Published in Teaching and teacher education
Schools play an important role in promoting physical activity among students. This paper studies the perception of educators, students, and parents about the use of online physically active academic lessons during COVID-19 in the north of Chile. Starting the first week of November 2020, and for a period of five weeks, 323 students, alongside 11 edu...
Published in Education and information technologies
Social media can be a support during the initial training of communication professionals, although most studies on social media and learning have mainly focused on other professional groups. The purpose of this article is to explore how communication students learn and their use of social media platforms, in order to identify the role of social med...
Published in Education and Information Technologies
The main aim of this article is to determine Turkish EFL (English as a foreign language) students’ perceptions about learning English through distance education (henceforth DE) during the COVID-19 pandemic. To realize this aim, the study adopted a qualitative research design and used the metaphor elicitation technique, semi-structured telephone int...
Published in Journal of Computing in Higher Education
Social presence is an important concept for understanding psychosocial processes in learning scenarios that make extensive use of mediated communication like online distance learning. Despite this centrality, a coherent and nuanced theory of social presence is yet to emerge from the literature. Past research has shown associations with desirable af...
Published in BMC Medical Education
Background Since March 2020, COVID-19 has created a need for adaptation in many areas of life. This study explores medical students’ perspectives on digital teaching under conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on expectations and concerns about digital teaching, the evaluation of specific aspects of teaching, and requests for future teach...
Published in Behavior Analysis in Practice
The prevalence of distance education utilizing asynchronous instruction has increased in recent years. Asynchronous instruction differs from the more common synchronous instruction in that learners primarily contact the lessons and educational materials on their own rather than with a live instructor. Though not without its limitations, asynchronou...
Published in The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher
In this study, we aimed to investigate the prospective primary school teachers’ opinions about their experiences in distance education within the scope of twenty-first century skills during COVID-19 pandemic. The phenomenological research method was used for the purpose of enlightening this specific context. The study group involved 16 prospective ...
Published in Zeitschrift für Bildungsforschung
Wie Schüler*innen Feedback wahrnehmen, bedingt die Wirkung von Feedback auf schulische Leistungen sowie die Genese von akademischen Selbstkonzepten. Durch die COVID-19 Pandemie veränderten sich die Rahmenbedingungen des schulischen Lernens und somit auch die Feedbackgelegenheiten im Unterricht. In der vorliegenden Studie wurde anhand einer Stichpro...
Published in Education and Information Technologies
Electronic learning (e-learning) has become inevitable for higher education institutions during the Corona Virus pandemic. This paper presents a systematic literature review on e-learning in Malawi’s higher education institutions with comparable analysis from findings in other developing countries across the globe. The aim was to highlight some ben...
Published in Education and Information Technologies
Distance education has been the concern of educational institutions nowadays due to COVID 19 pandemic. The purpose of this study which was carried out during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period in 2020 was to evaluate the effectiveness of webcast applications on teacher training. Since it was a sudden and an unpredicted transition from face-to-face e...
