Computer Science Curriculum and Industry Certification: Integrating Education with Practice | ||||
| Journal of the ACS Advances in Computer Science | ||||
| Article 3, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2009, Page 25-42 PDF (1.13 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/asc.2009.158221 | ||||
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| Abstract | ||||
| The curriculum of a typical computer science (CS) department gives students a well-rounded, broad base with which they move into industry. However without specific product skills many employers may be reluctant to hire CS graduates. Employers often complain that job applicants and new hires are not well prepared to work for them. An emerging need for industry is the qualification for industry-based certificates. Credentialing for specific products has become predominant. Academics typically resist the demands of the industry, in part because some of them are for specific software tools, design methods, or programming languages that might fade away with time. Under market pressure, industry-based certifications are rapidly considered being complementary to and may integrate with academic degrees. In this paper integration issues are discussed and main integration models are presented. Finally we present and discuss a case study to integrate industry-based certifications with a CS curriculum. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Accreditation; Computer science education; CS Curriculum; Industry certification | ||||
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