This resource on CS Education organizations is still under
development. There are undoubtedly other organizations that should
be added and information that should appear for the organizations
are given here. Please send suggestions to almstrum@cs.utexas.edu.
Focus: The encouragement of scholarly inquiry related to
information technology in education and the dissemination of
research results and their applications through publications,
conferences, divisions / societies / chapters , and
inter-organizational projects
Focus: Dedicated to improving the quality of American higher
education, with the underlying belief that higher education
should play a more central role in national life and that
institutions of higher education can and must become more
effective.
Members include faculty, administrators and students from all
sectors, as well as policymakers and leaders from foundations,
government and business
Focus: Dedicated to advancing the arts, sciences, and
applications of information technology.
An international scientific and educational organization that
functions as a locus for computing professionals and students
working in the various fields of Information Technology.
An important feature is the Special Interest
Groups (SIGs), which bring together clusters of ACM members
with shared interests, needs, knowledge and experience in ways
that further members' objectives. SIGs publish technical
newsletters, sponsor conferences and exhibits, address concerns
about standards and provide unique networking opportunities for
professionals within their technical specialties.
The educational
activities page points to information about the many
activities sponsored by the ACM.
Focus: Support and promote the teaching of computer science
and computer science concepts by providing opportunities for
teachers and students to better understand the discipline and to
more successfully prepare themselves to teach and to learn.
A number of projects including the ACM K-12 Computer Science
Curriculum and the Java Engagement for Teacher training (JETT)
are in transition from the ACM K-12 Task Force to CSTA.
Focus: Bring together computer professionals, specialists in
other fields, and the public at large to address concerns and
arouse interest about the impact of computers on society.
Active in developing an electronic forum through ACM.org on
which the ACM Code of Ethics is posted.
Focus: Provide a forum for university educators to discuss
concerns about development, implementation, and evaluation of
computing science programs and courses, as well as syllabi and
problems sets.
Focus: Bring together educators at all levels who are
interested in using the computer and related technology to aid
the educational process. Focus is on the discussion of concepts,
methods, and policies that relate to the central issues of
instructional computing.
Focus: Focus on issues surrounding the support, delivery and
management of information technology services in higher
education. These include, but are not limited to: network
management, technical systems support, end user services
(training, documentation, consulting, etc.), operations,
administrative and academic programming services, database
management, curricular support, audio-visual services,
educational technology issues, and others.
Primary goal: Provide a forum for the professional
development of individual members, through conferences,
publications, and other services.
Focus: Provide leadership in educational communications and
technology by linking professionals holding a common interest in
the use of educational technology and its application to the
learning process.
CAUSE
Organization is now defunct; as of July 1, 1998, EDUCOM and
CAUSE were consolidated to create EDUCAUSE, described below.
Focus: Enable the transformational changes occurring in
higher education through the effective management and use of
information resources -- technology, services, and
information.
Focus: Promote quality computer-oriented curricula as well as
the effective use of computing in smaller institutions of higher
learning, which are typically non-research in orientation.
Builds on over a quarter century of experience providing
high-quality resources and services to the education community.
From the Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who
created AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the
Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator's Reference Desk includes
2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education
information, and 200+ question archive responses.
A nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher
education by promoting the intelligent use of information
technology.
Focus: Enable the transformational changes occurring in
higher education through the introduction, use, access to, and
management of information resources and technologies in teaching,
learning, scholarship, research, and institutional
management.
Recognizing a convergence of mission and goals, the members
of CAUSE and Educom voted to create a new consolidated
association to galvanize thought and action at the intersection
of higher education and information technology. The new
association, EDUCAUSE, was incorporated effective July 1, 1998,
with offices in Washington, D.C. and Boulder, Colorado.
EDUCOM
Organization is now defunct; as of July 1, 1998, EDUCOM and
CAUSE were consolodated to create EDUCAUSE, described above.
Focus: Advance the theory and practice of electrical,
electronics and computer engineering and computer science. To
realize these objectives, the IEEE sponsors technical
conferences, symposia and local meetings worldwide; publishes
nearly 25% of the world's technical papers in electrical,
electronics and computer engineering; provides educational
programs to keep its members' knowledge and expertise
state-of-the-art.
A multi-national federation of professional and technical
organizations, founded in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO.
Focus: Improve world-wide communication and increase
understanding among practitioners of all nations about the role
information processing, or informatics, can play in all walks of
life.
Members of IFIP are national organizations in the field of
information processing.
At the heart of IFIP activities are the Technical Committees
(TC's). Each Technical Committee has a particular focus. Work
within the focus of a Technical Committee is done in Working
Groups (WG's) of specialists who are individually appointed by
their peers, independent of nationality and of national
governments.
This professional society was founded in 2002 to help unite
and support scientific and educational work in the study of
learning and education.
Builds on the traditions developed and solidified by the
International Conferences for the Learning Sciences (ICLS), the
Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) conferences, the
Journal of the Learning Sciences (JLS), and the International
Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
(ijCSCL).
the largest teacher-based, nonprofit organization in the
field of educational technology.
Focus: Help K-12 classroom teachers and administrators share
effective methods for enhancing student learning through the use
of new classroom technologies.
Includes several Special Interest Groups.
(The description of the one for Computer Science follows in the
next point.)
Focus: Enhance the expertise of members and strengthen
computer science as an academic discipline on all educational
levels, with focus on secondary instruction.
Consider computer science to include skills and concepts of
computer literacy/fluency, software development, and computer
organization and operation.
Publishes JCSE
Online, which contains articles, reviews, editorials, and
reports addressing policies, curriculum issues, instructional
 strategies, programming languages and techniques, as well
as discussion on current issues in computer science
education.
Focus: Bring together people from diverse communities to
explore common interests in the psychological aspects of
programming and in the computational aspects of psychology.
An international association of individual teacher educators,
and affiliated organizations of teacher educators in all
disciplines, who are interested in the creation and dissemination
of knowledge about the use of information technology in teacher
education and faculty/staff development.
Focus: seeks to promote research, scholarship, collaboration,
exchange, and support among its membership, and to actively
foster the development of new national organizations where a need
emerges. SITE has as its sole focus the integration of
instructional technologies into teacher education programs.
