This study provides the first causal analysis of the impact of expanding Computer Science (CS) education in U.S. K-12 schools on students' choice of college major and early career outcomes. Utilizing rich longitudinal data from Maryland, we exploit variation from the staggered rollout of CS...

Innerhalb der NORDAKADEMIE-Vorlesung "Programmierung 1" erhalten die Teilnehmenr eine Grundausbildung in der Programmierung mithilfe der Programmiersprache Smalltalk. Diese Vorlesung soll nun um kooperative Elemente, die online über die Lernplattform moodle vermittelt werden, erweitert werden....

Technological advances such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) have increased the feasibility and importance of effectively integrating information from an ever widening number of systems within and across enterprises. A key difficulty of achieving this goal comes from the pervasive...

Though online technology has generated excitement about its potential to increase access to education, most research has focused on comparing student performance across online and in-person formats. We provide the first evidence that online education affects the number of people pursuing formal...