Developing innovative online educational materials for undergraduate curriculum in information technology

Author

Uskov, Vladimir ; Uskova, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Syst., Bradley Univ., Peoria, IL, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

3-6 Dec. 2002

Firstpage

510

Abstract

While the growth in employment of all occupations in the US Information Technology (IT) industry between 1996-2006 is projected at 88.25%, the growth of college/university IT and Computer Science (CS) faculty is only projected at 18.3%. These findings motivated faculty of several US educational institutions to propose the National Science Foundation (NSF) CCLI-EMD project that is aimed at design and development of several IT and Computer Science (CS) online degree programs (on both, Associate of Applied Science Degree and Bachelor of Science Degree levels) in US colleges and universities. This NSF grant is hosted by the InterLabs Research Institute at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Bradley University. Project team consists of faculty from Bradley University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Midstate College, Illinois Central College.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; computer science education; distance learning; educational courses; information technology; teaching; CCLI-EMD project; National Science Foundation; USA; educational institutions; online degree programs; online educational materials development; undergraduate information technology curriculum; Art; Computer industry; Computer science; Design engineering; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Employment; Industrial economics; Information systems; Information technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Education, 2002. Proceedings. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1509-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIE.2002.1185993

Filename

1185993