Students in Higher Education in Germany: Gender Differences in their Internet Use, Media Literacy and Attitude towards eLearning

Kammerl R, Pannarale S (2007)


Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes

Publication year: 2007

Publisher: AACE

Edited Volumes: Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education

City/Town: Chesapeake, VA

Pages Range: 6835-6839

ISBN: 978-1-880094-63-1

URI: https://www.learntechlib.org/p/26868

Abstract

In 2006, all 9000 students at the University Passau (Germany) were invited to take part at an online questionnaire. A participation of over 6% were collected. About 84% of all the students polled have access to the Internet in their apartments or apartment-share communities. About 93% of male students rated their media literacy as high or fairly high, but only 77% of female students did so (r = +- .215). Most students (96%) feel themselves able to handle standard-applications, 42% of all students state that their competences related to production of own media is high (13%) or fairly high (29%). 65% of male students rate their competences in this section as high or fairly high but only 25% of female students do so. While 84% of students training for primary school education think that the success of eLearning is not guaranteed, only 56% of the whole sample, agree to that. Also the preferences with form of eLearning show low correlations with gender but higher with media literacy.

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APA:

Kammerl, R., & Pannarale, S. (2007). Students in Higher Education in Germany: Gender Differences in their Internet Use, Media Literacy and Attitude towards eLearning. In Bastiaens T, Carliner S (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education. (pp. 6835-6839). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

MLA:

Kammerl, Rudolf, and Simon Pannarale. "Students in Higher Education in Germany: Gender Differences in their Internet Use, Media Literacy and Attitude towards eLearning." Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education. Ed. Bastiaens T, Carliner S, Chesapeake, VA: AACE, 2007. 6835-6839.

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