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Integrating the development of professional skills throughout an ICT curriculum improves a graduate's competency
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Herbert, N and Herbert, D and Wapstra, E and de Salas, K and Acuna, T, Integrating the development of professional skills throughout an ICT curriculum improves a graduate's competency, Advances in Software Engineering, Education, and e-Learning, Transactions on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, 27-30 July 2020, Virtual Conference, Online (Las Vegas, USA), pp. 55-67. ISSN 2569-7072 (2021) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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DOI: doi:10.1007/978-3-030-70873-3_5
Abstract
The necessity to design a curriculum that improved the professional competency of graduates was a response to the growing concern that information and communication technology (ICT) graduates, while being strong in technical ICT skills, were weak in their professional skills, particularly in relation to communication and collaboration skills. To enhance the employability of graduates an ICT curriculum was designed that integrated the development of professional skills, including communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking, alongside the development of ICT technical skills. This paper reports on a longitudinal study from 2012 to 2018 that provided strong evidence that integrating professional skill development across an entire ICT curriculum significantly improved a graduate’s competency with professional skills without having a detrimental impact on their competency with ICT technical skills. This integrated curriculum can act as an exemplar to other ICT curriculum designers that the approach can lead to professionally competent employable ICT graduates.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
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| Keywords: | competency, curriculum, ICT skills, communication, collaboration |
| Research Division: | Information and Computing Sciences |
| Research Group: | Human-centred computing |
| Research Field: | Computing education |
| Objective Division: | Education and Training |
| Objective Group: | Teaching and curriculum |
| Objective Field: | Assessment, development and evaluation of curriculum |
| UTAS Author: | Herbert, N (Associate Professor Nicole Herbert) |
| UTAS Author: | Herbert, D (Dr David Herbert) |
| UTAS Author: | Wapstra, E (Professor Erik Wapstra) |
| UTAS Author: | de Salas, K (Associate Professor Kristy de Salas) |
| UTAS Author: | Acuna, T (Professor Tina Acuna) |
| ID Code: | 143122 |
| Year Published: | 2021 |
| Deposited By: | Information and Communication Technology |
| Deposited On: | 2021-03-01 |
| Last Modified: | 2023-02-22 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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