Full Description
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.
Contents
Building Basic Competences for Culturally Diverse ICT Professionals.- Project Management for IT Professionals: Education and Training Issues.- A Working Model for Teacher Training in Computing through the Literacy from Scratch Project.- Questioning Two Myths in Computer Science Education.- Competencies and Work Practices for Dynamic Distributed Software Development in Global Value Networks.- Developing Enterprise Architecture Skills: A Developing Country Perspective.- 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.- Learning Styles of Students at the Department of Computer Science - University of Potsdam.- E-learning Maturity Model - Process-Oriented Assessment and Improvement of e-Learning in a Finnish University of Applied Sciences.- Accounting Professor Competencies: Identification of Educational Elements in the Education Process of Accounting Professors in Distance Education.- iPads in Education? A Participatory Design for Professional Learning with Mobile Technologies.- Breeding ICT Skills for the Industries: The South African Experience.- Life Transitions, Learning and Digital Technologies - Common Threads and Conceptions.- Digital Skills and Motivation in Young People in Transition.- Digital Skills and Competencies in Schools.- Digital Skills for Employment.- Using "Yams" for Enterprise Knowledge Sharing among Knowledge Workers from the Perspective of a Task Categorisation-Knowledge Sharing Systems Fit.- An Exploratory Study on the Use of Knowledge Management System and the Employees' Perception on Organisational Knowledge Sharing and Reuse.- Digital Skills for Those in Transition - Where Next.- Digital Storytelling and Key Skills: Problems and Opportunities.- Effect of Principals' Technological Leadership on Teachers' Attitude towards the Use of Educational Technologies.- Creating Knowledge Sharing Culture via SocialNetwork Sites at School: A Research Intended for Teachers.- The Effect on School Operations of the Use of School Management Software in Victoria.- An Information Service to Act in Binomial 'Monitoring Improvement' of Educational Performance in Portugal: Three Focus Group Studies to Explore the Concept.- Key ICT Competencies within the European Higher Education Area.- Learner Differences in the Online Context: Introducing a New Method.- Online Free School Meals as a Cloud-Based Solution: Three Case Studies of Its Use in England.- A National Single Indicator for Schools in England: Helping Parents Make Informed Decisions.
