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

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Law Sheng Xun Gottipati, S. Shankararaman, V.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of Inf. Syst., Singapore Manage. Univ., Singapore, Singapore (Law Sheng Xun; Gottipati, S.; Shankararaman, V.)
Abstract	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).
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	6
File Size	439512
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781479917563
DOI	10.1109/ITHET.2015.7217959
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-06-11
Publisher Place	Portugal
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Industries Text mining Visualization visualization Computer integrated manufacturing information retrieval Information retrieval Curriculum evaluation analysis Information systems text analytics industry skills framework Business
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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