Challenges IT Instructors Face in the Education Process and Self-Education

Abstract

This paper is about the challenges IT instructors face due to the rapid development of the information technology. IT instructors need to continuously update their own skills and knowledge through self-education. They also need to frequently update course syllabuses and make major changes in the course textbooks if they write them. In order to understand and evaluate these challenges, we conducted a survey among the IT instructors from several colleges and universities, particularly focusing on teaching introductory computer science courses. The focus of the survey is the need for the instructors' self-education and updating of the course syllabuses and textbooks due to the information technology rapid development. We have analyzed the results of the survey, and give recommendations for the most efficient self-education of the IT instructors.

The rôle of knowledge in system risk identification and assessment: The 2014 Ebola outbreak

“…The increasingly popular taxonomic and objective-based risk assessment (Trickey, 2011;Airmic / Alarm / IRM, 2010;Borodzicz, 2005;Dorfman, 2007) are relevant, but while such approaches implicate the internal behavioural characteristics of the object under assessment (what we will refer to as the system behaviour), there is limited evidence of this important source of system risk knowledge being mobilized in an explicit way. Where there is evidence of knowledge being deployed it appears to be seen exclusively as an 'emic' property (de Zoysa, 2003;Ruzic-Dimitrijevic, 2014). There is thus a tendency both in academic literature and in practice to interpret the term 'dynamic' [as in 'dynamic risk assessment"] as being to do with the extent to which the risk assessment is performed on a continuing basis, as opposed to a oncefor-all snapshot (Adams, 1995;Nederpelt, 2012).…”

“…Knowledge risk (Ishikawa and Naka, 2003;Massingham, 2010) is an analytical objective in many application domains such as IT (Varajao, et al, 2017), disaster risk management (UNISDR, 2014(UNISDR, , 2105aSpiekermann et al, 2015), fisheries (McDonald et al, 2017), supply chains (Raut et al, 2017), social risk, ecological (Asfaq, 2017;Lou et al, 2017), safety at sea (Goerlandt et al, 2017), safety critical systems (Scott-Parker and Oviedo-Trespalacios, 2017;Bachani et al, 2017) and indeed in the effectiveness assessment of Knowledge Management itself (Boy and Barna, 2005;Benoit, 2011;Ruzic-Dimitrijevic, 2014).…”