INFORMATIKOS SPECIALYBIŲ STUDIJŲ MOTYVACIJOS SKATINIMO POREIKIAI IR PRIEMONĖS
NEEDS AND TOOLS FOR MOTIVATION OF INFORMATICS STUDIES

Summary/Abstract: Today IT is invading every aspect of science and society, but despite the nice carrier perspectives of informatics profession the student enrollment problem is actual for universities in Europe, USA, Lithuania and other countries. This problem is called informatics enrollment problem and can be solved only by increasing motivation of informatics studies. Results of investigation in Vytautas Magnus University demonstrate that students are very interested in getting practical skills of computing at the beginning of their studies but classical ACM computer science curriculum isn’t suitable for this. Original curriculum for applied informatics, based on nowadays understanding of Informatics science, was developed in Vytautas Magnus University for solving this problem and main ideas of this curriculum are presented there.

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