Computer and IT skills of Australian first-year university undergraduate students Lim, Kieran and Kendle, Amanda 2002, Computer and IT skills of Australian first-year university undergraduate students, Chemical education journal, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 1-23. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads lim-computeranditskills-2002.pdf Published version application/pdf 75.64KB 393 Title Computer and IT skills of Australian first-year university undergraduate students Author(s) Lim, Kieran orcid.org/0000-0001-5355-8030 Kendle, Amanda Journal name Chemical education journal Volume number 5 Issue number 2 Start page 1 End page 23 Publisher Society of Computer Chemistry Place of publication Japan Publication date 2002-03 ISSN 1344-7963 Keyword(s) chemical education research teaching/learning aids computers in chemistry IT literacy Summary The use of computers and information technology is becoming more widespread in chemical education and in the wider community and workforce. Universities are increasing the use of computers and information technology in their teaching and learning programs. The Australian situation, reported here, can be viewed as a microcosm, reflecting a world-wide trend. The penetration of general IT literacy and ability amongst Australian undergraduate students is rising rapidly. This paper reports surveys of the detailed IT skills of Australian undergraduate students. To the best of our knowledge, apart from our own work, there have been no other published surveys of specific IT skills. Most students have some reasonable computer skills at the start of their university studies, but the level of skill is not uniformly high. In fact, many IT literate students lack a sufficient level of skill to use the new technologies, including full use of web-based flexible learning. There is an urgent need for IT training for university students in order to achieve successful learning outcomes using IT and to satisfy the needs of future employers. This article, which is the second in a series (1) of investigations on the computer skills of undergraduate students at the start of university, is an expanded version of a paper presented at the World Chemistry Congress held in Brisbane (Australia) during 1-6 July 2001. Language eng Field of Research 130306 Educational Technology and Computing HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©Copyright 2002 Society of Computer Chemistry, Japan. This paper was published in “Kieran Lim, Chemical education journal., vol.5 no.2, p.1-23, 2002. The Internet address of the above Journal is as follows: http://chem.sci.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp/~cej/v5n2/kfl/2001_IT_skills_CEJ.pdf Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30001838 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment School of Biological and Chemical Sciences Higher Education Research Group Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 22 Oct 2008, 08:15:11 EST Thu, 21 May 2009, 11:41:40 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 08:44:00 EST Mon, 04 Dec 2017, 13:32:18 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 13:06:28 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1339 Abstract Views, 393 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 08:08:10 EST