DocumentCode :
567351
Title :
Teaching data warehouses in collaboration with industry :Bridging the expectations gap
Author :
Taylor, Estelle
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. & Inf. Syst., North-West Univ., Potchefstroom, South Africa
fYear :
2012
fDate :
25-28 June 2012
Firstpage :
366
Lastpage :
369
Abstract :
The aim of this paper is to report on collaboration between academia and industry. The paper starts with a discussion on why collaboration is necessary, focusing on the expectations gap between the needs of industry and the academic preparation or abilities of recently graduated students. If planned correctly, collaboration can be to the advantage of the university, the students and industry. This paper reports on collaboration between industry and academia in a data warehouse module. A discussion is given on the research methodology that was followed for this study and the results of the research. The conclusion is that students were very positive, especially about the practical component of the module. They felt that, in completing the practical component of the module, they got real understanding of the process and a realistic view of the actual amount of work it takes to develop a data warehouse. This would have been difficult to achieve without using actual data and problems from industry. Feedback received from industry could also be used to improve the module.
Keywords :
computer science education; data warehouses; teaching; academia; data warehouse module; data warehouse teaching; graduated students; industry collaboration; Collaboration; Industries; Wheels; Higher education; collaboration; data warehouses; expectations gap; industry; skills gap; teaching;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Information Society (i-Society), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0838-0
Type :
conf
Filename :
6284995
Link To Document :
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