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Digital Literacy and Information Ergonomics Leveraging Online Teaching in HE (90045)
Tuesday, 10 June 2025 16:40
Session: Poster Session
Room: Auditorium Foyer (B1F)
Presentation Type:Poster Presentation
Online teaching is highly dependent on individual lecturer’s or professor’s relationship towards it. Based on two extensive survey studies in Ghana the poster presents research findings related to digital literacy and information ergonomics. The study on digital literacy (n=152) was conducted in 2023 and the study on technology related factors (n=201) was conducted in 2024. Digital literacy has indirect relationship in advocating online or hybrid teaching. There is significant relationship between digital literacy, sense of self-efficacy, and positive technology relationship. Those three factors support efficient use and development of digital resources. Information ergonomics on the other hand is important by the perspectives or personal habits, organizational norms and conventions, and teaching personnel fit to sociotechnical environments. Especially with unstructured digital environment with several technological shortcomings even a single person plays significant role in putting online teaching into action.
Key findings related to digital literacy underline the great variation on skills, attitudes towards the technology, feasibility of technology in the classroom, and variation by the academic domain. On the other hand, the study on technology related factors brought about work – life imbalance. Pervasive digital working, expectations on constant connectivity, motivation conflict between work and family, poor digital habits, vague digital conventions, and nonexistent digital norms cause sense of poor self-efficacy and feeling loss of control. Moreover, the poster combines these to perspectives and provides normative results for assessing organizational and staff capability maturity on the domain. Normative results or discussion also draws attention to balanced development within higher education institutions.
Authors:
Jussi Okkonen, Tampere University, Finland
Reetta Oksa, Tampere University, Finland
Edward White, Tampere University, Finland
About the Presenter(s)
Professor Jussi Okkonen is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at Tampere University in Finland
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