ADULT MOTIVATION TO STUDY OF NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES – RESEARCH RESULTS dr inż. Grzegorz Kozieł, Ph.D. M.Sc. dr inż. Marek Milosz, Ph.D. M.Sc. Lublin University of Technology

2 MEETING ICT INDUSTRY NEEDS IN NEW TECHNOLOGY AREAS Number of mobile devices and their users in the world is growing rapidly Along with the increasing popularity of mobile devices, demand for applications increases Deficiencies of specialists should be filled by higher education system by providing professional developers Postgraduate studies in this area, were created in the Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Lublin University of Technology (LUT).

3 THE NEW POSTGRADUATE STUDIES ICS has created the new postgraduate studies - Mobile Applications Development New postgraduate curricula have been developed during the project called „University of technology in the future – adjusting the curricula to labor market and KBE” The main target of this project is to enrich teaching offer of LUT by adjusting it to current and future needs of Knowledge-Based Economy (KBE)

INTRODUCTION OF NEW COURSES Process covered: creating a new course program and specific syllabuses of particular subjects, creating and sharing on ICS’s Moodle platform new e-learning materials preparing candidates and enriching regular teaching, preparing additional workbooks for students, purchase of devices and building a new laboratory specifically for mobile devices development. 4

5 MAD curriculum

6 MOTIVATION TO STUDY – RESEARCH AND RESULTS

Final impact 7

Conclusion MAD students are strongly motivated to acquire new knowledge and practical skills in application design and development for mobile devices Most of them link graduating with new opportunities at work, including a change of employers or positions The research has shown the need for postgraduate studies MAD 8

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