Supporting a Community Building Meeting with US Computing Societies

支持与美国计算机协会举行的社区建设会议

• 批准号: 0849355
• 负责人: Mark Guzdial
• 金额: $ 4.96万
• 依托单位: Association Computing Machinery
• 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 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0849355&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Supporting; Community; Building; Meeting; US

This CISE Special Project award provides funding to the Association for Computing Machinery for the organization of a high-level summit to bring together the main computing societies in the United States to address the future of undergraduate computing education on a national scale. The ACM Education Board is to lead the activity. The meeting will focus on the collaborative efforts to revitalize undergraduate computing education. Underlying this meeting is the current perception of a crisis in undergraduate computing education with decreasing enrollments, adherence to outdated traditional models for undergraduate education and a need to foster innovation across computing education to provide exciting educational pathways for the computing professionals of the future. Through collaboration and discussion with leaders of the professional societies the group plans to develop a shared understanding of the main issues, identify key steps to address the current situation, and develop agreement about responsibilities for a range of actions leading to a substantial transformation and revitalization of undergraduate computing education.The intellectual merit lies in the efforts to address the major issues impacting undergraduate computing education on a national scale. The participating groups, the ACM Education Board and the other participating professional organizations, represents a powerful alliance informed by experience as computing professionals and service in professional organizations as representatives of the computing education community uniquely qualified to undertake a project of this scope and to implement a national vision for transformation of computing education in the United States. Through these activities, the computing community should develop promote a better understanding of computing, promote relevant research, support excellence in computing education, and emphasize the range of opportunities available in computing to the national as a whole.The broader impacts lie in the potential to set the stage for a comprehensive national strategic agenda for improving computing education across the nation. Developing shared national goals and strategies among the major computing organizations can impact the potential and opportunities for all citizens and thus address the national need for a diverse group of computing professionals for the future.

该 CISE 特别项目奖为计算机协会提供资金，用于组织一次高级别峰会，将美国主要的计算机学会聚集在一起，共同探讨全国范围内本科计算机教育的未来。 ACM 教育委员会将领导该活动。 会议将重点讨论振兴本科计算机教育的合作努力。这次会议的基础是当前对本科计算机教育危机的看法，即入学人数减少、坚持过时的传统本科教育模式以及需要促进整个计算机教育的创新，为未来的计算机专业人员提供令人兴奋的教育途径。 通过与专业协会领导人的合作和讨论，该小组计划就主要问题达成共识，确定解决当前形势的关键步骤，并就一系列行动的责任达成一致，从而实现实质性转型和振兴本科计算机教育。智力价值在于努力解决影响全国范围内本科计算机教育的主要问题。参与团体、ACM 教育委员会和其他参与的专业组织代表了一个强大的联盟，拥有计算专业人员的经验和在专业组织中的服务，作为计算教育社区的代表，有资格承担这一范围的项目并实施美国计算机教育转型的国家愿景。通过这些活动，计算界应该促进对计算的更好理解，促进相关研究，支持卓越的计算教育，并强调整个国家在计算方面可获得的机会范围。更广泛的影响在于潜在的为改善全国计算机教育的全面国家战略议程奠定基础。主要计算组织之间制定共同的国家目标和战略可以影响所有公民的潜力和机会，从而满足国家未来对多元化计算专业人员群体的需求。