Beyond natives and immigrants: Exploring types of net generation students

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 332-343

  Kennedy, G ^a   Judd, T ^a   Dalgarno, B ^b   Waycott, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Digital natives; Net generation; Students; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956267634     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: 13652729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00371.x     Document Type: Article

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