Ohio IT Clearinghouse - Issues for Professional Educators in IT/CS

The Ohio IT Clearinghouse is a statewide resource to promote heightened awareness of computer science and information technology as education and career paths, and to promote better computing skills and increased IT knowledge among the employees and students in the state. The Ohio IT Clearinghouse is a project of the Ohio Learning Network, funded by the Ohio Board of Regents.

IT/Computer Science Education Resources & Issues

IT/Computer Science Resources
Ohio Organizations
Regional/National Organizations
Model Programs

IT/Computer Science Resources

• Educational Testing Service (ETS) ICT Literacy Assessment
The Educational Testing Service is currently conducting quality assurance on a new assessment. This site offers a sample test and further information. They suggest that "technology" is the 4th basic literacy. A demo test indicates the focus is on information search, retrieval and interpretation, rather than the other "literacy" focuses on the use and background of the technology itself.

• Ohio Computing Unlimited - International Computer Driving License - Ohio Program
An Ohio state-wide effort to introduce a program begun in Europe to standardize introductory information and skills for the basic hardware and software modules anyone would expect to be found in a classroom or workplace. Currently offered in about 130 countries, it has the potential to become the basis for a broadly accepted standard of computing technology understanding.

• SIGITE - ACM Special Interest Group for IT Education) - Association for Computing Machinery

• Model Curriculum - SIGITE - (2005)

• SIGCSE - ACM Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education - Association for Computing Machinery
Developing the Computing Curricula 2004. Another joint document of ACM and IEEE. Here is the project overview with committee members (pdf file).

• Software Engineering 2004
Joint document from ACM and IEEE

• SIGCSE - Education Links
Links from a key professional group to education resources.

• Threads: How to re-structure a computer science curriculum for a flat world; Furst, Isbell, Guzdial. More on the Threads concept from the Georgia Tech College of Computing.

Ohio Organizations

• Community Technology Centers Network - Ohio members

• itWorks.Ohio

• Ohio College Access Network

• Ohio College Tech Prep Program

• Ohio Community Computing Network

• Ohio's Knowledge Economy Awareness Initiative - Sponsored by the Ohio Board of Regents

Regional/National Orgnizations

• ABET
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology has begun evaluating the proposed ACM-SIGITE model IT curriculum.