Abstract:

Technological, Economic, Computer Engineering's and Social aspects of digital transformation need to be addressed by the designers of all professions involved in the development of these new Information and Business Systems. Therefore, it is important not only to build awareness how these different aspects that are impacting future features of a new ICT system, but also to implement them interdisciplinary in the curricula of higher education institutions. Design of Digital Transformation (DTX) curricula should be aimed in educating students on how to design and develop useful support based on emerging digital technologies for Business processes in the Era of going digital, reduce efforts in struggling with understanding what customers need and also to produce the necessary digital services with a profit potential. The use of methods and techniques from various fields is common practice in teaching courses related to improving business processes, but in this paper, we present experiences in designing an actual curriculum proposal that aims the development of a new study program oriented toward the digital transformation.

When designing a new study program relevant benchmarking impact factors and the analysis of limitation factors need to be taken into consideration. In our case, the benchmarking analysis and the first iteration of suggesting desired learning outcomes, allowed us to go broadly with the digital transformation theme. At the same time the most important limitation factor was the compliance to the existing national qualification framework. The convergence from broad sets of learning outcomes, to those sets and learning outcomes that were specific to our understanding of DTX was the most challenging endeavour.

In this paper, experiences, methodology and frameworks that were influencing our curriculum proposal design are shortly described. The methodology of our curriculum design process is depicted as well as the results of design our curriculum proposal. Finally, the suggested learning outcomes are presented in order to show how DTX could be covered in Higher Education Institutions.

Keywords:

Learning outcomes, digital transformation.