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View article: Virtual Professional Development for School Leadership: Designing and Testing a Practical Web-based Simulation for Classroom Observation
Virtual Professional Development for School Leadership: Designing and Testing a Practical Web-based Simulation for Classroom Observation Open
Among numerous responsibilities, conducting effective classroom observations is crucial for school leaders. This research explores the perspectives of 23 aspiring and practicing school leaders about their experiences of learning classroom …
View article: What Keeps Teachers Engaged during Professional Development? The Role of Interest Development
What Keeps Teachers Engaged during Professional Development? The Role of Interest Development Open
Interest influences adults’ and young learners’ learning in formal and informal contexts. Although interest and interest development frameworks have been used in research on student-learning, they are not used in teacher-focused research, …
View article: Understanding the Relationship Among Self-efficacy, Utility Value, and the Community of Inquiry Framework in Preservice Teacher Education
Understanding the Relationship Among Self-efficacy, Utility Value, and the Community of Inquiry Framework in Preservice Teacher Education Open
School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic have shown the importance of distance education, and teachers have been tasked with designing and delivering online courses in a short amount of time without much preparation or deliberation. As…
View article: Using Twitter to Form Professional Learning Communities
Using Twitter to Form Professional Learning Communities Open
Social media has become an important tool for informal teacher professional development. Although there is a growing body of research investigating issues across the US, there is a lack of research on teacher professional development takin…
View article: Understanding Children’s Problem-solving Strategies in Solving Game-based Logic Problems
Understanding Children’s Problem-solving Strategies in Solving Game-based Logic Problems Open
Problem solving is an essential skill for students to be successful in life and careers. Students need to use efficient strategies to solve problems effectively. In this basic interpretive qualitative study, we aimed to (a) explore childre…
View article: Digital divide among higher education faculty
Digital divide among higher education faculty Open
Digital divide centers on access to various dimensions of information and communication technology (ICT) including physical access, motivation, skills, and actual usage of digital technologies. This divide tends to be even wider in the con…
View article: Supporting Metacognitive Awareness and Strategy Use Through Digital Photography in a Rural Title I School
Supporting Metacognitive Awareness and Strategy Use Through Digital Photography in a Rural Title I School Open
The Photography and Media Literacy Project (PMLP) was an after-school program designed to teach fourth and fifth grade children about the science and art of photography in a Title I school in rural southeast Georgia. Through the completion…
View article: Increasing Social Presence in Online Learning through Small Group Discussions
Increasing Social Presence in Online Learning through Small Group Discussions Open
Social presence is a difficult to achieve, but an imperative component of online learning. In this study, we investigated the effect of group size on students' perceptions of social presence in two graduate-level online courses, comparing …