The online educational environment is increasingly being used by adults and should be
designed based on the needs of adult learners. This article discusses andragogy, an …

Introduction: Research about student performance has traditionally considered academic
procrastination as a behavior that has negative effects on academic achievement. Although …

The COVID-19 pandemic caused abrupt and profound changes to teaching and learning.
The present study seeks to understand adolescents' experiences of the emergency adoption …

Distance education has historically contained little or no learner–learner interactions.
Currently the Internet allows for unprecedented levels of learner–learner interaction and has …

This study explored the effectiveness of online instructional modules for providing
supplementary instruction in basic mathematics and physics concepts. The modules were …

This chapter condenses a decade of our case study research on social presence, or the
level of connectedness among students and instructors, within online and blended learning …

Over the past two and a half decades, digital technologies and virtual education have moved
quickly to the top of the K-12 public education reform agenda. Proponents, including …

Purpose This chapter presents data from research studies specifically aimed at gathering
the perspectives of K-12 students who are taking online courses for credit recovery, their …

Online learning plays a crucial role in our education system, especially in this time of COVID-
19 pandemic, in which online learning is widely and fully implemented in the education …

Background Dialogic engagement is instrumental in promoting higher‐order thinking,
motivation, and learning. Despite their dramatic uptake in the US in the past decade, there is …