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Direct linkHenderson, Michael; Selwyn, Neil; Aston, Rachel – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
Digital technologies are now an integral aspect of the university student experience. As such, academic research has understandably focused on the potential of various digital technologies to enable, extend and even "enhance" student learning. This paper offers an alternate perspective on these issues by exploring students' actual…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
Selwyn, Neil – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
Digital technologies are now an integral feature of university study. As such, academic research has tended to concentrate on the potential of digital technologies to support, extend and even "enhance" student learning. This paper, in contrast, explores the rather more messy realities of students' engagements with digital technology. In…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Surveys
Henderson, Michael; Finger, Glenn; Selwyn, Neil – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2016
This article explores the digital technologies that taught postgraduate students engage with during their studies, what these technologies are used for and how useful they are perceived to be. The article draws upon data gathered from a survey of 253 masters and postgraduate diploma/certificate students across two universities in Australia.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Graduate Students
Henderson, Michael; Selwyn, Neil; Finger, Glenn; Aston, Rachel – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2015
The much-discussed potential of "technology-enhanced learning" is not always apparent in the day-to-day use of digital technology throughout higher education. Against this background, the present paper considers the digital devices and resources that students engage most frequently with during their university studies, what these…
Descriptors: Mass Media Use, Mass Media Effects, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students
Selwyn, Neil – Distance Education, 2011
This article considers the uses and non-uses of digital technology by international distance learners. It draws upon data from in-depth interviews with 60 learners from around the world following distance education degree courses provided by a large UK federal university. The article focuses firstly on learners' descriptions of technology's role…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Student Attitudes, International Education
Selwyn, Neil – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2008
Based on survey data from 1222 undergraduate students studying at UK higher education institutions, this article addresses students' engagement with the internet as a source of academic information for their studies. In particular the article explores how academic use of the internet is patterned by a range of potential influences such as…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Individual Characteristics, Internet, Educational Background
Selwyn, Neil – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2008
Whilst the copying, falsification and plagiarism of essays and assignments has long been a prevalent form of academic misconduct amongst undergraduate students, the increasing use of the internet in higher education has raised concern over enhanced levels of online plagiarism and new types of "cyber-cheating". Based on a self-report…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Plagiarism, Cheating, Internet
