Internet Use in Public Universities
Hello all, I am researching on "Internet Use among the students in Public Universities: A case study of University of Zambia". I am basically looking at the factors affecting internet use, purpose and knowledge of internet (at the moment two major factors Gender and School-hard science vs. art and science). Could any one give me some suggestion or information about similar studies done in other universities. Situation in other developing countries would be appreciable. Looking for your cooperation. -- Shrwan Khanal Development and International Cooperation University of Jyvaskyla Finland cell:358442733433
Hello Shrwan: I am developing the same work here in Colombia (South America) at the city of Bogota. My work does no make the specific about "public" although it has several particularities form the private (mainly the heterogenic population). Regarding your factors, my hypothesis remark that here in Colombia gender would be not a problems (we have more women studying than men and no religious or cultural restrictions are given; on the opposite). Art - science might be strong but in my case, the first stage tackle mainly business faculties. Although they are not specifically about public universities, I believe Benoit, P. J., W. L. Benoit, et al. (2006). The Effects of Traditional versus Web-Assisted Instruction on Learning and Student Satisfaction, University of Missouri. For Colombia Facundo, A. H. (2003). La Educación Superior Virtual en Colombia. Bogotá, UNESCO Instituto Internacional para la Educación Superior en América Latina y el Caribe - IIESALC. But this is a measure about TICs availability. And the NO SIGNIFICANT phenomena man, Russell, T. L. (1999). The No Significant Difference Phenomenon. Raleigh, North Carolina State University. I hope you revert so maybe we can fix way to collaborate and even, validate hypotheses in both countries. Cristian Berrío Zapata Profesor Auxiliar Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales Universidad de San Buenaventura (Bogotá) -----Mensaje original----- De: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] En nombre de Shrwan Khanal Enviado el: martes, 18 de marzo de 2008 05:49 a.m. Para: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Asunto: [?? Probable Spam] [Air-L] Internet Use in Public Universities Hello all, I am researching on "Internet Use among the students in Public Universities: A case study of University of Zambia". I am basically looking at the factors affecting internet use, purpose and knowledge of internet (at the moment two major factors Gender and School-hard science vs. art and science). Could any one give me some suggestion or information about similar studies done in other universities. Situation in other developing countries would be appreciable. Looking for your cooperation. -- Shrwan Khanal Development and International Cooperation University of Jyvaskyla Finland cell:358442733433 _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Shrwan Khanal <shrwan1976@gmail.com> wrote:
I am researching on "Internet Use among the students in Public Universities: A case study of University of Zambia". I am basically looking at the factors affecting internet use, purpose and knowledge of internet (at the moment two major factors Gender and School-hard science vs. art and science). Could any one give me some suggestion or information about similar studies done in other universities.
I can only speak from the American context but I'm a higher ed PhD student so my viewpoint may be helpful. One relatively recent source of data may be the work coming out of the Net Generation survey led by Rey Junco. Rey and Jeanna Mastrodicasa published a book ("Connecting to the Net.Generation") with many of the results although it's aimed at higher ed practitioners so it's light on many methodological details in which you may be interested. I know that Rey is working on articles using the same data set but I don't know if any have yet been published. The work done by EDUCAUSE, particularly the CORE data survey, may be informative; Chapter 4 of the current CORE data survey report (http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ers0706/rs/ERS0706w.pdf) discusses student use of technology. I'd also look at the work done by the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative as much of their work tends to be more qualitative and different in nature than much of the other EDUCAUSE research that is aimed at IT professionals in higher ed. The EDUCAUSE research group, ECAR, may also have some good information but access to their resources is rather limited. A few other publications from the higher education literature that may be useful or insightful: Flowers, L., Pascarella, E. T., & Pierson, C. T. (2000). Information technology use and cognitive outcomes in the first year of college. The Journal of Higher Education, 71(6), 637–667. Flowers, L. A., & Zhang, Y. (2003). Racial differences in information technology use in college. College Student Journal. Lloyd, J. M., Dean, L. A., & Cooper, D. L. (2007). Students' technology use and its effects on peer relationships, academic involvement, and healthy lifestyles. NASPA Journal, 44(3), 481–495. Sax, L. J., Ceja, M., & Teranishi, R. T. (2001). Technological preparedness among entering college freshmen: the role of race, class, and gender. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 24(4), 363–383. There may be other resources in my bibliography (http://mistakengoal.com/wikindx3/) that may be useful; feel free to search through it all and let me know if I can help! Kevin
Hi Shrwan and others, I'm also interested in developing countries' comparisons with regard to ICT use. I'm presently working with data from a major 2005 survey of the Brazilian Bureau of Census which contains information on Internet and access and types of use. I already have a few analyses focusing on the student population (at different school levels) and also on S&T human resources. I'm now dealing with the theme of gender differences in ICT use in Brazil (also focusing on the student population). Gilda Olinto Instituto Brasileiro de Informacao em Ciencia e Tecnologia Em Mar 18, 2008 07:48 AM, Shrwan Khanal escreveu:
Hello all, I am researching on "Internet Use among the students in Public Universities: A case study of University of Zambia". I am basically looking at the factors affecting internet use, purpose and knowledge of internet (at the moment two major factors Gender and School-hard science vs. art and science). Could any one give me some suggestion or information about similar studies done in other universities. Situation in other developing countries would be appreciable. Looking for your cooperation.
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Dear Gilda: As said to Shrwan, I found a good opportunity to complement our work regarding ICT application to High Education, using what we are developing at each site. I hope you both will consider my invitation to produce a closer collaboration and find out ways to collaborate. My works looks for the creation of a restriction model regarding ICT application to high Education and Educational Productivity. The pilot has been developed at two private universities and hopefully, I will be applying my instrument at the National University soon. Most important I believe is the model supporting all: I am trying to combine strategic systemic analysis, a motivational model (in this case TAM) and matrix cross analysis. This blend tries to create a field model regarding the mechanisms implicit into ICT-Education successful relation into non developed communities and regarding INTERNET. The epistemological base is Complex Theory. Keep looking to hear form you Cristian Berrío Zapata Profesor Auxiliar Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales Universidad de San Buenaventura (Bogotá) -----Mensaje original----- De: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] En nombre de Gilda Olinto Enviado el: miércoles, 19 de marzo de 2008 04:10 p.m. Para: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Asunto: Re: [Air-L] Internet Use in Public Universities Hi Shrwan and others, I'm also interested in developing countries' comparisons with regard to ICT use. I'm presently working with�data from�a major 2005 survey of the Brazilian Bureau of Census�which contains�information on Internet and access and types of use.�I�already have�a few�analyses�focusing on the student population (at different school levels) and also on�S&T human resources. I'm��now�dealing with�the theme of gender differences in ICT use in Brazil (also focusing on the student population).� Gilda Olinto Instituto Brasileiro de Informacao em Ciencia e Tecnologia � Em Mar 18, 2008 07:48 AM, Shrwan Khanal escreveu:
Hello all, I am researching on "Internet Use among the students in Public Universities: A case study of University of Zambia". I am basically looking at the factors affecting internet use, purpose and knowledge of internet (at the moment two major factors Gender and School-hard science vs. art and science). Could any one give me some suggestion or information about similar studies done in other universities. Situation in other developing countries would be appreciable. Looking for your cooperation.
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On 18/03/2008, Shrwan Khanal <shrwan1976@gmail.com> wrote:
I am researching on "Internet Use among the students in Public Universities: A case study of University of Zambia". I am basically looking at the factors affecting internet use, purpose and knowledge of internet (at the moment two major factors Gender and School-hard science vs. art and science). Could any one give me some suggestion or information about similar studies done in other universities. Situation in other developing countries would be appreciable. Looking for your cooperation.
I guess you've already looked at the wealth of information they've got on http://www.elearning-africa.com/ and http://www.col.org/colweb/site - which cover a fair chunk of the majority world between them. I've recently been reading an article (at home & I'm not) about Women & IT use in the US; basically it was saying that women tend to underestimate their ability to use the net, though testing seemed to show that they were just the same as men. However, if people don't think they can use something, they're probably less inclined to use it. The study was done in 2002 I think, but not published till 2006, so a few things to look out for. You may already have that report! Let me know if you want more details & I'll dig it out. Emma -- Emma Duke-Williams: School of Computing/ Faculty eLearning Co-ordinator. Blog: http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-wie/blog/
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Shrwan Khanal