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What do Australian universities want in student ICT skills?
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posted on 2023-05-23, 09:28 authored by Price, J, Fluck, A, Darren PullenDarren PullenThis paper reports on a study that sought to identify the information and communications technology (ICT) used daily in Australia higher education institutions (HEI). Four hundred and one educators from fourteen Australian universities ranked the importance of sixty-two ubiquitous and emerging hardware, software and online applications to determine what student ICT skills were necessary to successfully complete their particular curricula. These sixty-two skills were apportioned according to their common usage and divided into ten categories: communications & email; content management systems (CMS); database management; graphics; hardware; interactivities; multimedia presentations; research; spreadsheets; and, word processing. This paper presents quantitative data collected on the use of these ten categories across the faculties of Arts, Business & Commerce, Education, Health Science, Library & Research, Social Science and Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). The study revealed that students need advanced ICT skills in seven of the ten categories to successfully engage in university studies. Keywords: ICT skills, International Students, Foreign Students, Australian Higher Education
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Publication title
Conference Proceedings of the Australian Computers in Education Conference 2014Editors
T. Sweeney & S. UrbanPagination
336-344ISBN
978-0-646-92095-5Department/School
Faculty of EducationPublisher
Australian Council for Computers in EducationPlace of publication
AustraliaEvent title
Australian Computers in Education Conference 2014Event Venue
Adelaide, South AustraliaDate of Event (Start Date)
2014-09-30Date of Event (End Date)
2014-10-03Rights statement
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