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Abstract |
In
the Autumn of 1990 the University of Edinburgh engaged on the first
of a series of major surveys to assess the experience of computing
and Information Technology (IT) among its newly arriving cohort of
first year undergraduates. The general objective of the survey was
to test some of the assumptions which were being made about the degree
to which students were beginning their university careers with already
high levels of IT awareness and competence following their secondary
school experience. This exercise has been repeated on several occsions
since the original survey. We have looked at changes in ownership
of and access to computers, and the use of email over a ten year
period. The studies are aimed at monitoring the development of the
IT Literacy Programme of the University of Edinburgh which has evolved
to encourage academic departments to raise the profile of IT use.
This programme has involved a partnership between the academic department
and faculties on the one hand, and the relevant central support services
on the other. It is based on the 1992 report of the IT Literacy Working
Party http://www.flp.ed.ac.uk/LTRG.IT.html |
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Publications |
Haywood,
J. & Macleod, H. (1998) Students Ownership of Computing Equipment,
UCISA Software Group Meeting on Student Computers, Kings College
London.
Haywood, J. & Macleod, H. (1998) Supporting autonomy: IT literacy
at the University of Edinburgh, SEDA-TLTSN Conference, University of
Southampton.
Anderson, C., Haywood, J. & Macleod, H. (1998) New Undergraduates,
attitudes towards, and experience of, information technology, SEDA-TLTSN
Conference, University of Southampton.
Haywood, J. & Macleod, H. (1997) Successfully Chasing a Moving Target?
The Institutional Strategy for IT Literacy at the University of Edinburgh,
American Association for Higher Education, Washinton DC, USA.
Haywood, J. (1997) On-line learning - winning, losing & sitting on
the fence, Annual Conference of the CTI Centre for Medicine, Bristol.
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