ICT Profile Glossary

This glossary is a reference and a learning tool. It supports the understanding of concepts encountered while reading and helps in learning the ICT Profile for College Students vocabulary. You will find these words throughout the pages of this site dedicated to the ICT Profile, particularly in the detailed documentation on skills. This glossary will grow with the addition of content.

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Integrating the ICT Profile for Students

This section suggests to teachers ways to easily integrate ICT Profile skills in their courses. It also presents the required steps for an approach that allows the integration of all of the ICT Profile skills in a program of study. This section also looks at an institutional plan for the development of ICT skills of students as well as the role of all actors involved in the integration of the ICT Profile. Finally, you will also find in this section an overview of the integration of the...

ICT Profile History

In 2004 the IT REP Network created its first two ICT profiles for an experimental project initiated by what was then called the Ministry of Education, Leisure and Sports: one was for the Social Science program and the other one was for Accounting and Management Technology. Then, in 2005, the project was broadened to all college students. The development of the ICT Profile for College Students was carried out between 2006 and 2009 along with information, animation and promotion...

Philosophy of the ICT Profile

The ICT Profile for College Students is an Exit Profile: it aims at gradually develop informational, methodological and technological skills over the course of college studies and offers support up to the point of full autonomy. Because it is directed to higher education students, the ICT Profile stresses the importance of planning, making the right choices and developing autonomy, as well as working with rigour, professionalism, efficiency, quality,...

Why the ICT Profile?

The ICT Profile for Students proposes structured learning steps that are informational, methodological and technological. It makes it easier to make the right choices and take the right action for integrating ICT in the classroom, and it supports the successful integration of ICT in programs...

About the ICT Profile

What is the ICT Profile?

The ICT Profile for College Students is a framework that teachers and colleges can rely on to help their students develop the informational, methodological, and technological skills required.

Rare is the college curriculum that does not involve searching for, processing and presentating information. The ICT Profile sets out an approach that allows these skills to be acquired within a single course or an entire program.

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Actors in the Process

A librarian or pedagogical technician (SMTE - Spécialiste en moyens et techniques d’enseignement), ICT counsellor and other actors working in each college may be asked to collaborate with teachers to participate in one or more steps towards the integration of the ICT Profile in a program. They can also be asked to support teachers individually in the integration of specific ICT skills in a course. But what is their role? Of course the answer can vary from one college to another, depending...

Integrating the ICT Profile in an Educational Institution

The integration of the ICT Profile for Students can hardly succeed without the will and commitment of the academic institution. In this regard, we see that more and more colleges introduce objectives linked with the ICT Profile for Students in major orientations such as the Student Success plan, in the ICT Development plan and even in the Strategic Plan. Such decisions encourage the implementation of actions and investments in resources associated with the development of skills linked with...

Integrating the ICT Profile in a Program

Academic environments are directly involved in helping students face the reality of a digital society. With this in mind, we see that in every college, teachers are already preparing classroom activities that support the development of ICT Profile skills. That being said, an integrated program approach around a frame of reference such as the ICT Profile for College Students allows further development by promoting a planned and successful integration of ICT and by developing progressive and...

Integrating the ICT Profile in a course

Students in our colleges carry out more and more learning activities using ICT. Teachers integrate ICT in their teaching for many reasons: because the nature of their program naturally benefits from ICT, by pedagogical instinct that leads them to exploit their potential, for personal interest, etc. Teachers can benefit from...