Succeeding with Technology

Authors : Kenneth Baldauf; Ralph M. Stair

9780538745789

760 Pages Paperback

4th Edition

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Prepare your students for success in their careers and personal lives through the use of technology! SUCCEEDING WITH TECHNOLOGY – FOURTH EDITION teaches students how to apply technology to practical situations that they'll encounter in their academic and professional lives. Focusing on current trend... more

Features

Allows students to see how computer concepts are relevant to their own lives with a focus on current and emerging technologies.

Contains pertinent real life examples embedded throughout the text, providing just the right amount of insight into how technology is used outside of the classroom.

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Introduces students to technologies they may not be familiar with through concise and conversational text and engaging screenshots and photographs.

Authors

Kenneth Baldauf

Ken Baldauf is the Director of the Program in Interdisciplinary Computing at Florida State University, where he is responsible for developing courses to meet the computing and technology needs across disciplines. Since joining FSU's faculty in 1998, Ken has taught Computer Fluency, Information Management, Digital Media, Web Development, and Programming courses to classes with enrollments as large as 2,500 students per semester. Ken has partnered with Course Technology on many projects over the years, which include weekly tech news podcasts called CourseCasts, and Succeeding with Technology, a technology driven and student focused computer concepts textbook. With years of experience teaching thousands of students, Ken recognized a growing disconnect between technology education and the way students want to learn. Ken partnered with Course Technology again to develop Emerge with Computers, an exciting new online framework intended to revolutionize the way students learn about and experience technology.

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Ralph M. Stair

Ralph Stair has taught Information Systems at many universities. He has published numerous articles and books including Succeeding with Technology, Programming in BASIC and many more.

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Table of Contents

1: Why Study Computers and Digital Technologies.
2: Hardware Designed to Meet the Need.
3: Software Solutions for Personal and Professional Gain.
4: The Internet and World Wide Web.
5: Telecommunications, Wireless Technologies, and Computer Networks.
6: Digital Media for Work and Leisure.
7: Database Systems.
8: E-Commerce.
9: Information, Decision Support, and Special-Purpose Systems.
10: Systems Development.
11: Computer Crime and Information Security.
12: Digital Society, Ethics, and Globalization.
Glossary.
Index.
Credits.

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