Teachers' views about technical education: implications for reforms towards a broad based technology curriculum in Malawi - Chikasanda, VK; K Otrel-Cass, K; Jones, A (International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2011)
Internationally there has been concern about the direction of technical education and how it is positioned in schools. This has also been the case in Malawi where the curriculum has had a strong focus on skills development. However, lately there has been a call for enhancing technological literacy of students, yet little support has been provided for teachers to achieve this goal. This paper reports from a wider study that looked at teachers’ existing views and practices in technical education in Malawi. The article focuses on the findings from interviews that were conducted with six secondary school teachers to find out about their understanding of the meaning and rationale for technical education. It is also discussed how the teachers view technical education as involving skills development for making things and their thoughts on the benefits of such knowledge. It is argued that teachers’ views about technical education were strongly linked to the goals of the curriculum vacationalization policies adopted at the dawn of political independence. Besides skills training they saw the potential to impart thinking skills related to design and problem solving, and the need for essential pedagogical techniques to support learning in technical education. Examination requirements, inadequate opportunities to conduct practical activities and a lack of supportive policy were seen as limiting factors. This article claims that teachers’ views were shaped by their expectations and beliefs about the nature of technical education and what they perceived students may gain from such learning. Their views were also influenced by contextual factors which may have implications on reforms towards broader notions of technology education.
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Challenges of Using Icibemba in the Learning of Initial Literacy in Selected Primary Schools in Serenje District of Zambia: An Analysis of Views of Teachers and Learners - Chibesakunda, Mwimba; Mulenga, Innocent Mutale (Multidisciplinary Journal of Language and Social Sciences Education (2664-083X, Online ISSN: Print ISSN: 2616-4736), 2019)
The purpose of this study was to establish views and investigate challenges faced by teachers and learners in the use of Icibemba in teaching initial literacy in primary schools in Serenje district. A descriptive research design supported by qualitative data collection techniques was employed. A purposive sampling procedure was used to select all the participants giving the study a sample size of 56 comprising of 40 grade four learners and 16 of their teachers sampled from 10 primary schools. Researchers decided to have more learners in this study since they were the direct beneficiaries of the curriculum. And thus the need to have a wider view from them. This was also done so as to have enough participants from each school. Data was collected through interviews, focus group discussions and classroom observations of literacy lessons. Lesson observation was used to get first hand information on the learning experiences and helped the researchers to triangulate with what participants expressed during interviews and focus group discussions. Focus group discussions and interviews enabled participants to provide their detailed views of the exact situation learners and teachers encountered. Thematic analysis was used to analyze all the data. It involved organizing data through use of open, axial and selective coding before presenting the emerging themes. The findings revealed that although the Ministry of General Education zoned Serenje district under Icibemba instead of Icilala in teaching initial literacy, learners’ performance was low because the language used in school was unfamiliar to learners. Additionally, findings also showed that there was a lack of teacher’s guide books and learners’ text books to use in teaching initial literacy hence teacher’s delivery of lessons was negatively affected. Researchers concluded that learners performed poorly in literacy due to the fact that the zoned language was unfamiliar to learners in that area where it was used as a medium of teaching literacy. It is therefore recommended that the Ministry of General Education through the Curriclum Development Center should develop and produce and distribute learning materials for the teaching of literacy in grades one to four. Furthermore, lessons for literacy should be taught using concrete and real teaching and learning resources that can enhance learning. Additionally, there is a need to start thinking about the possibility of rezoning the whole country.
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Keywords: Familiar language; Initial literacy; Language of Instruction; Local language; ⛔ No DOI found

Driving the process or driven by the process? The transformation of Nkrumah college of education into Nkrumah university college. - Cheyeka, Austin; Mulenga, Innocent Mutale; Masaiti, Gift (2010)
Publisher: ZANGO-Journal of Contemporary Issues
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

The withdraw of european missionaries from St. Anthony's Catholic secondary school: what are the implications?. - Cheyeka, Austin; Masaiti, Gift; Mulenga, Innocent Mutale (2011)
Publisher: The Journal of Humanities-The University of Zambia
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

A systematic review of ambient heat and sleep in a warming climate - Chevance, Guillaume; Minor, Kelton; Vielma, Constanza; Campi, Emmanuel; O’Callaghan-Gordo, Cristina; Basagaña, Xavier; Ballester, Joan; Bernard, Paquito (medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), 2023)
Abstract Background Earlier reviews documented the effects of a broad range of climate change outcomes on sleep but have not yet evaluated the effect of ambient temperature. This systematic review aims to identify and summarize the literature on ambient temperature and sleep outcomes in a warming world. Methods For this systematic review, we searched online databases (PubMed, Scopus, JSTOR, GreenFILE, GeoRef and PsycARTICLES) together with relevant journals for studies published before February 2023. We included articles reporting associations between objective indicators of ambient temperature and valid sleep outcomes measured in real-life environments. We included studies conducted among adults, adolescents, and children. A narrative synthesis of the literature was then performed. Findings The present systematic review shows that higher outdoor or indoor ambient temperatures, expressed either as daily mean or night-time temperature, are negatively associated with sleep quality and quantity worldwide. The negative effect of higher ambient temperatures on sleep is stronger in the warmest months of the year, among vulnerable populations and in the warmest areas of the world. This result appears consistent across several sleep indicators and measures. Interpretation Although this work identified several methodological limitations of the extant literature, a strong body of evidence from both this systematic review and previous experimental studies converge on the negative impact of elevated temperatures on sleep quality and quantity. In absence of solid evidence on fast adaptation to the effects of heat on sleep, rising temperatures induced by climate change pose a planetary threat to human sleep and therefore human health, performance and wellbeing.
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A systematic review of ambient heat and sleep in a warming climate - Chevance, Guillaume; Minor, Kelton; Vielma, Constanza; Campi, Emmanuel; O’Callaghan-Gordo, Cristina; Basagaña, Xavier; Ballester, Joan; Bernard, Paquito (Sleep Medicine Reviews, 2024)
Climate change is elevating nighttime and daytime temperatures worldwide, affecting a broad continuum of behavioral and health outcomes. Disturbed sleep is a plausible pathway linking rising ambient temperatures with several observed adverse human responses shown to increase during hot weather. This systematic review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the literature investigating the relationship between ambient temperature and valid sleep outcomes measured in real-world settings, globally. We show that higher outdoor or indoor temperatures are generally associated with degraded sleep quality and quantity worldwide. The negative effect of heat persists across sleep measures, and is stronger during the hottest months and days, in vulnerable populations, and the warmest regions. Although we identify opportunities to strengthen the state of the science, limited evidence of fast sleep adaptation to heat suggests rising temperatures induced by climate change and urbanization pose a planetary threat to human sleep, and therefore health, performance, and wellbeing.
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Effects of Educational Technology Applications on Reading Outcomes for Struggling Readers: A Best-Evidence Synthesis - Cheung, Alan C.K.; Slavin, Robert E. (Reading Research Quarterly, 2013)
This review examines the effectiveness of educational technology applications in improving the reading achievement of struggling readers in elementary schools. The review applies consistent inclusion standards to focus on studies that met high methodological standards. A total of 20 studies based on about 7,000 students in grades 1–6 were included in the final analysis. Findings indicate that educational technology applications produced a positive but small effect on the reading skills of struggling readers (ES = .14) in comparison with “business as usual” methods. Among four types of educational technology applications, small-group integrated applications such as Read, Write & Type and the Lindamood Phoneme Sequence Program produced the largest effect sizes (ES = .32). These are tutorial educational technology applications that use small-group interaction tightly integrated with reading curriculum. Supplementary models, such as Jostens and Lexia, had a larger number of studies (N = 12) and a more modest effect size (ES = .18). Comprehensive models, such as READ 180 and ReadAbout (ES = .04) and Fast ForWord (ES = .06), did not produce meaningful positive effect sizes. However, the results of these two categories of programs should be interpreted with extreme caution due to the small number of studies involved. More studies are required to validate the effectiveness of all technology applications. Policy implications are discussed.
_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/rrq.50 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1002/rrq.50 4804264:ZR8QTCPY
Keywords: Assistive technologies; Childhood; Comprehension; Early childhood; Evidence-based; Experimental; Final_citation; Instructional intervention; Instructional technology; Program evaluation; Research methodology; Strategies; Struggling learners; To learners in which of the following categories does your work apply?; and materials; existing; methods; quasi-experimental

The effectiveness of educational technology applications for enhancing mathematics achievement in K-12 classrooms: A meta-analysis - Cheung, Alan C. K.; Slavin, Robert E. (Educational Research Review, 2013)
The present review examines research on the effects of educational technology applications on mathematics achievement in K-12 classrooms. Unlike previous reviews, this review applies consistent inclusion standards to focus on studies that met high methodological standards. In addition, methodological and substantive features of the studies are investigated to examine the relationship between educational technology applications and study features. A total of 74 qualified studies were included in our final analysis with a total sample size of 56,886 K-12 students: 45 elementary studies (N=31,555) and 29 secondary studies (N=25,331). Consistent with the more recent reviews, the findings suggest that educational technology applications generally produced a positive, though modest, effect (ES=+0.15) in comparison to traditional methods. However, the effects may vary by educational technology type. Among the three types of educational technology applications, supplemental CAI had the largest effect with an effect size of +0.18. The other two interventions, computer-management learning and comprehensive programs, had a much smaller effect size, +0.08 and +0.07, respectively. Differential impacts by various study and methodological features are also discussed.
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Keywords: Educational technology applications; K-12; Mathematics achievement; Meta-analysis

Measuring the impacts of teachers II: Teacher valueadded and student outcomes in adulthood - Chetty, R.; Friedman, J.N.; Rockoff, J.E. (The American Economic Review, 2014)

Chesterton Tablet Learning Scheme - Evaluation Report - Chesterton Community College (2014)
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Impacts of climate change on health and wellbeing in South Africa - Chersich, Matthew F.; Wright, Caradee Y.; Venter, Francois; Rees, Helen; Scorgie, Fiona; Erasmus, Barend (International journal of environmental research and public health, 2018)
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3390/ijerph15091884 2129771:EPJ9C9DP 4682641:VTCC4LRL
Keywords: BE:LMIC; BE:RELEVANT

Artificial intelligence for climate change adaptation - Cheong, So‐Min; Sankaran, Kris; Bastani, Hamsa (WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2022)
Abstract Although artificial intelligence (AI; inclusive of machine learning) is gaining traction supporting climate change projections and impacts, limited work has used AI to address climate change adaptation. We identify this gap and highlight the value of AI especially in supporting complex adaptation choices and implementation. We illustrate how AI can effectively leverage precise, real‐time information in data‐scarce settings. We focus on supervised learning, transfer learning, reinforcement learning, and multimodal learning to illustrate how innovative AI methods can enable better‐informed choices, tailor adaptation measures to heterogenous groups and generate effective synergies and trade‐offs. This article is categorized under: Application Areas > Government and Public Sector
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An investigation of mobile learning readiness in higher education based on the theory of planned behavior - Cheon, Jongpil; Lee, Sangno; Crooks, Steven M.; Song, Jaeki (Computers & Education, 2012)
This study investigated the current state of college students' perceptions toward mobile learning in higher education. Mobile learning is a new form of learning utilizing the unique capabilities of mobile devices. Although mobile devices are ubiquitous on college campuses, student readiness for mobile learning has yet to be fully explored in the United States. The paper describes a conceptual model, based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), which explains how college students' beliefs influence their intention to adopt mobile devices in their coursework. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze self-report data from 177 college students. The findings showed that the TPB explained college students' acceptance of m-learning reasonably well. More specifically, attitude, subjective norm, and behavioral control positively influenced their intention to adopt mobile learning. The results provide valuable implications for ways to increase college students' acceptance of mobile learning.
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Keywords: Higher education; Mobile learning; m-learning; m-learning adoption

Back to Business and (Re)employing Workers? Labor Market Activity During State COVID-19 Reopenings - Cheng, Wei; Carlin, Patrick; Carroll, Joanna; Gupta, Sumedha; Rojas, Felipe Lozano; Montenovo, Laura; Nguyen, Thuy; Schmutte, Ian; Scrivner, Olga; Simon, Kosali; Wing, Coady; Weinberg, Bruce (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020)
In the early phases of the COVID-19 epidemic labor markets exhibited considerable churn, which we relate to three primary findings. First, reopening policies generated asymmetrically large increases in reemployment of those out of work, compared to modest decreases in job loss among those employed. Second, most people who were reemployed appear to have returned to their previous employers, but the rate of reemployment decreases with time since job loss. Lastly, the groups that had the highest unemployment rates in April also tended to have the lowest reemployment rates, potentially making churn harmful to people and groups with more and/or longer job losses. Taken together, these estimates suggest that employment relationships are durable in the short run, but raise concerns that employment gains requiring new employment matches may not be as rapid and may be particularly slow for hard-hit groups including Hispanic and Black workers, youngest and oldest workers, and women.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3386/w27419 2129771:9Z5S9V9S

Using machine learning to advance synthesis and use of conservation and environmental evidence - Cheng, S. H.; Augustin, C.; Bethel, A.; Gill, D.; Anzaroot, S.; Brun, J.; DeWilde, B.; Minnich, R. C.; Garside, R.; Masuda, Y. J.; Miller, D. C.; Wilkie, D.; et al. (Conservation Biology, 2018)
Article impact statement: Machine learning optimizes processes of systematic evidence synthesis and improves its utility for evidence-based conservation.
_eprint: https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/cobi.13117 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1111/cobi.13117 2129771:J3CYENW2

Artificial intelligence (AI) student assistants in the classroom: Designing chatbots to support student success - Chen, Yu; Jensen, Scott; Albert, Leslie J.; Gupta, Sambhav; Lee, Terri (Information Systems Frontiers, 2023)
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: _z:no_pdf

Applying the flipped classroom instructional model to rural online tutoring program in upper elementary mathematics - Chen, Q.; Kao, T.-C. (Contemporary Educational Research Quarterly, 2019)
Purpose The purpose of the study is to investigate the effectiveness of applying the Flipped Classroom Instructional Model to the rural online tutoring program for Upper Elementary Mathematics. Design/methodology/approach The study took the unequal-group pretest-posttest quasiexperimental design to conduct the teaching experiment. The research setting was the Digital Partner Online Tutoring Program of National Dong-Hwa University, which was supported by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan government. The participants consist of 54 upper grade students from rural elementary schools, with 25 students in the experimental group and 29 students in the control group. The effectiveness of the experiment was detected by the factorial design of covariance with pretest as covariate and grade level as moderator. Findings The results of the study indicated that the experimental group's overall learning performance on posttests was significantly better than the control group's after the effect of pretests had been controlled. And the differences all achieved medium effect size. Among the four mathematical concepts, the differences on the two more advanced ones, "Common Factor" and "Common Multiple" even achieved large effect size. Originality/value The application of "Flipped classroom model" in various fields provides a prospective possibility for teaching innovation. Its critical factors, "using technology" and "participatory interaction", exactly match the characteristics of the on-line tutoring program, including the on-line learning environment and the one-on-one interaction. The study provides empirical evidence for the effectiveness of applying the Flipped Classroom Model to the online tutoring program. © Centre for Educational Research and Evaluation 2019.
Publisher: Centre for Educational Research and Evaluation KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.6151/CERQ.201906_27(2).0001 2129771:EJ8BA9M3 2339240:CHNDNDYS 2486141:2LLXMUWE
Keywords: Flipped classroom instructional model; On-line tutoring; Remedial instruction; Upper elementary mathematics; _AcademicRecoveryOECS

An AI-Powered Teacher Assistant for Student Problem Behavior Diagnosis - Chen, Penghe; Lu, Yu (AI in Learning: Designing the Future, 2023)
Student problem behavior refers to the students’ undesirable conducts and actions in schools. These behaviors severely affect students’ growth and development. In many cases, student problem behaviors are caused by the unsatisfied psychological needs, which are defined as the need deficiency. Hence, diagnosing students’ need deficiencies and regulating their problem behaviors are important educational tasks. The previous psychological studies have analyzed how distinct factors might affect student’s problem behaviors. However, the school teachers without such expertise may still encounter difficulties in applying these findings. Hence, this chapter describes the process of designing and implementing an intelligent teacher assistant, which could advise teachers and help them to handle the student problem behavior. Technically, it utilizes a task-oriented dialogue system to help identify the underlying reasons (i.e., the student need deficiency) behind their problem behaviors, and accordingly relies on a community question answering system to provide the advice. It also employs the semantic search technology to find the similar cases that have been well resolved by the experienced teachers.
Keywords: Assistant; Dialogue system; Need deficiency; Problem behavior; Question answering

Assessing student–teacher relationship quality in cross-cultural contexts: Psychometric properties of student–teacher relationship drawings - Chen, Mengdi; Zee, Marjolein; Roorda, Debora L. (European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021)
The present study examined the psychometric properties of Student–Teacher Relationship Drawings (STRDs) to assess student–teacher relationship quality in a cross-cultural context. A sample of upper elementary school students from both the Netherlands (N = 752) and China (N = 574) was included. Results showed sufficient inter-rater reliabilities of all drawing dimensions for both the Dutch (.68 < ICC < .84) and Chinese samples (.72 < ICC < .85). Multiple group analyses supported partially strong invariance of STRD-dimensions across the Dutch and Chinese samples. Relationship drawing dimensions also showed moderate associations with student-reported relationship quality and engagement across both the Dutch and Chinese sample. Future cross-cultural research may therefore employ STRDs to assess students’ relationship experiences.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2021.1952862 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/17405629.2021.1952862 2129771:PGDZREX2 2486141:ULZ3624B
Keywords: Cross-cultural research; measurement invariance; student–teacher relationship drawings; student–teacher relationships

The Effectiveness of Digital Game-Based Vocabulary Learning: A Framework-Based View of Meta-Analysis - Chen, Meng-Hua; Tseng, Wen-Ta; Hsiao, Tsung-Yuan (British Journal of Educational Technology, 2018)
This study presents the results of a meta-analytic study about the effects of digital game-based learning (DGBL) on vocabulary. The results of the study showed that the effects of DGBL on vocabulary learning may vary with game design features (Q = 5.857, df = 1, p = 0.016), but not with learners' age (Q = 0.906, df = 1, p = 0.341) or linguistic background (Q = 0.0001, df = 1, p = 0.994). In light of the research findings, Csikszentmihalyi's (1990) Flow Theory was adopted to theorize the role of game design in DGBL. It is proposed that a hierarchy should exist on the "challenge" axis in the Flow Theory, with adventure-oriented games above non-adventure-based games along the "challenge" axis. The theoretical underpinning is that the dynamic equilibrium between challenge and abilities can function independently of the effects of learners' age and linguistic background.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell ERIC Number: EJ1166075 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1111/bjet.12526 2129771:24BG25I9 2486141:NGYKSG8A
Keywords: Age Differences; Computer Games; Design; Instructional Effectiveness; Meta Analysis; Native Language; Role; Statistical Analysis; Theories; Vocabulary Development

Artificial Intelligence in Education: A Review - Chen, Lijia; Chen, Pingping; Lin, Zhijian (IEEE Access, 2020)
The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on education. Premised on a narrative and framework for assessing AI identified from a preliminary analysis, the scope of the study was limited to the application and effects of AI in administration, instruction, and learning. A qualitative research approach, leveraging the use of literature review as a research design and approach was used and effectively facilitated the realization of the study purpose. Artificial intelligence is a field of study and the resulting innovations and developments that have culminated in computers, machines, and other artifacts having human-like intelligence characterized by cognitive abilities, learning, adaptability, and decision-making capabilities. The study ascertained that AI has extensively been adopted and used in education, particularly by education institutions, in different forms. AI initially took the form of computer and computer related technologies, transitioning to web-based and online intelligent education systems, and ultimately with the use of embedded computer systems, together with other technologies, the use of humanoid robots and web-based chatbots to perform instructors' duties and functions independently or with instructors. Using these platforms, instructors have been able to perform different administrative functions, such as reviewing and grading students' assignments more effectively and efficiently, and achieve higher quality in their teaching activities. On the other hand, because the systems leverage machine learning and adaptability, curriculum and content has been customized and personalized in line with students' needs, which has fostered uptake and retention, thereby improving learners experience and overall quality of learning.
Conference Name: IEEE Access KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:99IUVLL4 2129771:QYSD5UX2 2129771:W225SFJ5
Keywords: Education; Learning (artificial intelligence); Microcomputers; Robots; Technological innovation; artificial intelligence; leaner

Learning Career Knowledge: Can AI Simulation and Machine Learning Improve Career Plans and Educational Expectations? - Chen, I-Chien; Bradford, Lydia; Schneider, Barbara (AI in Learning: Designing the Future, 2023)
As AI and machine learning permeates every area of life, its use to ameliorate educational inequities becomes of great interest. One important application of machine learning within education is to help students increase their alignment of career choice, educational attainment, and projected salary. Alignment theory has shown that having alignment yields higher educational attainment for students. Using the app, Init2Winit, which has students play a game which gives them points for correct alignment, this chapter explores how machine learning, in particular using a decision tree, can give insights into game use and its relation to educational expectations. This model builds a basis for the improvement of Init2Winit to increase student educational expectations through counselor interventions and how other educational applications could use machine learning for insights to improve educational outcomes. The model can decrease educational inequities by increasing educational attainment for those in underrepresented minorities.
Keywords: Alignment; Artificial intelligence (AI); Career knowledge; Decision trees; Supervised machine learning algorithms

Visual learning analytics to support classroom discourse analysis for teacher professional learning and development - Chen, Gaowei (The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Dialogic Education, 2019)
Publisher: Routledge KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.4324/9780429441677-15 2129771:GVLSGPDX
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Review of Learning Tools for Effective Radiology Education During the COVID-19 Era - Chen, David; Ayoob, Andres; Desser, Terry S.; Khurana, Aman (Academic Radiology, 2022)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has significantly disrupted medical education around the world and created the risk of students missing vital education and experience previously held within actively engaging in-person activities by switching to online leaning and teaching activities. To retain educational yield, active learning strategies, such as microlearning and visual learning tools are increasingly utilized in the new digital format. This article will introduce the challenges of a digital learning environment, review the efficacy of applying microlearning and visual learning strategies, and demonstrate tools that can reinforce radiology education in this constantly evolving digital era such as innovative tablet apps and tools. This will be key in preserving and augmenting essential medical teaching in the currently trying socially and physically distant times of COVID-19 as well as in similar future scenarios.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.acra.2021.10.006 2129771:QSZQL2KL
Keywords: Coronavirus; Electronic teaching tools; Medical education; Online education; Radiology; SARS-Cov-2; _genre:LR-literature_review

Students’ behavioral intention to use and achievements in ICT-Integrated mathematics remedial instruction: Case study of a calculus course - Chen, C.-L.; Wu, C.-C. (Computers and Education, 2020)
Mathematics remedial instruction is a mathematics education topic worthy of attention; therefore, studying how to effectively implement remedial instruction is essential. A Grade 12 calculus course was used as a case study for exploring the effects of information and communication technology (ICT)-integrated mathematics remedial instruction and factors affecting students' intention to use. A within-group design was adopted to examine whether students' grades on the same type of question in a posttest were significantly higher than in a pretest using a paired samples t-test. Results showed that when ICT-integrated mathematics remedial instruction was not implemented, students' scores in the posttest were not significantly higher; however, after implementing ICT-integrated mathematics remedial instruction, the grades in the posttest were significantly higher. Regarding students' intention to use ICT-integrated mathematics remedial instruction, the research model was developed from the technology acceptance model. This study analyzed data collected from questionnaires using the partial-least-squares structural equation modeling multivariate data analysis method. The results indicated that (1) perceived usefulness significantly affected attitude toward use and behavioral intention to use; (2) attitude toward use significantly affected behavioral intention to use; and (3) attitude toward use exhibited significant mediating effects between perceived usefulness and behavioral intention to use, indicating that perceived usefulness primarily affected students’ behavioral intention to use through attitude toward use. The results may facilitate the application of technology to implement mathematics remedial instruction. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.compedu.2019.103740 2129771:97FQ64AP 2339240:ZSKRWZNN 2486141:AEJU8IX4
Keywords: Applications in subject areas; Applications in subject areas ∙; Calculations; Computer aided instruction; Edtech; Education computing; Improving classroom teaching; Improving classroom teaching ∙; Information and Communication Technologies; Integration; Interactive learning environment; Interactive learning environments ∙; Knowledge acquisition; Least squares approximations; Marginalised; Multivariant analysis; Multivariate data analysis method; Pedagogy; Structural equation modeling; Students; Surveys; Teaching; Teaching/learning strategies; Teaching/learning strategy; Technology acceptance model; _AcademicRecoveryOECS

School Policies as a Determinant for Selection of Home Science Subject: The Belvedere of the Kenyan Secondary School - Chelagat, Abigael; Kitainge, Kisilu; Were, Gertrude (African Journal of Education,Science and Technology, 2018)
Home Science is a subject that facilitates acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes meant to improve lives of everyone yet very few students choose to pursue it in secondary school. This study sought to establish the influence of school policies on enrolment in Home Science subject in secondary school in 3 Sub-Counties of Elgeyo Marakwet County. It was guided by the following specific objectives: to identify the various school policies on subject selection in secondary schools in Elgeyo Marakwet County and to investigate how school policies on subject selection influenced enrolment of Home Science in secondary schools. The research design adopted was a descriptive survey. Purposive sampling technique was used to select all the six (6) county secondary schools offering Home Science subject at Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) level. This was to ensure a homogenous group for the study with the aim of curbing extraneous variables. Six (6) Home Science teachers were also purposively selected together with the six (6) Principals of all the purposively sampled county secondary schools. This study had a total of twelve (12) respondents. Data from the Home Science teachers was collected using questionnaires and interview schedules were used to collect data from the Principals. The sample size was deemed adequate due to their respective positions in the sampled schools. Data was analyzed descriptively. The study established that most schools did not have policies thus low enrolment in Home Science subject. Also, schools had streaming practices with a class being set specifically for Home Science thus limiting number of students choosing the subject. The study recommends that Home Science related professionals should market the subject through career talks and curriculum developers should review the curriculum for the sake of re-introducing the Home Science subject at primary school for learners to have prior knowledge to undertake the subject at Secondary school. These interventions will increase student enrolment in Home Science subject.
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Education for all in the time of COVID-19: how EdTech can be part of the solution - Chebib, Kinda (GSMA, 2020)
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Cambodian Secondary School Teachers' Readiness for Online Teaching During the Covid-19 Pandemic - Chea, Phal; Chankoulika, Bo; Minami, Ryuto (2022)
This study intends to review alternative teaching methods during the Covid-19 pandemic and examine teacher readiness in adopting educational technology (edtech) for online teaching as well as factors associated with readiness in the context of secondary schools in Cambodia. To assess teacher readiness, we adopted the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), a framework developed by Mishra and Koehler (2006). Data analysis draws on the surveys of 687 teachers at 43 secondary schools in 10 Cambodian provinces collected in November 2021. The findings show that nearly all the sampled teachers experienced teaching online during the school closure, although about a third of them had completely returned to physical in-person teaching at the time of the interview. Although a good share of teachers adopted both synchronous and asynchronous teaching approaches for their online teaching, more than half of teachers who taught online used only one approach (either synchronous or asynchronous). Cambodian secondary teachers think their pedagogical and content knowledge is relatively high at 3.92 and 3.88 respectively. However, their technological knowledge is low at 2.87. The regression analysis suggests that at the individual level, factors that influence teacher readiness include gender, age, perceived challenge and perceived effectiveness of online teaching. Experience teaching at private schools and level of student-teacher interaction are also found to be positively associated with teacher readiness, while initial pre-service and in-service training are found to have little to no influence on teacher readiness. Teachers with access to computers seem to demonstrate a higher level of readiness for online teaching. As expected, teachers in Phnom Penh are likely to be more ready for online teaching, but to our surprise, teachers at resource schools exhibit a lower level of readiness than their peers at general schools.

Technical and Vocational Education in Cameroon and Critical Avenues for Development - Che, S. Megan (Research in Comparative and International Education, 2007)
Technical and vocational education (TVE) can influence development and economic progress for post-colonial societies. Some newly independent sub-Saharan African countries attempted curricular transformation that might produce a skilled workforce through widespread access to versions of TVE. In Cameroon, no such post-colonial curricular revolution was enacted. This article qualitatively analyzes fourteen Cameroonian secondary mathematics teachers' spontaneous discussions about the possibilities and perceived necessity for increased TVE avenues in Cameroon. Relationships between TVE, the problem of educated unemployed, the public and private sectors, and development are explored. This article views teachers' discussions from a lens of critical theory.
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The impact of HIV/AIDS on the education sector in Malawi - Chawani, Brenner Samuel; Kadzamira, Esme C. (Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEst), Government of Malawi, 2003)
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Keywords: _C:Malawi MWI

The Impact of HIV/AIDS on the Education Sector in Malawi: Study 2; Examining the Impact of HIV/AIDS on Governance in the Education Sector - Chawani, Brenner S.; Kadzamira, Esme (Ministry of Education Science and Technology (MoEST)/IIEP-UNESCO, Lilongwe, Malawi, 2004)
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Keywords: _C:Malawi MWI; ⛔ No DOI found

Conversational AI Applications in Ed‐Tech Industry: An Analysis of Its Impact and Potential in Education - Chauhan, Deepika; Singh, Chaitanya; Rawat, Romil; Chouhan, Mukesh (Conversational Artificial Intelligence, 2024)

Philippines conditional cash transfer program impact evaluation 2012 - Chaudhury, Nazmul; Friedman, Jed; Onishi, Junko (World Bank Report, 2013)

Oster and Thornton - Chaudhury (2013)

What do we know about indoor air quality in school classrooms? A critical review of the literature - Chatzidiakou, Lia; Mumovic, Dejan; Summerfield, Alex James (Intelligent Buildings International, 2012)
The increasing interest in indoor environmental quality of educational buildings has been underpinned by the rising incidence of asthma and respiratory disease among children, who spend a substantial amount of their lives on the school premises. The susceptibility of children to respiratory disease compared with adults has led to the formulation of regulatory frameworks for the school environment, which specifies maximum CO2 concentrations and minimum airflow rates. This article reviews the evidence that school buildings provide a healthy and satisfactory indoor environment for the occupants. It summarized air pollution levels reported from indoor air quality (IAQ) monitoring surveys and evidence linking school exposure with health responses from the occupants. In addition, environmental and behavioural factors affecting pollution levels in school buildings were examined. The analysis has highlighted the degraded IAQ in some schools that often exceed WHO guidelines, while health impacts of school exposure were reported for concentrations below current guidelines.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/17508975.2012.725530 openalex: W2027298641 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/17508975.2012.725530 2129771:RY4X3ATX 4874017:V5WS5623 5072953:W43VGNLJ
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; allergens; bacteria; carbon dioxide (CO2); fungi; health impacts; nitrogen dioxide (NO2); oa:keyword:indoor air quality; oa:topic:T10190 Health Effects of Air Pollution; oa:topic:T11002 Indoor Air Quality and Health Effects; oa:topic:T11692 Effects of Noise Pollution on Health and Well-being; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; ozone (O3); particulate matter (PM); schools; ventilation rates; volatile organic compounds (VOCs)

Stepwise organization of the β-structure identifies key regions essential for the propagation and cytotoxicity of insulin amyloid fibrils - Chatani, Eri; Imamura, Hiroshi; Yamamoto, Naoki; Kato, Minoru (The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2014)
Amyloid fibrils are supramolecular assemblies, the deposition of which is associated with many serious diseases including Alzheimer, prion, and Huntington diseases. Several smaller aggregates such as oligomers and protofibrils have been proposed to play a role in early stages of the fibrillation process; however, little is known about how these species contribute to the formation of mature amyloid fibrils with a rigid cross-β structure. Here, we identified a new pathway for the formation of insulin amyloid fibrils at a high concentration of salt in which mature fibrils were formed in a stepwise manner via a prefibrillar intermediate: minute prefibrillar species initially accumulated, followed by the subsequent formation of thicker amyloid fibrils. Fourier transform infrared spectra suggested the sequential formation of two types of β-sheets with different strength hydrogen bonds, one of which was developed concomitantly with the mutual assembly of the prefibrillar intermediate to form mature fibrils. Interestingly, fibril propagation and cellular toxicity appeared only after the later step of structural organization, and a comparison of β-sheet regions between the prefibrillar intermediate and mature fibrils using proteolysis led to the proposal of specific regions essential for manifestation of these properties.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:BA7HRQTB 2129771:ZW393EA8
Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence; Amyloid; Animals; Cytotoxicity; Hot Temperature; Hydrogen Bonding; Insulin; Mass Spectrometry; Microscopy; Atomic Force; Molecular Sequence Data; PC12 Cells; Prefibrillar Intermediate; Propagation; Protein Aggregation; Protein Misfolding; Protein Structure; Protein Structure; Secondary; Rats; Salts; Sodium Chloride; Spectrometry; Mass; Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization; Spectroscopy; Fourier Transform Infrared; Temperature; Time Factors

Advancing Social Justice for Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the UK: An Open Education Approach to Strengthening Capacity through Refugee Action’s Frontline Immigration Advice Project - Charitonos, Koula; Rodriguez, Carolina Albuerne; Witthaus, Gabi; Bossu, Carina (Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020)
Britain’s asylum system fails the most vulnerable; it cannot ensure that people who are least able to protect themselves are provided with the legal assistance that they require to cope with the challenges with which they are inevitably faced. Against this background, the charity Refugee Action developed the Frontline Immigration Advice Programme (FIAP), a technology-supported capacity strengthening programme that aims to increase access to justice for those going through the asylum system in the UK. This paper is concerned with the design and implementation of the FIAP as a free digitally enabled programme that provides learning opportunities for organisations and frontline workers in the refugee sector and supports them in developing new forms of legal practice. It provides empirical data from interviews with members of staff from six participating organisations in the FIAP, and from Refugee Action and the Office of the UK’s Immigration Services Commissioner1 (n = 21). The paper adopts a view on social justice, which according to Fraser (2005) is understood as ‘parity of participation’. We draw on Fraser’s work, as well as work of other scholars such as Lambert (2018) and Hodgkinson-Williams and Trotter (2018) to explore the relationship between social justice and open education by taking into consideration the context within which organisations and professionals operate. The analysis highlights six dimensions for social justice approaches for professional learning as demonstrated through the case of the FIAP: i. deliberate iterative design; ii. access to provision; iii. flexibility of provision; iv. development of resources; v. support and vi. advancing knowledge and skills whilst adapting the workplace. All these dimensions are discussed in the paper in relation to the concept of openness and are critical in developing open socially just programmes that aim to change work practice and address the needs of the most vulnerable.
Number: 1 Publisher: Ubiquity Press KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.5334/jime.563 2129771:WN6GC2UY 2447227:N6KRWYP4
Keywords: Refugee Action; access to justice; open education; professional learning; refugee sector; social justice; technology-enhanced learning

Curriculum Implementation in Zambia: Best Practices of Bridging the Gap between the Intended and the Achieved School Curriculum - Changwe, Robert; Mwanza, Christine (International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2022)

Mathematics teacher education curriculum at a university in Zambia: student teachers’ acquisition of appropriate competencies for teaching mathematics in secondary school. - Changwe, Robert; Mulenga, Innocent Mutale (2018)
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Journal of Language and Social Sciences Education
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Battle for the thermostat: Gender and the effect of temperature on cognitive performance - Chang, Tom Y.; Kajackaite, Agne (PLoS ONE, 2019)
This paper studies differences in the effect of temperature on cognitive performance by gender in a large controlled lab experiment (N = 543). We study performance in math, verbal and cognitive reflection tasks and find that the effects of temperature vary significantly across men and women. At higher temperatures, women perform better on a math and verbal task while the reverse effect is observed for men. The increase in female performance in response to higher temperature is significantly larger and more precisely estimated than the corresponding decrease in male performance. In contrast to math and verbal tasks, temperature has no impact on a measure of cognitive reflection for either gender. Our findings suggest that gender mixed workplaces may be able to increase productivity by setting the thermostat higher than current standards.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216362 2129771:EYIA5AKI

Chatbot-facilitated Nursing Education - Chang, Ching-Yi; Kuo, Shu-Yu; Hwang, Gwo-Haur (Educational Technology & Society, 2022)
Publisher: JSTOR KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:26E9DABC 2129771:3GK6A7RV 2129771:IAM3H3NX
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good - Chang, Ann Mei (John Wiley & Sons, 2018)
Despite enormous investments of time and money, are we making a dent on the social and environmental challenges of our time? What if we could exponentially increase our impact? Around the world, a new generation is looking beyond greater profits, for meaningful purpose. But, unlike business, few social interventions have achieved significant impact at scale. Inspired by the modern innovation practices, popularized by bestseller The Lean Startup, that have fueled technology breakthroughs touching every aspect of our lives, Lean Impact turns our attention to a new goal - radically greater social good. Social change is far more complicated than building a new app. It requires more listening, more care, and more stakeholders. To make a lasting difference, solutions must be embraced by beneficiaries, address root causes, and include an engine that can accelerate growth to reach the scale of the need. Lean Impact offers bold ideas to reach audacious goals through customer insight, rapid experimentation and iteration, and a relentless pursuit of impact. Ann Mei Chang brings a unique perspective from across sectors, from her years as a tech executive in Silicon Valley to her most recent experience as the Chief Innovation Officer at USAID. She vividly illustrates the book with real stories from interviews with over 200 organizations across the US and around the world. Whether you are a nonprofit, social enterprise, triple bottom line company, foundation, government agency, philanthropist, impact investor, or simply donate your time and money, Lean Impact is an essential guide to maximizing social impact and scale.
Google-Books-ID: S8h1DwAAQBAJ
Keywords: Business & Economics / Development / Sustainable Development; Business & Economics / General; Business & Economics / Nonprofit Organizations & Charities / Management & Leadership; Social Science / Philanthropy & Charity

Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good - Chang, Ann Mei (Wiley, 2018)
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Pre-pilot findings on developing a literacy tablet - Chang, Angela; Nunez, David; Roberts, Tom; Sengeh, David; Breazeal, Cynthia (Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2013)
We report observations on how children in a developing country respond to a literacy tablet that is designed to initiate and scaffold literacy learning toward self-sufficiency. This paper describes our first lessons from developing an educational system for enabling children who have no access to schooling to read with minimal outside intervention. We share lessons learned from challenges in the design process, discuss implementation considerations for deploying in remote developing areas, and discuss observations of how children use the technology. We reflect how this experience impacts ongoing work on developing countries regarding collaboration and literacy learning.
00000 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1145/2485760.2485809 2129771:27GP9JCM 2129771:IANNNRMF 257089:BI6G6GDW
Keywords: developing countries; literacy tablet; tablet interaction; technology implementation

Equitable learning with ICT: study of an intervention at scale for underserved students in India - Chandran, M.G.; Sarangapani, P. (2021)
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Why the World Needs a Curriculum Alignment Hub - Chandra, Shivi (Learning Equality, 2020)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:AZD3V54P
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Why the World Needs a Curriculum Alignment Hub - Chandra, Shivi (Learning Equality, 2020)
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Keywords: _zenodoETH

Participatory rural appraisal - Chandra, Ganesh (Katiha, PK, Vaas, KK, Sharma, AP, Bhaumik, U. & Chandra Ganesh (Eds). Issues and tools for social science research in inland fisheries. Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, Kolkata, India. Bulletin, 2010)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Design archaeology: Generating design knowledge from real-world artifact design - Chandra Kruse, L; Seidel, S; Brocke, J (Proceedings of the International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, 2019)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Improving Motivation in Arabic Language Arts Classrooms Through Technology Integration - Chamout, Rima (Walden University, 2020)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:WRYY9UFL
Keywords: _C:Algeria DZA; _C:China CHN; _C:Croatia HRV; _C:France FRA; _C:Indonesia IDN; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Kurdistan XKRDN; _C:Lebanon LBN; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Oman OMN; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Saudi Arabia SAU; _C:Spain ESP; _C:State of Palestine PSE; _C:Sudan SDN; _C:Switzerland CHE; _C:Syrian Arab Republic SYR; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United Arab Emirates ARE; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Shifting power to make a difference - Chambers, Robert; Pettit, Jethro (Inclusive aid, 2004)
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Inclusive rigour for complexity - Chambers, Robert (Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2015)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/19439342.2015.1068356 2129771:EMUJNDIP

Rural development: Putting the last first - Chambers, Robert (Routledge, 2014)
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Higher education institutions and the use of online instruction and online tools and resources during the COVID-19 outbreak - An online review of selected U.S. and SA's universities - Chaka, Chaka (In Review, 2020)
Abstract This online quasi-scoping review set out to review how 64 U.S. and 21 South African universities pivoted to online course delivery and used online tools and resources as one of their collective responses to continue their teaching and learning activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The review was conducted on five online search engines, six online databases and two online social networking sites. Generally, all of the U.S and South African universities investigated transitioned to online classes and temporarily relinquished their in-person, campus-based classes. Additionally, all of these universities transiently opted for a strong form of social distancing and embraced emergency remote online pedagogy. Moreover, four online delivery typologies, with their attendant multiple permutations, emerged from these two sets of universities. Furthermore, when both U.S. and South African universities temporarily pivoted their classes to online delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, they embraced and adopted certain online tools and resources more than the others. For instance, pertaining to 64 U.S. universities, Zoom was the most preferred tool, with video conferencing and LMS platforms emerging as the two dominant platforms. As regards the 21 South African universities, Blackboard (Collaborate) emerged as the most preferred tool, with both LMS and video conferencing platforms emerging as the two dominant platforms. Overall, Zoom, Blackboard (Collaborate) and institutional LMSes were the three common tools to which both sets of universities pivoted during the pandemic. Finally, the two sets of universities only embraced low-tech versions of the 4IR technologies such as video-conferencing, social media technologies, and cloud computing.

ChatGPT Pricing, Explained: Plus & Tokens (2024) - Ch, David (Guides.ai, 2023)
ChatGPT Plus costs $20 per month ($23.80/month for EU + UK). The ChatGPT API costs $0.002 for every 1000 tokens.
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Emergent practices and material conditions in tablet-mediated collaborative learning and teaching - Cerratto-Pargman, Teresa; Jahnke, Isa; Damsa, Crina; Nussbaum, Miguel; Säljö, Roger (Making a Difference: Prioritizing Equity and Access in CSCL, 2017)
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Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Implementation Research: Finding Common Ground on What, How, Why, Where, and Who - Century, Jeanne; Cassata, Amy (Review of Research in Education, 2016)
Over many decades, educators have developed countless interventions and theories about how to create lasting change. Implementation research is the study of these efforts with a set of basic questions: What are we doing? Is it working? For whom? Where? When? How? And, Why? In other words, implementation research is an endeavor to understand if and how educational efforts are accomplishing their goals. This chapter describes the landscape of implementation research, tracing it back to its historical roots and connecting it to other fields with the aim of identifying common threads across diverse efforts. The authors survey where the field is today and highlight different perspectives on complex questions that have long troubled researchers. They outline some of the sticky issues ahead and make a case for shared conceptual clarity and clearly communicated and understood language that will help researchers understand how various bodies of implementation research work are related. The authors conclude by describing the opportunity presented to the education research community in this moment: to capitalize on and learn from historical and contemporary work in education and other fields, and to identify connections across theories and approaches and find ways to collectively move forward toward the shared goal of making education better.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3102/0091732X16665332 2129771:LFUD8F5I

Embracing digital skills: Now and tomorrow (infographic) - Centre for Research and Integrated Development (Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, Zimbabwe),; UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa; Open Development and Education (OpenDevEd, 2022)
ZenodoArchiveID: 6647606 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0281 ZenodoArchiveConcept: 6647605
Keywords: _r:AddedByZotZen; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Final Report for Evaluation of RTT - Centre for Research and Integrated Development (Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, Zimbabwe),; UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa; Open Development and Education (OpenDevEd, 2022)
ZenodoArchiveID: 6683869 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0283 ZenodoArchiveConcept: 6683868
Keywords: _r:AddedByZotZen; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Research Methods for Education - Centre for Research and Integrated Development (Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, Zimbabwe); UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa; Open Development and Education (OpenDevEd, 2021)
ZenodoArchiveID: 6323519 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.5281/zenodo.6323519 ZenodoArchiveConcept: 6323518
Keywords: _r:AddedByZotZen; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Research Methods for Education: Reading List - Centre for Research and Integrated Development (Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, Zimbabwe),; UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa; Open Development and Education (OpenDevEd, 2022)
ZenodoArchiveID: 6324325 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.5281/zenodo.6324325 ZenodoArchiveConcept: 6324324
Keywords: _r:AddedByZotZen; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Summary Report: Evaluation of the Rapid Teacher Training - Centre for Research and Integrated Development (Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, Zimbabwe),; UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa; Open Development and Education (OpenDevEd, 2022)
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Keywords: _r:AddedByZotZen; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Embracing digital skills: Now and tomorrow (Policy Brief) - Centre for Research and Integrated Development (Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, Zimbabwe),; UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa; Education, Open Development and (OpenDevEd, 2022)
ZenodoArchiveID: 6647604 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0280 ZenodoArchiveConcept: 6647603
Keywords: _r:AddedByZotZen; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Exploring first-year students’ experiences of using Moodle in learning an accounting undergraduate module at a South African University - Cele, Siyabonga Alpheos (2019)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:P5CDJ2SU
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Georgia GEO; _C:Greece GRC; _C:India IND; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:New Zealand NZL; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Poland POL; _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Efficacy of Social Networking Sites for Sustainable Education in the Era of COVID-19: A Systematic Review - Cavus, Nadire; Sani, Abdullahi S.; Haruna, Yusuf; Lawan, Abdulmalik A. (Sustainability, 2021)
The sudden advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated containment measures require educational institutions of all sizes to adopt eLearning as the only option for sustainable education. Despite the numerous Learning Management Systems, the rapid migration to eLearning posed numerous challenges that negatively affect the effectiveness and sustainability of the educational activities. The current study systematically reviewed recent articles that recognized the value and feasibility of using Social Networking Sites (SNSs) in education. The study highlighted the current eLearning challenges and illustrated effective strategies for the sustainable educational use of SNSs by both institutions, teachers, and students. Thus, solutions to the problems experienced in education during the COVID-19 period were highlighted based on SNS-supported strategies.
Number: 2 Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3390/su13020808 2129771:8Q4P3QRG
Keywords: COVID-19; _genre:LR-literature_review; eLearning; education; social media; social networking sites

A literature review: efficacy of online learning courses for higher education institution using meta-analysis - Castro, Mayleen Dorcas B.; Tumibay, Gilbert M. (Education and Information Technologies, 2021)
The Internet has made online learning possible, and many educators and researchers are interested in online learning courses to enhance and improve the student learning outcomes while battling the shortage in resources, facilities and equipment particularly in higher education institution. Online learning has become popular because of its potential for providing more flexible access to content and instruction at any time, from any place. It is imperative that the researchers consider, and examine the efficacy of online learning in educating students. For this study, the researchers reviewed literature through meta-analysis as the method of research concerning the use of ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation) framework for designing and developing instructional materials that can provide wider access to quality higher education. This framework can be used to list generic processes that instructional designers and training developers use (Morrison et al., 2010). It represents a descriptive guideline for building effective training and performance support tools in five phases, as follows: 1.) Analysis, 2.) Design, 3.) Development, 4.) Implementation, and 5.) Evaluation. The researchers collected papers relating to online learning courses efficacy studies to provide a synthesis of scientifically rigorous knowledge in online learning courses, the researchers searched on ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), ProQuest databases, PubMed, Crossref, Scribd EBSCO, and Scopus. The researchers also conducted a manual search using Google Scholar. Based on the analysis, three main themes developed: 1.) comparison of online learning and traditional face-to-face setting, 2.) identification of important factors of online learning delivery, and 3.) factors of institutional adoption of online learning. Based on the results obtained 50 articles. The researchers examine each paper and found 30 articles that met the efficacy of online learning courses through having well-planned, well-designed courses and programs for higher education institution. Also, it highlights the importance of instructional design and the active role of institutions play in providing support structures for educators and students. Identification of different processes and activities in designing and developing an Online Learning Courses for Higher Education Institution will be the second phase of this study for which the researchers will consider using the theoretical aspect of the ADDIE framework.

Issues and Challenges in the Design of Culturally Adapted Evidence-Based Interventions - Castro, Felipe González; Barrera, Manuel; Holleran Steiker, Lori K. (Annual review of clinical psychology, 2010)
This article examines issues and challenges in the design of cultural adaptations that are developed from an original evidence-based intervention (EBI). Recently emerging multistep frameworks or stage models are examined, as these can systematically guide the development of culturally adapted EBIs. Critical issues are also presented regarding whether and how such adaptations may be conducted, and empirical evidence is presented regarding the effectiveness of such cultural adaptations. Recent evidence suggests that these cultural adaptations are effective when applied with certain subcultural groups, although they are less effective when applied with other subcultural groups. Generally, current evidence regarding the effectiveness of cultural adaptations is promising but mixed. Further research is needed to obtain more definitive conclusions regarding the efficacy and effectiveness of culturally adapted EBIs. Directions for future research and recommendations are presented to guide the development of a new generation of culturally adapted EBIs.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-033109-132032 2129771:UC8KYZVI 2486141:ZLKF4245

Do Large Language Models Understand Chemistry? A Conversation with ChatGPT - Castro Nascimento, Cayque Monteiro; Pimentel, André Silva (Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2023)
Large language models (LLMs) have promised a revolution in answering complex questions using the ChatGPT model. Its application in chemistry is still in its infancy. This viewpoint addresses the question of how well ChatGPT understands chemistry by posing five simple tasks in different subareas of chemistry.
Publisher: American Chemical Society

Improving the Impact of Educational Technologies on Learning Within Low-Income Contexts - Castillo, Nathan; Adam, Taskeen; Haßler, Björn (Learning, Marginalization, and Improving the Quality of Education in Low-income Countries, 2022)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; dode_eth-src-eth; dode_eth-trf2-dode

MOOCs for development: trends, challenges, and opportunities - Castillo, Nathan M.; Lee, Jinsol; Zahra, Fatima T.; Wagner, Daniel A. (Information Technologies & International Development, 2015)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:Q6LYIDRK
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

MOOCs for development: trends, challenges, and opportunities - Castillo, Nathan M; Lee, Jinsol; Zahra, Fatima T; Wagner, Daniel A (Information Technologies & International Development, 2015)
The recent rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs) has generated significant media attention for their potential to disrupt the traditional modes of education trough ease of access and free or low-cost content delivery. MOOCs offer the potential to enable access to high-quality education to students, even in the most underserved regions of the world. However, much of the excitement surrounding opportunities for MOOCs in non-OECD contexts remains unproven. Challenges with regard to infrastructure, sustainability, and evaluation have disrupted early attempts to expand inclusion for those least educated. Drawing on proceedings from a recent international conference on MOOCs for Development held at the University of Pennsylvania, this report synthesizes trends, challenges, and opportunities within the growing subfield.
Keywords: ___working_potential_duplicate; ⛔ No DOI found

Trends in Digital Personalized Learning: Landscape Review of Personalized Learning Solutions in Low and Middle-Income Countries - Castillo, Nathan M.; Adam, Taskeen; Alam, Andaleeb; Alrawashdeh, Ghaida S; Tiwari, Priyamvada (UNICEF Office of Global Insight & Policy, 2022)
Digital Personalized Learning (DPL) - tech solutions and products that tailor learning to individuals and their specific learning needs - have the potential to improve learning outcomes and close gaps for students who have fallen behind. However, there is a limited of evidence from digital personalized learning interventions deployed across the developing world. This landscape review identifies trends and gaps in DPL implementation in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) contexts. This research report presents data on DPL effectiveness in LMICs from over 40 interventions worldwide by to classifying and categorizing design features, implementation models, and scalability factors. Implications for future research and design are discussed from a multi-stakeholder perspective.
Keywords: Global studies; Learning; Policy action; Quality of education; technology in education

Can we open the black box of AI? - Castelvecchi, D. (Nature, 2016)
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Keywords: ❓ Multiple DOI

Improving machine learning performance using conceptual modeling - Castellanos, A.; Castillo, A.; Tremblay, M.C. (2021)
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Parental involvement in low-achieving children’s learning: The role of household wealth in rural India - Cashman, Laura; Sabates, Ricardo; Alcott, Benjamin (International Journal of Educational Research, 2021)
Existing research recognises that while parents often aspire to be involved in their children’s education, some face barriers that prevent this. Studies situated in the Global North recognise economic constraints as a barrier, presenting a steep gradient whereby the richer households are, the higher their parental involvement levels. This paper analyses the influence of household wealth on parental involvement in low-achieving children's education in a resource-constrained area in rural Uttar Pradesh, India. Based on regression models from a sample of 13,558 households, we corroborate evidence from wealthier contexts: wealthier parents are consistently more likely to be involved in low-achieving children’s learning. This suggests that stakeholders should be aware of the potential influence of household wealth on parental involvement in rural India.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.ijer.2020.101701 2129771:AQXJKJKK
Keywords: Asset ownership; India; Parental involvement; Principal component analysis; Wealth

Play in Crisis: support for parents and carers - Casey, Theresa (International Play Association, 2020)
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Learning Gains From the KinderTEK® iPad Math Program: Does Timing of a Preventative Intervention Matter? - Cary, Mari Strand; Kennedy, Patrick C.; Shanley, Lina; Clarke, Ben (Journal of Special Education Technology, 2020)
Publisher: SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1177/0162643420928336 2129771:ULAQGLAI
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Identifying barriers to the systematic literature review process - Carver, J.C.; Hassler, E.; Hernandes, E. (International symposium on empirical software engineering and measurement, 2013)
Place: Baltimore, MD, USA KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:UDA5FTAF 2486141:3L5BBZ9X
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Planning for School Reopening and Recovery After COVID-19 - Carvalho, Shelby; Rossiter, Jack; Angrist, Noam; Hares, Susannah; Silverman, Rachel (Centre for Global Development, 2020)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Cross-Border Higher Education and Quality Assurance. Results from a Systematic Literature Review - Carvalho, Nathan; Rosa, Maria J.; Amaral, Alberto (Journal of Studies in International Education, 2022)
Internationalisation has gained prominence in debates on higher education and can be analysed from different perspectives, including cross-border higher education. Cross-border higher education entails relevant challenges, namely regarding its quality. This paper intends to discuss, based on a literature review, the link between cross-border higher education and quality assurance, namely the role quality assurance may have in contributing to a quality cross-border educational offer. 79 documents (indexed in Scopus or Web of Science) published between 1998 and 2019 were content analysed. The results show that both internal and external quality assurance are relevant topics when discussing cross-border higher education and a means to stimulate the overall quality of this educational offer. Moreover, to be effective, quality assurance must rely on cooperation and mutual trust between importing and exporting countries, including their quality assurance agencies.
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
Keywords: agencies; cooperation; cross-border higher education; higher education institutions; internationalisation; quality assurance; transnational education

Qualité de l’air à l’intérieur des écoles - Cartieaux, E.; Rzepka, M.-A.; Cuny, D. (Archives de Pédiatrie, 2011)
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Sustaining literacy from mother tongue instruction in complementary education into official language of instruction in government schools in Ghana - Carter, Emma; Sabates, Ricardo; Rose, Pauline; Akyeampong, Kwame (International Journal of Educational Development, 2020)
This paper presents evidence on literacy trajectories for children in Ghana who enrolled in a Complementary Basic Education programme taught in mother tongue and transitioned into government schools. At the point of transition, we find that children who enrolled in government schools where the language of instruction differed from instruction in their mother tongue did not perform as well in literacy. After a year in government schools, those taught in another local language caught up. By contrast, those who transitioned into English did not. Our evidence reinforces the benefits of mother tongue and local language instruction for progress in literacy.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2020.102195 2129771:E8FLSTF2
Keywords: Alternative education; Ghana; Literacy; Mother tongue; Out of school

Engaging parents in their children’s education - Carter, Becky (2017)
In general systematic and rigorous reviews find limited (and little robust) evidence on the effectiveness of interventions to engage parents in their children’s learning in resource-constrained countries – when looking at parental participation in their children’s literacy development and parental engagement with schools. Effects tend to be mixed, with scarce evidence making it hard to come to firm conclusions on findings, including on the effects of the way parents engage in supporting their children’s learning. Reviews report more, and more consistent, evidence showing significant benefits from interventions supporting parental engagement with their children’s early childhood development (ECD). There are recommendations in the literature on the way parents are engaged in ECD interventions. In general the literature tends not to provide gender analysis, presumably because many interventions do not incorporate a gender focus (although some do). This rapid review has found limited evidence on the impact of interventions supporting parent engagement specifically for girls or for children with disabilities in resource constrained countries.
Accepted: 2017-07-14T15:06:00Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:4Q6AUSIT 4869029:LVF8VL95
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Girls’ Educational Needs in Libya - Carter, Becky (2018)
Girls’ – and boys’ – education in Libya has been affected by the ongoing conflict. Seven years on from the 2011 crisis, three governments compete for power, with deep divisions along political, geographic, religious and ethnic lines (Freedom House, 2018; OCHA, 2017, pp. 7-8). Fighting continues in populated areas, and there is an environment of deepening vulnerability for the population at large with a proliferation of weapons and autonomous militias, and a rapidly deteriorating economy and public sector (Freedom House, 2018; OCHA, 2017, p. 7). The protracted crisis has damaged vital education infrastructure, and impacted on the education system’s delivery, outreach, coverage, retention and quality. In 2017 the majority of households with school-aged children (87.3%) reported facing no barrier to accessing education; IDP households were more likely to report barriers. For those that did report barriers, the most common challenges were the distance to school and not being able to afford educational services. Girls are particularly vulnerable to violence and insecurity in Libya. Their educational needs are shaped by multiple, intersecting factors such as location, tribal affiliation, presence of armed militias and organised crime, social norms driving gendered experiences including harmful practices such as child marriage, and the lack of adequate school WASH facilities, among others (Larsson and Mannergren, 2014, p. 21).
Accepted: 2018-09-13T11:03:10Z Publisher: IDS KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:SRPCU2T5 4869029:XGBNZMVB
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Linkages Between Poverty, Inequality and Exclusion in Rwanda - Carter, Becky (2018)
This review summarises analysis in the literature that provides more detail behind the quantitative data, exploring the nature of inequalities and exclusion in Rwanda, the drivers of these, and how this shapes Rwandans’ vulnerability to poverty. Undertaken in six days, this review draws largely on academic studies as well as reports by international development agencies (most notably the World Bank). Many of the poverty and development studies include some form of gender analysis; there is also work that focuses solely on women and girl’s situations in Rwanda. There are a few studies looking at the linkages between poverty, exclusion and disabilities in Rwanda. Key findings of this review include few studies looking in-depth at the relationship between poverty and inequality in Rwanda, with a lack of disaggregated analyses or detailed case studies (Dawson 2018). Whilst Rwanda has achieved impressive sustained economic growth since the 1990s, poverty in Rwanda is widespread and Rwanda remains the most unequal country in East Africa. Furthermore, The World Bank’s 2015 poverty assessment finds Rwanda’s high inequality driven by location, education and occupation (Bundervoet et al, 2015) whereby there is a deep rural-urban divide, with those most at risk of poverty dependent on agricultural waged labour or smaller/less productive farms, and household heads with no secondary education. The same assessment finds improvements in agricultural productivity and diversification into non-farm activities the main drivers of consumption growth and poverty reduction for 2006-2011. In contrast, other studies highlight how rapid social transformation leads to winners and losers (in absolute or relative terms), and explores the difficulties faced by many in attempting to escape poverty (Verpoorten, 2014: 4; Abbott et al, 2015). Abbott et al (2015: 932) highlight that about a third of the population face a daily struggle for survival, making it difficult to take advantage of opportunities for empowerment. Finally, Rwanda’s path to development remains controversial, with a sharp contrast between the impressive economic progress and standstill in ‘voice and accountability’ (McKay and Verpoorten, 2016).
Accepted: 2018-12-17T16:07:59Z Publisher: IDS KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:DIHIWDBR 4869029:LJNFB6GR
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Madagascan heatwave ‘virtually impossible’ without human-caused global heating - Carrington, Damian; editor, Damian Carrington Environment (The Guardian, 2023)
Study finds impact of heat on millions of people went unrecorded, highlighting limitations many African countries face
Keywords: Africa; Climate crisis; Environment; Extreme heat; Extreme weather; Madagascar; World news

COVID-19 and teacher education: a literature review of online teaching and learning practices - Carrillo, Carmen; Flores, Maria Assunção (European Journal of Teacher Education, 2020)
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted education at all levels in various ways. Institutions and teacher educators had to quickly respond to an unexpected and ‘forced’ transition from face-to-face to remote teaching. They also had to create learning environments for student teachers doing their preparation in the light of the requirements of teacher education programmes and the conditions in which both universities and schools had to operate. This paper provides a review of the literature on online teaching and learning practices in teacher education. In total, 134 empirical studies were analysed. Online teaching and learning practices related to social, cognitive and teaching presence were identified. The findings highlighted the need for a comprehensive view of the pedagogy of online education that integrates technology to support teaching and learning. The implications of this study for the development of online teaching and learning practices are discussed. Suggestions for further research are also examined.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2020.1821184 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/02619768.2020.1821184 2129771:IDTKRE42 2129771:K5S5HT2G 2129771:SREBALP3
Keywords: Covid-19; Online learning; online practices; teacher education

Pre-service teacher training in Malawi: findings of a pilot study on the viability of media players for teacher development - Carrier, Carol; Finholt-Daniel, Matt; Sales, Gregory C (International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2012)
As part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID funded Malawi Teacher Professional Development Support project, a sub-task was the piloting of an alternative technology that could be used for improving the quality and consistency of teacher continued professional development (CPD). The pilot, which included 26 open and distance learning (ODL) student teachers, was launched in the spring of 2011 using a low-cost portable MP3 multi-purpose device. A short course on numeracy, containing 5 weekly lessons, was piloted. Each lesson consisted of one or two readings, two videos, and an assignment that directed the learner to complete tasks and document their completion using the camera and audio recorder features of the media player. The viability of using the media player for CPD was evaluated on the ease of use, effectiveness of instruction, and potential for long-term scalability. The evaluation results demonstrated that, with a small amount if initial training, the devices were easy to use and they effectively deliver instruction. Scalability, however, is critical to the long-term success of an initiative based on these or similar devices. An analysis suggests that an affordable option worth considering is the systematic, shared use of media player devices within schools. This approach could dramatically reduce the cost of using this alternative technology for ODL training to pennies per lesson. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
Place: Bridgetown Publisher: University of the West Indies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2339240:H5SC64NG 2534378:5F2RLGL3 2534378:783739U4
Keywords: Distance learning; Education; Learning; Malawi; Software; Student teachers; Teacher education; Teaching; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2096523; __finaldtb; ⛔ No DOI found

Does Math Achievement h'APP'en when iPads and Game-Based Learning are Incorporated into Fifth-Grade Mathematics Instruction? - Carr, Jennie M (Journal of Information Technology Education, 2012)
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Broadening borders to build better schools: Virtual professional learning communities - Carpenter, Daniel; Munshower, Paul (International Journal of Educational Management, 2019)
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how rural teachers provided a PLC by leveraging virtual technologies to connect educators of like subject disciplines from several schools, foreign and domestic. Design/methodology/approach A phenomenological case study-based approach was leveraged to investigate established vPLCs at schools (Creswell, 2013; Stake, 2010). Qualitative data were collected from multiple sources to obtain rural teacher perceptions on the impact vPLCs had on their practice (Creswell, 2013). Findings Teacher collaborative teams build relationships comparable to teams that met face to face as part of a similar PLC and PD experience. Participant reflections in this investigation showed that rural educators favored face-to-face meetings; however, vPLCs provided similar teacher experiences to that of the face-to-face PBL model. Results indicated that educators recognized virtual collaboration just as valuable a tool for enabling PLCs than face-to-face collaborations while still offering similarities to improved teacher practice. Research limitations/implications The research was limited to teachers in rural settings in the USA (Texas) and in the Dominican Republic. The research was limited to teacher perceptions of change, and observed changes as part of their participation in a research-based virtual PLC model. The research was limited to the school setting over an academic year. Practical implications The findings from this study have practical implications for rural teachers and school implementation of a professional learning community model. Originality/value The promise provided by this study is that vPLCs may provide opportunity for rural schools to provide a job-embedded professional development model (Croft et al., 2010) for otherwise isolated teachers (Barrett et al., 2015).
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Keywords: Collaboration; Communities of Practice; Computer Mediated Communication; ERIC; Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Education; Educational technology; Faculty Development; Learning; Meetings; Preferences; Professional development; Professional learning communities; Rural Schools; Rural schools; School districts; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Collaboration; Teacher collaboration; Teachers; Teaching; Virtual professional learning communities; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2095794; __finaldtb

Using Technology to Deliver Educational Services to Children and Youth in Environments Affected by Crisis and/or Conflict - Carlson, Samuel (USAID, 2013)
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​Using technology to deliver educational services to children and youth in environments affected by crisis and/or conflict - Carlson, , S (USAID, 2013)
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First-grade teachers’ response to three models of professional development in reading - Carlisle, J.F.; Cortina, K.A.; Katz, L.A. (Reading & Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Difficulties, 2011)

Apart but Connected: Online Tutoring and Student Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Carlana, Michela; Ferrara, Eliana (2021)
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Keywords: Final_citation

The CDB / CARICOM / OECS Model Learning Recovery and Improvement Programme for Caribbean Schools: Let's REAP! — A Roadmap for IGOs - Caribbean Development Bank; CARICOM; Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (Open Development & Education, 2021)
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The CDB / CARICOM / OECS Model Learning Recovery and Improvement Programme for Caribbean Schools: Let's REAP! — A Roadmap for Ministries - Caribbean Development Bank; CARICOM; Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (Open Development & Education, 2021)
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The CDB / CARICOM / OECS Model Learning Recovery and Improvement Programme for Caribbean Schools: Let's REAP! — Overview - Caribbean Development Bank; CARICOM; Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (Open Development & Education, 2021)
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The CDB / CARICOM / OECS Model Learning Recovery and Improvement Programme for Caribbean Schools: Let's REAP! — Roadmap for Principals - Caribbean Development Bank; CARICOM; Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (Open Development & Education, 2021)
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The CDB / CARICOM / OECS Model Learning Recovery and Improvement Programme for Caribbean Schools: Let's REAP! — Roadmap Poster - Caribbean Development Bank; CARICOM; Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (Open Development & Education, 2021)
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'Early Childhood Benefits at Low Cost: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Mexico ', Unpublished Manuscript - Cárdenas, Sergio; Evans, David K.; Holland, Peter (2015)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Procesos y condiciones en el aprendizaje de adultos. Jornada Nacional de Supervisores. Supervisión para aprendizajes de calidad y oportunidades para todos. Educación Rural - Cardemil, C. (Ministerio de, 2001)

Participatory rural appraisal as qualitative research: distinguishing methodological issues from participatory claims - Campbell, John R. (Human Organization, 2001)
Publisher: Society for Applied Anthropology KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.17730/humo.60.4.4bgnlmy60fkvq4r2 2129771:YB3BWPNQ

The landscape of research on learning in low-tech environments - Campana, Kathleen; Agarwal, Naresh Kumar (Information and Learning Sciences, 2019)
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1108/ILS-10-2019-0103 2129771:YX8TSFDB
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Evaluating service quality and performance of higher education institutions: a systematic review and a post-COVID-19 outlook - Camilleri, Mark Anthony (International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences, 2021)
Purpose This study aims to present a systematic review on service quality in higher education. It discusses about the latest opportunities and challenges facing higher educational institutions (HEIs) following the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Design/methodology/approach The study relied on the grounded theory’s inductive reasoning to capture, analyze and synthesize the findings from academic and non-academic sources. The methodology involved a systematic review from Scopus-indexed journals, from intergovernmental and non-governmental policy documents, as well as from university ranking sites and league tables. Findings The comprehensive review suggests that HEIs can use different performance indicators and metrics to evaluate their service quality in terms of their resources, student-centered education, high-impact research and stakeholder engagement. Moreover, this paper sheds light about the impact of an unprecedented COVID-19 on higher education services. Practical implications During the first wave of COVID-19, the delivery of higher educational services migrated from traditional and blended learning approaches to fully virtual and remote course delivery. In the second wave, policy makers imposed a number of preventative measures, including social distancing and hygienic practices, among others, on HEIs. Originality/value This timely contribution has synthesized the findings on service quality and performance management in the higher education context. Furthermore, it investigated the effect of COVID-19 on higher education services. It deliberates on the challenges and responses in the short/medium term and provides a discussion on the way forward. In conclusion, it implies that HEI leaders ought to embrace online teaching models and virtual systems, as they are here to stay in a post-COVID-19 era.
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Keywords: COVID-19; Education technology; Higher education; Higher education institutions; Higher education performance; Higher education service quality; Performance evaluation; Performance indicators; Service quality; Universities

El uso de las tabletas y su impacto en el aprendizaje. Una investigación nacional en centros de Educación Primaria - Camacho Martí, Mar; Esteve-Mon, Francesc M. (2018)
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Keywords: _C:Dominican Republic DOM; _C:Finland FIN; _C:France FRA; _C:India IND; _C:Iran IRN; _C:Lebanon LBN; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Spain ESP; _C:Thailand THA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

A topography of climate change research - Callaghan, Max; Minx, Jan C.; Forster, Piers M. (Nature Climate Change, 2020)
The massive expansion of scientific literature on climate change1 poses challenges for global environmental assessments and our understanding of how these assessments work. Big data and machine learning can help us deal with large collections of scientific text, making the production of assessments more tractable, and giving us better insights about how past assessments have engaged with the literature. We use topic modelling to draw a topic map, or topography, of over 400,000 publications from the Web of Science on climate change. We update current knowledge on the IPCC, showing that compared with the baseline of the literature identified, the social sciences are in fact over-represented in recent assessment reports. Technical, solutions-relevant knowledge—especially in agriculture and engineering—is under-represented. We suggest a variety of other applications of such maps, and our findings have direct implications for addressing growing demands for more solution-oriented climate change assessments that are also more firmly rooted in the social sciences2,3. The perceived lack of social science knowledge in assessment reports does not necessarily imply an IPCC bias, but rather suggests a need for more social science research with a focus on technical topics on climate solutions. The rapid growth of climate change research presents challenges for IPCC assessments and their stated aim of being comprehensive, objective and transparent. Here the authors use topic modelling to map the climate change literature, and assess how well it is represented in IPCC reports.
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How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information - Cairo, Alberto (W. W. Norton & Company, 2019)
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Back Doors, Trap Doors, and Fourth-Party Deals: How You End up with Harmful Academic Surveillance Technology on Your Campus without Even Knowing - Caines, Autumm; Silverman, Sarah (The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, 2021)
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Keywords: Final_citation; Issue Twenty; anystyle; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

Effects of Scaffolding in Digital Game-Based Learning on Student’s Achievement: a Three-Level Meta-analysis - Cai, Zhihui; Mao, Peipei; Wang, Dandan; He, Jinbo; Chen, Xinjie; Fan, Xitao (Educational Psychology Review, 2022)
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Systematic Review of the Literature About the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Lives of School Children - Cachón-Zagalaz, Javier; Sánchez-Zafra, María; Sanabrias-Moreno, Déborah; González-Valero, Gabriel; Lara-Sánchez, Amador J.; Zagalaz-Sánchez, María Luisa (Frontiers in Psychology, 2020)
Background: The year 2020 has been marked by the emergence of COVID-19, this virus has reached many countries and has paralysed the lives of many people who have been forced to stay at home in confinement. There have been numerous studies that have sought to analyze the impact of this pandemic from different perspectives, however, this study will pay attention to how it has affected and how it may affect children between 0 and 12 years in the future after the closure of schools for months. Objective: The objective of this article is to learn about the research carried out on the child population in times of confinement, especially those dealing with psychological and motor aspects of minors. Methods: To carry out this systematic review, the PRISMA statement has been followed to achieve an adequate and organized structure of the manuscript. The bibliography has been searched in the WOS, SCOPUS and DIALNET databases, using as keywords: "COVID-19" and "Children". The criteria that were established for the selection of the articles were (1) articles focusing on an age of up to 12 years; (2) papers relating COVID-19 to children; (3) studies analysing the psychological and motor characteristics of children during confinement Results: A total of 9 manuscripts related to psychological and motor factors in children under 12 have been found. The table presenting the results includes the authors, title, place of publication and key ideas of the selected manuscripts. Conclusion: After concluding the systematic review, it has been detected that there are few studies that have focused attention on the psychological, motor or academic problems that can lead to minors after a situation of these characteristics. Similarly, a small number of studies have been found that promote actions at the family and school level to reverse this situation when life returns to normal. These results may be useful for future studies that seek to expand the information according to the evolution of the pandemic.
Publisher: Frontiers
Keywords: COVID-19; Children; Coronavirus; Psychology; physical activity

Surveillance training for ebola preparedness in Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, and Mali - Cáceres, Victor M.; Sidibe, Sekou; Andre, McKenzie; Traicoff, Denise; Lambert, Stephanie; King, Melanie E.; Kazambu, Ditu; Lopez, Augusto; Pedalino, Biagio; Herrera Guibert, Dionisio J.; Wasswa, Peter; Cardoso, Placido; et al. (Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017)
© 2017, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). All rights reserved. The 2014–2015 epidemic of Ebola virus disease in West Africa primarily affected Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Several countries, including Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal, experienced Ebola importations. Realizing the importance of a trained field epidemiology workforce in neighboring countries to respond to Ebola importations, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Field Epidemiology Training Program unit implemented the Surveillance Training for Ebola Preparedness (STEP) initiative. STEP was a mentored, competency-based initiative to rapidly build up surveillance capacity along the borders of the at-risk neighboring countries Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau. The target audience was district surveillance officers. STEP was delivered to 185 participants from 72 health units (districts or regions). Timeliness of reporting and the quality of surveillance analyses improved 3 months after training. STEP demonstrated that mentored, competency-based training, where learners attain competencies while delivering essential public health services, can be successfully implemented in an emergency response setting.
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Factors Affecting Students' Acceptance of Tablet PCs: A Study in Italian High Schools - Cacciamani, Stefano; Villani, Daniela; Bonanomi, Andrea; Carissoli, Claudia; Olivari, Maria Giulia; Morganti, Laura; Riva, Giuseppe; Confalonieri, Emanuela (Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2018)
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AMREF's Stand Up For African Mothers Campaign: Training Midwives to Reduce Maternal Mortality in Africa - Cabridens, M; Tolve, S (The Journal of Field Actions: Field Actions Science Reports, 2012)
Abstract. AMREF is the African Medical and Research Foundation, a uniquely African organization, created in 1957 which runs 145 health programmes a year to help around 7 million people in Africa. Headquartered in Nairobi and with offices around the world, AMREF ensures access to health care for the most vulnerable and marginalized people in Africa, with a focus on women and children. AMREF works within the communities, and works with and for women as they are the heart of the communities. Indeed, by focusing on midwives training in the Stand Up For African Mothers campaign, AMREF is able to talk about the key role of women and mothers for a healthy Africa and the needs of health workers to reduce mortality rates for mothers but also for children. Keywords. Health care, Africa, women, children, poverty, social work, midwifes, pregnancy.
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Políticas públicas em educação: um apanhado histórico - Cá, Lourenço Ocuni; Ocuni Cá, Cristina Mandu (2015)
Este trabalho pretende documentar e analisar as estruturas educacionais da Guiné-Bissau, a falta de infraestrutura deixada pelo colonialismo português e a implementação do novo sistema educacional pelo Partido Africano para Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (PAIGC). A análise é feita por meio de avaliação do desempenho de sucessivos períodos que fizeram parte da história educacional do país. Nesta análise, destaca-se, em primeiro momento, a ausência de instituições escolares na sociedade linhageira africana, não que isto significasse a inexistência de ensino-aprendizagem, pois se tratava de uma cultura oral que veio a ser sobreposta pela cultura escrita europeia. Nesse sentido, no ensino colonial, a Igreja Católica desempenhou o papel fundamental na docilização dos guineenses. A igreja não só ajudou na implantação da política educacional, como também participou na legitimação do colonialismo português, sancionando e santificando a missão civilizadora e função histórica de Portugal. Paralelamente a essa educação, o movimento de libertação nacional da Guiné e Cabo Verde (PAIGC) idealizou e instaurou a educação nas Zonas Libertadas (1963-1973) esta educação era mais aberta e mais dinâmica em relação ao mundo exterior. Ela não tinha mais como objetivo principal produzir uma situação de equilíbrio e de estagnação e sim procurava apoiar-se e favorecer o processo geral da luta de libertação nacional em que se inseria.
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Impacto del Programa “Computadores para Educar” en la deserción estudiantil, el logro escolar y el ingreso a la educación superior [Impact of the Programme Computers to Educate on Student Dropout, School Achievement and Admission to Higher Education - C., Rodriguez; F., Sánchez; J, Márquez Zuñiga (Serie Documentos CEDe, 2011)
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Digital game-based learning for K-12 mathematics education: A meta-analysis - Byun, JaeHwan; Joung, Eunmi (School Science and Mathematics, 2018)
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Narrowing the Digital Divide a case study of “learning by doing” approach to narrowing the Digital Divide in East Africa (Kenya) by Dubai Women's College students - Butt, Z; Chaudhri, AA; Nassiri, N (2013)
It is globally assumed that improvements in Information Communication Technology (ICT) will enforce a better global communication; improve business processes and commercial activities, thereby leading to superior standards of living for individuals while benefitting society. This paper narrates the experiences of fifteen HCT students who visited Kenya in an attempt to narrow the existing “Digital Divide” by building computer networking labs in some of the vocational institutes in remote East Africa. This paper encapsulates key reflections of the study tour participants who embraced a “learning by doing” model in order to gain valuable international work experience and narrow the digital divide in four educational institutes in Kenya. The success of this initiative mandates that we document the learning from this experience in order to ensure success and sustainability of future projects of similar calibre. We believe the process of conducting “international field-trips” followed by reflections formulating lessons learnt from these trips will be useful for future volunteers.
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Teacher assistant support and deployment in mainstream schools - Butt, Rosemary (International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2016)
Models of support for students with disability and learning difficulties in mainstream classes in Australia rely extensively on teacher assistants (TAs). Current models, however, inadvertently perpetuate low expectations because providing TA support can be one of the most restrictive supports offered in a school [Giangreco, M. F. 2010a. “One-to-One Paraprofessionals for Students with Disabilities in Inclusive Classrooms: Is Conventional Wisdom Wrong?” Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 48 (1): 1–13; Etscheidt, S. 2005. “Paraprofessional Services for Students with Disabilities: A Legal Analysis of Issues.” Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities 30(2): 60–80]. In addition, the increasing instructional role of TAs in the classroom is concerning. Negative outcomes for students where TAs provide support have been noted [Giangreco, M. F., J. C. Suter, and M. B. Doyle. 2010. “Paraprofessionals in Inclusive Schools: A Review of Recent Research.” Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation 20: 41–57; Webster, R., P. Blatchford, and A. Russell. 2010. “Should Teaching Assistants Have a Pedagogical Role? Lessons Following the DISS Project.” Paper Presented at the BERA annual conference, September 1–4, University of Warwick, UK]. A qualitative case study was conducted in an Australia city over three years across four primary school sites to identify the issues and propose possible solutions. The study identified five different models of TA support and deployment. It was found support models used in mainstream schools were generally inequitable – if students did not have a disability or learning difficulty they received instruction primarily from a qualified teacher, but if students had a disability or learning difficulty, they received instruction from a TA who may have had no qualifications, no involvement in planning, limited supervision and unclear reporting; and no clear duty statement requirements. A more inclusive and more equitable model of TA support is discussed.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2016.1145260
Keywords: Teacher assistant; deployment; inclusive education; mainstream; support

"Don't Be Too Polite, Girls!" Women, Work, and Vocational Education and Training: A Critical Review of the Literature - Butler, Elaine; Ferrier, Fran (National Centre for Vocational Education Research, 252 Kensington Road, Leabrook, South Australia 5068, Australia; E-mail: ncver@ncver, 2000)
Most of the research on women and vocational education and training (VET) in Australia and elsewhere that was published in 1987-1998 may be characterized as follows: (1) it was undertaken to inform or support policy decisions and is therefore framed by political and ideological agendas; (2) it is piecemeal; (3) it tends to consider women as "other" while normalizing the experiences of men; and (4) it lacks a perspective of "advantage" as opposed to "disadvantage." The literature on women and VET revolves around the following themes: (1) globalization and change; (2) social, cultural, and demographic changes; (3) policies, politics, and VET; (4) marketization of VET; (5) economic and social policies and practices for VET; (6) gender issues in VET; and (7) curriculum, pedagogies, and practices in VET. The literature on all these themes reveals a consistency in research findings and recommendations that seek structural systemic change in the VET system, including the political will to position equity as a central organizing feature. A scheme providing research grants for VET operating like the grants awarded by the Australian Research Council should be established. Grants should promote a vigorous, knowledge-seeking and inclusive culture in VET. (Fourteen tables/figures are included. The bibliography lists 279 references.) (MN)
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Collaboration and self-regulation in teachers' professional development - Butler, D.L.; Lauscher, H.N.; Jarvis-Selinger, S.; Beckingham, B. (Teaching and Teacher Education, 2004)
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COVID-19 in Higher Education Literature Database (CHELD V1): An open access systematic literature review database with coding rules - Butler-Henderson, K.; Crawford, J.; Rudolph, J.; Lalani, K.; Sabu, K. M. (Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching, 2020)
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has affected every sectoracross every corner of the world. The higher education sector is notimmune from the pandemic and is facing significant learning and teachingchallenges. The existing literature databases on COVID-19 are focusedon the medical elements of the pandemic. This manuscript documentsthe method for the creation of the first version of the COVID-19 in HigherEducation Literature Database (CHELD). Our aspiration is to provide anopen access resource to support future learning and teaching scholars togain timely access to pre-examined literature on higher education duringCOVID-19. This first version documents 138 manuscripts published oronline-first between 1 January 2020 to 30 June 2020. Using a rigoroussystematic review method, engaging in the PRISMA approach, qualityassessment using the Mixed Method Appraisal Tool (MMAT) and QualityAssessment Tool for Theory and Literature (QATTL), we offer a first glanceat the metadata of articles published on COVID-19 in higher educationduring the first six months of 2020. By providing an open access database,we see the opportunities for future research as boundless.
Number: 2 Place: Singapore Publisher: Kaplan Singapore

Dr Math gets MUDDY: the "dirt" on how to attract teenagers to Mathematics and Science by using multi-user dungeon games over Mxit on cell phones - Butgereit, L.; Leonard, B.; Le Roux, C.; Rama, H.; De Sousa, M.; Naidoo, T. (The authors, 2010)
The current group of teenagers has been called many things – some of the terms unprintable in respectable publications. However terms such as the “thumb tribe” (because they can type faster on their cell phones with their thumbs than adults can type on a keyboard using ten fingers) and “gamers” (because they play computer games for hours, and even days, at a time) are indicative of the close relationship teenagers have with their cell phones and computers. This paper explores a project where multi-user dungeon games (MUDs) with a science and mathematical twist were deployed using Mxit (a popular instant messaging system in South Africa) on cell phones to encourage teenagers to learn more about math and science to practice math and science skills
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Editor’s Comments: advancing research transparency at MIS quarterly: a pluralistic approach - Burton-Jones, A.; Boh, W.F.; Oborn, E. (MIS Quarterly, 2021)
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Achieving quality in early childhood education in the Eastern Caribbean depends on teacher preparation - Burns, Sheron C. (Early Child Development and Care, 2018)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/03004430.2017.1310723 2129771:JFDI73T9

School-based physical activity interventions and physical activity enjoyment: A meta-analysis - Burns, Ryan D.; Fu, You; Podlog, Leslie W. (Preventive Medicine, 2017)
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to examine the effectiveness of school-based physical activity interventions on increasing students' physical activity enjoyment. An internet search with several databases using the keywords “Adolescents”, “Children”, “Enjoyment”, “Physical Activity”, and “Schools” was performed yielding over 200 published studies. Studies were eliminated based on the lack of experimental manipulation (i.e., non-intervention studies), no assessment of physical activity enjoyment as an outcome variable, a lack of a control or comparison group, and no reporting of the effect estimate's variability (i.e., standard deviation, standard error, etc.). This procedure resulted in 10 studies being examined in the meta-analysis. Data were analyzed in the state of Utah, USA in 2017. The Hartung-Knapp-Sidak-Jonkman method for a random effects meta-analysis was employed with studies being weighted by inverse variance. The pooled Standardized Mean Difference=0.38 (95% C.I. [0.10–0.65], p=0.011). Cochran's Q test showed statistical significance (p<0.001) and the I2=76.6%, suggesting large heterogeneity across the 10 studies. Egger's regression model yielded an intercept coefficient that was statistically significant (bias=3.28, 95% C.I. [0.21–6.36], p=0.039), indicating the presence of small-study effects. This meta-analysis provides evidence that school-based physical activity interventions can be effective in increasing physical activity enjoyment in children and adolescents. However, the magnitude of the pooled effect was small-to-moderate and there was evidence for publication bias and large between-study heterogeneity.
Keywords: Adolescent; Child; Exercise; Meta-analysis; Schools

Staying or leaving? Designing for persistence in an online educator training programme in Indonesia - Burns, Mary (Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning, 2013)
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Keywords: Indonesia; completion; online learning; persistence; readiness

Technology in education - Burns, Mary (2021)
This think piece was commissioned by the Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM Report) Team to provide initial conceptual framing for the 2023 GEM Report, which focuses on information and communications technologies in education, or educational technology. The topics in this think piece were proposed by the GEM Report Team. As much as space permits, the think piece takes both a close up and wide-angle approachtechnology. The think piece focuses, as much as possible, on research outlining the educational benefits of technology and organises educational technology along three axes: (1) technology as a learning tool; (2) technology to deliver learning; and (3) technology to support learning, outlining the uses, benefits, challenges, and additional areas for research associated with each. It discusses the technology tools associated with each category and poses additional research questions that the GEM Reporting Team may wish to explore for the Global Education Monitoring Report.

Where it's needed most: Quality professional development for all teachers - Burns, M.; Lawrie, J. (Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies, 2015)
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Where it's needed the most: Quality professional development for all teachers - Burns, M.; Lawrie, J. (Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies, 2015)
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Transnational Black Feminism and Qualitative Research: Black Women, Racialization and Migration - Burkhard, Tanja J. (2021)

A shifting landscape: using tablets to support learning in students with diverse abilities - Burke, Anne; Hughes, Janette (Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2018)
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Schools, skills, and learning: The impact of COVID-19 on education - Burgess, Simon; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik (VoxEU.org, 2020)
The global lockdown of education institutions is going to cause major (and likely unequal) interruption in students’ learning; disruptions in internal assessments; and the cancellation of public assessments for qualifications or their replacement by an inferior alternative. This column discusses what can be done to mitigate these negative impacts.

iPad Scotland Evaluation - Burden, K., Hopkins, P., Male, T., Martin, S., & Trala, C. (University of Hull, 2012)
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What Works to Promote Children’s Educational Access, Quality of Learning, and Wellbeing in Crisis-Affected Contexts - Burde, Dana; Guven, Ozen; Kelcey, Jo; Lahmann, Heddy; Al-Abbadi, Khaled (2015)
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What works to promote children’s educational access, quality of learning, and wellbeing in crisis-affected contexts - Burde, Dana; Guven, Ozen; Kelcey, Jo; Lahmann, Heddy; Al-Abbadi, Khaled (Education Rigorous Literature Review, Department for International Development. London: Department for International Development, 2015)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Bringing Education to Afghan Girls: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Village-Based Schools. - Burde, D.; Linden, L. (American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013)
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What Works to Promote Children’s Educational Access, Quality of Learning, and Wellbeing in Crisis-Affected Contexts​ - Burde, D.; Guven, O.; Kelcey, J.; Lahmann, H.; Al-Abbadi, K. (Department for International Development, 2015)
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Rethinking school feeding: social safety nets, child development, and the education sector - Bundy, Donald AP (world bank publications, 2009)
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Antwort der Bundesregierung auf die Kleine Anfrage: Anwerbung von Pflege- und Gesundheitsfachkräften durch die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Zentrale Auslands- und Fachvermittlung und die Bundesagentur für Arbeit im Rahmen des Projekts „Triple Win“, Bundestags-Drucksache 19/16732. - Bundesregierung (2020)
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Datenreport zum Berufsbildungsbericht 2021 Informationen und Analysen zur Entwicklung der beruflichen Bildung. - Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (2021)
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Exploring the Role of Distributed Learning in Distance Education at Allama Iqbal Open University: Academic Challenges at Postgraduate Level - Bukhsh, Qadir; Chaudhary, Muhammad Ajmal (Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2015)
Distributed learning is derived from the concept of distributed resources. Different institutions around the globe connected through network and the learners are diverse, located in the different cultures and communities. Distributed learning provides global standards of quality to all learners through synchronous and asynchronous communications and provides the opportunity of flexible and independent learning with equity, low cost educational services and has become the first choice of the dispersed learners around the globe. The present study was undertaken to investigate the challenges faced by the Faculty Members of Department of Business Administration and Computer Science at Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad Pakistan. 25 Faculty Members were taken as sample of the study from both Departments (100% Sampling). The study was qualitative in nature and interview was the data collection tool. Data was analyzed by thematic analysis technique. The major challenges faced by the Faculty Members were as: bandwidth, synchronous learning activities, irregularity of the learners, feedback on individual work, designing and managing the learning activities, quality issues and training to use the network for teaching learning activities.
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Distributed learning as a potential approach to distance education: prospects and challenges at Allama Iqbal Open University. - Bukhsh, Qadir (2014)
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Blended learning implementation in secondary education for girls: case study Tatweer project Saudi Arabia - Bukhari, Eman Gasim (International Journal of Academic Research and Reflection, 2016)
Blended learning (BL) has been the subject of much research recently, and the present research adds to this growing body of knowledge as the first substantial study on BL in secondary education for girls in Saudi Arabia. Based on field work comprising interviews and questionnaires this research reports the results of an exploratory, empirical case study of a large-scale programme (Tatweer project) for the introduction of blended learning into 25 traditional secondary girls' schools in Saudi Arabia. Adopting the interpretive research paradigm the objective of the study is to gain rich insight into blended learning guided by the effect of BL on female education. The study demonstrates a number of positive effects of BL on students' engagement and self-development, however, problems with the workloads of students and the failure of teachers to integrate face-to-face learning with e-learning are also observed. Throughout the research Sharpe et al.'s (2006) 8-dimensional framework of BL is applied in a new way to assess the implementation level of BL. This results in the recommendation to extend this framework with an ethical dimension. Further recommendations of the work are to actively seek feedback from key stakeholder groups during BL implementation, to use BL for teacher training in BL, and to measure performance indicators like students' workloads during the transition of traditional schools to BL.
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Generating Evidence in Education: Impact Evaluations - Building Evidence in Education (2015)
This guide is the first in a series of publications on evaluations in education prepared for the Building Evidence in Education (BE2) working group. It provides an introduction to: the importance of sound research to inform education policy, the ways in which to design impact evaluations and issues to consider when generating them.
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The Impact of Teacher Effectiveness on Student Learning in Africa - Buhl-Wiggers, Julie; Kerwin, Jason; Smith, Jeffrey; Thornton, Rebecca (Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), 2017)
Teaching quality is known to be critical for students’ education and life prospects in developed countries. However, little is known about how teacher quality affects student learning in Africa. This paper presents the first estimates of teacher value-added from an African country, using data from a school-based RCT in northern Uganda. Exploiting the random assignment of students to classrooms within schools, we estimate a lower bound on teacher effects. A 1-SD increase in teacher quality leads to at least a 0.14 SD improvement in student performance on a reading test at the end of the year. Shifting teachers from the 10th to the 90th percentile of quality increases performance by 0.36 SDs –comparable to the most effective education interventions conducted in Africa. Our results also suggest that an increase in teacher quality can make other education interventions more efficient.
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The future of work: Switzerland’s digital opportunity - Bughin, Jacques; Ziegler, Marco; Mischke, Jan; Wenger, Felix; Reik, Angelika; Läubli, Daniel; Sen, Mita; Schmidt, Minna (https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/overview, 2018)
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The future of work: Switzerland’s digital opportunity - Bughin, Jacques; Ziegler, Marco; Mischke, Jan; Wenger, Felix; Reich, Angelika; Läubli, Daniel; Schmidt, Minna (McKinsey, 2018)
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Instant Messaging Tutoring: A Case of South Africa - Budree, A; Hendriks, T (2019 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Data Science & Engineering (Confluence), 2019)
This research study was focused on determining the role social media, and in particular, instant messaging can have in providing tutor assistance to high school students. The study investigates the implementation of Dr. Maths, an instant messaging tutoring service that ran successfully in South Africa from 2007 to 2013. With the demise of the Dr Maths initiative, there hasn't been any further reconstruction of this sort. The results of this study strongly indicate that learners see value in having a tutor assist them with schoolwork, over the WhatsApp IM platform. This will allow for access to much required educational resources particularly in disadvantaged communities in developing countries such as South Africa. However, it is recommended that any solution implemented be as platform agnostic as possible to avoid a recurrence of the issue faced by Dr. Maths.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1109/CONFLUENCE.2019.8776928 4804264:T3D5Y36V
Keywords: Africa; Computers; Education; Final_citation; Instant Messaging; Instant messaging; Mobile handsets; Wireless communication; cited; developing country; existing; mlearning; mobile tutors

School Facet Through Surrounding Factors: A Geospatial Analysis of Community Social Capital Impacting Elementary Schools - Budhwani, Sajjid (University of Denver, 2020)
School performance rating is an important factor which not only provides a quick snapshot of how the students are performing on various measurement indicators but also decides a school’s future course of actions, strategies, resources, and its existence. Despite its significant importance, the school performance framework does not consider where the schools are geographically located and the surrounding factors within which they operate. The researcher of this study presented a landscape of the surrounding factors and its impact on the elementary schools within Denver Public Schools district. In this study, the surrounding factors are geospatially analyzed to determine the extent of spatial variation in the availability and accessibility of community social capital resources to the elementary schools. Using geospatial research methods, the researcher created three service area models for each elementary school to access community social capital resources that are available within its surrounding environment. Spatial concepts, tools, and inferential statistics were used to analyze spatial pattern and the relationship between the forms of community social capital resources and the elementary schools. As a result of this relationship analysis, a new term was conceptualized: School Facet through Surrounding Factors [SF]2.
ISBN: 9798678177995
Keywords: Community resources; Community social captial; Education and GIS; School surrounding; Social capital; Spatial equity; _C:Canada CAN; _C:China CHN; _C:Finland FIN; _C:France FRA; _C:India IND; _C:Israel ISR; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Mexico MEX; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Philippines PHL; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Academics who tweet: “messy” identities in academia - Budge, Kylie; Lemon, Narelle; McPherson, Megan (Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2016)
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the growing use of Twitter in academic and artist practices. The authors explore commonalities, overlaps and differences within the reflections on the initial and ongoing motivations, usage and learnings the authors have encountered whilst immersed in this environment. Design/methodology/approach The authors locate the particular inquiry by drawing on the literature surrounding digital identities, academic literacies and digital scholarship. Departing from other studies, the focus is on a narrative inquiry of the lived experiences as academics and as artists using Twitter. Findings Academics use of Twitter plays a distinctly social role enabling communication that connects, and fostering accessible and approachable acts. It enables a space for challenging norms of academic ways of being and behaving. In addition, the authors draw conclusions about the “messiness” of the interconnected space that incorporates multiple identities, and highlight the risk taking the authors associate with using Twitter. Research limitations/implications Academic practice is ever changing in the contemporary university. This initial study of academic and artist practices and the use of Twitter suggests future developments including participants using similar questions to elicit notions of practice to engage in a deeper understanding of motivations and behaviours. Practical implications In using social media tools such as Twitter, individual academics and their practices are modified; the impact of this practice is visible. Originality/value The authors contribute to emerging discussions and understandings about academics, social media and identity. The authors argue that by participating in the use of Twitter, the authors are part of the collective process of challenging what it means to be an academic and artist.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1108/jarhe-11-2014-0114 2129771:TPV6VFC4 2317526:BCFHAL2D
Keywords: Academics; Artists; Identity; Narrative inquiry; Social media; Twitter

What Prevents Teacher Educators from Accessing Professional Development OER? Storytelling and Professional Identity in Ugandan Teacher Colleges. - Buckler, Alison; Stutchbury, Kris; Kasule, George; Cullen, Jane; Kaije, Doris (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
Tutors working in colleges of education in sub-Saharan Africa are responsible for teaching, and inspiring hundreds of thousands of aspiring teachers, yet they have received little attention in the literature, often being depicted as a conservative cohort of professionals, unprepared for their role, yet resistant to change. This study reports on how 39 tutors from 8 colleges in Uganda see their professional role and their responsibilities. The research adopted a storytelling approach. Tutors were supported in developing a (true) story about their work that they felt would give previously untold insight into their profession. The stories were analysed through a professional identity lens. The group emerge as agentive and caring, committed to developing as teacher educators, but with a highly individual approach to their work. The nuanced understanding of tutor professional identity provided, facilitates insights into why professional development OER aimed at this group did not have the intended impact.
Number: 1 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:3F4ZVNS3
Keywords: OER; Professional identity; Storytelling methodology; _genre:PR-primary_research; ⛔ No DOI found

Teachers’ Professional Capabilities and the Pursuit of Quality in Sub-Saharan African Education Systems: Demonstrating and Debating a Method of Capability Selection and Analysis - Buckler, Alison (Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2016)
This paper reports on the methodological approach of a study that examined an important dimension of the global challenge to better understand the ‘quality’ element of Education for All (EFA): the professional lives of women teachers in rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Teachers from five countries (Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Sudan) provided a focus for exploring the relationship between official representations of teachers’ work and the professional lives teachers create and experience. Sen's (1999) capability approach was used as a framework for understanding this relationship and to produce two conceptualizations of professional capabilities for teachers generated by the official and teacher perspectives, respectively. These capabilities are organized around the pursuit of quality in teachers’ work. The paper explains how these two conceptualizations were determined, justifies four key aspects of the method used and highlights key insights into the teachers’ professional lives enabled by this approach.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2014.991706
Keywords: Capabilities; Capability approach; Education; Gender; Measurement

Der Flipped Classroom als Motor für Open Educational Resources? - Buchner, Josef; Höfler, Elke (MedienPädagogik: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung, 2019)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.21240/mpaed/34/2020.01.24.X 2129771:42UAQMBY
Keywords: _C:Austria AUT; _C:South Africa ZAF; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Great teachers: How to raise student learning in Latin America and the Caribbean - Bruns, Barbara; Luque, Javier (World Bank Group, 2014)
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Keywords: C:Latin America and the Carribeans

Making Schools Work: New Evidence on Accountability Reforms - Bruns, Barbara; Filmer, Deon; Patrinos, Harry P. (World Bank, 2011)

Through the Looking Glass: Can Classroom Observation and Coaching Improve Teacher Performance in Brazil? - Bruns, Barbara; Costa, Leandro; Cunha, Nina (2018)
shortDOI: 10/ggft3x KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2018.03.003 10/ggft3x 2129771:PXEQ493U 2405685:7A2ZCMGH
Keywords: _C:Brazil BRA; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Chile CHL; _C:China CHN; _C:Colombia COL; _C:Dominican Republic DOM; _C:Ecuador ECU; _C:Ethiopia ETH; _C:Guatemala GTM; _C:Honduras HND; _C:India IND; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Nepal NPL; _C:Peru PER; _C:Philippines PHL; _C:Portugal PRT; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; _yl:a

Through the looking glass: can classroom observation and coaching improve teacher performance in Brazil? - Bruns, Barbara; Costa, Leandro; Cunha, Nina (Economics of Education Review, 2018)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2018.03.003 4804264:DKQJUIVM
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

In Bringing a Literacy Project to Scale, has Kenya Found a Holy Grail? - Bruns, Barbara (Center For Global Development, 2018)
An article of faith among development economists is that “evidence-based policy” holds the promise of faster progress. Barbara Bruns set out to find a rigorously evaluated pilot whose evidence had led to a program at scale. It wasn’t easy.
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Keywords: _yl:b

An inclusive approach to searching for evidence on EdTech in low- and middle- income countries - Brugha, Meaghan (The EdTech Hub, 2020)
A blog post by Meaghan Brugha and Katy Jordan. A searchable database The EdTech Hub has undertaken a large-scale search for publications on technology use in education in low- and middle- income countries. During this process, we created an internal research database. This is searchable through the use of a variety of filters, such as …
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Keywords: _C:Gambia GMB; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Portugal PRT; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _zenodoODE

Integration von Migrantinnen und Migranten in Deutschland - Anerkennung ausländischer Berufsabschlüsse hat positive Arbeitsmarkteffekte - Brücker, Herbert; Glitz, Albrecht; Lerche, Adrian; Romiti, Agnese (2021)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Erwerbsmigration über die Westbalkanregelung: Hohe Nachfrage und gute Arbeitsmarktintegration - Brücker, Herbert; Falkenhain, Mariella; Fendel, Tanja; Promberger, Markus; Raab, Miriam (IAB-Kurzbericht, 2020)
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Dissemination and implementation research in health: translating science to practice - Brownson, Ross C.; Colditz, Graham A.; Proctor, Enola Knisley (Oxford University Press, 2012)
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Keywords: Clinical Trials as Topic; Information Dissemination; Translational Research; methods

Dissemination and implementation research in health: translating science to practice - Brownson, Ross C.; Colditz, Graham A.; Proctor, Enola Knisley (Oxford University Press, 2018)
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Keywords: Information Dissemination; Translational Medical Research; methods

Translating Epidemiology into Policy to Prevent Childhood Obesity: The Case for Promoting Physical Activity in School Settings - Brownson, Ross C; Chriqui, Jamie F; Burgeson, Charlene R; Fisher, Megan C; Ness, Roberta B (Annals of Epidemiology, 2010)
Childhood obesity is a serious public health problem, resulting from energy imbalance (when the intake of energy is greater than the amount of energy expended through physical activity). Numerous health authorities have identified policy interventions as promising strategies for creating population-wide improvements in physical activity. This case study focuses on energy expenditure through physical activity (with a particular emphasis on school-based physical education [PE]). Policy-relevant evidence for promoting physical activity in youth may take numerous forms including epidemiologic data and other supporting evidence (e.g., qualitative data). The implementation and evaluation of school PE interventions leads to a set of lessons related to epidemiology and evidence-based policy. These include the need to: 1) enhance the focus on external validity, 2) develop more policy-relevant evidence based on “natural experiments,” 3) understand that policymaking is political, 4) better articulate the factors that influence policy dissemination, 5) understand the real world constraints when implementing policy in school environments, and 6) build transdisciplinary teams for policy progress. The issues described in this case study provide leverage points for practitioners, policy makers, and researchers as they seek to translate epidemiology to policy.
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Challenges and Solutions of Higher Education in the Eastern Caribbean States. - Browne, Raffie A.; Shen, Hong (International Journal of Higher Education, 2017)
Publisher: ERIC KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.5430/ijhe.v6n1p169 2129771:NRUBXL6G
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Economic and Gendered Impacts of the Healthcare Workforce - Browne, Evie (2018)
There is general agreement in the literature that getting more girls into school and into higher education should lead to more women in the healthcare workforce, particularly focusing on getting women into better jobs. However, this is not supported by much explicit evidence. It is a causal assumption made by policymakers and donors. There is little evidence to suggest that women in the healthcare workforce have made strong contributions to economic development beyond that of the health sector as a whole. This may be because it is too difficult to separate out different demographic groups’ contributions. There is some evidence that women’s presence as workers and leaders has improved attitudes about women and is making some progress towards women’s rights. It is unclear to what extent this is due to efforts to increase girls’ schooling, as few studies examine this causal link. Women are battling an extremely patriarchal work environment and the literature makes strong recommendations that structural and institutional elements are improved, in order for women to reach their economic potential.
Accepted: 2018-07-27T12:17:26Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:KCV4ZHFP 4869029:YU6ARXXG
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Evidence on Education as a Driver for Migration - Browne, Evie (2017)
This report synthesises two previous reports on drivers of migration, and focuses on the evidence on education’s role. The previous reports focused on education and migration in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS), and youth employment and education in low and middle income countries. The papers presented below reflect these original criteria, but reframe the studies to draw out the evidence on education as a driver. The report outlines the evidence on when and whether education services make a difference to people’s reasons for moving. This report includes rural-urban migration, regional and international migration, and migration away from fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS). It does not consider migration that is primarily economic, whether regular or irregular.
Accepted: 2017-07-06T10:49:55Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:SEWFWD5G 4869029:VB2QGU7D
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Evidence on formative classroom assessment for learning - Browne, Evie (2016)
This light-touch review of literature on classroom assessments (CA) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and South Asia finds that they are rarely implemented effectively. It is extremely common to find references to CA in policy documents but find that teachers do not use CA in the classroom. Sometimes this is because there is little institutional support for CA, few example materials, and no training, and sometimes this is because teachers do not understand or see the purpose of CA and continue to teach in a top-down manner. Most schooling systems in developing countries have a crippling emphasis on summative exams, and teachers often end up ‘teaching to the test’ whether they want to or not. Parental pressure plays some part in teaching styles, as teachers are under pressure to show parents that they are preparing their children to pass important exams which open the door to the next level of education. Teacher training chronically underprepares teachers for CA; in some cases not giving any training and in others only explaining how to fill in the government-mandated forms. On the other hand, there are examples in the literature of teachers intuitively using CA methods such as questioning, observation and homework, but not naming it as CA.
Accepted: 2017-09-15T15:28:03Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:FR9W3CQK 4869029:BCN3YZRU
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Gender Norms in the Western Balkans - Browne, Evie (2017)
The Western Balkans remains a region dominated by patriarchal gender norms. The biggest challenge for improving gender equality is changing the mentality of women and men towards traditional gender roles (Petričević, 2012). The literature consistently identifies social attitudes as a barrier to increasing gender equality. Many people are not aware of women’s rights or gender non-discrimination laws (Petričević, 2012). In several areas of gender equality, legal provisions are adequate and conform to UN and international norms. However, these are not always implemented or adhered to in practice, due to lack of capacity, knowledge, resources or social barriers. Standard indicators of gender equality include: female/male school enrolment; literacy rate; unemployment; maternal mortality; life expectancy; adolescent fertility rate; proportion of women in parliament1. Others include violence against women and girls; gender equality policy and legislation. Much of the literature recognises the need to include men and raise men’s awareness about gender issues. Most of the literature on the Western Balkans looks at interpersonal and household gender norms, such as girls’ access to school, women’s work and household decision making. There is also a strong literature on women’s political participation and violence against women and girls. This report provides a brief summary of the main gender issues in the region, as reported in the literature. It is not a comprehensive literature review, but a collection of resources which highlight the key points to consider on gender. Each country has a large selection of resources on its specific gendered issues, which can provide more detail. There is a companion piece to this report which focuses on the relationship between gender and conflict in the Western Balkans2. This report sketches the main parameters of gender in the region.
Accepted: 2017-07-20T15:37:36Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:BC6MDSNX 4869029:7ZSLB7SC
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Language Models are Few-Shot Learners - Brown, Tom B.; Mann, Benjamin; Ryder, Nick; Subbiah, Melanie; Kaplan, Jared; Dhariwal, Prafulla; Neelakantan, Arvind; Shyam, Pranav; Sastry, Girish; Askell, Amanda; Agarwal, Sandhini; Herbert-Voss, Ariel; et al. (arXiv, 2020)
Recent work has demonstrated substantial gains on many NLP tasks and benchmarks by pre-training on a large corpus of text followed by fine-tuning on a specific task. While typically task-agnostic in architecture, this method still requires task-specific fine-tuning datasets of thousands or tens of thousands of examples. By contrast, humans can generally perform a new language task from only a few examples or from simple instructions - something which current NLP systems still largely struggle to do. Here we show that scaling up language models greatly improves task-agnostic, few-shot performance, sometimes even reaching competitiveness with prior state-of-the-art fine-tuning approaches. Specifically, we train GPT-3, an autoregressive language model with 175 billion parameters, 10x more than any previous non-sparse language model, and test its performance in the few-shot setting. For all tasks, GPT-3 is applied without any gradient updates or fine-tuning, with tasks and few-shot demonstrations specified purely via text interaction with the model. GPT-3 achieves strong performance on many NLP datasets, including translation, question-answering, and cloze tasks, as well as several tasks that require on-the-fly reasoning or domain adaptation, such as unscrambling words, using a novel word in a sentence, or performing 3-digit arithmetic. At the same time, we also identify some datasets where GPT-3's few-shot learning still struggles, as well as some datasets where GPT-3 faces methodological issues related to training on large web corpora. Finally, we find that GPT-3 can generate samples of news articles which human evaluators have difficulty distinguishing from articles written by humans. We discuss broader societal impacts of this finding and of GPT-3 in general.
arXiv:2005.14165 [cs]
Keywords: Computer Science - Computation and Language

Social Annotation and an Inclusive Praxis for Open Pedagogy in the College Classroom - Brown, Monica; Croft, Benjamin (Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020)
Open social annotation, while offering opportunities for the creation of new knowledge, empowerment, and dynamic dialogue for learning, also contains inherent risk of safety for marginalized student populations navigating open knowledge practices. In this paper, we will explore both the opportunities for subverting traditional knowledge structures offered by open social annotation, while also bringing to the surface the critical tensions that may make engaging in social annotation more dangerous or ineffective for students from historically marginalized backgrounds. Finally, we will offer a framework for constructing social annotation assignments for the college classroom that functions to maximize the potential for equity while taking into account ways to minimize harm in the inevitable tensions of an inherently unsafe online environment. Critical social annotation will be explored as an alternative pedagogical approach.
Number: 1 Publisher: Ubiquity Press KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.5334/jime.561 2129771:PPSWWBBA 2447227:42FAJCZM
Keywords: __C:filed:1; annotation; critical social annotation; inclusive; open pedagogical practices; open pedagogy

The Global Micro-credential Landscape: Charting a New Credential Ecology for Lifelong Learning - Brown, Mark; Mhichíl, Mairéad Nic Giolla; Beirne, Elaine; Lochlainn, Conchúr Mac (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
This article offers a global overview of the burgeoning field of micro-credentials and their relationship to lifelong learning, employability and new models of digital education. Although there is no globally accepted definition of micro-credentials, the term indicates smaller units of study, which are usually shorter than traditional forms of accredited learning and courses leading to conventional qualifications such as degrees. The paper aims to provide educators with a helicopter view of the rapidly evolving global micro-credential landscape, with particular relevance to higher education leaders, industry stakeholders and government policy-makers. It addresses five questions: (i) what are micro-credentials? (ii) why micro-credentials? (iii) who are the key stakeholders? (iv) what is happening globally? and (v) what are some of the key takeaways? Drawing on a European-wide perspective and recent developments in The Republic of Ireland, the paper concludes that micro-credentials are likely to become a more established and mature feature of the 21st Century credential ecology over the next five years. While the global micro-credential landscape is currently disconnected across national boundaries, more clarity and coherence will emerge as governments around the world increasingly align new credentialing developments with existing national qualification frameworks. The micro-credentialing movement also provides opportunities for governments and higher education institutions in partnership with industry to harness new digital learning models beyond the pandemic.
Number: 2 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:C3TSQ4HL
Keywords: Credentials; Digital Badges; Employability; Micro-credentials; Transversal Skills; _genre:PR-primary_research; ⛔ No DOI found

A critical review of frameworks for digital literacy: Beyond the flashy, flimsy and faddish–Part 1 - Brown, Mark (ASCILITE ℡all blog, 2017)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:2MW7RUNN
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Can’t Wait to Learn: A quasi-experimental mixed-methods evaluation of a digital game-based learning programme for out-of-school children in Sudan - Brown, Felicity L; Farag, Alawia I; Hussein Abd Alla, Faiza; Radford, Kate; Miller, Laura; Neijenhuijs, Koen; Stubbé, Hester; de Hoop, Thomas; Abdullatif Abbadi, Ahmed; Turner, Jasmine S.; Jetten, Andrea; Jordans, Mark J.D. (Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2020)
Innovations are needed to address the global issue of access to highquality education, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This paper shows quasi-experimental evidence that a digital game-based learning programme (‘Can’t Wait to Learn’) led to significantly greater improvements in mathematics competency, Arabic literacy competency, and psychological wellbeing of children aged 7–9 in Sudan, compared to state-provided education for out-of-school children, 6 months after the start of the programme implementation (n = 221). These findings were corroborated and extended by qualitative data from 33 focus group discussions and key informant interviews with children, learning directors, caregivers, community leaders, and supervisory staff. We found no differ ence between groups on child-reported hope, and we found evidence for a significant negative intervention effect on child-reported self-esteem, though the psychometric properties of these instruments were not ade quate. We report several considerations related to the experience of local facilitators, programme implementation challenges, and the importance of community acceptance and engagement for fidelity of implementation.

Adequacy of the Regular Early Education Classroom Environment for Students With Visual Impairment - Brown, Cherylee M.; Packer, Tanya L.; Passmore, Anne (The Journal of Special Education, 2013)
This study describes the classroom environment that students with visual impairment typically experience in regular Australian early education. Adequacy of the classroom environment (teacher training and experience, teacher support, parent involvement, adult involvement, inclusive attitude, individualization of the curriculum, physical environment, and vision aids) for students with visual impairment in early regular education was assessed at the start and the end of one year. A total of 20 students with visual impairment (age M = 5.4 years) attending regular early education participated. In general, teacher-reported curriculum individualization and the physical environment were adequate. However, support provided for staff, teacher training, adult involvement, access to visual aids, and inclusive attitudes were less than adequate. More than 40% of students experienced fewer than four out of nine adequate environmental features. These results indicate that strategies to improve teacher training, support, attitudes, and access to vision aids are needed.

Teacher agency in professional learning communities - Brodie, Karin (Professional development in education, 2019)
ISBN: 1941-5257 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

The power of professional learning communities - Brodie, Karin (Education as change, 2013)
ISBN: 1682-3206 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Standing on the shoulders of giants: challenges and recommendations of literature search in information systems research - Brocke, J; Simons, A; Riemer, K (Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2015)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Strengthening systems for integrated early childhood development services: a cross-national analysis of governance - Britto, Pia Rebello; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; van Ravens, Jan; Ponguta, Liliana Angelica; Reyes, Maria; Oh, Soojin; Dimaya, Roland; Nieto, Ana María; Seder, Richard (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2014)
While there has been substantial growth in early childhood development (ECD) services in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), there is considerable inequity in their distribution and quality. Evidence-based governance strategies are necessary, but currently they are insufficient for widespread, quality implementation. In particular, there is a limited understanding of the use of systems approaches for the analysis of ECD services as they go to scale. The aim of this paper is to present findings from four countries, using a cross-national case study approach to explore governance mechanisms required to strengthen national systems of ECD services. While different sets of governance strategies and challenges were identified in each country, overarching themes also emerged with implications for systems strengthening. Study results focus on local, mid-level and central governance, with recommendations for effective coordination and the integration of ECD services in LMICs.
_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/nyas.12365
Keywords: coordination; early childhood; governance; low- and middle-income countries (LMICs); systems strengthening

Technology for professional development: access, interest and opportunity for teachers of English in South Asia - British Council (British Council, 2015)
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Keywords: _C:Afghanistan AFG; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:China CHN; _C:India IND; _C:Italy ITA; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Mexico MEX; _C:Nepal NPL; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Sri Lanka LKA; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Uruguay URY; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Training of School Teachers in West Africa: Remediation of Reading Difficulties through Training in Phonological Awareness and Letter Names - Briquet-Duhazé, Sophie (FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2014)
The training of teachers of West Africa is carried out by the Academy of Rouen (France) and organized around an annual training plan approved by the AEFE. Each trainer only supervises twenty teachers for 5 days. Teachers from eight countries (Mauritania, Cape Verde, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso), come to Dakar for a week. We have been asked four times tn Dakar (Senegal) to provide training for teachers of West Africa. It is all about being trained in order to resolve reading difficulties for students using our scientific research. This paper presents the theoretical framework of phonological awareness and letter names and the 0 phase and the beginning of Phase 1 of our research. We use these predictors as remedial reading difficulties among students aged 8 to 11 years. We present the first results.
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An IoT-based deep learning approach to analyse indoor thermal comfort of disabled people - Brik, Bouziane; Esseghir, Moez; Merghem-Boulahia, Leila; Snoussi, Hichem (Building and Environment, 2021)
Monitoring the thermal comfort of building occupants is crucial for ensuring sustainable and efficient energy consumption in residential buildings. Existing studies have addressed the monitoring of thermal comfort through questionnaires and activities involving occupants. However, few studies have considered disabled people in the monitoring of thermal comfort, despite the potential for impairments to present thermal requirements that are significantly different from those of an occupant without a disability. Additionally, people with disabilities can experience difficulties in expressing their thermal comfort, which further complicates assessment and monitoring. To overcome this, we propose the development of a new learning model using a deep neural network. Our model can predict the indoor thermal comfort of differently abled people in real time to facilitate remote monitoring. We generated our real dataset using a new Internet of Things (IoT) architecture. Our architecture also includes a data collection scheme to ensure an efficient collection process, enabling the collection of targeted data before transferring them to cloud servers for further data analysis. Experimental results illustrate the reliability of our data collection scheme in gathering useful and targeted data, as well as the efficiency of our deep learning-based model, which achieved an accuracy of 94% and a precision and recall of 98% and 97%, respectively.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108056 2129771:ZRVWRNN9
Keywords: Building sustainability; Deep learning; Disabled people; Indoor thermal comfort prediction and monitoring; Internet of Things (IoT)

Lessons from the influx of preprints during the early COVID-19 pandemic - Brierley, Liam (The Lancet Planetary Health, 2021)
Publisher: Elsevier

The role of research preprints in the academic response to the COVID-19 epidemic - Brierley, Liam (2020)
The current outbreak of COVID-19 has escalated into a global health crisis. Investigations into the epidemic have taken place upon an unprecedented stage of rapid, open-platform science, including vastly improved access to unreviewed preprint research. I quantified preprint responses to COVID-19 by examining 785 preprints posted to English-language preprint servers (bioRxiv, n = 140; medRxiv, n = 561; arXiv, n = 84). Preprint research during the current outbreak has been enormously accelerated, with an average of 11.9 preprints posted per day-over a hundred-fold higher than that during 2014's West African ebolavirus outbreak. While this boom in preprints has enabled valuable knowledge sharing of scientific developments, novel challenges have become apparent. Unfounded conclusions from unreviewed research have played a clear role in public misinformation about the epidemic. I provide recommendations to improve accountability and transparency surrounding preprints, a vital step for future outbreaks as open-platform epidemiology continues to advance.

Research-to-Change Toolkit: Implementation Research for Youth Practitioners - Brian Batayeh (IREX and Youth Excel Consortium., 2022)
Batayeh, B., et al. (2022). Research-to-Change Toolkit: Implementation Research for Youth Practitioners. IREX and Youth Excel Consortium. KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:UR8ZPXXC

Teachers training, class size and students’ outcomes: Evidence from third grade classes in France. Unpublished paper - Bressoux, P.; Kramarz, F.; Prost, C. (2006)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Lernen in Arbeitsprozessen - Kompetenzentwicklung - Bremer, Rainer (Handbuch Berufsbildungsforschung, 2005)
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Curricula, examinations, and assessment in secondary education in sub-saharan Africa - Bregman, Jacob; Verspoor, Adriaan; Klosowska, Kasha (The World Bank, 2008)
Curriculum reforms first and foremost should focus on improving the current teaching and learning processes. As a systemic challenge, these changes need to include re-orientation from secondary education as pre-academic tertiary education to a wider range of options, including vocational education and the world of work. Curriculum reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) require comprehensive approaches directed at the complexity of the educational system at large. It requires the acknowledgement of past obstacles and current challenges to reform, as well as the challenges additionally created by the reforms. Human and physical resources, perceptions, experiences with past reforms and current school and classroom practices determine the limits of what educational systems can absorb in terms of development. Many high political ambitions have implications that are beyond current context and conditions. It therefore makes sense to have realistic ambitions and scope of curriculum reform, because these may increase the potential for successful implementation. Sometimes, less could actually be more. It is recommended that curriculum reform and strategies be based on the realities on the ground and much less on political ambitions. Implementation of curricula depends on improved coordination of development efforts with a focus on curriculum. It is recommended to increase the efficiency, clearly define institutional responsibilities, and provide for better cooperation and communication with across existing institutions and departments.
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Technology usage in mathematics education research – A systematic review of recent trends - Bray, Aibhín; Tangney, Brendan (Computers & Education, 2017)
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Optimal database combinations for literature searches in systematic reviews: a prospective exploratory study - Bramer, Wichor M.; Rethlefsen, Melissa L.; Kleijnen, Jos; Franco, Oscar H. (Systematic Reviews, 2017)
Background: Within systematic reviews, when searching for relevant references, it is advisable to use multiple databases. However, searching databases is laborious and time-consuming, as syntax of search strategies are database specific. We aimed to determine the optimal combination of databases needed to conduct efficient searches in systematic reviews and whether the current practice in published reviews is appropriate. While previous studies determined the coverage of databases, we analyzed the actual retrieval from the original searches for systematic reviews. Methods: Since May 2013, the first author prospectively recorded results from systematic review searches that he performed at his institution. PubMed was used to identify systematic reviews published using our search strategy results. For each published systematic review, we extracted the references of the included studies. Using the prospectively recorded results and the studies included in the publications, we calculated recall, precision, and number needed to read for single databases and databases in combination. We assessed the frequency at which databases and combinations would achieve varying levels of recall (i.e., 95%). For a sample of 200 recently published systematic reviews, we calculated how many had used enough databases to ensure 95% recall. Results: A total of 58 published systematic reviews were included, totaling 1746 relevant references identified by our database searches, while 84 included references had been retrieved by other search methods. Sixteen percent of the included references (291 articles) were only found in a single database; Embase produced the most unique references (n = 132). The combination of Embase, MEDLINE, Web of Science Core Collection, and Google Scholar performed best, achieving an overall recall of 98.3 and 100% recall in 72% of systematic reviews. We estimate that 60% of published systematic reviews do not retrieve 95% of all available relevant references as many fail to search important databases. Other specialized databases, such as CINAHL or PsycINFO, add unique references to some reviews where the topic of the review is related to the focus of the database. Conclusions: Optimal searches in systematic reviews should search at least Embase, MEDLINE, Web of Science, and Google Scholar as a minimum requirement to guarantee adequate and efficient coverage.
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The Circular Economy: Micro-Macro Linkages and Implications for Commonwealth Countries - Brain, Sophie; Awiti, Christine (Commonwealth iLibrary, 2023)
In the ongoing fight against poverty and inequality, globalization and sustained economic growth are perceived as key to ending global poverty and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Sustained economic growth is traditionally seen as leading to increased income, which either directly or indirectly lowers poverty levels. Similarly, as the world becomes more globalized, it is assumed that the increase in trade will be accompanied by good quality jobs in both industry and services and, consequently, increasing income, declining poverty and sustained growth.

Personalization in bert with adapter modules and topic modelling - Braga, Marco; Raganato, Alessandro; Pasi, Gabriella (Proceedings of the 13th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2023). Pisa, Italy, 2023)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Mobile literacy among Syrian refugee women teachers - Bradley, Linda; Bahous, Rima; Albasa, Ali (CALL and complexity – short papers from EUROCALL 2019, 2019)
This research project investigates mobile literacy of Syrian refugee women teachers settled in Lebanon and Sweden. Our research provides input into Syrian refugee women teachers' professional aspirations and their connection to informal mobile learning. In both countries, training programs are used for these newly arrived teachers, enabling them to move forward in their careers, where digital and mobile learning play an important part. The purpose is to investigate how Syrian refugee women teachers are blending their teaching profession and vocational training with mobile literacy and digital technology. A qualitative method approach was applied, interviewing 20 refugee women in Lebanon and Sweden, all teachers from Syria. The outcomes show that the teachers are developing their vocational abilities in getting more career-oriented training in their areas of education by means of enhancing their language skills through mobile technology. [For the complete proceedings, see ED600837.]
Publisher: Research-publishing.net, La Grange des Noyes, 25110 Voillans, France KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2534378:93K5R9FV 2534378:NR6VFNNC
Keywords: Career Development; Cross Cultural Studies; ERIC; Resources in Education (RIE); Faculty Development; Females; Foreign Countries; Handheld Devices; Informal Education; Information Technology; Land Settlement; Lebanon; Literacy; Occupational Aspiration; Refugees; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Sweden; Syria; Teacher Attitudes; Telecommunications; Videoconferencing; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2095768; ___working_potential_duplicate; __finaldtb

Mobile Literacy among Syrian Refugee Women Teachers - Bradley, Linda; Bahous, Rima; Albasa, Ali (Research-publishing, 2019)
This research project investigates mobile literacy of Syrian refugee women teachers settled in Lebanon and Sweden. Our research provides input into Syrian refugee women teachers' professional aspirations and their connection to informal mobile learning. In both countries, training programs are used for these newly arrived teachers, enabling them to move forward in their careers, where digital and mobile learning play an important part. The purpose is to investigate how Syrian refugee women teachers are blending their teaching profession and vocational training with mobile literacy and digital technology. A qualitative method approach was applied, interviewing 20 refugee women in Lebanon and Sweden, all teachers from Syria. The outcomes show that the teachers are developing their vocational abilities in getting more career-oriented training in their areas of education by means of enhancing their language skills through mobile technology. [For the complete proceedings, see ED600837.]
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Keywords: Career Development; Cross Cultural Studies; Faculty Development; Females; Foreign Countries; Handheld Devices; Informal Education; Information Technology; Land Settlement; Literacy; Occupational Aspiration; Refugees; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Teacher Attitudes; Telecommunications; Videoconferencing; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Dominica DMA; _C:France FRA; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Lebanon LBN; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Syrian Arab Republic SYR; _C:United Arab Emirates ARE; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

New Hub Aims to Help Schools Find the Right Ed-Tech Products During COVID-19 - Bradley, Brian (Market Brief, 2020)
The World Bank-supported project offers a growing database of ed-tech platforms meant to help schools use technology more effectively.
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Rapid food and income security assessment Round 2: How are BRAC International volunteers and programme participants coping with COVID-19 - BRAC (2020)
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Keywords: _COVID-Continuity-Blogpost-01; _COVID_DEAA-List

Speculative Futures on ChatGPT and Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Collective Reflection from the Educational Landscape - Bozkurt, Aras; Xiao, Junhong; Lambert, Sarah; Pazurek, Angelica; Crompton, Helen; Koseoglu, Suzan; Farrow, Robert; Bond, Melissa; Nerantzi, Chrissi; Honeychurch, Sarah; Bali, Maha; Dron, Jon; et al. (Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2023)
While ChatGPT has recently become very popular, AI has a long history and philosophy. This paper intends to explore the promises and pitfalls of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) AI and potentially future technologies by adopting a speculative methodology. Speculative future narratives with a specific focus on educational contexts are provided in an attempt to identify emerging themes and discuss their implications for education in the 21st century. Affordances of (using) AI in Education (AIEd) and possible adverse effects are identified and discussed which emerge from the narratives. It is argued that now is the best of times to define human vs AI contribution to education because AI can accomplish more and more educational activities that used to be the prerogative of human educators. Therefore, it is imperative to rethink the respective roles of technology and human educators in education with a future-oriented mindset.
Keywords: _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; artificial intelligence (AI); artificial intelligence in education (AIEd); future educational perspectives; generative pre-trained transformer (GPT); natural language processing; speculative methodology; ⛔ No DOI found

An analysis of peer reviewed publications on openness in education in half a century: Trends and patterns in the open hemisphere - Bozkurt, Aras; Koseoglu, Suzan; Singh, Lenandlar (Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2018)
Openness in education is an evolving concept which is shaped by the changing needs of societies, cultures, geographies, and economies, thus, it does not have a precise definition. By focusing on four sets of generic keywords - open education, open learning, open educational resources (OERs), and open educational practices (OEPs) - this paper examines research in openness in education through a systematic review of peer reviewed literature. In doing so, the researchers sought to draw attention to existing trends and patterns and possible future trajectories of openness in education. Content analysis, social network analysis, and text-mining are the methods used for data collection and analysis. Findings show that there has been growing interest on openness in education, particularly on OERs, across different fields. Findings also point to OEPs as an emerging area of study, which offers a fertile ground for future research. However, on closer inspection, a divide can be observed between the global north and global south in terms of research output.
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Keywords: Open Education; Open Educational Practices (OEPs); Open Educational Resources (OERs); Open Learning; Openness; __C:filed:1

A global outlook to the interruption of education due to COVID-19 pandemic: Navigating in a time of uncertainty and crisis - Bozkurt, Aras; Jung, Insung; Xiao, Junhong; Vladimirschi, Viviane; Schuwer, Robert; Egorov, Gennady; Lambert, Sarah; Al-Freih, Maha; Pete, Judith; Don Olcott, Jr; Rodes, Virginia; Aranciaga, Ignacio; et al. (Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2020)
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Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; COVID-19; Coronavirus Pandemic; _C:Algeria DZA; _C:Argentina ARG; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Belize BLZ; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:Canada CAN; _C:China CHN; _C:Congo; Democratic Republic COD; _C:Egypt EGY; _C:Finland FIN; _C:France FRA; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Greece GRC; _C:Guatemala GTM; _C:India IND; _C:Ireland IRL; _C:Italy ITA; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Korea (Republic of) KOR; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Mexico MEX; _C:Namibia NAM; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Peru PER; _C:Philippines PHL; _C:Romania ROU; _C:Russian Federation RUS; _C:Rwanda RWA; _C:Saudi Arabia SAU; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:Somalia SOM; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Spain ESP; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Uruguay URY; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; _genre:LR-literature_review; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; distance education; docs.opendeved.net; emergency remote education; online learning; ⛔ No DOI found