[AISWorld] Last issue of the International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence

Tue Jun 28 02:34:43 EDT 2011

International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence (IJDLDC)
is an Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association
Volume 2, Issue 2, April-June 2011
Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1947-3494 EISSN: 1947-3508
Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA
www.igi-global.com/ijdldc

Editor-in-Chief: Antonio Cartelli, University of Cassino, Italy

Content of the latest issue:

EDITORIAL PREFACE
Antonio Cartelli, University of Cassino, Italy

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PDF? under ?Preface.?
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PAPER ONE

Development of ICT Competency in Pre-Service Teacher Education
Valentina Dagien?, Vilnius University, Lithuania

Starting from the key competencies for a knowledge society, this paper  
examines the information and communication technology (ICT) competency  
needed by teachers for effective teaching in the 21st-century. The  
paper analyzes the existing pre-service education programmes for  
teachers? ICT competency in Lithuanian universities and colleges,  
self-evaluation of future teachers of their technological and  
pedagogical ICT competency, and comparison of these results with the  
course requirements for the teachers? educational ICT literacy, based  
on the existing Lithuanian requirements for teachers? pedagogical ICT  
literacy programmes. The paper is based on the data of the research  
study ?Teachers? Training on ICT Application in Education? developed  
by the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics in 2009. Conclusions  
and recommendations of the study have been proposed to implement  
deeper content-based modules for pedagogical ICT competency and skills  
in all-level pre-service teacher education as well as in-service  
training courses.

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PAPER TWO

Technological Literacy in the Profile of Skills of University  
Professor in the New European Higher Education System
Antonella Nuzzaci, University of Valle d?Aosta, Italy

This article describes the new requirements of the European Higher  
Education Area (EHEA) - international and cross-cultural, Information  
and Communication Technologies (ICTs) that are important in all fields  
of university studies and take on a central role for learning and  
teaching. The literature review showed that, despite the considerable  
attention focused on the technological know-how of university  
teaching, few studies have examined the characteristics of these  
actors. The purpose is to focus more on teachers, clearly defining the  
technological skills necessary to develop the new European System of  
Higher Education in order to facilitate the development of skills,  
general learning, disciplinary, and professional digital education.  
This paper analyzes why this adaptation is necessary, the difficulties  
encountered, the objectives, and the response of teachers to these  
changes. On the other hand, university education acts on three fronts:  
the integration and use of new educational technologies in  
universities, the European convergence and application of ICT, the  
innovation and education needed to bridge the gap between  
universities, and teachers facing reality, both socially and  
professionally. This study contributes to the debate on the  
interactions between academic literacy, technological skills, and  
employment prospects for university teachers.

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PAPER THREE

Reconciling Culture and Digital Literacy in the United Arab Emirates
Tony Jewels, Zayed University UAE
Rozz Albon, Sharjah Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE

For a number of years, there has been a concerted effort by the United  
Arab Emirates to take a prominent role in introducing e-business  
initiatives throughout the Gulf region, and this effort has translated  
into widespread access of internet technology for its own citizens.  
The country, in setting out to become a hub for foreign and domestic  
companies, realized that to achieve these goals it must provide  
appropriate e-business frameworks and infrastructures, which it has  
successfully done. Although, while not the only means of acquiring  
digital literacy, regular exposure to the internet does contribute to  
gaining these necessary 21st century skills. It might be expected that  
with such widespread access to the internet the population would  
contribute to becoming digitally competent. Using an ethnographic case  
study methodology, this paper investigates issues contributing to what  
might be a new form of digital divide; cultural issues which limit the  
acquisition of such digital skills.

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PAPER FOUR

Hybrid Wireless Networks for E-Learning and Digital Literacy: Testing  
and Evaluation
Munir Abbasi, Brunel University, UK
Lampros K. Stergioulas, Brunel University, UK

Today, satellite communication networks are being integrated into the  
infrastructure of modern Terrestrial communication networks and  
becoming popular for the delivery of educational content and data, as  
well as education-centric services, including information,  
tele-conferencing, entertainment, or ?edutainment? services. With  
fresh demand for new services and applications, it is becoming  
essential that wireless network architecture seamlessly interoperate  
with new and existing technologies, protocols and standards. This  
paper presents recent work on the use of hybrid wireless network  
infrastructures for delivering tele-education and e-learning  
applications to remote communities by combining a variety of  
satellite, terrestrial and wireless technologies, and provides the  
results from live scenarios carried out employing various methods of  
interoperability testing. The analysis of the results examines a  
number of different issues such as delay, jitter, packet loss,  
latency, throughput measurement, and bandwidth. By combining satellite  
and terrestrial (wireless) technologies, full coverage and high  
capacity can be achieved for true broadband services for delivering  
educational content. The interoperability among such diverse networks  
imposes a number of challenges regarding service provision and  
management.

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For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the  
International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence  
(IJDLDC) in your institution's library. This journal is also included  
in the IGI Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database:  
http://www.igi-global.com/EResources/InfoSciJournals.aspx.  
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CALL FOR PAPERS

Mission of IJDLDC:

The mission of the International Journal of Digital Literacy and  
Digital Competence (IJDLDC) is to provide a platform for experts,  
scholars, stakeholders, and others professionals involved in the use  
of information communication technologies in education to share  
theories, studies, experiences, projects, instruments, and  
applications. This journal covers ideas concerning digital literacy  
and digital competence that will penetrate the whole society and  
create shared and commonly accepted educational paradigms to be used  
in academics by means of a practice-theory-practice paradigmatic  
approach to education. IJDLDC publishes innovative findings from  
leading experts, including engineers, researchers, scientists,  
educators, and practitioners in the creation of hardware-software  
instruments in everyday education, training, and school work.

Coverage of IJDLDC:

Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited  
to) the following:

?	Definitions/features for digital literacy and digital competence
?	Digital competence assessment
?	Digital divide and digital literacy
?	Digital literacy and digital competence interaction with:
o	Communities of practice
o	Computer science education
o	Construction of learning environments
o	Information systems
o	Knowledge management
o	Learning organizations
o	New teaching paradigms
o	Psycho-pedagogical paradigms
o	School curricula
o	Social Networking
o	Social-technical approach to MIS use
o	Teacher profession/updating
o	Ubiquitous computing
o	Virtual learning environments
o	Web technologies
?	Digital literacy in developing countries
?	Digital literacy, digital competence, and diversely able people
?	Digital literacy, digital competence, and knowledge society with a  
special attention to:
o	E-citizenship
o	E-government
o	Lifelong learning
o	Multicultural society
o	Net generation
o	Personal knowledge management
o	Personal learning environments
?	Frameworks for digital literacy and digital competence analysis
?	National and international initiatives for digital literacy
?	National and international policies for digital literacy

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission  
guidelines www.igi-global.com/ijdldc.

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to:
Editor-in-Chief: Antonio Cartelli at cartan at unicas.it

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