By granting undergraduates the possibility of exploring multiple computing trajectories, the curriculum allows for risk-taking and continual learning for students, Georgia Tech officials say.
“An additional expectation of Threads is the attraction and retention of a broader range of students, including larger numbers of women and under-represented talent, into computing and computer science,” says Isbell, who was named an “Emerging Scholar” by Black Issues In Higher Education magazine in 2004.
This past spring, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, cited the significance of the Threads curriculum in an updated version of his best-selling book The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. Friedman wrote that the Georgia Tech model anticipates that “the world is increasingly going to be operating off the flat-world platform, with its tools for all kinds of horizontal collaboration.”
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