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Olelewe, Chijioke Jonathan; Amaka, Eugenia Ngozi – Online Submission, 2011
The challenges for TVET today is to re-orient and redirect its curricula to imbue trainers and trainees on sustainable use of resources to enhance appropriate work skill development as new and employment opportunities emerge such as recycling, ICT, repair, waste management, etc. This paper is therefore focused on the effective utilization of ICT…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Educational Technology
Gardner, Phil – Collegiate Employment Research Institute (NJ3), 2011
This paper presents the recruiting trends for 2010-2011. This year's report is based on nearly 5,800 respondents, of which approximately 4,600 provided useable information, and 3,714 included complete hiring figures used for the projections. Despite the gloomy national labor market situation, the college segment of the market is poised to rebound…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Salaries, Personnel Selection, Labor Market
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Kert, Serhat Bahadir – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2011
The rapid developments in the communication technologies today render possible the use of new technological support tools in learning processes. Wireless, or mobile wireless, technologies are the tools whose potential contributions to education are investigated. The potential effects of these technologies on learning are explored through studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Programming Languages, Programming
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Chang, Ching-Fen; Kuo, Chih-Hua – English for Specific Purposes, 2011
There has been increasing interest in the possible applications of corpora to both linguistic research and pedagogy. This study takes a corpus-based, genre-analytic approach to discipline-specific materials development. Combining corpus analysis with genre analysis makes it possible to develop teaching materials that are not only authentic but…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Graduate Students, Writing (Composition), Language Research
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Guidry, Brandi N.; Totaro, Michael W. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2011
A challenge faced by many instructors of systems analysis and design courses is the selection or development of projects that provide challenging, yet suitable, learning experiences for the students. Employing a system development project case in undergraduate MIS courses offers students a multitude of opportunities to experientially examine…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Experiential Learning, Reference Materials, Group Activities
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Rae, Andrew; Samuels, Peter – Computers & Education, 2011
The Personalised System of Instruction is a form of mastery learning which, though it has been proven to be educationally effective, has never seriously challenged the dominant lecture-tutorial teaching method in higher education and has largely fallen into disuse. An information and communications technology assisted version of the Personalised…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Higher Education, Management Systems, Mastery Learning
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Chang, Chih-Kai; Chen, Gwo-Dong; Hsu, Ching-Kun – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2011
In order to encourage students to participate in online learning forums, prompt responses to their questions are essential. To answer students' online questions, teaching assistants are assigned to manage discussions and answer questions in online learning forums. To minimize the response time, many teaching assistants may be needed to interact…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Reaction Time, Online Courses, Labor
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Hui, Tie Hui; Umar, Irfan Naufal – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2011
This study aims to investigate the effects of metaphors and pairing activity on programming performance of students with different self-regulated-learning (SRL) level. A total of 84 computing students were involved in this seven-week study, and they were randomly assigned either to a group that received a combination of metaphor and pair…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discussion, Figurative Language, Teaching Methods
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Tan, Grace; Venables, Anne – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2008
In an ideal world, review and changes to computing curricula should be driven solely by academic concerns for the needs of students. The process should be informed by industry accreditation processes and international best practice (Hurst et al., 2001). However, Australian computing curricular review is often driven by the need for financial…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Labor Market, Educational Change, Computer Science
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Johnson, Richard T.; Cotton, Samuel E. – Technology Teacher, 2008
For educational purposes it is not necessary to use expensive commercial-grade equipment to teach students about commonly used sensors. Schools frequently have limited funds for acquiring educational materials; therefore, purchasing sensors identical to those used in large-scale industry is not an option. By purchasing small-scale components that…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Purchasing, Electronics, National Standards
ACT, Inc., 2014
ACT has been a leader in measuring college and career readiness trends since 1959. Each August, they release "The Condition of College & Career Readiness" (www.act.org/newsroom/data/2014), their annual report on the progress of the ACT-tested graduating class relative to college readiness. Nationally, 57% of the 2014 graduating class…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Entrance Examinations, Science Interests, Student Interests
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Murphy, Marianne C.; Sharma, Aditya; Seay, Cameron; McClelland, Marilyn K. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2010
As universities continually update and assess their curriculums, mainframe computing is quite often overlooked as it is often thought of as "legacy computer." Mainframe computing appears to be either uninteresting or thought of as a computer past its prime. However, both assumptions are leading to a shortage of IS professionals in the…
Descriptors: Computers, Computer Science Education, Information Science Education, Inclusion
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Lawler, James P.; Joseph, Anthony – Information Systems Education Journal, 2010
Digital gaming continues to be an approach for enhancing methods of pedagogy. The study evaluates the effectiveness of a gaming product of a leading technology firm in engaging graduate students in an information systems course at a major northeast institution. Findings from a detailed perception survey of the students indicate favorable…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Simulated Environment, Teaching Methods, Graduate Students
Edgington, Jeffrey Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Video and computer games have become an important area of study in the field of education. Games have been designed to teach mathematics, physics, raise social awareness, teach history and geography, and train soldiers in the military. Recent work has created computer games for teaching computer programming and understanding basic algorithms. …
Descriptors: Video Technology, Computer Science Education, Fundamental Concepts, Investigations
Huang, Jian – ProQuest LLC, 2010
With the increasing wealth of information on the Web, information integration is ubiquitous as the same real-world entity may appear in a variety of forms extracted from different sources. This dissertation proposes supervised and unsupervised algorithms that are naturally integrated in a scalable framework to solve the entity resolution problem,…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Language Processing, Profiles, Social Networks
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