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Amelina, Yevgeniya; Sutinen, Erkki; Helle, Seppo – Informatics in Education, 2022
User-centricity and usability are a premise of digitalization, a current trend for business model innovation based on advanced digital technologies. The article addresses a gap in the literature, in which descriptions of the cases of updating university curricula in usability are lacking. This gap also exists in the practice. The study uses the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Usability, Information Technology, Computer Science Education
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Spruit, Marcel – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2022
Purpose: The information security field requires standardised education. This could be based on generic job profiles and a standard competence framework. The question is whether this is possible and feasible. To find out, the author did a case study: developing an information security master curriculum based on a generic PVIB job profile and the…
Descriptors: Information Security, Computer Science Education, Profiles, Case Studies
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Laovisutthichai, Vikrom; Srihiran, Kaweekrai; Lu, Weisheng – Industry and Higher Education, 2023
Building information modeling (BIM) has been a disruptive development in the global architecture, engineering, construction and operations (AECO) industry. While architecture schools have sought to integrate BIM into their curricula, most current pedagogical approaches and lessons are derived from engineering and construction management…
Descriptors: Architectural Education, Case Studies, Creativity, Construction Industry
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Parker, Kevin R.; Srinivasan, Sankara Subramanian; Houghton, Robert F.; Kordzadeh, Nima; Bozan, Karoly; Ottaway, Thomas; Davey, Bill – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
Curriculum development is particularly challenging in computing-related disciplines as the computing industry changes more quickly than most. As information technology degrees have become relatively pervasive, some institutions that offer information systems degrees have recognized a need to develop specialist studies in information systems. This…
Descriptors: Health, Information Science, Curriculum Development, Case Studies
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Savic, Goran; Segedinac, Milan; Milenkovic, Dušica; Hrin, Tamara; Segedinac, Mirjana – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
This paper presents research on using a model-driven approach to the development and management of electronic courses. We propose a course management system which stores a course model represented as distinct machine-readable components containing domain knowledge of different course aspects. Based on this formally defined platform-independent…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Curriculum Development, Management Systems
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Harris, Mark A.; Patten, Karen P. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2015
Recent high profile hackings have cost companies millions of dollars resulting in an increasing priority to protect government and business data. Universities are under increased pressure to produce graduates with better security knowledge and skills, particularly emerging cybersecurity skills. Although accredited undergraduate computing programs…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Computer Security, Curriculum Development, Undergraduate Study
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Humpherys, Sean; Babb, Jeffry; Abdullat, Amjad – Information Systems Education Journal, 2015
Through the annual ABET assessment process, Computer Information Systems faculty in the College of Business at a regional institution were able to diagnose problems regarding students not satisfying our program's Student Outcomes. Often, the impediments to student success were not technical in nature and prompted faculty to consider non-technical…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Outcomes of Education, Skill Development, Business Administration Education
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Mubin, Omar; Novoa, Mauricio; Al Mahmud, Abdullah – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2017
Purpose: This paper narrates a case study on design thinking-based education work in an industrial design honours program. Student projects were developed in a multi-disciplinary setting across a Computing and Engineering faculty that allowed promoting technologically and user-driven innovation strategies. Design/methodology/approach: A renewed…
Descriptors: Industrial Arts, Design, Case Studies, Teaching Methods
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Dasuki, Salihu Ibrahim; Ogedebe, Peter; Kanya, Rislana Abdulazeez; Ndume, Hauwa; Makinde, Julius – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2015
Efforts are been made by Universities in developing countries to ensure that it's graduate are not left behind in the competitive global information society; thus have adopted international computing curricular for their computing degree programs. However, adopting these international curricula seem to be very challenging for developing countries…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Competence, Global Approach, International Cooperation
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Rong, Guoping; Shao, Dong – IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, Proceedings (MS), 2012
The importance of delivering software process courses to software engineering students has been more and more recognized in China in recent years. However, students usually cannot fully appreciate the value of software process courses by only learning methodology and principle in the classroom. Therefore, a process-specific project course was…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Engineering Education, Computer Software, College Curriculum
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Surendran, Ken; Amer, Suhair; Schwieger, Dana – Information Systems Education Journal, 2012
The release of the IS2010 Model Curriculum has triggered review of existing Information Systems (IS) programs. It also provides an opportunity to replace low enrollment IS programs with flexible ones that focus on specific application domains. In this paper, the authors present a case study of their redesigned Computer Information Systems (CIS)…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Information Systems, Computer Science Education, Curriculum Development
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Mateo Sanguino, T. J.; Serrano Lopez, C.; Marquez Hernandez, F. A. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2013
A new educational simulation tool designed for the generic study of wireless networks, the Wireless Fidelity Simulator (WiFiSim), is presented in this paper. The goal of this work was to create and implement a didactic tool to improve the teaching and learning of computer networks by means of two complementary strategies: simulating the behavior…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Telecommunications, Information Networks, Computer Science Education
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Méndez, Gonzalo; Ochoa, Xavier; Chiluiza, Katherine; de Wever, Bram – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2014
Learning analytics has been as used a tool to improve the learning process mainly at the micro-level (courses and activities). However, another of the key promises of learning analytics research is to create tools that could help educational institutions at the meso- and macro-level to gain better insight into the inner workings of their programs…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Research, Curriculum Design
Bohman, Paul R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Digital technologies allow people with disabilities to participate independently in society in ways they never could before. The full realization of these new opportunities remains elusive, though, because working professionals in the information and communication technology (ICT) field rarely receive adequate training in how to make digital ICT…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accessibility (for Disabled), Information Technology, Computer Science Education
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Mitri, Michel – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2015
This paper describes the use and benefits of Microsoft's Adventure Works (AW) database to teach advanced database skills in a hands-on, realistic environment. Database management and querying skills are a key element of a robust information systems curriculum, and active learning is an important way to develop these skills. To facilitate active…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Databases, Computer Software, Educational Benefits
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