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This study explored first-year students’ perceptions and challenges of using podcasts and vodcast to enhance academic writing skills. Academic writing challenges faced by first-year students at an Open Distance e-Learning ...
Research indicates that a substantial number of students entering higher education institutions lack the foundational academic reading skills, strategies, and approaches necessary for meaningful engagement with texts in ...
This study discusses how the concepts of home and displacement are portrayed in the
selected novels of two Southern African writers: We Need New Names (2013) by
Zimbabwe born and USA based author, NoViolet Bulawayo, and ...
Several African literary texts and the critical responses to these texts have engaged extensively with the varied ways in which men and women have been both complicit in and active perpetrators of gendered oppression and ...
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in education is becoming increasingly prevalent, and its encroachment and impact on online education and assessment is a topic of interest to
researchers and lecturers. ChatGPT is ...
Despite the expansion of e-learning and the adoption of innovative learning management systems to support students, higher education institutions are still struggling under the burden of digital exclusion, hence increasing ...
Sevnarayan, Kershnee(Published by Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha, 2023)
Despite efforts to understand how social media platforms encourage student interaction, researchers have noted that there needs to be more research that focuses on using Telegram messenger as a means to encourage student ...
Over the past few years, we have witnessed immense advancements of technology which challenge conventional teaching methodologies. This paper analyses an open and distance learning university from two culturally distinct ...
Student evaluations are used frequently within higher education institutions, as lecturers are expected to respond to these in a way that improves course delivery and addresses students’ concerns. The purpose of this article ...
Sevnarayan, Kershnee(Departemen Kurikulum dan Teknologi Pendidikan Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, 2022)
The pandemic has prompted the use of supplemental learning tools such as podcasts to become increasingly used to bridge the gap between lecturers and students. This paper argues that podcasting not only sharpens students’ ...
Sevnarayan, Kershnee; Mohale, Ntshimane Elphas(Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta Indonesia, 2022)
The COVID-19 pandemic challenged instructional methods of teaching and learning in
universities around the world. To bridge this instructional gap, many universities opted
to use digital technological innovations to reach ...
Transactional distance continues to be a major issue in Distance Education (DE) as resolutions to guarantee and support it are not wholly contingent on technological affordances but depend on interactions, communication, ...
Specific mechanisms relating feedback
to learning are still not understood.
One of the most neglected issues in
education is the notion of providing
constructive feedback to students, in
particular, students who speak ...
Higher education institutions (HEIs) in Africa are seemingly staggering under
the burden of digital division and exclusion. Due to its perceived flexibility and
affordability for students in remote areas, distance education ...
This study arose out of a concern that
lecturers, tutors and students in their
disciplines pay insufficient attention to the
nature, structure and effects of the types
of knowledge that is being disseminated
and learnt. ...
This study investigates the negotiation of violence by analysing how the selected texts, The House of Hunger by Damudzo Marechera, Harvest of Thorns by Shimmer Chinodya, The Uncertainty of Hope by Valerie Tagwira and Half ...
Fourie, Reinhardt(Journal of Literary Studies, 2021-03)
In this article, I consider two fairly recent English poems by Marlene van Niekerk: “Mud
school” (2013) and “Fallist art (in memory of Bongani Mayosi)” (2018). Specifically, I
explore the context surrounding the production ...
Academic essay writing also known as student writing, tends to be a challenging task for first-year students in most universities worldwide and in particular for first-year students in English second language contexts in ...
Kreuiter, Allyson(Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies, 2018-12-05)
Contemporary Spanish author José Carlos Somoza’s novel Clara y la penumbra (2001), translated into English as The Art of Murder (2004), is set in the near future and the plot concerns the world of “hyperdramatic” art, where ...
the female character, Justine, in Lawrence
Durrell’s The Alexandria quartet. Adopting
a feminist Gothic position, I shall consider
how Justine’s portrayal as a femme fatale
makes her a vehicle for Durrell’s articulation
of ...