- Title
- What's in a name? International interpretations of computing education terminology
- Creator
- Simon; Clear, Alison; Carter, Janet; Cross, Gerry; Radenski, Atanas; Tudor, Liviana; Tõnisson, Eno
- Relation
- ITiCSEInnovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITICSE-WGR '15). ITICSE-WGR '15 Proceedings of the 2015 ITiCSE on Working Group Reports (Vilnius, Lithuania 04-08 July, 2015) p. 173-186
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2858796.2858803
- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- The ACM, the AIS, and the IEEE Computer Society have jointly defined five computing disciplines: computer engineering, computer science, information systems, information technology, and software engineering. These terms and many others are used as the names of educational programmes. Across the world, the same name may be used for quite different programmes and different names for similar programmes. This makes it difficult for potential students, employers, and educators to determine the nature of a particular programme and how it compares to others. Because computing is global, greater clarity in terminology is required. We have surveyed academics and literature internationally to determine the scale of the nomenclature issue across the globe. A consistent naming scheme would be ideal, but the different terminologies are now entrenched in different countries, so this paper provides the next best option, a taxonomy of the principal terms and their meanings.
- Subject
- computer engineering; computer science; information systems; information technology; software engineering; computing education
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1316943
- Identifier
- uon:23283
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781450341462
- Rights
- ©ACM 2015. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in ITICSE-WGR '15 Proceedings of the 2015 ITiCSE on Working Group Reports, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/10.1145/2858796.2858803
- Language
- eng
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