... In higher education institutions, the term innovation has been perceived to refer to the changes or reforms in various domains such as educational policies, practices, academic work, curricula, assessment regimes, methods of teaching and learning, pedagogical technology, knowledge, and ideas (Cohen & Ball, 2007;Kozma, 1985;Schneckenberg, 2009;Scott, 2012;Zhu & Engels, 2014). Thus, universities mainly focus on instructional innovation approaches such as collaborative learning, cooperative learning, student-centred pedagogy, computer-supported learning, online learning, and web-based platforms (Atmaca, 2007;Brandon & Hollingshead, 1999;Ellis, Ginns & Piggott, 2009;Garrison, Kanuka, 2004;Gokhale, 1995;Wright, 2011). These approaches focus more on the active involvement of the learner, maintaining interaction with others, and the reorganization of the knowledge structures (Packer & Goicoechea, 2000), which is what Vygotsky defines as constructivism. ...