Applying skills standards to the development of multi-institution information technology programs

摘要

The Boston Area Advanced Technological Education Connections (BATEC) is a National Science Foundation center designed among other things, to develop a coordinated Information Technology (IT) education delivery system that cuts across different educational institutions: group one, high school; group two, community college; and group three, university. This paper describes the strategy used by the BATEC center to develop a coherent sequence of curriculum initiatives based on the application of national IT skills standards.