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Computing Education:Challenges and Opportunities

Wei ZhaoNational Science Foundation

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All Depend on

Information Technologies

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Information Technologies

Impact many sectors of society

Increase productivity

Stimulate logical-thinking

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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

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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