The growing use of information and communications technologies in commerce and industry is once again encouraging debate and questioning of the development of students’ skills and knowledge in this domain. Whereas in the past, the debate has centred on school education, questions about ICT literacy are now being raised in the context of post-compulsory education. Post-compulsory education sits ...

How important is mastering information and communication technology (ICT) on modern labor markets? We answer this question with unique data ICT skills tested in 19 countries. Our two instrumental-variable models exploit technologically induced variation broadband Internet availability that gives rise to across countries German municipalities. find statistically economically significant returns ...

Tertiary education research, policy and practice increasingly are focused on the generic skills, including information and technology literacies, developed over the course of the students’ academic career to graduation. Concurrently, professional and educational literature related to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) expounds its benefits in supporting and enabling hea...

Students learn best when they construct the knowledge. Webquest has the potential to activate students by enhancing their critical thinking and problem solving skills. This paper focuses on Webquest in teaching Environmental Education (EE) in Vietnam, where Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and EE integration in education have been priorities in educational policy recently. The pap...

There is a high demand for qualified information and communication technology (ICT) practitioners in the European labor market. According to recent reports, ICT companies want to hire thousands of ICT specialists but are unable to find the talent. A problem at many universities is a high dropout rate among ICT students, especially during the first year. Therefore, educational research is needed...

This article is aimed at the teacher confronted with emerging technologies but with no experience in using them in the classroom. The author emphasizes the correlation between learning new skills oneself and feeling comfortable enough to integrate them in student activities. For example, the teacher can become familiar with using e-mail, and then confidently devise languagebased tasks for the s...

In a knowledge-based, networked economy, students leaving university need to have attained skills in collaborative and creative project-based work and to have developed critical, reflective practices. This paper outlines how a wiki can been used as part of social constructivist pedagogical practice which aims to develop advanced ICT literacies in university students. The paper describes the imp...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are an integral part of our environment, their uses vary across generations among individuals. Today’s student population is made up “digital natives” who have grown under the ubiquitous influence digital technologies, for whom use ICT common whose daily activities structured around media use. The aim this study to examine impact skills on stude...