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Title: | Improving children's e-safety skills through an interactive learning environment: a quasi-experimental study | Authors: | Iolie Nicolaidou Venizelou, Agnes |
Major Field of Science: | Natural Sciences | Field Category: | Computer and Information Sciences | Keywords: | E-safety skills;Children;Personal data protection;Avoiding hackers;Cyberbullying;Protection from malware;Multimedia;Interactive;Web-based learning environment | Issue Date: | Jun-2020 | Source: | Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2020, vol. 4, no. 2, articl. no. 10 | Volume: | 4 | Issue: | 2 | Journal: | Multimodal Technologies and Interaction | Abstract: | There is a worldwide concern for young children’s online safety and a growing necessity for e-safety skills to be taught to children from a young age as part of formal schooling. The purpose of this study was to design and evaluate the e ectiveness and motivational capacity of an interactive web-based learning environment for improving children’s e-safety skills. A quasi-experimental pre-test post-test control group design was used with an experimental group of 48 sixth-grade primary school students, who used the web-based learning environment over two 80-min lessons, and a control group of 25 students who did not. Findings revealed a statistically significant di erence (t(47) = 14.06, p < 0.01) in the experimental group students’ e-safety performance, when students’ pre-test scores (mean (M) = 41.13, SD = 10.47) were compared to their post-test scores (M = 56.69, SD = 9.38). The analysis of an attitudes questionnaire and of student interviews documented the experimental group students’ positive attitudes toward the learning environment. Findings provide evidence of the e ectiveness and motivational capacity of the web-based learning environment, which can be used in either formal education or informal learning settings, for improving children’s e-safety skills. | Description: | The article was funded by the “CUT Open Access Author Fund” | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/18899 | ISSN: | 24144088 | DOI: | 10.3390/mti4020010 | Rights: | © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access
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Type: | Article | Affiliation : | Cyprus University of Technology Datatech Information Technology (I.T.) Solutions Ltd. |
Publication Type: | Peer Reviewed |
Appears in Collections: | Άρθρα/Articles |
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