Aligning quality assurance at the course unit and educational program levels.
Authors
Mats Daniels
Alison Clear
Tony Clear
Dr Roger McDermott roger.mcdermott@rgu.ac.uk
Academic Strategic Lead
Abstract
Quality assurance is a subject that has grown dramatically in importance in recent times. In previous work, we have described how the ACM Curricula can be used to support the Quality Assurance process of educational programs, using the Computer Science program at Reykjavik University as an example. Faculty members and employers of graduates participated in the process, that resulted in providing both detailed quantitative data and qualitative information. The assessment also raised awareness of how abstract topics and learning outcomes from an international standard can be used when revising the curricula of a particular course in a CS program. Quality assurance is indeed a continuous process, where the results of evaluations should be used to drive improvements. In this paper we focus on how a Database course was re-structured based on a recent quality assurance process.
Citation
JONSSON, B.T., LAUSDOTTIR, M.K., DANIELS, M., CLEAR, A. and MCDERMOTT, R. 2016. Aligning quality assurance at the course unit and educational program levels. In Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electonic Engineers (IEEE) frontiers in education 2016 conference (FIE 2016): the crossroads of engineering and business, 12-15 October 2016, Erie, USA. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article ID 7757419. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2016.7757419.
Conference Name | IEEE frontiers in education 2016 conference (FIE 2016): the crossroads of engineering and business |
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Conference Location | Erie, USA |
Start Date | Oct 12, 2016 |
End Date | Oct 15, 2016 |
Acceptance Date | Mar 14, 2016 |
Online Publication Date | Oct 12, 2016 |
Publication Date | Dec 1, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Feb 20, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Feb 20, 2017 |
Print ISSN | 0190-5848 |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
Article Number | 7757419 |
Series ISSN | 0190-5848 |
ISBN | 9781509017904 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2016.7757419 |
Keywords | Educational quality assurance; Curriculum design; ACM curriculum; Database course |
Public URL | http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2178 |
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