To support the education of more graduates in digital technologies and in this way contribute to meet the huge need for highly trained IT professionals at companies and in the public sector, we have established an effort with focus on master studies.
The aim is to supplement and create synergy with the existing education programs at all universities in Denmark, promote gender diversity and strengthen the cooperation between researchers, students and the business community to ensure the best possible exploitation of the capacity.
Denmark needs more IT specialists. But how do we get more young people to study computer science and become IT specialist? This project, consisting of two subprojects, focuses on initiatives that can improve both recruitment and retention of a larger but also more diverse group of young people e.g., female students and students without prior programming experience.
The aim is to improve onboarding and retention of students result in an ability to teach more students and lower dropout rates.
Teaching quality and student feedback is negatively impacted by lack of teachers and many students. There is a need to consider how learning technologies can help improve teaching quality and student feedback both in physical and digital learning environments.
The mix of students in digital technology is low in diversity (e.g. female students). This is a problem on a societal level which also impacts the study environment.
Professor
University of Southern Denmark
The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute
E: mbkj@mmmi.sdu.dk
T: +45 21 97 24 47
Professor
Aarhus University
Department of Computer Science
Associate Professor
Aalborg University
Department of Computer Science
Professor
Copenhagen Business School
Department of Digitalization
Associate Professor
Technical University of Denmark
DTU Compute
Associate Professor
IT University of Copenhagen
Department of Computer Science
Professor
University of Copenhagen
Department of Computer Science
The aim of DIREC is to expand the capacity within research, innovation and education in digital technologies in Denmark. In addition, DIREC shall contribute to the competitiveness of Denmark through collaboration with Danish businesses and the public sector on developing new innovative products and services based on the newest digital technologies.
DIREC is partially funded by Innovation Fund Denmark.
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