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The Interaction of Information Technology Habits and Learning in Young Adulthood
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Maija Zakrizevska-Belogrudova; Airisa Steinberga; Anete Hofmane; Argron Rusmani – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2024
This study examines the relationship between the habits of young adults in the use of information technologies and the cognitive processes involved in learning. It was found that information technologies have become an irreplaceable part of modern education, offering vast opportunities to access information and resources, thus promoting the…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Young Adults, Cognitive Processes, Habit Formation
Examining the Primacy and Recency Effect on Learning Effectiveness with the Application of Interactive Response Systems (IRS)
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Yeh, Ying-Jung Yvonne; Chen, Min-Hung – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2022
This study first examined the factors that enhance learning effectiveness and student satisfaction when an interactive response system (IRS) is introduced to a financial planning course. Second, we examined the influence of the initial experience of using an IRS on subsequent learning results. A total of 217 financial practitioners participated in…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Student Satisfaction, Money Management, Course Content
Human Memory and the Limits of Technology in Education
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Puddifoot, Katherine; O'Donnell, Cian – Educational Theory, 2018
Human memory systems perform various functions beyond simple storage and retrieval of information. They link together information about events, build abstractions, and perform memory updating. In contrast, typical information storage and access technologies, such as note-taking applications and Wikipedia, tend to store information verbatim. In…
Descriptors: Memory, Technology Uses in Education, Information Sources, Information Storage
Technology and Education: A Broad Perspective
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Woolcott, Geoff – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2013
This paper examines technology and its place in modern education in the context of human cultural accumulation processes, where memories, formed as a result of the interaction of novel information with long-term memory, may be stored externally and also transmitted across generations. The learning of technology, considered in a broad sense as…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Learning Processes, Memory, Cognitive Psychology
Stochastic Reinforcement Benefits Skill Acquisition
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Dayan, Eran; Averbeck, Bruno B.; Richmond, Barry J.; Cohen, Leonardo G. – Learning & Memory, 2014
Learning complex skills is driven by reinforcement, which facilitates both online within-session gains and retention of the acquired skills. Yet, in ecologically relevant situations, skills are often acquired when mapping between actions and rewarding outcomes is unknown to the learning agent, resulting in reinforcement schedules of a stochastic…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Psychomotor Skills, Reinforcement, Training Methods
How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures
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National Academies Press, 2018
There are many reasons to be curious about the way people learn, and the past several decades have seen an explosion of research that has important implications for individual learning, schooling, workforce training, and policy. In 2000, "How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition" was published and its…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Educational Environment, Brain, Cultural Influences