The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2009—Key Findings

By Shannon D. Smith, Gail Salaway, J. Caruso. 2010

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Students' perceptions of Facebook for academic purposes (2014, background): “Merced 11, Huelva 21002, Spain bBusiness Administration Department, Stonehill College, 320 Washington St., Easton, MA 02357, USA cDepartment of Management Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad Campus, Park Road, Islamabad, Pakistan a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Re”
In-class multitasking and academic performance (2012, background): “Furthermore, anywhere between 87% and 92% of undergraduates use Facebook and spend an average of over 1 h and 40 min on the site per day (Junco, 2012; Smith & Caruso, 2010).”
Multimedia Teaching with Video Clips: TV, Movies, YouTube, and mtvU in the College Classroom (2009, background): “Recent estimates indicate these students spend from 6.5 to 11 hours per day multitasking on the above activities (Salaway, Katz, Caruso, Kvavik, & Nelson, 2006).”
Beyond natives and immigrants: exploring types of net generation students (2010, background): “Since then, a number of studies including our own (Kennedy, et al. 2007, 2008 ) and others (e.g. Salaway et al. 2007, 2008; Smith et al. 2009) have explored the characteristics of students and/or teachers in universities , resulting in a general acknowledgement that Prensky's ideas were at best an…”
It's Complicated: Facebook Users' Political Participation in the 2008 Election (2011, unknown): “In particular, Facebook is an important social media site to study because of its high rate of use by the 18-to24-year-old demographic.(3,4) During the 2008 election, both Republican and Democratic presidential candidates utilized the site, maintaining pages that allowed users to post comments, shar”
Student use of Facebook for organizing collaborative classroom activities (2011, background): “…sites (Ellison et al. 2007; Lampe et al. 2008); more than half have incorporated SNSs into their college experience by using them for purposes such as communicating with their classmates about school (Salaway et al. 2008) and more than one-quarter have used a SNS in a course (Smith et al. 2009).”
Personal Learning Environments, social media, and self-regulated learning: A natural formula for connecting formal and informal learning (2012, background): “…Research (ECAR) study of undergraduate students and information technology revealed that students' use of social media has steadily increased from 2007to 2010 and that college students are integrating social media in their academic experience both formally and informally (Smith & Caruso, 2010).”
No A 4 U: The relationship between multitasking and academic performance (2012, background): “The most popular social networking website is Facebook, with 97% of students saying they use the site (Smith & Caruso, 2010).”
Blended learning environments: Using social networking sites to enhance the first year experience (2010, methodology): “There were no concerns from students regarding either the use of Web 2.0 technologies within the course or privacy issues, as was found in previous studies (Waycott et al, 2010, Salaway et al, 2007, Lohnes & Kinzer, 2007).”