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College students' conceptions of u-learning
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, Graduate Institute of Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan ; , Graduate School of Technological and Vocational Education and Graduate Institute of Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan ; , Department of Information Management, Ling Tung University, Taiwan ; , Department of Information and Learning Technology, National University of Tainan, Taiwan ; , Jen-Teh Junior College of Medicine, Nursing and Management, Taiwan

EdMedia + Innovate Learning, in Honolulu, HI, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-73-0 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explore 14 college students' conceptions of u-learning. The research data were collected from interviews with each of the students by a trained researcher individually, and the responses of the interview were further analyzed by a phenomenographic method. It revealed four categories of conceptions of u-learning, including "u-learning as applications of technology," "u-learning as a timely guide," "u-learning as a platform of attaining information" and "u-learning as an increase of knowledge." In addition, it was also found that most of these students stressed u-learning as a timely guide and a platform of attaining information.

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Tsai, P.S., Tsai, C.C., Hwang, G.H., Hwang, G.J. & Yang, Y.F. (2009). College students' conceptions of u-learning. In G. Siemens & C. Fulford (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2009--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 3115-3118). Honolulu, HI, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved March 2, 2021 from .

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