Educational Activities and a Competency Framework for Meeting New Challenges in Higher Education
In his article we explore how educational institutions are faced with changes in the modern global business environment, and how this leads to need for changes in curricula for business schools and information systems schools. Most of academia still uses a strict disciplinary model of education resu...
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| author | Jaeger, Bjørn Rudra, Amit |
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| description | In his article we explore how educational institutions are faced with changes in the modern global business environment, and how this leads to need for changes in curricula for business schools and information systems schools. Most of academia still uses a strict disciplinary model of education resulting in a high degree of specialization within each discipline while the modern business environments require knowledge workers who can address problems that cut across disciplines on an increasingly global scale. Research papers and governmental reports call for more emphasis on particularly three interdisciplinary topics; 1) competencies in globalization issues, 2) communication/working in team, and 3) information literacy. The disciplines of business and in particular information systems education have received much attention in this respect with several calls for change. How to bring about such a change is, however, still an open question. This paper proposes to address this issue in two ways; by suggesting two new educational activities and by proposing a new educational interdisciplinary competency framework to guide curriculum development when including interdisciplinary topics. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-140332017-01-30T11:40:58Z Educational Activities and a Competency Framework for Meeting New Challenges in Higher Education Jaeger, Bjørn Rudra, Amit ICT Curriculum Educational Competency Framework Higher Education Challenges ERP Systems In his article we explore how educational institutions are faced with changes in the modern global business environment, and how this leads to need for changes in curricula for business schools and information systems schools. Most of academia still uses a strict disciplinary model of education resulting in a high degree of specialization within each discipline while the modern business environments require knowledge workers who can address problems that cut across disciplines on an increasingly global scale. Research papers and governmental reports call for more emphasis on particularly three interdisciplinary topics; 1) competencies in globalization issues, 2) communication/working in team, and 3) information literacy. The disciplines of business and in particular information systems education have received much attention in this respect with several calls for change. How to bring about such a change is, however, still an open question. This paper proposes to address this issue in two ways; by suggesting two new educational activities and by proposing a new educational interdisciplinary competency framework to guide curriculum development when including interdisciplinary topics. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14033 http://www.iiisci.org/journal/sci/FullText.asp?var=&id=HGB978CD International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics fulltext |
| spellingShingle | ICT Curriculum Educational Competency Framework Higher Education Challenges ERP Systems Jaeger, Bjørn Rudra, Amit Educational Activities and a Competency Framework for Meeting New Challenges in Higher Education |
| title | Educational Activities and a Competency Framework for Meeting New Challenges in Higher Education |
| title_full | Educational Activities and a Competency Framework for Meeting New Challenges in Higher Education |
| title_fullStr | Educational Activities and a Competency Framework for Meeting New Challenges in Higher Education |
| title_full_unstemmed | Educational Activities and a Competency Framework for Meeting New Challenges in Higher Education |
| title_short | Educational Activities and a Competency Framework for Meeting New Challenges in Higher Education |
| title_sort | educational activities and a competency framework for meeting new challenges in higher education |
| topic | ICT Curriculum Educational Competency Framework Higher Education Challenges ERP Systems |
| url | http://www.iiisci.org/journal/sci/FullText.asp?var=&id=HGB978CD http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14033 |