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Draus, Peter; Mishra, Sushma; Slonka, Kevin; Bromall, Natalya – Information Systems Education Journal, 2022
Information Technology (IT) skills gap discourse suggests a mismatch between what students are acquiring in terms of knowledge and skills in their education versus what employers believe are useful skills for doing day to day tasks. This study builds upon previous research (analyzing the skills of college students in IT-related majors) by…
Descriptors: Skills, Achievement Gap, Employment Qualifications, Information Technology
Solomon Mosisa Gofere – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation addresses three separate questions in human capital and development economics. In the first chapter, I study how college admission concerns drive students' field choices in a field-specific college admission system. To study this question, I leverage a college admission policy reform in Ethiopia that sharply increased the…
Descriptors: Human Capital, STEM Education, State Universities, College Admission
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Yates, David J.; Frydenberg, Mark; Waguespack, Leslie J.; McDermott, Isabelle; OConnell, Jake; Chen, Frankie; Babb, Jeffry S. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2019
The importance of updating, expanding and improving what is taught in cybersecurity curricula is increasing as the security threat landscape becomes more dangerous, breaches become more frequent, and the number of deployed Internet of Things (IoT) devices, known for their security challenges, grows exponentially. This paper argues that a profile…
Descriptors: Information Security, Computer Security, Curriculum Design, Internet
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Berman, Ronald; Hassell, Deliesha – Journal of Educators Online, 2014
The Doctoral Community Network (DC) is a learner driven, scholarly community designed to help online doctoral learners successfully complete their dissertation and program of study. While digital natives grew up in an environment immersed in technology, digital immigrants adapted to this environment through their ability to learn and adjust to…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Electronic Learning, Higher Education
Ercan, Tuncay; Sahin, Yasar Guneri – Online Submission, 2007
Course descriptions prepared by the lecturers in the beginning of the academic year do not get any feed back from the students enrolled it. These syllabuses are not only used for the future semesters, but also used by the other lecturers without even making any changes. This causes a negative effect on the student education since many of the…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Measures (Individuals), Course Descriptions, Computer Networks
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers