Net Gen Skeptic

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...

It's interesting that some of the most outspoken criticism of Ontario's plans to use more online learning in higher education is co...

David White and his colleagues at Oxford University are doing some interesting research that parallels what we have been doing in our Digita...