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HARMONIZATION OF STUDENTS’ SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS NEEDED FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE IN ACADEMIC AREA – RESULTS OF A SURVEY Gyöngyi Bujdosó, PhD University of
HARMONIZATION OF STUDENTS SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS NEEDED FOR
COMPUTER SCIENCE IN ACADEMIC AREA RESULTS OF A SURVEY Gyngyi
Bujdos, PhD University of Debrecen, Hungary
[email protected] TMOP-4.1.2.B.2-13/1-2013-0009
Enhancing the regional networks of professional services and
research activities to support teacher development in the
North-East region of Hungary Education, Research & Development
5 th International Conference September 48, 2014 Elenite
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REQUIRED SKILLS Educators More and more Electronic learning
materials Softwares Tools on the web 2.0 Services on the Web 2.0
More and more electronic environments for Studies Administration
Communication Students More and more Devices Information from the
World From the World Less and less Focus on quality Attention on
methodology For them Less and less courses on computer science
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A simple essay with illustrations and presentation
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Methodology e.g. in a simple word processor They should use
Headingsinstead of wide variety of hading layouts Page breaks
instead of 20 enters Tab stops, table or alignmentinstead of 20
white spaces or tabs Automaticly generated table of contents
instead of copy/paste every headings Pictures with good aspect
ratioinstead of egg-headed people Proper characters . Stucture
Necessary parts Illustrating (What? How?... ) Creating charts (Pie?
Bar?...) Referencing (inline,
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Teachers expectations In higher education, students should have
skills on many fields of computer science Teachers expectations In
higher education, students should have skills on many fields of
computer science
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Do our students have all of these skills? Can we use them
during teaching?
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Do our students have all of these skills? Can we use them
during teaching?
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ABOUT THE SURVEY We wanted to get information about Students
skills of using ICT Attitudes to content development and management
If they like using ICT as a media of the curricula Survey at
University of Debrecen, Hungary Students habits in using electronic
learning materials ICT Questionnaire: before their studies at the
university
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PARTICIPATION 4670 test properly filled Sex Women: 56.7% Men:
41.4% Age 19 year-old: 26.9% More than 25: 12.6% Level of studies
BA/BSc: 69% MA/MSc:17.3%
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RESULTS Number of computers at home Internet access at home No
Internet access: 3.6%
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Creating Content on the Web At least one/month Write posts
22.7% Answer questions in forums70.1% Comment photos82.5% Comment
posts86.9%
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Life on the Web Social networks Facebook: 75.7% not surprising
No account at all option: 11.4% extremely surprising Communication
Facebook had only the third place with 16.8% After
Chat/Skype/MSN
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Electronic learning materials Experiences More than 30% of the
students wrote that they learn from electronic learning material
very rarely or never Only 5.5% said that they use them almost every
day It turned out that most of them (77,3%) like to print their
curricula Electronic media 31.1% would like to read learning
materials on computer monitors 28.9% would like to read learning
materials on e-book reader 17.5% on phones
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Reading literature 12.0% like to read literature on computer
screen 16,1% would like to use e-book reader 8.2% would like to use
phone 82.5% would like to read printed literature
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CONSEQUENCE In higher education we should provide for our
students basic courses on different fields of computer science /
informatics
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Juggestion: Curriculas Main Focus Points Basic information
about computers. Main parts, types of input and output devices.
E.g. scanners and OCR, printers, cameras, microphones. Data
storages Copying, moving files, folders. Archiving and versioning
data ICT technologies: clouds, intelligent applications. Students
have to know about security, how they can save data and prevent,
e.g., abuses. Privacy should be an important field in this course,
as well We have to show some areas which give possibilities for
collaboration. Students should know more these services Finding
information: trusted places, finding information (methods of
searches), checking, selecting and sorting relevant information
Professional communities collecting and sharing information Basics
of visual design Word processing and designing presentations: basic
general functions of applications, introduction of typography and
visual design. Tools for effective information transferring
Paper/dissertation writing: content, structure, references
Preparing illustrations: Picture manipulation, drawing. Designing
their content and structure Introduction to on-line administration
Calculations: introduction to statistics (programs, services and
possibilities)
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! Gyngyi Bujdos, PhD University of
Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary [email protected]
http://www.inf.unideb.hu/~bujdoso Education, Research &
Development 5 th International Conference Elenite, Bulgaria,
September 48, 2014