Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish ... more Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by sending an email request to <pubs-permissions@ieee.org>.
Computing has become a diverse and multi-faceted discipline. It is imperative that computing curr... more Computing has become a diverse and multi-faceted discipline. It is imperative that computing curricula evolve so that they will effectively convey this breadth. An awareness of the societal implications of computing must also be at the core of all computing curricula. Furthermore, we observe that new computing curricula must be responsive to change, that pedagogy must be informed by reasoned judgment, and that educators function as reflective practitioners. This requires educators to respond appropriately to market pressures and technological innovations. This paper investigates some of the components of the discipline's evolving computing' curricula from a variety of historical perspectives.
In 2001, the ACM and the IEEE-CS published Computing Curricula 2001 which contains curriculum rec... more In 2001, the ACM and the IEEE-CS published Computing Curricula 2001 which contains curriculum recommendations for undergraduate programs in computer science. That report also called for additional discipline-specific volumes for each of computer engineering, information systems, and software engineering. In addition, it called for an Overview Volume to provide a synthesis of the various volumes. The Computing Curricula 2004 Task
Working Group 3 at ITiCSE 2007 continued the ongoing work of the Ontology of Computing project. T... more Working Group 3 at ITiCSE 2007 continued the ongoing work of the Ontology of Computing project. The working group brought several new people into the project and addressed areas of the ontology of particular interest to these participants. In particular, the group worked on the Ontology sections related to History of Computing, Computing Security and Social and Ethical issues. With
FIE '98. 28th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Moving from 'Teacher-Centered' to 'Learner-Centered' Education. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.98CH36214)
Although history is a part of arts and sciences, the history of computing has yet to receive unif... more Although history is a part of arts and sciences, the history of computing has yet to receive uniform acceptance in the academic community. The history of computing should be considered as a part of human understanding and how the development of computing has affected the ...
... University of Nebraska, Lincoln 259 Avery Hall Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0115 +1 402 472 3486 r... more ... University of Nebraska, Lincoln 259 Avery Hall Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0115 +1 402 472 3486 riedesel@cse.unl.edu Yaakov L Varol Computer Science &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; Engineering University of Nevada Reno Reno NV 89557 USA 775 784 6974 varol@cse.unr.edu Gail T. Finley Dept. ...
This special session will proved information about the status of work related to Masters programs... more This special session will proved information about the status of work related to Masters programs in Computing. Specifically, the session will describe work completed in the following areas: the categorization of masters programs in computing, the development of curriculum recommendations for masters programs in software engineering, the collaborative work with the Association for Information Systems on the Masters program in Information Systems
An ontology of computing has been attempted with the intention of supporting, among other things,... more An ontology of computing has been attempted with the intention of supporting, among other things, the development of curriculum. Computing is unusual in having 40 years of curriculum recommendations that have been very influential in determining what is taught in a large number of programs. The ontology offers an objective base on which to build a curriculum recommendation. The ontology is still evolving and the use in curriculum development is entering its first experiments. This paper describes the challenges of developing the ontology and the plans for its application in curriculum development.
This is the report of Working Group 4 of the ITiCSE Conference of 2005. The working group met to ... more This is the report of Working Group 4 of the ITiCSE Conference of 2005. The working group met to introduce some new participants into an ongoing project designed to explore the representation of all the computing and information related disciplines in a single, comprehensive, graphical and interactive structure. The goal of the work is to support the classification of research work, the development of curriculum recommendations and accreditation criteria, and the analysis of proposed programs of study.
Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish ... more Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by sending an email request to <pubs-permissions@ieee.org>.
Computing has become a diverse and multi-faceted discipline. It is imperative that computing curr... more Computing has become a diverse and multi-faceted discipline. It is imperative that computing curricula evolve so that they will effectively convey this breadth. An awareness of the societal implications of computing must also be at the core of all computing curricula. Furthermore, we observe that new computing curricula must be responsive to change, that pedagogy must be informed by reasoned judgment, and that educators function as reflective practitioners. This requires educators to respond appropriately to market pressures and technological innovations. This paper investigates some of the components of the discipline's evolving computing' curricula from a variety of historical perspectives.
In 2001, the ACM and the IEEE-CS published Computing Curricula 2001 which contains curriculum rec... more In 2001, the ACM and the IEEE-CS published Computing Curricula 2001 which contains curriculum recommendations for undergraduate programs in computer science. That report also called for additional discipline-specific volumes for each of computer engineering, information systems, and software engineering. In addition, it called for an Overview Volume to provide a synthesis of the various volumes. The Computing Curricula 2004 Task
Working Group 3 at ITiCSE 2007 continued the ongoing work of the Ontology of Computing project. T... more Working Group 3 at ITiCSE 2007 continued the ongoing work of the Ontology of Computing project. The working group brought several new people into the project and addressed areas of the ontology of particular interest to these participants. In particular, the group worked on the Ontology sections related to History of Computing, Computing Security and Social and Ethical issues. With
FIE '98. 28th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Moving from 'Teacher-Centered' to 'Learner-Centered' Education. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.98CH36214)
Although history is a part of arts and sciences, the history of computing has yet to receive unif... more Although history is a part of arts and sciences, the history of computing has yet to receive uniform acceptance in the academic community. The history of computing should be considered as a part of human understanding and how the development of computing has affected the ...
... University of Nebraska, Lincoln 259 Avery Hall Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0115 +1 402 472 3486 r... more ... University of Nebraska, Lincoln 259 Avery Hall Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0115 +1 402 472 3486 riedesel@cse.unl.edu Yaakov L Varol Computer Science &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; Engineering University of Nevada Reno Reno NV 89557 USA 775 784 6974 varol@cse.unr.edu Gail T. Finley Dept. ...
This special session will proved information about the status of work related to Masters programs... more This special session will proved information about the status of work related to Masters programs in Computing. Specifically, the session will describe work completed in the following areas: the categorization of masters programs in computing, the development of curriculum recommendations for masters programs in software engineering, the collaborative work with the Association for Information Systems on the Masters program in Information Systems
An ontology of computing has been attempted with the intention of supporting, among other things,... more An ontology of computing has been attempted with the intention of supporting, among other things, the development of curriculum. Computing is unusual in having 40 years of curriculum recommendations that have been very influential in determining what is taught in a large number of programs. The ontology offers an objective base on which to build a curriculum recommendation. The ontology is still evolving and the use in curriculum development is entering its first experiments. This paper describes the challenges of developing the ontology and the plans for its application in curriculum development.
This is the report of Working Group 4 of the ITiCSE Conference of 2005. The working group met to ... more This is the report of Working Group 4 of the ITiCSE Conference of 2005. The working group met to introduce some new participants into an ongoing project designed to explore the representation of all the computing and information related disciplines in a single, comprehensive, graphical and interactive structure. The goal of the work is to support the classification of research work, the development of curriculum recommendations and accreditation criteria, and the analysis of proposed programs of study.
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