served as the researcher’s data-gathering instrument. Eight students who served as study participants were chosen based on the researcher’s …

Mediating Effects of a Poster Activity on Taiwanese Students’ Self-determined Learning Readiness
Investigation explored the mediating effect of small group poster activity on Taiwanese grade 11 students’ self-determined learning readiness (SD-LR). This poster activity paralleled small group discussions concerning the socio-scientific issue (SSI) topic of restarting Taiwan’s 4th nuclear energy plant. A corresponding survey was constructed to measure three scales: active learning (AL, measuring autonomy), critical thinking …

The Learning Portfolio of Taiwanese High School Students and Its Impact on National University Admissions
To improve the effectiveness of Taiwan’s primary and secondary school curriculum reform, in 2022, the Ministry of Education will make changes to the manner of university access. One of the main reasons for concern among students and the general public is the inclusion for the first time of learning portfolios among the university entry requirements. …

Developing Students’ Transferable Skills Through Service Leadership of Inclusive Learning Community
One important aim of higher education is to develop students’ attributes and skills that can be applied in their future career. Apart from contributing to employability, the skills students gain during university experience can enhance personal and social capacity and prepare students to take leadership roles in the community. This paper presents a study examining …

Learning Material by Augmented Reality Technology About Korfball for Health
This research aimed to 1) develop the learning material by augmented reality technology about korfball for health according to the performance criteria of 80/80 and 2) study the students’ satisfaction after learning with the developed learning material. The samples in this research were the 50-1st year student in Physical Education and Health Education Faculty of …

English Language and Literature Education as a Tool for Opinion Formation and Influence
The present world, replete with strong opinions in the form of influencers and media houses, is a difficult place to navigate without the ability to think independently and the confidence to voice ideas. In Ayn Rand’s classic The Fountainhead, Ellsworth Toohey demonstrates the might of words that can mould popular opinion and shape history. In …

Webinar Integration Within the Flipped Classroom Instructional Strategies From Learners’ Perspectives
Online videoconferencing has become very popular after the pandemic ravaged the globe. It’s exciting to imagine webinars in flipped classes. Webinars contain speeches from experts on many topics. Weekly webinars will be held with a different theme set before the beginning of the semester, encouraging students to share and discuss their experiences with teachers of …

The Design of a Pedagogical Seminar Course to Prepare Senior High School Students for Science and Technology Project
Regarding to the issue of building up the STEM workforce to drive Thailand move pass the middle-income trap, STEM school nurturing new generation STEM in high school education level was set. The pedagogy of learning in this school was designed by a backward design including the seminar course. In the first year of Grade 10th, …

The Influence of Financial Assistance on Student’s Academic Achievement: A Case-Based Research Study
Purpose: The motive of this inductive research study was to explore the influence of financial assistance in the form of scholarship and to identify the factors that affect the academic achievement of university students. This study also aims to compare the academic achievement of scholarship and non-scholarship students. Methodology: 26 Semi-structured interviews and purposive sampling …

Creativity in the Preschool Classroom
Polaroid photography in the early childhood classroom has been a subject, which is usually excluded from some early childhood curricula or small group activities because of its media being something of the past. This paper supports the value of polaroid photography in young children’s play and small group activities in an early childhood classroom. Utilizing …

Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) of Students’ Interest Based on Mathematics Content Domain
Predicting students’ performance is essential in both educational and machine learning contexts. Prediction of students’ performance will facilitate in the development of relevant future study plans for students. In this paper, the objective of the study is to validate the main components of mathematical subject by using exploratory factor analysis (EFA). The study focus on …

University Students’ Motivations and Attitudes Towards Online Learning in the Post-pandemic Era: A Comparative Study
With the growth of emerging technologies and the recession of the pandemic, online learning remains a crucial tool for assisting students in their academic pursuits. Despite that studies have shown that learners’ motivation and attitudes are key elements influencing student performance, especially in online learning scenarios, little is known about students’ current motivations and attitudes …

Qualitative Study: Disruption and Violence Among Primary School Students in the Lahore District of Punjab Pakistan
Children’s welfare has been impacted by the global problem of school violence. Few studies have examined how school features in public primary schools serve Asian cultures, It poses a serious risk to students’ social, familial, and personal well-being. The study’s goals were to examine the type and degree of disruption that results in violence among …

Self-Identity in a Connectionism Learning Environment
Connectivist learning theory has been widely discussed with online collective higher-order thinking skills and critical reflection. Yet it is unclear how students negotiate their own identity within this collective learning. Therefore, the current study aims to explore the individual intentional approaches and processes of learning within a group. The methodology is a qualitative case study …

Social Presence and Engagement: A Design-Based Research Study to Incorporate Web 2.0 Protocols
Increased social presence in asynchronous courses has shown to lead to student success and improved learning experiences. However, many students still lack social presence in asynchronous courses. This study utilizes educational design research (EDR) methods to frame an investigation into the issues and potential solutions for the lack of social presence in asynchronous online courses. …

Design-Based Learning and Constructionist Learning Principles to Promote Artificial Intelligence Literacy and Awareness in K-12, a Pilot Study
There is a strong interest in engaging young learners in understanding and using Artificial Intelligence (AI) by providing opportunities to develop skills and competencies both from a technical and ethical perspective. However, how we should teach AI is still to be discussed in-depth. There are relatively few studies that investigate the methodology of learning programmes …

Barriers and Challenges of Online Assessments During the COVID-19 pandemic: Perceptions of Undergraduate Pharmacy Students
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed inherent weaknesses and posed novel challenges during the implementation of distance education. This mixed-method study aimed to investigate undergraduate pharmacy students’ perceptions of the barriers and challenges in online assessments during the pandemic lockdowns. A self-reported questionnaire was designed to collect responses from third-year pharmacy students from April – May …

How Do ESL Learners Talk and Interthink in Asynchronous Online Discussions?
Education in the post-pandemic era is presented with prospects to reconfigure the mode of teaching and learning with the affordances of technology. Despite the prominence of classroom talk and its associations with students’ thinking, little is known about such effects when talk is conducted in a purely asynchronous online context among students and teachers who …

Augmented Reality and Metaverse in Aesthetic Education Discourse in Indonesia for Future
This study aims to conduct a systematic literature review on the concept of Augmented Reality (AR), which adds virtual objects into the real world and affects the computer vision field, which is the starting point for the metaverse concept of aesthetic education in Indonesia. This content analysis study systematically analyzes how AR impacts aesthetic education …

Preparing Undergraduate Designers Using the Results of a DE&I Survey of the Local Design Industry
This paper presents and analyzes the hidden biases in the Dubai design industry and proposes a pedagogical framework to assist students in transitioning into the workforce by equipping them with relevant tools to tackle their occurrences and engaging in reflection around their own biases. Diversity of Dubai is heralded everywhere, yet many designers experience bias …

Pagtimakas: Modular Learning Experiences of CAPSU MSC Students
Hiligaynon is a language used in Western Visayas, Philippines. Pagtimakás is a Hiligaynon word meaning to exert oneself or make great efforts. In the Philippines, the Education sector is among the most highly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Capiz State University, Mambusao Satellite College (CAPSU MSC), is situated in a rural area with limited internet …

Developing Conceptual Understanding of Subject-Verb Agreement in Primary One Students Through Assessment-guided Differentiated Instruction
Subject-Verb Agreement (SVA) is an important component of grammatical processing. Students in Primary One (aged seven) level of Singapore schools are taught SVA involving simple nouns and verbs at the sentence level. Teachers observed that students often associated plural nouns with singular verbs and vice versa due to the ‘s’ inflection form most plural nouns …

Acceptance Study of Power Plant Main Control Simulator as an Operator Learning Media in Indonesia
The power plant control room simulator is a learning device that resembles the control system in a real power plant. There are not many power plant simulator training providers in Indonesia due to high investment, where complexity and efficacy are exchanged for cost. This research aims to determine the acceptance of the power plant main …

A Conceptual Framework to Elicit Student Engagement via Development of Extended Reality (XR) Applications Using Project-Based Experiential Learning
Student Engagement is recognized as a covariate of learner outcomes within both online and face to face learning environments. Withal, due to extensive implementation of passive teaching approaches, there is finite guidance about utilization of proactive student-centered teaching strategies to ameliorate engagement among learners like employing Project Based Experiential Learning (PBEL). This paper describes ongoing …

Learning Experiences to Support Equity for Student Living in Poverty
Poverty can affect the background knowledge and vocabulary development of students before they enter our elementary classrooms. As educators it is key to ensure that we provide a variety of learning experiences to help ensure equity inside and outside the classroom setting for these students. Out-of-school learning has the potential to help decrease the academic …

Leveraging the ALACT Reflection Model to Improve Academic Skills Development in Bachelor Students: A Case Study
Academic skills are essential in most future professions for students, yet frequently receive sporadic or ineffective attention throughout higher education. Therefore, we set out to implement the ALACT reflection model in a second-year academic skills course within the bachelor’s program in Pharmaceutical Sciences. The model was applied to both presentation and teamwork skills which are …

Action Research: Learner Reflection on Group Work and Leadership Skills
Learning how to be an effective leader seems to be an important facet of group discussions and group task work. One way to attempt a bottom-up approach to applying and practicing leadership skills is through action research (AR), defined by Burns (2009) as an approach to research that involves teachers researching their own contexts. AR …

Discord Between Transgender Women and TERFs in South Korea
This paper examines the discord between transgender women and trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) in South Korea, focusing on the dispute between feminists and anti- feminists. This paper introduces a conflict between those two groups in that TERFs believe transgender women highlight gender stereotypes and femininity, in contrast to radical feminists looking forward to the dissolution …

A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Google Solution on Middle School Teacher and Student Based on the Kirkpatrick 4 Level Model
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of Google Solution (GS) on the application of classes. Participants were 17 teachers and 115 students of ‘O’ middle school in Busan, and the period was from April to September for five months. As a treatment, each teacher was given a Chromebook equipped with Google …

A Reflection for Art & Design Learning for Digital Natives
Education cannot be separated from rapid technological advances. One of the new paradigms in education is the use of internet network technology. This also applies to education in art and design in Indonesia. During the pandemic, the acceleration of the digital transformation of universities in this field is trying to adapt. Despite dealing with Generation …

Superheroes by Design: Soundtrack-driven Content for Students’ Creation of Motion Graphics used in Live Orchestra Performance
The focus of this study is on the collaboration between multi-disciplines; music, design, time-based media and orchestra performance. This is a case study involving a series of motion graphics created by design students for the Superman comics-inspired “Metropolis Symphony” composed by Michael Daugherty (1988-93) and performed by the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra on June 17-18, 2022. …

Enhancing Students’ Cognitive Memory Using Music in the Classroom
In the current educational settings till this day, students are facing certain distractions that disrupt and reduce their learning process efficiency. These distractions also affect the students’ concentration in their learning environment. Music is known to have many capabilities to become one of many solutions to help students override these distractions as/ a huge influential …

Hidden Academic Failure: The Course Experience of International Graduate Students in Japan
More attention should be given to international graduate students enrolled in Japanese Universities. This study investigated the course experience of six international graduate students at one top Japanese University with PAC analysis and semi-structured interviews. As a result, international graduate students still have many challenges and dissatisfaction in their course-learning experience. The challenge and dissatisfaction …

A Public University and a Small-Town Library: Community-Engaged Learners Foster Literacy, Diversity and Bilingual Identity in Rural Minnesota
The United States is an increasingly diverse and multi-lingual society, but when Americans imagine populations of native Spanish or bilingual speakers, they often imagine large urban areas or parts of the Southwest. We happen to live and work in a small, rural community in Minnesota whose Spanish-speaking/bilingual population has increased steadily over the past two …

The Experience of Empathy With the LGBTQ+ Community Through Narrative Transportation When Not LGBTQ+: A Qualitative Investigation
In this study, non-LGBTQ+ college students described their experiences of reading a novel with LGBTQ+ characters from the formers’ perspectives. The target population for this study was cisgender, heterosexual, traditionally-aged college students, defined as 18-35 years of age. Eight participants fully participated in the discussion and were interviewed for the study. The participants were located …

Improving Academic Skills and Academic Achievement in a Diverse Student Cohort
The development of communication skills into an assessment of a second-year genetics unit with approximately 80 students at Edith Cowan University was achieved by taking an assessment online using the Cadmus platform. All students performed the same laboratory activities over several weeks then wrote a scientific report in the Cadmus platform. The students have three …

Differential Treatment of Children in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings
Differential treatment (DT) refers to the extent to which adults treat children differently. Some Differentiation to meet children’s unique needs is considered good caregiving. However, high levels or unjustified DT may be problematic. DT by educators in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings has rarely been studied. In this study we examined DT of …

Learning Experiences in a Summer Bridge Program for Successful Retention of Post-Secondary Hispanic Students in Puerto Rico
Due to the natural disasters in Puerto Rico, students’ academic performance has been affected and dropouts have increased. Moreover, COVID- 19 intensified the challenge for post- secondary education, resulting in students obtaining lower scores for college entrance exams. Students are not academically prepared for the transition to university. To address these challenges at the Inter …

Effectiveness of Marine Education Promotion Activities Integrated into SDGs Goal 14
The ocean is a very important part of our living environment. Avoiding pollution of the oceans so that they can be used sustainably is an important topic in many countries. How to understand our ocean through education is also an issue. In this study, we have designed and developed an ocean education campaign based on …

Maximizing High-Impact Practices in an Environmental Design Curriculum – An Introductory Study
The Environmental Design (ENVD) program at Auburn University is a multidisciplinary program designed to solve twenty-first century problems. The curriculum focuses on the built environment, while placing an emphasis on “systems thinking” which focuses on how the parts of the whole interact. Students can personalize their projects based on their individual interests and create conceptual …

Use of Simulations in Teaching U.S. History for Motivating in Online and Blended Learners
Facing unmotivated and inattentive students, teachers turn to new methods to engage classes, such as video lessons and interactive content. A literature review of this nature benefits educators in providing a counterpoint of the disadvantages and best practices of simulations for classroom success. Simulations, including role-playing scenarios, video games, map exploration activities, and mock trials, …

Life and Work Skills in Performing Arts: A Basis for the Developmental Guidelines of the UC – Center for Creative Productions Members
The goal of every academic institution is to prepare students for life and work. Aside from completing competencies based on the curriculum, institutions also offer education-based activities such as performing arts which provide opportunities to enhance the imagination and intelligence of student artists and develop various skills. In connection, this study aimed to identify the …

Engaging First Generation Students Through Culturally Responsive Teaching
First-generation college students are defined as individuals who are the first in their family to go to college. A large body of research indicates that first-generation students are at a disadvantage from the time they start to apply for university, through university and even after they graduate from university, and their experiences are significantly different …

On Space, On Place: Emerging Tamaraw Identity – The Lived Experience Journey of Communication Students
The FEU Learning Journey provides a more formal structure that will capacitate students to navigate their academic lifecycle and prepare for career and life goals. It also integrates selected curricular and co-curricular activities as critical components of the students’ holistic development. The Student Life Cycle Model (Lizzio & Wilson, 2010) framed the analysis, where purpose …

Evaluating Student Perspectives on Understanding of Complex Systems
Advances in technological detail and sophistication have resulted in more complex products, systems and services which can be more difficult for individuals to conceptualise and understand. This eventuality has potential to increase risks and assumptions in the use, operation, and management over time of such products and therefore presents a growing problem for those who …

Financially Educating Generation Z Using Digital Media – A Competitive Field Test of eduStories® Versus Texts
A good general education on financial topics is required for wise financial decisions and thus also for one’s own material financial security. However, according to consistent studies, financial literacy is particularly poor in Generation Z, which is now on the threshold of professional life. Against this background, the question arises as to how financial knowledge …

Developing Saudi Master Students’ Awareness of Global Englishes
English has rapidly spread throughout the world and acquired the status of an international language. As a consequence of this increased usage, diverse varieties of English have emerged in several parts of the world and these variations are referred to as Global Englishes (GE). Although research on GE has demonstrated the potential for a new …

Reflection of Sustainable Entrepreneurial Intent Among the Learners on Completion of Courses on Sustainability
The increased awareness of destruction created by human behavior is serving as fuel to stand together for a sustainable planet as a society. The irrational behavior towards society and the environment has moved us closer to global crises like global warming hunger & poverty. The studies in recent times prove the learned consumers are attracted …

Fostering the Academic Transition of International Students Who Are Ethnoculturally and Linguistically Diverse in Postsecondary Education
The need for more services and support for the academic transition of international students is evident as their population continues to increase in postsecondary institutions. There is also need for faculty to have a deeper understanding of how international students transition academically, and how they can use the knowledge to guide academic support development. This …

Empowering Self Regulated Learners: Embedding of IB ATL Skills Through Digital Literacy in Primary Students
The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a turning point of creativity in the field of education with the abrupt commencement of remote learning in March 2020 via online platforms. The ongoing digital transformation was accelerated and forced students to drastically adapt and adopt new approaches to their academic learning. In order for teachers to support …

Escape Room in Pre-School Education Learning
This paper analyzes the use of ICT in education, which is demanding in the new generations, who must be involved from an early age. To this is added a virtualized education, due to the pandemic by Covid-19. For these reasons, this research aims to demonstrate that the Escape Room can be used as an effective …

A Conjoint Study and Segmentation on the Preferred Online Learning Attributes of Senior High School Learners Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
The educational systems were disrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has resulted in the sudden shift in the instructional implementation from face-to-face to fully online distance learning. This study examined the socio-demographic characteristics and access to technological resources, and explored senior high school learners’ preferred online learning attributes and their segmentation. The study employed …

Understanding User Feedback Through Negative Emotions: A Learning Experience
User feedback is an important topic to be taught in Software Engineering (SE) courses. Furthermore, it includes theoretical concepts related to questionnaires, the time elapsed, mouse movements, etc., that are used to understand the topic better. In this context, teaching and learning theoretical concepts in different courses are great challenges in education in universities, particularly …

University ESL Students’ Challenges and Insights Towards Online Learning Amidst COVID Pandemic
The sudden change of English language learning and teaching from face-to-face classroom interaction to blended learning activities using digital platforms has initiated numerous challenges for English as Second Language (ESL) students in the various universities in the Philippines including Mindanao State University- Marawi City; hence, examining these learners’ challenges and their insights of the online …

Children’s Three Voices: An Exploration of Indian Students’ Meaning-Making of Nature & Place
The study uses Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis to explore five Indian children’s meaning-making of nature and place during two environmental education programs. Data consisted of structured interviews, semi-structured group discussion, written assignments, and student-authored storybooks. The results show that children’s encounters with nature led to fascination, a sense of peace and belonging, gratitude, and love. The …

Let’s Play: Using Gamification in University Classes as a Means to Increase Motivation and Engagement While Lowering Stress
Worldwide, traditional face-to-face (f2f) students struggled with a rapid shift to virtual learning as did faculty who often had limited experience and knowledge of developing online courses or knowing how to engage their students. Many institutions of higher education have returned to classrooms, first with hybrid approaches, and now f2f. However, just as the world …

Finding Solutions for Addressing Poor Performance in the Botswana Education Systems and Lessons Learnt From COVID-19
As the world evolves towards complex technological advances in Botswana poor academic performance in schools has over the years remained of paramount concern. To date not only do students in public schools perform poorly in their end of year examinations, but throughout the entire teaching and learning process in general. The situation was exacerbated by …

The A-B-C of Engaging Students With Feedback to Build Resilient Learners
Resilience was once thought of as a stable personality trait. However, it is now argued that resilience is malleable, subject to environmental factors such as assessment feedback (ahmed Shafi, Hatley, Middleton, Millican & Templeton, 2017). This paper presents a longitudinal study on how learners experienced and were affected by feedback to their written essays. Participants …

Students’ Involvement in Co-creation Initiatives: The Link Me Up – 1000 Ideias Project at the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu
The unpredictability of the current job market requires the development of specialized technical skills, but particularly transferable skills, which allow career construction in a process of constant adaptation to job opportunities and demands. In this process, higher education institutions play a fundamental role, readjusting the training offer, including participation in research and intervention projects. As …

A Narrative Inquiry of Coping Responses of Selected Deaf College Students in the Philippines During the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 made an immense impact on the educational system worldwide. The unexpected disruption of face-to-face instructions and the sudden change in the academic curriculum stressed the learning and well-being of Deaf students. However, during the pandemic, their voices were primarily unheard. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the coping responses of selected Deaf college students …

Research on the Learning Effect of Experiential Learning Theory Applied to Design Education
Experiential learning theory enables course study to establish practical experience exchanges, and instructors who take the initiative to provide guidance to learners perform better. Students apply the professional skills learned from their own experience, meet their learning needs, and ask questions from their peers, which can enhance the true value and confidence of cooperative learning. …

Students Perception of a Gamified Student Engagement Platform as Supportive Technology in Learning
Students are increasingly turning towards Web-based learning materials to supplement their education. One such approach would be the introduction of Gamified student engagement platforms (GSEPs) to instill a new learning culture. Data was collected from closed-ended questions via content analysis techniques. About 81.8% of college students from the Monash University Foundation Year agreed that GSEPs …

E-learning Meets Educational Key Opinion Leaders (Edu-KOLs): A Close-Up Look on Exuberant Platforms and Their Success Ingredients
The teaching medium, which had witnessed stillness without significant changes for almost 40 years, has been undergoing a digital transformation in the last decade and is now being remarkably amplified by Educational Key Opinion Leaders (Edu-KOLs). Constructivism inspired collaborative and interactive learning has been further embedded into e-learning platforms amid the recent pandemic. This paper …

Cultural Integration: Aboriginal Pop Music Project in Taiwan
Most aboriginals in Taiwan showed their remarkable talents for music. They can use different percussion instruments, integrate their traditional cultures and then to create rhythms. Nowadays, with the age of digital age, to strengthen aboriginal students’ professional knowledge and practical training in pop music, this project is to combine new media technology to music producing, …

Why Parents Do What They Do: Developing and Validating a Survey for the Mathematical Lives of Parents and Children
Learner variability presents an enormous challenge for teachers and schools. Even as early as kindergarten, incredible learner diversity exists in terms of children’s early learning experiences, especially in mathematics. Research has shown that this variability begins in the home environment, where parents and caregivers have the biggest impact on the child’s readiness for school. Regular, …

Internationalization at Home through the Pandemic Era: A Qualitative Study on Tertiary Students in Hong Kong and Japan
Internationalization has become a key priority of many higher education institutions across the globe to enhance the intercultural capabilities of their students. With the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, Internationalization at Home (IaH) has provided invaluable opportunities for students to develop and improve their global outlook and cross-cultural competencies ‘at home’ during these challenging times …

Using Peer-Assisted Problem-Based Learning to Develop Business Systems Analysis Skills: An Experience Report
This paper reports on the experiences of using peer-assisted problem-based learning (PAPBL) in a very large class of postgraduate students for an assignment spanning two complementary modules (Database Technologies and Systems Analysis). Students worked in teams of three. They were provided with a realistic business case study and required to generate data flow diagrams, UML …

The Use of Technology to Overcome Transitional Challenges of First Year Students From Face-to-Face to Online
Universities around the world and South Africa in particular have been involuntary forced to transit from face-to-face to online learning and teaching as a result of the nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). Online learning and teaching is classified as the use of digital technology to deliver tuition in synchronous mode, meaning allowing …

Online Learning Perceptions and Online Learning Self-efficacy: Do Students’ Characteristics and Access to Technology Matter?
While online learning has become the delivery mode of choice to facilitate flexible or distance learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic, this alternative approach to instruction has challenged the entire educational system in the Philippines. This descriptive study examined the online learning perceptions and online learning self-efficacy of 2027 students at a private college in Manila. …

The Effects of the Concept-mapping Method on International Students’ Learning and Perceptions
There is concern over international students’ low academic achievement at the college level. Due to language challenges and cultural differences, international students’ academic achievement is not satisfactory that resulting in a decrease in the retention rate. The concept-mapping method may enhance student knowledge acquisition by providing students with learning tools that promote meaningful learning. The …

Dealing with Mathematics Anxiety in This Time of COVID-19
Mathematics anxiety is a problem that continues to plague students. As the pandemic has forced us all to the online plane, how do students deal with their anxiety? This mixed methods research looked into the anxiety levels of 112 Grade 11 Accountancy, Business, and Management and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics students, the reasons for …

Leveraging Malleable Intrapersonal Competencies to Close Achievement Gaps
While institutions have been investing in efforts to close achievement gaps, they remain. With a growing emphasis on data analytics focusing on socio-cultural groupings, some institutions make choices that benefit students while others may simply reinforce past behavior and potentially increase achievement gaps. Emerging neuroscience points to malleable intrapersonal competencies that align with desired career …

Exploration of Students’ Learning Experiences in a Course Developed With TPACK and Design Thinking
In recent years, scholars have placed more emphasis on teachers’ technological pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK) and Design Thinking (DT) abilities in order to promote students’ learning experiences. Accordingly, this mix-method research aims to: (1) develop the Integration of Technology into Design Thinking Questionnaire (ITDTQ) and (2) explore the instructor’s TPACK and students’ learning experiences …

Enhancing ‘How to Learn’ Skills: Its Impacts on Academic Performance and Students’ Motivation
In the current situation of the Covid-19 pandemic, remote learning requires students to learn independently to find information and understand the concept of subject matter. However, distractions like scrolling on social media have been a common issue faced by students during remote learning. This challenge leads to procrastination and affects the quality of their learning …

Parental Support, Cooperative Learning, and Peer Awareness in Students’ Exposure to School Bullying: Predicting Bullying in China
School bullying negatively affects adolescents at both cognitive and psychological levels. In China, a relatively high prevalence of school bullying has been observed with researchers and educators beginning to identify bullying-related factors in order to foster a healthy school environment. However, parental support, cooperative learning, and peer awareness as forms of intervention support, are still …

Impressions of Democracy, Equality, and Justice Among Maltese Teachers in Multicultural Education
The perceptions and attitudes of educators towards multicultural education are strongly correlated to the manner in which multicultural education is applied. Previous research indicates that culture undeniably has an effect on education, nonetheless, education administrators may not have enough knowledge about multicultural education practices. The aim of the study was to identify the perceptions and …

Teaching and Learning Resilience Through School Gardens
Resilience for children (as well as adults) is the capacity to endure adversity with equanimity, i.e. with the confidence to push forward despite trials and tribulations. The accomplishment of personal resiliency is the result of learning to develop inner resources that can be drawn upon inn difficult times to approach and develop solutions to those …

Classification and Effective Utilization of Feedback
The research aims to establish a system by which students can provide and receive feedback and utilize it effectively. As defined by Hattie and Timperley (2007, p. 102), feedback relates to actions or “information provided by an agent (e.g., teacher, peer, book, parent, [internet,] experience) regarding aspects of one’s performance or understanding.” This understanding of …

A Reflection on Personal Bias to Create an Inclusive Learning Environment
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed several areas of student need. It has also revealed and magnified the societal failures that have caused inequities in our classrooms. Creating an inclusive digital space begins with self-work. This paper explores the role of color-blindness in society and how to counter its effects. Additionally, self-awareness as a means to …

A Systematic Approach to Mastering Life – The Five-Step Motivation Method
‘There’s a voice in my head saying you’re not good enough, you’re stupid, you won’t manage anything’. This is a quote from a student in the current study, reporting on challenges young people attending upper secondary school face. Over years in Norway, there has been a 25 % dropout rate, and students have reported low …

Creating an Inclusive and Health Promoting Learning Environment in Primary School
Many students struggle with mental health issues and low motivation in today’s school, and the problems often start as early as primary school. Surveys show that children at the age of ten to twelve struggle with loneliness, sadness, low self-esteem, bullying, stress and physical problems. One of five dread going to school. The current study …

The Resilience of Learning During the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Action-Research Study of Gender Differences
In the present action-research study, we illustrate an evidence-based response of educators to the widespread concerns that learning in undergraduate students accustomed to face-to-face courses might have been curtailed during the pandemic by the switch to online instruction. The study focuses on general education courses, which usually enroll freshmen and sophomores. Namely, it targets learners …

The Resilience of Female Students in Math Education During a Pandemic: A Comparison Between Online and In-person Instruction
The present study examined whether undergraduate students’ academic success in math general education courses differed between synchronous online (during the Covid-19 pandemic) and in-person (before the pandemic). It also examined the extent to which students’ initial performance might predict academic success (as measured by final class grades) in online and in-person math courses, under the …

Predicting Initial Performance in Research Report Writing
The present study was guided by the belief that the accurate prediction of students’ performance difficulties, even before such difficulties manifest themselves, is critical to the effectiveness of remedial instruction for at-risk students. The study focused on Middle Eastern students (n = 167), an understudied population, who were enrolled in a general education course devoted …

Distance Learning: Its Challenges and Opportunities to Adolescents Relationship
Pandemic became one of the most feared unseen enemy where people are forced to stay at home. The pandemic forced everybody to stay at home. Hence, the study focused on adolescents who are under the distance learning modality. The study delved on the perceived challenges and opportunities of distance learning to their family relationship. This …

Intercultural Adaptability of Algerian Students Abroad: An Application of Communicative Theory of Cross-Cultural Adaptation
Study abroad programs are said to have the potential to grant intercultural immersion opportunities that students perceive as having different cultural norms and practices and which thereby lead to intercultural adaptability. While there is considerable body of research regarding students’ experiences abroad, evidence that support this claim appears to be limited by a range of …

The Essential Elements of 4-H Integrated Within the School Classroom
The Essential Elements of 4-H Youth Development are basic principles under which the 4-H Youth Development Program operates across the country (Purdue Extension, 2018). Incorporating these elements into the traditional classroom enables educators to focus on positive outcomes desired for youth; provide lesson plans for all students; view youth as central actors in their own …

Construction of Hanok Classroom as Educational Resources of Contemporary Elementary School in Seoul
On November 4th, 2020, Hanok Classroom which is named HanSolGak and NaRiJae following Korean traditional building type were opened in the middle of the existing elementary school in Seoul. This is first case in Seoul after the 1988 Seoul Olympics which means the beginning of globalization after the Korean War in 1950. Hanok classroom as …

Personalized English Course Instructional Design for Fourth-year Undergraduate Program
The fourth-year undergraduate program is the last academic year before students graduate and continue their future plans. Some students plan to continue their education by enrolling in a graduate program, while others plan to search for a job directly and pursue their careers. This research focuses on the instructional design of an English course for …

Student and Faculty Outcomes as a Result of a Community-Academic Vaccination Partnership During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic presents a novel public health crisis as well as an opportunity to participate in vaccination efforts at all levels of nursing education. Early findings of the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of nurses show increased levels of anxiety, depression, and PTSD. The COVID-19 crisis has dramatically altered …

Students’ Self-assessment on Group Presentation Performance with the Use of Rubrics
Group presentations are common and essential parts of many students’ university assessments and are tied to their current and future work experiences. As such, it is important for educators to design and facilitate such assessment in ways that engage students in meaningful learning experiences. One of the key elements of assessment is feedback. However, most …

Learning Experiences of College Students From Mindanao, Philippines During School Closure
The Coronavirus-19 disrupted almost everything, including schooling. The United Nations (2020) reported that nine in ten students in 166 countries were prevented from attending in-person classes due to government-imposed lockdowns. Academic institutions were forced to modify their modalities and strategies to fulfill their mandate of educating their students. The Notre Dame of Kidapawan College, a …

High Impacts of Intercultural Service-Learning Program on Taiwanese College Students
Intercultural service-learning has been regarded a high-impact educational practice which can enhance students’ learning and civic engagement. Yet, research investigating into its process and outcome in Asian settings is comparatively rare. This study aims to assess the learning effects of a Tourism English course which integrated intercultural service-learning element into its curriculum to connect students …

Do Psychology Students Enjoy Lectures in Class? Relationship with Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction (Competence, Relatedness, and Autonomy)
Flow is an experience of pleasure and enjoyment in doing an activity, characterized by total absorption which entangles awareness and action. Flow is an important asset for college students in carrying out their academic activities. When students experience a flow condition, they will enjoy and get an optimal learning experience. Student motivation also increases and …

Supporting Students in a Changing Educational Climate: A Systems Engineering Case Study
Whilst the coronavirus pandemic has posed andragogical and pedagogical challenges to educational establishments in how they restructure courses to permit continued delivery in an online world, it has also caused significant disruption to students, not least in terms of how they have maintained their ability to continue to study and learn. A significant element in …

Teaching Geometry in Middle Year’s Immersion Through a Literacy-based Approach
In Canadian Early French Immersion programs, students are simultaneously developing their language skills over time through all subject areas. Many studies have found that French immersion students acquire stronger receptive than productive language skills in French (Cummins, 2000; Genessee, 1994; Lyster, 2007; 2016), which affects their ability to communicate with accuracy in more complex situations …

Using Analytics to Select and Track At-Risk Students for Targeted Interventions
The provision of academic support is an institution’s responsibility to ensure students’ chance of attaining academic success. Data is used to understand students’ learning and academic performance and helps in making decisions on when and whom to provide timely academic support. This presentation will discuss a pilot project conducted at a Singapore university, whereby a …

A Collaborative Online International Learning Case Study Between the University of Hawai’i Hilo and Hong Kong Baptist University
With continuous globalization and technological improvements, today’s marketers need to effectively design marketing strategies for global markets that companies of various sizes can pursue. An effective way for students to gain this experience without spending money on travel is to conduct COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) classroom experiences. COIL was first established in 2006 and …

Meeting Generation Z Learning Expectations in Quest International University
Students currently studying in higher learning institutions are part of Generation Z known as the Gen Zers. Available literature on Gen Zers mostly focus on understanding and distinguishing them from previous generations by highlighting their personality traits, characteristics and learning preferences but lack information on the extent to which Gen Zers rate the different teach-learning …

An Investigation to Examine Factors Influencing University Students’ Behavioral Intention Towards the Acceptance of Brightspace LMS: Using SEM Approach
Students’ perceived usefulness (PU) and ease of use (PEOU) of Brightspace by D2L Learning Management System were evaluated (LMS). Brightspace, a new cloud-based LMS were subscribed at University W in January 2021, is a virtual learning environment with no space or time constraints between instructors and students. It has interactive material, assessment, curated resources, video …

Knowledge, Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Using Digital Games for Teaching and Learning
Digital game-based learning has evolved into a novel mode of instruction that increases both students’ and teachers’ motivation to acquire competencies. It aims to engage students and teachers in the classroom context and to pique their interest. The purpose of this study was to construct and verify a Survey Instrument on the Game-Based Learning Approach …

Building Cultural Wealth Through Natural Mentorships: Five Latinx Gang-Affiliated Youth Share Their Stories of Resilience
This presentation explores the tensions and conflicting perspectives of 20 community leaders, five youth mentees, and three mentors living in a predominantly Latinx and conservative rural California town. Their testimonies describe the sociopolitical changes they have witnessed since the 2016 election including local reactions to national ICE raids, deportation threats, drops in school and community …

Using the Apos Perspective in Analyzing Students’ Responses to Talk-Aloud Test on the Definite Integral
The study was primarily undertaken to describe the nature of the students’ conceptual understanding of the definite integral and related topics. Specifically, to be able to contribute into the pedagogic expertise of mathematics teachers by helping them in describing the nature of the students’ conceptual understanding on the mathematical concept and guide teachers explore and …

Parents and Their Voices Outside the Classroom: Perceiving Freedom in Education
Education is perceived in different ways depending on various factors. Many parents and students alike go through the process in a passive way and keep moving forward simply because the system pushes them forward. This may lead toward destinations which are not necessarily according to their wishes, nor beneficial for their future prospects. It is …

A Blended and Interactive Online Learning Courseware Enhances Bioethics Learning in Medical Education
We will discuss an interactive, multifunctional e-learning Courseware that we developed, which strongly bridges the gap between art, bioethics and medicine. First, a series of animated videos introducing selected topics of bioethics and related issues will be introduced. Then, a set of problem-based practical videos (“interactive doctor-patient role play”) along with discussion questions and online …

Learning through Teaching: Reciprocal Peer Teaching in Language Education
This study discusses pedagogical effectiveness of reciprocal peer teaching in language education by putting students at the centre of the teaching and learning process. Undergraduate students learning Korean as a foreign language at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) took part in reciprocal same-year tutoring in the format of rotating teaching sessions by individual …

Feedback: What It Is and How to Use It Effectively in a Digital World
The COVID-19 pandemic presented us the challenge of simultaneously moving towards hybrid and blended teaching provision, and designing assessments that, whilst still meeting the learning outcomes, were appropriate for the new learning environment. This allowed us to speed up the process of completely rethinking the purpose and format of assessments as well as the most …

University Students’ Perceptions of Social Experiences in Online Learning: A Post-COVID-19 Perspective
Since the emergence of COVID-19 in 2020, online learning has become increasingly important as an alternative to face-to-face higher education (HE) programme delivery globally, including in Malaysia and Singapore. With limited physical and social contact, communication, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing through digital tools play a large part in enhancing students’ virtual learning experience. Based on the …

Evaluation of Face-to-face and Online Learning for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Courses
Having moved predominantly online with the UK national lockdown of 2020, a comparison was made of two entrepreneurship courses at The University of Manchester, taught its first online academic year, with the previous year’s versions which were face to face. It was found that students generally adapted well to online teaching, feedback and attainment were …

A Study of Students’ Engagement on the Zoom-based Synchronous Online Teaching
The outbreak of the COVID-19 created a chaos of global health crisis and campus health. In the Wollongong College Hong Kong (UOWCHK), almost all classes have adopted using the Zoom-based synchronous online teaching. However, the problems of using this teaching approach are diversified as indicated in many studies. It includes the teaching becomes ‘passive’, ‘isolated’ …

Research on the Learning Experience and Effectiveness of Digital Action Learning on Design Education
Nowadays, learners use digital mobile devices to learn online resources and content at flexible times to obtain the convenience, expediency and immediacy of mobile learning. Action learning has achieved considerable results in changing the traditional learning model. The mobile devices used by college students are mostly smart phones, which have become the main application devices …

Using a Collaborative Modern Board Game to Characterise Problem-solving Experiences in Physiotherapy Students
New paradigms for curriculums designing in health professions defend the inclusion of structured methodologies to train comprehensive skills for problem-solving. This paper aimed to characterize the physiotherapy students’ problem-solving experiences using a collaborative modern board game (MBG). An exploratory study was performed with a purposive sample of 17 physiotherapy students recruited from the School of …

How to Create a Supportive Learning Environment in Mathematics Classes – An Example from a Norwegian Lower Secondary School Class
Mathematics is an important subject in school, however, many students find this subject very challenging. Some even dread mathematics as they do not master it and they may fear that their social status will be negatively influenced by this. It is therefore important that the teacher facilitates for creating a learning environment where students feel …

The Academic-Industrial Program of Southeast Asian Students in Taiwan
Since 2016’s “New Southbound Policy” has developed in Taiwan, there are more and more Southeast Asian Students coming to Taiwan for study. From 2016 to 2020, their number had risen to over 30,000 students, posting an increase of 85 per cent in five years. Those students’ language learning, life adjustment and practical training on campus …

The Relationship Between Intercultural Communication Competence and Perceived Challenge and Its Effect on Perceived Success of International Students in Japan
The number of international students in Japanese higher education institutions (HEIs) has increased significantly in recent years. Aside from Japanese-medium instruction (JMI), English-medium instruction (EMI) has been introduced to the country’s HEIs to attract more diverse student groups. Intercultural communication competence (ICC) plays an essential role in improving the on-campus experiences of international students. This …

Resilience during Crisis: Rising above the Challenges Faced in Academic Writing Classes after the Abrupt Shift to Online Education
Given the uncertainty of how long the COVID-19 Pandemic and the enforced changes it brought about will last, listening to our students’ voices on this unique experience is crucial. We may learn more about our students’ and our own adaptability from how we responded to this global crisis. Based on this rationale, the present study …

Student-Led Design of Online Tools to Support the Quality of Research Life at the University of Tokyo: A Survey-Based Approach
The Toward Diversity team consists of PhD students from four countries and three graduate schools at the University of Tokyo (UTokyo). In June 2020, at UTokyo’s Post-Corona Society Future Vision Symposium, we proposed an online platform to support the quality of research life among students and faculty members, with a focus on promoting diversity. Our …

Effect of Mixed Groups on Multicultural Interaction and Student Experience
British Universities attract students from around the world. Being able to work effectively in multicultural teams increase students’ competitiveness and employability. Therefore, it is crucial to equip students with this valuable skill. There is a vast literature exploring the challenges in multicultural classrooms. One such challenge is that students rarely engage in interactions with those …

Design Thinking Applied to Advertising Design Courses to Enhance Students’ Learning Achievement
At the time when technology is booming, the definition of advertising is no longer advertised through traditional mass media, but a trend that everything is advertising. Advertising design is not just about creating beautiful and emotional content. It must be customer-centric to make consumers feel that advertising is meaningful and worthy of action. In Taiwan, …

The Case Study on the Freshmen’s Self-assessment on the Indicators of Character and Beliefs Cultivated by the Experiential Education
This case of the University of Science and Technology mainly explores the 2020 cohort of freshmen’ recognition of the importance indicators of character and beliefs and their self-assessment on the degree of enhancing character and beliefs after participating in the experiential learning activities.The objects of this study are the freshmen who enrolled in 2020, experienced …

Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Among European Children and Young People
Scholars have perceived the COVID-19 pandemic as a generational experience that shapes children and young people’s lives in individually experienced but collectively shared ways, and thus forms a Generation Corona, whose world views and future expectations are impacted by the pandemic. This paper emanates from the deep impact that COVID-19 has had and continues to …

Connected Curriculum in Practice: The Experience of Embedding Research Oriented Assessments
This research presents the process and results of embedding the UCL Connected Curriculum into three modules at the UCL School of Management MSc Management, demonstrating the approach empowers students as knowledge creators. The paper also discusses challenges brought by these changes, and further suggested development. Based on Connected Curriculum principles and practices (Fung, 2017; Tong …

Perceptions and Processes of Virtual Teamwork Involving Japanese Undergraduate Students
In this presentation I will examine the virtual teamwork processes by focusing on the perceptions of undergraduate students when they transition, take action and build interpersonal relationships during an intensive learning project carried out at the time of COVID-19 pandemic. The participants (n=20) were Japanese undergraduate students from three universities enrolled in a synchronous online …

AMP Test Abstract
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Healthy Lifestyle Education in the CLIL Classroom
Research has shown that poor health can be associated with lower academic achievement and poor class attendance. Teachers report improvements in attendance, attention, behavior, and levels of concentration in schools where healthy eating has become accepted practice. Research also shows that healthy lifestyle habits during adolescence/pre-adult can prevent many of the diseases and disabilities in …