Networks and Telecommunications Course Content Lists: A Comparison between it Educators and Industry Personnel
Seeking input from information technology (IT) professionals provides IT educators with the opportunity to revise curricula to keep course content current. This research is an extension of a 1997 telecommunications course content Delphi study for a beginning networks and telecommunications course at the college or university level. Two Delphi studies were completed with the following groups: 1) industry group (Association of Information Technology Professionals – AITP) and 2) educator group (Organizational Systems Research Association – OSRA). Through the Delphi process the two groups developed individual lists of content to be included in a networks and telecommunications course. The purpose of this manuscript is to compare the networks and telecommunications course content lists developed by the educator and industry groups.