Including a Programming Course in General Education: Are We Doing Enough?

Autor/inn/en	Ferguson, Roger C.; Leidig, Paul M.; Reynolds, John H.
Titel	Including a Programming Course in General Education: Are We Doing Enough?
Quelle	In: Information Systems Education Journal, 13 (2015) 3, S.34-42 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1545-679X
Schlagwörter	Programming; Programming Languages; General Education; Required Courses; College Students; Introductory Courses; Computer Science Education; Majors (Students); Nonmajors; Hypothesis Testing; Statistical Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Programmierung; Allgemein bildendes Schulwesen; Allgemeinbildung; Pflichtkurs; Collegestudent; Einführungskurs; Computer science lessons; Informatikunterricht; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	General education is more than a list of required courses a student must take to complete their degree. For most universities, general education is the groundwork for the student's university experience. These courses span multiple disciplines and allow students to experience a wide range of topics on their path to graduation. Programming classes, e.g., Introduction to Programming, have not typically been an option as part of a general education course sequence at most universities. This study found that, only half of universities offer any kind of programming course in the General Education (GenEd) Program. The data also show that only two-thirds of institutions offer a computing class of any kind as a general education option. Institutions with ABET accredited Information Systems (IS) programs are significantly lower in both of these categories. This paper demonstrates the reasoning and process for including a programming class as an option in a GenEd Program, thereby showing how a programming class can be used to satisfy the requirements of a general education course. This results in two significant advantages to the computing department and university since the departments expand their reach to many more students, with a potential of increasing the number of majors or minors within the department; and non-computing majors have the opportunity to take courses that have not traditionally been offered in the GenEd Program. The latter results in students receiving a more comprehensive education and exposure to skills in high demand. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Information Systems and Computing Academic Professionals. Box 488, Wrightsville Beach, NC 28480. e-mail: publisher@isedj.org; Web site: http://isedj.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01