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Müslüm Atas; Helmut Lindner; Thomas Strametz; Fatima Jammoul; Johannes Feiner; Antonius Metry Saad – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2024
With the rapid growth of digital education, e-learning has become essential for offering accessible and flexible learning opportunities. This paper investigates strategies to achieve long-term learning outcomes and reduce study time in e-learning. It explores various techniques, including self-testing, spaced repetition, and the serial position…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Time on Task, Memory, Learning Strategies
Batch, Brook; Roberts, Jacqueline; Nakonechnyi, Alex; Allen, Rebecca – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2021
While technology offers educators many affordances to provide students with rich educational experiences, literature and empirical experience indicates that students' unstructured cell phone usage may have adverse impacts on student achievement and create a contagious climate of distraction. This research project seeks to understand students'…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Student Needs, Student Behavior, Teacher Student Relationship
Zimbardi, Kirsten; Colthorpe, Kay; Dekker, Andrew; Engstrom, Craig; Bugarcic, Andrea; Worthy, Peter; Victor, Ruban; Chunduri, Prasad; Lluka, Lesley; Long, Phil – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2017
Feedback is known to have a large influence on student learning gains, and the emergence of online tools has greatly enhanced the opportunity for delivering timely, expressive, digital feedback and for investigating its learning impacts. However, to date there have been no large quantitative investigations of the feedback provided by large teams…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains
García-Martín, Sheila; Cantón-Mayo, Isabel – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2019
Technologies have acquired strategic importance and have been defined as unprecedented educational tools. In this study, we analysed the use that 1,488 Spanish adolescents made of five tools (i.e. search engines, wikis, blogs, podcasts and instant messaging), and the impact that use of these tools had on their academic performance in science,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Adolescents, Technology Uses in Education
Perry, Judy; Klopfer, Eric – Computers in the Schools, 2014
The integration of learning games into schools holds significant promise, yet faces numerous obstacles. Ubiquitous games (casual games for smart phones) attempt to motivate students to engage repeatedly with content beyond school, while enabling teachers to facilitate deeper reflection on game-related curricula during class. During a two-year…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Handheld Devices, Electronic Learning, Biology
Getting, Sara; Swainey, Karin – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2012
Giving iPads to first graders is a leap of faith that many teachers are understandably hesitant to take, especially if their students need immediate reading intervention and school leaders want guaranteed results. This article discusses how the authors took on the challenge of improving elementary reading using iPads, found surprising success for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Reading Achievement, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
Arthanat, Sajay; Curtin, Christine; Knotak, David – Assistive Technology, 2013
This study examined the use of the Apple iPad for learning by children with developmental disabilities (DD), including those on the autism spectrum. A single case design was used to record the participation of four students with DD when taught with their standard computer at baseline, followed by the introduction of the iPad. A six-component…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Developmental Disabilities
Pegrum, Mark; Howitt, Christine; Striepe, Michelle – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
Mobile handheld devices are spreading rapidly in education. iPads, especially, are increasingly being adopted by different educational sectors, but there is currently little empirical evidence on whether, or how, they facilitate student learning. This paper reports on how iPads contributed to pre-service teachers' learning, including their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handheld Devices, Preservice Teachers, Academic Achievement