On the importance of being earnest: challenges in computer science education

  • Authors:

  • Jan Vahrenhold

  • Affiliations:

  • Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Despite an increasing number of success reports from several countries, establishing computer science as a subject worth full curriculum credit is one of the most frequently named goals in secondary computer science education. In my keynote address, I will first present a personal/national perspective on this issue and summarize challenges in research, recruitment, and curriculum design that have to be met before this goal can be reached in breadth. Following up on the anticipated success of our ambitions, I will then comment on some probably even more pressing challenges in research, assessment, and teacher training that we need to be prepared to face once computer science has eventually been established as a subject worth full curriculum credit.