THE DIGITAL CAPABILITY OF STUDENTS FOR SOCIAL NEEDS: RESEARCH ON A PRELIMINARY APPLIED MODEL IN VIỆT NAM
Abstract
In the 21st century higher education, ICT skills are considered as a basic requirement to achieve digital literacy, which is an undeniable key competence of students for being future workers. There are many models for measuring and assessing ICT skills, digital literacy or other related competences all over the world. This article aims to combine some of them, the most important and compatible, for designing a preliminary Vietnamese practical model of digital literacy.
Our studies focused on four programs of Vietnamese universities that were assessed by the ASEAN University Network Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) from 2009 to 2014. The survey’s results were analyzed by ‘semi-exploratory approach’ then being compared with other studies in Vietnam and over the world. Our suggested ‘3 factors, 8 items’ model seems to be compatible with the most well-known international models of information literacy, which is a core component of the digital literacy in particuliar, and of the lifelong learning competencies in general.
Keywords: information and communication technology, digital literacy, information literacy, lifelong learning, Vietnam’s higher education