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LaMontagne, Liva G. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Mindfulness apps have shown promise to reduce stress and improve well-being among college students however the mechanisms of these beneficial effects are less clear. In addition, findings are inconclusive about the necessary dose of mindfulness app usage to achieve improvements in mental health. Thus, more dose-response research is needed on…
Descriptors: College Students, Metacognition, Training, Computer Software
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Adebowale Jeremy Adetayo; Elizabeth Bukunola Lateef; Rhoda Temitope Oyebola; Folashade Munirat Lawal – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2025
This study aimed to investigate the challenges faced by working students in patronizing library services in Nigeria and to propose tailored solutions to enhance their patronage. A descriptive survey research design was used to collect data from 110 working undergraduate students, which was then analyzed using descriptive statistics. The findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Services, Use Studies, Barriers
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Neumann, Michelle M.; Herodotou, Christothea – Childhood Education, 2020
A recent report surveyed 3,154 families and showed that 80% of children age 0-7 use YouTube, and 59% use YouTube Kids. While most young children are likely using their parents' accounts, 11% have their own YouTube accounts and 16% have registered with the YouTube Kids app. On average, children spend 1.39 hours each weekday and 1.47 hours each…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Young Children, Computer Oriented Programs, Use Studies
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Botturi, Luca – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2021
The internet is today a significant part of children's daily lives, and digital competences have been included as basic learning goals in many school systems worldwide. In order to develop sound and effective early-age internet education programs, information about how children use the internet should be integrated with insights in how they…
Descriptors: Internet, Children, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Nancy O'Neill – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Open educational resources (OER) have open licensing or public domain designations that allow users to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute content unencumbered by traditional copyright restrictions. As such, they can replace costly traditional textbooks, provide all students with access to materials on the first day of class, and invite…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Use Studies, Faculty, Access to Education
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Sant-Geronikolou, Stavroula; Kouis, Dimitris; Koulouris, Alexandros – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
Library and information science experts around the globe are currently exploring ways of capitalizing student workflow data within library walls. Within this realm, the researchers designed and pilot-tested a user-driven lightweight application that envisions library as a crucial contributor of co-curricular data to learner profiles' contextual…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Oriented Programs, Handheld Devices, Foreign Countries
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Tamir, Emanuel; Etgar, Ran; Peled, Daniel – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2020
Smartphone applications have become increasingly popular, influencing functioning in all life domains. This study investigated the influence of the WhatsApp application on decision-making processes among kindergarten-managers. The research aimed to investigate the types of decisions made using WhatsApp. To examine this, a 3-phase mixed-method…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Handheld Devices, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Oriented Programs
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Laskowski, Margaret M.; Reinecke, Dana R.; Chen, Hsin-liang – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2018
This exploratory study examines the current use of instructional technology, and assistive technologies for support of individuals with learning disabilities as well as other disabilities in New York State. The researchers used SurveyMonkey and postings on social media websites for various professional organizations to solicit responses to a…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Learning Disabilities, Barriers
Bulger, Monica; Madden, Mary; Sobel, Kiley; Davison, Patrick – Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, 2021
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have partnered to better understand how young people are engaging with media today in order to help public media better serve Gen Z. As part of our By/With/For Youth: Inspiring Next Gen Public Media Audiences, we spoke with tweens and teens across the U.S. about how they spend…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Adolescents, Mass Media Use, Use Studies
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Yau, Jane Yin-Kim; Hristova, Zornitsa – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2018
In recent times, there has been an uptake of mobile learning (hereafter, abbreviated as m-learning), i.e. learning with mobile technologies, especially in the form of mobile apps. Apps are particularly useful as they are small applications usually with a single-purpose and allow the users to view learning content offline from their mobile devices.…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
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Kennedy, Olivia – Research-publishing.net, 2018
Problematic smartphone usage has been widely recognized (e.g. Al-Barashidi, Bouazza, & Jabur, 2015; Chóliz, 2012). However, few researchers have investigated the relationship between students' feelings towards their smartphones and their acceptance of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL). This exploratory study of thirty-six Japanese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Computer Attitudes
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Stephenson, Jennifer; Limbrick, Lisa – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015
This article presents a review of the research on the use of mobile touch-screen devices such as PDAs, iPod Touches, iPads and smart phones by people with developmental disabilities. Most of the research has been on very basic use of the devices as speech generating devices, as a means of providing video, pictorial and/or audio self-prompting and…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Handheld Devices, Use Studies, Assistive Technology
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James, Delores C. S.; Harville, Cedric, II – Health Education & Behavior, 2018
Background: African American women (AAW) are in a unique position to be recruited into mobile (mHealth) weight management research and programs due to their high rates of obesity and their high ownership of smartphones. Aim: This study examined smartphone usage, social media engagement, and willingness to participate in mHealth weight management…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Handheld Devices, Social Media
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Best, Linda M.; Shelley, Daniel J. – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2018
This article examines the effects of the social media applications Facebook, Twitter, Snap Chat/Instagram, Texting and various smartphone applications on academic dishonesty in higher education. The study employed a mixed-methods approach conducted through an emailed question-pro student survey consisting of 20 questions. The results of the study…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Social Media, Cheating, Computer Oriented Programs
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Deng, Shengli; Lin, Yanqing; Liu, Yong; Chen, Xiaoyu; Li, Hongxiu – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2017
Introduction: Personality and trust have been found to be important precursors of information-sharing behaviour, but little is known about how these factors interact with each other in shaping information-sharing behaviour. By integrating both trust and user personality into a unified research framework, this study examines how trust mediates the…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Social Media, Social Networks, Structural Equation Models
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