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- Tài liệuCognitive Load Theory: Emerging Trends and Innovations(MDPI, 2025) Paas, Fred; Tricot, Andre; Ouwehand, Kim; Lespiau, FlorenceThis Reprint of the Special Issue, titled "Cognitive Load Theory: Emerging Trends and Innovations" (Education Sciences, April 2025) explores the latest advancements in cognitive load theory (CLT), a pivotal framework for optimizing learning through cognitive psychology and instructional design. Featuring 15 articles from the 15th International Cognitive Load Theory Conference, it examines how CLT adapts to modern challenges like technology-enhanced learning, embodied cognition, and individual learner differences. From mitigating split-attention effects to leveraging mixed reality and nature exposure, this Reprint offers fresh insights for educators, designers, and researchers shaping effective learning environments.
- Tài liệuIncremental and Innovative Approaches to Professional Development for Mathematics Teachers(MDPI, 2025) Otten, Samuel; Candela, Amber G.; Araujo, Zandra DeProfessional development researchers and teacher educators have been striving to improve mathematics instruction for decades, but in many places, there has been an inertia of procedurally focused mathematics instruction that has been incredibly resistant to change. Even when specific professional development (PD) efforts have found success in certain contexts or with certain teachers, it has proven difficult to sustain and disseminate these instructional improvements on a broader scale. This Special Issue on PD for mathematics teachers includes contributions reflecting on the limitations of transformational PD (PD that seeks profound changes in mathematics instruction) and studies on innovative and incremental approaches to PD striving to make instructional changes more manageable for teachers in their busy lives and complex educational contexts, and perhaps thus more likely to sustain and spread. Some of the featured research on incremental PD breaks down transformational practices into specific pieces, whereas other studies provide teachers with choices of smaller facets of teaching upon which to focus. Overall, this Special Issue urges the field to consider how incremental approaches to PD for mathematics teachers might address some of the limitations of typical transformational efforts.
- Tài liệuThe Impact of Internet and Social Media Use on Young People's Mental Health(MDPI, 2025) Rizzo, Amelia; Alparone, DarioThe digital era has had a tremendous influence on adolescents and young people. People no longer distinguish their experience with the old categories: offline vs. online. Digital reality is the new reality. This equivalence affects psychological development, and this is a risk and vulnerability factor, with extreme potential consequences such as suicide or interpersonal violence. The psychopathologies associated with the widespread use of the Internet and digital devices, such as problematic Internet use, cyberchondria, online gambling, etc., are widely studied in the literature. However, as rapidly as new platforms, apps, or SNSs are released, so too are new psychological and psychopathological behaviors observed (digital body image, filter overuse, fear of missing out, influencer virality, risky challenges, bystander effect, etc.). This Special Issue of IJERPH welcomed scientific contributions that help to understand contemporary phenomena related to internet use in the adolescent mind. Studies may focus on aspects related to the self (identity, body image, ability to regulate emotions, metacognitive skills, coping, addictions, personality traits) as well as relational aspects (parasocial interactions, phubbing, sexting, ghosting, cyberviolence). These topics deserve further study, which should address the conceptualization of new phenomena and their possible prevention in terms of psychological and public health risks.
- Tài liệuEncyclopedia of COVID-19(MDPI, 2025) Bustin, StephenThis collection from Encyclopedia brings together a diverse set of articles examining the far-reaching effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering topics from mental health and environmental changes to medical advancements and societal adaptations, this compendium provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges encountered and the innovations that emerged. Key discussions include the role of mRNA vaccines, the psychological toll of lockdowns, shifts in healthcare delivery, and the pandemic’s impact on various industries. Together, these contributions offer valuable insights into the pandemic’s legacy and the lessons that will shape global preparedness in the future.
- Tài liệuNew Articulations of Identity in Contemporary Aesthetics(MDPI, 2025) Murray, Derek Conrad; Schwartz, StacyIn the late twentieth century, political and cultural activism increasingly tackled identity-based forms of structural inequality. During the cultural debates of the 1980s and early ’90s, identity politics became a major arena for critical and intellectual inquiry and was increasingly the focus of creative endeavor. In the decades that followed, new discourses considered the construction and maintenance of rigidly defined identities—pondering whether the markers of belongingness (related to gender, sexuality, ethnicity, race, and nationhood) have become too fixed and exclusionary. The increasingly prevalent notion that identity discourses (often concerned with histories of coloniality, genocide, racism, nationalism, and gender and sexuality-based antagonisms) have become siloed, tribal, and engaged in so-called ‘purity politics’ has led to divisive but generative conversations. Within this larger conversation, contemporary art and visual culture have emerged as crucial sites for interrogating the ideological construction of identity and difference in representation. This methodologically diverse collection brings together a range of voices that ponder the complexities of belongingness as envisioned in contemporary art and visual culture. This lively interdisciplinary discussion explores how the visual can foster intersectionality as a self-critical praxis while destabilizing fixed notions of identity.