NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING COMPUTER SCIENCE IN EUROPE

摘要

In this paper we describe our joint project, under the European Union's Curriculum Development at Initial/Intermediate level (CDI) initiative, to establish a collaborative Masters level course in Computer Science. The project is proposed by five European institutions: Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra (Portugal), Hochschule fur Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (Germany), University of Huddersfield (England), Universite Francois Rabelais Tours- Blois (France) and Turku Polytechnic (Finland). This project aims to create a harmonized computer science course between the participating institutions, where the students must study in three different countries, using three different languages, without extending the number of study years. We discuss the philosophy and aims of the project and some implementation details. Each of the participating institutions/countries has its own traditions and management structures, and we describe the problems that arose in coordinating these and the solutions and compromises that we reached.