The COVID-19 pandemic has radically changed the way students learn and engage with their peers and instructors. Likewise , instructors had to quickly transform their course materials to suit the online classroom format. Results from a survey of students at an educational institution revealed...

Conventional learning situations and environments in learning factories are associated with a variety of limitations. Among other things, the application of the desired competences in practical situations is a demanding task fraught with difficulties. With virtual reality (VR), training...

The study investigates the effects of online instructional facilitator’s different qualities on student performance of online class activities. The study explores the roles of instructional facilitators who may influence student performance of online class activities and their academic...

The paper examines the impact of proctoring environments on student performance in two different exam proctoring environments: online versus offline proctored exams. This study employs a set of aggregated data from 1762 students over the eight year period from 2009 to 2016 in a university....

The learner centered teaching LCT is a very important teaching and learning strategies in the field of education. LCT has been widely used in the literature around world. LCT is said to be one of the multiple labels of constructivist teaching philosophy. The focus of the instruction is to...

COVID-19 forced many instructors to migrate their practice online and created a need to develop a new online teaching model. This article proposes an online asynchronous model specifically designed for an economics course. This teaching model was designed with three objectives: consistency,...

EdTech which includes online education, computer assisted learning (CAL), and remote instruction was expanding rapidly even before the current full-scale substitution for in-person learning at all levels of education around the world because of the coronavirus pandemic. Studies of CAL...

The spread of COVID-19 caused wide scale disruptions in the educational sector across the globe. Digital education involving use of digital tools, virtual platforms and online learning is viewed as one of the viable alternatives to continue the academic activities in such a backdrop. Higher...

Invasion of locust swarms has affected the crops in many countries in Africa and Asia which is a major threat to food security. According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), locusts have the ability to fly over 130 km a day and stay in the air for a long time. There are different...

The pandemic experience has made it clear that not everyone loves teaching or learning remotely. Many professors and students alike are eager to return to the classroom. However, our experiences over the last year and a half have also demonstrated the potentials and possibilities of learning...