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TPT1101 Professional Development

This document provides an overview of the TPT1101 Professional Development course. It discusses key topics like professional development, its importance to industry, and issues relevant to the ICT field. Professional development is defined as the systematic improvement and broadening of knowledge and skills over a career. The course aims to introduce ethical issues, professional communication skills, and technical practices important for the ICT industry. Assessments include quizzes, assignments, presentations, and a mid-term test covering topics like computer crime, intellectual property, and information law. Professional communication, lifelong learning, and awareness of social impacts are important for employability, career fulfillment, and leading others.

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TPT1101 Professional Development

This document provides an overview of the TPT1101 Professional Development course. It discusses key topics like professional development, its importance to industry, and issues relevant to the ICT field. Professional development is defined as the systematic improvement and broadening of knowledge and skills over a career. The course aims to introduce ethical issues, professional communication skills, and technical practices important for the ICT industry. Assessments include quizzes, assignments, presentations, and a mid-term test covering topics like computer crime, intellectual property, and information law. Professional communication, lifelong learning, and awareness of social impacts are important for employability, career fulfillment, and leading others.

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TPT1101

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Lecture 1
Introduction
Lecture Outline

• Subject overview
• Professional development
• Importance to industry
• Professional practices
• Issues relevant to ICT field
• Professional communication

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Subject Overview
• Assessments:
Assessment Total
Details of topic coverage Format Weight
component marks
● Quiz 1 – Introduction and Professional
Ethics, Intellectual Property I and
Intellectual Property II, Information
Quizzes and the Law ● Online – MCQ 20 20%
● Quiz 2 –Computer Crime, Workplace
Perspectives I, Workplace Perspectives
II, Errors, Failures and Risks
● Presentation and Materials ● Presentation
Presentation
Preparation I
− Materials: 10% 20 20%
● Presentation and Materials
Preparation II − Oral: 10%
● Discussion: 20%
● All topics except Presentation and
Assignments ● Documentation: 40 40%
Materials Preparation I and II
20%

● Professional Ethics
● Intellectual Property I and Intellectual
Mid-term Test Property II ● Online – MCQ 20 20%
● Information and the Law
● Computer Crime

• Important:
• Quiz 1 – Week 6
• Quiz 2 – Week 14
• Mid-Term Test – Week 8 1-3
Professional Development

• What is professional development?

❖ The systematic maintenance, improvement, and


broadening of knowledge and skills, and the
development of personal qualities necessary for
the execution of professional duties throughout
working life1

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As defined by Institute of Engineering and Technology 1-4
Professional Development
• ACM.org

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Professional Development
• Computer science curricula 2013
https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/educ
ation/cs2013_web_final.pdf

Commitment to professional
responsibility
Communication and organizational skills

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Professional Development

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Professional Development

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Professional Development

Objectives

To understand the ethical


issues that students will be
To introduce students to the
confronted with in the ICT
need for technical and To prepare and conduct
field, which will include
professional communicatio presentation professionally
code of ethics,
n and to have the ability to as well as demonstrating
workplace perspectives,
write different types public
computer crime, privacy
of professional and speaking/debate skills
laws, cyber
technical reports.
laws, intellectual property,
fraud and software liability.

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Professional Development

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Importance to Industry

PD provides the drive to


progress one’s career, keeps IT
experts across the industry Employability
competitive

Develop the ability to ask


serious questions about the
social impact of computing and Anticipate impact
to evaluate proposed answers
to those questions

Technological advances Increase the importance of


continue to significantly impact social issues and professional
the way we live and work practices
Importance to Industry

Take ownership of career


Focus on professional development

More able to More aware of trends Increasingly


recognize and directions in effective in the
opportunity technology and society workplace

Help, influence and Confident of future Fulfilling and


lead others employability rewarding career
Roles and
responsibility
in organization
and society

Work-related
Communicatio
behaviors and
n and
issues,
teamwork skills
responds
Professional
practices

Malaysian and
international
legislative and
Ethical conduct
regulatory
obligations and
standards

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Issues Relevant to ICT Field

• ICT field encompasses areas such as software


engineering, information systems, databases,
computer networks, information assurance and
security provide obvious context for analysis of
ethical issues.

• Coverage in this subject:


– Computer crime
– Errors, failures and risks
– Information and the law

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Professional Development

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Professional Communication

Written, oral, visual and digital


workplace context
communication

more effective communication in


Strategies, theories and technologies business world

writing, reading, editing,


Successful communication skills speaking, listening,
are critical to a business software applications, computer
graphics and internet research

Job candidates with


society, culture, science and
professional communication backgrou technology
nds bring sophisticated perspectives

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References
• http://www.theiet.org/

• http://www.acm.org/

• http://www.pd-how2.org/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/

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