Framing core and advanced competencies for undergraduate Information Systems program courses: does the nature, level, complexity and audience of a course matter?

This contribution reports on one of the cycles of an on-going, multi-cycle, multi-year effort to refine a learning outcomes framework designed and implemented for the Bachelor of Science (Information Systems Management) degree program offered by the School of Information Systems (SIS) at Singapore M...

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Main Authors: BAUMGARTNER, Ilse, SHANKARAMAN, Venky
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sis_research-26652015-07-24T09:08:15Z Framing core and advanced competencies for undergraduate Information Systems program courses: does the nature, level, complexity and audience of a course matter? BAUMGARTNER, Ilse SHANKARAMAN, Venky This contribution reports on one of the cycles of an on-going, multi-cycle, multi-year effort to refine a learning outcomes framework designed and implemented for the Bachelor of Science (Information Systems Management) degree program offered by the School of Information Systems (SIS) at Singapore Management University (SMU). To further improve the within-course alignment and to further refine cross-course alignment for all courses offered within this program a set of competencies for each course of the program was derived and integrated into a program-wide yet course-level competencies framework. Subsequently, the competencies framework was integrated with Learning Outcomes Framework defined at the program level. Numerous challenges were encountered and several important insights were gained while extracting and framing competencies for all core and elective courses of the program. This paper describes the competencies extraction and definition process particularly focusing on the impact which the nature, level, complexity and the audience of an undergraduate course have on this process. In addition, this paper highlights the benefits which the implementation of the competencies framework brings to the School, students, teaching staff and potential employers. 2012-08-01T07:00:00Z text https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1666 info:doi/10.1109/TALE.2012.6360331 Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University advanced competencies competencies competencies framework core competencies information systems management program learning outcomes learning outcomes framework prerequisite competencies Software Engineering
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topic advanced competencies
competencies
competencies framework
core competencies
information systems management program
learning outcomes
learning outcomes framework
prerequisite competencies
Software Engineering
spellingShingle advanced competencies
competencies
competencies framework
core competencies
information systems management program
learning outcomes
learning outcomes framework
prerequisite competencies
Software Engineering
BAUMGARTNER, Ilse
SHANKARAMAN, Venky
Framing core and advanced competencies for undergraduate Information Systems program courses: does the nature, level, complexity and audience of a course matter?
description This contribution reports on one of the cycles of an on-going, multi-cycle, multi-year effort to refine a learning outcomes framework designed and implemented for the Bachelor of Science (Information Systems Management) degree program offered by the School of Information Systems (SIS) at Singapore Management University (SMU). To further improve the within-course alignment and to further refine cross-course alignment for all courses offered within this program a set of competencies for each course of the program was derived and integrated into a program-wide yet course-level competencies framework. Subsequently, the competencies framework was integrated with Learning Outcomes Framework defined at the program level. Numerous challenges were encountered and several important insights were gained while extracting and framing competencies for all core and elective courses of the program. This paper describes the competencies extraction and definition process particularly focusing on the impact which the nature, level, complexity and the audience of an undergraduate course have on this process. In addition, this paper highlights the benefits which the implementation of the competencies framework brings to the School, students, teaching staff and potential employers.
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author BAUMGARTNER, Ilse
SHANKARAMAN, Venky
author_facet BAUMGARTNER, Ilse
SHANKARAMAN, Venky
author_sort BAUMGARTNER, Ilse
title Framing core and advanced competencies for undergraduate Information Systems program courses: does the nature, level, complexity and audience of a course matter?
title_short Framing core and advanced competencies for undergraduate Information Systems program courses: does the nature, level, complexity and audience of a course matter?
title_full Framing core and advanced competencies for undergraduate Information Systems program courses: does the nature, level, complexity and audience of a course matter?
title_fullStr Framing core and advanced competencies for undergraduate Information Systems program courses: does the nature, level, complexity and audience of a course matter?
title_full_unstemmed Framing core and advanced competencies for undergraduate Information Systems program courses: does the nature, level, complexity and audience of a course matter?
title_sort framing core and advanced competencies for undergraduate information systems program courses: does the nature, level, complexity and audience of a course matter?
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2012
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1666
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