Featured Columns Community College Corner Exploring CAP-Space: The Next Frontier in Curricula, Assessment and Pedagogy Elizabeth K. Hawthorne The term Web 2.0 was officially coined in 2004 during a brainstorming session by Dale Doughtery, web pioneer and vice-president of O Reilly Media Inc. Doughtery s coinage attempted to capture in a simple phrase something far more nebulous than an identified group of user-centered technologies: blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS feeds, and social bookmarking to name just a few. In actuality, the term Web 2.0 embraces the larger notation of a socially connected, web-culture community. Based on the Web 2.0 philosophy of collaboration, contribution and community, the ACM Two-Year College Education Committee (TYCEC) will construct CAPSpace , an interactive information environment for computing educators, students, parents and advisors. In CAP-Space, educators will discover associate-degree computing Curricula, Assessment techniques and Pedagogical approaches in online communities of practice and research. Educators also will have the ability to make contributions to CAP-Space and to participate in online moderated settings for a variety of special interests (including specific associate-degree computing programs in computer science, information technology, computer engineering, software engineering and information systems). Until this point, associate-degree curricula guidelines have been conceived and
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