Executive Summary" Our students have changed radically. Todayï¿ ½s students are no
longer the people our educational system was designed to teach."(Prensky 2001 p1) 1 …

This chapter examines a number of different terms and popularized accounts of young
people who are now at the stage in their lives of engaging in university education across the …

It has been widely suggested, and in some respects accepted, that a so-called Net
Generation of students is passing through our universities. Born roughly between 1980 and …

A great deal has been written over the past few years about the characteristics of a new
generation of students and the implications for teaching and learning. This generation …

This paper reports on a study conducted in 2006 with more than 2,000 incoming first-year
Australian university students. Students were asked about their access to, use of and …

This article reports key findings from the first phase of a research project investigating Net
generation age students as they encounter e-learning at five universities in England. We …

College students in America are not as" digital" as one might wish to pretend. And even at
elite universities, many are not rich enough. All the mystical talk about a generational shift …

Access to and use of technology by 'digital native'students studying in our universities has
been an area of much speculation, though relatively little empirical research. This has led …

This paper reports qualitative findings from a study that investigated Australian university
staff and students' perceptions and use of current and emerging technologies both in their …

Studies and commentary from the United States suggest that current undergraduates, part of
the so called Net Generation, are high end users of emerging technologies such as mobile …