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Jihong Ding, Caiping Xiong & Huazhong Liu

Constructing the digital learning environment for ubiquitous learning and asynchronous distributed learning has opened up immense amounts of concrete research. However, current digital learning environments do not fully fulfill the … More

José Antonio González‐Calero, David Arnau, Luis Puig & Miguel Arevalillo‐Herráez

The term intensive scaffolding refers to any set of conceptual scaffolding strategies that always allow the user to find the solution to a problem. Despite the many benefits of scaffolding, … More

Elba Gutierrez‐Santiuste & Maria‐Jesus Gallego‐Arrufat

This study investigates the phases of development of synchronous and asynchronous virtual communication produced in a community of inquiry (CoI) by analyzing the internal structure of each intervention in the … More

Yahui Chang, Syh‐Jong Jang & Yang‐Hsueh Chen

Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) has been gaining traction among educational researchers; however, studies documenting university students' perceptions of their teachers' TPACK remain limited. This study intends to investigate … More

Olaojo Aiyegbayo

This paper evaluated how academics, at a mid-sized UK university, used their iPads for teaching. The data were gathered using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Eighty-four academics completed a survey … More

Carlos Rodriguez‐Solano, Salvador Sánchez‐Alonso & Miguel‐Angel Sicilia

Open textbook initiatives have appeared as an alternative to traditional publishing. These initiatives for the production of alternatively copyrighted educational resources provide a way of sharing materials through the Web. More

Abdulrahman M Al‐Zahrani

This study aimed to investigate the impact of the flipped classroom on the promotion of students' creative thinking. Students were recruited from the Faculty of Education at King Abdulaziz University … More

Judith Enriquez‐Gibson

There is nothing less about paper and its use when it comes to academic study as we experience increasingly converging media spaces and functionalities of online applications within the screens … More

Jo Bird & Susan Edwards

Digital technologies are increasingly acknowledged as an important aspect of early childhood education. A significant problem for early childhood education has been how to understand the pedagogical use of technologies … More

Peter E. Doolittle, Lauren H. Bryant & Jessica R. Chittum

The construction of asynchronous learning environments often involves the creation of self-paced multimedia instructional episodes that provide the learner with control over the pacing of instruction (segmentation); however, does the … More

Joel M. Magogwe, Beauty Ntereke & Keith R. Phetlhe

In the 21st century, the use of information technology in the classroom is advancing rapidly, especially in higher education. The Internet, through social networking, has made it possible for students … More

Yu Hsin Hung, Chun Fu Lin & Ray I. Chang

In response to the rapid growth of information in recent decades, knowledge-based systems have become an essential tool for organizational learning. The application of electronic performance-support systems in learning activities … More

Sara Freitas de, David Gibson, Coert Du Plessis, Pat Halloran, Ed Williams, Matt Ambrose, Ian Dunwell & Sylvester Arnab

With digitisation and the rise of e-learning have come a range of computational tools and approaches that have allowed educators to better support the learners' experience in schools, colleges and … More

Alexandra Makos, Kyungmee Lee & Daniel Zingaro

This case study is the first iteration of a large-scale design-based research project to improve Pepper, an interactive discussion-based learning environment. In this phase, we designed and implemented two social … More

Carla Haelermans, Joris Ghysels & Fernao Prince

This paper explores the effect of digital differentiation on student performance using a randomized experiment. The experiment is conducted in a second year biology class among 115 prevocational students in … More

Salvador Ros, Roberto Hernández, Agustín Caminero, Antonio Robles, Isabel Barbero, Araceli Maciá & Francisco Pablo Holgado

Service-oriented e-learning platforms can be considered as a third generation of learning management systems (LMSs). As opposed to the previous generations, consisting of ad hoc solutions and traditional LMS, this … More

Emma King & Russell Boyatt

E-learning is increasingly adopted in the workplace for supporting professional development and continuing education; however, in higher education, the use of e-learning is predominantly used as a tool support teaching. … More

David E. Whitworth & Kate Wright

In science education, laboratory practicals are frequently assessed through submission of a report. A large increase in student numbers necessitated us adapting a traditional practical report into an online test … More

James Hammond, Tom Cherrett & Ben Waterson

Skills and awareness of young pedestrians can be improved with on-street practical pedestrian training, often delivered in schools in the UK by local authorities with the intention of improving road … More

Adam Unwin

This work concerns the professional development of UK teachers in their first year of teaching. It is interested in how the online discussions (ODs) these teachers undertook as part of … More

Mauro Coccoli, Saverio Iacono & Gianni Vercelli

Gamification techniques are commonly used in e-learning to enhance the effectiveness of educational activities and the learners’ partaking. In fact, owing to the engagement effect, they can improve learning processes … More

Juan Torres-Diaz & Josep Duart

The digital divide was initially defined by socioeconomic variables, mainly the level of family income, but now it focuses on how the Internet is used and is called digital inequality. … More

Filomena Faiella & Maria Ricciardi

This paper will review the literature on gamification and aim to apply principles of analysis for synthesize existing research, identify issues of controversy, uncover areas that future gamification research should … More

Selay Arkn Kocadere & Şeyma Çağlar

In this research, a gamified assessment was designed considering the theoretical basis and implemented. The dynamics, mechanics and components that Werbach & Hunter (2012) defined for gamification, used in the … More

Giulia Guarnieri

This study analyzes data collected from Italian language online classes during the course of four consecutive semesters at Bronx Community College in order to measure the impact that distance learning … More

Gianvito D'Aprile, Pierpaolo Di Bitonto, Roberta De Asmundis & Antonio Ulloa Severino

The theoretical conceptions of game-based learning are different from those of traditional instruction. Indeed, the classical approaches of needs and task analysis seem to be not appropriate for designing digital … More

Yasser Jaffal & Dieter Wloka

The adaptation Game-Based Assessment (GBA) (Mislevy et al., 2014) has been growing in the last years backed by video games’ capability of offering a task model to assess learners’ complex … More

John Girard, Tina Ashford & Pedro Coln

This was the second phase in a research project designed to compare student achievement in online and face-to-face classes. The aim of this phase was to determine if online and … More

Chang-Hsin Lin & Ju-Ling Shih

This study aimed to design a digital game-based adventure education (GILT) course for team-building purposes. The six traditional activities chose from adventure education were developed into six digital games and … More

Nicola Capuano & Richard King

Emergency preparedness is a promising application field for digital serious games enabling the simulation of real emergency scenarios and allowing a high learning transfer thanks to engagement and focus on … More

Vincenzo Petruzzi & Marco Amicucci

Corruption is a powerful impediment to economic and social evolution, and training is one of the most important tools for helping organisations stem and combat the spread of this phenomenon. … More

Sevasti Theodosiou & Ilias Karasavvidis

One of the main problems the field of Serious Game Design is facing concerns the gap between game design and educational design. It has become evident that to optimize the … More

Consolata Angello

This paper discusses the importance of various Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in learning and disseminating relevant information on livestock husbandry in Tanzania. The paper is part of a study … More

Nico Rutten, Wouter van Joolingen, Gerdi Haverkamp-Hermans, Franz Bogner, Thomas Kretschmer, Christian Stracke, Petros Lameras, Augusto Chioccariello, Rosa Doran, Rdiger Tiemann, Timotheos Kastrinogiannis, Jasminka Maravic, Yvonne Crotty, Claire Kelly, Vassiliki Markaki, Angelos Lazoudis, Jani Koivula & Dimitris Polymatidis

In this study we followed a narrative approach to investigate the function that digital, interactive tools can fulfill in inquiry teaching and learning. Such a narrative can be conceived as … More

Samali Mlay, Humphrey Sabi, Clive Tsuma & Kehbuma Langmia

This paper investigates how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can improve reading habits among university students. We also investigated the influence of home culture, school culture and disposable income on … More

Craig Jenkins

This paper is a comparative quantitative evaluation of an approach to teaching poetry in English that employs a ‘guided discovery’ pedagogy using computer-based microworlds. It uses an experimental design in … More

Elfrieda Fleischmann, Christo Van der Westhuizen & Dirk Cilliers

Currently there is a global drive among political and educational institutions to implement geographic information system (GIS) practice in secondary schools. However, Geography teachers worldwide, including in South Africa, face … More

Kerwin Livingstone

In this modern era, the traditional approach to learning and teaching, which may engage students, does not lend itself to diversity. Since this approach is viewed as a barrier to … More

Aleksandar Jovanovic, Anita Jankovic, Snezana Markovic Jovanovic, Vladan Peric, Biljana Vitosevic & Milos Pavlovic

The paper describes the delivery of the courses in the framework of the project implementation and presents the effect the change in the methodology had on student performance as measured … More

James Natia & Seidu Al-hassan

The Basic School Computerization policy was created in 2011 to introduce computers and e-learning into the entire educational system to promote training and life-long learning. Using data obtained by Connect … More

Dalton Kisanga & Gren Ireson

Tanzanian Higher learning institutions (HLIs) are faced with challenges of adopting e-learning in education. This study involved experts in e-learning to examine barriers of adopting e-learning and the best strategies … More

Joel Mtebe

Learning Management Systems (LMS) have been widely adopted by higher education institutions globally for over a decade. Institutions in sub-Saharan Africa now spend a significant proportion of their limited resources … More

Kerwin Livingstone

Since the genesis of technology, some decades ago, the use of information and communication technologies in educational practices has been steadily increasing. In educational institutions, some form of elearning has … More

Emily Bagarukayo & Billy Kalema

Although eLearning is the use of technology for teaching, learning and assessment, there is no common approach to it across South African Higher Education Institutions. There is therefore a concern … More

Charles Buabeng-Andoh & Issifu Yidana

The purpose of this study was to investigate teachers’ use of ICT and the factors that affect their ICT use in secondary schools in Ghana. A focus group interview was … More

Brenda Mallinson & Greig Krull

This paper describes the authors’ experience of remixing two existing OER courses to provide an OER course for a particular purpose and context. The developing country target environment is stated … More

George Veletsianos

Although the open scholarship movement has successfully captured the attention and interest of higher education stakeholders, researchers currently lack an understanding of the degree to which open scholarship is enacted … More

Marcela Gmez Zermeo & Lorena Alemn de la Garza

Temoa is a distributor of knowledge that provides a multilingual public catalog of collections of Open Educational Resources (OER). Temoa seeks to support the educational community to find the resources … More

Jan Gondol & Nicole Allen

An exciting new avenue for establishing and expanding national commitments to open education has emerged through the Open Government Partnership (OGP), a multilateral initiative that aims to secure commitments from … More

Alexandra Okada, Peter Scott & Murilo Mendona

The challenging of assessing formal and informal online learning at scale includes various issues. Many universities who are now promoting “Massive Online Open Courses” (MOOC), for instance, focus on relatively … More

Ayesha Perveen

The paper critically evaluated the discursive practices on the Moderated Discussion Board (MDB) of Virtual University of Pakistan (VUP). The paramount objective of the study was to conduct a critical … More

Ins Gil-Jaurena

This issue of Open Praxis includes six papers presenting research or innovative practices in the field of open, distance and flexible education. More

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Antonia Diaz Reales & Ignacio Aguaded-Gmez

This paper examines the integration of Romanian immigrants in Lucena del Puerto (Huelva, Spain) through the life stories of two families of Romanian origin. The experiences of the groups presented … More

Antnia Dardes Mesquida & Adolfina Prez

Research project tutoring appears as a crucial element for teaching; it is a planned action based on the relationship between a tutor and a student. This paper presents the findings … More

J Callado Moreno, M Molina Jan, Eufrasio Prez Navo & Javier Rodrguez Moreno

Since Spain decided to embark on the development of inclusive schooling, studies have taken place to see if the inclusive principle is being developed satisfactorily. Inclusive schooling implies that all … More

Merc Cervera & Jos Cantabrana

La sociedad del s. XXI demanda sistemas educativos flexibles y con capacidad de adaptacin constante, capaces de hacer frente a las necesidades formativas, en forma de competencias, propias de un … More

Ana Capelo & Isabel Cabrita

Given that reforms involving how to deal with the past are extremely difficult, especially when the past involves memories of victimization, death, and destruction so widespread that a high percentage … More

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Linda Castaeda Quintero, Mara Romn Garca & Ramn Barlam Aspasch

This article presents a case study with the goal of becoming familiar with and understanding the incorporation of one virtual learning world –Espurnik- in a curricular diversification classroom with students … More

Janaina de Oliveira & Eliana Gallardo-Echenique

In this paper, we address the guidance of student teachers in initial training in schools as an invaluable opportunity to raise creative learning awareness. The objective of this present research … More

Mery Vega-Vaca & Christian Hederich-Martnez

This study is expected to determine the impact of a program based on the cooperative learning methodology. This, in comparison to a traditional learning situation in both mathematics and language … More

Olga Agudelo & Jesus Salinas Ibez

Se estudia el uso de itinerarios de aprendizaje basados en mapas conceptuales como una propuesta para un diseo instruccional ms flexible que potencie el aprendizaje y se centre en el … More

H.S. Kim, L. Prevost & P.P. Lemons

The understanding of core concepts and processes of science in solving problems is important to successful learning in biology. We have designed and developed a Web-based, self-directed tutorial program, , … More

Z. Katai

The research results we present in this paper reveal that properly calibrated e-learning tools have potential to effectively promote the algorithmic thinking of both science-oriented and humanities-oriented students. After students … More

Y‐H. Chen, S‐J. Jang & P‐J. Chen

Wiki bears great potential to transform learning and instruction by scaffolding personal and social constructivism. Past studies have shown that proper application of wiki benefits both students and teachers; however, … More

D. Hooshyar, R.B. Ahmad, M. Yousefi, F.D. Yusop & S.‐J. Horng

Intelligent tutoring and personalization are considered as the two most important factors in the research of learning systems and environments. An effective tool that can be used to improve problem-solving … More

K. De Witte, C. Haelermans & N. Rogge

Computer-assisted instruction (CAI) programs are considered as a way to improve learning outcomes of students. However, little is known on the schools who implement such programs as well as on … More

T. Jaakkola & K. Veermans

Contemporary evidence on the effectiveness of concrete and abstract representations in science education is based solely on studies conducted in college context. There it has been found that learning with … More

R. Kimmons

This study seeks to understand the relationship between K-12 online system adoption (e.g., Blackboard, Edmodo, WordPress) and school-level academic achievement ratings. Utilizing a novel approach to data collection via website … More

Christin Manning

Workers in the 21st century workplace are faced with rapid and constant developments that place a heavy demand on them to continually learn beyond what the Human Resources and Training … More

Thomas Hagenreiner, Grazia Engelmann & Peter Khler

Learning is a lifelong process, which may not end at the transition from school to work. To exploit modern software systems used in design engineering, in order to increase efficiency … More

Sivachandran Chandraseakaran, Guy Littlefair & Alex Stojcevski

The university-learning environment in engineering is not sufficient for students to become engineers. The practical role of engineering is working on real world problems in an industry environment. Industry-university collaboration … More

Norah Al-Malki, Abdul AbdulKarim & Fouad Shoie Alallah

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the degree of teaching staff’s and Students’ satisfaction with the teaching and learning experience via the Blackboard ™ Learning Management System (LMS), … More

Mikael Snaprud & Gerd Helmikstl

Using questions to elaborate knowledge, is widely used in learning today. In this position paper we argue that there are new benefits to reap from using ICT in a learning … More

Richard Evans, James Gao, Nick Martin & Clive Simmonds

Employee collaboration and knowledge sharing is vital for manufacturing organisations wishing to be successful in an ever-changing global market place; Product Development (PD) teams, in particular, rely heavily on these … More

David Foster

An innovative online approach to executive development is described. The approach utilizes asynchronous and synchronous elements, required submission of assignments, and other features resembling those of online college courses. Design … More

Kristen Giovanis

Creating effective global eLearning initiatives requires strategic planning and process development to avoid mistakes that can turn off global learners. In order to successfully implement a global training program in … More

Tsoghik Grigoryan

Predicting the future path of the digital classroom discourse is twofold. Today’s language classroom is undergoing an irreversible revolution and one of the most powerful drivers of this transformation is … More

Lindsay Galway, Barbara Berry & Timothy Takaro

The flipped classroom instructional model has emerged as an alternative to conventional lecture-based teaching that has dominated higher education for decades. In 2013, a cohort of graduate-level public health students … More

Amber Mazur, Barbara Brown & Michele Jacobsen

The flipped classroom is an instructional model that leverages technology-enhanced instruction outside of class time in order to maximize student engagement and learning during class time. As part of an … More

Dani Herro

This case uses a worked or “working example” model (Gee, 2010), documenting the implementation of a novel game design curriculum in the United States. Created by an Instructional Technology Administrator … More

Eve Paquette & Danielle-Claude Blanger

The use of driving simulators is an innovation for police training in Quebec. There are some issues related to their impact on training objectives. This article presents the results of … More

Chih‐Yueh Chou & Pin‐Hsun Lin

Peer instruction (PI) involves students answering questions and peer discussion learning activities. PI can enhance student performance and engagement in classroom instruction. However, some students do not engage in the … More

Ibrahim Arpaci

The objective of this paper is to understand the impact of cultural differences on mobile learning adoption through identifying key adoption characteristics in Canada and Turkey, which have markedly different … More

Sharon E. Booth & Shaun B. Kellogg

The popularity and pervasiveness of online communities have led researchers and practitioners alike to closely examine the utility of online communities for supporting and facilitating professional learning. As economic constraints … More

Kwok‐Wing Lai & Kian‐Sam Hong

As digital technologies form an inextricable part of young people's everyday lives, some commentators claim that the current generation of learners think and learn differently from their predecessors. This study … More

Min Jou & Jingying Wang

This study investigated a Ubiquitous Sensor System (USS) that we developed to assess student thought process during practical lessons on a real-time basis and to provide students with a reflective … More

Nora Mogey & Andrew Fluck

It seems anachronistic that we expect students to handwrite essay examinations when almost all their other work is mediated by computer. Two universities, one in the UK and one in … More

Halszka Jarodzka, Noortje Janssen, Paul A. Kirschner & Gijsbert Erkens

This study investigated whether design guidelines for computer-based learning can be applied to computer-based testing (CBT). Twenty-two students completed a CBT exam with half of the questions presented in a … More

Ali Tarhini, Kate Hone & Xiaohui Liu

This paper examines the social, organisational and individual factors that may affect students' acceptance of e-learning systems in higher education in a cross-cultural context. A questionnaire was developed based on … More

Yueh‐Min Huang & Tsung‐Ho Liang

Tracking individual reading behaviors is a difficult task, as is carrying out real-time recording and analysis throughout the reading process, but these aims are worth pursuing. In this study, the … More

Ebrahim Rahimi, Jan Berg van den & Wim Veen

In recent educational literature, it has been observed that improving student's control has the potential of increasing his or her feeling of ownership, personal agency and activeness as means to … More

Yi‐Chun Hong & Ikseon Choi

Reflection is a critical factor in solving design problems. Using good methods to observe designers' reflection is essential to inform the design of the learning environments that support the development … More

Darren Cooper & Steve Higgins

The use of instructional videos to teach clinical skills is an ever growing area of e-learning based upon observational learning that is cited as one of the most basic yet … More

Elaine Garcia, Ibrahim Elbeltagi, Mel Brown & Kerry Dungay

While the use of Web 2.0 tools and specifically blogs is becoming increasingly popular within higher education (HE) and has been shown to promote learning, relatively little is known about … More

Chad C. Tossell, Philip Kortum, Clayton Shepard, Ahmad Rahmati & Lin Zhong

Smartphone technology is penetrating world markets and becoming ubiquitous in most college settings. This study takes a naturalistic approach to explore the use of these devices to support student learning. … More

Insung Jung & Yoko Suzuki

Wikis can be used to encourage and support collaborative constructivist learning. However, their effectiveness depends upon the use of scaffolding strategies to guide the students in their use. This action … More