Toward Minimizing the Curriculum Time Lag: Introducing Social Demands into Computer Science Education Curricula

Abstract

　The purpose of this paper is to obtain suggestions for minimizing the curriculum time lag in computer science in Japan through investigating the factors that influence it. The results showed that the challenge of the Japanese curriculum time lag lies in the decision-making time lag. Although countries often adopt the fixed curriculum reform cycles, and Japan is one of them, the fixed cycles may make it difficult to respond to new social demands or research results. It is suggested that Japan introduce a framework that would allow for ad hoc partial curriculum changes.