Information technology fluency in practice

Proceedings of the Conference on Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education, ITiCSE

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 153-171

  Dougherty, John P ^a   Dececchi, Tom ^b   Clear, Tony ^c   Richards, Brad ^d   Cooper, Stephen ^e   Wilusz, Tadeusz ^f  

^a HAVERFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^d VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

^e SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Computer applications; Context profiles; Education; FITness; Intellectual capabilities; IT concepts; IT fluency; Non majors

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS; CONTEXT PROFILES; FITNESS; NON-MAJORS; SMALL SAMPLING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INNOVATION;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33748973357     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/960568.782999     Document Type: Conference Paper

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