Ebook: Computer Science Education in the 21st Century
- Tags: Learning & Instruction, Popular Science in Education, Computer Science general
- Year: 2000
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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The world is experiencing unprecedented rapidity of change, originating from pervasive technological developments. These developments are fundamentally reliant on the changing face of computing. Computers are a near-ubiquitous feature on the modern social landscape. Such ubiquity enables rapid propagation of changes emerging from within computing as a family of disciplines. What, then, is the relevance of such changes to education of future computer professionals and computer scientists? This book considers the effects of such rapid change from within computing disciplines, by allowing computing educationalists to deliver a considered verdict on the future of their discipline. The targeted future, the year 2020, was chosen to be distant enough to encourage authors to risk being visionary, while being close enough to ensure some anchorage to reality. The result is a scholarly set of contributions expressing the visions, hopes, concerns, predictions and analyses of trends of the future of a discipline that continues to impact greatly on the wider community. One of the interesting aspects of asking people to consider the future is the extent to which it ultimately sheds light on the present; this concept is explored by the editor in his review of the contributions as a whole.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Computer Science Educational Futures: The Nature of 2020 “Foresight”....Pages 1-6
Computing Education 2020: Balancing Diversity with Cooperation and Consistency....Pages 7-18
Computer Science Education Past and Radical Changes for Future....Pages 19-26
Computing the Profession....Pages 27-46
Emerging Constructivist Forces in Computer Science Education: Shaping a New Future?....Pages 47-80
Towards Truly Educational Programming Environments....Pages 81-111
New Technologies in Computer Science Education....Pages 113-136
Curriculum 2020....Pages 137-148
Information Technology Virtual Education: The Corporate Future....Pages 149-172
Shifting Paradigms: Teaching and Learning in an Animated, Web-Connected World....Pages 173-193
The Future of Computer Science Education: A Glimpse at the Next Step Ahead Through a Leap into the Past....Pages 195-213
Computer Science Education over the Internet: The Future?....Pages 215-262
The Future of Computer Science Education …....Pages 263-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-266
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Computer Science Educational Futures: The Nature of 2020 “Foresight”....Pages 1-6
Computing Education 2020: Balancing Diversity with Cooperation and Consistency....Pages 7-18
Computer Science Education Past and Radical Changes for Future....Pages 19-26
Computing the Profession....Pages 27-46
Emerging Constructivist Forces in Computer Science Education: Shaping a New Future?....Pages 47-80
Towards Truly Educational Programming Environments....Pages 81-111
New Technologies in Computer Science Education....Pages 113-136
Curriculum 2020....Pages 137-148
Information Technology Virtual Education: The Corporate Future....Pages 149-172
Shifting Paradigms: Teaching and Learning in an Animated, Web-Connected World....Pages 173-193
The Future of Computer Science Education: A Glimpse at the Next Step Ahead Through a Leap into the Past....Pages 195-213
Computer Science Education over the Internet: The Future?....Pages 215-262
The Future of Computer Science Education …....Pages 263-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-266
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