Statistics on computer manpower in higher education are presented. These are based upon three surveys conducted by the Southern Regional Education Board's Computer Science Project. Regarding manpower production, it is noted that there is a movement toward the use of only two names for academic programs in the area, either computer science or data…

Data from a survey conducted with National Science Foundation support, which was published in December 1970, are reviewed. It is pointed out that, with regard to computers in higher education, national goals stated in the Rosser and Pierce Reports have not been attained. Inspection indicates that quality was lacking in hardware or courses in…

Developing countries should take immediate steps to avoid some of the serious problems that are now facing the United States in regard to the pool of trained computer professionals. Problem areas which should be reconciled involve a diverse range of topics from general national policy to salary structures and conversions efforts. By using the…

This collection reprints six articles which deal with mathematics and the ways in which computers can help teach even young children about mathematics. The subjects of the articles are: teaching children thinking; teaching children to be mathematicians versus teaching about mathematics; on making a theorem for a child; a computer laboratory for…

The first section of this course on programming introduces LISP as a programming language designed to do symbol manipulation, with consequent prevalence in auto-instructional (AI) work. A programming language specifies in its description a number of primitive operations which the computer knows how to perform. An algorithm is the set of…

Advocates that in order to serve their community's needs, administrators must encourage instructors to increase their knowledge of technologies such as microcomputers by participating in workshops offered by computer training companies so that students who find microcomputers in equipment they handle on the job will have basic knowledge of them.…

Described are the developments of a computing environment, the general training in the use of information technology, the training of specialists in computer science and engineering, and the use of information technology as an aid in the education process at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. (RH)

Administrators at small colleges are devising innovative policies to compete with recruiters from corporations and large universities to attract computer-science professors and hold on to them. Williams College offers higher salaries, while Middlebury College pays computer-science instructors as administrators on 11-month contracts. (MLW)

A description of a course for educators introducing the potential of the computer as a tool of instruction. The course is divided into five parts: 1)computer literacy, 2)motivation, 3)learning experiences, 4)reinforcement, and 5)evaluation. The course has been successful in improving the attitudes of the participating educators towards the…

Discusses teacher certification courses in computer education focusing on syllabus development and structure, involvement of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), and course aims (including knowledge of computer uses in education). Also discusses pilot projects involving the new certification scheme. Additional information can be found in February 1981…

Computers are both understandable and controllable. Educators need some understanding of a computer's cognitive profile, component parts, and systematic nature in order to set it to work on some of the teaching tasks that need to be done. Much computer-related vocabulary is discussed. (MP)

Presents research conducted with a group of non-computer science majors to determine the effects of prior computing experience on success in college computer science courses. Specific relationships between prior experience factors and gender were studied, and the results indicate that pre-college computing can have an important role in achieving…

The present paper describes an educational experiment dealing with teaching the theory of formal languages and automata as well as their application concepts. It presents a practical application of an educational experiment and initial results based on comparative instruction of two samples of students (n = 56). The application concept should…

This article presents a methodology for developing learning objects for web-based courses using the IMS Learning Design (IMS LD) specification. We first investigated the IMS LD specification, determining how to use it with online courses and the student delivery model, and then applied this to a Unit of Learning (UOL) for online computer science…

The Sunday, August 1, 1993 edition of the "Washington Post" featured the headline: "Indians, Foreigners Build Silicon Valley in Bangalore." In the article, Bangalore, a city of more than four million people, was described as "an island of relative affluence and social stability in this ancient land." Multinational…