Targeted Blended Learning through Competency Assessment in an Undergraduate Information Systems Program

In this paper we report our study on the problem of competency acquisition when students progress from one course to another and more generally, from one term to the next. We observed that some students moved on to a second programming course without acquiring some of the competencies in the first p...

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Main Authors: ELMALEH, Joelle, SHANKARARAMAN, Venky
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sis_research-39082018-10-18T06:37:26Z Targeted Blended Learning through Competency Assessment in an Undergraduate Information Systems Program ELMALEH, Joelle SHANKARARAMAN, Venky, In this paper we report our study on the problem of competency acquisition when students progress from one course to another and more generally, from one term to the next. We observed that some students moved on to a second programming course without acquiring some of the competencies in the first programming course. This leads to problem in the second course, especially when these competencies are pre-requisites for this course. We applied blended learning, which allows a student to learn at least in part through delivery of content and instruction via online media, to overcome this problem. Our approach is unique in the sense that we first assess student competencies and then develop targeted blended learning content to address competencies that have not been acquired in a pre-requisite course. We have applied the method to students doing the first year BSc Information Systems program. 2015-10-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2908 info:doi/10.1109/FIE.2015.7344066 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3908/viewcontent/Targeted_blended_learning_FIE_2015.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University information systems competency blended learning assessment programming Asian Studies Computer Sciences Higher Education
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
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language English
topic information systems
competency
blended learning
assessment
programming
Asian Studies
Computer Sciences
Higher Education
spellingShingle information systems
competency
blended learning
assessment
programming
Asian Studies
Computer Sciences
Higher Education
ELMALEH, Joelle
SHANKARARAMAN, Venky,
Targeted Blended Learning through Competency Assessment in an Undergraduate Information Systems Program
description In this paper we report our study on the problem of competency acquisition when students progress from one course to another and more generally, from one term to the next. We observed that some students moved on to a second programming course without acquiring some of the competencies in the first programming course. This leads to problem in the second course, especially when these competencies are pre-requisites for this course. We applied blended learning, which allows a student to learn at least in part through delivery of content and instruction via online media, to overcome this problem. Our approach is unique in the sense that we first assess student competencies and then develop targeted blended learning content to address competencies that have not been acquired in a pre-requisite course. We have applied the method to students doing the first year BSc Information Systems program.
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author ELMALEH, Joelle
SHANKARARAMAN, Venky,
author_facet ELMALEH, Joelle
SHANKARARAMAN, Venky,
author_sort ELMALEH, Joelle
title Targeted Blended Learning through Competency Assessment in an Undergraduate Information Systems Program
title_short Targeted Blended Learning through Competency Assessment in an Undergraduate Information Systems Program
title_full Targeted Blended Learning through Competency Assessment in an Undergraduate Information Systems Program
title_fullStr Targeted Blended Learning through Competency Assessment in an Undergraduate Information Systems Program
title_full_unstemmed Targeted Blended Learning through Competency Assessment in an Undergraduate Information Systems Program
title_sort targeted blended learning through competency assessment in an undergraduate information systems program
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2015
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2908
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3908/viewcontent/Targeted_blended_learning_FIE_2015.pdf
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