Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) untuk Penentuan Capaian Pembelajaran Lulusan Program Studi Teknologi Informasi

A skills framework provides a common terminology and model for skills or competencies in a specific sector in order to facilitate skills management by the users of the framework e.g. individuals and organisations. Typical use case for skills frameworks by organisations is assessing current skill proficiencies and planning future skill upgrades. A skills framework can be regarded as a type of standard, whether formal or ad-hoc, and thereby, in principle, it affords some of the usual advantages of standards such as reduced costs, greater efficiency and portability due to the same framework being used across organisations. In Education, skills framework provides quality of learning outcome through align curriculum to industry/employer needs and to improving graduate employability. SFIA is the world’s most widely adopted skills and competency framework. It is used by employers and profesional bodies across the world. Educations and training providers, especially ICT study program, can adopt SFIA to defining graduate learning outcomes, curricula, and to support the marketing and promotion of their products and services.