With the rapid development of information technologies, video-mediated learning has been widely used in education and studied in academia. Whether and how a teacher should be present in a video has drawn the attention of researchers. Via a mixed design involving two teaching experiments and a semi-structured interview, this study concluded that…

Rain Classroom, a mobile learning technology developed in China, has received great popularity. Research into its acceptance and effectiveness, however, remains sparse. Through research instruments, i.e. a questionnaire adapted from the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), a semi-structured interview and linguistics knowledge tests, both…