Global Information Technology Education : Issues and Trends

The challenge to internationalize information technology education is unprecedented for IT curriculum development.

This book answers this challenge by offering a variety of options to higher education institutions as they respond to the increasing demand to offer an international-oriented curricula.

Defining a coherent framework of course content that allows flexibility to keep up with the constantly changing knowledge, has been a problem for developers of curriculum.

This is particularly true in the field of information technology.

The need for a global focus has grown quite dramatically as advances in technology and the changing role of IT in providing support to multinational and transnational organizations.

This book provides a global perspective of what different countries and different schools are doing in response to this demand for an international-based curriculum.