Incorporating Research and Theory into the Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum through Practical Case Study Projects

通过实际案例研究项目将研究和理论纳入本科计算机科学课程

• 批准号: 9752671
• 负责人: joan krone
• 金额: $ 8.17万
• 依托单位: Denison University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-02-01 至 1999-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9752671&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Incorporating; Research; Theory; into; Undergraduate

The project is to develop a pilot, senior level course that uses a combination of methods proposed by the PI's to address 6 points of need in undergraduate Computer Science education that have arisen in several recent reports. These reports have dealt with the interaction of theory and practice as well as academia and industry within the context of Computer Science education and research. The eventual aim is to introduce the proposed methods into lower level CS courses. For this purpose, it is expected that the experience gained and problems encountered during the proposed project - involving the more controlled, but representative, senior-level student population at 3 institutions - would be crucial, if not indispensable. The course to be developed will be based entirely on case-studies. These are not artificially contrived or token exercises, but are to be obtained from raw case-study material collected (in consultation with industrial partners) from past and ongoing projects in industry. These case-studies are carefully chosen and designed (i) to expose students to a broad variety of large, prototypical, real-world projects, (ii) to apply, in a noncompartmentalized manner, a combination of formal and theoretical concepts, techniques and results in real situations, (iii) to illustrate recent theoretical research results in the context of a chain of applications leading to the solution of a real-world problem, and (iv) to involve the student in significant software implementation while being conscious of its role in the larger context of an industrial case-study project. The main results of the project will be twofold: (1) Industrial case-study material in a uniform format, usable also by schools with no industrial contacts, along with supplementary formal and conceptual material, teaching tips etc. (2) Pilot methodology to be used by schools who are interested in developing their own bank of case studies. These methodologies will be documented and also conveyed via a conference pape r, as well as a one day workshop, possibly at DIMACS.

该项目是开发一个试点的高级课程，该课程结合了PI提出的方法，以满足最近几份报告中出现的本科计算机科学教育的6点需求。这些报告在计算机科学教育和研究的背景下处理了理论与实践以及学术界和工业界的相互作用。最终目标是将所提出的方法引入较低水平的计算机科学课程。为此目的，预期在拟议项目期间所获得的经验和遇到的问题- -涉及3所院校的较受控制但具有代表性的高级学生- -即使不是必不可少的，也是至关重要的。将要开发的课程将完全以个案研究为基础。这些不是人为设计的或象征性的练习，而是从从过去和正在进行的工业项目中收集的原始案例研究材料（与工业伙伴协商）中获得的。这些案例研究是经过精心挑选和设计的(i)让学生接触到各种各样的大型、原型、现实世界的项目；（ii）以一种非划分的方式，将正式和理论的概念、技术和结果结合起来，应用于实际情况；（iii）在一系列应用的背景下，说明最近的理论研究成果，从而解决现实世界的问题。（iv）让学生参与重要的软件实现，同时意识到它在工业案例研究项目的更大背景下的作用。该项目的主要成果将是双重的：(1)统一格式的工业案例研究材料，也可供没有工业联系的学校使用，以及补充的正式和概念性材料，教学技巧等。(2)有兴趣开发自己的案例研究库的学校使用的试点方法。这些方法将被记录下来，并通过一份会议文件以及可能在DIMACS举行的为期一天的讲习班来传达。