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Industry-Emulated Projects in the Classroom

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SIGITE '15: Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education

Pages 115 - 119

https://doi.org/10.1145/2808006.2808029

Published: 29 September 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Since the "2008 Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Information Technology" report was published, it has been acknowledged that capstone courses play an important role in the Information Technology curriculum. As we move into the future, we need to reconsider what should go into a capstone course. The Curriculum Guidelines report discussed multicultural in terms of disciplines, but among employers today, multicultural often means multinational. Further, beginning with the Standish Group's CHAOS report and continuing with the introduction of Agile project development, industry has wrestled with dynamic software development environments. Balancing the need to deliver projects on time, on budget, and on spec with changing requirements and resources can be an overwhelming task for project managers and IT professionals.

This paper describes a new type of capstone course that attempts to expose students to the realities of project development in the 21st century and equip the students to deal with them.

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Teng CLunt BAyers TZilora SGoda BBogaard D(2018)IoT-enabled CapstoneProceedings of the 19th Annual SIG Conference on Information Technology Education10.1145/3241815.3241856(104-109)Online publication date: 14-Sep-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3241815.3241856
Scott AKreahling WHolliday MBarlowe SZilora SAyers TBogaard D(2017)A Holistic Capstone ExperienceProceedings of the 18th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education10.1145/3125659.3125680(1-6)Online publication date: 27-Sep-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3125659.3125680
Greenberg Davis HZilora SBoisvert DZilora S(2016)A Tale of Two CapstonesProceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education10.1145/2978192.2978234(130-135)Online publication date: 28-Sep-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2978192.2978234

Index Terms

Industry-Emulated Projects in the Classroom
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Information systems education
      2. Model curricula

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Teng CLunt BAyers TZilora SGoda BBogaard D(2018)IoT-enabled CapstoneProceedings of the 19th Annual SIG Conference on Information Technology Education10.1145/3241815.3241856(104-109)Online publication date: 14-Sep-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3241815.3241856
Scott AKreahling WHolliday MBarlowe SZilora SAyers TBogaard D(2017)A Holistic Capstone ExperienceProceedings of the 18th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education10.1145/3125659.3125680(1-6)Online publication date: 27-Sep-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3125659.3125680
Greenberg Davis HZilora SBoisvert DZilora S(2016)A Tale of Two CapstonesProceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education10.1145/2978192.2978234(130-135)Online publication date: 28-Sep-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2978192.2978234

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