Student Readiness and Perception to the Use of Smart Phones for Higher Education in the Pacific

International Journal of Technoethics

Chaudhary

2020

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174

Information and communication technologies (ICT) along with the internet have fueled advancements and growth in banking, transportation, economics, and most of all in education in the 21st century. The 21st century citizens are provided with new opportunities that have been created with the advancement of ICT. Hence, individuals need a wide range of abilities, competencies, and skills to adapt to the technological era. This paper provides a literature review of the growing importance of ICT, its wide array of usage, and its influence on various facets of people's daily lives. In addition, the emerging concept of digital literacy through ICT developments, contribution of digital literacy towards the achievement of sustainable development goals, contribution of ICT towards the development of various sectors particularly the education sector, and the work done in this area of digital literacy are summarised. The paper concludes with three new models of digital literacy: four gear model, model for flexible learning, and a model showing the impact of ICT on the learning process.

Section: Importance Of Ictmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Literacy

Reddy

International Journal of Technoethics

Chaudhary

2020

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174

“…The university uses virtual classrooms, mobile learning, tablet learning, cohort-based learning to provide collaborative and distance-based learning to its students [1][9]. Also, tools like Online Mathematics Diagnostic Tool (OMDT), Early Warning System (EWS) and Lecture Capture System are used to facilitate online delivery [9] [44]. The university faces similar challenges of lack of digital fluency by its students [45].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Literacy: A Catalyst for the 21^stCentury Education

Reddy

Chaudhary

2020 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering (CSDE)

et al. 2020

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The seamless integration of new digital technologies into higher education teaching and learning has transformed education pedagogies and changed how students learn. The students are now required to have digital competencies to survive in the era of learning with technology; therefore, measuring the students' digital competencies is of utmost importance. This study evaluates the first-year university students' digital competencies at a higher education institute using a newly designed digital literacy measuring tool named digitlitfj. The digitlitfj is an online tool consisting of a 5 point Likert scale questionnaire ranging from 'No understanding' to 'Advanced level of understanding' that was piloted to the first-year university students. The results show that 86.15% of the students were average to very highly digitally literate. Also, Deep learning, Support Vector Machine, Random Forest and Decision Tree algorithms in RapidMiner were used to evaluate the most important and influential variables in predicting an individual's digital literacy competency. The results show that all the variables utilized in the research were important, with computer literacy being the most influential variable in predicting an individual's digital literacy.

“…While the regional governments in collaboration with NGOs, donor agencies and others are making way for the usage of mobile devices to be integrated to education, there is little evidence or documentation on what the students want and how they perceive this innovation. A recent survey in the Pacific has found that most users in the Pacific opt for smartphones [24]. Fig.…”

Section: Mobile Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart Learning in the Pacific: Design of New Pedagogical Tools

2018 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)

Nand

Naseem

et al. 2018

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Smart learning ecosystems leverage on state-of-theart tools and technologies to help students learn better with Information Communication Technologies (ICT). The ubiquity, innovations and advancements of ICT have transformed pedagogies and approaches to content facilitation and delivery in higher education worldwide, the Pacific region being no exception. The paper essays a number of learning and support tools designed in-house or adopted (or outsourced) recently by a higher education institution in the Pacific contributing to the smart learning ecosystem. The institution has integrated these ICT driven tools to its academic and support programmes, and more recently the in-country science programmes introduced in its member countries. The strengths and challenges from the implementation of these new adaptive tools are highlighted with recommendations to the wider academic populace.