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ABSTRACT
On the Importance of Being Earnest:
Challenges in Computer Science Education
Despite an increasing number of success reports from several
countries, establishing computer science as a subject
worth full curriculum credit is one of the most frequently
named goals in secondary computer science education. In
my keynote address, I will first present a personal perspective
on this issue and summarize challenges in research, recruitment,
and curriculum design that have to be met before
this goal can be reached in-breadth. Following up on the anticipated
success of our ambitions, I will then comment on
some probably even more pressing challenges in research, assessment,
and teacher training that we need to be prepared
to face once computer science has eventually been established
as a subject worth full curriculum credit.
Categories and Subject Descriptors
K.3.2 [Computers and Education]: Computer and Information
Science Education
Keywords
Secondary Computer Science Education
Acknowledgements
This work was partially funded by the Deutsche Telekom
Stiftung under the name dortMINT. Many of the thoughts
and observations discussed are based on work done together
with Holger Danielsiek, Rebecca Doherty, Arno Pasternak,
Wolfgang Paul, and Renate Thies.
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WiPSCE 2012 Hamburg, Germany
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Jan Vahrenhold
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Department of Computer Science
48149 Münster, Germany
jan.vahrenhold@uni-muenster.de
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