The use of electronic curriculums in occupational education to evaluate and improve the cognitive capacity of candidate software engineers

This research is aimed to go beyond the traditional techniques of design and to apply an educational system. This system was designed to allow students to apply the theoretical knowledge and jargon of the System Analysis and Design course in Bahçeşehir University, Engineering Faculty usefully to other branches, in different situations. This course was taken by students in the fall term of 2008. The learning system which has been designed involves some electronic applications and tests to make the content more understandable and to improve student’s knowledge. At the end of term it was measured to what extent students were able to use the skills which they had learned from the course. Every week repeated case studies and other tools were employed to exercise students’ short-term memories. Their knowledge was gained through a combination of face-to-face sessions (information from the formal teaching methods and case studies) and online tools (jargon based word games and tests)