Learning style and digital activity: an ecological study
In order to understand student engagement in higher education through the use of digital technologies, it is necessary to appreciate the broader use of differing technologies. Forty-eight first-year university students completed an online survey that queried patterns of digital activity across home,...
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| description | In order to understand student engagement in higher education through the use of digital technologies, it is necessary to appreciate the broader use of differing technologies. Forty-eight first-year university students completed an online survey that queried patterns of digital activity across home, school and community contexts and that included rating scale items that measured learning style (i.e., active-reflective, sensing-intuitive, visual-verbal, sequential-global). Results suggest that students vary widely in digital activities and that such variation is related to differences in learning style. For example, active learners were more likely than reflective learners to engage in digital activities in the community and users of some specific application, as opposed to non-users, were more likely to be verbal than visual learners. Implications for instructional applications of digital technology in higher education are presented. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-266202023-01-27T05:26:33Z Learning style and digital activity: an ecological study Johnson, Genevieve Broadley, Tania G. Williams P. Statham N.Brown B. Cleland techno-microsystem technology learning style ecological model digital technology In order to understand student engagement in higher education through the use of digital technologies, it is necessary to appreciate the broader use of differing technologies. Forty-eight first-year university students completed an online survey that queried patterns of digital activity across home, school and community contexts and that included rating scale items that measured learning style (i.e., active-reflective, sensing-intuitive, visual-verbal, sequential-global). Results suggest that students vary widely in digital activities and that such variation is related to differences in learning style. For example, active learners were more likely than reflective learners to engage in digital activities in the community and users of some specific application, as opposed to non-users, were more likely to be verbal than visual learners. Implications for instructional applications of digital technology in higher education are presented. 2011 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26620 http://www.leishman-associates.com.au/ascilite2011/downloads/papers/Johnson-full.pdf University of Tasmania fulltext |
| spellingShingle | techno-microsystem technology learning style ecological model digital technology Johnson, Genevieve Broadley, Tania Learning style and digital activity: an ecological study |
| title | Learning style and digital activity: an ecological study |
| title_full | Learning style and digital activity: an ecological study |
| title_fullStr | Learning style and digital activity: an ecological study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Learning style and digital activity: an ecological study |
| title_short | Learning style and digital activity: an ecological study |
| title_sort | learning style and digital activity: an ecological study |
| topic | techno-microsystem technology learning style ecological model digital technology |
| url | http://www.leishman-associates.com.au/ascilite2011/downloads/papers/Johnson-full.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26620 |