The Higher Education Students Experience with Technology
This study is to explore the students’ preferences and familiarities towards technology and the use of technology tools for their daily lives related to academic tasks. Particularly, on the higher education students’ access to technology-based tools and their preferences for a wide range of establis...
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| description | This study is to explore the students’ preferences and familiarities towards technology and the use of technology tools for their daily lives related to academic tasks. Particularly, on the higher education students’ access to technology-based tools and their preferences for a wide range of established and emerging technologies. Through the survey conducted on the first semester students of Polytechnic Merlimau Melaka, the results show and indicate that many of them are tech-savvy, even beyond the common technology applied. In the pattern of access and use of a range of other technologies (which are high-tech applications), a considerable variation is prevalent. The findings discussed is close to the notions of ‘Digital Natives’ of Prensky’s reference, in which the implications for harnessing available technologies in order to support teaching and learning in higher education are also comprehensively reviewed in this paper. |
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| spelling | utem-40642021-12-28T11:57:47Z http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/4064/ The Higher Education Students Experience with Technology Sihombing, Haeryip LG Individual institutions (Asia. Africa) L Education (General) This study is to explore the students’ preferences and familiarities towards technology and the use of technology tools for their daily lives related to academic tasks. Particularly, on the higher education students’ access to technology-based tools and their preferences for a wide range of established and emerging technologies. Through the survey conducted on the first semester students of Polytechnic Merlimau Melaka, the results show and indicate that many of them are tech-savvy, even beyond the common technology applied. In the pattern of access and use of a range of other technologies (which are high-tech applications), a considerable variation is prevalent. The findings discussed is close to the notions of ‘Digital Natives’ of Prensky’s reference, in which the implications for harnessing available technologies in order to support teaching and learning in higher education are also comprehensively reviewed in this paper. Asian-Transactions org. 2011-06 Article PeerReviewed text en cc_by http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/4064/1/The_Higher_Education_Students_Experience_with_Technology.pdf Sihombing, Haeryip (2011) The Higher Education Students Experience with Technology. Asian Transactions on Basic & Applied Sciences, 1 (3). pp. 1-10. ISSN 2221-4249 http://www.asian-transactions.org/EABoards.htm ATBAS-20125033 |
| spellingShingle | LG Individual institutions (Asia. Africa) L Education (General) Sihombing, Haeryip The Higher Education Students Experience with Technology |
| title | The Higher Education Students Experience with Technology |
| title_full | The Higher Education Students Experience with Technology |
| title_fullStr | The Higher Education Students Experience with Technology |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Higher Education Students Experience with Technology |
| title_short | The Higher Education Students Experience with Technology |
| title_sort | higher education students experience with technology |
| topic | LG Individual institutions (Asia. Africa) L Education (General) |
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