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Analyzing Attitudes of Students toward the Use of Technology for Learning: Simplicity Is the Key to Successful Implementation in Higher Education
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Naveh, Gali; Shelef, Amit – International Journal of Educational Management, 2021
Purpose: Research has shown that the much-anticipated technology revolution in higher education has failed to come to fruition. The arrival of 'digital natives' millennial students to higher education was presume to present even greater challenge concerning technology use. In light of these gaps, this research aims to capture higher education…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Young Adults, Engineering Education
Teenagers Connected to Digital Environments -- What Happens When They Get to School? Commonalities, Similarities and Differences from Their Perspective
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Zilka, Gila Cohen – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
In light of the many major changes in teenagers' lives of due to digital applications and the significant role they play in their lives, and since school is a place where they spend many hours, this study examined their perspective of how the digital environment is integrated into their school life. Participating in this mixed-method study were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Student Attitudes, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Virtual Connections, Personal Resources, Loneliness, and Academic Self-Efficacy among College Students with and without LD
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Sharabi, Adi; Sade, Sarit; Margalit, Malka – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2016
The goals of the study were first to compare the social and academic well-being (loneliness and academic self-efficacy (ASE) among college students with and without learning disabilities (LD), as well as three personal strengths (hope, optimism and sense of coherence (SOC). The second goal was to identify the predicting factors to their loneliness…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Psychological Patterns, Self Efficacy, Well Being
Media Choice for Intra-School Communication: The Role of Environment, User, and Medium
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Caspi, Avner; Blau, Ina – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2011
The influence of media richness, media attentional load, social influence and users' prior experience with media on selection of media to transmit different messages to peers within an educational organization was tested. Media were discriminated by all potential variables. Support was found for the role of prior experience and social influence in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Influences, Experience, Rural Schools
Multicultural e-Learning Project and Comparison of Teachers', Student Teachers' and Pupils' Perceptions about e-Learning
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Orly, Michael – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe a special multicultural project in e-learning that was accompanied by a research. In this project, student teachers experience the planning, implementation and receiving of feedback on computerized teaching of children from diverse multicultural groups. The aim of the research was to examine what…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Students
TeleScience Activities: Educational Uses of Electronic Networks.
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Waugh, Michael L.; Levin, James A. – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 1989
Described are successful science activities which have been conducted on an international telecommunications network which links schools in the United States, Mexico, Japan, and Israel. Examined are several activities currently being developed. Reports an innovative way to involve a wide range of students in the scientific process. (MVL)
Descriptors: Communications, Computer Networks, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education
Distance-Learning Programs. Case Studies in TESOL Practice Series.
Henrichsen, Lynn E., Ed. – 2001
The 14 cases in this book show how distance learning takes a variety of forms in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL). The 15 chapters include the following: (1) "Beyond Adding Telecommunications to a Traditional Course: Insights into Human and Instructional Factors Affecting Distance Learning in TESOL" (Lynn E.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Communications Satellites, Computer Uses in Education, Distance Education