Raimo Haapakorpi

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TUMAINI UNIVERSITY -IRINGA UNIVERSITY
COLLEGETANZANIA

• Raimo Haapakorpi
• ICT Director
• Raimo.Haapakorpi_at_tumaini.ac.tz

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Presentation Outline

• Background for IUCO
• Background for IT teaching
• IT Courses we are teaching now
• Plan for the new IT Curriculum
• IT Curriculum principles
• Student admission will be based on
• ViSCos e-learning module

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Background for IUCO

• Tumaini University - Iringa University College
  was established in 1994.
• It has established four faculties offering first
  and higher degrees, diplomas and certificates.
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
• Faculty of Business and Economics
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Theology

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Background for IT teaching

• Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission has been
  giving a lot of support for the development of
  ICT at IUCO.
• University of Joensuu and University of Southern
  Denmark came afterwards to support the
  development of IT teaching at Tumaini.
• I-Blocks (small robotic legos) and other
  technologies are being already used to make the
  computers to appear, not as a black box, but as
  something that can be controlled and understood
  (opening the black box).
• We have had also different use projects of the
  I-Blocks (e.g. teaching and learning tools and
  therapeutic tools for hospital and orphanage)

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From Orphanage at Ilembula
I-BLOCKS
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IT Courses we are teaching now

• ICT 101 Information Technology I
• Basics for all students on first year on first
  semester
• ICT 111 Information Technology II
• for first year BED- and BBA- ,BD- , BC- students
  on second semester
• ICT 112 Information Technology - Journalism
• For first year Journalism students, second
  semester

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ICT Courses we are teaching now

• ICT 203 Information Technology - Business
• for second year BBA students, first semester
• ICT 205 Computer Programming, java
• for second year education students only, first
  semester
• ICT 215 Instructional Technology in Mathematics
  Teaching
• For BED students only

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ICT Courses we are teaching now

• ICT 316 System Support and Administration
• For third year BED students, first semester
• ICT 331 Web Page Design Administration
• For third year BED students, second semester
• ICT 333 Introduction to Computer Networks
• For MBA students
• ICT 651 Information Technology Management
• For MBA students, first semester

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Plan for the new IT Curriculum

• Our plan is to start BSc in Information
  Technology on next academic year.
• We need to use IT to change current patterns
  and not just add the IT on top of the current
  patterns

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Plan for the new IT Curriculum

• The materials should be contextualized in a way
  that for instance, examples are of local origin.
• Traditional components of the CS and Engineer
  could be used from existing sources (e.g. ViSCoS
  e-learning module from University of Joensuu and
  some engineering Components from University of
  Southern Denmark)

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Plan for the new IT Curriculum

• There should be project-based courses in the
  curriculum that are linked with the local
  business especially at Science Park and industry.
• Problem-based learning should be used so first
  try to solve the problem and then learn the
  theory behind to solve the problem.
• The local effort should be focused on the
  contextualized courses that rise from the local
  needs, example
• o Combined course of IT law together with Law
• department/faculty.
• o Multimedia production course that would
  develop
• multimedia that is based on the local folklore.
• o Agricultural project (e.g. irrigation system)

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Planned number of students

• The target number of student should be 50.
• In the first year, there would be 20-30 students
  in order to reduce the work load of staff.
• In second year or third year, there will be 50
• students.
• Students from the programs first year could
  then support the starting students in later
  years.

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Student admission will be based on

• Commitment of the student is very important and
  should be taken into consideration in admission.
• Science A-levels for example, PCB or PCM
• Diploma or Vocational training should be taken
  into consideration if they are from related
  fields.
• Mathematics is important but not a must so that
  humanistic perspective should be taken into
  account.

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ViSCos e- learning module

• ViSCoS project started in year 2000 in the
  University of Joensuu, Department of Computer
  Science. ViSCoS is based on Moodle
  (www.moodle.com).
• The plan is to use ViSCoS courses at Tumaini
  University as a starting point for Basic
  concepts of CS and Engineering

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Structure of ViSCoS courses

• ViSCoS (25 ECTS credit points) includes eight
  courses
• Introduction to ICT and Computing (2 ects)
• Programming, part 1 (3 ects)
• Programming, part 2 (4 ects)
• Research Fields of Computer Science (2 ects)
• Programming Project (4 ects)
• Discrete Structures (5 ects)
• Hardware, Computer Architecture and Operating
  System (3 ects)
• Introduction to the Ethics of Computing (2 ects)

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IT Curriculum principles

• Contextualized
• Problem-based projects (Problem orientation)
• Practically oriented
• Interdisciplinary
• o Engineering
• o Computer Science
• o Application domains education, agriculture,
  law, business etc.

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Links

• E-learning Course Management Systems (CMS)
• http//www.edutools.info/static.jsp?pj4pageHOM
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• NWCET IT Curriculum Development Toolkit
• http//www.nwcet.org/products/Toolkit/index.asp

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• Thank You!