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Curriculum design for a PhD specialization in IT education

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Tsun Chow,

Alan Chmura,

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SIGITE '07: Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education

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Ekstrom, J. E., Gorka, S., Kamali, R., Lawson, E., Lunt, B., Miller, J., Reichgelt, H. The Information Technology Model Curriculum. Journal of Information Technology Education, 5, 343--361, 2006.

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Curriculum design for a PhD specialization in IT education
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education

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DOI:10.1145/1324302

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Brigham Young University, USA

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