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Digital Unity and Digital Divide: Surveying Alumni to Study Effects of a Campus Laptop Initiative

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  • المؤلفون: Finn, Seth; Inman, John G.
  • اللغة:
    English
  • المصدر:
    Journal of Research on Technology in Education. Spr 2004 36(3):297-317.
  • الموضوع:
    2004
  • نوع التسجيلة:
    Journal Articles
    Reports - Research
  • معلومة اضافية
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • المصدر:
      21
    • Education Level:
      Higher Education
    • الموضوع:
      Computers; Information Technology; Alumni; Computer Uses in Education; Undergraduate Students; Student Attitudes; Gender Differences
    • الموضوع:
      Pennsylvania
    • ISSN:
      1539-1523
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      This research study assessed the effects of an information technology initiative on undergraduates at a Western Pennsylvania college. A random sample of alumni from the classes of 1997, 1998, and 2000 were surveyed to gauge their attitudes about a technology program instituted in 1994, which provided laptop computers to all incoming freshman. The results indicated that not only was there a positive change in attitudes after the program was initiated, but digital divides based on sex and field of study were diminished during the students' time on campus. Interestingly, parts of the divide reappear after graduation, by field of study.
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      Author
    • Number of References:
      40
    • الموضوع:
      2005
    • الرقم المعرف:
      EJ690933