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Computer Science enrollments are off nationwide, due in part to the tech downturn, and due in part to the well-publicized movement of tech jobs overseas in a global economy with instantaneous communications. Program coordinators and curriculum committees are in a quandary: the organization and content of a science education should not be dependent upon the whims of the employment marketplace. Yet this new technology environment contains forces beyond the control of governments, let alone curriculum committees, and the employment marketplace is effecting academic environments through student enrollment, with a consequent effect on faculty positions. Current research analyzed the effectiveness of outsourcing concluded that IT-related business enterprise functions differ markedly in the ease and success in which they can be outsourced. Functions and knowledge areas that are of strategic importance to the enterprise and those that are critical to a firm's competitive-advantage, are less likely to be successfully out-sourced. Unfortunately, the traditional entry-level career step for computer science graduates in basic programming has been identified as relatively easy to move offshore with success, though there are challenges to that claim.By examining advanced CS knowledge areas in light of this observation, a potential strategy to position CS curriculum in order to counter the outsourcing movement is revealed: CS programs can use a portion of their upper-level and elective hours to emphasize high-level "Strategic Knowledge Areas" that build on a standard CS curriculum, yet are both critical and strategic to a business enterprise, and therefore more difficult to outsource. This work extends that which was previously published [5], by developing the concept of a curriculum "Strategic Knowledge Area", along with the development of model curriculums at graduate and undergraduate levels, and discussion of implementation in both graduate program and undergraduate programs at the author's home institution. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2005 | 10.1145/1167350.1167452 | ACM Southeast Regional Conference |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
computer science curriculum,cs curriculum,it-related business enterprise function,advanced cs knowledge area,strategic approach,business enterprise,out-sourcing,cs program,model curriculum,curriculum design,standard cs curriculum,global-sourcing,curriculum issues,curriculum committee,employment marketplace,alone curriculum committee,strategic knowledge area,science education,competitive advantage,out sourcing | Computer science,Engineering ethics,Outsourcing,Knowledge management,Theoretical computer science,Curriculum mapping,Curriculum,Emergent curriculum,Computer science curriculum,Science education,Curriculum theory | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
1-59593-059-0 | 4 | 0.69 |
References | Authors | |
1 | 1 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Kenneth Hoganson | 1 | 11 | 5.26 |