Informatics in higher education : views on informatics and non-informatics curricula

Part One: Discussion papers. Towards informatics as a discipline: search for identity. Informatics education: trends, problems and the future. A common core of concepts for informatics majors. A common core for noninformatics majors. Part Two: Full papers. Keynote: computing and education at the university level. Teaching informatics to nonprofessionals: why, what and how? Informatics: the core and the presentation. Teaching introductory computer science as a science of information. Marketing programming to nonprogrammers. Meeting the needs of industry: a bold new curriculum in informatic science. Specifying and comparing informatics curricula through UCSIR. Computer science education in Japanese universities. Computer science education at the cross roads. Introduction to computing: a course in computer science fundamentals. Representing a body of knowledge for teaching, learning and assessment. Trends in teaching informatics. European informatics, skills structure (EISS). Profiles of informatics graduates as demanded by the market. Use and misuse of taxonomies of learning: integrated educational goals in computer science curricula. Informatics and informatics professionals: a conceptual framework. Informatics in curricula for noninformatics students: engineering and science. Informatics for noninformatics. A taxonomy for computer science. Part Three: short papers. Learning from other disciplines: pedagogic models within computer science and from elsewhere. Classifying information systems education by method engineering. Impacts of interdisciplinary dialogue to computer science education. Internet-studies communication and information technology (CIT). Collaborative work on informatics education of noninformatics students: a pilot project proposal.