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The changing face of information technology

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Stephen J. Zilora,

Daniel S. Bogaard,

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SIGITE '13: Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2512276.2512288

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Information technology as an academic discipline began in the early 90's. Since then, there have been many changes in how industry views the discipline. Today, information technology is about large-scale operations. This may be manifested as supporting enterprise services, working with big data, or supporting massive multi-user systems. In this paper, we describe a new curriculum that is based upon the original work in the "2008 Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Information Technology" document, but addresses modern information technology demands. We discuss a new curricular model for teaching information technology and also the addition of analytics as an overarching theme for the curriculum.

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