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Estanyol, Elisenda; Montaña, Mireia; Fernández-de-Castro, Pedro; Aranda, Daniel; Mohammadi, Leila – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2023
Datafication in today's communicative ecosystem poses a challenge to media and digital literacy, especially with regard to young people's participation and civic and democratic engagement. We address this issue using the notion of digital citizenship, in order to study the gender digital divide as it relates to competence (i.e., skills and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Digital Literacy, Late Adolescents, Young Adults
J. B. Oleet – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This survey study, N = 44 university students, from an urban campus, measured post-pandemic digital divide perceptions, focusing on motivational, physical, skills, and usage access to ICTs through the lens of van Dijk's resources and appropriation theory. Statistical tests, including one-sample t-tests, correlation analyses, one-way and repeated…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, Urban Schools, COVID-19
Adelaido García-Andrés; María Elena Ramos-Tovar; Ernesto Aguayo-Téllez – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2024
This study examines the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on anxiety and depression symptoms among college students, paying special attention to gender-related differences. To do that, we use data from a special survey applied to all students from one of Mexico's largest universities six months after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, College Students
Diego G. Campos; Ronny Scherer – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The digital gender divide is one of the most critical issues in education today. Digital gender gaps can exist in students' access to and use of ICT, attitudes toward technology, and digital knowledge and skills. However, previous research has primarily examined these divides in isolation and largely ignored their interdependencies. Using student…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Gender Differences, Technological Literacy, Achievement Gap
Sian McDonald; Olga Fotakopoulou – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Children are increasingly using touchscreen technologies at home, which has become a recurring feature within their classroom too. Research has investigated the potential effect of using computer-based tests to assess pupils' performance rather than traditional paper tests. An agreement has still not been formed about the impact…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, Mathematics Achievement
Kuhn, Axel; Schneider, Ute; Schwabe, Annika – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
Digital text has become the dominant medium for participation in higher education. Yet little is known about the consequences from the shift to digital text usage on the academic reading practices of specific groups of students. Using a unique data set of higher education students, we analyse differences in digital reading skills, practices,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Gender Differences, Reading Skills
Nicolai, Susan; Sarwar, Moizza Binat; Kosbar, Yasser – UNICEF, 2023
Technology presents incredible new potential in opening 'learning to earning' pathways for traditionally marginalised groups, such as displaced young people, adolescent girls and young women. Developing and scaling digitally powered learning for displaced populations can provide alternative opportunities to those who have lost access public…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Youth, Dislocated Workers
Thulani Andrew Chauke; Ntandokamenzi Dlamini – International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education, 2024
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic has been felt by both male and female students in Open and Distance e-Learning (ODeL) and contact-based learning institutions in South Africa. However, young female students have been the most affected group. Societal norms that reinforce cultural practices which favour male students hinder the academic…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Academic Achievement, Females
Morales Dussan, Sergio Duban; Leon, Mauricio; Garcia-Bedoya, Olmer; Galpin, Ixent – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to explore the digital divide between students living in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas in the Antioquia region of Colombia. This is achieved by collecting data about student interactions from the Moodle learning management system (LMS), and subsequently applying supervised machine learning models to infer the gap…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, Integrated Learning Systems
Amali, Ismaila O. O.; Shoyemi, A. Adeyinka; Akintola, Mubarak; Ayantoye, K. Seye – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2020
Over the years, the educational related problems been faced by orphans during their tertiary education seems to under explored. However, there is a need to investigate this phenomenon in order proffer a precise solution. In respects to the forgoing, this study examined educational challenges encountered by orphaned undergraduates of a public…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Characteristics, Student Problems, Student Welfare
Mathrani, Anuradha; Sarvesh, Tarushikha; Umer, Rahila – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2022
This article showcases digital inequalities that came to the forefront for online learning during the COVID-19 lockdown across five developing countries, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Afghanistan. Large sections of population in developing economies have limited access to basic digital services; this, in turn, restricts how digital media…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Electronic Learning, COVID-19
Heuling, Lydia Schulze; Wild, Steffen; Vest, Anja – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2021
In the light of ubiquitous information and communication technologies (ICT) it is essential for everyone to be digitally competent. This is particularly true for prospective engineers and teachers since their jobs play an important role in shaping our common future. We assessed engineering and science teacher students' (n=180) digital competences…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Information Literacy, Information Security, Safety
Warf, Barney – Journal of Geography, 2019
Digital divides--uneven patterns of access--are a major feature of cyberspace. This article opens by noting that most students are digital natives who grew up with the Internet. Second, it summarizes digital divides, including global patterns, rural--urban differences, ethnic and gender discrepancies, and the role of smartphones. The third section…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, Internet, Rural Urban Differences
Ercikan, Kadriye; Asil, Mustafa; Grover, Raman – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2018
Student learning is increasingly taking place in digital environments both within and outside schooling contexts. Educational assessments are following suit, both to take advantage of the conveniences and opportunities that digital environments provide as well as to reflect the mediums of learning increasingly taking place in societies around the…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, Educational Assessment, Gender Differences
Gqokonqana, Onke; Olarewaju, Odunayo Magret; Cloete, Melanie Bernice – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2022
Every sector in the twenty-first century makes use of technology for its activities, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic and higher education institutions are not exceptional. However, the cohorts enrolled in the selected higher education institution are from technologically challenged backgrounds. This suggests that in their previous…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Higher Education, COVID-19