If you think the ‘digital natives’ have better online search skills than their parents, you’d be wrong. But simply telling students what to do isn’t the best way to improve their skills.
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Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research Environment and Postgraduate Research, University of Liverpool
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Vice Provost for Academic Programs, SUNY Empire State College
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Professor, Business and Management, Queensland University of Technology
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Distinguished Librarian, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Professor of Management, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director, First Year Learning Initiative at University College and Professor of Psychological Sciences, Northern Arizona University
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Professor in Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Researcher Book and Digital media studies, Leiden University
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RFIEA Fellows 2017-2018, IEA Paris, Researcher in Literary theory, University of Verona
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Professeur à IESEG School of Management, Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 9221 - LEM - Lille, IÉSEG School of Management
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Professor of Human Resource Management, Cranfield University
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Lecturer, Curriculum and pedagogy, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor, Building innovative digital applications, Activism, University of Leeds
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Educational Developer (SoTL), Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary