Analysis of quantitative profiles of GI education: Towards an analytical basis for EduMapping

Abstract

There is an ongoing discussion among the members of the GI educational community about the possibility to find a common way to describe a course taught as part of a GI curriculum (anywhere in the world) with the final goal of being able to automatically identify similar courses and define their equivalence. EduMapping is such an initiative that started recently, which used the BoK concepts as its basic labeling scheme. Based on this work we extended the analysis provided by the EduMapping initiative by suggesting and applying an analytical method that is capable of clustering the courses into classes based on (dis)similarity metrics, which are in turn calculated based on the course assessments done by their instructors using the BoK concepts. In this paper, we present and discuss the preliminary results obtained while applying the suggested method on the EduMapping data. We also provide some pointers for further research in an area that has very few contributions so far. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011.