Learning for 21st century skills

As companies expand their businesses to the international marketplace, they will rely on their employees to have skills in using web-based information and communication technologies (ICTs) for collaboration. To simulate this global environment in the classroom, the authors created a six-week project in which first-year introductory technology students from Bentley University in the United States and fourth-year multimedia students from “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania, used a number of ICTs during a semester project to evaluate two similar online collaboration tools. In doing so, they were able to develop several 21st Century Skills for Digital Literacy as identified by Jenkins. Students created blog posts, videos, and collaborative documents to chronicle their learning, shared their results within ViCaDiS, an online learning environment.