Framework integrating multiple dimensions of competency and related pedagogies: A case for IT Industry

Managing and developing competencies or skills are vital to professional development of an individual. Many tertiary education institutions are therefore focused on developing curriculum that will help the graduating students acquire skills that are aligned with industry practice. Industry skills frameworks such as Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) define the professionals required for an IT professional. Therefore, mapping the curriculum competencies to the industry skills framework has a dual purpose of aiding the educationists to improve the curriculum, and the students to plan the courses according to their career plan. Existing mapping methods are manual and painstaking processes. In this paper, we present an automated solution based on text analytics techniques to map the curriculum to industry framework and provide a visual based analysis to discover the strengths and weakness of the curriculum. We evaluated our solution model on an undergraduate core curriculum; Bachelor of Science (Information Systems Management) degree program BSc (ISM), offered by the School of Information Systems (SIS), Singapore Management University (SMU) and Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA).

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The holism in competence — A study on building wholesome competence in people

Mandaleeka

Pillutla

2016

2016 Annual IEEE Systems Conference (SysCon)

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Competence building is a holistic concept. It involves not only known aspects such as knowledge, 'perceived experience, and soft skills but also aspects that are not clearly known or understood such as cross influences between knowledge, skills and soft capabilities. Competence is the 'ability to do' work, whereas most training methods focus on imparting knowledge, which has a poor correlation to people performance in the roles they take up after education.Organizations need an assurance of good 'ability to do' in the people who join them.Systems Engineering being multidisciplinary in nature and application and the focus being 'able to do', the education pedagogies are to align with this. This paper analyzes this problem and looks at options to address the cross influences and enhance the ability to do in people. Based on the various pilots done and the study of the holistic aspects, this paper attempts to provide a pedagogy for this.

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Framework integrating multiple dimensions of competency and related pedagogies: A case for IT Industry

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An approach to design curricula to build competencies for employability - A case for IT industry

An approach to design curricula to build competencies for employability - A case for IT industry

Text-mining approach for verifying alignment of information systems curriculum with industry skills

The holism in competence — A study on building wholesome competence in people

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