The purpose of this quantitative, meta-analysis was to discover what differences in effect size exist among strategies used in face-to-face settings and/or digital teaching and learning platforms to achieve communicative competence in foreign language learners. After strategies with the largest effect sizes were identified, results were…

Instructor and business students' perspectives regarding online and face-to-face education during the pandemic were simultaneously surveyed. The study took place at an AACSB-accredited, Jesuit Catholic University with a strong focus on face-to-face teaching. Instructors and students who have experienced online education significantly differ on…

COVID-19 had direct impact on education systems worldwide with school closures affecting learning for many students, including gifted adolescents. This study explored students' perceptions of emergency online learning at school and how these differed to in-person classes and online classes they attended in the Centre for Talented Youth, Ireland…

Underrepresentation of some populations in STEM fields occurs because these students experience achievement gaps with performance lower on average than their overrepresented peers. Interventions to reduce achievement gaps and increase the retention of underrepresented students in STEM courses include approaches found both inside and outside of…

The paper will try to provide an answer to the question whether there is going to be an opposite reaction to total online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moving totally online was the only outcome at that time, it was not easy either for teachers or for students, however, eventually many of them did quite well and even benefit from the…

This study compared the effects of academic motivation on traditional and online community college students. Online enrollment continues to increase, especially in public colleges and universities. Academic success in online courses, however, continues to lag behind academic success in face-to-face courses, especially for community college…

As community colleges emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic there may be a tendency to rely on technology to facilitate more online coursework. Online education has been a fixture of higher education since the mid-1990s, but there's always been a question as to whether it is effective as traditional, face-to-face coursework. This is especially…

This study examined how students' position on social-scientific issues (SSIs) influenced their performance on attitude toward science, science conceptual and argumentation learning. It defined two positions adopted by students regarding SSIs: affirmative and oppositional. The interactions between student position and two learning environments --…

Background: Online CPD programmes may be able to assist the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Education in enhancing teaching standards and learning outcomes while overcoming the barriers to implementation, which face-to-face (f2f) CPD programmes can encounter. Yet, little research has compared the effectiveness or differences between the online and f2f…

To examine the implications of the transition from face-to-face to online learning from a psychobiological perspective, this study investigated potential differences in physiological stress parameters of students engaged in online or face-to-face learning and determined whether these can be identified as possible mediators between learning…

Little research compares hybrid to online and face-to-face (F2F) teaching. Nearly all this research assumes no difference in the students' demographics entering F2F, hybrid, or online sections of a course. This study used all the data from 5 years of undergraduate courses at Kennesaw State University. The data set, which includes individual…

In this paper, I present and discuss the findings of an intentional and systematic inquiry into the learning motivation of university master's students taking the same course in online and classroom-based formats during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through capturing the students' motivation using Keller's Instructional Materials Motivation Survey at two…

This paper aims to investigate the potential effect of the Online Learning (OL) mode on Omani General Foundation Programs (GFP) students' English language skills performance. Numeric data related to the learning achievement of the GFP students (tests and assignment scores) was collected to explore the hypothetical differences between the two modes…

Predictions about the post-pandemic future of digital learning vary among higher education scholars. Some foresee dramatic, revolutionary change while others speculate that growth in educational technology will be buffeted both by modest expansion and unevenness. To this debate we contribute evidence from four groups across six countries on four…

The only assertion that can be made about the future of humanity after the global COVID-19 pandemic is that it will never be the same. All aspects of our life, whether personal, social, professional, or academic have been affected. Considering this, teachers, education authorities and students will have to reevaluate our tasks and roles as key…