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Gyöngyi Bujdosó, PhD University of Debrecen, Hungary b ujdoso.gyongyi @ inf.unideb.hu

HARMONIZATION OF STUDENTS’ SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS NEEDED FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE IN ACADEMIC AREA – RESULTS OF A SURVEY. Gyöngyi Bujdosó, PhD University of Debrecen, Hungary b ujdoso.gyongyi @ inf.unideb.hu. Education, Research & Development 5 th International Conference

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Gyöngyi Bujdosó, PhD University of Debrecen, Hungary b ujdoso.gyongyi @ inf.unideb.hu

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  1. HARMONIZATION OF STUDENTS’ SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS NEEDED FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE IN ACADEMIC AREA – RESULTS OF A SURVEY Gyöngyi Bujdosó, PhD University of Debrecen, Hungary bujdoso.gyongyi@inf.unideb.hu Education, Research & Development 5th International Conference September 4–8, 2014 • Elenite TÁMOP-4.1.2.B.2-13/1-2013-0009 Enhancingtheregionalnetworks of professionalservices and researchactivitiestosupportteacherdevelopment intheNorth-Eastregion of Hungary

  2. REQUIRED SKILLS Educators Students More and more Devices Informationfromthe World Fromthe World Less and less Focusonquality Attentiononmethodology ForthemLess and less courseson computer science More and more • Electroniclearningmaterials • Softwares • Toolsonthe web 2.0 • Servicesonthe Web 2.0 More and more electronicenvironmentsfor • Studies • Administration • Communication • …

  3. A simpleessaywithillustrations and presentation

  4. Methodologye.g. in a simplewordprocessor Theyshoulduse • Headingsinstead of widevarietyof hading layouts • Pagebreaksinstead of 20 enters • Tab stops, tableoralignmentinstead of 20 whitespacesortabs • Automaticlygeneratedtable of contentsinsteadofcopy/pasteeveryheadings • Pictureswithgoodaspect ratio instead of egg-headedpeople • Propercharacters • …. Stucture Necessaryparts Illustrating (What? How?... ) Creatingcharts (Pie? Bar?...) Referencing (inline, …

  5. Teachers’ expectations In higher education, students should have skills on many fields of computer science

  6. Do our students have all of these skills? Can we use them during teaching?

  7. Do our students have all of these skills? Can we use them during teaching?

  8. ABOUT THE SURVEY Wewantedtogetinformationabout • Students’ skills of using ICT • Attitudesto content development and management • Ifthey like using ICT as a media of the curricula SurveyatUniversity of Debrecen, Hungary • Students’ habits in using • electronic learning materials • ICT • Questionnaire: beforetheirstudiesattheuniversity

  9. 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%

  10. RESULTS • Number of computersathome • Internet accessathome • No Internet access: 3.6%

  11. CreatingContentonthe Web Atleastone/month • Writeposts 22.7% • Answerquestionsinforums 70.1% • Comment photos 82.5% • Comment posts 86.9%

  12. Life onthe Web Socialnetworks • Facebook: 75.7% –notsurprising • ‟No account atall”option: 11.4%– extremelysurprising Communication • Facebook had onlythe third placewith16.8% • After Chat/Skype/MSN

  13. Electroniclearningmaterials 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 Electronicmedia • 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

  14. 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

  15. CONSEQUENCE Inhighereducationweshouldprovideforourstudents basiccoursesondifferentfields of computer science / informatics

  16. Juggestion: Curricula’s Main FocusPoints • 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 savedata and prevent, e.g., abuses. Privacy should be an important field in this course, aswell • 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)

  17. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! Gyöngyi Bujdosó, PhD University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary bujdoso.gyongyi@inf.unideb.huhttp://www.inf.unideb.hu/~bujdoso Education, Research & Development 5th International Conference Elenite, Bulgaria, September 4–8, 2014

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