Dissemination Efforts to Promote Course and Curriculum Change Using C++ and the Closed Laboratory Model

我们的NSF赠款（USE 91-56112）的目的是支持开发和评估一个新的课程和支持材料，重点围绕计算的做法。我们的新课程的基石是四门课程的核心序列，其中包括封闭的实验室。讲座材料和内容是支持实验室，而不是相反。我们目前在我们的第四个年头的发展与前三个核心课程牢固地到位，并与第四门课程教今年春季，1996年学期第二次。 我们准备开始积极的传播努力。1996年夏天，我们正在举办一个使用C++和封闭实验室模型的课程课程改革研讨会（NSF-DUE-9554715）。鉴于我们收到的热烈反应，我们建议在1997年夏季再次举办这一讲习班，并开展其他宣传工作。 这项建议要求支持更积极的传播工作。具体而言，我们提出了一个四管齐下的方法： 1.为今年（1996年）NSF UFE夏季研讨会的参与者举办的小型研讨会，使用C++和封闭实验室模型（DUE-9554715）来评估1996年夏季研讨会的影响。 1997年夏季举办两个新的讲习班： 2.第一个研讨会（使用C++和封闭实验室模式的课程课程改革研讨会）将类似于1996年夏季研讨会，面向具有C的工作知识但不具有C++的工作知识，并有兴趣在其CS课程中实现封闭实验室模式的教师。 3.第二个研讨会（使用封闭实验室模型的C++编程和课程与课程变化研讨会）将更多地关注社区学院教师、高中预修课程计算机科学教师以及来自学院和大学的不懂C或C++的教师的具体需求。 4.研讨会参与者和UVA教师在区域小型大学计算会议上的小组演讲。 我们相信，这些努力将使参与者的学校能够以现代和有效的方式加强其计算机科学课程，并将帮助其他学校开始考虑其课程需求。

The objective of our NSF grant (USE 91-56112) was to support the development and evaluation of a new curriculum and supporting materials focused around the practice of computing. The keystone of our new curriculum is a four-course core sequence which incorporates closed laboratories. Lecture materials and content are supportive of the laboratories rather than the other wayaround. We are presently in our fourth year of development with the first three core courses firmly in place and with the fourth course taught for the second time this Spring, 1996 semester. We are ready to begin active dissemination efforts. We are conducting a Workshop for Course Curriculum Change Using C++ and the Closed Laboratory Model this Summer, 1996 (NSF-DUE-9554715). Based on the overwhelming response we received, we propose to offer this workshop again and other dissemination efforts during Summer, 1997. This proposal requests support for a more aggressive dissemination effort. Specifically, we propose a four-prong approach: 1. A Mini-Workshop for the participants of this year's (1996) NSF UFE Summer Workshop for Course Curriculum Change Using C++ and the Closed Laboratory Model (DUE-9554715) to assess the impact of the Summer, 1996 workshop. Two new workshops for Summer, 1997: 2. the first one (Workshop for Course & Curriculum Change Using C++ and the Closed Laboratory Model) will be similar to the Summer, '96 workshop for faculty who have a working knowledge of C, but not C++ and are interested in implementing the closed laboratory model in their CS curriculum. 3. the second workshop (Workshop for C++ Syntax and Course and Curriculum Change Using the Closed Laboratory Model) will focus more on the specific needs of Community College faculty, high school Advanced Placement Computer Science teachers, and faculty from colleges and universities who do not know C or C++. 4. Panel Presentations at regional small college computing conferences by workshop participants and UVA faculty. We believe these efforts will enable the participants' schools to enhance their computer science curricula in a contemporary and efficient manner and will help other schools to begin thinking about their curricula needs.