1. Report from India

2. Summary Earlier Committee ◦Faculty Development Programs (FDPs) ◦Computing curricula workshop New committee formed Topics considered ◦Exit test, FDP, Text book selection, Teacher friendliness

3. Faculty Development Programs o Organized two so far o Algorithms o Findings o Participants find it useful o Video recording for later access o Practical case studies

4. Computing Curricula Workshop Organization ◦Pune, April 9-10 ◦ACM and Savitribai Phule Pune University ◦Funded by ACM and ACM India Context ◦Curricula needs to balance industry needs with developments in CS ◦Shortage of quality teachers ◦Immediate employability v/s Building core competence ◦Employer dissatisfaction with new recruits

5. Workshop Content ACM + Curricula ◦John White, Mehran Sahami, Barbara Owens India experience in online delivery ◦D.B. Phatak, Gautam Shroff, Andrew Thangaraj, Bill Thies, Kannan Moudgoulya Industry view ◦Lakshmi Narayanan and a Panel Education challenges ◦Madhavan Mukund

6. Broad Conclusions ACM CS2013 provides a good model but needs careful implementation that will take time Teachers need to be given greater control over teaching, setting papers and evaluation To address the shortage of good faculty new methods need to be introduced to scale up good teaching Two workgroups formed ◦Compare Indian CS curricula with ACM CS2013 ◦Study the creation of a comprehensive professional examination

7. New Committee R. Venkatesh – TCS Research Abhiram Ranade – IITB Ashwani Saxena – Google India Chitra Babu – SSN College of Engineering Madhavan Mukund - CMI

8. Aims Improve quality of faculty ◦Faculty Development Programs ◦Try and hold two this year ◦Algorithms ◦Implement suggestions Influence curriculum ◦Curriculum workshops ◦One or two this year ◦A report on gaps in September Programming in schools ◦Scratch contest

9. Discussions Teacher quality ◦No incentives today ◦Research v/s teaching ◦Teacher evaluation/college evaluation based on teacher evaluation Exit test ◦FDP not scalable ◦Incentive to learn from online content Conferences on education