Identifying different registers of digital literacy in virtual learning environments

The Relationships of Family, Perceived Digital Competence and Attitude, and Learning Agility in Sustainable Student Engagement in Higher Education

“…The findings suggest that students need to make an effort to learn and apply acquired knowledge as agile learners in a digitally enriched environment to achieve a meaningful adoption of digital technologies in academic life. The findings identify with previous research findings on the positive relation between digital literacy and student learning outcomes [4,34,38,39]. Particularly, the results on digital competence and student engagement imply that digital competence has a positive effect on student engagement, which is linked to important outcomes, such as grades, persistence, and college completion [79].…”

“…It is underpinned by basic skills in information and communion technology: the use of computers to retrieve, assess, store, produce, present, and exchange information; and to communicate and participate in collaborative networks via the internet". College students need to be competent in effectively accessing various resources and information to identify and organize course-related digital information, choose appropriate technologies to accomplish academic tasks, effectively collaborate or communicate with others in academic communities, and solve problems using online resources [33][34][35][36][37][38]. Since they engage in cognitive, technical, and social-emotional processes during the use of digital technologies and digital information [36,39], college students' digital competence is widely emphasized as essential for work and life today.…”

Digital Literacy of Students and Its Improvement at the University

“…This suggests that it`s necessary for lecturers to increase efforts to raise awareness of the nature and importance of digital literacy in education. The study highlights an understanding among researchers that digital literacy must be considered as a situated practice, and that it concerns functional and communicative competencies rather than acquiring a set of technical skills (Knutsson, Blåsjö and Hållsten, 2012). It is outlined the significance of acquiring key skills for seeking, finding and managing information, for critical and efficient use of digital tools and information recourses, and creation of new knowledge.…”

The Importance of Promoting Digital Literacy in Higher Education

“…Thus, the link between DL and the promotion of a scientific culture, in formal and/or informal environments, both in the face-to-face teaching modality and in online learning processes is, therefore, critical (Prior, Mazanov, Meacheam, Heaslip, & Hanson, 2016;Knutsson, Blå sjö, Hå llsten, & Karlström, 2012;Kivunja, 2015;Meyers, Erickson, & Small, 2013;Jeffrey et al, 2011).…”