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Investigating Learning Challenges Presented by Digital Technologies to Universities in the 21st Century: A Case Study

Male, T; Aldhafeeri, F; (2014) Investigating Learning Challenges Presented by Digital Technologies to Universities in the 21st Century: A Case Study. In: (Proceedings) 4th Annual International Conference Education & E-Learning (EeL 2014). Global Science and Technology Forum.: Bangkok, Thailand. Green open access

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Abstract

There is now widespread recognition that digital technologies, particularly portable hand held devices capable of Internet connection, present opportunities and challenges to the way in which student learning is organized in schools, colleges and institutions of higher education in the 21st Century. Traxler (2010) suggests such devices are pervasive and ubiquitous, conspicuous and unobtrusive, noteworthy and taken-for-granted with everyone typically owning one, using one and often having more than one. As a consequence it has been argued that the availability of such devices, controlled mainly by the student and not the teacher, has the potential to change the traditional dynamics and pedagogical patterns of the learning environment (Burden et al, 2012). Education institutions, however, typically remain organized around spatial and temporal considerations such as buildings, timetables, calendars and internal structures which are designed to classify and manage students. In the case study reported here students and faculty teaching staff from the College of Education in the University of Kuwait were surveyed in order to assess their access to such technologies, their capability to use them effectively in support of achieving planned learning outcomes and the implications for change that could emanate from such findings.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Investigating Learning Challenges Presented by Digital Technologies to Universities in the 21st Century: A Case Study
Event: 4th Annual International Conference Education & E-Learning (EeL 2014)
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Dates: 21 August 2014 - 31 August 2014
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://dl4.globalstf.org/?wpsc_product_category=a...
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Digital technologies, Higher Education, Pedagogies, Learning, Kuwait
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Learning and Leadership
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1472996
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