Curriculum development of university computing and ICT education in Mongolia : final technical report, January 2009 – January 2011

Abstract

In this technical report we present achievements and findings of our research project. The overall goal of the project was to develop new models of universities compulsory and specialized ICT and computing curricula was achieved successfully. To establish design and development of new curricula models first we conducted a current curriculum analysis for universities compulsory, software engineering and IT curricula. Permeation of experiential learning (or "learning by doing") was the fundamental idea for compulsory ICT curricula model the compulsory ICT training. There are, of course, different ways of providing experiential learning, including but not limited to instructor demonstrations, relevant field trips, individual and group projects, interviews with professionals, design, implementation, and documentation projects, preparation documents, sheets, web pages and multimedia presentation, and service learning. Each module is specified accordingly. Relevant curricula recommendation from ACM-IEEE and experiences universities from Singapore, Korea and China was starting points for specialized software engineering and IT curriculum models.