Computing History Resource Adaptation (CHRAD)

计算机科学（31）本项目侧重于“历史方法”，以教授非专业计算机科学的概述课程。历史是贯穿整个课程的主题，通过改编相关的历史材料。项目领导人正在酌情开发材料的数字转换，以加强课程的提供。该项目团队正在与查尔斯巴贝奇研究所，计算机博物馆历史中心，IEEE历史中心和弗吉尼亚理工大学的计算历史中心密切合作。这些中心中的每一个都已经识别、保存并在许多情况下编目了大量与计算历史有关的示例性材料。项目组还专门为这项活动创建了一个网站。学生可以直接访问该项目产生的数字化材料，收集与课程相关的历史材料，并链接到其他有用的相关网站。我们期望课程会发生戏剧性的变化，从枯燥的事实内容转变为包含人物、地点和事件的动态插曲。这样，非专业的计算机课程将更加有趣。它将刺激更多的学生考虑计算作为他们的专业，将有助于学生的终身学习经验，将鼓励来自不同和少数民族社区的学生欣赏计算，并将提高学生的保留率。学生也将获得探究的性质，创新的过程，所涉及的约束和驱动因素，以及人的层面更好的感觉。

Computer Science (31)This project focuses on the "history approach" to teach an overview course in computer science for non-majors. History is an ongoing theme throughout the course through the adaptation of relevant historical materials. Where appropriate, the project leaders are developing digital conversion of materials to enhance the course delivery. The project team is working closely with the Charles Babbage Institute, the Computer Museum History Center, the IEEE History Center, and the Computing History Center at Virginia Tech. Each of these centers has already identified, preserved, and in many cases catalogued a vast quantity of the exemplary materials pertaining to computing history. The project team is also creating a dedicated website solely for this activity. Students will have direct access to digitized material emanating from this project, to the collection of course-related historical materials, and to links to other useful and related sites. The expectation is that there will be a dramatic change in the course from one of sterile factual content to one containing dynamic interludes involving people, places, and events. In this manner, the computing course for non-majors will be much more interesting. It will stimulate more students to consider computing as their major, will contribute to students' life-long learning experiences, will encourage students from diverse and minority communities to appreciate computing, and will increase student retention. Students will also gain a better sense of the nature of inquiry, the processes of innovation, the constraining and driving factors involved, and the human dimension.