Special Issue on Curriculum Design and Pedagogical issues in Computing Education
For Int. J. Education Economics and Development

Guest Editors:

Saqib Saeed
Dept. of Information Systems and New Media, University of Siegen, Germany
saqib.saeed@uni-siegen.de

Dr. Izzat Mahmoud Alsmadi
Dept. of computer information systems, Yarmouk University Jordan
ialsmadi@yu.edu.jo

Computing education is a challenging field due to high innovation level resulting in a huge volume of literature with a relatively short lifecycle. Consequently the computing faculty requires continuous involvement in research activities and syllabi updation. Furthermore, computing education requires extensive hands-on training sessions to enhance the skills of students to be successful in global job market. Thus in the computing domain, traditional teaching methods are not optimal. Advancements in information and communication technologies have resulted in new forms of learning that require innovative pedagogical methodologies, curriculum and evaluation strategies. In this special issue we focus on new approaches to pedagogy, curriculum design and evaluation strategies in relation to computing education.

Subject Coverage:
The special issue invites the contributions with a special focus on computing discipline. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Best practices for computing teaching
Experience reports and case studies of teaching and learning computer science
Technology support in classroom environment for computing courses
Curriculum design for virtual computing courses
Computer based evaluation mechanisms in computing education
E Learning and computing education
Distance/virtual learning and implication for computing education
Role of multimedia learning system environments in computing education
Web 2.0 and computing education
Professional development of computing faculty
Computing education and digital divide

Notes to prospective authors:
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. The paper should be at least 6000 words long. All submissions will be evaluated on the basis of originality, significance, contribution, and reviewer’s comments. The contributions should be completely anonymous and the reference to own previous work should be carried out without disclosing the identity of authors. The contact information and the manuscript should be in two different MS-word files.

Important Dates:
Deadline for papers submission: 31 March 2011
Result notification: 30 April 2011
Camera-ready paper submission: 31 May 2011

Submission:
All manuscripts formatted according to the author guidelines available at http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31 could be submitted to the following address with the IJEED Submission as the subject line.

Saqib Saeed
Dept. of Information Systems and New Media, University of Siegen, Germany
saqib.saeed@uni-siegen.de