Educational Research to Improve Basic Digital Skills of University Students. : Focusing on the Development of Non-curricular Information Technology Programs

As the era of the 4th industrial revolution approaches, interest in information technology education has been focused worldwide, and interest in information technology education has increased from elementary, middle, and high school education to university education in order to foster talents who will lead the digital society. Information technology education in universities is creating various convergence subjects with majors, and liberal arts education is gradually deepening into subjects on new technologies in line with the era of the 4th industrial revolution, based on computational thinking subjects. Basic information technology education is absolutely necessary for freshmen to efficiently take information technology subjects converged with their majors and in-depth liberal arts information technology subjects. This study aims to develop a non-curricular program to improve basic information technology literacy for students who lack basic information technology literacy, a basic ability in the information society. This study examines the current status and trends of information technology education in universities and proposes a non-curricular program related to information technology that allows students to acquire information technology and creatively adapt to changes.