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AHP and multichoice goal programming integration for course planning
Author(s) -
Kırış Şafak
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international transactions in operational research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.032
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1475-3995
pISSN - 0969-6016
DOI - 10.1111/itor.12081
Subject(s) - analytic hierarchy process , bologna process , computer science , quality assurance , construct (python library) , plan (archaeology) , process (computing) , goal programming , engineering management , lifelong learning , order (exchange) , process management , course (navigation) , higher education , quality (philosophy) , management science , operations research , operations management , engineering , business , political science , sociology , pedagogy , philosophy , law , history , aerospace engineering , external quality assessment , archaeology , operating system , epistemology , programming language , finance
Course planning is one of the important problems in the education systems of universities. The processes cannot continue efficiently without planning, and various interruptions can appear in the system. This way decisions concerning which courses, when, how, and for what purposes should be answered by considering the available resources and stakeholders’ preferences. Besides, universities aiming to be in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) have to adapt their systems to the Bologna process in order to create a lifelong student‐centered, learning‐oriented area based on quality assurance. In this study, an integrated approach based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and multichoice goal programming (MCGP) model was proposed to construct an efficient course plan following the Bologna process. The proposed approach was applied in an industrial engineering department.