Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the perils and opportunities that digital literacy presents to students through online education schemes. The challenge for university departments regarding digital literacy is twofold: first, to apply digital methods in order to engage students; and second, to form an equity-based pedagogical…

As online learning becomes a recurrent component of higher education, there have been growing interests in the interaction between students and educational resources within digital environments so as to understand and facilitate students' initiative in managing those resources. The present study is an explorative inquiry into the relationships…

This study is based on the analysis of academic results of 692 undergraduate and graduate students in two disciplines in a French university who attended their courses using one out of four possible learning modalities. Within the two disciplines, Art History and Educational Sciences, students chose between face-to-face learning (on campus),…