CPATH CDP: Renaissance Computing

这个CPATH概念发展和规划项目通过重新设计的计算核心和计算思维概念和学习环境注入到广泛的课程和学科，在内布拉斯加大学计算机科学和许多其他学科之间建立联系。 教师团队计划使用一种名为Renaissance Computing的整体方法，该方法涵盖计算机科学和其他学科，并创建具有多学科背景的计算学生群体。这些活动包括安排讲习班和会议，以确定许多参与部门的需求，设计一个有凝聚力的课程，以支持计算思维，进行两个跨学科课程的试点研究，并制定全面的机构转型的实施计划。该项目的智力价值在于来自校园内许多不同学术部门的大型跨学科项目团队的专业知识和承诺。整体方法和计算思维愿景是合理和及时的。该项目有可能对全国产生影响，并为未来的计算机教育提供新的模式，其更广泛的影响在于有可能满足对计算机专业人员不断变化的需求，并吸引各种各样的学生。该项目有可能吸引整个教师和学生团体，并在每个学术课程中培养计算思维，从而使学生为未来的计算密集型职业生涯做好更好的准备。该项目包括向高中生进行宣传，以及向广大计算机界传播资源和成果。

This CPATH Conceptual Development and Planning project creates linkages between computer science and many other disciplines at the University of Nebraska through a redesigned computing core and an infusion of computational thinking concepts and learning environments into a broad range of courses and academic disciplines. The faculty team plans to use a holistic approach called Renaissance Computing that covers both computer science and other disciplines and creates a computing student population with multidisciplinary backgrounds. The activities include arranging workshops and meetings to determine the needs of the many participating departments, designing a cohesive curriculum to support computational thinking, conducting a pilot study of two interdisciplinary courses, and developing an implementation plan for full scaled institutional transformation. The intellectual merit of the project lies in expertise and commitment of a large interdisciplinary project team from a number of different academic divisions across the campus. The holistic approach and computational thinking vision are sound and timely. The project has the potential for national impact and to provide new models for computing education of the future.The broader impacts of the project lie in the potential to address changing demands on computing professionals and to attract a diverse audience of students. The project has the potential to engage the entire faculty and student body and to foster computational thinking throughout each academic program, thus producing students much better prepared for the computational intense professional careers of the future. The project includes outreach to high school students as well as dissemination of resources and results to a broad computing community.