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Empirical analysis of strategies employed within an ICT curriculum to increase the quantity of graduates
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Herbert, N and Wapstra, E and Herbert, D and de Salas, K and Acuna, T, Empirical analysis of strategies employed within an ICT curriculum to increase the quantity of graduates, 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. 3-16. ISSN 2569-7072 (2021) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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DOI: doi:10.1007/978-3-030-70873-3_1
Abstract
There is an increasing demand for information and communication technology (ICT) graduates to sustain the growth of the rapidly evolving ICT industry. This demand for ICT graduates challenges higher education to be more effective with ICT curriculum design. The purpose of this study is to apply various strategies to amend student misconceptions, and improve student perceptions, motivation, engagement, and academic success within an ICT curriculum with the intent to increase the number of ICT graduates without reducing graduate competency. This empirical analysis using data collected over a significant time period has evaluated the collective changes to course commencement and attrition rates and found there was significant evidence of improvement.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
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| Keywords: | curriculum, retention, engagement, motivation |
| 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: | Wapstra, E (Professor Erik Wapstra) |
| UTAS Author: | Herbert, D (Dr David Herbert) |
| UTAS Author: | de Salas, K (Associate Professor Kristy de Salas) |
| UTAS Author: | Acuna, T (Professor Tina Acuna) |
| ID Code: | 143123 |
| 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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