Abstract
It is essential to provide computing students with hands-on exposure to modern techniques and technologies such as cloud computing. To this end we engaged with industry to co-design a curriculum for modern cloud computing to meet the industry needs for graduates. Vendors do provide access to cloud computing but their academic programs often leave much to be desired, with limited credits and features or a requirement to buy-in to their platform entirely. In the resource-constrained university sector simply buying vendor credits for students would be expensive but also wasteful as there is no capital investment. Having engaged with industrial partners to identify core theoretical skills and a subset of topics in which specific platform experience would be desirable we co-designed learning outcomes and assessments. To provide financially efficient platform-agnostic experience a private cloud was built using open-source tools which allowed a new large final year module. Having run this module for two full years and had excellent student feedback we reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of this approach and how industrial engagement cannot be a one-off, in a changing field it must be continuously performed to allow the curriculum to be refreshed and support emerging topics.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Education and New Developments Conference 2022 |
Editors | Mafalda Carmo |
Publisher | inScience Press |
Pages | 269-273 |
Volume | 2 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789895361458 |
Publication status | Published - 01 Oct 2022 |
Event | International Conference on Education and New Developments - Portugal Duration: 18 Jun 2022 → 20 Jun 2022 https://end-educationconference.org/ |
Publication series
Name | Education and New Developments: Proceedings |
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ISSN (Print) | 2184-044X |
ISSN (Electronic) | 2184-1489 |
Conference
Conference | International Conference on Education and New Developments |
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Abbreviated title | END |
Period | 18/06/2022 → 20/06/2022 |
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