CPATH CB: Collaborative: Can Humanitarian Open-Source Software Development Help Revitalize Undergraduate Computing Education?

标题：人道主义开源软件开发能帮助振兴本科计算教育吗？PI：Ralph Morelli(ralph.morelli@trincol.edu)这个社区建设项目创建了一个由来自学术计算部门、社会服务组织以及计算和IT公司的个人组成的多样化社区，以检验人道主义自由和开源软件开发(H-FOSS)可以帮助振兴本科计算教育的假设。该项目将利用计算机课程提供的两种当代兴趣：开源开发模式，作为教授软件工程的一种方式；以及服务学习，作为学生和教职员工为周围社区做出贡献的一种方式。将研究人类家园模式的一个软件开发版本：学生和教职员工将通过构建造福人类的软件系统来学习计算，而不是建造房屋。为了打击计算就是编码的神话，基于社区的暑期和学年实习将证明，计算正在与其他人合作，设计和开发解决实际问题的方案。通过吸引参与学校的学生和教职员工参加暑期学校、学分课程、春假社区帮助项目和学术课程研讨会，该项目将开发一种可移植和可持续的教育模式，吸引社会参与的学生学习计算机学科，弥合城镇和长袍之间的鸿沟，并构建真正有用的人道主义软件。

TITLE: Can Humanitarian Open-Source Software Development Help Revitalize Undergraduate Computing Education?PI: Ralph Morelli (ralph.morelli@trincoll.edu)This community building project creates a diverse community of individuals from academic computing departments, social service organizations, and computing and IT corporations, to test the hypothesis that humanitarian free and open-source software development (H-FOSS) can help revitalize undergraduate computing education. The project will capitalize on two contemporary interests that are under served in computing curricula: the open-source development model, as a way to teach software engineering; and, service-learning, as a means by which students and faculty can contribute to the surrounding community. A software development version of the Habitat for Humanity model will be investigated: instead of building houses, students and faculty will learn computing by building software systems that benefit humanity. To combat the computing-is-coding myth, community-based summer and academic year internships will demonstrate that computing is working together with other people to design and develop solutions to real problems. By engaging students and faculty from participating schools in summer institutes, credit courses, spring-break community-help projects, and an academic curriculum workshop, the project will develop a portable and sustainable educational model that attracts socially engaged students to the computing discipline, bridges the divide between town and gown, and builds truly useful humanitarian software.