1. page 1 Wei Zhao 3/25/2005 Computing Education: Challenges and Opportunities Wei Zhao National Science Foundation

2. page 2 Wei Zhao 3/25/2005 All Depend on Information Technologies

3. page 3 Wei Zhao 3/25/2005 Information Technologies  Impact many sectors of society  Increase productivity  Stimulate logical-thinking

4. page 4 Wei Zhao 3/25/2005 Current Environment  Enrollment down  Tough job market  More and more global competition  Dissatisfaction from business users  Budget constraints and cuts  Less and less major breakthroughs

5. page 5 Wei Zhao 3/25/2005 What have we been teaching?

6. page 6 Wei Zhao 3/25/2005 What have we been teaching?  Products or fundamentals?  Do we have an agreement on fundamentals?  Programming skills or design methodologies?  Innovations?  Integrations?

7. page 7 Wei Zhao 3/25/2005 Campus Computing Unit Organization Model  Does the model reflect our view of the field?  What is our long term objective?  How do other unit models evolve?  What is the effective and efficient way to organize computing units?

8. page 8 Wei Zhao 3/25/2005 Mission of the Workshop Strategizing the transformation of computing education and research  For the computing workforce of the 21 st century  Long-range, broad, and high impact  Both contents and organization models  An on-going long-term process