Next Generation Laboratories in Computer Science Education

计算机科学（31）封闭实验室已成为计算机科学教育界普遍作为提高学生成绩的一种手段。然而，自最初推动关闭实验室以来，许多部门的情况发生了变化：基于网络的技术的快速发展和学生越来越多地拥有联网的个人计算机使得使用封闭的实验室来提供练习或辅导活动变得更加不明智，并且许多机构面临着入学人数增加，空间短缺，或减少实验室助理的预算，要求各部门确保尽可能明智地使用资源昂贵的封闭式实验室组件。在这个项目中，我们重新研究封闭实验室模式的优势，评估封闭实验室外学习的方法和技术，以便为学生提供更好的实习体验，并降低部门开发和提供封闭实验室的成本，（1）分析一门课程对封闭实验室的需求，以及一门课程每周实验课中学生活动的需求;（2）确定哪些面向实践的学生活动最适合封闭实验室环境，哪些可以在封闭实验课之外有效地进行;（3）确定和记录一套技术和工具的最佳做法，这些做法可以支持封闭实验室的有效学习活动，也可以支持更好地转移到开放实验室的活动;（4）使用这套最佳做法来确定如何规划和实施实验室组成部分的发展指南。

Computer Science (31)Closed laboratories have become common in the computer science educational community as a means of enhancing student achievement. However, circumstances for many departments have changed since the original push to closed laboratories: rapid advances in web-based technologies and increasing ownership of networked personal computers by students makes it even less sensible to use closed laboratories to deliver exercises or tutorial activities and many institutions are facing increasing enrollments, shortage of space, or reduced budgets for laboratory assistants that require departments to ensure that resource expensive closed laboratory components for courses are used as wisely as possible.In this project we are re-examining the strengths of the closed laboratory model and assessing methods and technology for learning outside a closed laboratory in order to deliver better practicum experiences for students and to reduce a department's costs for developing and delivering closed-laboratory components in a computing curriculum.We are:(1) analyzing the needs for a closed-laboratory component for a course and also for the set of student activities carried out during a course's weekly laboratory sessions;(2) determining what practicum-oriented student activities are best served in a closed laboratory environment and which can effectively be handled outside a closed laboratory session;(3) identifying and documenting a set of best-practices of techniques and tools that can support effective learning activities for closed laboratories, and also for activities that are better moved to an open laboratory situation;and(4) using this set of best-practices to define a development guide for how to plan and implement laboratory components.