Digitally Distanced Learning: A Study of International Distance Learners' (Non)Use of Technology

Autor/in	Selwyn, Neil
Titel	Digitally Distanced Learning: A Study of International Distance Learners' (Non)Use of Technology
Quelle	In: Distance Education, 32 (2011) 1, S.85-99 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0158-7919
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Distance Education; Student Attitudes; International Education; Barriers; Student Experience; Study Habits; Conventional Instruction; Computer Mediated Communication; Electronic Learning; Online Courses; Influence of Technology; Virtual Classrooms; Student Surveys; College Students; College Instruction; Telephone Surveys; Interviews; Computer Uses in Education; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Schülerverhalten; Internationale Erziehung; Studienerfahrung; Study behavior; Study behaviour; Studienverhalten; Computerkonferenz; Online course; Online-Kurs; Schülerbefragung; Collegestudent; Hochschullehre; Telephone interview; Telefoninterview; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Computernutzung; Großbritannien
Abstract	This article considers the uses and non-uses of digital technology by international distance learners. It draws upon data from in-depth interviews with 60 learners from around the world following distance education degree courses provided by a large UK federal university. The article focuses firstly on learners' descriptions of technology's role in the processes and practices of their studying. The article then goes on to consider how the process of studying with technology fitted with learners' perceptions and understandings of distance learning and higher education in general--as well as temporal constraints of work and domestic commitments. The article concludes by considering how the ambivalences and contradictions that appear to characterise student (non)use of technology during their studies serve to reinforce, rather than overcome, a traditional didactic "grammar" of university education. (Contains 1 table and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10