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20 Surprising Stats About Technology Use in College

24 May 2012

This infographic shares findings from a variety of recent studies on technology use by college students.

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Posted by Oscar Retterer

Crossing the Digital Divide: Bridges and Barriers to Digital Inclusion | Edutopia

27 October 2011

The term digital divide was coined in the mid-1990s as a way to describe the gap in equity between those who have access to computers and the Internet and those who do not. Today, the conversation has shifted to this question: How do we define access when the price of personal computers and related technologies has dropped dramatically over the years and, according to thePew Internet & American Life Project, 95 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 use the Internet? And all of this is happening while we are in the midst of an explosive rise in mobile technology

via Crossing the Digital Divide: Bridges and Barriers to Digital Inclusion | Edutopia.

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Posted by Teb Locke

Digital Campus: No Cellphone? No Internet? So Much Less Stress

13 May 2011

A survey of the “always on” generation reveals that students feel pressure to stay connected, and worry that those online relationships aren’t “real.

[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]

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Posted by Oscar Retterer

As the Web Goes Mobile, Colleges Fail to Keep Up

25 February 2011

Hand-held devices like smartphones and tablets are fast becoming the primary way many people use the Internet. Half of all college students used mobile gear to get on the Internet every day last year, compared with 10 percent of students in 2008, according to Educause, the educational-technology consortium.

But many colleges still treat their mobile Web sites as low-stakes experiments. That attitude risks losing prospective applicants and donors through admissions and alumni portals that don’t work, and it risks frustrating current students who want to manage coursework and the rest of their lives with their mobile phones, says David R. Morton, director of mobile communications at the University of Washington. “For so many institutions,” he says, “mobile is a part-time job, almost an afterthought.”

[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]

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Posted by Oscar Retterer