The role of digital informal learning in the relationship between students' digital competence and academic engagement during the COVID‐19 pandemic.
During the COVID‐19 crisis, digital informal learning is important for students' academic engagement. Although scholars have highlighted the importance of students' digital competence in improving digital informal learning (DIL), the mediating role of DIL between digital competence and academic enga...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 1154 - 1167 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2021
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