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page 3 Wei Zhao 3/25/2005 Information Technologies Impact many sectors of society Increase productivity Stimulate logical-thinking
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page 1 Wei Zhao 3/25/2005
Computing Education:Challenges and Opportunities
Wei ZhaoNational Science Foundation
page 2 Wei Zhao 3/25/2005
All Depend on
Information Technologies
page 3 Wei Zhao 3/25/2005
Information Technologies
Impact many sectors of society
Increase productivity
Stimulate logical-thinking
page 4 Wei Zhao 3/25/2005
Current Environment
Enrollment down Tough job market More and more global competition Dissatisfaction from business users Budget constraints and cuts Less and less major breakthroughs
page 5 Wei Zhao 3/25/2005
What have we been teaching?What have we been teaching?
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What have we been teaching? Products or fundamentals? Do we have an agreement on
fundamentals? Programming skills or design
methodologies? Innovations? Integrations?
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Campus Computing Unit Organization Model
Does the model reflect our view of the field? What is our long term objective? How do other unit models evolve? What is the effective and efficient way to
organize computing units?
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Mission of the WorkshopStrategizing the transformation of computing education and research
For the computing workforce of the 21st century
Long-range, broad, and high impact Both contents and organization
models An on-going long-term process