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Patricia Ferrante; Federico Williams; Felix Büchner; Svea Kiesewetter; Godfrey Chitsauko Muyambi; Chinaza Uleanya; Marie Utterberg Modén – Learning, Media and Technology, 2024
The interplay of digital technologies and inequalities are increasingly discussed in contemporary research, mostly focusing on different forms of digital divides and often addressed as a "problem" that societies should face. Hence, digital education and its governance becomes a major arena for addressing inequalities. In this paper, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Equal Education, Electronic Learning
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Smythe, Suzanne; Grotlüschen, Anke; Buddeberg, Klaus – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2021
Online technologies have entered almost all spheres of life, introducing new challenges to how literacies are theorised, defined and taken up in adult literacy education settings. This process has accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic and on a global scale, as more services, resources and information move online. An important, if under-studied…
Descriptors: Recruitment, Adults, Job Applicants, Computer Use
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Leaton Gray, Sandra; Mägdefrau, Jutta; Riel, Martina – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2022
The phenomenon of digital differentiation, or stark variations in ability to access Internet hardware and/or infrastructure, has been a feature of provision since its early days. This article explores the impact of digital differentiation on two groups of young people, in England and Germany. It is based on fieldwork that took place during the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Computers, Access to Education, Disadvantaged Youth
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Kuhn, Axel; Schneider, Ute; Schwabe, Annika – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
Digital text has become the dominant medium for participation in higher education. Yet little is known about the consequences from the shift to digital text usage on the academic reading practices of specific groups of students. Using a unique data set of higher education students, we analyse differences in digital reading skills, practices,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Gender Differences, Reading Skills
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Heitplatz, Vanessa N.; Bühler, Christian; Hastall, Matthias R. – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
Although participation in the digital world is an important means for taking part in our society, people with intellectual disabilities are still largely excluded from the manifold possibilities of digital participation. In our study, we investigate attitudes of both formal caregivers and people with intellectual disabilities in Germany regarding…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Caregiver Attitudes, Residential Care, Clinics
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Frank Senyo Loglo; Olaf Zawacki-Richter; Wolfgang Müskens – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2024
The study compared two survey datasets from higher education students in Germany and Ghana regarding access to digital devices; perceived value of digital media, tools, and services used for learning; gap analysis of the actual and desired use of digital teaching and learning formats; and types of media usage profiles among students. The findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
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Bakaniene, Indre; Dominiak-Swigon, Martyna; Meneses da Silva Santos, Miguel Augusto; Pantazatos, Dimitris; Grammatikou, Mary; Montanari, Marco; Virgili, Irene; Galeoto, Giovanni; Flocco, Paolo; Bernabei, Laura; Prasauskiene, Audrone – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2023
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected education at all levels in various ways. This paper provides a review of the literature on the challenges of online learning for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Method: In total, 17 studies from nine countries were analysed. The challenges of online learning for…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Students with Disabilities, Barriers
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Li, Sandy C.; Petersen, Karen B. – Educational Technology & Society, 2022
While infusion of technology into schools has been one of the top priorities of the education reform agenda across the world, findings from many large-scale international assessments indicate that students' use of information and communication technology (ICT) has mixed effects on their academic achievements. In this paper, we argue that these…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Academic Achievement
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May, Fiona; Schaffer, Gary E.; Allen, Kelly-Ann; Berger, Emily; Hagen, Alexa von; Hill, Vivian; Morris, Zoe A.; Prior, Stefanie; Summers, Dianne; Wurf, Gerald; Reupert, Andrea – School Psychology International, 2023
COVID-19 presented a range of challenges to the delivery of school psychology services in countries around the world. The current study aimed to investigate the practices of school psychologists from the United States of America, Australia, Germany, Canada, and the United Kingdom, including changes to practice and exploration of the factors that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Psychology, School Psychologists, COVID-19
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Dolch, Carina – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2020
Since the introduction of digital media the fear of women being left out of the virtual world is expressed in various contexts. With the aim to establish if these gender differences still exist and, if they do, what form they take this paper investigates the use of digital media by male and female higher education students. 1,327 students enrolled…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, College Students, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Saal, Petronella Elize; van Ryneveld, Linda; Graham, Marien Alet – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2022
This study explored the relationship between educational technology and the mathematics achievement of South African and German students. Hierarchical Linear Models (HLM) showed that the availability of computers at school and using computers in the mathematics classroom in South Africa positively associated with the mathematics achievement of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement
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Eric Schätz; Alke Martens – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2023
Due the wideness of the term Physical Computing, there is a need for a better structure of this topic. This paper is about an approach of structuring this field by finding attributes of different physical computing devices which can be used in class. Those attributes are meant to enforce teachers as well as researchers to analyze different devices…
Descriptors: Computer Use, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Teaching Methods
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Heuling, Lydia Schulze; Wild, Steffen; Vest, Anja – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2021
In the light of ubiquitous information and communication technologies (ICT) it is essential for everyone to be digitally competent. This is particularly true for prospective engineers and teachers since their jobs play an important role in shaping our common future. We assessed engineering and science teacher students' (n=180) digital competences…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Information Literacy, Information Security, Safety
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Dolch, Carina; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf; Bond, Melissa; Marín, Victoria I. – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2021
Responding to the lack of longitudinal analyses on media usage in higher education, this study explores the changes of higher education students' access to and use of technology for learning in 2012, 2015 and 2018. Using an online questionnaire, a total of 5,572 German higher education students participated. Via descriptive and inferential…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Technology Integration
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Thurm, Daniel; Vandervieren, Ellen; Moons, Filip; Drijvers, Paul; Barzel, Bärbel; Klinger, Marcel; van der Ree, Heleen; Doorman, Michiel – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2023
In March 2020, many schools worldwide were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This closure confronted mathematics teachers with the challenging transition to emergency remote teaching (ERT). How did students experience ERT, and how did these experiences relate to context variables and to their teachers' beliefs and practices? In particular, what…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
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