In higher educational institutes, developing classrooms for active learning is becoming a part of comprehensive educational drive for students involving and engaging in learning. For this purpose, influence of social factors on collaborative learning and engagement has been investigated which will influence learning performance of students. The…

Online learning has grown productive and vital for delivering asynchronous instruction to undergraduate medical students. We explored the factors that affect the learning of undergraduate medical students in an online asynchronous Forensic Medicine course through focus group discussions. These factors were identified in three components of…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop and empirically test the student engagement scale and to understand the factors that contribute to student engagement at higher educational institutions. Design/methodology/approach: The investigation started with a rummage for variables, available in the literature, 59 in numbers, which were then…

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has led to a transformation in higher education worldwide. AI tools provide academic support to students anywhere and anytime to enhance their knowledge and skills. Those facing difficulties have been relying on traditional support and guidance. However, this support has…

This study addresses lack of student engagement in large English as a second language (ESL) classes at a Pakistani university, using cooperative learning within the framework of participatory action research. A reconnaissance of the literature and thorough situation analysis led to an initial plan based on two cooperative learning strategies:…

The effects of COVID-19 remained significant on university students' social and academic well-being. The pandemic raised various mental and psychological challenges for the students, and had the potential to deteriorate their academic engagement and performance in online learning environments. The emotion regulation theory hypothesizes that…

The study aims to examine the role of course evaluation and digital platforms in students' online learning and satisfaction. The target population was students from public and private educational institutes in Pakistan. Data were gathered through an e-questionnaire and 652 responses were analysed using the partial least squares structural equation…

Academic achievement shapes future opportunities, and social media significantly influences this. Despite its growing prominence, social media's specific effects on high school students' academic outcomes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, remain unexplored. This study fills this gap by examining how social media usage relates to academic…

Present study aims to investigate the mediating role of school culture (SC) in the relationship between heads' instructional leadership (IL) and students' engagement (SE) at secondary school level. The target population was comprised of all secondary school teachers of district Punjab. Multistage sampling techniques were used to select the sample.…

With the development of information technologies, many learners opt to stay home receiving various forms of online education such as massive open online courses (MOOC). However, many learners and instructors complain that MOOC-based learning effectiveness has been dampened by many factors. Through a meta-analysis using Stata/MP 14.0, this study…

Purpose: This research aims to understand how satisfied students were with their online learning experience and how actively engaged they were in their studies. Design/methodology/approach: To study the breadth and depth of students' experiences and fully address the research aims, the researchers utilized a mixed method. Through a survey…

This study extends the general understanding of the antecedents of academic dishonesty by examining what can happen when students are treated unjustly by teachers, a phenomenon referred to as teacher injustice. Based on Conservation of Resources theory (CoRT), the study investigates the mediating role of classroom connectedness and the moderating…

Purpose: The first objective of this study is to review the mechanism of conducting extra-curricular activities (ECAs) in the open and distance learning (ODL) setting. To achieve this objective, the procedure of ECAs at the Virtual University of Pakistan has been studied. The second objective of this study is to find the impact of ECAs on student…

This paper develops a student relationship model which highlights the role of gratitude in impacting students' positive perceptions, attitudes, and behavioral intentions towards their higher education providers. Using theories from services marketing and positive psychology, we develop and test a gratitude relationship model. A field survey,…

Purpose: A number of recent artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled technologies, including summarisers, paraphrasers and the cutting-edge chatbots not only have outstanding potentials in modern educational systems but also could lead to a dramatic paradigm shift in the whole education process. This study aims to explore the factors that shape the…