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Active learning is a proven pedagogical style that has demonstrated value by improving students' performance and classroom experience. In spite of the evidence, adoption of active learning in computer science remains relatively low. To…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Jesse Eickholt

A main step for world progress is to keep sharing ever-present Ideals for science and education within today Virtual Realities. On-line education is transforming human society to new levels in the way people teach and learn during the…

Physics Education · Physics 2021-09-03 E. Canessa , L. Tenze

The effective integration of generative artificial intelligence in education is a fundamental aspect to prepare future generations. The objective of this study is to analyze from a quantitative and qualitative point of view the perception…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Sergio Altares-López , José M. Bengochea-Guevara , Carlos Ranz , Héctor Montes , Angela Ribeiro

Blended learning has become a dominant educational model in higher education in the UK and worldwide, particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic. This is further enriched with accompanying pedagogical changes, such as strengthened…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Muhidin Mohamed , Shubhadeep Mukherjee , Bhavana Baad

We aim at clarifying the controversy about the effects of school openings or closures on the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. The mathematical analysis of compartmental models with subpopulations shows that the in-school contact rates…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-14 Alberto Gandolfi , Andrea Aspri , Elena Beretta , Khola Jamshad , Muyan Jiang

The use of new technologies in higher education has surprisingly emphasized students' tendency to adopt a passive behavior in class. Participation and interaction of students are essential to improve academic results. This paper describes…

Each time a learner in a self-paced online course seeks to answer an assessment question, it takes some time for the student to read the question and arrive at an answer to submit. If multiple attempts are allowed, and the first answer is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Ilia Rushkin , Isaac Chuang , Dustin Tingley

The estimation of class prevalence, i.e., the fraction of a population that belongs to a certain class, is a very useful tool in data analytics and learning, and finds applications in many domains such as sentiment analysis, epidemiology,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-21 Purushottam Kar , Shuai Li , Harikrishna Narasimhan , Sanjay Chawla , Fabrizio Sebastiani

COVID-19 has driven most schools to remote learning through online meeting software such as Zoom and Google Meet. Although this trend helps students continue learning without in-person classes, it removes a vital tool that teachers use to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Daben Kyle Liu

COVID-19 is having a dramatic impact on research and researchers. The pandemic has underlined the severity of known challenges in research and surfaced new ones, but also accelerated the adoption of innovations and manifested new…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Giovanni Colavizza

While motivation is of great interest to computing educators, relatively little work has been done on understanding faculty attitudes toward student motivation. Two previous qualitative studies of instructor attitudes found results…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-03-31 Amber Settle , Brian Sedlak

Blended courses have become the norm in post-secondary education. Universities use large-scale learning management systems to manage class content. Instructors deliver readings, lectures, and office hours online; students use intelligent…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Niki Gitinabard , Collin F. Lynch , Sarah Heckman , Tiffany Barnes

Universities have been forced to rely on remote educational technology to facilitate the rapid shift to online learning. In doing so, they acquire new risks of security vulnerabilities and privacy violations. To help universities navigate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Shaanan Cohney , Ross Teixeira , Anne Kohlbrenner , Arvind Narayanan , Mihir Kshirsagar , Yan Shvartzshnaider , Madelyn Sanfilippo

Grounded in critical realism and using narrative inquiry, this article explores this article explores the long-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence within higher education.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ahmad Banyasady

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) continue to see increasing enrolment, but only a small percent of enrolees completes the MOOCs. Whilst a lot of research has focused on predicting completion, there is little research analysing the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Lei Shi , Alexandra I. Cristea , Armando M. Toda , Wilk Oliveira

The modern educational ecosystem is not one-size fits all. Scholars are accustomed to personalization in their everyday life and expect the same from education systems. Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic placed us all in an acute teaching…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Ralucca Gera , Akrati Saxena , D'Marie Bartolf , Simona Tick

COVID-19's impact has surpassed from personal and global health to our social life. In terms of digital presence, it is speculated that during pandemic, there has been a significant rise in cyberbullying. In this paper, we have examined the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Sayar Karmakar , Sanchari Das

The main aim of the research was to examine educational use of Facebook. The Computer Networks and Communication lesson was taken as the sample and the attitudes of the students included in the study group towards Facebook were measured in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2010-09-03 Murat Kayri , Ozlem Cakir

This study examines physics students' evaluations of identical, video-recorded lectures performed by female and male actors playing the role of professors. The results indicate that evaluations by male students show statistically…

Physics Education · Physics 2017-06-05 Amy L. Graves , Estuko Hoshino-Browne , Kristine P. H. Lui

Online data sources offer tremendous promise to demography and other social sciences, but researchers worry that the group of people who are represented in online datasets can be different from the general population. We show that by…

Applications · Statistics 2019-07-01 Dennis M. Feehan , Curtiss Cobb