The Computing Profession, 4IR, Professionalism and Skills Development in the 21st Century
Abstract
Computing science as a discipline is playing a leading and useful role in the other professional and organizational disciplines of Arts and Humanities; Engineering and Technology; Law; Medicine; Education; Social Sciences and the Sciences. This is because of its leading application in all the other disciplines and organizational set ups. With the spate of new developments in the discipline and the era of the 4th industrial revolution 4IR, there is a huge challenge of skills development which needs urgent attention. This paper examines and expatiates on the main components of the computing profession, and presents an analysis of the main professional career and skills development direction required to meet the demands of the professional practice of computing and IT in the 21st century. A 3S model of Skills development, Staff training and retraining, and Self-tooling and retooling is suggested as starting point of skills development agenda in the computing profession.
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Okike EU, Baridam B. The Computing Profession, 4IR, Professionalism and Skills Development in the 21st Century. J Engr Desg Anal 2020; 3(2): 78-84.
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