TY - GEN
T1 - Improving Graduate Skills through an Innovative Industry-Collaboration Pedagogy
T2 - 2023 AIS SIGED International Conference on Information Systems Education and Research, ICISER 2023
AU - Awasthy, Richa
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge the support of Amazon Web Services via the AWS Academy education program. This program aims to bridge the gap between industry and academia by providing higher education institutions with a free, ready-to-teach cloud computing curriculum that prepares students to pursue industry-recognized certifications and in-demand cloud jobs.
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This paper presents a descriptive case study of a unit embedding an innovative pedagogical approach that incorporates industry-collaboration interventions of different extent to work towards the goal of improving graduate skills and creating industry-ready graduates at the University of Canberra. In collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the largest Cloud providers, the Enterprise and Cloud Computing unit experimented with embedding industry-developed content in one of the units. The approach demonstrates that incorporating education, industry-relevant active learning, and certification will help enhancing student learning experience, improving graduate skills, preparing our students for success in the job market, and increasing employability. It is an example for higher education academics of a transferable approach for designing effective programs for other popular Information Technology (IT) specialisations such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Science, and disciplines collaborating with industry.
AB - This paper presents a descriptive case study of a unit embedding an innovative pedagogical approach that incorporates industry-collaboration interventions of different extent to work towards the goal of improving graduate skills and creating industry-ready graduates at the University of Canberra. In collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the largest Cloud providers, the Enterprise and Cloud Computing unit experimented with embedding industry-developed content in one of the units. The approach demonstrates that incorporating education, industry-relevant active learning, and certification will help enhancing student learning experience, improving graduate skills, preparing our students for success in the job market, and increasing employability. It is an example for higher education academics of a transferable approach for designing effective programs for other popular Information Technology (IT) specialisations such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Science, and disciplines collaborating with industry.
KW - bootcamp
KW - graduate skills
KW - industry certification
KW - industry readiness
KW - industry-relevant education
KW - university-industry collaboration
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85192844007
T3 - Proceedings of the 2023 AIS SIGED International Conference on Information Systems Education and Research, ICISER 2023
SP - 1
EP - 13
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 for Information Systems
Y2 - 9 December 2023 through 10 December 2023
ER -