TY - GEN
T1 - Enhancing Graduate Skills through Bootcamps
AU - Awasthy, Richa
AU - Tegabala, Solomon
AU - John, Blooma
AU - Alsamarra'I, Zeena
AU - Kovalev, Anatoli
AU - Dilnutt, Rod
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/12/12
Y1 - 2023/12/12
N2 - Universities are facing challenges to prepare industry-ready graduates with knowledge and skills in-demand for the workforce. One of the ways to overcome these challenges is university industry collaboration for innovations in teaching. This paper presents the experience of such collaboration in the form of Bootcamp by industry partner Microsoft at University of Canberra to deliver intensive theory and practical knowledge sessions for the students. The purpose of the Bootcamp is to extend graduate skills and prepare them for industry certification, which in turn has the potential to increase their employability. Experienced practitioners from Microsoft and Akkodis presented sessions during two Bootcamps over three weeks each, in the most sought-after areas of Artificial Intelligence, Cloud-computing, Machine Learning, and Data Science. More than 200 undergraduate and post graduate students participated in these Bootcamps to gain job-ready skills and knowledge. These Bootcamps have been received well by students as indicated in their encouraging responses. The initial response to these Bootcamps indicates that such Bootcamps will be valuable in future as well.
AB - Universities are facing challenges to prepare industry-ready graduates with knowledge and skills in-demand for the workforce. One of the ways to overcome these challenges is university industry collaboration for innovations in teaching. This paper presents the experience of such collaboration in the form of Bootcamp by industry partner Microsoft at University of Canberra to deliver intensive theory and practical knowledge sessions for the students. The purpose of the Bootcamp is to extend graduate skills and prepare them for industry certification, which in turn has the potential to increase their employability. Experienced practitioners from Microsoft and Akkodis presented sessions during two Bootcamps over three weeks each, in the most sought-after areas of Artificial Intelligence, Cloud-computing, Machine Learning, and Data Science. More than 200 undergraduate and post graduate students participated in these Bootcamps to gain job-ready skills and knowledge. These Bootcamps have been received well by students as indicated in their encouraging responses. The initial response to these Bootcamps indicates that such Bootcamps will be valuable in future as well.
KW - Bootcamp
KW - graduate skills
KW - industry certification
KW - University-industry collaboration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85192862077&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://ais-siged.org/conferences/siged-2023-conference/
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85192862077
T3 - Proceedings of the 2023 AIS SIGED International Conference on Information Systems Education and Research, ICISER 2023
SP - 1
EP - 15
BT - Proceedings of the 2023 AIS SIGED International Conference on Information Systems Education and Research, ICISER 2023
A2 - Romano, Rosetta
A2 - Stylianou, Vasso
A2 - Abcouwer, Toon
A2 - Prinsloo, Tania
PB - Association on Information Systems (AIS)
T2 - 2023 AIS SIGED International Conference on Information Systems Education and Research, ICISER 2023
Y2 - 9 December 2023 through 10 December 2023
ER -
