Plenary Lecture
Interactive Management Tool on Course Mapping
Professor Savitri Bevinakoppa
Deputy Head, Post Graduate Networking Course Coordinator
Melbourne Institute of Technology
Australia
E-mail: sbevinakoppa@mit.edu.au
Abstract: Information Technology (IT) industry changes rapidly and requires graduates with current skills and knowledge to cope up with the recent IT related technologies, particularly in cyber security. Academic institutes require to update their courses frequently with plan, design, and implement within short span of the time. Main challenges of course design is to benchmark courses, units, assessments with other educational institutes nationally and internationally, design courses with mapping onto graduate attributes in-terms of Australian Quality Framework (AQF) standards, Tertiary Education Quality Standard Agency (TEQSA) requirements and professional body requirements (Australian Computer Society - ACS, Engineers Australia - EA etc) along with Bloom’s taxonomy. It is quite challenging to satisfy all requirements in one document. There is a need of an interactive Course Mapping online management tool where course coordinators can identify the gaps and update courses as needed. This presentation will explain an online management system and it’s future work.
Brief Biography of the Speaker: Associate Professor Savitri Bevinakoppa completed her Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Communication) in 1989 and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Victoria University, Melbourne in 1996, writing her thesis on “Still Image Compression on Parallel Computer Architectures”. Savitri has more than 29 years of teaching and research experience in Engineering and Information Technology (IT) disciplines, and has also worked in industry as a manager for more than 10 years. She has demonstrated continuing scholarly and professional involvement in both learning & teaching and research, publishing a number of books and research papers nationally and internationally. She has obtained several industry grants and supervised many research students and research associates. She has chaired a number of conferences in multi-disciplinary areas and edited their proceedings. Currently she is working as a Deputy Head and Post Graduate Networking Course Coordinator at Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.