Structure of face-to-face teaching sessions for an undergraduate technology-centered computing course: Establishing a set of best practices

Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Publication Date

4-2014

Abstract

Since more than a decade, all kinds of businesses and organisations are intensively exploring enterprise-level information systems to better integrate their business processes, information flows and people. Consequently, the industry demands for technically skilled, but also "business-savvy" IT professionals are permanently growing. To meet this need, more and more computing education programs try to incorporate enterprise-level information systems into their curricula. While there is some computing education research done to investigate the need for this new type of IT-business professional and to analyse general implications for higher education, only very few research works or practice papers exist which report on concrete attempts to design and deliver higher education computing courses which intensively use enterprise-level systems. In this conference contribution, the authors report on a series of experiences made within the Bachelor of Science (Information Systems Management) degree program offered by the School of Information Systems (SIS) at the Singapore Management University (SMU). The primary focus of this paper is put on establishing a working set of best practices for the design of an effective structure of the face-to-face teaching sessions for courses which use enterprise-level systems and applications in their curricula. While this conference contribution is principally based on education experiences made within the frame of an Information Systems program, the best practices presented in this paper are equally applicable to any other computing education field or even to the engineering education in general.

Discipline

Higher Education | Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

2014 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference: IEEE EDUCON 2014: Harbiye, Istanbul, 3-5 April 2014

First Page

184

Last Page

191

Identifier

10.1109/EDUCON.2014.6826088

Publisher

IEEE

City or Country

Piscataway, NJ

Additional URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2014.6826088

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