TY - GEN
T1 - Panel - Academic trends, challenges, and opportunities for IT programs in today's evolving environment
AU - Guzman, Indira R.
AU - Kaarst-Brown, Michelle L.
AU - Lending, Diane
AU - Brierly, Greg
AU - Rao, Chino
AU - Birkland, Johanna L.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - How do academic programs in information technology (IT) react to the new challenges of the evolving environment and multiple stakeholders (accreditation bodies, types of schools, nontraditional students, to name a few)? As an example, according to CIO.com, in the year 2020, technical expertise will no longer be the sole province of the IT department. Employees throughout the organization will understand how to use technology to do their jobs. This extends IT development issues beyond internal training for the IT department, or even traditional entry level or Master's MIS programs found in business schools. New IT graduates need to have a different set of skills; but in addition, non-traditional entrants to the profession, existing IT employees, and mid-career IT professionals are also seeking development opportunities that our academic institutions aim to address.
AB - How do academic programs in information technology (IT) react to the new challenges of the evolving environment and multiple stakeholders (accreditation bodies, types of schools, nontraditional students, to name a few)? As an example, according to CIO.com, in the year 2020, technical expertise will no longer be the sole province of the IT department. Employees throughout the organization will understand how to use technology to do their jobs. This extends IT development issues beyond internal training for the IT department, or even traditional entry level or Master's MIS programs found in business schools. New IT graduates need to have a different set of skills; but in addition, non-traditional entrants to the profession, existing IT employees, and mid-career IT professionals are also seeking development opportunities that our academic institutions aim to address.
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U2 - 10.1145/1982143.1982172
DO - 10.1145/1982143.1982172
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79958718243
SN - 9781450306669
T3 - SIGMIS CPR 2011 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference
SP - 152
EP - 153
BT - SIGMIS CPR 2011 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference
T2 - 49th Annual Computer Personnel Research Conference, ACM SIGMIS CPR 2011
Y2 - 19 May 2011 through 21 May 2011
ER -