Defining the IT Curriculum: The Results of the Past 3 Years

Abstract

Efforts to define IT curriculum and accreditation standards began at the first Conference on Information Technology Curriculum

How do national specialty groups develop undergraduate guidelines for medical schools, and which are successful? A systematic review

“…For example, the Delphi method has been used to select IS projects (Peffers & Tuunanen, 2005), specify IS project requirements (Perez & Schueler, 1982), to determine the criteria for IS prototyping decisions (Doke & Swanson, 1995), rank technology management issues in new product development projects (Scott, 2000), and to develop a descriptive framework of knowledge manipulation activities (Holsapple & Joshi, 2002). The Delphi method was used at the InSITE 2005 conference to identify topics that should be in an IT curriculum (Lunt et al, 2005). Next we will look at other IS projects that used the Delphi method in greater depth in order to both learn from the experiences of other researchers, and to display the flexibility of the method.…”

An implementation of secondary tracks in an information technology degree program

“…We took the liberty to convert semester-hours stated in the two proposals to quarter-hours used by our institution. [2,3,4,9] The IT program at University of Cincinnati (UC) abides by the above requirements for both the associate (AS) as well as the baccalaureate programs (BS).…”

It 2008

“…The first major input was the Delphi study done at CITC-1 and validated by similar studies done with other constituencies, such as the advisory boards of participating IT programs. 18 The work of the accreditation committee and the evolution of the criteria in ABET were also continuously evaluated during their development. In addition, the evolving work of the Computing Curricula project (see the accompanying sidebar "Computing Curricula 2005") was a significant influence on the model curriculum.…”

“…18 At this meeting, the community also started work on a succinct definition of the discipline of IT, an effort that eventually cumulated in the following definition:…”