The net generation are not big users of Web 2.0 technologies: Preliminary findings

ASCILITE 2007 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 517-525

  Kennedy, Gregor ^a   Dalgarno, Barney ^b   Gray, Kathleen ^a   Judd, Terry ^a   Waycott, Jenny ^a   Bennett, Susan ^c   Krause, Kerri Lee ^d   Maton, Karl ^e   Bishop, Andrea ^b   Chang, Rosemary ^a   Churchward, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Digital natives; Higher education; Net generation; Web 2.0; Y generation

Indexed keywords

SURVEYS;

CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITIES; DIGITAL NATIVES; HIGHER EDUCATION; NET GENERATIONS; TEACHING AND LEARNING; UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE; WEB 2.0; WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84871000801     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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