International Symposium on Project Approaches in Engineering Education, Volume 10, Pages 97-104 , 01/01/2020
Building a needs-based curriculum in data science and artificial intelligence: Case studies in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand
Abstract
Indonesia and Thailand are middle-income countries within the South-East Asia region. They have well-established and growing higher education systems, increasingly focused on quality improvement. However, they fall behind regional leaders in educating people who design, develop, deploy and train data science and artificial intelligence (DS&AI) based technology, as evident from the technological market, regionally dominated by Singapore and Malaysia, while the region as a whole is far behind China. A similar situation holds also for Sri Lanka, in the South Asia region technologically dominated by India. In this paper, we describe the design of a master's level curriculum in data science and artificial intelligence using European experience on building such curricula. The design of such a curriculum is a nontrivial exercise because there is a constant trade-off between having a sufficiently broad academic curriculum and adequately meeting regional needs, including those of industrial stakeholders. In fact, findings from a gap analysis and assessment of needs from three case studies in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand comprise the most significant component of our curriculum development process.
Document Type
Conference Paper
Source Type
Conference Proceeding
Keywords
Artificial IntelligenceCurriculum DesignData ScienceHigher Education
ASJC Subject Area
Engineering : Engineering (all)Social Sciences : Education
Funding Agency
European Commission
Anutariya, C., Bonsangue, M., Abidin, T., Dailey, M., Fraidaki, K., Gomes, T., Hermans, F., ... Wickramarachchi, C. (2020). Building a needs-based curriculum in data science and artificial intelligence: Case studies in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. International Symposium on Project Approaches in Engineering Education, 1097-104.