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Teaching Reform in C Programming Course
C programming is a very practical course for computer majors and is one of the basic core courses. Students need to master programming knowledge through a great deal of programming training and practice, improve their programming ability, and gradually understand and master the ideas and methods of programming.
  • 916
  • 05 Dec 2022
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E-Learning Success Model
The world has seen an essential development in higher educational institutions (HEI) with the rapid growth of information and communication technologies (ICT) and of computer software. This growth has created an unprecedented revolution in learning or teaching strategies, precisely in distance education. New concepts have received attention, such as e-learning (EL) or online learning, and blended learning (or hybrid learning), which combines face-to-face learning and EL. Hence, EL has become extensively used in HEI and has, for several years, been seen as one of the most important systems for education improvement in some countries.
  • 911
  • 24 Mar 2022
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Interpreters in Medical Education
The use of interpreters in medical education as part of the curriculum is scarce, but students have been trained in how to work with interpreters when interviewing patients to fully develop their skills. This entry discusses about the relevant literature on the use of interpreters in medical and healthcare education. 
  • 907
  • 24 Nov 2021
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Collaboration Quality in Project-Based Learning under Group Awareness
Project-based learning (PBL) is an important form of collaborative learning that has a significant positive impact on student capacity development. Collaboration quality greatly influences the success of the collaboration, and various methods have been employed to examine collaboration quality. Group awareness encompasses the process through which individuals form a perception of the collective team and its overall situation.
  • 904
  • 28 Aug 2023
Topic Review
Responsive Teaching of Expert Elementary Mathematics Teachers
Effective mathematics instruction involves teachers engaging with and taking up student ideas and then deciding how to respond in ways that develop that thinking. There are various constructs used by mathematics educators to refer to teaching that centers student thinking, including cognitively guided instruction, formative assessment focused on disciplinary thinking, professional noticing of children’s mathematical thinking, and responsive teaching.
  • 901
  • 06 Jun 2022
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Teacher Learning Communities
It is evident that as teachers identify and solve problems of practice together, TLCs (Teacher Learning Communities) build the capacity and collective will to enhance the learning and achievement of all students.
  • 896
  • 24 Aug 2022
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Supporting the Professional and Career Development of Doctoral Students
A doctoral student is someone studying for a doctoral degree, which is generally considered to be the highest academic qualification a university can award. The student develops research experience, while making an in-depth and original contribution to knowledge. They are supervised by university staff members (usually there are two, or a small panel) who train, mentor, and support the doctoral student. Professional and career development refers to support that helps students to not only grow as individuals and independent researchers, but to also have the option to successfully pursue either academic or non-academic roles after graduation. While this entry considers some international contexts, it is particularly oriented to the United Kingdom (UK) model, and to the most common doctoral degree, the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).
  • 895
  • 14 Mar 2025
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Language Beliefs of English Teachers in Norway
Language teachers struggle to shift from monolingual ideologies and pedagogical practices, as advocated for in the promotion of multilingualism and inclusive pedagogy. Additionally, the role of English as a multilingua franca pushes English teachers to rethink their beliefs about the language and its use. Even when positive about multilingualism, teachers are often uncertain of how to address the complexities of multilingual ideals due to varying contextual factors and a lack of practical knowledge and skills. As the makeup of learners diversifies, schools and educational authorities must mindfully avoid assumptions of a shared linguistic and cultural background among learners and their families. They must not overlook or downplay the richness of the semiotic and cultural resources all learners bring with them, especially those with multilingual backgrounds.
  • 893
  • 15 Jul 2022
Topic Review
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Education
Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are emerging technologies with a variety of potential benefits for sustainability education. Here, learning processes such as flow and presence seem to determine the learning experience. VR is understood as a computer-generated simulation that is three-dimensional (3D), multisensory, and interactive. The user can inhabit and act within a virtual environment. VR enables unique learning scenarios, as simulations allow students to act as if they were in a real environment while interacting with otherwise intangible or inaccessible objects. VR provides users with the experience of a different world that may otherwise be too dangerous, expensive, or impossible in the real world. AR, in contrast, is used to enhance and enrich the real-world learning experience. It involves overlaying digital information, such as images, videos, 3D models, or text, onto the real-world environment to provide users with additional context, interactivity, and engagement.
  • 893
  • 18 Dec 2023
Topic Review
School Social Worker
A school social worker provides counseling and psycho-social services to children and adolescents in schools at both micro and macro levels. Social workers work as mental health experts, leaders of social and emotional development within the school community, family-school liaisons, and program development experts. They aim to address student issues by working with an ecological, systems approach with parents, the school, and the community. They also work with crisis intervention, group treatment, child neglect and abuse identification and reporting, integrating services to culturally and economically diverse populations, and working on education policy issues.
  • 892
  • 06 Oct 2022
Topic Review
Academics Work from Home during COVID-19 in South Africa
The continuing crisis caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has raised significant challenges for the higher education community globally. In South Africa, the government-forced lockdown measures and social distancing containment policy changed working arrangements across sectors and organisations. As a result, academics were forced to work from home (WFH), a task for which they were hardly prepared. 
  • 889
  • 22 Jun 2022
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Teacher Morale and Mental Health
Demoralization occurs when teachers believe they are “violating basic moral expectations that educators should embody: do not harm students, support student learning, engage in behavior becoming of a professional”. Teachers faced new demoralization issues throughout the COVID-19 pandemic that challenged their morale.
  • 889
  • 12 Jan 2024
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Time Use and Cognitive Achievement
Everyone’s time is limited, and there is competition between different aspects of time use; this requires comprehensive consideration of the effects of different aspects of time use on cognitive achievement in adolescents.
  • 886
  • 11 May 2023
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Reconceptualising Disabilities and Inclusivity for the Postdigital Era in the South African Context
Most times, focus in terms of inclusivity in education lingers around people with physical disabilities, leaving out marginalized persons due to lack of technology savvy, whereas, in the 21st century and era of (post)digitalization, technology is crucial and being compliant in such is critical. Hence, this study iinvestigated the subject of inclusivity in distance education from the dimension of technology use, in the context of South Africa, with the intention and by extension that it would apply to developing and underdeveloped countries of the world where access to technology remains a struggle. Thus, identifying what inclusivity in distance education especially from the dimension of access to technology, technology disability and skills is crucial. This therefore, calls for educational leaders to consider reconceptualising disabilities and inclusivity with regards to the postdigital era.
  • 885
  • 31 Mar 2023
Topic Review
Blended Learning in a Higher Education
Blended learning is a growing phenomenon in higher education after the COVID-19 pandemic (the educational process moved entirely online), and the way is prepared for blended education mode in universities. Although blended learning research is on the rise, fewer studies regard university students’ learning behavior in blended learning environments. 
  • 882
  • 25 Jun 2023
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Serious Games in Higher Education in Education 4.0
The digital transformation associated with the Fourth Industrial Revolution is having an impact on the way we teach. Under the term Education 4.0, new teaching methods, new technologies, as well as a student-centered approach, are expected to be used in teaching. One established method of teaching is the use of Serious Games, as it has various positive effects in terms of motivation and engagement. 
  • 882
  • 18 Mar 2024
Topic Review
Teacher’s Role in Digitalization of Classrooms
The incorporation of digital didactic materials into the teaching and learning process of students, both in Early Childhood and Primary Education, inevitably entails changes. Some of them concern teacher training, others the interactions and roles of the members of the educational community, and others the innovation, a priori, of the educational process itself. It is necessary to know the teachers’ assessment of the usefulness of these resources and on identify the uses given to them in classroom practices.
  • 880
  • 27 Nov 2023
Topic Review
ESD in Environmental Engineering
Education for sustainable development (ESD) has been especially promoted by the United Nations. ESD is an indirect measurement instrument for the inclusion of SD in higher education curricula. Environmental engineering is one of the areas of most recent creation and expansion of engineering, this undergraduate program seeks to solve the environmental problems generated by the economic development of human beings, applying the theory, techniques, and technologies of engineering.
  • 879
  • 25 Sep 2021
Topic Review
Social–Emotional Learning
There has been a dramatic increase in the interest in social–emotional learning (SEL), manifested in both the scientific literature and shifts occurring in education systems worldwide. The CASEL model has been successfully implemented in many education systems in recent years. Nevertheless, empirical studies have examined its effectiveness only in face-to-face teaching settings. There is a need to adapt the model to online learning while taking into account the perspectives of both learners and teachers.
  • 879
  • 22 Nov 2023
Topic Review
Quality Assurance in E-Learning
Quality itself can be defined as the characterization given to a product, in this case, virtual education, in line with the needs expected by the user. The user, whether they are a student, a teacher, society, or the government, is considered a fundamental pillar of the management of training institutions to achieve excellence. E-learning and information and communication technologies (ICTs) contribute to the SDGs, specifically SDG-4, by promoting virtual or non-face-to-face education. 
  • 876
  • 28 Mar 2022
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