ADULT MOTIVATION TO STUDY OF NEW INFORMATION

TECHNOLOGIES – RESEARCH RESULTS

dr inż. Grzegorz Kozieł, Ph.D. M.Sc.dr inż. Marek Milosz, Ph.D. M.Sc.

Lublin University of Technology

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MEETING ICT INDUSTRY NEEDS IN NEW TECHNOLOGY AREAS

• Number of mobile devices and their users in the world is growing rapidly

• Along with the increasing popularity of mobile devices, demand for applications increases

• Deficiencies of specialists should be filled by higher education system by providing professional developers

• Postgraduate studies in this area, were created in the Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Lublin University of Technology (LUT).

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THE NEW POSTGRADUATESTUDIES

• ICS has created the new postgraduate studies - Mobile Applications Development

• New postgraduate curricula have been developed during the project called „University of technology in

• the future – adjusting the curricula to labor market and KBE”

• The main target of this project is to

• enrich teaching offer of LUT by adjusting it to current and future needs of Knowledge-Based Economy (KBE)

INTRODUCTION OF NEW COURSES

• Process covered:

• creating a new course program and specific syllabuses of particular subjects,

• creating and sharing on ICS’s Moodle platform new e-learning materials preparing candidates and

• enriching regular teaching,

• preparing additional workbooks for students,

• purchase of devices and building a new laboratory specifically for mobile devices development.

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MAD curriculum

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MOTIVATION TO STUDY – RESEARCH AND RESULTS

Final impact

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Conclusion• MAD students are strongly motivated to

acquire new knowledge and practical skills in application design and development for mobile devices

• Most of them link graduating with new opportunities at work, including a change of employers or positions

• The research has shown the need for postgraduate studies MAD

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