Pub Date : 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.caeo.2025.100295
Leesa Anne Grier , Anthony Leicht
Understanding anatomy poses a significant challenge for non-medical university students, particularly those without prior science knowledge, such as exercise science students. Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) resources, including 3D anatomy platforms, have been explored to support student engagement and improve academic outcomes with variable results.
Objectives: This pilot study investigated the potential of the Complete Anatomy (CA) 3DTEL resource, combined with traditional blended learning methods, to enhance anatomy knowledge of first-year, undergraduate exercise science students.
Design: Cohort observational study.
Methods: The study followed 36 participants (46 % female, 54 % male) across two 13-week units. Guided implementation of CA was introduced during unit 1, while students engaged with the resource independently during unit 2. User satisfaction was assessed via surveys, and academic performance evaluated by comparing final unit grades with a 2022 cohort that did not use the resource.
Results: Results indicated stable student satisfaction and a significantly different academic performance for the 2023 cohort, with median grades increasing from a Pass (50.0–64.9 %) to a Credit (65.0–74.9 %).
Conclusion: These findings suggest that integrating 3DTEL resources with blended learning can positively support anatomy learning for science-naïve students.
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Video technology facilitates feedback delivery in motor learning, benefiting teacher/coach and peer feedback. Most studies focus on attributing motor learning improvements to video-based feedback but never examine how peer feedback dynamics change to mediate the effect of video observation (VO) on learning outcomes. Therefore, this study compares the frequency, type, and accuracy of peer feedback based on direct observation (DO) and VO in a long jump learning context. Forty-one sports science students (Mage: 20.13±0.71) participated in a four-session long jump learning unit. Students were then randomly paired for experimental procedures: one performed a jump while the other observed. Observers first provided 30 seconds of verbal feedback based on DO and then after viewing a video recording of the jump (VO). Roles were then switched. Audio recordings were transcribed and analyzed for overall feedback frequency. Feedback instances were then classified as implicit or explicit, with the latter assessed for accuracy. The main results showed that VO significantly increased the median frequency of overall feedback and explicit feedback compared to DO, with no significant difference in implicit feedback. The median accuracy of explicit feedback was also significantly higher based on VO compared to DO. These findings help explain the previously documented beneficial effects of video-based peer feedback in motor learning. They demonstrate that VO enables peers to provide more feedback, particularly explicit, more than implicit, with higher accuracy.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-30DOI: 10.1016/j.caeo.2025.100293
Mateo R. Borbon Jr. , Ryan A. Ebardo
This systematic literature review, analyzing 36 peer-reviewed publications from 2019 to February of 2025, addresses a critical gap by examining the use of social media analytics (SMA) for faculty evaluation. Employing a novel methodological approach that combines machine learning-assisted screening (ASReview) with TF-IDF, the study finds that platforms like Twitter and Facebook are increasingly analyzed using sentiment analysis, machine learning, and text mining. These techniques provide real-time, unfiltered student feedback on teaching effectiveness, complementing traditional evaluation instruments and helping to monitor institutional reputation. While SMA offers valuable insights, the review highlights significant challenges, including data quality and credibility, algorithmic bias, ethical concerns, and generalizability. Effectively leveraging SMA's potential requires addressing these issues through robust theoretical frameworks, balanced institutional policies, and enhanced digital literacy to improve teaching practices while safeguarding academic integrity.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-30DOI: 10.1016/j.caeo.2025.100294
Alexander M. Sidorkin
Artificial intelligence fundamentally transforms professional expertise across disciplines, creating an expanding gap between higher education curricula and emerging workplace practices. This paper introduces "Extended Executive Cognition" as a critical learning outcome for the AI age, the ability to strategically allocate cognitive effort, coordinate AI-assisted tasks, and manage hybrid intelligence problem-solving. Drawing on curriculum theory, executive function psychology, and distributed cognition research, we argue that post-educational success increasingly depends on metacognitive skills for human-AI collaboration rather than traditional academic competencies. Extended Executive Cognition requires developing accurate mental models of AI capabilities and limitations to enable effective task delegation. The framework presented offers concrete curriculum integration strategies across general education and discipline-specific contexts, including assessment approaches that capture metacognitive development rather than mere product evaluation. By reconceptualizing learning outcomes around cognitive orchestration rather than content production, universities can prepare graduates for continuous technological evolution while preserving distinctly human capacity as education's central value.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-30DOI: 10.1016/j.caeo.2025.100297
Qinjie Shen
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly employed as a pedagogical assistant in higher education, but its role as a communicator in diverse classrooms is not fully understood. This mixed-methods study investigates AI as a pedagogical communicator at a private international college in Bangkok. The study extends the Technology Acceptance Model by integrating social presence and trust constructs to examine factors influencing student engagement and satisfaction with AI-mediated instruction. In an explanatory sequential design, a survey of 300 students was analyzed using structural equation modeling, followed by 10 in-depth interviews. Results indicated that student satisfaction is driven by two mediated pathways: perceived social presence in AI communication builds trust, which enhances satisfaction, and perceived usefulness of AI feedback promotes engagement, which likewise increases satisfaction. Ease of interacting with the AI increased perceived presence and usefulness and thus indirectly boosted satisfaction; however, it also raised expectations that sometimes dampened satisfaction. Interview themes clarified these patterns. Students valued the AI’s clear explanations, responsiveness, and round-the-clock support, which improved efficiency and engagement, but also noted its lack of human warmth and increased pressure from constant availability. These findings suggest design principles for AI communicators, such as using friendly, context-aware language and clear rationales to build trust, and providing stepwise, practical feedback to sustain engagement. In sum, culturally responsive AI tutors that balance human-like connection with instructional efficiency can enhance student engagement and satisfaction in multicultural educational settings.
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As immersive technologies like the Metaverse continue to reshape higher education, it becomes increasingly vital to examine the ethical dimensions shaping student engagement with these platforms. This study investigates how university students perceive privacy, digital identity, informed consent, and algorithmic fairness in Metaverse-based classrooms, and how these perceptions influence their trust and behavioral intention to adopt the technology. A quantitative survey was conducted with 310 university students, all of whom had prior exposure to virtual learning platforms. Using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) via SmartPLS 4.0, the study found that Metaverse Ethical Dimensions (MED) significantly influence both Trusting Intention (TRI) ( = 0.740, p < 0.001) and Intention to Use (IU) ( = 0.573, p < 0.001). Additionally, TRI partially mediates the relationship between MED and IU ( = 0.206, p = 0.001). These results highlight the central role of ethical design and user trust in promoting the adoption of Metaverse-based classrooms.
随着像Metaverse这样的沉浸式技术继续重塑高等教育,审视影响学生与这些平台互动的道德维度变得越来越重要。本研究调查了大学生在基于metaverse的课堂中如何感知隐私、数字身份、知情同意和算法公平性,以及这些感知如何影响他们的信任和采用该技术的行为意愿。对310名大学生进行了一项定量调查,他们之前都接触过虚拟学习平台。通过SmartPLS 4.0使用偏最小二乘结构方程模型(PLS-SEM),研究发现,meta伦理维度(MED)显著影响信任意图(TRI) (β = 0.740, p < 0.001)和使用意图(IU) (β = 0.573, p < 0.001)。此外,TRI部分介导了MED和IU之间的关系(β = 0.206, p = 0.001)。这些结果突出了道德设计和用户信任在促进采用基于metaverse的教室中的核心作用。
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The purpose of the current systematic review is to provide a comprehensive overview of how the Community of Inquiry framework and learning analytics have been informing each other, thus providing suggestions for how to enhance future research and practice in online education. Overall results revealed that (a) research was primarily conducted in MOOCs and traditional online courses; (b) text and log data were the primary sources analyzed using various statistical, computational, and/or machine learning methods through various tools and software; and (c) descriptive and/or predictive analytics were the most common learning analytics methodology thus describing and/or predicting student and instructor outcomes including teaching, social and cognitive presence. Even though few studies have explicitly named it as the guiding framework, the Community of Inquiry framework has significantly influenced learning analytics research design and some studies have offered new theoretical insights. As for research quality or characteristics, fewer studies fully reported such important details as participant characteristics and data preprocessing procedures. All these findings led to the conclusion that the Community of Inquiry framework and learning analytics have been mutually beneficial so far, and similar future research needs to pay more attention to reporting quality thereby providing richer insights into both the theory and practice of online education.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-18DOI: 10.1016/j.caeo.2025.100290
Van Loi Nguyen , Chung Thi Thanh Hang , Nguyen Trong Nguyen , Huynh Truong Sang
Extensive research on Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) has revealed how contextual layers influence teachers’ perceptions and practice of technology integration, but the extent to which contextual knowledge (XK) contributes to the TPACK framework remains underexplored. This study, adopting the transformative view of TPACK in context, aimed to explore the XK-TPACK relationship. Data was collected from a survey on 148 English as a foreign language teachers working across various educational settings in the lower Mekong Delta of Vietnam. Partial Least Squares Factor analysis and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) were used to explore three hypothesized models. Validation results supported the substantial direct contribution of XK to TPACK variation. This finding extends the literature and suggests that the interplay of TPACK domains becomes more complex, considering contextual knowledge. Future research should be conducted to corroborate this model.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-18DOI: 10.1016/j.caeo.2025.100291
Liat Eyal
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into educational settings, models for measuring related literacy among both teachers and students are rapidly emerging. Yet despite their strengths and benefits, many impose fixed competency levels or overlook contextual factors. Using design-based research, and with the participation of 22 higher-education teacher educators, this study critiques existing models and introduces the novel Adaptive Artificial-Intelligence-Literacy Model (AALM), grounded in case-study analysis. This evaluation framework highlights the dynamic, multi-dimensional nature of artificial-intelligence literacy, organized around three inter-related core axes: contextual fitness, professional needs, and dynamic development. A reflective self-assessment tool is also presented, enabling teachers to evaluate their own artificial-intelligence literacy. This framework offers practical guidance for educational policy and teacher development, advocating for assessment approaches that consider social and cultural contexts, professional needs, and the evolving nature of skills amid rapid technological change. Finally, the case studies illustrate the model's relevance across diverse educational settings.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-15DOI: 10.1016/j.caeo.2025.100288
Femke G.J. Weijsenfeld, Dipti K. Sarmah
Serious games are increasingly used in educational settings to enhance student engagement and support deeper learning. While research shows that such games can improve holistic understanding and knowledge retention, their application in specialised cybersecurity topics such as steganography, the art of concealing information to avoid detection, remains limited. Current teaching approaches for steganography often rely on traditional methods, such as lectures and textbooks, offering little interactivity or immersion. This study addresses this gap by designing and evaluating StegAdventure, a narrative-based serious game designed to improve student engagement with steganography concepts. To assess the game’s effectiveness, we conducted a controlled study with 54 higher education students in The Netherlands, randomly divided into an experimental group (n = 27) who played the game and a control group (n = 27) who studied the same content through a traditional text-based resource. Participants in both groups completed the User Engagement Scale - Short Form (UES-SF) to assess perceived engagement, and a knowledge test to measure learning outcomes. Our analysis revealed a significant difference in engagement levels, favouring the game-based approach, while no significant difference was observed in knowledge test scores. These findings suggest that StegAdventure can serve as a valuable teaching tool, particularly for increasing student engagement in complex cybersecurity topics, with the potential to support long-term knowledge retention.
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