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Yael Mayer; Tessa Goldberger; Nicole Di Spirito; Mor Cohen-Eilig; Tal Jarus – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2024
This exploratory study examined paediatric practitioners' challenges and considerations when they support caregivers and children with autism regarding children's screen use. Current research often focuses on the problematic use of screen time among children with autism. No clear strategies or recommendations for clinicians to support the…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children, Allied Health Personnel, Screening Tests
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Tomáš Karger; Jan Kalenda; Jitka Vaculíková; Ilona Kocvarová – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2024
Digitisation represents one of the key directions of adult education and training in the post-COVID-19 times, but direct empirical evidence of its scope among learners is rather scarce after 2021. Therefore, the general aim of this article is to investigate the current state of the use of online learning platforms and resources in adult education…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Adult Education, Educational Resources, Foreign Countries
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Ker, Hsiang-Wei; Lee, Ying-Haur; Ho, Shu-Meei – Science Education, 2023
Science achievements of individuals play a crucial role when students aim to pursue highly demanded occupations and advanced academic degrees. Enhancing science attainment is crucial in improving the effectiveness of science education. This study investigates the impact of home educational resources, students' attitudes toward learning,…
Descriptors: Students, Grade 8, Student Attitudes, Learning
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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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Mella-Norambuena, Javier; Cobo-Rendon, Rubia; Lobos, Karla; Sáez-Delgado, Fabiola; Maldonado-Trapp, Alejandra – Education Sciences, 2021
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students worldwide have continued their education remotely. One of the challenges of this modality is that students need access to devices such as laptops and smartphones. Among these options, smartphones are the most accessible because of their lower price. This study analyzes the usage patterns of smartphone users…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Undergraduate Students, STEM Education
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Razo, Rosy; Blankenship-Knox, Ann E. – Educational Leadership and Administration: Teaching and Program Development, 2022
How do we ensure that all students have the tools and resources they need to succeed in today's educational context? In this article, we explore how the right to education generally and to specific educational tools and resources in California have been protected through litigation in the past; how the COVID-19 pandemic revealed technology-based…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, Equal Education, Internet
Tsitsi C. Nyabando – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Guided by the constructivist framework, the focus of the investigation was on second-grade students and their perceptions of their classrooms' physical learning environment. A qualitative multiple case study approach was employed, and data were collected through interviews, participant-generated photographs, and observations. Participants in the…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Educational Environment
Fuster, Marc – OECD Publishing, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has exposed the glaring inequities in school systems -- from the broadband and computers needed for online education to training teachers to keep classes going digitally. Most education systems were nimble: they rethought the curriculum, embraced hybrid learning, adjusted school calendars and schedules, and adapted…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, COVID-19, Pandemics, Futures (of Society)
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Waluyo, Budi – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
If there are areas that have received significant impacts of ICTs, education is one of them as ICTs have stimulated major differences in the teaching approaches and the ways students learn (Yuen, Law, & Wong, 2003); however, World Bank unexpectedly excludes ICT from the key focus areas in their ESS 2020, a guideline that may be adopted by…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Educational Strategies, International Organizations, Developing Nations
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Åberg, Eva Svärdemo; Ståhle, Ylva; Engdahl, Ingrid; Knutes-Nyqvist, Helen – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2016
Academic writing skills are crucial when students, e.g., in teacher education programs, write their undergraduate theses. A multi-modal web-based and self-regulated learning resource on academic writing was developed, using texts, hypertext, moving images, podcasts and templates. A study, using surveys and a focus group, showed that students used…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Sites, Academic Discourse, Teacher Education Programs
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Urhiewhu, Lucky Oghenetega; Emojorho, Daniel – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The article paper was on conceptual and theoretical framework of digital information resources usage by undergraduates: Implication to higher institutions education in Delta and Edo of Nigeria. It revealed the concept of digital information resources [DIRs] and model theory that related to the study. Finding shows that DIRs are use to low extent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Universities, Higher Education
Hoffman, David D. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
In the short history of online education research, researchers studying teacher experiences regularly relied on anecdotal examples or small samples. In this research, we sought to support and enhance previous findings concerning the best practices in online education by performing randomly sampled, nationwide survey of online and blended course…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Online Courses, Technology Uses in Education, National Surveys
Ives, Eugenia A. – Online Submission, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine and better understand the social cognitive effects of digital technology on teenagers' brains and their socialization processes, as well as to learn best practices with regard to digital technology consumption. An extensive literature review was conducted on the social cognitive effects of digital…
Descriptors: Influence of Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Web 2.0 Technologies, Computer Literacy
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Silseth, Kenneth – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2012
The purpose of this article is to gain knowledge about how interactions in a gaming context become constituted as effective resources for a student's learning trajectory. In addition, this detailed study of a learning trajectory documents how a computer game becomes a learning resource for working on a specific topic in school. The article reports…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Resources, Teaching Methods, Conflict
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Chmiel, Marjee – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2012
This paper is a response to "Challenges and Opportunities: Using a science-based video game in secondary school settings" by Rachel Muehrer, Jennifer Jenson, Jeremy Friedberg, and Nicole Husain. The article highlights two critical areas that I argue require more research in the studies of video games in education. The first area focuses on the…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Play, Video Games, Educational Research