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Information and communication technology (ICT) literacy education has become an important issue, and the necessity of computational literacy (CL) has been increasing in our growing information society. CL is becoming an important element for future talents, and many countries, including the USA, are developing programs for CL education. Accordingly, Korea’s Ministry of Education has modified the ICT education program created in 2000. The revised curriculum has emphasized computational thinking and informational ethics since 2007. However, in revising the ICT curriculum, we need to develop a new ICT test tool because the previous tool did not include CL. Thus, we developed a new ICT literacy test tool consisting of fundamental concepts, contemporary skills, and CL. We then carried out a test on 40,072 elementary students nationally. To determine the CL level of students, we used the standard level obtained from ten experts using the Angoff method (1971) and analyzed the difference between the standard level and students’ level in the test. The results showed that students’ CL scores were remarkably lower than their scores on fundamental concepts and contemporary skills. We consequently found that the revised ICT curriculum did not apply to the current ICT education domain, implying that we need to develop a strategy to expand CL to different educational fields, which would help researchers and administrators to measure CL in ICT education.

This study proposes a Web Services-based Digital Libraries (DLs) using Case-based Reasoning as a space for collaborative learning. In the Digital Library environment, cases were designed on the basis of a list of loaned books and personal information. Using those data, a degree of preference was computed and Case-based Reasoning was used to compare among the cases in the case base. The proposed system recommends suitable communities to an individual user based on his or her personal preferences. As a result, DLs can play a role as a computer-supported collaborative learning space in order to provide more plentiful and useful information to users. In addition, this study demonstrates that DLs can be effectively expanded by using Web-Services techniques and Case-based Reasoning

This study proposed the system for collecting the learning contents using the mobile agent in e-learning and m-learning. The mobile agent in wireless environment can provide the flexible works through a network and collect the adequate learning contents according to the learner?s request. Moreover, the mobile agent can reduce the communication expenses. In this study, we proposed the CAS system that the mobile agent intellectually collected the appropriate learning contents in wireless learning. We used the SCORM-based contents as learning materials. In order to examine the validity of proposed study, we designed and implemented proposed system with mobile agent.

Agent-based conference information management systems are proposed. Three different types of agent-based systems are introduced: single agent, multi agent and mobile agent. They manage the information intelligently and autonomously in Semantic Web using RDF and DAML.

This study has developed Web-based, automated lesson planner system for teachers to make out and make use of lesson plans using ICT (information communication technology). First, the Web-based lesson planner system has been developed to enable teachers to make and use lesson plans on the web. Second, the database of the electronic lesson planner system has been designed and established according to Korean curriculum and form of teaching-learning lesson plan using ICT. Third, the system embodied making out a lesson plan easily and operating all ICT materials together. Last, the system was applied to the real elementary school fields and the efficiency and improvements were analyzed. This lesson planner system made a database of all ICT materials and lesson plans, so that it can manage and control all lesson plans systematically. Also, the lesson plans and ICT materials are connected together, so the database can be a dynamic content storage. The construction of this system established maximization of share, use and storage of teaching-learning lesson plans. It will be popularized in real education fields and made a contribution to the school informatization.

The mobile agent is receiving the attention as a new technique to retrieve and to share the distributed contents on Web-based educational systems. Retrieval using a mobile agent uses the method that delivers the agent to accomplish a search in the direct server. This study proposed the model of a retrieval system that shares and searches the distributed educational contents of the bulletin board and newsgroup by using the mobile agent. In order to evaluate the efficiencies of the system that is proposed, we did the comparison test on the search model of the existing and proposing system. By a test result, we confirmed network traffic of the proposed system are diminished. Moreover we gave proof of the fact that the optimum search time of the mobile agent-based system is shortened.