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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
Hawkes, Mark – Educational Technology, 1999
Presents and applies a teacher professional-development-oriented analytical framework to provide clarity to the discussion of what role network-based communication may play in teacher professional-development experiences. A table presents a summary of advocacy and adversarial claims in network-based professional development by areas of…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Faculty Development, Information Technology
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Thompson, Brett A. – Tech Directions, 2004
Since its inception in 1997, Cisco's curriculum has entered thousands of high schools across the U.S. and around the world for two reasons: (1) Cisco has a large portion of the computer networking market, and thus has the resources for and interest in developing high school academies; and (2) high school curriculum development teams recognize the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Secondary School Curriculum, Secondary School Teachers, Curriculum Development
Hill, Janette R.; Hannafin, Michael J. – 1996
The purpose of this study was to identify the strategies used by learners in an open-ended hypermedia information system. Four participants were drawn from an introductory technology-for-teachers course incorporating a unit on telecommunications. Participants completed a survey measuring reported knowledge in three domains (metacognitive, system,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Hypermedia
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