For the past six years all new entrants to two first year electronic engineering courses have been questioned on their use and awareness of basic computer literacy. This includes their ownership of personal computers, what they do with them, how they use them to study and their knowledge of different types of software, such as word processing, databases and spreadsheets. The original syllabuses...

Information explosion and globalization make great demands on keeping pace with the new trends in the healthcare sector. The contemporary level of computer and information literacy among most health care professionals in the Teaching Hospital Olomouc (Czech Republic) is not satisfactory for efficient exploitation of modern information technology in diagnostics, therapy and nursing. The present ...

BACKGROUND Health literacy is of increasing importance in public health research. It is a necessary pre-condition for the involvement in decisions about health and health care and related to health outcomes. Knowledge about limited health literacy in different age groups is crucial to better target public health interventions for subgroups of the population. However, little is known about healt...

The aim of the study is to describe and analyze design of mobile teaching for students collaborative learning in distance higher education with a focus on mobile technologies as online webinars (web-based seminars or conferencing) by using laptops, smart phones, or tablets. These multimedia tools can provide face-toface interactions, recorded flipped classroom videos and parallel chat communica...

Overview 7 Purpose of the study 7 Background to the study 7 The place of CIL in relation to traditional disciplines 10 Research questions, participants, and instruments 12 Computer and information literacy framework 15 Overview 15 Defining computer and information literacy 16 Structure of the computer and information literacy construct 18 Strands and aspects 19 Contextual framework 25 Overview ...

This article evaluates the effectiveness of the RITA computer-assisted intervention for secondary school education. The RITA system is a computer-based literacy support system that assists, rather than replaces, the teacher in providing support tailored to each child's profile of reading attainments. The study consists of 8 students who were initially very seriously disadvantaged in terms of li...

This paper, presents findings of a study that was carried out in January 2006 at the University of Botswana to determine gender differences amongst undergraduates’ students across all disciplines with regard to computer literacy. Five hundred students were surveyed of which 300 were females while 200 were male. The proportion of female to male students at the University of Botswana is 53%:47%. ...

A computer-based training (CBT) system was used to teach Computer Literacy to full-time students at the University of the Western Cape. This approach was successful in creating computer literate students as well as creating an opportunity for students from educationally disadvantaged schools to enter the Computer Science course. The students experienced this new approach to learning positively....

BACKGROUND Health information is increasingly being disseminated online, but there is a knowledge gap between Latinos and non-Hispanic whites, particularly those whose English language proficiency is poor, in terms both of online health information-seeking behavior and computer literacy skills. This knowledge gap may also exist between US- and foreign-born Latinos. OBJECTIVE The specific aim ...