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Five principles to integrate professional skill development within a curriculum to ensure industry-ready graduates
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Herbert, N and Herbert, D, Five principles to integrate professional skill development within a curriculum to ensure industry-ready graduates, Proceedings of the 2020 Australasian Conference on Information Systems, 1-4 December 2020, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, pp. 1-12. (2020) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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Copyright 2020 Nicole Herbert and David Herbert. This is an open-access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 New Zealand, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and ACIS are credited.
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Abstract
There is an increasing expectation that tertiary institutions will produce industry-ready graduates.
Reportedly, there is industry concern that information and communication technology (ICT) graduates
are not industry-ready as they are weak in the critical professional (soft) skills, such as communication
and collaboration. In response, an ICT curriculum that integrated the development of professional skills
alongside the development of technical skills, such as programming, networking and databases, was
designed and implemented, and the impact on graduate competency was evaluated. This paper proposes
five principles that can be employed by curriculum designers to guide the inclusion of professional skill
development throughout a curriculum to enhance the professional competence of ICT graduates without
having a detrimental impact on their competency with ICT technical skills.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | employability, skills, curriculum, competence, industry-ready |
| 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) |
| ID Code: | 144792 |
| Year Published: | 2020 |
| Deposited By: | Information and Communication Technology |
| Deposited On: | 2021-06-10 |
| Last Modified: | 2022-09-08 |
| Downloads: | 13 View Download Statistics |
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