Preparing students for a digitised future

Mehran Eskandari Torbaghan; Manu Sasidharan; Ian Jefferson; Jonathan Watkins

doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/TE.2022.3174263

Preparing students for a digitised future

Mehran Eskandari Torbaghan, Manu Sasidharan, Ian Jefferson, Jonathan Watkins

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Through this study, a vehicle to enhance existing education curricula was demonstrated, by exposing students to research-informed educational activities and to experience the key digital systems used in different industrial sectors. Digital skills are in high demand across the globe, with over a million digitally skilled people required by 2022 in the UK alone. With digital skills being vital to a country’s economy, there is a need to develop the higher education sector to prepare students for a digitised future - a key area of future graduate skills.
The overall aim of the project was to train students in cutting-edge digital technologies through two separate week-long boot camps, targeting undergraduate and postgraduate cohorts. To this end, an educational project primed by research-informed teaching was successfully organised at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with the industry, to directly enhance the student’s personal development in the digital field, the findings of which are reported in this paper. Researchers and practitioners presented practical applications of various digital technologies during the boot camps.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-10
Number of pages	10
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Education
Volume	2022
Early online date	27 May 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TE.2022.3174263
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 27 May 2022

Keywords

Research-Informed Teaching
Problem Based Learning
Digital Skills
Computing skills
Critical Thinking
Employment
Industry Involvement
Communication Skills
Problem-based Approach

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Education
Engineering(all)

UN SDGs

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