Recommended Websites

We would like to suggest websites worthy of interest and which are linked with the ICT Profile. The organizations behind those sites offer resources, tools and services to colleges. The resources from these organizations were judged pertinent for the ICT Profile and were catalogued, filed per category and associated, as the case may be, with skills from the ICT Profile. To find out how to access them from this web space, see the “Structure and Contents of the ICT Profile Space”...

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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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.

The ICT Profile...

Video Tutorials for the Mastering of Skill 3 Tasks

Each week, the IT Representatives Network (IT-REPS/REPTICs) offers brief tutorials in the form of video clips that were developed to support the development of ICT Profile abilities. These clips are specifically designed for students, but are useful to anyone that wants to improve their technology skills.

Please note that it is possible for you to embed the video clips from the ICT Profile for Students into your blog or web page. To do this:

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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...

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...

Status in Colleges

The first version of the ICT Profile for College Students was published in 2009. From then on, colleges adapted this framework by beginning different projects to integrate it. In January 2011, results from a survey done with college ICT respondents showed that approximatively 30 colleges had implemented the ICT Profile for Students in one or more programs, and that other colleges were starting the process. Six preuniversity programs and 25 technical programs had worked on implementing the...

Video Tutorials for the Mastering of Skill 1 Tasks

Each week, the IT Representatives Network (IT-REPS/REPTICs) offers brief tutorials in the form of video clips that were developed to support the development of ICT Profile abilities. These clips are specifically designed for students, but are useful to anyone that wants to improve their technology skills.

Please note that it is possible for you to embed the video clips from the ICT Profile for Students into your blog or web page. To do this:

• Click on the link...

Video Tutorials for the Mastering of Skill 4 Tasks

Each week, the IT Representatives Network (IT-REPS/REPTICs) offers brief tutorials in the form of video clips that were developed to support the development of ICT Profile abilities. These clips are specifically designed for students, but are useful to anyone that wants to improve their technology skills.

Please note that it is possible for you to embed the video clips from the ICT Profile for Students into your blog or web page. To do this:

• Click on the link...

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...