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Gallardo-Echenique, Eliana Esther; Marqués-Molías, Luis; Bullen, Mark; Strijbos, Jan-Willem – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2015
This paper reports on a literature review of the concept of "Digital Natives" and related terms. More specifically, it reports on the idea of a homogeneous generation of prolific and skilled users of digital technology born between 1980 and 1994. In all, 127 articles published between 1991 and 2014 were reviewed. On the basis of the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Technology Uses in Education, Literature Reviews
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Smith, Erika E. – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2012
More than a decade after Prensky's influential articulation of digital natives and immigrants, disagreement exists around these characterizations of students and the impact of such notions within higher education. Perceptions of today's undergraduate learners as tech-savvy "digital natives" (Prensky, 2001a), who both want and need the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Research, Research Needs