Undergraduate fluency with information and communication technology: Perceptions and reality

SIGITE'08: Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIG-Information Technology Education Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5-9

  Hilberg, J Scott ^a   Meiselwitz, Gabriele ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Fluency; ICT; Information literacy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; STUDENTS;

ASSESSMENT; FLUENCY; GENERAL EDUCATIONS; ICT; ICT EDUCATIONS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; INFORMATION LITERACY; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 63449096043     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414558.1414562     Document Type: Conference Paper

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