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The representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia's information technology (IT) sector remains critically low, exacerbated by their underrepresentation in IT-focused higher education. Introducing Indigenous perspectives ...

Human-Centric Software Engineering (HCSE) refers to the software engineering (SE) processes that put human needs and requirements as core practice throughout the software development life cycle. A large majority of software projects fail to cater to ...

In-car interfaces are the primary medium for communication between the occupants and the increasingly agentic vehicle systems. Although many universities teach automotive user experience and design courses, there is no consensus on what topics to cover. ...

One of the central challenges of task design for an English-speaking informatics class in German schools is the transfer of the compulsory, curriculum-based instructional verb set (IVS) into the English language. Simply translating each verb overlooks ...

The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) K-12 Standards were last updated in 2017, when only six states in the United States had adopted learning standards for primary and secondary education (K-12) computer science. Fast forward to 2024, and 41 ...

One of the less explored approaches to foster equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in Computer Science (CS) is through changes to the curriculum. Despite sporadic work on the adoption of Culturally Responsive Computing (CRC) and Universal Design for ...

The field of data systems has seen quick advances due to the popularization of data science, machine learning, and real-time analytics. In industry contexts, system features such as recommendation systems, chatbots and reverse image search require ...

Community Colleges provide a variety of academic and terminal degrees, such as associates in applied science and certificates of completion. Data Science is considered an emerging computing area that spans many areas of study and impacts academics and ...

Educators face the continuous challenge of updating their teaching materials with the fast-paced changes in cybersecurity and integrating emerging topics into their existing content. This work presents the development progress of a cybersecurity ...

Faculty and industry practitioners recognize written communication to be important in computer science, but it can be challenging to convince students of the same. As student perceptions are molded early in a program of study, we focus on early-year CS ...

Social computing systems—such as social media and e-commerce platforms as well as search engines and collaboration software— not only drive vast economic value and societal impact, but are also becoming prominent topics in policy discourse. Although ...

Children are exposed to technology at home and school at very young ages, often using family mobile devices and educational apps. It is therefore critical that they begin learning about privacy and security concepts during their elementary school years, ...

In 2017 the STEMcoding project was launched, which aimed to develop and disseminate free content that mixes content from science, math and computer science standards. Early work focused on ''physics of video games'' activities for high school physical ...

Traditionally, computer science (CS) in the United States has been an elective subject at the high school level. In recent years, however, some school systems have created a CS graduation requirement. Designing a required CS course that meets the needs ...

In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action, Canadian post-secondary institutions face the important, and daunting, task of decolonizing or Indigenizing curriculum across all disciplines. Computer science (CS) is not exempt ...

In a previous Birds of a Feather discussion, we delved into the nascent applications of generative AI, contemplating its potential and speculating on future trajectories. Since then, the landscape has continued to evolve revealing the capabilities and ...

We estimate the causal impacts of a new Advanced Placement (AP) course on participation in CS education. AP offers college-level courses, exams, and potentially college credit to U.S. secondary students. Historically, female, Black, and Hispanic students ...

Recently, a workshop was convened with the goal of creating a vision for computing education for the next 15 years. The first part of the workshop involved 43 members of the computing education community meeting virtually to enumerate themes within the ...

This lightning talk focuses on the efforts of software engineering (SE) academics to keep curriculum relevant. SE evolves rapidly, with changing technology and industry expectations. The curriculum review bodies (e.g. ACM and IEEE-CS working groups) ...

Accessibility, the means by which a person with a disability can equitably access, engage with, and use digital technology, is an important topic for tech professions to know, but it is not commonly included in computing curricula. Prior research has ...