Synchronous and asynchronous remote learning during the Covid-19 pandemic

Student’s Motivation and Engagement Motivation plays an important role in student engagement. Saeed and Zyngier (2012) contend that in order to assess student motivation, researchers should also have to examine engagement in and as part of learning. This manifests that there is a relationship between student motivation and engagement. As support to this relationship, Hufton, … Read more

Considerations for distance learning that impact student performance

With the rapid development of the internet, many colleges and universities have begun to offer online courses as a viable alternative to traditional face-to-face instruction. According to Reyneke (2018), distance learning is in high demand around the world because it allows access to many students who do not enjoy the luxury of studying full time … Read more

Benefits of self-paced learning

Self-paced learning is a learning approach that allows people to learn at their own pace and move on to a new topic if understanding of the previous topic has been achieved, or skip topics if mastery can be demonstrated through a pre-test. Before commencing a lesson, the performance of learners and then permitted to begin … Read more

Factors affecting the mental health of the students during the COVID-19 pandemic

This chapter contains the review of related literature and studies done by the researchers. The factors affecting the mental health of the students during the COVID-19 pandemic were tackled in this chapter. The contents written in this chapter was gathered from various articles, books, and research thesis written by other authors and researchers. Local The … Read more

Learning outside the classroom and risk

Learning outside the classroom has always had a place in society whether it was practiced at home or in school settings. At the turn of the century, research was published documenting the benefits of outdoor education and its impact on social, physical and academic development. Practitioners have since introduced ‘Learning Outside the Classroom’ as a … Read more

Geographical patterns in access to higher education in Greece

Introduction The signing of the first memorandum of agreement between the Greek government and the tripartite international decision group known as the “troika” (European Commission, 2010), signalized the end of the Greek metapolitefsi, the prosperous period that followed the restoration of democracy in 1974. The “memorandum” contained the first economic adjustment programme for this country. … Read more

Challenges and effectiveness of using digital learning resources

In today’s world, teaching and learning changed dramatically: the world is accelerating at a hazardous fast speed, causing students to acquire skills and supersede these in a short time, moving quickly on the next one. Teachers are feeling under an enormous pressure to perform in front of students, their parents, their colleagues and the league … Read more

Metacognition and its usefulness educationally

Metacognition is often referred to as the process of thinking about and reflecting on one’s thoughts. Educationally, the earliest reference to metacognition is one by Flavell (1979) who describes Metacognition as ‘The processes of learning how to learn’. Nevertheless, scholars such as Livingstone (1997) suggests that the principles behind metacognition are not that simple. In … Read more

Higher education industry in global and regional context

Introduction Higher education industry has been constantly evolving for past two decades. It contributes to research base and creates competitive global economy by providing high skilled work force. It is basically driven by globalisation and innovation which further facilitates international collaboration, cross border exchange of ideas and culture (OECD, 2009). Students, faculty, finance, constantly growing … Read more