In immersive block models students learn over shorter teaching periods and with fewer concurrent units than in typical semester or trimester models. A core aim of many such innovations is to enhance students' learning outcomes; however, there are few investigations of student satisfaction at scale in immersive block models. This paper reports on…

The COVID-19 pandemic forced organizations across diverse industries to redraw their business models globally. Businesses crumbled, downsized, laid off workers, streamlined and digitalized their workflow, and maintained skeletal staff to support integral business functions. Remote working and flexible schedules were institutionalized to manage…

Organizations want great work performance but ignore employees' fundamental psychological and emotional issues, which are imperative in making employees productive. Although it is easier to evaluate employee productivity through tangible outcomes, it is much more difficult to quantify the impact of emotional states of being. This study examined…

Purpose: Studies have so far focused on learning in organizations, factors affecting learning, learning effectiveness and so on but the concept of learning in a hybrid work arrangement is yet unexplored. The purpose of this study is to measure the perception of faculty members in higher education institutions towards learning in a hybrid work…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of educational service quality (ESQ) on student academic performance via the mediating role of student satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach: To serve the study's purpose, the study adopted a quantitative research approach. Three public universities representing 30% of the ten public…

Purpose: This study aims to provide a causal framework for teacher burnout (BO) and work engagement (WE) by examining the factors that contribute to it and evaluating how progressive education (PE) affects teachers' performance in Higher education institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach: This study uses a multi-stage sampling technique…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of learner-learner and learner-facilitator interactions on learner satisfaction and their substitutability. Design/methodology/approach: A quantitative survey research focusing on 130 students was used to collect data. Stratified sampling was preferred for the study, with a Likert type…

The education sector as a service industry, is increasingly recognising the importance of service quality, in their quest to heightened efforts to meet the ever-changing expectations of their students. The higher education landscape regards students as customers and therefore, gives them greater latitude in their demand for better academic…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the relative effects of three facets or connectors argued to be vital for learners in successful e-learning outcomes in developing economies. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected through a survey involving 130 learners. A stratified sampling technique was employed. Regression analyses…

The role of Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) in preparing human resource for local, national and global sustainable development is paramount. Such role can be adequately performed by competent staff who are satisfied with their jobs. This study determined the extent of the relationship between job satisfaction and characteristics in public…

While the extant literature generally suggests a positive relationship between work placement learning (WPL) and student employability, the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain unclear and under-researched. Against this background, this study draws on insights from experiential learning and self-determination theories to explore the…

The present study is aimed at exploring the links between academic self-efficacy, career decision-making self-efficacy, and academic major satisfaction, with career optimism as the mediator. The hypotheses based on this aim were tested on the data collected from a sample consisting of 411 senior engineering undergraduates attending a prestigious…

E-learning as a unique technology provides distance learning for users. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 era, this educational system attracted more attention than ever before. The main purpose of this study is to measure the success of Sakarya University in gaining students' satisfaction with its own e-learning system. For this purpose, an…

University students are susceptible to psychological issues due to various academic and social stressors in their lives. Decreased life satisfaction among these students can result in a wide variety of adverse outcomes, which can negatively impact their overall well-being and academic performance. The current study aims at examining the mediating…

There are many problems faced by students in an online discussion forum, specifically regarding platforms that accommodate a large number of students such as the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) platform. One of the problems is that the teacher cannot respond one by one to student comments that may contain questions or ideas. Therefore, the…