"Despite the intrinsic appeal of Information Communication Technology (ICT) to students in their daily lives, the uptake of ICT courses at University level has fluctuated rapidly over the last 20 years or so and is currently at its lowest ebb, probably since the start of the discipline. We might ask ourselves, if young adults are using ICT on a daily basis via their iPod, mobile phone, social networking sites and the Web, why are so few of them interested in undertaking University study in an ICT discipline?"1
Both the Masters Thesis and ALTC Project will look into the following issues, identified by a previous Scoping Study2:
"lack of women enrolling/completing ICT degrees in English-speaking countries
poor and erroneous perceptions of ICT and the ICT profession
lack of ICT industry involvement in designing and implementation of an appropriate ICT curriculum and in training undergraduate students through work-integrated learning (WIL)
vague perceptions about the nexus between teaching, research, industry and
learning (TRIL) although the nexus has profound implications for the curriculum
and what students and other participants do"3
1. Hyland, P.
(2009). Research proposal for Masters by Research. UoW, Australia.
2. Koppi, A. & Naghdy, F. (2009).
Managing Educational Change in the ICT discipline at the tertiary education
level. Australian Learning and Teaching Council.
3. Koppi, A. (2009). Deliverables
for ALTC Project. UoW, Australia.