Rana Saeed

• Ph.D in English Language and Linguistics
• Professor (Assistant) at Al-Buraimi University College

This paper investigates adopting metaverse in academic institutions based on a conceptual model. The proposed conceptual model was created to empower future perspectives of the metaverse system. Even though the metaverses system was just recently launched, few attempts have been made to evaluate its impact on the educational sector. This paper atte...

Examining the blended learning (b-learning) acceptance is not a new research topic, and it has been tackled by many scholars. Nevertheless, the analysis of information systems (IS) models that are used to study the acceptance of b-learning is regarded as a topic of great importance. To examine these models and afford scholars a holistic view of thi...

Recently audio and video material has been used significantly in various online platforms. The audio- video materials enhance the teaching and learning process by facilitating the transformation of the data and providing a richer interactive environment, hence gaining wide intention within the educational realm. However, empirical studies have not...

YouTube and TikTok have gained increasing recognition as social network sites to support online knowledge acquisition, sharing, and application via social media platforms in the medical field. This study examines which aspect of TikTok and YouTube stimulates doctors, nurses, and any other YouTube and TikTok in the medical setting, to rely on them a...

The fear of vaccines has led to population rejection due to various reasons. Students have had their own inquiries towards the effectiveness of the vaccination, which leads to vaccination hesitancy. Vaccination hesitancy can affect students’ perception, hence, acceptance of e-learning platforms. Therefore, this research attempts to explore the post...

The rapid changes in recent years witnessed the development of technology-based education environment where teachers and learners can interact by adopting Information and Communication Technology (ICT) such as Google Glass. However, few educational universities and colleges have adopted Google Glass in their educational institutions. The reason beh...

The COVID-19 pandemic not only affected our health and medical systems but also has created large disruption of education systems at school and universities levels. According to the United Nation’s report, COVID-19 has influenced more than 1.6 billion learners from all over the world (190 countries or more). To tackle this problem, universities and...

Google Classroom (henceforth GC) has emerged as a tool in e-learning. This paper has adopted an integrated model to investigate the continuous intention to use GC as a facilitator in the learning and teaching environment in higher education. GC provides the students with opportunities to cope up with their teaching environment outside class timing....

During the recent vast growth of digitalization, e-learning methods have become the most influential phenomenon at higher educational institutions. E-learning adoption has proved able to shift educational circumstances from the traditional face-to-face teaching environment to a flexible and sharable type of education. An online survey was conducted...

This study seeks to explore the effect of fear emotion on students' and teachers' technology adoption during COVID-19 pandemic. The study has made use of Google Meet© as an educational social platform in private higher education institutes. The data obtained from the study were analyzed by using the partial least squares structural equation modelin...

Various systematic reviews were conducted to provide a valuable insight into the flipped classroom research trend. However, these reviews ignored the examination of the flipped classroom studies with regard to the information system (IS) theories or models. Based on the previous assumption, the main objective of this study is to review and synthesi...

WhatsApp stickers are gaining popularity among university students due to their pervasiveness, specifically in educational WhatsApp groups. However, the acceptance of stickers by university students is still in short supply. Thus, this research aims to empirically examine the determinants affecting the acceptance of WhatsApp stickers through a prop...

Wearable technologies are becoming more pervasive with the development of high computational capability devices such as smartwatches, smart glasses, smart pills, and sensors. The emergence of these technologies may offer unique opportunities for both students and academics by allowing ubiquitous communication. Accordingly, the current study develop...

Wearable technologies are becoming more pervasive with the development of high computational capability devices such as smartwatches, smart glasses, smart pills, and sensors. The emergence of these technologies may offer unique opportunities for both students and academics by allowing ubiquitous communication. Accordingly, the current study develop...

The importance of using Google Translate (GT) has become dominantly more effective. Most researchers, professors, and students rely on its translation as an immediate source of getting information in different countries all over the world. However, previous studies failed to cover these influential factors that pinpoint the relation between GT and...

The combination of two technology model which are the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Use of Gratifications Theory (U&G) to create an integrated model is the first step in predicting the importance of using emotional icons and the level of satisfaction behind this usage. The reason behind using these two theories into one integrated model is...

Google classroom can work in unidirectional process as it can serve the teachers’ strategies and styles on one hand and students’ perception, understanding, and effective participation in different classroom skills on the other hand. The acceptance of Google classroom is affected by different factors. Some of them are still not clearly specified an...

Technology enhancement learning is a process that leads to deep point of learning and adds knowledge of technologies. Various studies shed light on technology development and its effect in educational sector. The aim of this integrative review is to examine the current evidence of the impact of technology learning on student learning and academic p...

Bottom-up Approach for Vocabulary Development

The analysis of both dialogue and monologue as two variants in narrative discourse represents a significant step in formulating the thematic shifts and topic development in a discourse. The focus on one type of analysis and ignoring the other type may result in insufficient conclusions. The examination of two different patterns in narrative discour...

Our understanding of compounds is not limited to the perception of synthetic relations that these compounds may have, but rather it incorporates other relations that are cognitively-semantic based relations. Compounding is morphologically a complex word formation process. The accumulation of these relations along with the role of transparency helps...