Monitoring Services to Support Continuous Curriculum Engineering

Continuous and rapid developments in science and technology have raised a challenge for compliance between the learning content provided by study programs and (1) the actual state of art in the domains the programs are addressing and (2) the actual needs of companies that will employ the graduates o...

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Main Authors: Peteris Rudzajs, Marite Kirikova
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Language:English
Published: Riga Technical University 2021-12-01
Series:Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly
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Online Access:https://csimq-journals.rtu.lv/article/view/5312
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description Continuous and rapid developments in science and technology have raised a challenge for compliance between the learning content provided by study programs and (1) the actual state of art in the domains the programs are addressing and (2) the actual needs of companies that will employ the graduates of these programs. To achieve such compliance continuously, the digitalization of learning content (curriculum) engineering could provide supporting tools that facilitate awareness of incompliance, which is the first step in introducing changes in the learning content. In this article we discuss how such awareness, regarding the needs of companies, can be supported by a service system that monitors the gap between educational demand and offer. The proposed service system provides possibilities for automatic, semi-automatic and manual analysis of texts representing the educational demand, versus the texts representing the educational offer. The implementation of the service system has been demonstrated, having been applied at university. The experiments showed that the system can provide valuable information for educational content development, but its maintenance and incorporation in study process management and curriculum engineering still require additional research.
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spelling doaj-art-08d939f2acde43f79270edec8f4a8d022024-12-05T09:56:30ZengRiga Technical UniversityComplex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly2255-99222021-12-01029537310.7250/csimq.2021-29.042745Monitoring Services to Support Continuous Curriculum EngineeringPeteris Rudzajs0Marite Kirikova1Alumni of Riga Technical University, Kalku iela 1, LV-1658, RigaDepartment of Artificial Intelligence and Systems Engineering, Riga Technical University, Kalku iela 1, LV-1658, RigaContinuous and rapid developments in science and technology have raised a challenge for compliance between the learning content provided by study programs and (1) the actual state of art in the domains the programs are addressing and (2) the actual needs of companies that will employ the graduates of these programs. To achieve such compliance continuously, the digitalization of learning content (curriculum) engineering could provide supporting tools that facilitate awareness of incompliance, which is the first step in introducing changes in the learning content. In this article we discuss how such awareness, regarding the needs of companies, can be supported by a service system that monitors the gap between educational demand and offer. The proposed service system provides possibilities for automatic, semi-automatic and manual analysis of texts representing the educational demand, versus the texts representing the educational offer. The implementation of the service system has been demonstrated, having been applied at university. The experiments showed that the system can provide valuable information for educational content development, but its maintenance and incorporation in study process management and curriculum engineering still require additional research.https://csimq-journals.rtu.lv/article/view/5312educational contentmonitoring systemservice systemcontent engineeringcurriculum engineeringcontinuous engineering
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Monitoring Services to Support Continuous Curriculum Engineering
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monitoring system
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curriculum engineering
continuous engineering
title Monitoring Services to Support Continuous Curriculum Engineering
title_full Monitoring Services to Support Continuous Curriculum Engineering
title_fullStr Monitoring Services to Support Continuous Curriculum Engineering
title_full_unstemmed Monitoring Services to Support Continuous Curriculum Engineering
title_short Monitoring Services to Support Continuous Curriculum Engineering
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monitoring system
service system
content engineering
curriculum engineering
continuous engineering
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