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Education of ICT needs, reality and
opportunities.
Marko Šušnjar www.bitart.hrwww.beam-ict.com
Šetalište Ivana Pavla II 31 21000
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Employers Point of View

• - an immediate need for a prepared team of people
• changing the criterion perspective due to the
  inability of finding such people
• searching for the person that can achieve the
  needed level of knowledge in the short period of
  time
• prefers the learning self-contained employee
• the reason lies in the existence of the
  technological gap education - requirements

Šetalište Ivana Pavla II 31 21000
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Lecturers Point of View

• - rapid technological changes Moores Law
• more orientation toward the scientific
  fundamentals instead of technological
• IT specificities bracing the science and
  technology
• lack of the coupling with the economy
• lack of the employers needs understanding
• shift toward more secure scientific approach in
  terms of the education and its domains

Šetalište Ivana Pavla II 31 21000
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IT Experts Educational Features
- IT experts short-term average knowledge -
programme developer 2-5 years - system
administrator 2-3 years - technological cycle
dependancy  
Šetalište Ivana Pavla II 31 21000
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IT Experts Educational Features
- technology is not the same at the beginning and
at the end of the educational period - the speed
of the technological change poses problems in
young peoples education - scientific vs.
technological - knowledge obsolescence collides
the market needs
Šetalište Ivana Pavla II 31 21000
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How to incorporate two apparently opposite
aspects ?!
- connect the employers and lecturers through
the field of the mutual interest - projects -
the projects need to be interesting enough so
that the employers can assist the financing -
scientific staff would have an additional motive
for absorbing the new technologies and thus to
successfully keep up with such changes - involve
the students in such projects in order to
overcome the technological gap
Šetalište Ivana Pavla II 31 21000
Split info_at_bitart.hr
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Technology Areas Lecturer ? Current Issues

• - high academic professional qualifications
  required
• the inability to motivate the IT specialist to
  acquire the academic professional qualifications
• huge time and energy investment, but
  insufficient the return on such investment
• the IT specialist is more prone to invest it all
  in an own company or in the one that he/she is
  working for

Šetalište Ivana Pavla II 31 21000
Split info_at_bitart.hr
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FESB Split Case Study
- projects that are initated beyond the
technology educational activities - CISCO
Academy - Microsoft Partners In Learning
Programme - project that are started for the
purpose of educating the companies management
while introducing the new IT technologies
Šetalište Ivana Pavla II 31 21000
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FESB Split Case Study

• - company IT system analysis and improvement
  projects
• - faculty staff involved, led by prof. Sven
  Gotovac
• different IT specialists from Split participate
  as well
• students are also engaged in the IT projects
• - Microsoft college coding camp - an example of a
  successfull project showing the overcoming of the
  technological gap

Šetalište Ivana Pavla II 31 21000
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Who Belongs Where?

• Informatics bachelor
• basic knowledge about the products and
  technologies that are currently available in the
  market
• - IT system support
• - less demanding development

Šetalište Ivana Pavla II 31 21000
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Who Belongs Where?

• Informatics Master of Science
• - basic knowledge about the products and
  technologies currently available in the market
• - development cycles knowledge
• high level of science defining the knowledge of
  an expert
• innovation is it possible to get such
  education?!
• - IT product complex development
• - IT system planning and design

Šetalište Ivana Pavla II 31 21000
Split info_at_bitart.hr
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Conclusion

• A need to
• - shift the technological understandings toward
  the later phase of the educational system
• effectively keep up with the technological
  changes
• continually work on a diversification of the
  educational programmes
• approach and observe the education as a market
• ? people who are responsible for different
  fields of an education need to become the
  managers of knowledge

Šetalište Ivana Pavla II 31 21000
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