INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES, EDUCATION QUALITY AND CHALLENGES FOR FUTURE

Information and communication technologies are changing so rapidly, that it is hardly possible to react properly to all changes. First of all, the speech is about technological changes. This inevitably touches education system as well. A certain technological “overloading” is felt in all levels of the system. It is especially felt in comprehensive education sector. On the one hand, a big demand remains for teachers’ qualification in ICT field, on the other hand, the pressure increases for the younger generation to possibly master technologies earlier. In Lithuania, as in the other Baltic region countries, a lot of attention is paid to ICT implementation at schools. For example, in Estonia, even primary class children are already learning programming; the state also devotes much attention to this, first of all, financially. One of priority fields in Lithuania, declared in education policy since 2000, has been information and communication technology application in education system. A very important moment is that technology progress rapidity is and it is likely to be much more rapid than society’s technological (and computer as well) literacy level. It is obvious, that every country’s social – economical development and competitiveness strongly depend on information and communication technology level. However, the ability of a concrete person to use the possibilities provided by information and communication technologies, is another thing. The opinion, that prevails in Lithuania is, that part of the problems related to ICT are determined by technical resources, computer literacy, lack of methodics and methodology, wrong attitude to the usage of technologies in general. Speaking about teachers (they are central part of education process), it is important to form an understanding, that ICT is not a thing in itself, i.e., it is necessary to use, because the others do this and do somewhere else and finally, that it is fashionable. ICT, first of all, is a didactic support seeking better education results. Key words: computer literacy, education system, education policy, ICT.

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Research Ethics in the Social Sciences

10.4018/978-1-7998-8473-6.ch005 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 54-64

Author(s):

Gianluca Attademo ◽

Alessia Maccaro

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Research Ethics ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Codes Of Conduct ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

The Other ◽

The Social ◽

Information And Communication ◽

The One ◽

The Relationship

The formulation of Charts for research ethics and Codes of conduct has been growing in the last few decades, on the one hand due to a renewed awareness of the ethical dimensions of research governance and the relationship between regulators and researchers, and on the other hand for the expansion of possibilities achieved by innovation in information and communication technologies. The voluntary involvement of research participants, risk management and prevention, data protection, community engagement, reflexivity of researchers are some of the centres of gravity of a debate that involves researchers, institutions, and citizens.

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Use of Information and Communication Technologies Tools to Capture, Store, and Disseminate Indigenous Knowledge

Handbook of Research on Theoretical Perspectives on Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Developing Countries - Advances in Knowledge Acquisition, Transfer, and Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0833-5.ch010 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 225-247

Author(s):

Petros Nhlavu Dlamini

Keyword(s):

Indigenous Knowledge ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Information And Communication Technology ◽

Communication Technology ◽

Personal Communication ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

The Other ◽

Technology Tools ◽

Information And Communication ◽

The One

This chapter explores the role played by Information and Communication Technology tools in the management of indigenous Knowledge in general. Of importance to note, therefore, is the fact that the emergence of Information and Communication Technology tools has opened new avenues in Indigenous Knowledge Management (IKM) which have the potential of playing important roles in the society by making the valuable knowledge available to everyone who recognizes and uses it. Given the nature of indigenous knowledge which is commonly exchanged through personal communication and demonstration exemplified as deriving from the master to the apprentice, from the parents to the children, from the one neighbour to the other and so on. Information and Communication Technology tools appear to be providing as a solution in forestalling the possible extinction of IK.

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Use of Information and Communication Technologies Tools to Capture, Store, and Disseminate Indigenous Knowledge

Indigenous Studies ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-0423-9.ch018 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 325-347

Author(s):

Petros Nhlavu Dlamini

Keyword(s):

Indigenous Knowledge ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Information And Communication Technology ◽

Communication Technology ◽

Personal Communication ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

The Other ◽

Technology Tools ◽

Information And Communication ◽

The One

This chapter explores the role played by Information and Communication Technology tools in the management of indigenous Knowledge in general. Of importance to note, therefore, is the fact that the emergence of Information and Communication Technology tools has opened new avenues in Indigenous Knowledge Management (IKM) which have the potential of playing important roles in the society by making the valuable knowledge available to everyone who recognizes and uses it. Given the nature of indigenous knowledge which is commonly exchanged through personal communication and demonstration exemplified as deriving from the master to the apprentice, from the parents to the children, from the one neighbour to the other and so on. Information and Communication Technology tools appear to be providing as a solution in forestalling the possible extinction of IK.

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El boom tecnológico en las escuelas de los años 80: una aproximación al programa ATENEA español

Espacio Tiempo y Educación ◽

10.14516/ete.249 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 247-262

Author(s):

Cristian Machado Trujillo

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Educational System ◽

Education System ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Educational Tool ◽

Large Market ◽

Business Interests ◽

Experimental Programme ◽

Information And Communication ◽

The One

Aims: This paper aims to analyse the debate concerning the incorporation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by the Spanish Educational System, specifically the background and development of the first state-sponsored experimental programme, the Atenea project (1985-1992). Methodology and sources: To this end, we performed a review of documents pertaining to the programme and its evaluation, also taking into account the debates it generated. These documents were supplemented by reports and evaluations on related programmes, the conclusions of which we analyse in comparison with some of the contemporary reports, such as the one published by the OECD in 2015. Conclusions: Some of the fundamental debates that arose as a result of these programmes promoting the use of computers, in particular the Atenea, are strikingly valid but still lack a clear response. In the case of the promotion of ICT as an educational tool, we must recognize the relevance of corporate and business interests that saw the Education System as a large market, and therefore encouraged this type of programme, favouring an application focused more on the instrumental level than on the pedagogical one.

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Postmodernism as Discourse from Foucault to Habermas

International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences ◽

10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.57.106 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 57 ◽

pp. 106-109

Author(s):

Loredana Terec-Vlad ◽

Alexandru Trifu

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Point Of View ◽

Economic Life ◽

The Other ◽

Modern Age ◽

Other Hand ◽

The Future ◽

Information And Communication ◽

The One

During the last decades, the term postmodernity has been highly invoked, on the one hand, or ignored, on the other hand. It is a term that can be found in the writings of various philosophers and sociologists, and is almost ignored and less meaningful within the economic thinking.At first view and analysis, postmodernity is the successor of the modern age, modernity in other words. However, the concept has much deeper meanings; it regards the future, foreshadowing the new realities of today's world, which are very complex and dynamic, and come under endogenous and exogenous influences, activities and issues that are permanently under the influence of multiple and multidimensional challenges [7]. In fact, the period of globalization, of the new trends of the revolutionary ICT (Information and Communication Technologies), is believed to overlap the period of postmodernism.From the philosophical point of view, but also in consonance with the economic life and realities, the individuals and entities of any nature should be characterized by adaptability, the ability to respond promptly and appropriately to the impulses and reactions that affect that system.

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Responsibility, Jurisdiction, and the Future of “Privacy by Design”

Investigating Cyber Law and Cyber Ethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-61350-132-0.ch001 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 1-20

Author(s):

Ugo Pagallo

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Video Surveillance ◽

Data Protection ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Smart Cards ◽

The Other ◽

Legal Systems ◽

Privacy By Design ◽

Information And Communication ◽

The One

This chapter focuses on some of the most relevant issues in today’s data protection: responsibility and jurisdiction are examined in the light of the principle of “privacy by design.” On one hand, both from the substantial and procedural points of view, national legal systems determine differently rights and duties in the field of data protection. On the other hand, these divergences can be overcome to some extent, by preventing privacy infringements through the incorporation of data protection safeguards in information and communication technologies. Although it is unlikely that “privacy by design” can offer the one-size-fits-all solution to the problems emerging in the field, it is plausible that the principle will be the key to understand how today’s data protection-issues are being handled. By embedding privacy safeguards in places and spaces, products and processes, such as Information Systems in hospitals, video surveillance networks in public transports, or smart cards for biometric identifiers, the aim should be to strengthen people’s rights and widen the range of their choices. On this basis, we can avert both paternalism modelling individual behavior and chauvinism disdaining different national provisions of current legal systems.

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Constructionism as Non-naturalism

The Logic of Information ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198833635.003.0003 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 53-68

Author(s):

Luciano Floridi

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

The Other ◽

Ultimate Explanation ◽

Contemporary Science ◽

The World ◽

Naturalistic Methodology ◽

Information And Communication ◽

The One

Philosophical constructionism is far from being relativistic. This chapter will argue that it does not have to be naturalistic either. The discussion begins with a consideration of a strange predicament in which contemporary science seems to be caught. On the one hand, science holds a firm and reasonable commitment to a healthy naturalistic methodology, according to which explanations of natural phenomena should never overstep the limits of the natural itself. On the other hand, contemporary science is also inextricably and now inevitably dependent on ever more complex technologies, especially Information and Communication Technologies, which it exploits as well as fosters. Yet such technologies are increasingly ‘artificializing’ or ‘denaturalizing’ the world, human experiences, and interactions, as well as what qualifies as real. The search for the ultimate explanation of the natural seems to rely upon, and promote, the development of the artificial, seen here as an instantiation of the non-natural. In this chapter, I shall try and find a way out of this apparently strange predicament. I shall argue that the naturalization of our knowledge of the world is either philosophically trivial (naturalism as anti-supernaturalism and anti-preternaturalism), or mistaken (naturalism as anti-constructionism).

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A Classification Scheme for Innovative Types in Scholarly Communication

Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-879-6.ch021 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 216-226

Author(s):

Svenja Hagenhoff ◽

Björn Ortelbach ◽

Lutz Seidenfaden

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Classification Scheme ◽

Scholarly Communication ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

The Other ◽

Original Publication ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Cost Efficient ◽

The One ◽

Efficient Distribution

Information and communication technologies seem to bring new dynamics to the established, but partly deadlocked, system of scholarly communication. Technologies are the basis for new publication forms and services which seem to enable a faster and more cost-efficient distribution of research results. Up to now new forms of scholarly communication have been described in the literature only in the form of single and often anecdotic reports. Despite the large number of papers in that area, no classification scheme for new forms of scholarly communication can be found. Therefore, this chapter aims at presenting such a classification scheme. It allows the description of new forms of scholarly communication in a standardized way. A structured comparison of new activities is possible. For this purpose, original publication media on the one hand and complementary services on the other are differentiated. With the help of morphological boxes, characteristics of both kinds of new means of scholarly communication are presented.

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A Business Model Framework to Characterize Digital Multisided Platforms

Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity ◽

10.3390/joitmc6010010 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 10 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Marco Ardolino ◽

Nicola Saccani ◽

Federico Adrodegari ◽

Marco Perona

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Assessment Tool ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Model Framework ◽

Recent Developments ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Multiple Case ◽

The One

Businesses grounded upon multisided platforms (MSPs) are found in a growing number of industries, thanks to the recent developments in Internet and digital technologies. Digital MSPs enable multiple interactions among users of different sides through information and communication technologies. The understanding of the characteristics and constituents of MSPs is fragmented along different literature streams. Moreover, very few empirical studies have been carried out to date. In order to fill this gap, this paper presents a three-level framework that describes a digital MSP. The proposed framework is based on literature analysis and multiple case study. On the one hand, the framework can be used to describe MSP as it provides an operationalization of the concept through the identification of specific dimensions, variables and items; on the other hand, it can be used as an assessment tool by practitioners, as exemplified by the three empirical applications presented in this paper.

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