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Direct linkFarhad Mohammad Afzali – ProQuest LLC, 2022
University students' smartphone usage in academic settings is commonplace. In this dissertation, I aim to explore different sides of smartphone usage among university students to address the gap in prior research and reach more accurate findings. I utilized various research methodologies to examine the research objective. I started by observing…
Descriptors: College Students, Handheld Devices, Attention Control, Recall (Psychology)
Peer reviewedAli, Ramiz – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe university students' motivations for using Facebook as an informal learning tool and explore the key barriers that may inhibit learning on the social media platform. Design/methodology/approach: A case study approach was adopted in this study. Participants were 82 university students who…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Technology Uses in Education, Social Media, Informal Education
Botha, P. A.; Swanepoel, S. – Africa Education Review, 2015
This article reports on the results of a statistical analysis of the weekly working hours of academics in a Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at a South African university. The aim was to quantify, analyse and compare the workload of academic staff. Seventy-five academics self-reported on their workload by completing the workload measuring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teaching Load, Social Sciences
Taatgen, Niels A. – Journal of Problem Solving, 2011
The minimal control principle (Taatgen, 2007) predicts that people strive for problem-solving strategies that require as few internal control states as possible. In an experiment with the Abstract Decision Making task (ADM task; Joslyn & Hunt, 1998) the reward structure was manipulated to make either a low-control strategy or a high-strategy…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Abstract Reasoning, Decision Making, Learning Strategies
