Co-viewing video lectures, where students watch lectures simultaneously with one or more remote peers and engage in interpersonal communication on learning tasks online, is becoming increasingly popular. However, there is a dearth of studies ...

• High-performers were more engaged in clarifying behavioral sequences.
• Low-performers adjusted their artifacts by viewing their peers' artifacts.
• High-performers demonstrated strong connections between deep-level knowledge and high ...

In the Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) forum, learning engagement encompasses three fundamental dimensions—cognitive, emotional, and behavioral engagement—that intricately interact to jointly influence students' learning achievements. However, ...

• Using automated configurational approach for analyzing learning engagement.
• Building multiple configurations of learning engagement to identify achievement.
• Revealing differences in configurations of learning engagement between ...

Adaptive teaching is regarded to address students' heterogeneity in schools and to individually support their learning. Technology may help to teach adaptively. However, it is still unclear whether realizing adaptive teaching with technology is a ...

• Co-design in long-term project to design technology-supported adaptive teaching.
• Realization of twelve teaching units (3–4 weeks) in real classroom settings.
• Sequential-explanatory mixed-method design to explore strengths and ...

With the increasing prevalence of digital devices such as smartphones, tablets and e-readers, more and more reading is happening in digital formats – also in classrooms across the world. The present study focuses on lower secondary school ...

• Students at different reading levels were given a reading comprehension test on paper and on screen.
• Their reading (more than 25000 fixations) was monitored through eye-tracking technology.
• Comprehensive data on students' reading ...

Engaging children in describing real-life scenes provides an effective approach to fostering language production and developing their language skills, enabling them to establish meaningful connections between their language proficiency and ...

• Generating descriptions from real-life visuals enhances authentic language learning.
• Feasible to provide automated feedback in self-directed language learning using AI.
• Automated feedback motivates students to improve and engage in ...

The recent Covid-19 pandemic made universities rethink their traditional educational models, shifting, in some cases, to pure online or hybrid models. Hybrid settings usually involve onsite (i.e., in the classroom) and online (e.g., in a ...

• The study provides empirical evidence on teacher orchestration load in collaborative hybrid settings.
• Results show a medium-to-high workload of orchestrating a jigsaw hybrid activity.
• Group monitoring, technical difficulties and ...

Prior research has suggested that participation in peer feedback activities, specifically the giving and receiving of comments, and the implementation of suggested ideas helps to improve writing quality. However, it is not always the case that ...

• No correlation between implemented comments and student writing performance.
• Total comments moderates relationship between implementation and performance.
• The fewer comments received, the more impact implementation of them has.

Blended learning offers a learner-centred approach that employs both in-class learning and digital technology to facilitate online learning. Such an approach is especially advantageous to adult-learners in higher education as it meets their ...

• Online learning is a pillar of blended learning.
• Blended learning appeals to adult-learners as it offers flexibility in time and place.
• Lack of interaction with online content seems prevalent among adult-learners.
• Teaching ...

ChatGPT, a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, has gained considerable attention as a transformative yet controversial tool for enhancing teaching and learning experiences. Several reviews and numerous articles have been ...

• This review synthesises 72 studies on ChatGPT's influence on student engagement.
• The findings indicate both engagement and disengagement in ChatGPT-supported learning.
• Further research could focus on those understudied areas, such ...

Self-regulated learning (SRL) can be defined as the ability of learners to act independently and actively manage their own learning process. This skill becomes especially important in online environments, which allow learners to decide where and ...

• We identified teachers’ learning patterns in an online professional development course.
• Four vignettes represent teachers' learning strategies and their time management skills.
• We show that most teachers studied weekly, whereas ...

Critical thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity are regarded as key skills for today's learners. Interest in robotics usage to develop such competencies in educational settings arises but there hasn't been so far mapping of the ...

• Critical thinking, Communication, Collaboration, Creativity via Robotics.
• Critical thinking studied most, Creativity least, Communication-Collaboration mixed.
• Need for clear terminology of skills and holistic evaluation in ...

AI-powered learning technologies are increasingly being used to automate and scaffold learning activities (e.g., personalised reminders for completing tasks, automated real-time feedback for improving writing, or recommendations for when and what ...

• The use of AI in Edtech to scaffold and personalise learning is on the rise.
• However, the impact of AI-powered Edtech on student agency is underexplored.
• This paper investigates AI's impact on student agency via a study in peer ...

Over the past decade, there has been an enormous upsurge in the use of educational apps in primary schools. However, few studies have examined how children interact with these apps and how their interaction patterns relate to learning outcomes. ...

• Repeated mistakes pose a threat to app-based learning.
• The propensity to repeat mistakes is stable over time.
• Repeated mistakes mediate the total effect of prior knowledge on learning gains.
• High numbers of repeated mistakes ...

This study explored the effects of out-of-class interactions with intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) versus human interlocutors on EFL learners' willingness to communicate (WTC) in English. A total of 92 first-year college students were ...

• Intelligent personal assistants significantly increase L2 willingness to communicate.
• Intelligent personal assistants promote L2 speaking confidence and reduce anxiety.
• IPAs' mobility, interactivity, and multifunctionality foster ...

Scholars and practitioners have called for personalized and widely accessible professional development (PD) for teachers. Yet, a long-standing tension between customizing support and increasing access to such support has hindered the scale-up of ...

• An asynchronous, computerized teacher professional development (PD) program was designed for mathematics teachers.
• Natural language processing was integrated into the PD system.
• The program interacts with teachers and automatically ...

In this paper, we review and meta-analyze the findings of experimental studies published between 2006 and 2022 that examined the effects of coding and programming interventions on children's core and higher order executive functions (response ...

• Structured virtual and educational robotics activities improve younger children's EFs and problem solving.
• Unstructured virtual coding activities are effective in boosting the problem solving skills of older students.
• Coding ...

Open Educational Resources (OER) repositories provide teachers with a wide range of learning resources (LRs), enabling them to design various learning sequences. However, search & select in large OER repositories can be a daunting task for ...

• A socially-based recommender system was implemented in a blended learning environment.
• Social recognition was found to motivate teachers to provide social recommendations.
• Teachers found social recommendations helpful in finding ...

Computational thinking is widely recognized as an essential skill for adapting to the current era, with programming learning being the most effective means to develop it. It is recommended that computational thinking and learning programming be ...

• Most elementary school students are aware that they can use CT to solve problems.
• Graphic organizers can help elementary school students improve their CT and programming skill.
• Students can reach a higher flow experience when ...

Recent meta-analytic evidence suggests that students’ minds are likely to wander off-task frequently, regardless of the learning modality; yet virtual reality (VR) has been notably unexplored in this space. VR may present an opportunity to ...

• Task-unrelated thought (TUT) hasn't been examined in Virtual Reality (VR) learning.
• TUT could be reduced in VR due to reduction in external audio-visual distractions.
• TUT was significantly lowered in the VR condition compared to ...

Game learning analytics (GLA) is an emerging technology that facilitates teachers’ evidence-based pedagogical design and assessments. Despite its affordances and potential in K–12 classrooms, teachers’ integration of GLA in teaching practices ...

• We explored K–12 teachers’ integration of game learning analytics in classrooms.
• Attitudes, subjective norms, and self-efficacy predicted behavioural intention.
• TPACK, school support, and behavioural intention predicted actual ...