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ACM Europe Update on Educational Activities Education Council Meeting, Denver, Colorado 24 th August 2015 Andrew McGettrick
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Outline Background to Educational Efforts The Committee on European Computing Education The Report Conference Developments Concluding Remarks
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Background to Educational Efforts Context –Around 15% of ACM membership is European (approx 16,000) –60% of ACM student members are from outside the US –ACM Europe is now a legal entity within Europe and its aim is to serve the needs of ACM membership in Europe –In the educational sphere it aims to advance the status, standing, and role of informatics education across Europe –In its educational activities it works with Informatics Europe (IE) Informatics Europe (IE) –This is a coming together of (some) Heads of Computing in Europe; some 74 institutions are involved –Originally set up to be a ‘CRA for Europe’ –Membership costs 2500 euros (zone 1), 1000 euros (zone 2) –5 universities from the UK are members ;
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Schools report - published Joint Report produced by ACM Europe and Informatics Europe: Informatics Education: Europe Cannot Afford to Miss the Boat –Draws a clear distinction between education in digital literacy and informatics –Argues informatics is a major enabler of technology innovation, the principal resource for Europe's drive to become an information society, and the key to the future of Europe's economy. –Calls for all students within Europe to have access to a high-quality education in informatics at the secondary (schools) level
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Committee on European Computing Education (formerly the Joint Advisory Committee) ACM Michael CaspersenDenmark, SIGCSE, co-chair Michael KollingUK, SIGCSE Serdar TasiranTurkey, ACM Europe Andrew McGettrickUK Informatics Europe Barbara DemoItaly Cristina Pereira Switzerland Antoine Petit France Jan VahrenholdGermany, co-chair
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Immediate projects Refine and further develop the schools report Undertake a two-year study to conduct a deep assessment of the state of informatics education within each European country; note the parallel with the ACM study Running On Empty: The failure to Teach K-12 Computer Science in the Digital Age See runningonempty.acm.org Give consideration, with Informatics Europe, to creating a new high profile computing education conference within Europe
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Some Observations ACM Europe and Informatics Europe now jointly fund Mirko Westermeier who is based at the University of Munster (home of Jan Vahrenhold), to assist with these plans, e.g. the survey. Engaging the membership of Informatics Europe has been seen to be of particular importance With respect to the conference, –Within ACM conferences have traditionally been seen to be the responsibility of the SIGs; hence SIGCSE involvement has been important in the CECE –the intention is to have a conference that is European in character, run by Europeans, primarily for Europeans –ITICSE has tended to take place in Europe, but in 2016 it is going to Peru; this was seen by SIGCSE as an opportunity for the European conference to ‘take off’
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CaMIES Project CaMIES = Creating a Map of Informatics Education in Schools Project duration: runs from 1 st April 2014 until 31 st March 2016 (24 months) The emphasis has changed slightly from the original concept so that coverage across Europe is seen as important; this stems from consideration about how the final report will be used by ACM Europe and informatics Europe
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Report form CECE –July, 2015 Primary source of contacts was authors of an issue of ToCE 35 responses had been received from 28 countries Israel being included The survey addressed topics such as: –Digital literacy: is it addressed and if so when, is there a standard curriculum, is it separate topic or integrated –Informatics: is it addressed and if so when, is there a standard curriculum, is it compulsory –Range of influence: government inspired? How easy would change be? How specific is curriculum? –Teacher training: requirements for teaching?
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Specific Topics to be Ranked (by Contacts) Policies: Research and funding policies; Education policies; Quality management Teacher qualifications: Teacher training; Continuing professional development Intentions: Learning Objectives; Competencies; Standards Examination/Certification: Formal examination; Post- Graduate Certification Extracurricular Activities / Contests
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Darmstadt Model for Ranking The scale is as follows: –0: None / Not applicable –1: Student (e.g., “learning objectives are defined individually”) –2: Classroom –3: School –4: Region (e.g., “certification done by third-level administrative units”) –5: State –6: Country (e.g., “curriculum has to be approved by the ministry”) –7: International
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Accessing Information There is a digital map of Europe –It has to be refined; a number of countries have still to be labeled –Israel is to be included as an inset –mirko.westermeier.de/cece/ (user: cece, password: map) By clicking on a country access can be gained to information about that country –At the moment the information that can be accessed is limited to the topics - policies, teacher qualifications, etc. - and an associated score within the Darmstadt model
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Some Observations A presentation of the results (including an updated map) has to be made at the European Computer Science Summit on 12 th (?) October This is annual meeting of Informatics Europe Much work has to be done prior to this
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Conference Developments Michael (C.) has overall responsibility for conference developments As far as the conference is concerned, the following statement was made in an earlier CECE report: The roadmap envisions enhancing the WiPSCE and ITiCSE conferences. Preliminary discussions have been initiated with Susan Rodgers, Chair of the ACM SIGCSE Board Note that WiPSCE refers to the Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education; next such conference due to take place in London in November 2015
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First conference The first federated conference will take place in the first half of September 2016 in Münster WiPSCE, ISSEP and CSERC are supposed to join The Steering Committees of the individual conferences are due to report back as soon as possible and indicate if they want to join (same for 2017) Federated conference committee due to be formed at start of September; nominations are / have been submitted Committee concerns will include: naming of conference, ensuring visibility, addressing prestige, etc.
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Subsequent conferences Second federated conference in 2017 The second federated conference will most likely take place in late June/early July 2017 in Bologna. WiPSCE, ISSEP, CSERC, and ITiCSE are expected to join. There has been contact with Renzo Davoli in Bologna; Renzo is thrilled about hosting a larger computing education event in Bologna in 2017 Potential future locations (2018-): Paris, Barcelona,..
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Final Slide Quote from recent (July 2015) report We have been unable to obtain data from Bosnia & Hertzegovina, Macedonia, and Albania. We still do not have contacts in Belarus, Luxembourg, Moldova, and Montenegro Any help would be appreciated, to: andrew@cis.strath.ac.uk
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