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标题：Undergraduates’ collaboration and integration of new technologies in higher education: Blurring the lines between informal and educational contexts
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作者：Swapna Kumar ; Feng Liu ; Erik W. Black 等
期刊名称：Digital Culture & Education
印刷版ISSN：1836-8301
电子版ISSN：1836-8301
出版年度：2012
卷号：4
期号：2
页码：248-259
出版社：Digital Culture & Education (DCE)
摘要：To better understand how students' familiarity with digital media in their daily lives can be harnessed in learning environments, a survey about their informal and educational use of new technologies was administered to undergraduates in three schools at a private university in the United States. The results indicated that undergraduates (n=282) transferred their skills in technology use for personal purposes to their higher education coursework, infusing digital technologies that were not required or used by their professors into their educational endeavours. As in prior research, respondents used new technologies and created online content more for informal purposes than for course-related activities. However, they forged a participatory and collaborative digital culture within their courses despite their professors' scarce use of such technologies. The results suggest that further research and insight into undergraduates' voluntary use of technology in educational contexts can contribute to the effective integration of digital media into higher education
关键词：collaboration culture; digital media; digital natives; technology use; ;undergraduate education