the education board and education council – an update on activity
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Andrew McGettrick
ACM Education Council Meeting
Denver, CO
March 2013
The Education Board and Education Council – an update on activity
Outline
• Provide an overview of the Education Council and Education Board priority areas and changes here
• Provide an brief update on activity
• Provide an overview of discussions at a recent Ed Board meeting
• Give a brief outline of some European developments
The Education Council
• Education Council is internal to ACM and brings together all the computing education interests within ACM
• Contains representatives from
– Various SIGs, e.g. SIGCSE, SIGITE, SIGPLAN, SIGGRAPH, SIGCHI, SIGCAS
– The two-year colleges committee (CCECC)
– CSTA and the Computing Education Policy Committee
– Editors of computing education publications
– CSAB and ABET representatives
– Industry
– Education Board members
• There are around 30 members in total
• Meetings held every 8 months approximately
Identifying Priorities
At a meeting of the Education Board in Seattle back in December 2010, the Board agreed its strategic priorities but also felt that it needed to provide a focus for current activity. The following priority areas were identified
• CS 2013, the next major version of the Computer Science guidelines
• The Advanced Placement initiative and the related CS 10k teachers issue
• An educational initiative involving ACM India has been developing
• Statistics gathering for all CS institutions which evolved into TauRus or rather the ACM-NDC project
Review of priorities
• The Ed Board held a meeting in San Diego on 17th and 18th January 2013 and reviewed its priority areas. It would retain
– CS 2013
– The Advanced Placement initiative and the related CS 10k teachers issue
– An educational initiative involving ACM India
• It also added two new priority areas for attention, namely online education and cyber security education
• Of course, it would continue to retain an active interest in ACM-NDC (formerly TauRus)
• Other projects are ongoing – CCECC project involving IT, IS project to review Masters level guidance, SE and CE updates, update of IT guidance
Online Education
• At the previous Ed Council meeting in San Francisco in June 2012 we had an excellent session and associated discussion on MOOCs. It was organized by Mehran Sahami and involved
– Candice Thille (CMU), Woodie Flowers (MIT), John Mitchell (Stanford)
– Peter Norvig (Google) and Dave Patterson (Berkeley)
• An outcome of that was the white paper which has appeared under the name of the Ed Council and can be found at
http://www.acm.org/education/WhitePaperOnlineEducation2013
• It was also felt that some follow-up was needed and accordingly it was decided to hold a Symposium on Online Education
• A co-chair will be Armando Fox from UC Berkeley; it will be held prior to SIGCSE 2014 in Atlanta, March 2014; Armando wishes to have a co-chair and this is being addressed
Towards the Symposium on Online Learning
• Plans are at a very early stage of development. Tentatively:
– The symposium (lasting around one and a half days, perhaps) should take place relatively soon, but not too soon; agreed date seems to be SIGCSE 2014 approximately
– The proceedings should be published by ACM
– There is much happening and it would be desirable to establish ACM’s position as a supporter of these efforts
– An outcome of the Symposium should be a clearer picture of how online learning might be embedded in the ongoing activities of ACM
– Online learning has the potential to underpin many of ACM’s activities in support of its members and it would be important for ACM to establish a position on this
Cyber security
• The Ed Board had been approached by the National Science Foundation (NSF) regarding the possibility of creating a report similar to CS 2013 but for the area of cyber security
• Following lots of discussion it was felt that the most appropriate way forward was to hold a meeting of recognized experts who would advise on the best way ahead
• That meeting took place in Atlanta on 21st and 22nd February 2013
• More about this later
ACM Europe - Educational Developments
• One initiative involves working with Informatics Europe and SIGCSE (Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education) to consider creating a highly prestigious computing education conference in Europe for Europeans
– A meeting is due to take place at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science, in Amsterdam
– This will be adjacent to the (ninth) annual European Computer Science Summit (ECSS) organized by Informatics Europe and taking place on 7-9th October 2013
– SIGCSE will be present as well as Informatics Europe (IE) but also others who hold conferences on computing education in Europe
– Possible annual conference co-sponsored by SIGCSE and IE
• A second initiative also involves working with Informatics Europe and to create a report on computing in schools for Europe
Notes on Ed Board meeting
• The Ed Board had a meeting in San Diego on 17th and 18th January 2013. Topics for discussion included:
– The review of priorities
– Certain changes to Ed Board and Ed Council membership
– The various projects, etc. in which the Ed Board / Council are involved
– Certain financial matters leading to our budget submission for the next fiscal year
– Discussion of aspects of this Education Council meeting
– Planning the cyber security meeting (that took place in February)
• Ed Board and Ed Council changes have been implemented; there are ongoing issues here
Activity in UK
• Considerable progress is being made in the UK on computing in schools
• A new curriculum has been devised, and there is increased recognition of computer science, etc
• These developments and others can be followed at the CAS - Computing at School web site
www.computingatschool.org.uk
Summary of Education Board / Council activity
• Strategic priorities have been revised with
– two new areas added for immediate attention
• Progress on all, and in particular progress on the new areas
• Certain changes have been made to Ed Board and Ed Council membership; a note on these changes had been circulated
• A brief overview of the recent Ed Board meeting
• Other activities remain important and are ongoing
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