Using the Knowledge Units to Develop a Curriculum

The amount of time spent dealing with the knowledge units is important - a minimum of 15 lecture hours and 25 laboratory hours of the curriculum should be devoted to this material in order for students to gain an in-depth understanding of the basic elements and skills. In addition, it is strongly recommended that another 10-15 lecture hours be spent on an in-depth coverage of topics such as privacy, computers in medicine, computers in education, deskilling of jobs, and computer crime to enable the students to apply the basic elements and skills to real issues (Table 1).