With the rapid advancement of China's "Internet plus Education" plan, "Internet plus Education" has become a research hotspot. The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has brought great opportunities, tests and inspections for online education. All schools earnestly implemented the relevant requirements of the Ministry of Education…

This study, emerging from a larger, longitudinal research project, reports about a cohort (n = 13) of beginning teachers' professional agency and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. From the social-ecological perspective, the participants perceived their professional agency as both temporal and relational phenomena by interacting within their…

Recently, universities and colleges have gradually shifted from face-to-face teaching to small private online course-based teaching, which integrates massive open online courses with physical classroom teaching. However, learners often experience adjustment problems within this relatively new environment. This survey-based study evaluated the…

Knowing the factors affecting students' learning achievement in digital learning is a crucial educational issue nowadays. However, recent research has paid less attention to how an individual's internal factors (prior knowledge) influence their learning achievement through cognitive engagement, and previous studies generally employed students'…

This research explores how motivation and online learning self-efficacy (OLSE) act as mediators in the association between information and communication technology (ICT) literacy and deep learning within the context of online English as a foreign language (EFL) education. A sample of 372 participants were recruited on a voluntary and anonymous…

University students always suffer from technostress and experience burnout during technology-enhanced learning (TEL). Research revealing whether and how university support contributes to eliminate them lacks. This study aims to investigate the structural relationship among "university support" (i.e., "administration support"…

Online learning has now become a prominent characteristic of global higher education, and students' experiences of online learning have become a focal issue in research on online learning. This is not only the premise for assessing the quality of online learning but also the key to promoting regional equity in higher education. This study drew…

The successful application of the e-learning system is of great significance to the implementation, management and continuous improvement of blended learning in higher education. Hence, we focused on identifying key factors affecting college students' adoption of the e-learning system in mandatory blended learning environments. In this study, the…

As a key variable determining technology acceptance and adoption, the perceived ease of technology use (PEU) has been in the focus of a considerable body of research. This research examined the external factors that influence perceived ease of use, such as computer self-efficacy and perceived enjoyment, but yielded inconsistent findings and…

This study examined the effect of e-learning compared to traditional education on student achievement and satisfaction, and to find out if COVID-19 is the first step for creating a society without a school, an online survey was conducted. The study sample consisted of 125 Palestinian bachelor's degree students from different universities in the…

The present study explores the self-regulated learning (SRL) research published in English or Turkish language journals included in the Web of Science database from the beginning to 2021 via bibliometric analysis. The 2197 articles that met the eligibility criteria were included in the study. The results reveal that the research on SRL has been…

Online teacher professional development is widely regarded as a promising way to improve the quality of teachers and the effect of teaching. Micro-learning, which has the potential to fit the learner's personalized learning needs through a variety of small educational resources and flexible learning opportunities, could be an efficient way for the…

The surge in demand for online learning, further intensified by COVID-19, has ignited profound interest in enhancing student learning outcomes in the realm of online learning. The purpose of this study was to examine how and why college students in the United States and China engaged with, accepted, and perceived online learning during and after…

Teaching has always been an emotionally demanding profession, which involves tremendous emotional labour on the part of language teachers. This is particularly true for instructors of English as a foreign language (EFL) suddenly obliged to teach online during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the approach of autoethnographic self-study, this…

Education is seen as an important vehicle to foster relationships with countries in the Asia-Pacific region -- particularly with Australia's most important economic partner, China. There are many prior studies that have explored the impact of Learning Management Systems (LMSs) on users, through a variety of research designs. However, the diversity…