Collaborative Research: CPATH CB: Distributed Expertise in Enhancing Computing Education with Connections to the Arts

合作研究：CPATH CB：通过与艺术的联系加强计算机教育的分布式专业知识

• 批准号: 0829625
• 负责人: Steve Harrison
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0829625&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; CPATH; CB; Distributed

Computing Education is essential not only for Computer Science and its many sibling disciplines(Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems, etc.) but for practically all other academic disciplines. Computers are pervasive today and many professionals develop basic programming skills as a way to express ideas, problems and solutions in computational terms within their own disciplines. It is common to find curricula in the arts (music, graphical design), business (accounting, economics), sciences (biology, chemistry, physics), and social sciences with computational courses in their curriculum. In a way, computing is becoming a requirement of most professional degrees. This project addresses both the separation between computing specialists and to widespread integration of computing concepts, not just the technology but computational thinking, in other disciplines. The project will use technologies now commonly available to permit faculty to collaborate in offering courses that extend the potential reach of experts to a broader audience, as well as a collection of recorded expert lectures. In addition, it will develop a visual, interactive interface to a common framework around which to explore similarities and differences across domains and to enable decisions about educational plan development. The teams will also host workshops to identify innovative approaches to teaching, as well as support initiation of new collaborative course experience and reflect of the utility of the courses. The opportunity computing education is to learn how motivated hands-on learning can engage students and provide opportunities to introduce computing concepts. In addition to aiming for diversity in the groups of participating faculty, the project will extend the reach of computing to disciplines not normally associated with that content and will also represent the scope of their discipline to computing students, providing a broader view of the impact of the discipline as it is applied in creative fields. This project addresses the growing conviction that inter-disciplinary approaches are crucial to revitalizing computing education and offers a solution to the need for broader reach of individual areas of expertise. If successful, this project could spread to national implementations with very great effect.

计算机教育不仅对于计算机科学及其许多兄弟学科（计算机工程、软件工程、信息系统等）至关重要，而且对于几乎所有其他学科都至关重要。如今计算机已经普及，许多专业人士都发展了基本的编程技能，以此作为在自己学科内用计算术语表达想法、问题和解决方案的一种方式。艺术（音乐、图形设计）、商业（会计、经济学）、科学（生物、化学、物理）和社会科学课程中包含计算课程是很常见的。在某种程度上，计算正在成为大多数专业学位的要求。该项目既解决了计算专家之间的分离问题，也解决了计​​算概念在其他学科中的广泛集成，不仅是技术，还有计算思维。该项目将使用现在普遍可用的技术，使教师能够合作提供课程，将专家的潜在影响范围扩大到更广泛的受众，以及一系列录制的专家讲座。此外，它将开发一个通用框架的可视化交互式界面，围绕该框架探索跨领域的相似性和差异，并做出有关教育计划制定的决策。这些团队还将举办研讨会，以确定创新的教学方法，并支持启动新的协作课程体验并反映课程的实用性。机会计算教育是为了了解积极的实践学习如何吸引学生并提供介绍计算概念的机会。除了旨在实现参与教师群体的多样性之外，该项目还将把计算机的范围扩展到通常与该内容不相关的学科，并且还将向计算机专业的学生展示其学科的范围，从而提供更广泛的视角来了解计算机的影响。该学科应用于创意领域。该项目满足了人们日益增长的信念，即跨学科方法对于振兴计算机教育至关重要，并为更广泛地覆盖各个专业领域的需求提供了解决方案。如果成功的话，这个项目可以推广到全国实施，效果非常好。