This book addresses two main themes. The first is, the discipline of informatics. Two major questions will be discussed: how can we obtain and keep track of a systematic and objective overview of the vast landscape in higher informatics education, both nationally and internationally? and would it be useful to rationalize and redesign the informatics curricula, leading to less fragmentation and more communality? The second theme is the relation between informatics and other disciplines, with the following main questions: what informatics do we need to offer a coherent curriculum which suits the needs of the actual information society with respect to specific disciplines? what is relevant in informatics and CIT to provide to others? and what informatics concepts, methods and techniques form the hard core needed in every other discipline?

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Part One: Discussion papers. Towards informatics as a discipline: search for identity. Informatics education: trends, problems and the future. A common core of concepts for informatics majors. A common core for noninformatics majors. Part Two: Full papers. Keynote: computing and education at the university level. Teaching informatics to nonprofessionals: why, what and how? Informatics: the core and the presentation. Teaching introductory computer science as a science of information. Marketing programming to nonprogrammers. Meeting the needs of industry: a bold new curriculum in informatic science. Specifying and comparing informatics curricula through UCSIR. Computer science education in Japanese universities. Computer science education at the cross roads. Introduction to computing: a course in computer science fundamentals. Representing a body of knowledge for teaching, learning and assessment. Trends in teaching informatics. European informatics, skills structure (EISS). Profiles of informatics graduates as demanded by the market. Use and misuse of taxonomies of learning: integrated educational goals in computer science curricula. Informatics and informatics professionals: a conceptual framework. Informatics in curricula for noninformatics students: engineering and science. Informatics for noninformatics. A taxonomy for computer science. Part Three: short papers. Learning from other disciplines: pedagogic models within computer science and from elsewhere. Classifying information systems education by method engineering. Impacts of interdisciplinary dialogue to computer science education. Internet-studies communication and information technology (CIT). Collaborative work on informatics education of noninformatics students: a pilot project proposal.