IT Common Courses: Next Series

IT Common Course Initiative: Work To-Date

IT faculty from around the state assembled in May 2014 at the Mercer Island Community and Event Center for the Creating IT Futures Summit 2014. They came to consensus on the six IT common courses they had been working on over the last two years.

In moving forward with additional IT Common Courses, the May 15/16th Summit group came up with 10 courses. Of these ten, the survey results indicated that four courses rose to an acceptable level of consensus. For each of these four courses an overview and learner outcomes have been developed for review/suggestions/edits. Two areas: "At the end of the course, the student may be able to..." and "Prerequisites" are open for suggestions.

To review these four new IT common courses, please (click here) and go to the section titled, "Next Series: IT Fundamentals (Draft)

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* 1.
If changing your curriculum for IT 116&: Introduction to Unix/Linux Operating Systems (OS), ensured your students would not have to retake the course(s) and enable them to successfully transfer to a four-year institution, would you be able to convince your academic chairs, administrators, and the president that these changes are best for and remove obstacles that might slow or hinder student's career pathway progress.

To review the course, IT 116&: Introduction to Unix/Linux Operating Systems (OS) (click here)

Yes

Make any edits, suggestions here, including outcomes the student might be able to do by the end of the course, as well as any prerequisites.

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* 2.
If changing your curriculum for IT 117&: Security (+), ensured your students would not have to retake the course(s) and enable them to successfully transfer to a four-year institution, would you be able to convince your academic chairs, administrators, and the president that these changes are best for and remove obstacles that might slow or hinder student's career pathway progress.

To review the course, IT 117&: Security (+) (click here)

Yes

Make any edits, suggestions here, including outcomes the student might be able to do by the end of the course, as well as any prerequisites.

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* 3.
If changing your curriculum for IT 118&: PHP/SQL Database Programming, ensured your students would not have to retake the course(s) and enable them to successfully transfer to a four-year institution, would you be able to convince your academic chairs, administrators, and the president that these changes are best for and remove obstacles that might slow or hinder student's career pathway progress.

To review the course, IT 118&: PHP/SQL Database Programming (click here)

Yes

Make any edits, suggestions here, including outcomes the student might be able to do by the end of the course, as well as any prerequisites.

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* 4.
If changing your curriculum for IT 119&: Web Page Design (HTML(5), XHTML, CSS, JQuery), ensured your students would not have to retake the course(s) and enable them to successfully transfer to a four-year institution, would you be able to convince your academic chairs, administrators, and the president that these changes are best for and remove obstacles that might slow or hinder student's career pathway progress.

To review the course, IT 119&: Web Page Design (HTML(5), XHTML, CSS, JQuery) (click here)

Yes

Make any edits, suggestions here, including outcomes the student might be able to do by the end of the course, as well as any prerequisites.

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* 5. If you are one of the over 15 colleges that either agreed to implement the IT common course notations (either in the course description, course catalog, online course schedule), or planned to implement the notations by December 2014, how are you progressing with this work?

We have started the process and will have implemented the IT common course standardized notation changes to our course descriptions by December 2014.

We will start the process fall quarter 2014, and it might be early 2015 by the time the IT common course standardized notations have been fully implemented.

We have already implemented the IT common course standardized notation to our colleges print/online course descriptions.

Other

Please detail any additional specifics to assist in an accurate assessment of your colleges's progress.

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* 6. Is there a fifth, or other additional common IT courses we should consider? If so, what is it (are they)?

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* 7.
We have the next Creating IT Futures Summit at the Mercer Island Community and Event Center tentatively scheduled for Thursday/Friday, May 14/15, 2015. Note: The Center will again cover travel expenses for those traveling more than 75 miles (overnight hotel, per diem - meals, and gas reimbursement).
Other than recommending you mark your calendar with this date, please let the Center know if you will be able to attend.

Yes

Will be able to give a definitive answer by December 2014

Other

Other (please specify)

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* 8. Just to ensure we can accurately connect with you if there are further questions, or we need to reach out to your college, please include your name, email address, and address.

We will also be entering you into a random drawing for either a tomtom gps or an ativa HD digital camcorde.

If you are interested in joining the IT Common Course work group, let us know.

We appreciate your interest in participating, as well as completing this survey. Stay tuned! Thank you.

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