This study aims to determine how technophobia, or dread of technology, hinders education and offers future research recommendations. Utilizing systematic reviews, researchers scoured numerous research sources for articles on technophobia in education. The admissions criteria were established, and 18 research works that met those criteria were…

Using technology in foreign language learning can provide a variety of possibilities, significant opportunities, and significant benefits. Considering that Generation Z is a generation born into technology and grew up with it, it is critical to understand the intentions of Generation Z students to use technology in learning English and to find out…

The increasingly ubiquitous use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in education have brought vast boons to educators and learners but also caused technostress for some of them due to their maladaptation to ICT-supported work and learning. Scientific research on technostress in educational settings has been growing ever since this…

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has profoundly impacted social, psychological, and physical well-being, presenting positive and negative effects. This study primarily explores the negative aspects, specifically technostress, and its influence on mobile learning (m-learning) among university students, a crucial area with limited…

The information professions demand digitally literate practitioners who can navigate the increasingly complex technological environments of libraries and archives. While basic literacy is presumed among graduate students, many students express fear and anxiety when approaching new technologies. These psychological barriers have not been addressed…

As artificial intelligence (AI) receives wider attention in education, examining teachers' acceptance of AI (TAAI) becomes essential. However, existing instruments measuring TAAI reported limited validity evidence and faced some design challenges, such as missing informed definitions of AI to participants. To fill this gap, this study developed…

The purpose of the current study was to develop an appropriate model to represent the relationships among all the significant factors about information and communication technology use for university students, both with and without learning disabilities. This study was conducted in Taiwan with a sample consisting of an international array of…

Software installation is an early barrier to success for graduate students in our online statistics class. To help them overcome this potential barrier, our instructional team created the SPSS Early Adopter Program (SEAP). The SEAP gamified the installation task with a discussion badge and bonus point; these external motivators encouraged students…

Accelerating digitization, algorithmic computation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, along with the increasing automation of work, communication, and everyday life, are central to critical studies of technology and political economy, as well as to public discourse concerning technology's role in creating futures. Ongoing…

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between nomophobia and the level of using educational technologies in teachers working in the centre of Zonguldak. A total of 274 teachers, 128 female and 146 male, participated in this study which was conducted by using a relational survey model. "Scale for Determination of Level of…

Technostress is an ailment of modern culture, which manifests itself in two ways: the anxiety that is experienced with new and unfamiliar technology or stress as a result of the over identification with technology. The daily use of smartphones, tablets, and personal computers have created a compulsion to constantly connect to the Internet and…

This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between African American adult students' computer, Internet, and academic self-efficacy, and their attitudes toward computers, in technology-supported environments. The study examined whether computer and Internet self-efficacy differed between students with high and low levels of user…

This study aims to take an initial step toward investigating the readiness of faculty members for adopting online learning at Aljouf University, a Saudi newly established university. Participants (n = 156) were asked to complete a Web-based questionnaire that starts with eight demographic questions and has four other parts: attitude toward online…

Focussing on academics' professional identity, this paper analyses the challenges academics experience when adopting new technologies in their pedagogical practices. Notions of "economies of performance" and "ecologies of practice" as well as the concept of liminality are employed to understand this identity work. The paper…

In distance learning, an internet-based learning has been developed as a learning platform for courses, and a distance learner's acquisition depends on his/her personal characteristics. Thus the present study was planned to investigate personal attributes of distance learners that may contribute to their levels of computer anxiety and computer…