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Soumita Chakraborty; Nabin Thakur – Cogent Education, 2024
This study examined students' awareness of the environmental impacts associated with prolonged screen time, specifically during binge-watching sessions. It focused on students' understanding of carbon emissions from electronic devices, binge-watching behaviors, and factors like content preference, duration, and frequency. Potential interventions…
Descriptors: Environment, Conservation (Environment), College Students, Knowledge Level
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Christopher Mensah; Mawufemor A. Kugbonu; Melody E. Appietu; Gifty A. Nti; Mavis Adjoa Forson – Cogent Education, 2024
Following the outbreak of COVID-19, the adoption of online teaching and learning in universities has witnessed phenomenal growth. Importantly, online learning engagement and satisfaction have consequences on student learning outcomes and behavioural intentions. However, a model that integrates social support, computer/internet self-efficacy and…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Self Efficacy, Computer Use, Learner Engagement
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Meenakshi Verma; Anuj Verma; Gangu Naidu Mandala – Cogent Education, 2023
The present study has attempted to study the effects of depression, mental distress, and sleep disorders among students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stress, mental distress, depression, sleep disorders, headaches, loneliness, screen fatigue, and high distress levels are common symptoms observed across the population. The study focused on the…
Descriptors: Sleep, Depression (Psychology), Stress Variables, COVID-19
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Alwaely, Suad Abdalkareem; Minnullina, Rosalia; Fedorova, Elena; Lazareva, Yuliya – Cogent Education, 2023
Not only children but also adults now spend much more time in front of the screen (computers, laptops, tablets, phones, TVs, Play Station, other game consoles, etc.) for various reasons: work, study, a lot of free time, communication, entertainment, information retrieval. The aim of this paper is to examine how the time spent in front of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Parents, Addictive Behavior
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Asafo-Adjei, Ramos; Mensah, Ronald Osei; Klu, Ernest Kwesi; Swanzy-Impraim, Enock – Cogent Education, 2023
The nexus among social media usage and the English language writing performances of a Ghanaian English as Second Language (ESL) class was investigated in this enquiry. The simple qualitative case study design was used, and the data was collected from a co-educational government secondary school Form 2 General Arts One class in Ghana. A focus group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Okon, Edet E.; Dijeh, Ann E. – Cogent Education, 2022
This study investigated the utilization of laboratory resources for the learning of word processing by business and home economics education undergraduates. The study achieved four objectives, answered four research questions and tested four null hypotheses. The descriptive research design was adopted and the study conducted in Calabar, Cross…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education, Family and Consumer Sciences, Learning Laboratories
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Tiina Korhonen; Noora Laakso; Aino Seitamaa; Visajaani Salonen; Netta Tiippana; Jari Lavonen; Kai Hakkarainen – Cogent Education, 2024
Digital fluency is a central 21st-century competence. Schools are responsible for ensuring that all students cultivate sophisticated sociodigital competences and mindsets needed for studying and collaborating through and around technology and overcoming digital challenges encountered. Although some schools have successfully integrated digital…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Student Attitudes, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Kwaah, Christopher Yaw; Adu-Yeboah, Christine; Amuah, Ebo; Essilfie, Gabriel; Somuah, Beatrice Asante – Cogent Education, 2022
There are concerns about the association between the level of students' digital skills and the amount of stress they experience. However, evidence from both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies is limited. The main aim of this study was to address this gap in the literature by examining the relationship between preservice teachers' digital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Digital Literacy, Coping
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Mushtaque, Iqra; Awais-E-Yazdan, Muhammad; Waqas, Hamid – Cogent Education, 2022
This study's aim is to determine whether or not medical students in Pakistan are willing to use online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as their perception of and satisfaction with online learning. The study also analyzed the relationship between technology-related stress and computer self-efficacy among medical students. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Electronic Learning, Intention
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Sormunen, Marjorita; Miettinen, Hanna – Cogent Education, 2017
Mobile devices are increasingly being used, in various ways, to collect data and are also increasingly related to individuals' health behaviors. Because of the paucity of available data about the process of mobile data collection in tracking daily health behaviors among children, we designed this pilot study to determine the possibilities and the…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Video Games, Health Behavior