1 / 10

Jyoti Bhardwaj Lecturer and Teaching Fellow, FHEA MBCS School of Computing

Use of a scenario-based business simulation to enhance employability skills of first year Computing students. Jyoti Bhardwaj Lecturer and Teaching Fellow, FHEA MBCS School of Computing Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland j.bhardwaj@napier.ac.uk. Why SimVenture for Computing first years?.

edward
Download Presentation

Jyoti Bhardwaj Lecturer and Teaching Fellow, FHEA MBCS School of Computing

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Use of a scenario-based business simulation to enhance employability skills of first year Computing students JyotiBhardwaj Lecturer and Teaching Fellow, FHEA MBCS School of Computing Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland j.bhardwaj@napier.ac.uk

  2. Why SimVenture for Computing first years? Computing students lack confidence In 2012, of the 20 disciplines included in the NSS, only Mathematics gave a more negative response than Computing students to the statement “The course has helped me to present myself with confidence”. (HEFCE, 2013) Computing courses have high drop-out rates Computing-related subjects suffer from the poorest retention rate, regardless of age and entry qualifications: entrants to HE in 2010/11 who were least likely to be in HE in 2011/12 were studying computer sciences (HESA, 2013)

  3. SimVenture is used as an agent for self-efficacy through • practising purposeful co-operation for transactive memory • reflecting on decision making • synthesising information to incorporate business data and • designing and giving oral presentations • thereby improving engagement and self-confidence in presenting themselves

  4. Creativity, innovation, enterprise Friendship, support, engagement

  5. SimVenture is embedded in a semester-long module that comprises: • 24 hours of lectures on information systems and business organisation, assessed by MCQ (40%) • technical writing tutorials, assessed by a written report based on a site visit (20%) • SimVenture, assessed by three presentations (40%)

  6. Practicalities of when and how • Start of the first week of teaching • Often students’ first lab • Randomly allocated into small teams or “companies” of no more than three • Each group must form and run a computer manufacturing company according to simulation’s scenario • Assessment by a series of three presentations at 3-4 week intervals

  7. Transformation Shouldn’t we encourage Computing students to discard old stereotypes?

  8. Feedback from students “I know that my team mates and I enjoyed this class and it was a complete plus as the class was not boring and was quite engaging. But from a personal aspect I think now I have the confidence to present any presentation and I know the drill that goes behind the presentation and everything.”

More Related