Title: Moving Towards the Future of Teaching Pedagogies and Learning Paradigms: Understanding the 21st Century Employability Challenges in the ICT Industry
Abstract:Students, employers and other stakeholders expect universities to help students maximise their potential to find suitable work, that is, to maximise their employability. Yet, employment outcomes for g...Students, employers and other stakeholders expect universities to help students maximise their potential to find suitable work, that is, to maximise their employability. Yet, employment outcomes for graduates continue to decrease in Australia (Graduate Careers Australia, 2015). To address this, improving the employability of university graduates has been a nominated priority area for successive Australian Governments and as such three national projects were commissioned. One of these projects (Jollands et al, 2015) aims to align expectations of employers, professional bodies, academic staff, graduates and current students so as to identify good practice curriculum and pedagogical design that promotes graduate employability.
Jollands and co-workers explored a variety of fields of study that experienced low to high employment outcomes. This paper focuses on the discipline of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
In the ICT discipline there is a perceived gap between what employers would like to see in graduates and what skills the graduates actually have. The focus of this paper is to understand more deeply the contemporary employability skills and attributes required for ICT from three stakeholder perspectives; the employer, current students, and academic staff.
This paper will present preliminary findings and insights that will influence the future of teaching pedagogies and learning paradigms so to meet the ever increasing expectations of employability. This will provide direction on professional development initiatives for academics and educational developers that will encourage reflection on graduate outcomes in their disciplines and how to best apply various frameworks and strategies to embed employability into curriculum and pedagogical design and teaching practice.Read More
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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