Digital transformation of everyday life – How COVID-19 pandemic transformed the basic education of the young generation and why information management research should care?

By N. Iivari, Sumita Sharma, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen. International Journal of Information Management, 2020

810 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Highlights • Makes visible children’s basic education as a significant area of concern for information management research.• Empirically explores digital transformation of the basic education of the young generation initiated by the COVID-19 pandemic.• Reveals a variety of digital divides emerging and being reinforced as well as barriers to digital transformation encountered.• Argues we can offer a valuable contribution to children’s basic education and teacher education through our expertise on digital transformation.

Subfields: Communication, Computer Science Applications, Media Technology

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In Communication

1. Nripendra P. Rana
2. Päivi Kousa
3. John S. Edwards
4. Yanqing Duan
5. Banita Lal
6. Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi
7. Ioanna D. Constantiou
8. Crispin R. Coombs

In Computer Science Applications

1. Päivi Kousa
2. John S. Edwards
3. Yanqing Duan
4. Nripendra P. Rana
5. Banita Lal
6. Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi
7. H. Niemi

In Media Technology

1. Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi
2. Päivi Kousa
3. Nripendra P. Rana
4. Ioanna D. Constantiou
5. H. Niemi
6. Babita Gupta

Citations in the corpus

• Perceived usability evaluation of Microsoft Teams as an online learning platform during COVID-19 using system usability scale and technology acceptance model in India (2020, neutral): “The students of today are not equally equipped with digital tools and equipments, and as such, there exists a digital divide (Iivari, Sharma, & Olkkonen, 2020).”
• Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on information management research and practice: Transforming education, work and life (2020, background): “The young person’s perspective on digital transformation during the pandemic is outlined in Iivari et al. (2020), acknowledging the criticality of addressing the digital divide and removing key barriers to basic education.”
• “Am I Doing Enough?” Special Educators’ Experiences with Emergency Remote Teaching in Spring 2020 (2020, background): “[31] documented the experiences of special education teachers in India and a widening digital divide based not only on disability but also on the socioeconomic class of students.”
• A Case Study of Students’ and Teachers’ Perceptions in a Finnish High School during the COVID Pandemic (2020, positive): “During the pandemic, those students who were supported by their parents in technical problems, for example, succeeded best (Iivari et al., 2020).”