Net Gen Skeptic

Six years ago in 2008, a small group of researchers at the British Columbia Institute of Technology decided to test some of the key claims o...

To date the published results from the international research project, Digital Learners in Higher Education , have been based on data from o...

One of our criticisms of the digital natives discourse has been that it was originally grounded almost entirely in a North American context....

Phase 2 of the Digital Learners in Higher Education project has uncovered some important insights into how learners in higher education are...

In her thoughtful analysis of the digital natives literature ( The Digital Native Debate in Higher Education: A Comparative Analysis of Rece...

The digital native/net generation hype has quieted down in recent months and thankfully has given way to an increasing amount of solid resea...

In the UK, JISC has just released a large study of the research behaviour of doctoral students born between 1982 and 1994. This is the supp...

"New research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), has revealed that some university students are confused by ...

I guess it was bound to happen. As new technologies develop and spread, new myths are created.  We have had 10 years of unfounded hype abo...

Here's another study that suggests student use of digital technology in higher education is more complex and nuanced that the net gen di...