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Horrigan, John B. – Abell Foundation, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a number of shortcomings in the nation's social infrastructure, one of which is access to the internet. When school is exclusively online or medical appointments rely principally on telehealth, those without online access are not merely inconvenienced. They are socially excluded, given their limited means to get…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Galanek, Joseph D.; Gierdowski, Dana C.; Brooks, D. Christopher – EDUCAUSE, 2018
For 15 years, the EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research (ECAR) has conducted research on information technology (IT) and higher education's most important end users, undergraduate students. This year's report includes inclusion of the perspectives of students with learning and physical disabilities on how their institutions respond to their…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Information Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Access to Computers
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Gecer, Aynur – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2013
The aim of this research is to determine the computer self-efficacy perception of second grade primary school students and their opinions regarding computer ownership through metaphors. The research applied the scanning model and was conducted during the 2011-2012 academic year among seven primary schools of the Ministry of National Education in…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Student Attitudes, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries
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Kretschmann, Rolf – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2015
As well as other school subjects, physical education (PE) is emerging in terms of integrating information and communication technology (ICT) into regular classes. Such innovative teaching practices that implement ICT in PE involve diverse parties that are affected by these teaching processes. Students, principals, districts, parents,…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Technology Integration
Breeding, Marshall – Computers in Libraries, 2006
In this article, the author calls for librarians to find ways to implement technology projects with very limited budgets and to consider all the cost components of a technology project amidst the economic pressures. The author offers some perspective on what is involved in trying to accomplish important work with limited resources while…
Descriptors: Costs, Educational Technology, Librarians, Library Services
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Diamanduros, Terry; Jenkins, Stephen J.; Downs, Elizabeth – College Student Journal, 2007
Extent of technology ownership and use has been documented for teens and even pre-teens. However, little is known as to whether such ownership and use patterns change over time. This study examined these issues by surveying a sample of undergraduates as to their ownership and selective use of technology. Compared to teens, undergraduates had…
Descriptors: Ownership, Information Technology, Student Surveys, Undergraduate Students
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Vaden, Tere; Suoranta, Juha – E-Learning, 2004
In this article, the authors argue for a leap from a "weak" digital literacy (skills of interpretation and strategies of reception) to strong digital literacy (authorship and autonomous skills and capacities). Strong digital literacy implies politico-structural analysis of the information societies to come. Given the current forms of economic…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Software, Information Technology, Media Literacy
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Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Ermenc, Klara Skubic, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Chigisheva, Oksana, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
This volume contains papers submitted to the 12th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Sofia and Nessebar, Bulgaria, in June 2014, and papers submitted to the 2nd International Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre 'Scientific Cooperation,' Rostov-on-Don,…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Global Approach, Competence, Comparative Education
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