(1291) SATISFACTION OF POSTGRADUATE ALUMNI IN NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES - RESEARCH RESULTS

摘要

The rapid technological development in such areas as Internet-, mobile- or cloud-technologies, hascaused a lack of Information Technology (IT) specialist labor in the labor market, particularly in ITfirms. Currently, universities are not able to meet this demand because of two main problems: Theprocess to increase the number of IT graduates is slower than the rate of growth of the demand for ITworkers, since it requires to set up and fund new laboratories and hire additional, experiencedlecturers; and the fact that introducing new technologies into the teaching process takes a lot of time.All in all, there is a requirement for re-engineering current higher education programs, trainingacademic staff and preparing new laboratories. A solution to the above problem may be to retrainpeople coming from other labor fields, introducing them to IT and thus developing a second jobcompetence. This IT competence, added to their previous competences and professional experience,makes them very attractive for employers.This model of training is being put into practice at the postgraduate program “Mobile ApplicationDevelopment”. Part of the enrolled students is people who want to gain additional competences andchange their profession, while others simply expect to gain financial and professional benefits.The mentioned program lasts two semesters and it takes place during weekends due to the fact thatmany students have full time jobs. The work-load of students is 60 ECTS points. Until now, twoeditions of the course have been carried out. The objectives, target group and the course program arepresented in this paper, as well as the research results concerning satisfaction with the studies. Theresearch was performed just after the final exam. The results of the research will allow for a betteradaptation of the program to the market needs.