Abstract:

 Examines the creation of customised ICT intensive collaborative learning spaces to facilitate effective teamwork and enhance communication and problem solving skills. Our survey of business practitioners, HR managers, business alumni and academics, reveals that ICT literacy is rated by all groups as the most important area of academic and technical knowledge. Moreover, alumni rated ‘business information systems’ as the most important subject studied in the performance their current role, while knowledge and understanding of information technology was highlighted by business and HRM respondents as critical for future business graduates. This paper models an innovative approach utilising ICT mediated collaborative learning spaces that enable a range of innovative learning activities, including: team-based work and information exchange; research and reporting; resource discovery and data mining; multimedia reporting, idea organizing, and presentation construction; e-portfolios and peer review; local and remote collaborative exchange, including international collaboration between project teams working in Melbourne, Kuala Lumpur and Liaoning. Innovation in curricula, pedagogy and learning spaces is essential to developing ICT literacy for future managers and industry leaders.