Education of ICT – needs, reality and
opportunities.
Marko Šušnjar
Šetalište Ivana Pavla II 31
21000 Split
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www.beam-ict.com
Employer’s 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 Split
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Lecturer’s Point of View
- rapid technological changes; Moore’s 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 Split
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IT Expert’s Educational Features
- IT expert’s short-term average knowledge
- programme developer 2-5 years
- system administrator 2-3 years
- technological cycle dependancy
Šetalište Ivana Pavla II 31
21000 Split
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IT Expert’s 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 people’s education
- scientific vs. technological
- knowledge obsolescence collides the market needs
Šetalište Ivana Pavla II 31
21000 Split
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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
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- involve the students in such projects = in order to overcome
the technological gap
21000 Split
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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@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
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- project that are started for the purpose of educating the
companies’ management while introducing the new IT
technologies
21000 Split
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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 Split
info@bitart.hr
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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 Split
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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?!
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21000 Split
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- IT product complex development
- IT system planning and design
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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
Šetalište Ivana Pavla II 31
21000 Split
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 people who are responsible for different fields of an
education need to become the managers of knowledge
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