Professional development is a process for teachers to improve their skills, knowledge and attitude.  Professional development also improves the competency and efficiency of the teachers in their career.  The aim of professional development at school is to supply educators with strong continuous practice throughout their career. Generally, the teachers need to be up to date with recent pe...

The twenty-first-century period is often considered a technical age. Technology plays a very important role in our lives today. It is regarded as the foundation of an economy's growth. In today's scenario, an economy that is poor in technology can never grow. This is because our research is made much simpler by technology and less time-consuming. Another such area is education, the influ...

Digital videos' impact on our everyday culture is undeniable. Online video sharing sites like YouTube, Vimeo, and Metacafe have millions of monthly audience numbers with online videos continuing to gain popularity, this common and ubiquitous medium seems only natural to expand into the educational setting. Students today use educational videos as a resource to learn from a tire to the ne...

Digital innovations are used extensively and are commonly used in all environments by individuals. Digital technologies have an effect on what, when, where and how people learn and from whom they learn. Computers, laptops, computers, smartphones, mobile phones and so on are the common use of digital technologies. The main purpose of digital technologies is to easily, efficiently and cost...

In the years to come, the impact on science and technology on our lives is very likely to continue to increase. Scientific and technological expertise, skills and resources are invading every area of life in our modern society, both the workplace and the public sphere are increasingly dependent on new and more mature technologies. The private sphere and our leisure time are the same as t...

Expectations of the profession are increasing. Growing regulations and governance, globalisation, and increased use of digital technologies together mean the world is a more complex place for the professional accountant. As a result, careers can look very different from those of the past but skills remain vital to on-going development. At the same time, we are increasingly adopting more ...

In order for students to learn the skills of the 21st century, we will need to teach them differently than in the past. The traditional transmission model, through which teachers convey factual knowledge through lectures and textbooks to students, remains the dominant approach to compulsory education in many parts of the world, but it is not the most successful way to teach skills of the...

Digital literacy skill is one of the essential skills for our current students. Students are required to express their ideas in digital media. Prior literature shows that students are required to equip the skills of viewing digital text and representing ideas in digital media to effectively communicate with others. In higher education, it is challenging to ensure that their students can ...

Learning programming is difficult and it presents great challenge for educators. It is a complex intellectual activity which is learned by a lot of practice. The goal is to increase success rate of introductory programming courses. Most of undergraduate students at Faculty of Science are novice programmers interested in different major subjects having to cope with limited time available ...

Virtual robots can be used as tutors or peer students in school. These have been shown to be successful in increasing cognitive and affective outcomes and have obtained results similar to those of restricted activities in human tutoring. This is due in large part to their physical presence, which is missing in conventional training technologies. We explore social robots' potential for ed...