Due to the increasingly multicultural nature of e-learning environments, it is critical that instructors and instructional designers be aware of the importance of cultural factors in education and that they deliver culturally adaptive instruction. The main challenge of this paper is identifying the critical success factors for multicultural online learning from learners’ perceptions and their r...

Two sections of university-level technical writing courses were given an authentic task to write an article for publication for an outside stakeholder. A quasi-experimental study was conducted to determine the differences in learning outcomes between students using traditional writing methods and those using social media to generate articles. One section was randomly assigned to follow the trad...

Open-ended learning environments (OELEs) are learner-centered, and they provide students with opportunities to take part in authentic and complex problem-solving tasks. These experiences may support deeper learning and the development of strategies that support future learning. However, many students struggle to succeed in such complex learning endeavors. Without proper adaptive scaffolding, th...

The open monitoring environment (OME) uses a novel data-mining approach to enhance teachers’ pedagogical interventions in a robotics class. According to earlier studies, decision trees resulting from an open and semiautomatic data-mining process are practically useful when classifying subsequently data arising from a robotics class. The current study shows that data-mining features of the OME c...

Continuous change in technology and the awareness of a new approach for education led to a ‘revolution in education’ in the past. Educational Technology (ET) is the proposed solutions for these problems as a result of rethinking education. One implementation of ET is using Empirical Modelling (EM) techniques. Learning through interaction with the computer plays an important role in thinking abo...

To support the teaching of ethics in science and engineering, educational technologies offer a variety of functions: communication between students and instructors, production of documents, distribution of documents, archiving of class sessions, and access to remote resources. Instructors may choose to use these functions of the technologies at different levels of intensity, to support a variet...