Millennial Students & Technology Use: Implications for Undergraduate Education
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This paper investigates the impact of ubiquitous computing on undergraduate educational delivery and student learning. It focuses on the analysis of interdisciplinary literature relating to how the newest generation of undergraduate students interacts with and learns using digital technologies. It also reports the results of a preliminary study that investigated the expectations, technology use preferences, and information-seeking strategies of today's “Millennial” undergraduate students, and of the professors who teach them. The two groups' ways of learning and interacting with digital media are compared and contrasted, and recommendations for better supporting today's students' learning behaviors and preferences are offered.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008