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Reflections on Curriculating a South African Information Technology Degree

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Reinhardt A. Botha,

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SIGITE '17: Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3125659.3125667

Published: 27 September 2017 Publication History

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The South African Higher Education environment is highly regulated and has undergone significant restructurings during the last 15 years. New legislation provided the incentive to reconsider the offerings. This talk reflects on the process followed and design decisions made to create a Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT) degree for Nelson Mandela University.

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Reflections on Curriculating a South African Information Technology Degree
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Information technology education

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SIGITE '17: Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education

September 2017

202 pages

ISBN:9781450351003

DOI:10.1145/3125659

Conference Chair:
Stephen Zilora
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
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Thomas Ayers
Broward College, USA
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Daniel Bogaard
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

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SIGITE/RIIT 2017: The 18th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education and the 6th Annual Conference on Research in Information Technology

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