Collaborative Research: CPATH CB: I18n, Internationalization of Computer Science Education: The Pacific Rim Community Model

该项目的重点是改变美国的本科计算机科学教育，让学生为工作做好准备，并在全球计算机专业人士社区中发挥领导作用。该项目建立了一个环太平洋社区，由计算机科学系、高科技行业和国际项目组成，旨在探索一种新的计算机科学教育模式，专注于在一个扁平的世界中取得专业成功和领导能力所必需的知识、技能和能力。该项目涉及俄勒冈大学和波特兰州立大学之间的合作，将通过向计算机科学教育注入国际视角来帮助振兴计算机科学教育，并为在全国范围内发展类似社区提供一个模式。之所以选择环太平洋地区，是因为该地区在高科技产业中的重要性与日俱增，而且私人投资机构所在的大学与环太平洋地区有着非常密切的联系和专业知识。该项目的核心是一系列社区建设讲习班，涉及环太平洋地区不同的学术界和工业界合作伙伴。研讨会将讨论四个主要主题：评估国际化的需要、好处和障碍；文化对计算机科学课程和教学的影响；通过国际经验提高文化意识；以及社区的可持续发展。除研讨会外，项目组还将为计算机科学教育的国际化开发一个全球可用的在线资源库。该资料库将收集一系列研讨会的成果：方案改革的种子想法和建议、课程改革的建议、国际教学和合作的新技术、国际方案数据库、主要联系人和参考书目。这个项目的主要学术价值是以环太平洋地区为样板社区，丰富和完善了计算机科学教育的国际化概念。项目活动将有助于更好地了解这一转变的性质、挑战和成功的方法，使其在范围内真正国际化。这个环太平洋社区建设项目的更广泛影响将使参与机构的学生在全球范围内获得竞争优势，无论是在研究还是在工业领域。计算机科学教育的国际化将吸引最优秀和最聪明的学生，并扩大计算机科学对更多样化的人群的吸引力。

The focus of this project is on transforming American undergraduate computer science education to prepare students to work and to lead in a global community of computing professionals. This project establishes a Pacific Rim Community of computer science departments, high tech industry and international programs to explore a new model of computer science education that focuses on the knowledge, skills and competencies necessary for professional success and leadership in a flat world. This project, involving collaboration between the University of Oregon and Portland State University, will help to revitalize computer science education by infusing it with international perspectives and provide a model for growing similar communities nationwide. The Pacific Rim was chosen because of the growing importance of this region in the high technology industry and because the PIs are situated in universities with exceptionally strong Pacific Rim ties and expertise. The core of this project is a series of community building workshops involving a diverse group of academic and industrial partners across the Pacific Rim. The workshops will address four key topics: assessing the needs, benefits and barriers to internationalization; cultural impacts on computer science courses and pedagogy; cultural awareness through international experiences; and community sustainability.In addition to the workshops, the project team will develop a globally available on-line resource repository for internationalization of computer science education. This repository will collect the results from the workshop series: seed ideas and recommendations for programmatic change, proposals for curricular innovation, new technologies for international pedagogy and collaboration, a database of international programs, key contacts, and bibliographic references. The repository will also include a video archive of the workshops.The primary intellectual merit of this project is the enrichment and refinement of the concept of internationalization for computer science education using the Pacific Rim as a model community. The project activities will contribute to better understanding of the nature, challenges, and successful approaches for this transformation to be truly international in scope. The broader impacts of this Pacific Rim community-building project will give students at the participating institutions a competitive advantage in a global world, whether in research or industry. Internationalization of computer science education will attract the best and brightest students and broaden the appeal of computer science to a much more diverse population.