An examination of digital footprint awareness and digital experiences of higher education students

Abstract

Rapid changes are occurring in life owing to information and communication technologies. During this change period, digitalidentities have begun to emerge. These identities are associated with actions that users perform in online environments. Adigital footprint is formed with these actions. The purpose of this study is to determine the digital footprint awareness anddigital footprint experiences of higher education students. In order to collect data for the study, researchers developed adata collection tool titled ‘A survey for digital media use’. The study group consisted of 508 higher education students from41 Turkish universities. Data were collected through an online-form where participation was on a volunteer basis. Thefindings of the research show that students have a high level of digital footprint awareness ( x = 4.251) and a low level ofdigital footprint experience ( x = 1.907).Keywords: Digital footprint, digital footprint awareness, digital footprint experiences, higher education students.

The Features of Building Integrated Digital Educational Environment for Engineering Education

“…«Digital footprint» modules [15][16][17] and «Digital portfolio» [18][19][20] can be considered as the tools to motivate students. Student's digital footprint refers to the whole educational track in training process: quality and efficiency in solving the intermediate tasks, following timeframes, video records of defense of all kinds of projects, etc.…”

Ortaokul Öğrencilerinin Dijital Ayak İzi Farkındalıkları ve Yaşantılarının İncelenmesi

“…Bir başka tanım dijital ayak izini kullanıcıların çevrim içi ve çevrim dışı etkinliklerinin elektronik ortamlarda (veritabanı, sunucu vb.) elektronik olarak bıraktığı iz olarak açıklamaktadır (Lambiotte & Kosinski, 2014 (Girardin, Calabrese, Dal Fiore, Ratti & Blat, 2008;Sürmelioğlu & Seferoğlu, 2019). Olumlu dijital ayak izi, bilinçli şekilde oluşturulan uygun bir dijital kimliğe işaret ederken, olumsuz dijital ayak izi bunun tam aksini göstermektedir (Buchanan, Southgate, Scevak & Smith, 2018).…”

Determination of Student Opinions on Usage of Social Media and Mobile Tools in Student-Teacher, Student-Student Communication

“…Computers, phones and tablet computers address to almost every age group and have become indispensable for online education media [5,6,7]. When the literature about learning and teaching is considered, it is defined that in-class activities are insufficient and extra-class activities must be included so as to create an effective media [8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16]. However, many teachers state that students do not show sufficient effort in extra-class activities.…”