Net generation students: Agency and choice and the new technologies

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 344-356

  Jones, C ^a   Healing, G ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency; Digital Natives; Generation Y; Millenials; Net Generation; Student experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956753332     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: 13652729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00370.x     Document Type: Article

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