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Ingrid L. Potgieter; Melinde Coetzee; Nadia Ferreira – Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2023
This research empirically examined the extent to which university students' perceptions about their readiness for the digital-era work world predict their sense of employability competency. Data were collected from 486 undergraduate students of a comprehensive South African distance learning higher education institution. Regression analysis and…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Career Readiness, Universities, Student Attitudes
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Kershnee Sevnarayan – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2024
This study explores the dynamics of ChatGPT on perceptions and challenges encountered by students and lecturers in a South African open distance e-learning [ODeL] university. It investigates whether ChatGPT disrupts traditional perceptions of online distance education held by students and lecturers and identifies specific functions and features of…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Synchronous Communication, Open Education
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Winters, Niall; Oliver, Martin; Langer, Laurenz – Comparative Education, 2017
Mobile learning has seen a large uptake in use in low- and middle-income countries. This is driven by rhetorics of easy scaling, reaching the hard-to-reach and the potential for generating analytics from the applications used by learners. Healthcare training has seen a proliferation of apps aimed at improving accountability through tracking and…
Descriptors: Health Education, Health Promotion, Handheld Devices, Distance Education
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Sethy, Satya Sundar – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
Learning is an ever-present phenomenon. It takes place irrespective of time and place. It engages learners in their interested topic/content. Learning absorbs many skills, such as; reading skills, writing skills, technological skills, emotional skills, behavioral skills, cognitive skills, and language skills. Out of all these, cognitive skills…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Distance Education, Cognitive Ability, Technology Uses in Education
Mehlenbacher, Brad – MIT Press (BK), 2010
The perpetual connectivity made possible by twenty-first-century technology has profoundly affected instruction and learning. Emerging technologies that upend traditional notions of communication and community also influence the ways we design and evaluate instruction and how we understand learning and learning environments. In "Instruction and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Instructional Design
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El-Hussein, Mohamed Osman M.; Cronje, Johannes C. – Educational Technology & Society, 2010
The article seeks to clarify the meaning of mobile learning by applying its key concepts to learning experiences in post-school education. In other words, it seeks not to discuss one fixed meaning of mobile learning but to disassemble the basic components and provide an interpretation of the model in the context of higher education. The article…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Educational Technology, Literature Reviews
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Or Kan, Soh – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
In recent years, the development of information and communication technology (ICT) in the world and Malaysia namely has created a significant impact on the methods of communicating information and knowledge to the learners and consequently, innovative teaching techniques have evolved to change the ways teachers teach and the ways students learn.…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Cooperative Learning, Active Learning
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Jin, Li; Wen, Zhigang; Gough, Norman – Learning, Media and Technology, 2010
Virtual worlds have been linked with e-learning applications to create virtual learning environments (VLEs) for the past decade. However, while they can support many educational activities that extend both traditional on-campus teaching and distance learning, they are used primarily for learning content generated and managed by instructors. With…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Active Learning, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers