Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Educator Resources - ACM

ACM Curriculum Recommendations for Community Colleges

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. ACM provides the computing field's premier Digital Library and serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge publications, conferences, membership opportunities, technical chapters events, and career resources. It has a digital library, library, learning center, and Techpack learning resources. ACM provides the most widely adopted educational curriculum recommendations in ICT.

ACM Educational Activities include: boards and committees, educational resources, professional development opportunities, publications, educational organizations, student membership organizations and activities, and faculty membership opportunities and activities.

ACM Educational Organizations include:

• CSTA: Computer Science Teachers Association

• SIGCSE: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education

• SIGITE: ACM Special Interest Group for Information Technology Education

• ACM-W: ACM's Committee on Women in Computing

• CRA: Computing Research Association

• IFIP: International Federation for Information Processing

• NCWIT: National Center for Women & IT

• ABET and CSAB (Computing Sciences) Accreditation

• ICCP Certification: Institute for the Certification of Computing Professionals

ACM Educational Resources include:

• The ACM Computing Careers Website

• CSTA Dissemination: posters, brochures, videos and other resources

ACM Curricula Recommendations are extremely influential in ICT education, because they are frequently adopted by 4-year colleges and universities, which are unlikely to change their programs based on ACM curricula to articulate with community college programs that are not. Summarized in the Overview Report, currently, they include:

• Computer Science

• Computer Engineering

• Information Systems

• Information Technology

• Software Engineering

ACM Special Interest Groups (SIGs) represent virtually every major area of computing and offer a wealth of conferences, publications, and activities, locally and globally, providing opportunities for sharing technical expertise and first-hand knowledge of the latest development trends.


• SIGACCESS - Accessible Computing
• SIGACT - Algorithms and Computation Theory
• SIGAda - Ada Programming Language
• SIGAPP - Applied Computing
• SIGARCH - Computer Architecture
• SIGART - Artificial Intelligence
• SIGBED - Embedded Systems
• SIGBioinformatics - Bioinformatics
• SIGCAS - Computers and Society
• SIGCHI - Computer-Human Interaction
• SIGCOMM - Data Communication
• SIGCSE - Computer Science Education
• SIGDA - Design Automation
• SIGDOC - Design of Communication
• SIGecom - Electronic Commerce
• SIGEVO - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
• SIGGRAPH - Computer Graphics & Interactive Techniques
• SIGHIT - Health Informatics
• SIGHPC - High Performance Computing
• SIGIR - Information Retrieval
• SIGITE - Information Technology Education
• SIGKDD - Knowledge Discovery in Data
• SIGMETRICS - Measurement and Evaluation
• SIGMICRO - Microarchitecture
• SIGMIS - Management Information Systems
• SIGMM - Multimedia
• SIGMOBILE - Mobility of Systems, Users, Data & Computing
• SIGMOD - Management of Data
• SIGOPS - Operating Systems
• SIGPLAN - Programming Languages
• SIGSAC - Security, Audit and Control
• SIGSAM - Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation
• SIGSIM - Simulation and Modeling
• SIGSOFT - Software Engineering
• SIGSPATIAL - SIGSPATIAL
• SIGUCCS - University & College Computing Services
• SIGWEB - Hypertext and the Web