Collaborative Research: OpenPath - Improving Student Pathways to Computing Professions via Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software

合作研究：OpenPath - 通过人道主义免费和开源软件改善学生进入计算机专业的途径

• 批准号: 1524877
• 负责人: Lori Postner
• 金额: $ 22.63万
• 依托单位: Nassau Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-15 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1524877&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; OpenPath; Improving; Student

The OpenPath project will improve undergraduate computing education by developing a learning pathway through the computing curriculum that will help address key challenges of computing education via student exposure to and participation in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) projects. HFOSS is open source software that improves the human condition, addressing needs in areas such as health care, disaster management, education, economic development, and accessibility. Students will be provided with opportunities to positively impact their communities or others, which will engage and motivate traditionally underrepresented minorities and women to pursue careers in computing. As a result, the OpenPath project will improve student learning and content retention, and will help students to develop professional skills and personal attributes. OpenPath will integrate two existing research initiatives: participation in HFOSS, and Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning in Computer Science (CS-POGIL). In CS-POGIL, students work in small self-managed teams using specifically designed materials to construct their own knowledge. In this project CS-POGIL will be used to scaffold early learning and help students develop team and process skills. This early learning will support a transition to more independent learning in HFOSS environments. Working in an HFOSS project provides students with the skills and professional experience needed to ensure a smooth pathway to the computing professions. Multiple types of evaluations will enable the research team to track the progress of the project, to determine the legitimacy of the model created and its mapping to the curriculum, to understand the impact of the faculty and student activities, and to identify the student learning that occurs through participation in an HFOSS project.

OpenPath项目将通过通过计算课程开发学习途径来改善本科计算教育，这将通过学生接触和参与人道主义免费和开源软件（HFOSS）项目来解决计算教育的关键挑战。 HFOSS是开源软件，可改善人类状况，满足医疗保健，灾难管理，教育，经济发展和可及性等领域的需求。 将为学生提供积极影响其社区或其他人的机会，这将吸引并激发传统上代表性不足的少数民族和妇女从事计算事业的职业。 结果，OpenPath项目将改善学生的学习和内容保留，并将帮助学生发展专业技能和个人属性。 OpenPath将整合两项现有的研究计划：参与HFOSS，并在计算机科学（CS-Pogil）中以过程为导向的指导询问。 在CS-Pogil中，学生使用专门设计的材料来构建自己的知识。 在这个项目中，CS-Pogil将用于脚手架早期学习，并帮助学生发展团队和过程技能。 这种早期学习将支持在HFOSS环境中向更独立学习的过渡。 在HFOSS项目中工作为学生提供了确保流畅计算专业途径所需的技能和专业经验。 多种类型的评估将使研究团队能够跟踪项目的进度，确定创建的模型的合法性及其对课程的映射，以了解教师和学生活动的影响，并通过参与HFOSS项目来确定学生学习的影响。

项目成果

The Power of Open Source for Social Good to Increase Diversity in Computing

开源对社会公益的力量可增加计算的多样性

• DOI: 10.1145/3408877.3439628
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: SIGCSE '21
• 作者: Ellis, Heidi J.;Hislop, Gregory W.;Postner, Lori
• 通讯作者: Postner, Lori