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

我们的NSF拨款（USE 91-56112）的目的是支持围绕计算实践的新课程和支持材料的开发和评估。我们新课程的重点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的，而不是相反。目前，我们已经进入了第四年的发展，前三门核心课程已经牢固地建立起来，第四门课程将于1996年春季学期第二次教授。我们准备开始积极的传播工作。1996年夏天，我们正在进行一个使用c++和封闭实验室模型的课程课程变更研讨会（nsf - du -9554715）。根据我们收到的压倒性反应，我们建议在1997年夏季再次举办这个讲习班和其他宣传活动。这项建议要求支持更积极的传播工作。具体来说，我们提出了一个四管齐下的方法：本年度（1996年）NSF UFE夏季研讨会的参与者使用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年夏季两个新讲习班：2。第一个研讨会（使用c++和封闭实验室模型的课程和课程变更研讨会）将类似于96年夏季研讨会，针对具有C工作知识但不懂c++并且对在CS课程中实施封闭实验室模型感兴趣的教师。3. 第二个研讨会（使用封闭实验室模型的c++语法、课程和课程变化研讨会）将更多地关注社区学院教师、高中计算机科学先修课程教师以及不懂C或c++的学院和大学教师的具体需求。4. 由研讨会参与者和UVA教师在区域小型学院计算机会议上的小组演讲。我们相信，这些努力将使参与项目的学校能够以现代和有效的方式加强他们的计算机科学课程，并将帮助其他学校开始思考他们的课程需求。

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.