Key Competencies in ICT and Informatics: Implications and Issues for Educational Professionals and Management

1. Front Matter

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2. Key Competencies for Educating ICT Professionals

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Building Basic Competences for Culturally Diverse ICT Professionals

      • Jaana Holvikivi

      Pages 3-11

   3. Project Management for IT Professionals: Education and Training Issues

      • Angela Lecomber, Arthur Tatnall

      Pages 12-24

   4. A Working Model for Teacher Training in Computing through the Literacy from Scratch Project

      • Lawrence Williams, Miroslava Černochová, G. Barbara Demo, Sarah Younie

      Pages 25-33

   5. Questioning Two Myths in Computer Science Education

      • Paolo Rocchi

      Pages 34-41

   6. Competencies and Work Practices for Dynamic Distributed Software Development in Global Value Networks

      • Mikko Ruohonen, Marko Mäkipää, Pekka Kamaja

      Pages 42-51

   7. Developing Enterprise Architecture Skills: A Developing Country Perspective

      • Irja Shaanika, Tiko Iyamu

      Pages 52-61

   8. Analysis of Real-Life Working Processes, Competencies and Operational Fields for the Usage in Vocational IT Education - Results of an Empirical Study Based on Job Offers

      • Simone Opel, Axel Wellesen

      Pages 62-67

   9. Learning Styles of Students at the Department of Computer Science – University of Potsdam

      • Loay Talib Ahmed Al-Saffar

      Pages 68-75

   10. E-Learning Maturity Model – Process-Oriented Assessment and Improvement of e-Learning in a Finnish University of Applied Sciences

       • Ilkka Haukijärvi

       Pages 76-93

   11. Accounting Professor Competencies: Identification of Educational Elements in the Education Process of Accounting Professors in Distance Education

       • Maria Ivanice Vendruscolo, Patricia Alejandra Behar

       Pages 94-105

   12. iPads in Education? A Participatory Design for Professional Learning with Mobile Technologies

       • Keith Turvey

       Pages 106-123

   13. Breeding ICT Skills for the Industries: The South African Experience

       • Tiko Iyamu

       Pages 124-135

3. Key Competencies, Learning and Life Transitions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. Life Transitions, Learning and Digital Technologies –Common Threads and Conceptions

      • Don Passey

      Pages 139-149

   3. Digital Skills and Motivation in Young People in Transition

      • Colin Rogers

      Pages 150-164

   4. Digital Skills and Competencies in Schools

      • Sue Cranmer

      Pages 165-177

   5. Digital Skills for Employment

      • Denise Leahy, Diana Wilson

      Pages 178-189

   6. Using “Yams” for Enterprise Knowledge Sharing among Knowledge Workers from the Perspective of a Task Categorisation-Knowledge Sharing Systems Fit

      • Tong-Ming Lim, Angela Siew-Hoong Lee

      Pages 190-204

This book features a selection of thoroughly refereed papers presented at two subconferences of the IFIP TC 3 Conference on Key Competencies in Informatics and Information and Communication Technologies: the IFIP WG 3.4 Conference on Key Competencies for Educating ICT Professionals, KCICTP 2014, and the IFIP WG 3.7 Conference on Information Technology in Educational Management, ITEM 2014, held in Potsdam, Germany, in July 2014. The 28 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: key competencies for educating ICT professionals; key competencies, learning and life transitions; key competencies and school management; and education stakeholders and key competencies.

• ICT education
• IT competency
• applied computing
• curriculum
• digital competencies
• education and training
• educational management systems
• educational technology
• formal and non-formal learning
• key competencies
• knowledge management
• life transitions
• motivation
• pedagogy
• professional and vocationa ICT education
• professional competencies
• school management
• skill set

• Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning, Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

  Don Passey

• Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

  Arthur Tatnall

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