scholarly journals Computer Science is not Enough

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 624-631
Author(s):  
John Bennett ◽  
Revi Sterling
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Project Design ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Computer Science Research ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Political Economic

Despite huge investment, and the best of intentions, most development projects fail. This is particularly true of Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICTD) projects. We contend that a significant contributor to this failure is the lack of breadth in project design and implementation, and in the training of project implementers. Successful ICTD interventions, in addition to being based on the best computer science research has to offer, must be guided by the relevant social, cultural, political, economic and gender factors that underlie the interaction of the technology with the community into which it is being placed. We therefore argue that efforts to distance computer science from the broader context of ICTD scholarship and practice are misguided. ICTD should be recognized as a truly interdisciplinary area of research and practice. We further argue that ICTD as a discipline has a particular need for academic practitioners. We close with a compilation of current known ICTD academic efforts worldwide.

scholarly journals Computer Science is not Enough

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 624-631
Author(s):  
John Bennett ◽  
Revi Sterling
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Project Design ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Computer Science Research ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Political Economic

Despite huge investment, and the best of intentions, most development projects fail. This is particularly true of Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICTD) projects. We contend that a significant contributor to this failure is the lack of breadth in project design and implementation, and in the training of project implementers. Successful ICTD interventions, in addition to being based on the best computer science research has to offer, must be guided by the relevant social, cultural, political, economic and gender factors that underlie the interaction of the technology with the community into which it is being placed. We therefore argue that efforts to distance computer science from the broader context of ICTD scholarship and practice are misguided. ICTD should be recognized as a truly interdisciplinary area of research and practice. We further argue that ICTD as a discipline has a particular need for academic practitioners. We close with a compilation of current known ICTD academic efforts worldwide.

The Dance of Clark and Kozma

2020 ◽  
pp. 218-229
Author(s):  
Selcan Kilis ◽  
Seher Balbay
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Technology ◽  
New Media ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
State University ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Convenience Sampling

The influence of media and method and their recent dramatic impact on learning have been discussed by many researchers in the instructional technology field and spurred the Clark-Kozma debate. This chapter explores the standpoints of preservice information and communication technology teachers attending a state university in Turkey. The findings are presented as a guide to educators and instructional designers, especially in their preservice research and practice. Participants were selected by convenience sampling, and their opinions were obtained following a debate on the topic. A questionnaire was administered for this purpose that had been prepared by the researchers. The results of the survey were augmented by detailed observations of the debate. Most of the participants agree that new media provides and facilitates the emergence of new methods or changes in existing methods, and learning and teaching benefit from approaches that combine the two.

scholarly journals Repenser la définition des aides techniques en éducation / Rethinking the definition of assistive technology in education

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hajer Chalghoumi
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Technology In Education ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Distinct Concept ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Aides Techniques

En éducation, un nombre croissant d’élèves avec incapacités ont recours aux aides techniques. Parallèlement, une littérature récente mais de plus en plus abondante étudie ce concept. En dépit de cet intérêt grandissant tant au niveau de la recherche que de la pratique liée à ces technologies, plusieurs indices soulignent la difficulté de distinguer entre ce concept et celui de technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC) notamment en éducation. Les aides techniques sont-elles un concept distinct ou une variante des TIC? Quelles sont les conséquences d’une telle confusion conceptuelle ? Comment peut-on différencier ces deux concepts ? L’objectif du présent article est d’apporter des éléments de réponse à ces questions. In education, an increasing number of students with disabilities make use of assistive technologies (AT). Meanwhile, a recent but growing literature studies this concept. Despite this interest both in research and practice related to these technologies, several clues point to the difficulty of distinguishing it from and the information and communication technology (ICT), particularly in education. Are AT a distinct concept or a variation of ICT? What are the consequences of such a confusion? How can we differentiate these two concepts? The purpose of this article is to provide some answers to these questions.

scholarly journals Empowering front office employees with counseling affordances

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Giesbrecht ◽  
Birgit Schenk ◽  
Gerhard Schwabe
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Design Science ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
German City ◽  
Role Of Information

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the face-to-face citizen service encounter in public administrations’ front offices, and present a novel qualification approach to empower service personnel on-the-job, and thereby deepen the knowledge on the role of information and communication technology for advancing governmental reforms. Design/methodology/approach – The presented study follows a design science research methodology, conducted in collaboration with the public administration of a major German city. Data were collected using multiple quantitative and qualitative methods, including questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and video analysis. Findings – A novel on-the-job qualification approach for empowering public employees in their job-related skills, building on the concept of affordances, is developed. Thereto, six design principles for equipping artifacts with counseling affordances are presented. Evaluations in real-world environments provide first evidence that “learning with counseling affordances” constitutes an effective qualification measure to initiate experiential learning on-the-job, helping employees in the resource-restricted work environment of public front offices to obtain the skills to provide superior advisory services. Research limitations/implications – The “learning with counseling affordances” approach was developed in collaboration with an individual major German city and the paper provides first evidence of its effectiveness and suitability. Hence, the study’s insights should be approved by further research to strengthen generalizability. Originality/value – The paper highlights the previously neglected aspects of employee’s skills and qualification for promoting governmental transformation. By highlighting the beneficial relationship between affordances and on-the-job learning, the paper provides novel insights on the role of information and communication technology to promote governmental transformation.

scholarly journals An Analysis of the participation of women in Information and Communication Technology courses at State University of Maringá (UEM)

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciana Andréia Fondazzi Martimiano ◽  
Valéria Delisandra Feltrim
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Data Processing ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Processing Technology ◽  
State University ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Information And Communication

This paper presents an analysis about the number of incoming and graduate students,considering women and men, at the Department of Informatics (DIN) at State Universityof Maringá (UEM), in Brazil. The data were collected considering three graduate courses,Data Processing Technology (extinct in 1997), Computer Science and Informatics. Theresults show that the number of women is dropping drastically from the late 1990s. InComputer Science, from 1994 to 2016, of the 622 graduate students, 127 were women.In Informatics, from 2000 to 2016, only 38 women had graduated, of the 275 students.In 2017, there were 211 students enrolled in Computer Science, and 208 in Informatics.On average, 8.11% were women (34), being 8.65% in Informatics (18), and 7.58% inComputer Science (16). These percentages are lower than the national one in Brazil,which is 14.19%.

scholarly journals Relationship between Korean Informatics Curriculum and Textbook Learning Element Considering Compound Word

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 430
Author(s):  
Jaehong Kim ◽  
Hosung Woo ◽  
Jamee Kim ◽  
WonGyu Lee
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Korean Language ◽  
Compound Words ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication

With the development of information and communication technology, countries around the world have strengthened their computer science curriculums. Korea also revised the informatics curriculum(The name of a subject related to computer science in Korea is informatics.) in 2015 with a focus on computer science. The purpose of this study was to automatically extract and analyze whether textbooks reflected the learning elements of the informatics curriculum in South Korea. Considering the forms of terms of the learning elements mainly comprised of compound words and the characteristics of Korean language, which makes natural language processing difficult due to various transformations, this study pre-processed textbook texts and the learning elements and derived their reflection status and frequencies. The terms used in the textbooks were automatically extracted by using the indexes in the textbooks and the part-of-speech compositions of the indexes. Moreover, this study analyzed the relevance between the terms by deriving confidence of other terms for each learning element used in the textbooks. As a result of the analysis, this study revealed that the textbooks did not reflect some learning elements in the forms presented in the curriculum, suggesting that the textbooks need to explain the concepts of the learning elements by using the forms presented in the curriculum at least once. This study is meaningful in that terms were automatically extracted and analyzed in Korean textbooks based on the words suggested by the curriculum. Also, the method can be applied equally to textbooks of other subjects.

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