[LINK] New Core Body Of Knowledge for the ICT Profession

[Tom Worthington]

At 09:59 AM 1/07/2007, Darryl (Dassa) Lynch wrote:
>... No ICT Professional comes out of a university, only trainees. ...

Yes. The ACS provides postgraduate management subjects 
<http://www.acs.org.au/cpeprogram/>. These are delivered online using 
Moodle <http://education.acs.org.au/>. I was skeptical that you could 
provide management subjects via the Internet, but these require the 
students to read, discuss (online) and write reports, rather than 
just drill and practice multiple choice tests.

At the ANU the third year students software engineers do projects 
supervised by the fourth years 
<http://cs.anu.edu.au/Student/comp3100/>. The idea is the fourth 
year's learn to supervise while the third years design, code and 
test. Also I have suggested they do international projects to 
practice outsoucing with Indonesian students 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2006/10/engineering-software-outsouring.html>.

But there is still the question of how much sense the courses will 
make until the student has some experience. Not all the students are 
fresh out of school, some are mature age from the workplace.



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