Digital Immigrants in Distance Education
The constant growth of methods of education that incorporate the Internet into teaching-learning processes has opened up a wide range of opportunities for students across the world to gain entry to undergraduate or graduate degree programs. However, if the enrolling student is a digital immigrant, t...
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oai:doaj.org-article:98844de328fd41a6a2205edb802a3bea2021-12-02T19:25:28ZDigital Immigrants in Distance Education10.19173/irrodl.v18i6.29671492-3831https://doaj.org/article/98844de328fd41a6a2205edb802a3bea2017-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2967https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831The constant growth of methods of education that incorporate the Internet into teaching-learning processes has opened up a wide range of opportunities for students across the world to gain entry to undergraduate or graduate degree programs. However, if the enrolling student is a digital immigrant, the chances of success may be limited by the difficulty of using the Internet to communicate. This laid the groundwork for a qualitative study aimed at determining, from an ontological, epistemological, methodological, and instrumental approach, and from a teacher’s perspective, the main technical and communication challenges faced by digital immigrants as they follow an online higher-education study program. Roberto Salazar-MárquezAthabasca University Pressarticlehigher educationdigital immigrantsandragogyonline educationsocial networksSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 18, Iss 6 (2017) |
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The constant growth of methods of education that incorporate the Internet into teaching-learning processes has opened up a wide range of opportunities for students across the world to gain entry to undergraduate or graduate degree programs. However, if the enrolling student is a digital immigrant, the chances of success may be limited by the difficulty of using the Internet to communicate. This laid the groundwork for a qualitative study aimed at determining, from an ontological, epistemological, methodological, and instrumental approach, and from a teacher’s perspective, the main technical and communication challenges faced by digital immigrants as they follow an online higher-education study program.
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