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

我们国家科学基金会拨款(使用91-56112)的目的是支持围绕计算实践的新课程和辅助材料的开发和评估。我们新课程的重点是包含四门课程的核心课程序列，其中包括封闭的实验室。授课材料和内容支持实验室，而不是相反。我们目前正处于开发的第四个年头，前三门核心课程牢牢到位，第四门课程于1996年春季第二次授课。我们准备开始积极的传播努力。今年夏天，我们将举办一个使用C++和封闭式实验室模式的课程课程更改研讨会(美国国家科学基金会-DUDE-9554715)。根据我们收到的巨大反响，我们建议在1997年夏季再次举办这个研讨会并进行其他宣传工作。这项提议要求支持更积极的传播努力。具体地说，我们提出了一个四管齐下的方法：1.为今年(1996年)NSF UFE使用C++和封闭实验室模式(DUE-9554715)举办的课程课程改变夏季研讨会的参与者举办一个小型研讨会，以评估1996年夏季研讨会的影响。1997年夏季的两个新的工作坊：2.第一个工作坊(使用C++和封闭实验室模式进行课程和课程更改的工作坊)将类似于96年夏季的工作坊，该工作坊面向对C语言有实用知识但不是C++的教员，并有兴趣在其CS课程中实施封闭实验室模式。3.第二期讲习班(使用封闭实验室模式举办的C++语法及课程和课程更改讲习班)将更多地侧重于社区学院教师、高中高级计算机科学教师以及不懂C或C++的学院和大学教师的具体需求。4.研讨会参与者和弗吉尼亚大学教职员工在区域小型大学计算机会议上的小组发言。我们相信，这些努力将使参与者所在的学校能够以现代和有效的方式改进其计算机科学课程，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.