Work in progress: Leveraging Student Attitudes to ICT to Reduce the Impact of Emergency Remote Teaching

The Covid-19 crisis forced a rapid shift away from traditional face-to-face learning to fully off-site learning. If educators can better understand students' personal digital ecosystem, this can inform the implementation of off-site learning and lessen the impact of Emergency Remote Teaching. A short survey was employed to obtain a better understanding of the participants' degree of technological adoption in relation to their educational activities. Since this was an exploratory study, open-ended questions were used to allow a wide range of possible answers from participants. This resulted in 26 coded themes that emerged from these five open-ended questions. These themes represent the factors that the students' perceived as related to their uses of ICT for education. These initial findings suggest that, as digital natives, these students have a well-defined view of ICT that gives them clear views on the characteristics they would like to see in an online learning system.