The Use of Digital Devices in the University Classroom: Exploring and Comparing Students’ Perceptions and Practices

Rabl, Maria; Pattermann, Juliana; Schlögl, Stephan; Canham, Niki

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-20798-4_10

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“…Students' responses 5 and 6 from the Focused Group Discussion extract above tend to confirm these surmises. These findings and surmises find support from submissions in the literature reviewed in the course of this study [11,12,[21][22][23][24][25] The commonalities in all these are distraction and time wasting. Furthermore, some students tend to end up dwelling on self destructive activities.…”

Section: Popular Ways Students Make Use Of Their It Gadgets and Popular Websites Visitedsupporting

confidence: 71%

“…Online publishing has clearly contributed to significant enhancement of the quality and quantity of global empirical research. This advantage nonetheless, the spate of plagiarism around the world is alarmingly on the increase, apparently due to ease of copying and pasting [21]. This is also an offshoot of mental laziness.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Computer games seem to be another great threat to productive learning. As it applies with chatting, a teeming population of students are almost becoming addicted to digital games [20,21]. The likely attendant result of this unwholesome behavior, which could also be attributed to lack of self control, are distractions, poor academic performance, drop-outs, social miscreants, juvenile delinquency and dismal indigenous productivity and development.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is posited that ICT is a generic term for describing the devices and the methods of accessing, retrieving, storing, organizing, manipulating, producing, presenting and exchanging information electronically [9,15,19,21]. The devices include computer hardware like desktop computers, laptops, scanners, digital cameras, mobile phones, faxes, modems, flash drives, monitoring screens, CD and DVD (digital view disc).…”

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“…IT represents the union of telecommunication, video, and computing technology. Alternately, the term educational technology has also been described as the systematic application of human and technological resources in teaching and learning [17,21] Learning has often been defined as a permanent change in behaviour as a result of experience [1]. This definition can, however, be taken a step further.…”

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This study set out to find out the prevalent advantages and disadvantages of using IT in learning institutions, using a private Nigerian university as case study. The core research question was, is the use of IT in tertiary learning institutions more of an advantage than a disadvantage? The survey design was adopted. Two hundred and fourteen students responded to a questionnaire while twenty-four participated in focused group discussion. Ten responded to interview questions It was found that the greatest advantage of IT is easy access to information while immorality was top on the list of the disadvantages identified by the interviewed study participants, with 60%, followed by cybercrime and distraction. It was recommended that more concerted training and sensitization should be undertaken to help the teeming students in Nigeria and the world at large to make more productive use of IT devices in the learning institutions in the face of multifarious web traps and distractions.

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