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Henderson, Michael; Selwyn, Neil; Finger, Glenn; Aston, Rachel – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2015
The much-discussed potential of "technology-enhanced learning" is not always apparent in the day-to-day use of digital technology throughout higher education. Against this background, the present paper considers the digital devices and resources that students engage most frequently with during their university studies, what these…
Descriptors: Mass Media Use, Mass Media Effects, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students
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Bulfin, Scott; Pangrazio, Luciana; Selwyn, Neil – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
One notable "disruptive" impact of massive open online courses (MOOCs) has been an increased public discussion of online education. While much debate over the potential and challenges of MOOCs has taken place online confined largely to niche communities of practitioners and advocates, the rise of corporate "xMOOC" ventures such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Higher Education
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Selwyn, Neil; Dawes, Lyn; Mercer, Neil – Teaching and Teacher Education, 2001
Discusses educational computer advertising developed by information and communications technology (ICT) firms in the United Kingdom, arguing that such advertisements present a disempowering view of teachers, which may well impact teacher use of instructional technology. The paper highlights four dominant themes: ICT as problematic and problem…
Descriptors: Advertising, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
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Dawes, Lyn; Selwyn, Neil – Journal of Information Technology for Teacher Education, 1999
Examined the depiction and positioning of teachers, technology, students, and information technology (IT) firms in educational information and communications technology advertisements, discussing the paucity of teacher representation within advertisements and the recurring representation of teachers and technology on a dream/nightmare basis, where…
Descriptors: Advertising, Computer Uses in Education, Computers, Educational Technology
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Selwyn, Neil – Computers & Education, 1998
Analysis of questionnaires/focus-group-interviews with students 16-19 years old to examine the nature and extent of students' domestic use of computers and the relationship with their use of information technology (IT) in schools/colleges. Suggest students with home computers have more positive attitudes toward computers but make little use of…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Attitudes, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education
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Selwyn, Neil – Educational Research and Evaluation (An International Journal on Theory and Practice), 1998
The factors influencing students' decisions not to use computers during their education are explored, using focus-group interviews with 96 secondary and college students in the United Kingdom. Three main constructs underlying students' rejection of educational computing are defined, and how educational computing can be reconstructed is discussed.…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Anxiety, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education