Information technology fluency in practice

Abstract

Recent work has stressed the importance of fluency with information technology (IT) in the modern world. This report presents a set of context profiles that detail courses and programs to realize increased IT fluency across a small sampling of academic institutions. The goal is to provide some representative examples for other schools interested in addressing the issues associated with IT fluency.

Restructuring an Undergraduate Database Management Course for Business Students

“…The undergraduate programme requires a minimum of 360 points( equivalent to a three-year full-time study), which includes 210 points of integrated courses, 90 points from a chosen major and the remaining 60 points from either elective papers or courses from another major (AUT, 2003). Students choose from a set of ten majors according to their individual career aspirations in (Clear, 2000).While intellectual capabilities such as teamwork, time management, report writing, analysing and evaluating information are addressed in the integrated core papers, IT skills are addressed through the six professional papers within the IT Major, the cooperative education experience and the wide range of tools and IT applications addressed throughout the programme (Dougherty et al, 2003); (see Table 1). Students who graduate with the IT Major qualify for business-oriented careers, which may involve a considerable IT dimension (Clear, 2001).…”

Restructuring an Undergraduate Database Management Course for Business Students

“…The IT Major resembles the ACM (IS 2002) curriculum, designed to provide a much broader and an integrated focus within the Bachelor of Business programme. It is designed as a companion to another business related major and does not penetrate deeply into the design and implementation aspects of information systems (Clear, 2000).While intellectual capabilities such as teamwork, time management, report writing, analysing and evaluating information are addressed in the integrated core papers, IT skills are addressed through the six professional papers within the IT Major, the cooperative education experience and the wide range of tools and IT applications addressed throughout the programme (Dougherty et al, 2003); (see Table 1). Students who graduate with the IT Major qualify for business-oriented careers, which may involve a considerable IT dimension (Clear, 2001).…”

Computing Across Curricula: The View Of Industry Leaders

“…Using the outcomes of the industry panel workshop and literature review, a first draft of a Computational Capabilities Model was completed ( Figure 1). This model took the outcomes of the industry panel and shaped it based on a framework of computational fluency derived primarily from an influential National Research Council report 9 and more recent work done by Dougherty and colleagues 10 . The model looks at computational capabilities needed in a problemsolving context-central to both professional engineering practice and, appropriately, Page 14.356.4…”