Ajrina Hysaj

• University of Wollongong in Dubai

Academic integrity continues to concern educators worldwide. Furthermore, general guidelines for ensuring academic integrity do not seem to encompass all the angles that are required to be taken into consideration when exploring the factors that contribute to multicultural students’ decision to adhere to the norms and values of academic integrity....

Abstract. This study aimed to explore the effective and ethical use of GenAI gamification tools in higher education. GenAI gamification tools are commonly and constantly used by multicultural undergraduate students in higher education to search information and easily accessible data. This research aims to identify the GenAI gamification tools that...

Abstract The aim of the current study was to explore the perceptions of undergraduate students of usefulness of using AI tools to write academically. For this study, we utilized a mixed method approach using a structured questionnaire to collect data relevant to the frequency of plagiarism that students commit while completing different kinds of a...

The theory of planned behaviour (TPB) is explored in relation to the different aspect of education. However, little work has been undertaken to explore the impact of TPB in the field of English language teaching. The aim of this paper is to understand the possible ways of utilising TPB in English as second language (ESL) classes. This study took pl...

The focus of this study was to explore ways of developing critical thinking in multicultural undergraduate students in the digital learning platform (DLP). Two different classes participated in the study, and they were both taught by the same lecturer. The lecturer utilised topics related to culture and identity to encourage students’ active involv...

Educators worldwide are interested in understanding factors that contribute in a successful learning experience for undergraduate students in the online platform. To explain such interest scholars have focused their attention on exploring ways of supporting students learning process utilizing the digital technology. In our study we aimed to explore...

Quality education is supposed to be inclusive and accessible to all students according to the United Nations’ Sustainable Goal Four. However, when students transition to the next level of their education journey, they aren’t always equipped with prior knowledge as expected by the next stage. This could be high school students joining tertiary educa...

Academic misconduct in higher education has risen globally during remote teaching and assessing since the beginning of the COVID19 pandemic, particularly due to use of online assessments (Erguvan, 2021; Janke et al., 2021; Clark, et al., 2020; Kapardis and Spanoudis, 2022). However, it is not a unidimensional issue; it is important that all stakeho...

Many university students across the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the world face the problem of low achievement when compared to students graduating from other countries. This may be due to lower student engagement, which in turn may be a result of faculty’s perception of student engagement. The purpose of the study was to investigate the percepti...

Formative assessment and the provision of formative feedback are key factors in effective teaching and learning. Generally, while teachers understand the role of feedback, studies show there is a tendency for them to provide it when a task comes to a complete. When teaching took to the online mode due to forced conditions imposed by COVID-19, quest...

This study aimed to understand the attitudes and challenges faced by multicultural undergraduate students enrolled in academic writing classes. The focus of the study was on the use of formative feedback to scaffold the development of academic writing skills, including ways of conducting research and writing essays and reports using the online plat...

Many university students across the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as well as other countries around the world are struggling to improve their academic achievement. In the context of online teaching and learning, this can be related to low levels of student engagement, which can be related to faculty’s choice of modern technologies to enhance students’...

This paper analyses the challenges faced by Emirati students who are admitted to universities in the UAE where the medium of instruction is in English. The study focuses mainly on the expectations of their performance during a full semester course where students are supposed to move from an intermediate level B1 user of English to upper intermediat...

Completion of group reports in multicultural classes in remote learning can be daunting for students and instructors. Although the needs and responsibilities of both parties differ, they effectively meet in the designing of appropriate assessment tasks and in the successful completion of the same. The process of group work in the online platform, a...

Completion of group reports in multicultural classes in remote learning can be daunting for students and instructors. Although the needs and responsibilities of both parties differ, they effectively meet in the designing of appropriate assessment tasks and in the successful completion of the same. The process of group work in the online platform, a...

The aim of this study was to gain a better understanding of the attitudes and challenges faced by STEM teachers during the implementation of online teaching in the midst of the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic. The approach involved collection and extraction of relevant data from two survey questionnaires. A sample size of 98 STEM teachers was recor...

Covid-19 pandemic had an impact on many day-to-day activities but one of the biggest collateral impacts was felt by the education sector. The nature and the complexity of higher education is such that no matter how prepared we are as faculty, how planned our teaching and assessments, faculty are all too aware of the adjustments that have to be made...

Abstract. Group work in online classes can be a challenging task for both teachers and students. Teachers need to make sure that the group task is de-signed carefully to achieve its learning objectives, and students need to learn how to work efficiently as members in a group to achieve their targets and meet deadlines. This paper addresses the effi...

This paper discusses the challenges faced by Emirati students enrolled in a private university in the United Arab Emirates. In particular, the study focuses on the development of their academic writing skills. It uses data collected from composition papers written in a semester through the online platform. The data was collected from undergraduate...

Group work in online classes can be a challenging task for both teachers and students. Teachers need to make sure that the group task is designed carefully to achieve its learning objectives, and students need to learn how to work efficiently as members in a group to achieve their targets and meet deadlines. This paper addresses the efficacy of gro...

This paper revisits the technological, pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK) framework and its use in Higher Education, especially in the online writing classes. The framework for teaching with technology was described by Mishra and Kohler [19], who mentioned that it was built on Shulman's [27] theory of “pedagogical content knowledge”. The fra...

Any problem is a problem until a solution is designed and implemented. This paper reports on a workshop that highlights preliminary work done by the working group on Gamification in the scope of European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI), which aims to explore the possibility of developing and testing a gamified learning module on academic inte...

The Analysis of Developing the Application of Critical Thinking in Oral and Written Discussions: The Case of Emirati Students in the United Arab Emirates Ajrina Hysaj, Sara Suleymanova Abstract—Development of students’ critical thinking is important to students and educators. The objective of this study was the development of critical thinking th...

During the unprecedented events of the COVID19 outbreak, most universities in the UAE and worldwide had to move to online teaching. The current study is about the perceptions of undergraduate students and teachers of the extent of success of switching to the online platform to meet the undergraduate courses’ teaching and learning goals. Two Likert-...

The study of how students learn technical material has become increasingly significant. It has been acknowledged over a period of time that students from different backgrounds have different learning styles and that alternate teaching methodology and styles can aid the learning process. The diverse environment offered within educational institution...

Higher Education has been facing the dilemma of the preferred delivery method for over two decades. COVID19 pandemic in 2020 made the need for further exploration of the same even more imperative. Although the urgency of events did not leave much time for policymakers and educators to decide, it did inspire the authors of this article to analyse th...

For over two decades, higher education has been facing the dilemma of what method of study is better for students. For example, is it face-to-face, online learning, or blended learning? The three mentioned methods are increasingly considered and reconsidered as to which one offers a better alternative to students. Over the last period of time, it h...

The increase in plagiarism cases among university students is a great concern for educators and policy makers within the federal and private universities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Research suggests that students’ attitudes toward academic integrity are characteristically more tolerant than the policies already in place in most universities...