The practice of health coaching has been well documented as beneficial in corporate environments and in the healt-hcare sphere, and some research combines these two practices of executive coaching and health coaching. The practice of peer group coaching has been demonstrated to provide additional benefits to those who partake. While coaching is making its way into higher education, it remains a...

Self-criticism and rumination have been related to suicidality. In the present study, we investigated the extent to which different types of rumination (brooding and reflection) mediate the relationship between self-criticism and suicidal ideation. Two hundred and thirty two healthy adults completed a range of psychological inventories at Time 1 and were followed up approximately three months l...

Emotional attention has been found as a key predictive dimension of stress. However, very few studies have investigated the relationship between emotional attention and test anxiety. The objective of the present study was to analyze the role of emotional attention, measured using the Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS), on the level of test anxiety, and measured using the Test Anxiety Inventory (TAI)....

Learning dashboards present a large amount of data using visualisations that support exploration of learning activities by different stakeholders. Students can use the visualisations for self-reflection and comparison of themselves with their peers, and teachers can use the visualisations to gain insight on class-level and individual-level knowledge gaps. Most of the current learning dashboards...

Metacognitive modeling has begun to play an increasingly important role in adaptive eLearning to support learning and self-regulating processes. It is essential that students learn to regulate their learning through self-reflection by acquiring monitoring and pro-active strategies. The ETTHOS model currently estimates the metacognitive state of the learner by modeling both metacognitive awarene...

Although automation has been introduced in all areas of public life, what seems to be missing is a reflection at the organizational or societal level about a policy of automation. By this we intend appropriate declarations made at the level of rationale, future plans and strategies to achieve intended goals and most importantly how those achievements will impact on various aspects of societal l...

This study investigated the effect of listening to podcasts on Iranian upperintermediate EFL learners’ selfregulation ability and their perception toward the use of technology. To meet the objectives of the current study, 54 female Iranian EFL learners were selected. In experimental group they listened to podcast files while in the control group they listened to a radio program. The practices w...

This thesis proposed a framework for conceptualizing critical thinking in language learning. A learning environment where collaborative learning and network technology were combined − computer-mediated collaborative learning (CMCL) − was set up. The main aim was to study the potential of the learning environment in promoting critical thinking (CT) in language learning. The proposed framework of...

This study examined the language learning and motivational effects of a video project, including students’ perceptions of the processes, and the impact of peer evaluations. Forty-three intermediate EFL learners in Taiwan communicated their thoughts in multimodal formats by producing a video that involved searching online materials and integrating music and pictures to illustrate their ideas. Re...

The paper revisits the notion of emancipation in Information System Development (ISD) that seems to have lost a battle against functionalist and managerialist approaches dominant in information system (IS) research and practice. Unlike functionalist and managerialist views, the emancipatory view of ISD, informed by Critical Theory, considers ISD as a site of organizational innovation, self-refl...