HARMONIZATION OF STUDENTS’ SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS NEEDED FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE IN ACADEMIC AREA – RESULTS OF A SURVEY Gyöngyi Bujdosó, PhD University of Debrecen, Hungary TÁMOP B.2-13/ Enhancing the regional networks of professional services and research activities to support teacher development in the North-East region of Hungary Education, Research & Development 5 th International Conference September 4–8, 2014 Elenite

REQUIRED SKILLS Educators More and more Electronic learning materials Softwares Tools on the web 2.0 Services on the Web 2.0 More and more electronic environments for Studies Administration Communication … Students More and more Devices Information from the World From the World Less and less Focus on quality Attention on methodology For them Less and less courses on computer science

A simple essay with illustrations and presentation

Methodology e.g. in a simple word processor They should use Headingsinstead of wide variety of hading layouts Page breaks instead of 20 enters Tab stops, table or alignmentinstead of 20 white spaces or tabs Automaticly generated table of contents instead of copy/paste every headings Pictures with good aspect ratioinstead of egg-headed people Proper characters …. Stucture Necessary parts Illustrating (What? How?... ) Creating charts (Pie? Bar?...) Referencing (inline, …

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

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

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

ABOUT THE SURVEY We wanted to get information about Students’ skills of using ICT Attitudes to content development and management If they like using ICT as a media of the curricula Survey at University of Debrecen, Hungary Students’ habits in using electronic learning materials ICT Questionnaire: before their studies at the university

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%

RESULTS Number of computers at home Internet access at home No Internet access: 3.6%

Creating Content on the Web At least one/month Write posts 22.7% Answer questions in forums70.1% Comment photos82.5% Comment posts86.9%

Life on the Web Social networks Facebook: 75.7% – not surprising ‟ No account at all” option: 11.4% – extremely surprising Communication Facebook had only the third place with 16.8% After Chat/Skype/MSN

Electronic learning materials 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 Electronic media 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

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

CONSEQUENCE In higher education we should provide for our students basic courses on different fields of computer science / informatics

Juggestion: Curricula’s Main Focus Points 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 save data and prevent, e.g., abuses. Privacy should be an important field in this course, as well 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)

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! Gyöngyi Bujdosó, PhD University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary Education, Research & Development 5 th International Conference Elenite, Bulgaria, September 4–8, 2014