The technological and social shifts of the past several decades have brought about new modes of learning, participation and civic engagement. As young people work, play and socialize in online spaces, the academic community is exploring the challenges and possibilities of education in the digital age. New definitions of literacy emerge to address the importance of digital skills, play and colla...

Objectives: The purpose of the study was to validate a measurement scale assess self-perceived digital competencies Mexican university students who have migrated from mixed school-digital system fully digitalized educational environment because COVID-19 confinement. instrument based on European Union Digital Competence Framework. Method: 1,118 participants aged between 18 and 47 years completed...

The purpose of the study is to determine needs modern Russian agriculture for specialists with certain, most-in-demand, digital competencies. research methodology based on application expert assessments method, method random statistical selection experts, and scientific generalization method. field technologies in agriculture, as well corresponding competencies agricultural university graduates...

Schools in Austria providing compulsory education are accountable for imparting IT skills and informatics competencies to their pupils. The term and subject “informatics” encompasses almost every activity which has to do with computers at schools. In many cases “IT” would be more appropriate to describe the present situation at the lower secondary level. Therefore clarity of the terms “IT” and ...

Some people regard the personal mobile robot as a candidate for the next digital revolution as it might become a future ubiquitous tool and everyday partner of humans. This new “socio-emotional” robot is supposed to conduct dialogue, to develop social competencies and to support users in everyday life. In this chapter, I sketch out the epistemological, ontological and techno-material groundings...

Sheila Corrall is Professor and Chair of the Library & Information Science program at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches courses on research methods and academic libraries. Her research interests include the application of business management concepts to library and information services, collection development in the digital world, and the evolving roles and competencies of librari...

Schools in Austria providing compulsory education are accountable for imparting IT skills and informatics competencies to their pupils. The term and subject “informatics” encompasses almost every activity which has to do with computers at schools. In many cases “IT” would be more appropriate to describe the present situation at the lower secondary level. Therefore clarity of the terms “IT” and ...

The last decade has seen major advances in the areas of natural language processing and semantic analysis. Theoretical advances and increased computational power have resulted in applications that detect topics and sentiments in communications, automatically classify unstructured data in enterprise settings, and win Jeopardy contests. This paper surveys how these same methods apply to a variety...