The Profession of IT: The core of the third-wave professional

Denning, Peter J.; Dunham, R. E.

doi:10.1145/384150.384155

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“…As maturing professionals, the students learn how to act in the computing field not only as technologists but also as value providers. By working with real customers in developing their project systems and focusing on human-centered computing, the students learn important value skills (Denning & Dunham, 2001). This learning paradigm fosters lifelong habits for learning and the application of critical-thinking and value skills.…”

Section: Benefits Of the Research And Project Activity Interplaymentioning

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The Trend Toward Online Project-Oriented Capstone Courses

Tappert

Stix

2010

Computers in the Schools

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At Pace University we have been using real-world student projects in capstone computing courses for about 10 years. While the courses were conducted in a traditional classroom environment during the early years, the current course has been essentially online for the last five years in order to reach a greater number of geographically scattered students. Findings indicate that appropriate team management changes can smooth the transition from co-located to distributed teams, and that peer evaluations and other remote assessment techniques make it possible to assess the work of students on distributed teams. This paper concerns the pedagogical issues of managing information technology development projects conducted by geographically distributed student teams in an online course. We use team projects modeled on real-world development practice to provide students with the educational experience of collaborative efforts, similar to what is done in industry, in order to design, build, and test computer information systems.We have been using real-world information technology projects in master's-level capstone computing courses for about 10 years (Tappert, Stix, & Cha, 2007;Tappert & Stix, 2009a;Tappert & Stix, 2009b). Capstone courses that provide real-world projects for actual customers are not new. They are available in one-or two-semester courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, and we will briefly discuss several related papers from

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Section: Benefits Of the Research And Project Activity Interplaymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Trend Toward Online Project-Oriented Capstone Courses

Tappert

Stix

2010

Computers in the Schools

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“…Levin [26] enumerates the traditional classes of specialists: (1) novice or beginner, (2) professional or competent, and (3) expert. The author cites the classification of Denning [7] who suggests a seven-level specification: (1) novice or beginner, (2) advanced beginner or rookie, (3) professional or competent, (4) proficient professional or star, (5) expert or virtuoso, (6) master, and (7) legend. The role played by specialists, especially at higher levels, should not be underestimated, as they provide informational support and determine an ontological basis of the research.…”

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A methodological approach to mining and simulating data in complex information systems

Sokolova

Fernández-Caballero

2013

IDA

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Complex emergent systems are known to be ill-managed because of their complex nature. This article introduces a novel interdisciplinary approach towards their study. In this sense, the DeciMaS methodological approach to mining and simulating data in complex information systems is introduced. The DeciMaS framework consists of three principal phases, preliminary domain and system analysis, system design and coding, and simulation and decision making. The framework offers a sequence of steps in order to support a domain expert who is not a specialist in data mining during the knowledge discovery process. With this aim a generalized structure of a decision support system (DSS) has been worked out. The DSS is virtually and logically organized into a three-leveled architecture. The first layer is dedicated to data retrieval, fusion and pre-processing, the second one discovers knowledge from data, and the third layer deals with making decisions and generating output information. Data mining is aimed to solve the following problems: association, classification, function approximation, and clustering. DeciMaS populates the second logical level of the DSS with agents which are aimed to complete these tasks. The agents use a wide range of data mining procedures that include approaches for estimation and prediction: regression analysis, artificial networks (ANNs), self-organizational methods, in particular, Group Method of Data Handling, and hybrid methods. The association task is solved with artificial neural networks. The ANNs are trained with different training algorithms such as backpropagation, resilient propagation and genetic algorithms. In order to assess the proposal an exhaustive experiment, designed to evaluate the possible harm caused by environmental contamination upon public health, is introduced in detail. an easy and trivial task. Because of high complexity of CS, traditional approaches fail in developing theories and formalisms for their analysis [31].Such a study can only be realized by a cross-sectoral approach, which uses knowledge and theoretical backgrounds from various disciplines as well as collaborative efforts of research groups and interested institutions. On the other hand, an effective approach to CS study has to follow the principles of system analysis, when we have to switch over to the abstract view of the system and perform the following flow of tasks:-Description of a system. Identification of its main properties and parameters.-Study of interconnections amongst parts of the system, which includes informational, physical, dynamical, temporal interactions, as well as the functionality of parts within the system. -Study of external system interactions with the environment and with other systems.-System decomposition and partitioning. Decomposition supposes extraction of series of system parts, and partitioning suggests extraction of parallel system parts. These methods are based on cluster analysis (iterative process of integration of system elements into groups) or content analysis (system di...

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“…In order to do so, they need to develop skills that are of maximum value to employers [3]. However, as employers have lamented, new engineering graduates do not always have these skills [7].…”

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Real-world problems in the classroom: vital in engineering education

Halpin

Raju

Sankar

et al. 2004

34th Annual Frontiers in Education, 2004. FIE 2004.

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Innovative approaches to engineering education are required in order to improve student learning and to graduate students capable of meeting the challenges of the future. One such approach has been implemented at Auburn University, and the students have been tracked longitudinally to study the impact of this innovative instruction wherein theory and practice were brought together. Multimedia case studies were developed and used as a primary instructional mode in experimental classes over a 2-year period. Students in the experimental classes were matched with a comparison group randomly selected from the engineering student population but stratified by high school grades, ACT/SAT, and engineering major. The longitudinal evaluation revealed significant differences in college grade point averages among the groups with the experimental mechanical engineering majors tending to have the best grades. Even more supportive of the experimental program was that a significantly greater proportion of the participants was admitted to study in a professional engineering program from pre-engineering than was found with the comparison participants. These results suggest that the experimental instructional approach employed for the engineering students in this study is indeed an innovation that leads to improved student learning and advancement in engineering.

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The Profession of IT: The core of the third-wave professional

Cited by 20 publications

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The Trend Toward Online Project-Oriented Capstone Courses

The Trend Toward Online Project-Oriented Capstone Courses

A methodological approach to mining and simulating data in complex information systems

Real-world problems in the classroom: vital in engineering education

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