Systems and Means of Informatics
2016, Volume 26, Issue 2, pp 171-180
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND EDUCATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: FORMING THE NEW PROFESSIONALS
Abstract
The situation in the labour market mismatch between the availability and demand for information and communications technologies specialists that exists in the European Union despite the high level of unemployment is con-sidered. The reasons for the existing imbalance that has mainly been caused by insufficient level of digital competences among the significant part of the working population are analyzed. Certain aspects of "The Riga Declaration on e-skills" designed to change the current situation are presented. A significant role in the imbalance compensation is assigned to school teachers, who either insufficiently use or avoid the ICT usage in the learning process, which has been proved by the research results. The measures taken to improve the teachers qualification level are listed. The Massive Open Online Courses focused on various aspects of the ICT use in teaching both general subjects and computer science are given as an example.
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Title
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND EDUCATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: FORMING THE NEW PROFESSIONALS
Journal
Systems and Means of Informatics
Volume 26, Issue 2, pp 171-180
Cover Date
2016-05-30
DOI
10.14357/08696527160212
Print ISSN
0869-6527
Publisher
Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences
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Key words
digital competences; digital technologies; professional development; training teachers; Massive Open Online Courses; kids digital safety; selfassessment; robotics; coding
Authors
D. A. Bogdanova 
Author Affiliations
Institute of Informatics Problems, Federal Research Center "Computer Science
and Control", Russian Academy of Sciences, 44-2 Vavilov Str., Moscow 119333, Russian Federation
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