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Kathy D. Lohr – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2025
Having access to the Internet and acquiring the skills necessary to use, question, and create in a digital environment have become essential to living and working in the 21st century. Yet, this move to digitalization has created a digital divide between those who have broadband "access" and the "skills and attitudes" to…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Access to Internet, Equal Education, Global Approach
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Richard Kyere Asomah; Douglas Darko Agyei; Gabriel Assamah; Kwaku Darko Amponsah – Cogent Education, 2024
The study discusses the impact of a nationwide deployment of Wi-Fi technology in some Senior High Technical Vocational Schools (SHTVs) in Ghana, using the first four levels of Guskey's framework. A stratified sampling approach was used to select 119 teachers as participants in the study. An embedded mixed method research design was employed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Vocational Education, High School Teachers
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Livia Tomás; Ophélie Bidet – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2024
Qualitative research has been strongly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the possibilities that Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technologies such as Skype, WhatsApp, and Zoom offer to qualitative scholars. Based on the experience of using such technologies to collect qualitative data for our PhD studies, we present how we dealt…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Qualitative Research, Interviews, Interpersonal Relationship
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Goulden, Murray; Greiffenhagen, Christian; Crowcroft, Jon; McAuley, Derek; Mortier, Richard; Radenkovic, Milena; Sathiaseelan, Arjuna – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2017
Drawing on the experiences of a novel collaborative project between sociologists and computer scientists, this paper identifies a set of challenges for fieldwork that are generated by this "wild interdisciplinarity. Public Access Wi-Fi Service" was a project funded by an 'in-the-wild' research programme, involving the study of digital…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Approach, Sociology
Dawadi, Saraswati; Giri, Ram Ashish; Simkhada, Padam – Online Submission, 2020
The pandemic spread of Novel Coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, has significantly disrupted every aspects of human life, including education. The alarming spread of the virus caused a havoc in the educational system forcing educational institutions to shut down. According to a UNESCO report, 1.6 billion children across 191 countries have been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Coping, Distance Education
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Stack, Sue; Watson, Jane; Abbott-Chapman, Joan – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
Tasmania, one of the first locations to have communities connected to the national broadband network (NBN), provided the context within which to ask significant questions about the implications of the NBN for all levels and sectors of education. This paper reports findings from a research project that developed innovative methodology to explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Computer Networks, Internet