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Senior Technology Exploration, Learning, and Acceptance (STELA) Model: From Exploration to Use -- A Longitudinal Randomized Controlled Trial
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Tsai, Hsin-Yi Sandy; Rikard, R. V.; Cotten, Shelia R.; Shillair, Ruth – Educational Gerontology, 2019
The purpose of this study is to examine the process from technology exploration to acceptance for older adults. A senior technology exploration, learning, and acceptance (STELA) model is proposed to examine the technology exploration and learning process. Adopting a new technology can pose challenges with increasing age. In order to help older…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Computer Use, Training, Learning Processes
Gender Divide and Acceptance of Collaborative Web 2.0 Applications for Learning in Higher Education
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Huang, Wen-Hao David; Hood, Denice Ward; Yoo, Sun Joo – Internet and Higher Education, 2013
Situated in the gender digital divide framework, this survey study investigated the role of computer anxiety in influencing female college students' perceptions toward Web 2.0 applications for learning. Based on 432 college students' "Web 2.0 for learning" perception ratings collected by relevant categories of "Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use…
Descriptors: Females, Access to Computers, Virtual Classrooms, Student Attitudes
Cyber-Relations in the Field of Home Computer Use for Leisure: Bourdieu and Teenage Technological Experts
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Johnson, Nicola F. – E-Learning, 2009
This article highlights the practice of a group of New Zealand teenagers who are considered by their family and themselves to be technological experts. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's key concepts of habitus, field and capital, this text identifies and discusses the cyber-relations that constitute the practice in the field of home computer use for…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Foreign Countries, Expertise, Use Studies
A Student-Centered Perspective of Technology for Learning at California Community Colleges
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Regalado, Maria Carmen – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study investigates how community college students' current levels of computer technology competence, confidence and attitudes toward technology in learning at a community college are affected by current access to technology and by demographic characteristics as well as by past experiences with computer technology. The research questions…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Ethnicity, Student Attitudes, Troubleshooting
Attitudes of EFL Learners towards the Internet
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Aydin, Selami – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2007
Related literature indicates that the Internet has an important role and great potential in foreign language learning. It is also obvious that attitudes of learners affect learning process significantly. This study aimed to investigate the attitudes of foreign language learners and to find the relationship between attitudes and subject variables.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Socialization
Online Learning and the New VET Practitioner. Working Paper.
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Schofield, Kaye; Walsh, Anne; Melville, Bernice – 2000
Eighteen VET practitioners considered to be at the leading edge of online education in technical and further education in South Australia were interviewed to determine the extent of their knowledge about and experiences of online learning and teaching. Data were gathered through a survey, structured interviews, online research events, and two…
Descriptors: Computer Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education, Distance Education, Educational Change