Abstract
The computing education community expects modern curricular guidelines for information technology (IT) undergraduate degree programs by 2017. The authors of this work focus on eliciting and analyzing Latin American academic and industry perspectives on IT undergraduate education. The objective is to ensure that the IT curricular framework in the IT2017 report articulates the relationship between academic preparation and the work environment of IT graduates in light of current technological and educational trends in Latin America and elsewhere. Activities focus on soliciting and analyzing survey data collected from institutions and consortia in IT education and IT professional and educational societies in Latin America; these activities also include garnering the expertise of the authors. Findings show that IT degree programs are making progress in bridging the academic-industry gap, but more work remains.
Publication Date
7-9-2016
Journal Title
Proceedings of the 2016 ITiCSE Working Group Reports
Publisher
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Mihaela Sabin, Barbara Viola, John Impagliazzo, Renzo Angles, Mariela Curiel, Paul Leger, Jorge Murillo, Hern´an Nina, Jos´e Antonio Pow-Sang, and Ignacio Trejos, Latin american perspectives to internationalize undergraduate information technology education, Proceedings of the 2016 ITiCSE Working Group Reports, ITiCSE’16, ACM, 2016, pp. 1–22.
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Copyright © 2016, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Comments
© 2016, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 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 Proceedings of the 2016 ITiCSE Working Group Reports, https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3024906.3029847.