What is lacking in curriculum schemes for computing / informatics?

SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 186-190

  Van Veen, Maarten ^a   Mulder, Fred ^a   Lemmen, Karel ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computing; Curriculum implementation; Curriculum research and development; Curriculum schemes; Curriculum theory; Informatics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; STUDENTS;

COMPUTING; CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION; CURRICULUM RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; CURRICULUM SCHEMES; CURRICULUM THEORY; INFORMATICS;

CURRICULA;

EID: 33646840641     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: 00978418     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1026487.1008046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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