CUE Ethics: Collaborative Research: An inclusive and In-Depth Computing Curriculum to help Non-majors Learn Small Patterns to Solve Big Problem

CUE 伦理：协作研究：包容性和深入的计算课程，帮助非专业人士学习小模式解决大问题

• 批准号: 1935051
• 负责人: Jugal Kalita
• 金额: $ 4.99万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1935051&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CUE; Ethics; Collaborative; Research; inclusive

This project proposes to form a Networked Improvement Community (NIC) to design, deploy and evaluate a computing curriculum designed for non-computer science majors across a diverse range of academic partnership institutions. It is organized as a partnership of four institutions: California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly); University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB); University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS); and College of Charleston. The project is structured around two goals: (a) increasing exposure to computing and computational thinking among all students, and better preparing these students for professional careers in fields requiring a certain level of computing, and (b) diversifying the population of students enrolled in computer science courses. The project reframes computer science around human-centric learning goals in fifteen modules that will be implemented across the collaborating institutions. The project is grounded in the complementary and unique academic histories of the partnering organizations. The project addresses the need to develop a strong, diverse, national computing-literate workforce. The NIC's objective is to build a series of modules, each targeting a specific aspect or a group of related aspects of computational thinking, tightly coupled with multiple domain examples. Each module will include an ethics perspective on the material. Project activities include emphasize flexibility to adapt to the context of participating organizations and to reach a variety of major disciplines through domain-specific examples and assignments, as well as broadening participation and ethical concerns. Partner institutions will organize these modules into coursework that best matches individual institution?s context, and take into consideration variations such as term length, local strengths and campus synergies, and typical number of contact hours in a course. The organizations will work jointly on offering, testing, and evaluating the sequence of computational thinking modules. In addition to a commitment to work together digitally, the NIC includes two in-person workshops for intensive shared time, testing, and evaluation. The project will evaluate the curriculum both locally and globally for factors that impact underrepresented students and overall program efficacy compared to a control group. This project has the potential to serve as a model of a networked improvement community in the area of CS education for non-CS majors. It focuses on the need to develop a large, diverse workforce able to address computing problems across a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary problem domains. This IUSE: CUE project is co-funded by EHR/DUE and CISE Directorates CNS, CCF, IIS, and OAC, reflecting the project's alignment with the broader goals of the IUSE: EHR program in DUE and complementary programs in CISE.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目建议组建一个网络改进社区（NIC），以设计，部署和评估专为各种学术合作伙伴机构的非计算机科学专业专业设计的计算课程。它是由四个机构的合作伙伴组织的：加利福尼亚理工大学（CAL POLY）；加利福尼亚大学圣塔芭芭拉（UCSB）；科罗拉多斯普林斯大学（UCCS）；和查尔斯顿学院。该项目围绕两个目标结构：（a）在所有学生中增加对计算和计算思维的接触，并更好地为这些学生做好准备的职业职业，从而在需要一定程度的计算水平的领域，以及（b）多样化在计算机科学课程中注册的学生人群。该项目围绕着十五个模块中的以人为中心的学习目标重新构建计算机科学，这些模块将在整个协作机构中实施。该项目基于合作组织的互补和独特的学术历史。该项目解决了建立强大，多样，国家计算识别劳动力队伍的必要性。 NIC的目标是构建一系列模块，每个模块针对特定方面或计算思维的一组相关方面，并与多个域示例紧密结合。每个模块将对材料的伦理视角包含。项目活动包括强调适应参与组织的环境的灵活性，并通过特定领域的例子和作业以及扩大参与和道德问题来实现各种主要学科。合作伙伴机构将将这些模块组织成最适合个人机构环境的课程，并考虑到诸如期限长度，本地优势和校园协同作用以及课程中典型的接触时间。这些组织将共同致力于提供，测试和评估计算思维模块的顺序。除了承诺以数字方式合作外，NIC还包括两个面对面的研讨会，用于密集的共享时间，测试和评估。与对照组相比，该项目将在本地和全球范围内评估本地和全球课程的整体疗效。该项目有可能在非CS专业的CS教育领域充当网络改进社区的模型。它着重于发展大型，多样化的劳动力，能够解决各种纪律和跨学科问题领域的计算问题。这个IUSE：CUE项目由EHR/Due and Cise Ceraties CNS，CCF，IIS和OAC共同资助，反映了该项目与CISE的IUSE：EHR计划的更广泛目标的一致性。