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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Miliszewska, Iwona; Sztendur, Ewa – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2011
How can transnational education (TNE) programs be made more effective? According to the literature, no one is in a better position to comment on this question than the students themselves. At the same time, there is a recognized scarcity in the literature of student input into the issue of transnational program effectiveness. In consideration of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multicampus Colleges, Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students
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Miliszewska, Iwona; Venables, Anne; Tan, Grace – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2010
Information technology has been transforming various disciplines of life sciences and physical sciences as a tool (for "doing" science) and a technique (for conducting experiments and creating models). This evolution in the application of IT in science demands that science students be equipped with appropriate IT skills and that the development of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Sciences, Technological Literacy
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Miliszewska, Iwona; Moore, Aidan – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2010
This article reviews strategies designed to improve female participation in ICT studies and careers. In reviewing a range of strategies from around the world, the article identifies the different actors engaging with the "problem" of girls and technology. It points to the many crossovers that occur as governments, higher education providers,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intervention, Females, Foreign Countries
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Venables, Anne; Tan, Grace; Miliszewska, Iwona – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2013
To succeed within the increasingly global context of their work environment, today's IT professional needs to be equipped with both cutting-edge technical skills and a strong repertoire of "soft" skills. An important and often unrecognized soft skill is an appreciation of how various IT issues impact upon different peoples and what…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness, Information Technology, Computer Science Education
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Miliszewska, Iwona – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2007
With the rapid expansion of the transnational education market, more and more universities join the ranks of transnational education providers or expand their transnational education offerings. Many of those providers regard fully-online provision of their programs as an economic alternative to face-to-face teaching. Do transnational students…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Distance Education, Interaction, Foreign Countries
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Miliszewska, Iwona; Barker, Gayle; Henderson, Fiona; Sztendur, Ewa – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2006
The under-representation and poor retention of women in computing courses at Victoria University is a concern that has continued to defy all attempts to resolve it. Despite a range of initiatives created to encourage participation and improve retention of females in the courses, the percentage of female enrolments has declined significantly in…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Females, Focus Groups, Access to Computers