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Over the past decades, universities have been required to offer increasingly flexible study programs. Furthermore, study program designs exhibit by their nature large amounts of dependencies due to constraints of prerequisite courses, courses being taught in several study programs, etcetera. These characteristics make managing and changing study programs very complex, on occasion even preventing study program changes. In this paper we present solutions to these challenges based on the concept of modular and evolvable system design. Basic engineering concepts such as modularity, coupling and cohesion are used to explain and illustrate the evolvability and traceability of study programs.
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Oorts, G., Mannaert, H., De Bruyn, P., Franquet, I. (2016). On the Evolvable and Traceable Design of (Under)graduate Education Programs. In: Aveiro, D., Pergl, R., Gouveia, D. (eds) Advances in Enterprise Engineering X. EEWC 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 252. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39567-8_6
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