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本科计算机科学教育，使学生能够在全球计算机专业人士社区工作并领导。该项目建立了一个由计算机科学系、高科技产业和国际项目组成的环太平洋社区，以探索一种新的计算机科学教育模式，重点关注在平坦的世界中获得专业成功和领导力所需的知识、技能和能力。 该项目涉及俄勒冈州大学和波特兰州立大学之间的合作，将有助于振兴计算机科学教育，使其注入国际视野，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日益增加，而且这些研究所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研讨会，涉及太平洋沿岸地区的各种学术和工业合作伙伴。这些讲习班将讨论四个关键问题：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法的影响;通过国际经验提高文化意识;社区可持续性，除讲习班外，项目小组还将开发一个全球可用的计算机科学教育国际化在线资源库。这个知识库将收集研讨会系列的成果：种子想法和方案改革的建议，课程创新的建议，国际教学和合作的新技术，国际计划的数据库，主要联系人和参考书目。该资料库还将包括讲习班的录像档案，该项目的主要智力价值是利用太平洋沿岸地区作为示范社区，丰富和完善计算机科学教育国际化的概念。项目活动将有助于更好地了解这一转变的性质、挑战和成功方法，使其真正具有国际范围。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人口的吸引力。

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.