Download or read book Learning Basic and Advanced Database modules on ICDL Professional Syllabus written by Mario Capurso and published by Mario Capurso. This book was released on with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work follows the ICDL (International Certification of Digital Literacy) Database Basic and Advanced Syllabus, expanded according to the document on Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Computer Science of December 20, 2013 by the Association for Computing Machinery and IEEE Computer Society. As for the know-how aspects (skills), some use Microsoft Access, which is not professional and has a non-standard version of SQL. This text uses MySQL and SQLite. They are professional, open source, totally free and widely used and easy to install. This satisfies the skills of the ICDL modules. However, the question of how to use this data remains. To do this today you need to master the Python language or the R language, which require learning times and delay the start of practice by weeks. There is a third possibility: using visual environments that allow you to make applications without knowing any language. Orange is one of these. It is visual but is based on Python, it allows you to make applications without knowing the language but also allows you to extend the application if and when you know Python. In addition, MySQL and SQLite coexist with Python and Orange Data Mining. This text uses Orange as an environment for experimentation and exercise in Data Science. It is possible to decide not to install Orange in case one is interested exclusively in SQL. In this case the reader will be free to skip the application exercises with Orange and return to them later if he/she feels the need. It should be clarified that this text follows the ICDL Syllabus and provides the skills associated with the modules in question, but it is not able to guarantee that the reader will be able to automatically pass the certification exam. In fact, it requires the purchase of a skill card, registration with a test center, compliance with a series of rules dictated by the national member organizations of the ICDL consortium and by the test center, and all of this is beyond what we can guarantee. After describing the installation of the programs used for the exercises, the text considers the types of data and their representations, including images and documents. The concepts of System, Information System and Database are introduced, as well as the most common practices of data security and privacy. The relational model and SQL are also explained with application examples with MySQL and SQLite. The various types of Joins, sorting, aggregation and grouping queries, integrity constraints, GRANT and REVOKE security features, views, indexing, Normal Forms and Normalization are then analyzed. Multi-user access to databases, interference and deadlock, locking techniques and transactions are then considered. Distributed databases and the possible options with MySQL and SQLite are then described. The limits of the relational model and the most common non-relational models (NOSQL) are outlined, the conceptual Entity-Relationship and object models according to ISO/UM and the process for moving from the problem text to the conceptual and logical relational model. The data integration process is outlined also with the use of data warehouses, data lakes and mediators, data cleaning, management of missing, repeated, anomalous and incorrect values, coding of categorical values. Finally, the project objectives are distinguished according to the best model, whether relational or non-relational. The text is accompanied by supporting material and it is possible to download the examples and test data.
Download or read book Key Competencies in the Knowledge Society written by Nicolas Reynolds and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-23 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP TC 3 International Conference, KCKS 2010, held as a part of the 21th World Computer Congress, WCC 2010, in Brisbane, Australia, in September 2010. The 43 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The range of issues cover many aspects of ICT in relation to competencies in the knowledge society; they present theory, research, applications and practical experiences on topics including but not limited to developing creativity, digital solidarity, e-management in education, informatics and programming knowledge technologies, lifelong learning, policy development, teacher(s) in a knowledge society, e-inclusion, AGORA: the IFIP initiative on lifelong learning, collective intelligence, digital literacy, educating ict professionals, formal and informal learning, innovations of assessment, networking and collaboration, problem solving teacher learning & creativity as well as teaching & learning 2.0.
Download or read book Ecdl Icdl Syllabus 4 Module 2 Using the Computer and Managing Files Using Windows 2000 written by Cia Training Ltd Staff and published by CIA Training Ltd.. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Module 2 ECDL/ICDL Syllabus 4.0. You will learn about the main operating features of Windows, the desktop and display settings on your computer. You will also learn how to organise and manage files and folders using the supplied data files. Approved by the ECDL Foundation
Download or read book Assistive Technology written by Ger M. Craddock and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication covers different themes in the field of assistive technology. The theme New technologies will explore the significant advances in technology research & development and how these can be harnessed to benefit people with disabilities. This will include evolving technologies, affording interesting insights into the future. The theme User Centred Approach will look at fundamental ways in which the EU advocate a philosophy of citizenship and governance and how this philosophy can be advanced to ensure that people with disabilities become central to the assistive technology process Another issue that is explored in this publication is Interdisciplinary Approaches which can be developed within assistive technology and the provision of services to people with disabilities. Finally, it concentrates on ways in which practitioners and users, working together within assistive technology, can achieve best practice in the development and implementation of Guidelines and Standards across a broad spectrum.
Download or read book Investigating the Impact of Information Communication Technology on Self directed Professional Development of Teachers written by Emmanuel Mushayikwa and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2011-03-02 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this research was to investigate the perceived impact of ICT on Zimbabwean A-level science and mathematics teachers' self-directed professional development. The study was based on a questionnaire survey of 254 teachers throughout the country. Supplementary data came from 54 interviews. Some observations of teachers using ICT in teacher-centres, e-mail correspondence, and field reports also contributed to the database of the study. An analysis framework was developed through the use of grounded theory on the interview transcripts. The framework yielded 9 themes relating to the teachers' use of ICT for their professional development. These were: (1) perceived professional identity; (2) career development; (3) Managing the ICT environment; (4) theoretical and content knowledge; (5) practical knowledge and skills; (6) adaptation; (7) professional networking and; (8-9) perceived benefits to teachers and students. Chaos (complexity) theory was used to identify the major attractors (goals) for teachers' self-directed professional development using ICT. Two attractors were identified. These were personal professional development and classroom practice. However, an over-riding factor common to both attractors was identified as self-efficacy. The study identified the over-arching driver for self-directed professional development as the teacher's need to improve their self-efficacy. A two dimensional model of self-directed professional development was suggested. The systemic element of the model focused on the self-correcting impact of ICT use on professional development, whilst the personal element focused on self-efficacy as the central stratum for self-directed professional development. The study concluded by acknowledging the potent role that ICT is playing in the self-directed continuing professional development of teachers in Zimbabwe, and recommended, among other things, the inclusion of A-level teachers in the development of localised online materials resources for their subjects. This will help to enhance relevance of the materials to the Zimbabwean context
Download or read book Information Technology Standards and Standardization A Global Perspective written by Jakobs, Kai and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of the emerging global information infrastructure, information technology standards are becoming increasingly important. At the same time, however, the standards setting process has been criticized as being slow, inefficient and out of touch with market needs. What can be done to resolve this situation?To provide a basis for an answer to this question, Information Technology Standards and Standardization: A Global Perspective paints as full a picture as possible of the varied and diverse aspects surrounding standards and standardization. This book will serve as a foundation for research, discussion and practice as it addresses trends, problems and solutions for and by numerous disciplines, such as economics, social sciences, management studies, politics, computer science and, particularly, users.
Download or read book Computers Helping People with Special Needs written by Klaus Miesenberger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-02 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Success and e?ciency are the latest standards and scales of our society. Virtual surroundings and communication rooms, electronic portals and platforms are pushing us into a new world of personal and professional interaction and c- peration. The network to subdue violence is fragile and crumbly, tradition is no longer a power of our community. What of leisure time, dreams, and fantasy? What of education in the family, at school and at university? Travelling round the world to develop yourself –how man becomes man: pleading for a new determination of the idea of education –a mission of past centuries inadequate nowadays? Regarding September 11th last year, the con?icts and confrontations round the globe, and events in our direct surroundings these questions seem to be a cry at least to re?ect upon what is happening around us and where we –all of us –still play an active role. An International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs is like an island –is this a topic at all these days, is it worth disc- sing the area of ICT and the situation of people with disabilities, persons who are segregated from developing their personal and professional careers? Indeed the biennial meeting has never included these actualities, but the basic idea behind ICCHP, starting in 1989, was to focus on these fringe groups and to o?er a platform of exchange on all aspects of Human Computer Interaction and the usage of ICT for people with special needs.
Download or read book Employment for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome or Non Verbal Learning Disability written by Yvona Fast and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2004-01-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people with Non-Verbal Learning Disorder (NLD) or Asperger Syndrome (AS) are underemployed. This book sets out to change this. With practical and technical advice on everything from job hunting to interview techniques, from 'fitting in' in the workplace to whether or not to disclose a diagnosis, this book guides people with NLD or AS successfully through the employment mine field. There is also information for employers, agencies and careers counsellors on AS and NLD as 'invisible' disabilities, including an analysis of the typical strengths of somebody with NLD or AS, and how to use these positively in the workplace. Practical information and lists of career resources are supported by numerous case studies to inspire and advise. An essential resource for people with NLD or AS seeking or in employment and their existing or potential employers.
Download or read book Ecdl Icdl Syllabus 4 Module 6 Presentations Using Powerpoint 2003 written by Cia Training Ltd Staff and published by CIA Training Ltd.. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive manual covers all aspects required by Module 6 ECDL/ICDL Syllabus 4.0. Designed to gradually build up knowledge, it takes a step-by-step, exercise based approach. Data files are supplied with the manual which allows practice of the different software features. It is approved by the ECDL Foundation.
Download or read book The Functional Emotional Assessment Scale FEAS for Infancy and Early Childhood written by Stanley I. Greenspan and published by Interdisciplinary Council on. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic, in-depth aproach to assessing emotional functioning during infancy and early childhood. It enables clinicians, educators, and caregivers to assess the child's functional, emotional, developmental level and create a treatment plan based on the child's individual profile and measure his or her progress. The FEAS not only delineates the emotional functioning of the infant and child, but also captures the richness of the interactions between the child and his or her caregivers.
Download or read book MEDINFO 2007 written by K.A. Kuhn and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 1532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of Medinfo2007 is “Building Sustainable Health Systems”. Particular foci are health challenges for the developing and developed world, the social and political context of healthcare, safe and effective healthcare, and the difficult task of building and maintaining complex health information systems. Sustainable health information systems are those that can meet today’s needs without compromising the needs of future generations. To build a global knowledge society, there needs to be an increased cooperation between science and technology and access to high-quality knowledge and information. The papers presented are refereed and from all over the world. They reflect the breadth and depth of the field of biomedical and health informatics, covering topics such as; health information systems, knowledge and data management, education, standards, consumer health and human factors, emerging technologies, sustainability, organizational and economic issues, genomics, and image and signal processing. As this volume carries such a wide collection, it will be of great interest to anyone engaged in biomedical and health informatics research and application.
Download or read book Advances in Web based Learning ICWL 2011 written by Howard Leung and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2011, held in Hong Kong, China, in December 2011. The 27 revised full papers presented together with 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from about 100 submissions. The papers report on research results or novel applications in web-based learning and address issues such as technology enhanced learning, personalized and adaptive learning, computer support for intelligent tutoring, intelligent tools for visual learning, Web-based learning for oriental languages learning, game-based learning, personal learning environments, computer supported collaborative learning, Web 2.0 and social learning environments, intelligent learner and group modeling, human factors and affective computing for learning, e-learning platforms and tools, design, model and framework of e-learning systems, deployment, organization and management of learning objects, e-learning metadata and standards, semantic Web and ontologies for e-learning, mobile, situated and blended learning, pedagogical issues, as well as practice and experience sharing.
Download or read book Cases on Professional Distance Education Degree Programs and Practices Successes Challenges and Issues written by Sullivan, Kirk P.H. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-08-31 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although internet technologies have transformed the concept of professional development by providing the opportunity for virtual learning environments in a non-traditional setting, the implementation of professional distance education programs still poses a challenge. Cases on Professional Distance Education Degree Programs and Practices: Successes, Challenges, and Issues examines the best practices for executing technology applications and the utilization of distance education techniques. This publication will serve as a reference for academics and instructors coordinating distance education programs, initiating distance education courses, and implementing such programs for those earning professional degrees.
Download or read book Edsurge 50 States Project written by Mary Jo Madda and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation is alive in American schools! In this special collection compiled by EdSurge, educators from all 50 US states (along with Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia), share stories of how they are using technology to inspire students and drive learning in their classrooms.
Download or read book Nursing Informatics written by Marion J. Ball and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-21 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the three editions that preceded it, this new edition targets markets in health care practice and educational settings. It addresses practicing nurses and nursing students, together with nursing leadership and nursing faculty. It speaks to nursing informatics specialists and—in a departure from earlier editions of this title—to all nurses, regardless of their specialty, extending its usefulness as a text as noted below. In recognition of the evolving electronic health information environment and of interdisciplinary health care teams, the book is designed to be of interest to members of other health care professions (quality officers, administrators, etc.) as well as health information technology professionals (in health care facilities and in industry). The book will include numerous relevant case studies to illustrate the theories and principles discussed, making it an ideal candidate for use within nursing curricula (both undergraduate and graduate), as well as continuing education and staff development programs. This book honors the format established by the first three editions by including a content array and questions to guide the reader. This 4th edition also includes numerous brief case studies that help to illustrate the theories and practices described within the various chapters. Most of these “mini-cases” are provided by members of professional nursing organizations that comprise the TIGER Initiative. These mini-cases are listed in the front matter and highlighted via formatting throughout the text.
Download or read book ECDL ICDL 4 0 Study Guide written by John Lancaster and published by Sybex. This book was released on 2004-08-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's the book you need to prepare for the seven modules required for the European/International Computer Driving License qualification. Produced in conjunction with the British Computer Society, and approved by the ECDL Foundation, this volume provides: * Comprehensive coverage of all objectives for the ECDL/ICDL Syllabus Version 4.0 * Practical instruction on computer, application, and Internet fundamentals * Detailed hands-on exercises using Office XP * Real-world insights and advice from experienced IT professionals Key topics include: Fundamental Concepts of IT: Identifying computer hardware and software components; understanding networking basics, health and safety issues, security, and copyright law Using the Computer and Managing Files: Managing files and the desktop, handling viruses, and printing Word Processing: Managing documents, inserting and editing data, formatting text, creating tables, using mail merge, and preparing data for output Spreadsheets
