Doing it for themselves? How South African universitystudents learn to use computers for their studies
| dc.contributor.author | Brown, Cheryl | |
| dc.contributor.author | Czerniewicz, Laura | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pedersen, Jacob | |
| dc.date | 2008-09-03 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-05T11:08:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-07-05T11:08:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Globally universities are grappling with how they should be adapting to the new generation of university students who are purported to be “tech savvy” and to learn indifferent ways. The South African higher education sector, with its changing and increasingly diverse student body, is facing similar concerns. This preliminary study seeks to inform this issue by investigating what computer experience academics can expect students to have, how students learn to use computers, how they solve problem sand how they acquire new computer skills. We find differences in age and experience and suggest that whilst there is a small distinct group of students who show the characteristics of the “digital native”, there is much diversity in how students come to learn and continue to learn about computers. We observe too that although younger students of all levels of experience are learning informally, universities still have a very important role to play in terms of training and support. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Brown, C., Czerniewicz, L., & Pedersen, J. (2008). <i>Doing it for themselves? How South African universitystudents learn to use computers for their studies</i>. Cape Town, Cape Peninsula University of Technology. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24695 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Brown, Cheryl, Laura Czerniewicz, and Jacob Pedersen. "Doing it for themselves? How South African universitystudents learn to use computers for their studies." 2008-09-03, Cape Town. Cape Peninsula University of Technology. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24695. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Brown, C., Czerniewicz, L., Pedersen, J. 2008. Doing it for themselves? How South African universitystudents learn to use computers for their studies. 10th Annual conference on World Wide Web Applications. University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Conference Paper AU - Brown, Cheryl AU - Czerniewicz, Laura AU - Pedersen, Jacob AB - Globally universities are grappling with how they should be adapting to the new generation of university students who are purported to be “tech savvy” and to learn indifferent ways. The South African higher education sector, with its changing and increasingly diverse student body, is facing similar concerns. This preliminary study seeks to inform this issue by investigating what computer experience academics can expect students to have, how students learn to use computers, how they solve problem sand how they acquire new computer skills. We find differences in age and experience and suggest that whilst there is a small distinct group of students who show the characteristics of the “digital native”, there is much diversity in how students come to learn and continue to learn about computers. We observe too that although younger students of all levels of experience are learning informally, universities still have a very important role to play in terms of training and support. CY - Cape Town DA - 2008 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PP - Cape Town PY - 2008 T1 - Doing it for themselves? How South African universitystudents learn to use computers for their studies TI - Doing it for themselves? How South African universitystudents learn to use computers for their studies UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24695 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24695 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Brown C, Czerniewicz L, Pedersen J, Doing it for themselves? How South African universitystudents learn to use computers for their studies. ; 2008-09-03; Cape Town. Cape Peninsula University of Technology; 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24695 . | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Cape Peninsula University of Technology | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.publisher.location | Cape Town | en_ZA |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 10th Annual conference on World Wide Web Applications | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Doing it for themselves? How South African universitystudents learn to use computers for their studies | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Conference Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Conference paper | en_ZA |