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Lang, Guido; Triantoro, Tamilla – Information Systems Education Journal, 2022
Governments, businesses, and educational institutions need to collaborate and make significant investments in order to address the growing digital skills crisis. In Europe, hundreds of digital skills initiatives have been launched with different forms of government and private industry support in the last five years alone. Consequently, digital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Literacy, Technological Literacy, Labor Force Development
Brumfield, Robin G.; Özkan, Burhan; Vezne, Rabia – Online Submission, 2017
"Suzanne's Project" is a 28-hour program, which began in the Antalya province of Turkey in 2011 to empower small-scale women farmers to manage their farms as a business by training them in computer literacy, technical production topics, and farm business management. A survey 1.5 years after the workshop ended found that all of the women…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Extension Education, Agricultural Occupations, Business Administration
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Chien, Tien-Chen – European Journal of Training and Development, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the influences of system and instructor factors on e-learning effectiveness under the interactions of computer self-efficacy. In this study, the factors of the e-learning system are functionality, interaction, and response. The factors of the e-learning instructor are attitude, technical skills,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Financial Services, Self Efficacy, Instructional Effectiveness
Germain, Marie-Line – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2011
Rapid globalization, advances in technology, flatter organizational structures, synergistic cooperation among firms, and a shift to knowledge work environments have led to the increasing use of virtual teams in organizations. Selecting, training, and socializing employees in virtual teamwork has therefore become an important human resource…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Global Approach, Labor Force Development, Human Resources
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Al-Ruz, Jamal Abu; Khasawneh, Samer – Educational Technology & Society, 2011
The purpose of this study was to test a model in which technology integration of pre-service teachers was predicted by a number of university-based and school-based factors. Initially, factors affecting technology integration were identified, and a research-based path model was developed to explain causal relationships between these factors. The…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Self Efficacy, Technology Integration, Educational Technology
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Ezziane, Zoheir – Educational Technology & Society, 2007
This paper aims to discuss the role and impact that information technology (IT) has on the future and existing style of learning and teaching. It highlights the importance of acquiring computer skills and being literate in IT. The focus is put on certain areas related to IT and education which include pedagogy and training to build IT literacy…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Role, Context Effect, Teaching Styles
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Ndahi, Hassan; Gupta, Abha – Reading Improvement, 2000
Describes a GTE Project that provides technology equipment and assistance in computer literacy for adult learners. Indicates that the training sessions benefited them in the use of the reading software, Internet, Power Point, web importing programs, and use of electronic portfolio. Reports that all trainees felt better prepared to participate…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Literacy, Employee Attitudes, Internet
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Brescia, William; Daily, Tony – American Indian Quarterly, 2007
In this article, the authors discuss the importance of building a technological infrastructure and of creating educational opportunities for Native Americans that focus on information sciences in order for them to keep up with quickly changing technologies and to close the information gap, and present a research that focuses on the specific…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Economic Development, Educational Opportunities, American Indian Reservations
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Knox, Allyson – New Directions for Youth Development, 2006
Today's knowledge economy requires that the citizenry and workforce be able to harness information and communication technologies in order to remain competitive on a global scale. As a result of new demands, the notion of digital literacy has become less a luxury and more an imperative for many countries, gaining significant momentum in the past…
Descriptors: Corporate Support, Organizational Culture, Education Work Relationship, Job Skills
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Githens, Rod P. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2007
E-learning and distance education can play a role in helping older adults become integrated with the rest of society. As demographic and cultural changes affect the place of older adults in society, online learning programs become increasingly appealing to older adults. In this article, I discuss (1) the changing notion of work and learning in…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Older Adults, Computer Uses in Education
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Kaul, Mohan – Information Technology for Development, 1987
This discussion of the development of information technology in developing nations is based on case studies of seven Asian countries. The experiences of the countries are compared in terms of the infrastructure development, organizational processes, applications, human resources development, and public awareness. (CLB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Computer Literacy, Developing Nations
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Levy, Frank; Murnane, Richard J. – New Directions for Youth Development, 2006
As American educators struggle to meet the unprecedented challenge of preparing all students to master the skills embodied in state learning standards, some wonder whether their efforts make economic sense. After all, the newspapers are full of reports of jobs being outsourced to lower-wage countries and jobs being done by computers. If more and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Global Approach, Economic Development, Labor Force Development
Bernstein, Harriet T. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1983
This position paper denounces what the author considers to be an increasing and excessive reliance on computers and technological advancements generally as panaceas for educational and social problems whose real resolution demands the skills of "citizens with a basic liberal arts education" rather than those of technocrats. (JBM)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Computer Literacy, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education
Hoffman, Carl – Appalachia, 2000
Business, community members, and county government cooperated in establishing a literacy center in Catoosa County, Georgia, that provides free GED classes; courses in English, math, basic reading, computer skills, and parenting; and classes offered by a local technical college. Free classes, child care, and GED tests and a flexible schedule remove…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Computer Literacy, Disadvantaged