Quality Assurance of ICT Graduates Quality Assurance of ICT Graduates through Computing Accreditationthrough Computing Accreditation

Oct. 25, 2012

Prof. Sung Jo KimSenior Vice President of ABEEK

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How to set up ICT curriculum for demand-driven education for more hands-on work experiences required by the ICT industry?

How to set up ICT curriculum for educating ICT students so that they can attain outcomes?

How to set up ICT curriculum for incorporating the industry requirements like capstone project courses?

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Issues• How to accomplish demand-driven education to

reduce ICT industry’s dissatisfaction with professional competencies of ICT graduates and skill mismatch?

• How to reflect the recent industry recommendations about professional competencies into ICT curriculum?

How to resolve them?• The ICT industry should provide hands-on capstone

project topics and to recommend project mentors.

• The ICT industry should provide regularly unvarnished industry feedback about ICT graduates and ICT curriculum to meet industry needs.

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Quality control/assurance should be done through accreditation of ICT educational programs.

The Seoul Accord(http://www.seoulaccord.org) has been established as a multi-lateral mutual-recognition agreement among agencies responsible for accreditation of tertiary-level computing and IT-related disciplines.

• The Accord is the international authority on quality assurance for education in the computing and IT-related professions.

• The Accord promotes and develops best practices for the improvement of education in Computing and IT-related disciplines.

• The Accord continually reviews its policies and procedures to ensure that they are relevant and reliable indicators of the future of Computing and IT-related technologies.

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The Seoul Accord provides curriculum requirement and outcomes that ICT graduates should attain by the time of their graduation among others.

The quality and mobility of ICT graduates can be facilitated through the accreditation of ICT programs.

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