This resource on CS Education organizations is still under development. There are undoubtedly other organizations that should be added and information that should appear for the organizations are given here. Please send suggestions to almstrum@cs.utexas.edu.

Association for the Advancement of Computing (AACE)

• pronounced "ace" like the playing card
• Focus: The encouragement of scholarly inquiry related to information technology in education and the dissemination of research results and their applications through publications, conferences, divisions / societies / chapters , and inter-organizational projects

American Association for Higher Education (AAHE)

• Focus: Dedicated to improving the quality of American higher education, with the underlying belief that higher education should play a more central role in national life and that institutions of higher education can and must become more effective.
• Members include faculty, administrators and students from all sectors, as well as policymakers and leaders from foundations, government and business

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

• Focus: Dedicated to advancing the arts, sciences, and applications of information technology.
• An international scientific and educational organization that functions as a locus for computing professionals and students working in the various fields of Information Technology.
• An important feature is the Special Interest Groups (SIGs), which bring together clusters of ACM members with shared interests, needs, knowledge and experience in ways that further members' objectives. SIGs publish technical newsletters, sponsor conferences and exhibits, address concerns about standards and provide unique networking opportunities for professionals within their technical specialties.
• The educational activities page points to information about the many activities sponsored by the ACM.

ACM Computer Science Teacher's Association (CSTA)

• Focus: Support and promote the teaching of computer science and computer science concepts by providing opportunities for teachers and students to better understand the discipline and to more successfully prepare themselves to teach and to learn.
• A number of projects including the ACM K-12 Computer Science Curriculum and the Java Engagement for Teacher training (JETT) are in transition from the ACM K-12 Task Force to CSTA.

ACM's Special Interest Group on Computers and Society (ACM SIGCAS)

• Focus: Bring together computer professionals, specialists in other fields, and the public at large to address concerns and arouse interest about the impact of computers on society.
• Active in developing an electronic forum through ACM.org on which the ACM Code of Ethics is posted.

ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (ACM SIGCSE)

• Focus: Provide a forum for university educators to discuss concerns about development, implementation, and evaluation of computing science programs and courses, as well as syllabi and problems sets.

ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Uses in Education (ACM SIGCUE)

• This group was disbanded in the early 1990s.
• Focus: Bring together educators at all levels who are interested in using the computer and related technology to aid the educational process. Focus is on the discussion of concepts, methods, and policies that relate to the central issues of instructional computing.

ACM's Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services (ACM SIGUCCS)

• Focus: Focus on issues surrounding the support, delivery and management of information technology services in higher education. These include, but are not limited to: network management, technical systems support, end user services (training, documentation, consulting, etc.), operations, administrative and academic programming services, database management, curricular support, audio-visual services, educational technology issues, and others.
• Primary goal: Provide a forum for the professional development of individual members, through conferences, publications, and other services.

Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)

• Focus: Provide leadership in educational communications and technology by linking professionals holding a common interest in the use of educational technology and its application to the learning process.

CAUSE

• Organization is now defunct; as of July 1, 1998, EDUCOM and CAUSE were consolidated to create EDUCAUSE, described below.
• Focus: Enable the transformational changes occurring in higher education through the effective management and use of information resources -- technology, services, and information.

The Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges (CCSC)

• Focus: Promote quality computer-oriented curricula as well as the effective use of computing in smaller institutions of higher learning, which are typically non-research in orientation.

The Educator's Reference Desk

• Builds on over a quarter century of experience providing high-quality resources and services to the education community. From the Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator's Reference Desk includes 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.

EDUCAUSE

• A nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.
• Focus: Enable the transformational changes occurring in higher education through the introduction, use, access to, and management of information resources and technologies in teaching, learning, scholarship, research, and institutional management.
• Recognizing a convergence of mission and goals, the members of CAUSE and Educom voted to create a new consolidated association to galvanize thought and action at the intersection of higher education and information technology. The new association, EDUCAUSE, was incorporated effective July 1, 1998, with offices in Washington, D.C. and Boulder, Colorado.

EDUCOM

• Organization is now defunct; as of July 1, 1998, EDUCOM and CAUSE were consolodated to create EDUCAUSE, described above.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

• Focus: Advance the theory and practice of electrical, electronics and computer engineering and computer science. To realize these objectives, the IEEE sponsors technical conferences, symposia and local meetings worldwide; publishes nearly 25% of the world's technical papers in electrical, electronics and computer engineering; provides educational programs to keep its members' knowledge and expertise state-of-the-art.

IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS)

• Focus: Advance the theory, practice, and application of computer and information processing science.
• The educational activities page highlights many of the activities that the IEEE CS sponsors.

(International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)

• A multi-national federation of professional and technical organizations, founded in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO.
• Focus: Improve world-wide communication and increase understanding among practitioners of all nations about the role information processing, or informatics, can play in all walks of life.
• Members of IFIP are national organizations in the field of information processing.
• At the heart of IFIP activities are the Technical Committees (TC's). Each Technical Committee has a particular focus. Work within the focus of a Technical Committee is done in Working Groups (WG's) of specialists who are individually appointed by their peers, independent of nationality and of national governments.

IFIP Technical Committee 3: Education (IFIP TC-3)

• Focus: Provide an international forum for educators concerned with educational uses of communication and information technologies (CIT).
• The full statement of the aims and links to all of the sub-groupscan is at .
• TC-3 is composed of the following Working Groups:
• • WG 3.1 -- Informatics Education at the Secondary Education Level
  • WG 3.2 -- Informatics Education at the University Level
  • WG 3.3 -- Research on Education Applications of Information Technologies
  • WG 3.4 -- Professional and Vocational Education in Information Technology
  • WG 3.5 -- Informatics in Elementary Education
  • WG 3.6 -- Distance Learning
  • WG 3.7 -- Information Technology in Educational Management

The International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)

• This professional society was founded in 2002 to help unite and support scientific and educational work in the study of learning and education.
• Builds on the traditions developed and solidified by the International Conferences for the Learning Sciences (ICLS), the Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) conferences, the Journal of the Learning Sciences (JLS), and the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (ijCSCL).

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)

• the largest teacher-based, nonprofit organization in the field of educational technology.
• Focus: Help K-12 classroom teachers and administrators share effective methods for enhancing student learning through the use of new classroom technologies.
• Includes several Special Interest Groups. (The description of the one for Computer Science follows in the next point.)

ITSE Special Interest Group on Computer Science (SIGCS)

• Focus: Enhance the expertise of members and strengthen computer science as an academic discipline on all educational levels, with focus on secondary instruction.
• Consider computer science to include skills and concepts of computer literacy/fluency, software development, and computer organization and operation.
• Publishes JCSE Online, which contains articles, reviews, editorials, and reports addressing policies, curriculum issues, instructional  strategies, programming languages and techniques, as well as discussion on current issues in computer science education.

National Educational Computing Association (NECA)

• An association of societies that sponsors the annual NECC conference.

The Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG)

• Focus: Bring together people from diverse communities to explore common interests in the psychological aspects of programming and in the computational aspects of psychology.

Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE)

• An international association of individual teacher educators, and affiliated organizations of teacher educators in all disciplines, who are interested in the creation and dissemination of knowledge about the use of information technology in teacher education and faculty/staff development.
• Focus: seeks to promote research, scholarship, collaboration, exchange, and support among its membership, and to actively foster the development of new national organizations where a need emerges. SITE has as its sole focus the integration of instructional technologies into teacher education programs.