Instructional Computing: Current Issues and Solutions

在四个不同的地理区域举办的四个系列研讨会的目的是为两年制学院和小型四年制学院的教师、教学支持人员和教学计算管理员提供一个经济上容易获得的机会，使他们熟悉当前的问题，并获得一些新兴的教学计算技术的工作知识。这一目的将通过一系列为期两天的讲习班和后续活动来实现，这些活动涉及四组，每组30人。每个研讨会将集中在三个特定的主题领域：新兴技术、资源管理和教学方法。在每个主题领域内，重点将放在为正在处理的问题提供详细、具体、有意义、适用、现实、可实现的解决方案。实验室设施将用于实践和加强正在开发的解决方案。通过与该领域的专家嘉宾讲者接触，与会者将了解该技术工作实现的细节。工作坊活动结束后，每位参加者将被要求在当地举行后续研讨会，传播工作坊的资料和知识。这些后续活动将为参与者提供与当地同事互动的手段，讨论在其机构实施解决办法。该项目的成果将由参与者以专业期刊文章和会议报告的形式发表，并发布在万维网上。1996年2月16日至17日，ACM两年制大学教育委员会在费城SIGCSE技术研讨会上成功地举办了一个由三部分组成的研讨会。

The purpose of the proposed series of four workshops at four different geographical areas is to provide a financially-accessible opportunity for faculty, instructional support staff, and instructional computing administrators at two-year colleges and the lower-division of small four-year colleges to become familiar with current issues and obtain a working knowledge of some of the emerging technologies in instructional computing. This purpose will be achieved through a series of four two-day workshops and follow-up activities involving four groups of thirty participants each. Each workshop will focus on three specific topic areas: Emerging Technologies, Resource Management, and Instructional Methodologies. Within each topic area, emphasis will be placed ol providing detailed, specific, meaningful, applicable, realistic, achievable solutions to the issues being addressed. Laboratory facilities will be available to practice and reinforce the solutions being developed. Through contact with guest presenters, who are experts in the field, participants will become informed about the details of working implementations of the technology. Upon completion of the workshop activities, each participant will be required to conduct a local follow-up seminar to disseminate materials and knowledge gained from the workshop. These follow-up activities will provide means for participants to interact with local colleagues to discuss implementing solutions at their institutions. The results of the project will be presented by participants as professional journal articles and conference presentations as well as posted on the World Wide Web. A prototype of the proposed workshop series was successfully conducted by the ACM two-year College Education Committee on February 16-17, 1996 as a three-part workshop at the SIGCSE Technical Symposium in Philadelphia.