Preparing Students for a Digitized Future
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Authors
Torbaghan, Mehran Eskandari
Jefferson, Ian
Watkins, Jonathan
Publication Date
2022-05-27Journal Title
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EDUCATION
ISSN
0018-9359
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Type
Article
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Torbaghan, M. E., Plavinkoottathil Sasidharan, M., Jefferson, I., & Watkins, J. (2022). Preparing Students for a Digitized Future. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EDUCATION https://doi.org/10.1109/TE.2022.3174263
Abstract
Through this study, a vehicle to enhance existing education curricula was demonstrated, by exposing students to research-informed educational activities and to experience the key digital systems used in different industrial sectors. Digital skills are in high demand across the globe, with over a million digitally skilled people required by 2022 in the UK alone. With digital skills being vital to a country’s economy, there is a need to develop the higher education sector to prepare students for a digitised future - a key area of future graduate skills. The overall aim of the project was to train students in cutting-edge digital technologies through two separate week-long boot camps, targeting undergraduate and postgraduate cohorts. To this end, an educational project primed by research-informed teaching was successfully organised at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with the industry, to directly enhance the student’s personal development in the digital field, the findings of which are reported in this paper. Researchers and practitioners presented practical applications of various digital technologies during the boot camps.
Keywords
Research-informed teaching, Problem based learning, digital skills, Computing skills, Critical thinking, Employment, Industry involvement, Communication skills, Problem-based approach
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TE.2022.3174263
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/336953
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