Information Literacy Skills and Impact of COVID-19 on Rural Students of Tamil Nadu, South India

Information Literacy is an effective tool to analyze the current knowledge and education quality of students who is pursuing school and college education. Most of the studies on information literacy have been conducted in rural and urban areas students. Although rural students are facing several problems for studying school and higher education levels revealed by information literacy assessment is necessary for rural students due to online education and economic impact with COVID-19 issue. Therefore, the proposed study is aimed to concentrate the present knowledge to the information literacy skill, and impact with COVID-19 student’s education level in the rural students of Tamil Nadu State, South India. In each village, about 25 to 50 students will be chosen by questionnaire method. The question were raised their demography, Information literacy skill and impact with covid-19 of the rural students education level. The result of the study central and state government should facilitate rural students by providing them with all kinds of facilities like laptops and smart phones and going to the slums to improve the quality of education of rural students and promote access to their higher education and intellectual information

Technological Strategic Planning and Globalization Impact: Fine-Tuning Strategic Planning Methodology

Through this research, I sought to determine how technology leadership, as part of academic administration conducts strategic planning in educational technology. The focus in educational technology falls on the various tools of online interaction while the focus on strategic planning falls on SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis. Under the impact of globalization, it is expected that the realm of external data necessary for SWOT analysis must shift from within national boundaries to international data gathering, thus providing a realistic assessment and enabling feasible strategic planning in a global economy. The need for revision was based on a review of literature about strategic planning of education and technology in the United States and Europe, as well as research on globalization, education, and change. An instrument, in Bulgarian and English, was distributed to students and faculty members from educational institutions in the United States and Bulgaria. Bulgaria was selected due to the following factors : the researcher is fluent in the language and has the local network, which facilitated and accelerated data gathering. More importantly, Bulgaria cannot be considered a part of the Western hemisphere and, thus, the homogeny of language and economy was avoided. On the other hand, Bulgaria does not fall in the category of developing countries lacking infrastructure or poorly developed educational system, which presented a feasible opportunity for meaningful comparison. A comparison of external data for SWOT analysis from a Midwestern University in the U.S. is compared with other American universities and with Bulgarian universities. Statistical data shows differences in the comparison of the Midwest University with the other and American universities and the Midwest University with the Bulgarian universities. The statistical findings suggest that collecting globally external data for SWOT analysis might benefit strategic planning and technological change in higher education

Access to and use of information and communication technology by students at the University of the Western Cape

Magister Educationis - MEdThis study investigated access to and use of Information and Communication Technology by students at the University of the Western Cape. It examined how the issues of access and use play out at the microlevel of a historically disadvantaged institution in South Africa by investigating the institutional arrangements and practices of different computer laboratories.South Afric

ORGANISATIONAL DETERMINANTS AND E-ACCOUNTING SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION IN MICRO AND SMALL ENTERPRISES (MSES) IN SOUTH-WEST NIGERIA

Over the past decade, there had been evidences on the accounting benefits accruable to Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in the integration of ICT in the accounting processes. Despite these benefits, the implementation of ICT in the accounting process of MSEs in Nigeria has not been well sought after as expected. More so, there had been mixed evidences on the factors influencing the implementation of e-Accounting in MSEs but these factors are yet to be situated in the context of Nigeria. It is against this background that the study empirically investigated the factors influencing the implementation of e-Accounting system in MSEs in Nigeria. In the study, four research questions, objectives and hypotheses were examined. These were focused around four major constructs; Owner/manager, Business, Technological and External characteristics. The study adopted the survey research design. The geographical scope of the study was limited to Owners/manager of MSEs in South-West Nigeria, in which samples were selected based on the stratified sampling technique. Utilizing the Raosoft sample size calculator and Bartlett, Kotrlik and Higgins sample size table, six-hundred and sixty (660) copies of the questionnaire were distributed within the South-West zone, out of which four-hundred and ten (410) were usable. The data gathered were analysed using general purpose statistical software STATA and Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) and the results were estimated using Binary Logistic Regression. The results revealed that owner/manager e-Accounting capability, business age, technology complexity, technology compatibility, technology security, technology cost to annual profit, presence of external IT supplier, customers’ request, external expertise influence are significant in the implementation of e-Accounting system. The study made the following recommendations amongst others; The MSEs geographical concentration should be considered in providing an indigenous and affordable e-Accounting system that allows for multi-user access and multi-preference specifications deployable to MSEs. In addition, the provision of an indigenous e-Accounting system should not be limited only to the supply of the e-Accounting infrastructure but should encompass the provision of consulting services during the pre-implementation, implementation and post implementation process. The study also proposed an e-Accounting framework that provides a platform where customers of e-Accounting system can indicate their needs, budgets and specifications, thus enabling them to own an e-Accounting system on a shared platform. The proposed framework in the study provide solutions to some constraints inhibiting the use of e-Accounting which include inability to allocate funds to information technology (IT) projects because of its capital intensive nature and the difficulties in recruiting and maintaining IT experts in micro and small enterprise

Learning out of the box : perceptions and use of a VLE at an HE institution

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