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Prokes, Christopher; Housel, Jacqueline – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2021
COVID-19 challenged higher education to rapidly shift to remote course delivery. This study surveyed community college students (N = 356) about their confidence in completing learning related tasks before and after the shift, access to technologies used in in remote learning, and disruptions that impacted their learning. Results indicated notable…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Distance Education, Online Courses
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Zhang, Meilan; Trussell, Robert P.; Gallegos, Benjamin; Asam, Rasmiyeh R. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
Recent years have seen a quick expansion of tablet computers in households and schools. One of the educational affordances of tablet computers is using math apps to engage students in mathematics learning. However, given the short history of the mobile devices, little research exists on the effectiveness of math apps, particularly for struggling…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Mathematical Applications, Laptop Computers, Grade 4
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Annan-Coultas, Dustin L. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2012
For six years, a college of health professions at a southern medical university has made student computing an integral component of its academic environment by requiring all residential students to own laptops. While most faculty members have acknowledged that access to a computer is necessary for most students to complete coursework, both faculty…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Laptop Computers, Teaching Methods, Computer Uses in Education
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Yusup, Yusri – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
This paper examines the status of iPad (1st generation) use as a learning device among primary school teachers enrolled in an undergraduate bachelor of education program at a private university in Malaysia. A survey was conducted on 93 teachers who were given iPads to assist them in this online distance-learning program in the March 2011 semester.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Elementary School Teachers, Bachelors Degrees