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Lawrence, Sandra M. – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: Digital play is now commonplace in many young children's lives, but not in preschool settings. This situation is likely due to the fact that the existent literature seldom highlights what digital play looks like, the various ways it can be situated, and what young children do when they play together with digital devices in the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Interaction
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Del Rosario-Raymundo, Maria Rowena – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of QR codes as mobile learning tools and examine factors that impact on their usefulness, acceptability and feasibility in assisting the nurses' learning. Design/Methodology/Approach: Study participants consisted of 14 regular, full-time, board-certified LR nurses. Over a two-week period,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nurses, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Worthy, William – ProQuest LLC, 2018
After nearly 2 decades of advances in information and communications technologies (ICT) including social media, mobile, analytics, and cloud computing, disaster response agencies in the United States have not been able to improve alignment between ICT-based information and disaster response actions. This grounded theory study explored emergency…
Descriptors: Social Media, Computer Software, Emergency Programs, Information Technology
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Durak, Gurhan; Ozkeskin, E. Emre; Ataizi, Murat – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2016
Technological advances brought applications of innovations to education. Conventional education increasingly flourishes with new technologies accompanied by more learner active environments. In this continuum, there are learners preferring self-learning. Traditional learning materials yield attractive, motivating and technologically enhanced…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Foreign Countries, Coding, Technology Uses in Education
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Gillies, Christopher Graham Mckercher – Research in Learning Technology, 2016
This article reports on factors affecting local academic acceptance of bring your own devices (BYOD). A review of the literature revealed a paucity of studies that have explored the complex factors that affect academic use and intention to use mobile devices in the classroom, with even less exploring truly ubiquitous and varied personal devices as…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Qualitative Research
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Stewart, Bonnie – Learning, Media and Technology, 2015
Within the academy, signals of a scholar's academic influence are made manifest in indices like the "h"-index, which rank output. In open scholarly networks, however, signals of influence are less codified, and the ways in which they are enacted and understood have yet to be articulated. Yet the influence scholars cultivate in open…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Ethnography
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Gowin, Mary; Cheney, Marshall; Gwin, Shannon; Wann, Taylor Franklin – American Journal of Health Education, 2015
Background: College students experience weight gain that can contribute to serious health issues. Health education efforts with college students are increasingly utilizing new technologies. Smartphone applications (apps) in particular are growing in popularity and use in all young adults. Purpose: Formative research was conducted to describe how…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, College Students, Qualitative Research, Health Promotion
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Arikan, Yuksel Deniz; Ozen, Sevil Orhan – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
This study focuses on the process of developing a learning environment that uses tablets and Quick Response (QR) codes to enhance participants' English language vocabulary knowledge. The author employed the concurrent triangulation strategy, a mixed research design. The study was conducted at a private school in Izmir, Turkey during the 2012-2013…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Vocabulary Development, Mixed Methods Research
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Lee, Jang Ho; Kim, Heyoung – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
The present study aims to sketch the contours of new media ecology for Korean university students as well as to examine how these learners shape and negotiate their digital identity by using social networking services and digital devices. It also investigates their use of digital media for learning English as a foreign language (EFL). In total,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Technology Uses in Education
Kolarcik, Tiffany Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study explored how elementary educators implement iPad devices as instructional tools to enhance their language arts instruction. The study used a phenomenological qualitative design with a single-subject case study design coupled with an embedded rubric component. The researcher conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews, classroom…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language Arts, English, Elementary School Students