The role of digital information use on student performance and collaboration in marginal universities

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Highlights:

• Understanding the information behavior of students is critical for HEIs today.

• Information need and information source are key determinants of digital information use.

• Digital information use strongly influences student performance and engagement.

• The digital divide affects how HEIs deal with digital information literacy.

• Ontology-driven models can provide solid theoretical foundations for conceptual modeling.

摘要

•Understanding the information behavior of students is critical for HEIs today.•Information need and information source are key determinants of digital information use.•Digital information use strongly influences student performance and engagement.•The digital divide affects how HEIs deal with digital information literacy.•Ontology-driven models can provide solid theoretical foundations for conceptual modeling.

论文关键词:Information seeking,Information need,Information source,Information use,Digital literacy

论文评审过程:Received 27 December 2019, Revised 15 May 2020, Accepted 15 June 2020, Available online 23 June 2020, Version of Record 23 June 2020.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102179