Computer Science Education in the 21st Century

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Computer Science Educational Futures: The Nature of 2020 “Foresight”

   • Tony Greening

   Pages 1-6

3. Computing Education 2020: Balancing Diversity with Cooperation and Consistency

   • Donald J. Bagert

   Pages 7-18

4. Computer Science Education Past and Radical Changes for Future

   • Ronald Curtis

   Pages 19-26

5. Computing the Profession

   • Peter J. Denning

   Pages 27-46

6. Emerging Constructivist Forces in Computer Science Education: Shaping a New Future?

   • Tony Greening

   Pages 47-80

7. Towards Truly Educational Programming Environments

   • R. Jiménez-Peris, C. Pareja-Flores, M. Patiño-Martínez, J. Á. Velázquez-Iturbide

   Pages 81-111

8. New Technologies in Computer Science Education

   • R. Jiménez-Peris, C. Pareja-Flores, M. Patiño-Martínez, J. Á. Velázquez-Iturbide

   Pages 113-136

9. Curriculum 2020

   • Philip Machanick

   Pages 137-148

10. Information Technology Virtual Education: The Corporate Future

    • Roy Rada

    Pages 149-172

11. Shifting Paradigms: Teaching and Learning in an Animated, Web-Connected World

    • Rockford J. Ross

    Pages 173-193

12. The Future of Computer Science Education: A Glimpse at the Next Step Ahead Through a Leap into the Past

    • Peter Summons

    Pages 195-213

13. Computer Science Education over the Internet: The Future?

    • Pete Thomas, Linda Carswell

    Pages 215-262

14. The Future of Computer Science Education …

    • Tony Greening

    Pages 263-264

15. Back Matter

    Pages 265-266

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The world is experiencing unprecedented rapidity of change, originating from pervasive technological developments. These developments are fundamentally reliant on the changing face of computing. Computers are a near-ubiquitous feature on the modern social landscape. Such ubiquity enables rapid propagation of changes emerging from within computing as a family of disciplines. What, then, is the relevance of such changes to education of future computer professionals and computer scientists? This book considers the effects of such rapid change from within computing disciplines, by allowing computing educationalists to deliver a considered verdict on the future of their discipline. The targeted future, the year 2020, was chosen to be distant enough to encourage authors to risk being visionary, while being close enough to ensure some anchorage to reality. The result is a scholarly set of contributions expressing the visions, hopes, concerns, predictions and analyses of trends of the future of a discipline that continues to impact greatly on the wider community. One of the interesting aspects of asking people to consider the future is the extent to which it ultimately sheds light on the present; this concept is explored by the editor in his review of the contributions as a whole.

• Information Technology (IT)
• Internet
• computer
• computer science
• education
• profession
• programming
• technology
• learning and instruction

• School of Information Technology and Mathematical Science, The University of Ballarat, Ballarat, Australia

  Tony Greening

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