Predictive learning analytics (PLA) is an educational innovation that has the potential to enhance teaching practice and facilitate student success. Yet, degree of PLA adoption across institutions remains limited, while teachers who make use do not engage with it in a systematic manner. Informed by Unified Theory Acceptance Use Technology (UTAUT), we conducted eleven in-depth interviews univers...

employee engagement at work is a concept that recently entered in organizational discussions in past two decades. engaged employees are happy, energetic and productive employees that are willing to invest the discretionary effort through the work and organizational roles. previous literatures show that employee engagement at work is affected by different personal, vocational and organizational ...

Engagement—a persistent and positive affective-motivational state of fulfillment characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption (W. B. Schaufeli, M. Salanova, V. González-Roma, & A. B. Bakker, 2002)—has become a popular subject among academic and industry researchers. Following suggestions in the recent literature calling for further examination of the underlying factors comprising the cons...

With the dramatic growth of online video services and video traffic, video service providers and network operators have keen interest in improving viewer engagement. Viewer engagement is mainly influenced by four aspects: service quality metrics (e.g., rebuffer time), network quality metrics (e.g., physical-layer data rate), video content (e.g., video length) and viewer demography. Previous wor...

E-learning has been used by many higher learning institutions around the globe. However, are the university instructors ready to use e-learning in their teaching and learning activities? What are the factors influencing their e-learning readiness? This study attempts to model e-learning readiness among instructors in four Iraqi public universities (IPUs). Based on the literature, nine factors i...

Classrooms are complex social systems, and student-teacher relationships and interactions are also complex, multicomponent systems. We posit that the nature and quality of relationship interactions between teachers and students are fundamental to understanding student engagement, can be assessed through standardized observation methods, and can be changed by providing teachers knowledge about d...

Abstract Despite the growing interest on notion of academic engagement (AE) and its relevance for students’ success, a few valid reliable instruments AE have been developed. Moreover, most available measures consider as student’s trait rather than relational situated dynamic process. This study presents development validation new instrument, SInAPSi Academic Engagement Scale (SAES), which was d...