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National science foundation advanced technological education projects and centers of excellence for information technology education: an overview

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SIGITE '05: Proceedings of the 6th conference on Information technology education

Pages 233 - 238

https://doi.org/10.1145/1095714.1095768

Published: 20 October 2005 Publication History

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This paper gives an overview of initiatives for information technology (IT) education undertaken by projects and centers of excellence for Advanced Technological Education (ATE) with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF). While these centers have a common goal to advance IT education regionally and nationally, they differ in the means of doing so. Several aspects of these projects and centers are highlighted, including challenges and opportunities that are beneficial to other ATE projects and centers. Current issues pertinent to IT curriculum development, including curriculum guidelines and accreditation of IT programs, are presented and discussed. The paper concludes with recommendations and future steps that are of import to IT educators at large. This paper will be presented at SIGITE 2005 in conjunction with a panel discussion involving principal investigators of current NSF ATE projects and centers for IT education.

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Index Terms

National science foundation advanced technological education projects and centers of excellence for information technology education: an overview
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
      1. Employment issues
    2. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education

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Mishra NHabtemariam GAebissa BNayak RTripathy RThakur ARout S(2024)Case Study on the Performance Evaluation of Graduates in the Field of Artificial Intelligence for Ethiopian UniversitiesTeaching and Assessment in the Era of Education 5.010.4018/979-8-3693-3045-6.ch006(97-114)Online publication date: 17-Jul-2024
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He LSaad AReed JHannigan PStrauser EEkstrom JStockman M(2008)Information technology education for k-12 students and teachersProceedings of the 9th ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education10.1145/1414558.1414580(65-70)Online publication date: 16-Oct-2008
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