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dc.contributor.advisor | Eyono Obono, Seraphin Desire | - |
dc.contributor.author | Adegbehingbe, Oluwakemi D. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-11-05T07:50:21Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-11-05T07:50:21Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | - |
dc.identifier.other | 637496 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10321/1396 | - |
dc.description | Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Technology: Information Technology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2015. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Education is constantly challenged by rapid technological changes both in terms of curriculum renewal and in terms of students’ awareness of these new technologies. This is the reason why the aim of this study is to analyse factors affecting computing students’ awareness of the latest ICTs. This aim is further divided into four research sub-aims: the selection of the relevant theories for this research; the design of an appropriate conceptual model to support it; the empirical testing of the above mentioned model; and finally, recommendations arising from the research results. The first research sub-aim is accomplished through selection of the Innovation Diffusion Theory (IDT) as the theoretical framework of this study after a review of different theories of technology adoption. The second research sub-aim is accomplished through the design of a conceptual model which is an adaptation of the relationship between the prior conditions construct and the knowledge/awareness construct of IDT. The prior conditions that were studied are students’ perceived exposure to career guidance and students’ perceived curriculum currency. These prior conditions were analysed as possible predictors of computing students’ technology awareness. The third sub-aim is accomplished by means of a survey of 116 computing students from the four universities of the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa, the results of which validated most of the relationships hypothesized by the above mentioned model. Having knowledge/awareness as the main variable of the current study can be seen as its main contribution in view of the fact that only two studies from the reviewed literature on IDT are examining the awareness/knowledge construct. The fourth sub-aim is accomplished by means of some recommendations, one of which is that gender and ethnicity be considered when curriculating computing courses both at the high school level and at the university level. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 112 p | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Technology awareness | en_US |
dc.subject | ICTs | en_US |
dc.subject | Curriculum | en_US |
dc.subject | Education | en_US |
dc.subject | IDT | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Educational change--South Africa | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Education, Higher--Effect of technological innovations on--South Africa | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Computers and college students--South Africa | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Education, Higher--South Africa--Computer-assisted instruction | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Internet in higher education--South Africa | en_US |
dc.title | Factors affecting computing students’ awareness of the latest ICTs | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.level | M | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.51415/10321/1396 | - |
local.sdg | SDG05 | - |
local.sdg | SDG04 | - |
item.fulltext | With Fulltext | - |
item.openairecristype | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18cf | - |
item.languageiso639-1 | en | - |
item.openairetype | Thesis | - |
item.grantfulltext | open | - |
item.cerifentitytype | Publications | - |
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