The Finnish national school curriculum, effective from 2004, does not include any topics
related to Computer Science (CS). To alleviate the problem that school students are not able …

Over the last decade, there has been a concerted effort to bring more diverse voices to the
technology field, with much of this being done through outreach activities to girls and boys …

Programming courses often demonstrate poor aca-demic performance. To address this
challenge, one strategy involves develo** predictive models to identify students facing …

This article addresses teachersL challenges in relation to other stakeholders, in light of
funding policies and evaluation mechanisms. In particular, a condition where pressures …

Outreach programs are a common tool for attracting new students to higher education, and
have been used also in IS. These outreach programs are often short-lived. This study …

This work considers the use of AI and parallelism as a context for learning typical
programming concepts in an introductory programming course (CS1). The course includes …

As the need for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) professionals increases,
higher education institutions create education outreach programs to attract students to study …

IS Education outreach programs are important today, as the need for Information
Technology (IT) professionals has risen in the last decades. Information Systems (IS) …

Increasing digitalization demands changes in the contemporary information systems (IS)
education outreach programs to persuade young people into an IS career. There are various …

Reaching to young generation and attracting them to computing programs such as
Information Systems (IS) and Computer Science (CS) is a key challenge faced by …