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Toward Self-Directed Learning: How Do Nepali Adolescents Learn with MOOCs?
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Zixi Li; Meina Zhu; Dilnoza Kadirova; Curtis J. Bonk – Distance Education, 2023
The study investigated how adolescent students in Nepal explored massive open online learning courses (MOOCs) in a self-directed learning manner. It used a qualitative approach by conducting 13 individual interviews with these youth. Findings suggest that Nepali adolescent MOOC learners are strongly motivated by natural curiosity toward learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Independent Study, MOOCs, Learning Processes
Cultural Humility in an Intercultural Mentor-Mentee Relationship: Overcoming Emotional "Borders and Borderlands" of Nepali-Mentors and US-Mentees
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Thapa, Sapna; Madrid Akpovo, Samara – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2022
This study examines qualitative data collected during an 8-month ethnographic study that explored the emotional experiences of six student-teachers from a university in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States and five Nepali teachers from an upper-middle-class preschool in Kathmandu, Nepal. The study uncovered how emotional experiences of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness, Mentors, Intercultural Communication
A Mindful Inquiry towards Transformative Curriculum Vision for Inclusive Mathematics Education
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Luitel, Bal Chandra – Learning: Research and Practice, 2018
Exploring ways to develop a transformative curriculum vision for mathematics education that is inclusive to opposing perspectives and ideologies, this mindful inquiry explores "mindless" views embedded in the mathematics curriculum of Nepal; explores narrowly conceived disempowering assumptions within it; engages in dialectical…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries, Metacognition
Roles of Planning and Tasks in EFL Performance
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Dawadi, Saraswati – TESL-EJ, 2019
There is a substantial body of research into the effects of planning time on second language (L2) oral performance, but different effects were found -- some of them showing increased accuracy, others increased complexity and/or fluency of language. In this study, 30 English as a foreign language learner individually performed a narrative and an…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Metacognition
Language Learning Strategies Profiles of EFL Learners in Nepal
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Dawadi, Saraswati – Online Submission, 2017
This study investigated language learning strategies (LLS) used by English as foreign language (EFL) learners in Nepal. For this study, 370 undergraduate level students from a university in Nepal responded to a questionnaire. The quantitative software SPSS was used to analyse the data. Results indicated that students were moderate users of those…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning
Education Blended with Yoga--A Solution for Youth Risk Behavior
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Selvi, B. Tamil; Thangarajathi, S. – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2010
All teenagers take risks as a normal part of growing up. Risk-taking is the tool an adolescent uses to define and develop his or her identity, and healthy risk-taking is a valuable experience. Healthy adolescent risk-taking behaviors which tend to have a positive impact on an adolescent's development can include participation in sports, the…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Metacognition, Youth Problems, Youth Opportunities