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The information technology model curriculum.

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Han Reichgelt

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2006

ISSN

1539-3585

Abstract

The last twenty years has seen the development of demand for a new type of computing professional, which has resulted in the emergence of the academic discipline of Information Technology (IT). Numerous colleges and universities across the country and abroad have responded by developing programs without the advantage of an existing model for guidance. Efforts to define a model curriculum for IT began at the first Conference on Information Technology curriculum (CITC-1) in December 2001, which included representatives from 15 IT programs at four-year universities across the United States. Membership in SIGITE (Special Interest Group Information Technology Education) has grown to over 400 representing many of the four-year IT programs in the United States and abroad and some of the two-year IT programs in the United States. Continued development of the curriculum and subsequent funding by the Education Board of ACM enabled the completion of a first draft of the model curriculum for IT establishing program outcomes and a body of knowledge defining the discipline. This paper presents an overview of the process followed and the results achieved.

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Citation only. Full-text article is available through access provided by the publisher. Published in Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 5(1), 343-361. The full-text of the article may be accessed through the link provided.

Language

en_US

Publisher

Informing Science Institute

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