Key Competencies in the Knowledge Society

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP TC 3 International Conference, KCKS 2010, held as a part of the 21th World Computer Congress, WCC 2010, in Brisbane, Australia, in September 2010.

Use of ICT to Assist Students with Learning Difficulties: An Actor-Network Analysis.- Use of Graph2Go in M-Learning: A View from the Pedagogical Model.- ICT in Teacher Education: Developing Key Competencies in Face-to-Face and Distance Learning.- Recommendation of Learning Objects Applying Collaborative Filtering and Competencies.- Teaching Practice from the Perspective of ICT Student Teachers at the Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague.- Intentions to Pursue a Career in Information Systems and Technology: An Empirical Study of South African Students.- From Context to Competencies.- Competencies and Skills: Filling Old Skins with New Wine.- Coping with Complex Real-World Problems: Strategies for Developing the Competency of Transdisciplinary Collaboration.- Getting Granular on Twitter: Tweets from a Conference and Their Limited Usefulness for Non-participants.- Beyond Pedagogical Content Knowledge: The Importance of TPACK for Informing Preservice Teacher Education in Australia.- eExaminations Development and Acceptance.- Grundtvig Partnership Case Study 2009-2011 LifeLong Learning for Active Citizenship and Capacity Building LLLab.- A Theoretical Framework to Foster Digital Literacy: The Case of Digital Learning Resources.- Conditions for Successful Learning of Programming Skills.- Assessment of Knowledge and Competencies in 3D Virtual Worlds: A Proposal.- IP3 - Progress towards a Global ICT Profession.- A Teacher's Perspective of Interacting with Long-Term Absent Students through Digital Communications Technologies.- University as an Environment for Shaping Key Teachers' Competence for Knowledge Society.- Are Wikis and Weblogs an Appropriate Approach to Foster Collaboration, Reflection and Students' Motivation?.- Digital Literacy: A VitalCompetence for 2010?.- Informatics Systems and Modelling - Case Studies of Expert Interviews.- In Search of the Affective Subject Interacting in the ROODA Virtual Learning Environment.- Learning under Uncertainty: A Grounded Theory Study.- Integration of a Video Annotation Tool into a Coactive Learning and Working Environment.- Application of the Multiple Perspectives Model in an Undergraduate Course.- Mobile Learning: Using SMS in Educational Contexts.- Making Computer Learning Easier for Older Adults: A Community Study of Tuition Practices.- The Paradox of More Flexibility in Education: Better Control of Educational Activities as a Prerequisite for More Flexibility.- Design and Implementation of Business Process Management Curriculum: A Case in Dutch Higher Education.- All I Need to Know about Twitter in Education I Learned in Kindergarten.- Technology and Computers in Music and Music Education.- Collaborative Research Training Based on Virtual Spaces.- The Human Development Process and Informatics Education in the 21st Century.- More for Less - Live Systems Learning.- ALEF: A Framework for Adaptive Web-Based Learning 2.0.- Design and Development of Virtual Learning Environment Using Open Source Virtual World Technology.- Educational Management Challenges for the 21 st Century.- Supporting Productive Integration of Web 2.0-Mediated Collaboration.- Evaluating the Cisco Networking Academy Program's Instructional Model against Bloom's Taxonomy for the Purpose of Information Security Education for Organizational End-Users.- T'aint What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It): ICT and Creativity in the Primary School Classroom.- Need for the Intercultural Awareness in Erasmus Mobility - Administrative Point of View.- Home Access: Providing Computers toFamilies via a National Strategy.- Working with Wikis: Collaborative Writing in the 21 st Century.