scholarly journals ICT Skills of University Students from the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1711
Author(s):  
Maja Batez
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Ict Skills ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Novi Sad ◽  
Important Basis

Background: (1) The COVID-19 pandemic has generated significant changes in teaching methods around the world, and the ideal of online education has become a reality. (2) Methods: A questionnaire was modified for this study in order to determine the following levels of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) skills: file creation, file management, the use of emails, the use of the internet, and online communication. In total, 360 students from the Faculty of Sports and Physical Education (FSPE), University of Novi Sad, participated in the study. (3) Results: The results show that there are differences between the estimated level of ICT skills and the ICT skills used in online education, such that students estimate their level of ICT skills as being higher than is necessary for online education (p < 0.05). There is also a correlation between the satisfaction with online education and ICT skills, showing that students with higher ICT knowledge are more satisfied with online education (p < 0.05). There is another correlation between the satisfaction with online education and the frequency of ICT use—the more ICTs are included, the more satisfied the students will be (p < 0.05). (4) Conclusions: The results of this study can serve as a recommendation for the implementation of FSPE students’ training in ICT skills, as well as an important basis for the systematic creation, improvement, and sustainability of online education in universities.

scholarly journals Enhancing the roles of information and communication technologies in doctoral research processes

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah J. Stein ◽  
Kwong Nui Sim
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Formal Learning ◽  
Doctoral Study ◽  
Ict Skills ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
The People ◽  
Information And Communication

Abstract While information and communication technologies (ICT) are prominent in educational practices at most levels of formal learning, there is relatively little known about the skills and understandings that underlie their effective and efficient use in research higher degree settings. This project aimed to identify doctoral supervisors’ and students’ perceptions of their roles in using ICT. Data were gathered through participative drawing and individual discussion sessions. Participants included 11 students and two supervisors from two New Zealand universities. Focus of the thematic analysis was on the views expressed by students about their ideas, practices and beliefs, in relation to their drawings. The major finding was that individuals hold assumptions and expectations about ICT and their use; they make judgements and take action based on those expectations and assumptions. Knowing about ICT and knowing about research processes separately form only part of the work of doctoral study. Just as supervision cannot be considered independently of the research project and the student involved, ICT skills and the use of ICT cannot be considered in the absence of the people and the project. What is more important in terms of facilitating the doctoral research process is students getting their “flow” right. This indicates a need to provide explicit support to enable students to embed ICT within their own research processes.

scholarly journals Open Assessment of Learning: A Meta-Synthesis

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andres Chiappe ◽  
Ricardo Alfonso Pinto ◽  
Vivian Arias
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Great Resistance ◽  
Traditional Assessment ◽  
Assessment Of Learning ◽  
Educational Concept ◽  
Open Educational Practice ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Use Of The Internet

<p class="3">Open Assessment of Learning (OAoL) is an emerging educational concept derived from the incorporation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to education and is related with the Open Education Movement. In order to improve understanding of OAoL a literature review was conducted as a meta-synthesis of 100 studies on ICT-based assessment published from 1995 to 2015, selected from well-established peer-reviewed databases. The purpose of this study focused on identifying the common topics between ICT-based assessment and OAoL which is considered as an Open Educational Practice.</p><p class="3">The review showed that extensive use of the Internet makes it easy to achieve some special features of OAoL as collaboration or sharing, which are considered negative or inconvenient in traditional assessment but at the same time become elements that promote innovation on that topic. It was also found that there is still a great resistance to accept change (as OAoL does) when structural elements of traditional assessment are questioned or challenged.</p>

scholarly journals E-Commerce Adoption and Growth of SMEs in Uganda

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Wanzu Ibrahim ◽  
Peter Turyakira ◽  
Proscovia M. Katumba
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Global Markets ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire

Information and communication technologies (ICT), particularly e-Commerce, are considered very important to the growth and competitiveness of businesses globally. SMEs too need to embrace innovative e-commerce strategies if they are to stay competitive, profitable and successful in local and global markets. Increased use of the Internet offers potential benefits to SMEs, such as cost reduction, improved operational efficiencies, access to new customers and enhanced business growth. However, SMEs, particularly in Uganda, have generally been slow in adopting e-commerce. Empirical research into the challenges SMEs in Uganda face in adopting electronic commerce is also limited. This study sought to explore the factors affecting e-commerce adoption among SMEs; and to establish the influence of e-commerce adoption on SMEs&rsquo; growth in Uganda. A structured, self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from 172 owners/managers of SMEs in the Kampala District in Uganda. The empirical results of this study indicate that e-commerce adoption significantly influence the growth of SMEs.

scholarly journals Pasifika Tertiary Students' Use of Information and Communication Technologies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Kerese Tuifaktoga Manueli
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Ict Skills ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Pasifika Students

<p>Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are pervasive in our daily lives. In New Zealand tertiary education institutions, the adoption of ICT is widespread. Meanwhile, Pasifika students’ participation in tertiary education has been increasing. Yet, for this group of students, academic success has been a concern to successive governments, tertiary institutions, and Pasifika peoples. ICT may offer an opportunity to improve Pasifika students’ academic achievement. The study is premised on the belief that positive learning experiences will lead to improved academic outcomes. Consequently, the study explored ways of using ICT to enhance Pasifika students’ learning experiences. Adopting an interpretivist approach, the case study investigated the ICT skills and the use of ICT for learning enhancements of a group of Pasifika students at a New Zealand institute of technology. Over a period of eighteen months, data was gathered through talanoa, participant observation, and the researcher’s reflective journal. The three method approach enabled data triangulation. Data analysis adhered to the theoretical propositions of the study. Among the key findings, is the disturbing realization that Pasifika students’ ICT skill levels were not at the level assumed by the institution. The main uses of ICT by the Pasifika students in this study were for personal communication and entertainment. The students’ use of ICT for educational purposes was limited due to the mismatch of their ICT skills and those required by the institution. Inadvertently, this has further disadvantaged the students’ learning experiences. The study concludes by offering an ICT skills development framework for use with Pasifika students. Moreover, the study proposes a number of recommendations for practice, policy, and further research.</p>

scholarly journals Smart Villages: Where Can They Happen?

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Łukasz Komorowski ◽  
Monika Stanny
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Economic Data ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Use Of The Internet

The European Union is actively promoting the idea of “smart villages”. The increased uptake of new technology and in particular, the use of the internet, is seen as a vital part of strategies to combat rural decline. It is evident that those areas most poorly connected to the internet are those confronted by the greatest decline. The analysis in this paper is based on Poland, which at the time of EU accession had many deeply disadvantaged rural areas. Using fine-grained socio-economic data, an association can be found between weak internet access and rural decline in Poland. The preliminary conclusions about the utility of the smart village concept as a revitalisation tool for rural Poland point to theoretical and methodological dilemmas. Barriers to the concept’s implementation are also observed, although there is a chance they may be overcome with the continued spread of information and communication technologies in rural areas.

The Use of Spatial Information to Create E-Public Services - Experiences from the Project "E-Services for Residents of Czestochowa”

2015 ◽  
Vol 795 ◽  
pp. 253-260
Author(s):  
Elzbieta Wyslocka ◽  
Renata Biadacz
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Barriers To Entry ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Government Services ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Developing And Developed Countries

Progress in the field of information and communication technologies has created unprecedented opportunities to deliver services in both developing and developed countries. E-services sector is one of the fastest growing areas of the economy. Supply of electronic services contributes to creating value by reducing the number of barriers to entry. Also a growing use of the Internet and related opportunities in the area of public e-services can be observed. This paper focuses on the use of Geographic Information Systems in the implementation of e-government services on the example of Częstochowa. The paper presents technical and functional assumptions and experience with implementation of the project "E-services for residents of Czestochowa".

scholarly journals A Survey on the Use of the Internet of Multimedia Things for Precision Agriculture and the Agrifood Sector

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Alvertos Ioannis Mourikis ◽  
Romanos Kalamatianos ◽  
Ioannis Karydis ◽  
Markos Avlonitis
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
In Situ Sensing ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) has already penetrated an ever-increasing array of daily aspects of life. IoTs bridge the analog and digital worlds in an unprecedented manner and degree by providing in situ sensing. Adding to the IoT the capability to collect interrelated multi-modal sensing, the use of the Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMTs) has recently been exhibited to significantly enhance the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in numerous applications, and most importantly in agrifood systems. In this work, we review key recent works in the conjunction of the three domains of IoMT, agrifood and precision agriculture and present open research directions.

scholarly journals Virtual learning environments and their collaboration for the development of Distance Education in Brazil

2020 ◽  
pp. 153-172
Author(s):  
Clayton Augusto Fontana Izoton ◽  
Douglas Manoel Antonio de Abreu Pestana dos Santos ◽  
Marcio Cézar Diehl
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Teaching Modality ◽  
Education In Brazil

Distance education is a term that has been developing for many years, but it only reached great dimensions in the beginning of the 20th century, mainly, with the use of information and communication technologies online. Through bibliographic research it is intended to present the advancement of distance education in the world and in Brazil, describe the evolution, showing that it started by exchanging correspondences until reaching the use of the internet, with synchronous or asynchronous interaction, verifying the most used platform for distance education, demonstrate the increase in the number of people enrolled in this teaching modality in addition to the main trends that the authors expect for the coming years. Distance education has great chances of gaining acceptance in the academic environment, however it is necessary that people know how to work with the technologies involved in the process, that is, be part of digital inclusion, and that both institutions and the State provide cultural and financial incentives for this alternative of knowledge transmission, because only in this way will we be able to achieve the goal of education, which is to eliminate people’s social exclusion.

scholarly journals Análisis de las intervenciones de apertura de foros de formación online desde una perspectiva discursivo multimedial y didáctico discursiva

2010 ◽  
pp. a142
Author(s):  
Guadalupe Alvarez ◽  
Lourdes Morán
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication

No cualquier uso de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación garantiza la construcción del conocimiento. Se vuelve entonces importante estudiar las modalidades comunicativas en los foros. En relación con ello, y considerando que la emisión iniciadora suele funcionar como guía de las emisiones subsiguientes, se propone elaborar una caracterización de la intervención de apertura de los foros. Para ello, se analizan dichas intervenciones desde una perspectiva discusivo multimedial y didáctico discursiva.Analysis of open online education forum from a discursive multimodal and didactic discursive perspectives AbstractNot all uses of information and communication technologies (ICT) guarantee the knowledge construction. For that reason, the study of forum communicative modalities becomes important. With regard to this, and considering that the open intervention is usually a guide for the following interventions, the aim of this article is to elaborate a characterization of the forum open interventions. In this sense, these interventions are analyzed from multimodal discursive and didactic discursive perspective.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Level of Physical Fitness of Students under the Impact of Distance Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Gennadevna Ermakova
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Training Techniques ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The article deals with the problem of the influence of distance learning on the level of physical fitness of students. The use of modern information and communication technologies has led to the creation of a new educational environment, which, as part of the training, has provided students with the opportunity to independently acquire knowledge in the context of constantly updated information. The discipline «Physical Education» is one of the main practical classes in the university program, and in order to assess how the new proposed training conditions will affect the quality of physical fitness of students, we will conduct a study within the framework of physical education classes. The aim of the study is to analyze the impact of distance learning on the level of physical fitness of students. Objectives of the study: to consider the content of distance learning, to analyze the passing of the standard running 100 m., to conduct an experiment and check the impact of distance learning on the level of physical fitness of students, to draw conclusions and make recommendations. The research methods are the generalization of scientific and methodological literature, the method of mathematical statistics, and the pedagogical experiment. Organization and results of the study. The study was conducted with students of the 1st year of full-time study at the Perm State Technical University. As a result of the experiment, it was revealed that during distance learning, the theoretical part of the students mastered better, and in the practical part (running 100 m.), the results deteriorated, since most of the physical culture program was presented in the form of theoretical and methodological-practical sections, and there was no possibility of active and systematic running, mastering technical and tactical training techniques and improving them.

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