Seyyed Kazem Banihashem

Open University of the Netherlands | OU

This study explores the outcomes of using Google Docs for collaborative scientific writing and the associated student perceptions. The study included a total of 35 undergraduate students from the educational sciences programme. All students participated in a pre- and post-test design experiment and 10 were randomly selected to attend interviews. Th...

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has garnered interest as a potentially new feedback source in education due to its ability to generate human-like text. However, its use in feedback lacks a robust pedagogical framework, which is essential for ensuring effective, responsible implementation and fostering trust in educational contexts. This...

Although the existing literature acknowledges the potential of learning analytics in enhancing effective learning design, it lacks evidence on how learning analytics can support learning design considering diversity in instructional conditions. This indicates that learning context plays a major role in successful implementation of learning analytic...

Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) has increasingly been integrated into self-regulated learning (SRL), presenting novel pathways to support SRL. While AI-SRL research has experienced rapid growth, there remains a significant gap in understanding the intersection between AI and SRL, resulting in oversight when identifying critical areas necessi...

This study explored the dynamics of students' knowledge co-construction in an asynchronous gamified environment in higher education, focusing on peer discussions in college business courses. Utilizing epistemic network analysis, sequence pattern mining, and automated coding, we analyzed the interactions of 1,319 business students. Our findings reve...

Lay Description What is currently known about this topic? Learning analytics has emerged as a powerful tool that aligns with the purpose of formative assessment, enabling educators to monitor and understand students' learning. The primary focus of traditional learning analytics research has been on online learning environments, relying mostly on u...

Recently, ChatGPT, a cutting-edge large language model, has emerged as a powerful Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tool with the capacity to influence education. ChatGPT provides ample opportunities for learners, researchers, educators, and practitioners to achieve the intended learning outcomes in various disciplines. This special issue...

Many peer feedback studies examined students’ perceptions. Yet, little is known about how perceived and actual learning are related, and how they are influenced by individual and contextual characteristics including success level, educational level, gender, and academic major. This exploratory study addressed this research gap. Students from a Dutc...

Peer feedback is introduced as an effective learning strategy, especially in large-size classes where teachers face high workloads. However, for complex tasks such as writing an argumentative essay, without support peers may not provide high-quality feedback since it requires a high level of cognitive processing, critical thinking skills, and a dee...

There is a growing body of literature acknowledging peer feedback as a crucial learning practice in online settings. However, the literature is sparse and lacks an overall picture of the variety of key components for the successful implementation of peer feedback practices in online settings. To address this gap, we built our systematic literature...

Online peer feedback is an effective instructional strategy to enhance students' learning processes and outcomes. However, the literature lacks a comprehensive understanding of the influential factors that play a key role in the effective implementation of online peer feedback. This systematic review provides an overview of the current state of onl...

The aim of this study was to explore how students perceive their learning outcomes and satisfaction during an online peer feedback activity in the context of argumentative essays. In this study, 135 undergraduate students participated. A module called "Argumentative Essay Writing" was developed and embedded into the course on the Brightspace platfo...

The pandemic underscores the need for a blended approach, combining in-person and online education post-crisis. The lessons gleaned from the experience of pandemic-era education highlight the importance of emphasizing blended education in the post-pandemic context, which combines both in-person and online educational approaches. Effective use of bl...

The current paper focusses on the teachers’ attitude towards and experiences with e-learning tools at two universities in different phases of e-learning implementation. The study population comprises teachers at university level and a simple random sampling method was used. A total of 45 teachers in bachelor programmes from the Faculty of Agricultu...

Game-based learning researchers have been investigating various means to maximise learning in educational games. One promising venue in recent years has been the use of learning analytics in online game-based learning environments. However, little is known about how different elements of learning analytics (e.g. data types, techniques methods, and...

This study compared the effects of support for peer feedback, peer feedforward, and their combination on students' peer learning processes and argumentative essay quality. Participants were 86 BSc students who were randomly divided over 43 dyads and assigned to peer feedback, peer feedforward, mixed, and control conditions. In an online environment...

Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, online education has demonstrated significant potential in providing flexible and easily accessible learning opportunities on a global scale. As a result of its numerous advantages, the landscape of education in the post-Covid era is anticipated to be a combination of online and face-to-face (F2F) instruction, with F2F...

Performing complex tasks such as writing an argumentative essay and providing high-quality argumentative peer feedback are challenging for higher education students. This study aims to explore whether and how students’ argumentation performance during peer feedback activities and essay writing is related to their culture and gender. In this explora...

This study aimed to explore the relationship between students’ perceptions of transactional distance and self-efficacy within an online peer learning environment. The research involved 240 higher education students who completed three tasks over three weeks. The first task required students to write an argumentative essay. In the second week, stude...

In this study, the relationship among students’ attitude towards peer feedback, peer feedback performance, and uptake in an online learning environment was investigated. This study was conducted at Wageningen University and Research and 135 undergraduate students participated. A module called “ Argumentative Essay Writing ” was designed and student...

This exploratory study aims to identify student profiles based on their attitudes and beliefs towards online education during the COVID-19 pandemic, and then relate these profiles to students’ online education experiences and background characteristics. To do this, in 2020, 676 students from a Dutch university were asked to complete a survey about...

We are delighted to announce a special issue of the International Journal of Technology in Education (IJTE) dedicated to exploring the implications of ChatGPT, a powerful generative AI tool, in the field of education. The introduction of ChatGPT in education has sparked debates about its potential implications for education. While advocates of Chat...

This study explored the effects of directed and undirected online peer feedback types on students’ peer feedback performance, argumentative essay writing skills, and acquisition of domain-specific knowledge. The study used a pre-test and post-test design with four conditions (feedback, feedforward, a combination of feedback and feedforward, and und...

This study explores the intersection role of students' epistemic beliefs and gender in argumentative essay writing. In total, 148 undergraduate students from a Dutch university followed an argumentation module, filled out the epistemic beliefs survey, and wrote an argumentative essay. Results showed that students' beliefs about the Internet-specifi...

ChatGPT is an AI tool that has sparked debates about its potential implications for education. We used the SWOT analysis framework to outline ChatGPT's strengths and weaknesses and to discuss its opportunities for and threats to education. The strengths include using a sophisticated natural language model to generate plausible answers, self-improvi...

Literature on post-pandemic education suggests blended learning as a new balanced education approach. However, little is known about teachers' and students' attitudes, emotions, and perceptions of blended education. This study aims to first explore teachers' and students' attitudes and emotions (workload, stress, well-being, and motivation) related...

We know little to what extent peer feedback strategies can be applied on a large scale in higher education for complex tasks. This study aimed to design, implement, and evaluate an online-supported peer feedback module for large-scale use to enhance higher education students' argumentative essay writing performance. To do this, 330 students from fi...

This study explores the role of students’ epistemic beliefs and gender in argumentation performance in essay writing. Data were collected from 148 undergraduate students. The results showed that students’ beliefs about the Internet-specific justification of knowledge did not influence argumentation performance, while beliefs about the nature of sci...

This study investigates the effects of three Collaborative Reasoning (CR) strategies including pre-trained CR, scripted CR, and pre-trained + scripted (mixed) CR on the argumentative decision-making skills of primary school students. Forty-six school students were requested to write a reflective essay on a social-moral issue, and after participatin...

Recent studies have shown that peer feedback is an effective instructional strategy to improve students’ argumentative essay writing. However, it is not known to what extent a peer feedback strategy for argumentative essay writing can be generally used in different course domains. This study aims to apply an online supported peer feedback tool in d...

In this article, we aim to explore the differences in the received peer feedback among successful, less successful, and unsuccessful students in higher education. This exploratory study was conducted in online settings and in the context of argumentative essay writing. In total, 135 undergraduate students participated in an online module and they c...

Learning analytics (LA) offers new opportunities to enrich feedback practices in higher education, but little is understood about the ways different LA can enhance feedback practices for educators and students. This systematic literature review maps the current state of implementation of LA to improve feedback practices in technology-mediated learn...

Over the last decades, using e-learning systems as an alternative format of education for traditional classroom has been growing in higher education and due to COVID-19 pandemic, this transition has been unprecedently accelerated. Although there is a large body of research on e-learning, little is known about the extent to which innovative and cont...

The book is divided into three sections related to studies on education, science, and technology. While each of the first two sections includes five chapters, the last section involves four chapters. The chapters’ contributors are from the following countries: Albania, Australia, Azad Kashmir, Ghana, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Philippine...

In peer feedback literature, little is known about the patterns of success for peer feedback activities in online learning environments. This study aims to explore the peer feedback patterns of successful, less successful, and unsuccessful higher education students for argumentative essay writing. In this exploratory study, 330 higher education stu...

In this study, students' perceived usefulness and trustworthiness of peer feedback on learning satisfaction in the online learning environment were investigated using a pre-test and post-test research design at Wageningen University and Research. In total, 135 undergraduate students participated in this study. Students’ peer feedback performance wa...

The COVID-19 outbreak at the beginning of 2020 disrupted students' and teachers' learning and teaching activities worldwide as it led to a quick transition from education, including face-to-face interaction to emergency remote teaching (ERT). During this ERT period monitoring research on the experiences and innovation needs was done at Wageningen U...

In this study, a pre-test and post-test research design was employed to explore the role of online peer feedback features in uptake of peer feedback in the context of argumentative essay writing. To do this, 101 students were asked to individually write an argumentative essay, get involved in online peer feedback activity, and revise the original e...

In the literature, little is known regarding the role of students’ perceived motivation and perceived fairness of peer feedback for their learning satisfaction, particularly in the context of argumentative essay writing in online learning environments. This study explores the effects of students’ perceived motivation and perceived fairness of peer...

This study adopted a pre-test–post-test design to explore genderdifferences in argumentative essay writing and peer reviewperformance and uptake within a higher education context. To do this,as part of a bigger project, 101 students were asked to individuallywrite an argumentative essay, engage in peer review activities andrevise their original ess...

Although MOOCs platforms offer a unique way to provide information for a large cohort of participants, only a small percentage of participants complete MOOCs. The high number of dropouts in MOOCs is a key challenge, and the literature suggests that it can be affected by participants' motivation. However, it is not known how and to what extent motiv...

Which learning analytics (LA) approach might be the best choice for your teaching and learning context? Learning analytics as a field of research and application seeks to collect, analyze, report, and interpret educational data with the goal of improving teaching and learning. However, hasty adoption of learning analytics tools and methods that are...

So far, the synergistic relationship between learning design and learning analytics and its impact on learners' educational practices have been investigated. However, little work has been done to show how integrated learning design based on constructivism learning theory and learning analytics can affect learners' engagement and self-regulation. Th...

Peer feedback is an effective instructional strategy for improving students’ argumentative essay writing in higher education. However, little is known how do differently or similarly bachelor’s and master’s students perform in their peer feedback activities for essay writing. This study sought to identify the role of education level in students’ pe...

There is a growing body of research on using learning analytics in an online constructivist learning environment to improve students’ engagement and self-regulation. However, little is known to what extent female and male students differ in their engagement and self-regulation in an online Constructivist Learning Design and Learning Analytics (CLDL...

This study is aimed at identifying learning analytics components in education to provide a conceptual framework for optimizing learning. This is a qualitative study in which the design of the study is content analysis. In this study, 14 experts in the field of learning analytics were interviewed. Purposeful sampling method was used to select the pa...

Increasing and ease of access to big data have led to new developments in e-learning and increased attention and research in the field of learning analytics. The purpose of this research is to introduce The Social Network Analysis (SNA) method as one of the new applications of learning analytics for detecting learning networks in e-learning environ...

Background: Studies have shown that there is a gap between theory and practice in the use of learning analytics in educational settings. Some researchers attribute this gap to not taking learning theories into consideration in the use of learning analytics in educational contexts. This study was conducted to address the role of learning theory in a...

Educational system has an important role in educating future community makers. One of the most important components of educational system which should be considered in the twenty-first century among future community makers is deep learning and creative thinking. This paper aimed to design and implement a blending of problem solving instructional mo...

Introduction: Merrill by criticizing the lecturing methods stated that “the sole transfer of information is not learning and teaching”. Teaching and learning have some principles that are education’s corner stone that are known as “Merrill’s first principles of instruction”. Also, the team-based learning is one of the methods that are being emphasi...

E-learning is one of the most important and common paradigms of ICT in educational areas. It may help promote creativity, an important, basic and effective component of human life. The aim of this paper is to study the effect of e-learning on students' creativity at Meshkinshahr Payame Noor University in the 2012-2013 academic year. A quasi experim...

Learning analytics is considered as the third wave in educational technology and it is a new and promising field of study. This study was conducted to clarify benefits and challenges of learning analytics in education.Cooper’s systematic literature review was used as the research method. This method has five steps as follows: a) formulation of the...

Background: According to the connectivism learning theory, learning has a different form in the digital age compared to the industrial age, where traditional learning theories were applied. Thus, this study aimed at identifying and discovering implications of connectivism learning theory for distance education. Methods: The present study was a qual...