Mobile devices, primarily cell phones, smartphones, and tablet PCs, have gradually been introduced into the university campus and online education over the past few decades. Does the use of mobile devices in distance learning motivate students and affect the learning process? These are important questions that were raised more than a decade ago,…

Educational entertainment or edutainment is a popular approach to allow learners experience a fun learning environment while acquiring knowledge. Currently, this approach is widely used and has promising benefits, whereby not only it provides a fun learning environment but also cause learners to hardly notice the learning process. However, as…

This study aims to examine the level of students' satisfaction and opinions about the emergency remote teaching process during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Ondokuz Mayis University in Turkey. Based on the results a guide was constructed for universities to be prepared for emergency remote teaching situations. The study was designed as a survey…

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of education for employees on learning outcomes and educational quality characteristics on organisational performance through analysis of the relationship between education quality characteristics, learning satisfaction, learning outcomes, and organisational performance. In this study, a…

A case study is used to achieve two research objectives: To understand students' attitudes, behavior toward, and satisfaction with videobooks vs. traditional textbooks; and to identify factors that drive student satisfaction and positive attitudes toward videobooks. Analysis of student experiences across multiple sections of an introductory…

Universities have made a compulsory shift to distance education due to the Covid-19 pandemic. All of the higher education institutions in Turkey have completed 2019-2020 Spring semester using online tools. However, most of these institutions were not fully-prepared to have all of their courses online. Technical inadequacies, lack of qualified…

This study aimed to determine the relationship between leisure satisfaction and social media addiction of university students. The study group of the research was formed by the voluntary participation of 193 students (133 male and 60 female), studying at the School of Physical Education and Sports of Istanbul Gelisim University. In addition to the…

This study aims at testing a few tenets of affective events theory (AET) from a predictive perspective in the context of Malaysian private higher education sector. Specifically, we examined the impact of workload and autonomy on academics' job satisfaction through interpersonal conflict and affective states. Additionally, the impact of affective…

Previous research has pointed at the pivotal role of professional collegial support relationships to keep beginning teachers in the profession. In this study, we build on previous research by using follow-up mixed-method social network data to explore (1) to what extent, in what ways and for which reasons beginning teachers' work-related network…

Teaching introductory computer programming and choosing the proper tools and programming languages are challenging tasks. Most of the existing tools are not fully integrated into systems to support the teaching-learning processes. The present paper describes the usability evaluation of the Virtual Programming Lab module for Moodle (VPL-Moodle)…

As enrollment in online graduate education increases, retention continues to be problematic for many colleges and universities across the United States. Non-traditional students, who represent the majority of online graduate student enrollment, have unique issues related to persistence considering they often must juggle the demands of graduate…

With the abrupt nationwide lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, many universities suspended face-to-face activities. Some of them decided to continue their academic courses, adapting traditional approaches to online learning. An important challenge was to deliver programming labs over the Internet without important methodological changes,…

"Sustainable Sea" is a strategy game developed for educational purposes in which players assume the role of fishermen while learning concepts related to the sustainable management of fishing resources. Players earn points as they apply sustainable policies. The game was tested on high-school students and students pursuing bachelor's and…

The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between prospective classroom teachers' attitudes towards mobile learning and their mobile learning readiness levels. For this purpose, data were collected from prospective teachers using the Mobile Learning Readiness and Attitudes towards Mobile Learning scales, and the relationships…

Using the Biggs' 3P learning model and correlational design, this study explores the relationship between students' individual characteristics and course perceptions, approach to study, and academic outcomes, which account for the differences in academic achievement and student delay. 612 Italian students of a master's degree in psychology…