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Educating for professional capability in the field of information technology: integrating industry-based learning with the academic curriculum

Holt, Dale, Mackay, David and Smith, Ross 2003, Educating for professional capability in the field of information technology: integrating industry-based learning with the academic curriculum, in Proceedings of the 13th World Conference on Cooperative Education, [World Association for Cooperative Education], [Rotterdam, The Netherlands], pp. 1-15.

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Title Educating for professional capability in the field of information technology: integrating industry-based learning with the academic curriculum
Author(s) Holt, Dale
Mackay, David
Smith, Ross
Conference name World Conference on Cooperative Education (13th : 2003 : Rotterdam)
Conference location Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Conference dates 27-29 August 2003
Title of proceedings Proceedings of the 13th World Conference on Cooperative Education
Editor(s) Roeters, Annette
Publication date 2003
Start page 1
End page 15
Publisher [World Association for Cooperative Education]
Place of publication [Rotterdam, The Netherlands]
Keyword(s) Learning environments
professional education
workplace learning
education design
IT/IS profession
Summary In response to the forces of globalisation, societies and organisations have had to adapt and even proactively transform themselves. Universities, as knowledge-based organisations, have recognised that there are now many other important sites of knowledge construction and use. The apparent monopoly over valued forms of knowledge making and knowledge certification is disappearing. Universities have had to recognise the value of practical working knowledge developed in workplace settings beyond university domains, and promote the value of academic forms of knowledge making to the practical concerns of everyday learning. It is within this broader systems view that professional curriculum development undertaken by universities needs to be examined.

University educational planning responds to these external forces in ways that are drawing together formal academic capability/competence and practice-based capability/competence. Both forms of academic and practice-based knowledge and knowing are being equally valued and related one to the other. University planning in turn gives impetus to the development of new forms of professional education curricula. This paper presents a contemporary case of a designed professional curriculum in the field of information technology that situates workplace learning as a central element in the education of Information Technology (IT)/Information Systems (IS) professionals.

The key dimensions of the learning environment of Deakin University’s BIT (Hons) program are considered with a view to identifying areas of strong integration between the worlds of academic and workplace learning from the perspectives of major stakeholders. The dynamic interplay between forms of theorising and practising is seen as critical in educating students for professional capability in their chosen field. From this analysis, an applied research agenda, relating to desired forms of professional learning in higher education, is outlined, with specific reference to the information and communication technology professions.
Language eng
Field of Research 080699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed
Copyright notice ©2003, WACE
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30005149

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