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Integrating the development of professional skills throughout an ICT curriculum improves a graduate's competency

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.

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Publication title

Advances in Software Engineering, Education, and e-Learning, Transactions on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence

Editors

HR Arabnia

Pagination

55-67

ISSN

2569-7072

Department/School

School of Information and Communication Technology

Publisher

Springer

Place of publication

Switzerland

Event title

16th International Conference on Frontiers in Education

Event Venue

Virtual Conference, Online (Las Vegas, USA)

Date of Event (Start Date)

2020-07-27

Date of Event (End Date)

2020-07-30

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Copyright unknown

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Assessment, development and evaluation of curriculum

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