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Key Competencies in ICT and Informatics. Implications and Issues for Educational Professionals and Management

IFIP WG 3.4/3.7 International Conferences, KCICTP and ITEM 2014, Potsdam, Germany, July 1-4, 2014, Revised Selected Papers

  • Don Passey
  • Arthur Tatnall
Conference proceedings ITEM 2014

Part of the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology book series (IFIPAICT, volume 444)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
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  2. Key Competencies for Educating ICT Professionals

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Building Basic Competences for Culturally Diverse ICT Professionals
      Jaana Holvikivi
      Pages 3-11
    3. Project Management for IT Professionals: Education and Training Issues
      Angela Lecomber, Arthur Tatnall
      Pages 12-24
    4. A Working Model for Teacher Training in Computing through the Literacy from Scratch Project
      Lawrence Williams, Miroslava Černochová, G. Barbara Demo, Sarah Younie
      Pages 25-33
    5. Questioning Two Myths in Computer Science Education
      Paolo Rocchi
      Pages 34-41
    6. Competencies and Work Practices for Dynamic Distributed Software Development in Global Value Networks
      Mikko Ruohonen, Marko Mäkipää, Pekka Kamaja
      Pages 42-51
    7. Developing Enterprise Architecture Skills: A Developing Country Perspective
      Irja Shaanika, Tiko Iyamu
      Pages 52-61
    8. Analysis of Real-Life Working Processes, Competencies and Operational Fields for the Usage in Vocational IT Education - Results of an Empirical Study Based on Job Offers
      Simone Opel, Axel Wellesen
      Pages 62-67
    9. Learning Styles of Students at the Department of Computer Science – University of Potsdam
      Loay Talib Ahmed Al-Saffar
      Pages 68-75
    10. E-Learning Maturity Model – Process-Oriented Assessment and Improvement of e-Learning in a Finnish University of Applied Sciences
      Ilkka Haukijärvi
      Pages 76-93
    11. Accounting Professor Competencies: Identification of Educational Elements in the Education Process of Accounting Professors in Distance Education
      Maria Ivanice Vendruscolo, Patricia Alejandra Behar
      Pages 94-105
    12. iPads in Education? A Participatory Design for Professional Learning with Mobile Technologies
      Keith Turvey
      Pages 106-123
    13. Breeding ICT Skills for the Industries: The South African Experience
      Tiko Iyamu
      Pages 124-135

  3. Key Competencies, Learning and Life Transitions

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 137-137
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    2. Life Transitions, Learning and Digital Technologies –Common Threads and Conceptions
      Don Passey
      Pages 139-149
    3. Digital Skills and Motivation in Young People in Transition
      Colin Rogers
      Pages 150-164
    4. Digital Skills and Competencies in Schools
      Sue Cranmer
      Pages 165-177
    5. Digital Skills for Employment
      Denise Leahy, Diana Wilson
      Pages 178-189
    6. Using “Yams” for Enterprise Knowledge Sharing among Knowledge Workers from the Perspective of a Task Categorisation-Knowledge Sharing Systems Fit
      Tong-Ming Lim, Angela Siew-Hoong Lee
      Pages 190-204
    7. An Exploratory Study on the Use of Knowledge Management System and the Employees’ Perception on Organisational Knowledge Sharing and Reuse
      Angela Siew-Hoong Lee, Tong-Ming Lim
      Pages 205-218
    8. Digital Skills for Those in Transition – Where Next
      Don Passey
      Pages 219-230

  4. Key Competencies and School Management

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 231-231
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    2. Digital Storytelling and Key Skills: Problems and Opportunities
      Monica Banzato
      Pages 233-246
    3. Effect of Principals’ Technological Leadership on Teachers’ Attitude towards the Use of Educational Technologies
      Cevat Celep, Tijen Tülübaş
      Pages 247-258
    4. Creating Knowledge Sharing Culture via Social Network Sites at School: A Research Intended for Teachers
      Cevat Celep, Tuğba Konaklı, Nur Kuyumcu
      Pages 259-264
    5. The Effect on School Operations of the Use of School Management Software in Victoria
      Christopher Tatnall, Arthur Tatnall
      Pages 265-277
    6. An Information Service to Act in Binomial ‘Monitoring–Improvement’ of Educational Performance in Portugal: Three Focus Group Studies to Explore the Concept
      Antonio Castro, Delfina Soares
      Pages 278-288

  5. Educational Stakeholders and Key Competencies

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 289-289
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    2. Key ICT Competencies within the European Higher Education Area
      Javier Osorio, Julia Nieves
      Pages 291-305
    3. Learner Differences in the Online Context: Introducing a New Method
      Arne Hendrik Schulz, Debora Jeske
      Pages 306-317
    4. Online Free School Meals as a Cloud-Based Solution: Three Case Studies of Its Use in England
      Alan Strickley
      Pages 318-330
    5. A National Single Indicator for Schools in England: Helping Parents Make Informed Decisions
      Alan Strickley, John Bertram, Dave Chapman, Michael Hart, Roy Hicks, Derek Kennedy et al.
      Pages 331-345
  6. Back Matter
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About these proceedings

Introduction

This book features a selection of thoroughly refereed papers presented at two subconferences of the IFIP TC 3 Conference on Key Competencies in Informatics and Information and Communication Technologies: the IFIP WG 3.4 Conference on Key Competencies for Educating ICT Professionals, KCICTP 2014, and the IFIP WG 3.7 Conference on Information Technology in Educational Management, ITEM 2014, held in Potsdam, Germany, in July 2014. The 28 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: key competencies for educating ICT professionals; key competencies, learning and life transitions; key competencies and school management; and education stakeholders and key competencies.

Keywords

ICT education IT competency applied computing curriculum digital competencies education and training educational management systems educational technology formal and non-formal learning key competencies knowledge management life transitions motivation pedagogy professional and vocationa ICT education professional competencies school management skill set

Editors and affiliations

  • Don Passey
    • 1
  • Arthur Tatnall
    • 2
  1. 1.Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning, Department of Educational ResearchLancaster UniversityLancasterUK
  2. 2.Victoria UniversityMelbourneAustralia

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45770-2
  • Copyright Information IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2014
  • Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
  • eBook Packages Computer Science
  • Print ISBN 978-3-662-45769-6
  • Online ISBN 978-3-662-45770-2
  • Series Print ISSN 1868-4238
  • Series Online ISSN 1868-422X
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