Collaborative Research: CPATH CB: Distributed Expertise in Enhancing Computing Education with Connections to the Arts

计算机教育不仅对计算机科学及其许多兄弟学科(计算机工程、软件工程、信息系统等)至关重要。但对于几乎所有其他学科来说。今天，计算机无处不在，许多专业人员发展基本的编程技能，以此作为在他们自己的学科内用计算术语表达想法、问题和解决方案的一种方式。艺术(音乐、图形设计)、商业(会计、经济学)、科学(生物、化学、物理)和社会科学的课程中都有计算课程，这是很常见的。在某种程度上，计算正在成为大多数专业学位的必修课。这个项目既解决了计算专家之间的分离，也解决了计算概念在其他学科中的广泛整合，不仅是技术，而且是计算思维。该项目将使用目前普遍存在的技术，允许教师合作提供课程，将专家的潜在影响扩大到更广泛的受众，以及一系列录制的专家讲座。此外，它将开发一个可视化的交互界面，以建立一个共同的框架，围绕该框架探索不同领域的相似和不同之处，并使其能够就教育计划的制定作出决定。这些小组还将主办讲习班，以确定创新的教学方法，并支持开展新的协作课程体验和反映课程的效用。计算机教育的机会是学习积极的动手学习如何吸引学生，并提供机会介绍计算概念。除了旨在使参与的教师群体多样化外，该项目还将把计算的影响范围扩展到通常与该内容无关的学科，并将向计算机专业的学生展示其学科的范围，让人们更广泛地了解该学科在创意领域的应用影响。该项目解决了人们日益坚信的一个问题，即跨学科方法对于振兴计算机教育至关重要，并提供了一种解决需要扩大个别专门知识领域的需要的办法。如果成功，该项目可能会推广到国家实施，并产生非常大的影响。

Computing Education is essential not only for Computer Science and its many sibling disciplines(Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems, etc.) but for practically all other academic disciplines. Computers are pervasive today and many professionals develop basic programming skills as a way to express ideas, problems and solutions in computational terms within their own disciplines. It is common to find curricula in the arts (music, graphical design), business (accounting, economics), sciences (biology, chemistry, physics), and social sciences with computational courses in their curriculum. In a way, computing is becoming a requirement of most professional degrees. This project addresses both the separation between computing specialists and to widespread integration of computing concepts, not just the technology but computational thinking, in other disciplines. The project will use technologies now commonly available to permit faculty to collaborate in offering courses that extend the potential reach of experts to a broader audience, as well as a collection of recorded expert lectures. In addition, it will develop a visual, interactive interface to a common framework around which to explore similarities and differences across domains and to enable decisions about educational plan development. The teams will also host workshops to identify innovative approaches to teaching, as well as support initiation of new collaborative course experience and reflect of the utility of the courses. The opportunity computing education is to learn how motivated hands-on learning can engage students and provide opportunities to introduce computing concepts. In addition to aiming for diversity in the groups of participating faculty, the project will extend the reach of computing to disciplines not normally associated with that content and will also represent the scope of their discipline to computing students, providing a broader view of the impact of the discipline as it is applied in creative fields. This project addresses the growing conviction that inter-disciplinary approaches are crucial to revitalizing computing education and offers a solution to the need for broader reach of individual areas of expertise. If successful, this project could spread to national implementations with very great effect.