This article describes the results of a qualitative pilot study, conducted with individuals facing multiple statuses of marginalisation and self-reported barriers to formal education (n = 8). This study emphasises the potential utility of fictional media based on narrative or storytelling pedagogies, and posits that the increasing use of…

Increased automation transparency can improve the accuracy of automation use but can lead to increased bias towards agreeing with advice. Information about the automation's confidence in its advice may also increase the predictability of automation errors. We examined the effects of providing automation transparency, automation confidence…

This study investigates the challenges hindering the implementation of Digital Transformation (DT) in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) by thoroughly reviewing the literature. It identifies multiple dimensions and subdimensions of these barriers to offer valuable insights to help HEIs navigate their transformation processes successfully. By…

Increasing numbers of students require internet access to pursue their undergraduate degrees, yet broadband access remains inequitable across student populations. Furthermore, surveys that currently show differences in access by student demographics or location typically do so at high levels of aggregation, thereby obscuring important variation…

The development of the internet has promoted the improvement of media information retrieval technology, which has also been applied to the work management of college students. This paper mainly adopts media information retrieval technology, studies the function principle of this technology, and establishes a student work management system based on…

This research digest addresses digital health literacies, demonstrating the important role that adult basic education instructors can play in supporting learners to adapt to a changing digital world. This review is structured by first examining the relationship between the internet and health. The report then discusses the digital health…

Since late November 2022, generative AI ChatGPT has drawn waves of attention in society, and its impacts certainly extend to the higher education setting. Although ChatGPT has not been officially released for registration in Hong Kong, the higher education setting has been responding differently. The article conducted a systematic review of local…

While generative AI such as ChatGPT has important drawbacks, it can potentially unlock new types of learning and support -- specially for English learners and students with disabilities -- by facilitating teachers' Universal Design for Learning (UDL) efforts. As generative AI is quickly becoming an integral part of our lives (e.g., being…

In the spring of 2020, schools across the country and world closed. COVID-19 reached pandemic proportions. Were schools prepared? Was there a research base available to help schools prepare students for reading and writing digital texts? The ability to read, analyze, compose, and communicate with digital texts requires digital literacies. However,…

The impact of digital technologies on the ways people work, learn and live has been debated and researched for half a century. Digital literacy approaches have recurrently been the focus of educational and industry learning; however, current framings of digital literacy are not sufficient to support students' digital capability development, nor do…

The issue of information literacy (IL) in contexts where people do not have easy access to libraries and to sources of information has not received much attention in IL research. In particular, rural areas in developing countries where there are no public libraries and travelling to town to access information is arduous and time-consuming need a…

The efficacy of health professions education (HPE) is more and more reliant on leveraging new technologies as they emerge. The nascent "Web 3.0" is shifting us away from traditional centralized architectures for capture and storage of information, and aims to decentralize and distribute it. Blockchain has received a large amount of…

This study aimed to understand the advantages of digital connectivity in children and teenagers up to 18 years. Utilizing the PRISMA protocol, a decade's worth of literature was reviewed, analyzing 128 articles from WOS and Scopus databases. The research highlighted five key areas where digital connectivity can exert a positive impact on children:…

The abundance of technology nowadays is contributing to the development of learning practices. This gives learners greater opportunity to find, access, and use resources to benefit learning. Open educational resources (OER) are one of the few educational developments that emerged with technology. While it is true that there are a lot of OERs…

This study aimed to collect input for the definition of a conceptual framework of digital competence for information literacy to be developed in the context of doctoral programs in Education. A systematic literature review methodology was adopted, and several steps were developed that included: preliminary readings and initial mapping, which…