TY - GEN
T1 - Latin American perspectives to internationalize undergraduate information technology education
AU - Sabin, Mihaela
AU - Viola, Barbara
AU - Impagliazzo, John
AU - Angles, Renzo
AU - Curiel, Mariela
AU - Leger, Paul
AU - Murillo, Jorge
AU - Nina, Hernán
AU - Pow-Sang, José Antonio
AU - Trejos, Ignacio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
©2016 ACM.
PY - 2016/7/9
Y1 - 2016/7/9
N2 - 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. CCS Concepts CCS → Social and professional topics → Professional topics → Computing education → Computing education programs → Information technology education.
AB - 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. CCS Concepts CCS → Social and professional topics → Professional topics → Computing education → Computing education programs → Information technology education.
KW - Academia & industry
KW - Information technology
KW - IT
KW - IT in Latin america
KW - Latino IT curriculum
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85015453064&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3024906.3029847
DO - 10.1145/3024906.3029847
M3 - Articulo (Contribución a conferencia)
AN - SCOPUS:85015453064
T3 - Proceedings of the 2016 ITiCSE Working Group Reports, ITiCSE 2016
SP - 1
EP - 22
BT - Proceedings of the 2016 ITiCSE Working Group Reports, ITiCSE 2016
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 21st Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2016
Y2 - 9 July 2016 through 13 July 2016
ER -