Steering Committee Workshop to Build a Community for Algorithm Visualization

建立算法可视化社区的指导委员会研讨会

• 批准号: 0839837
• 负责人: Clifford Shaffer
• 金额: $ 0.85万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-10-01 至 2009-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0839837&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Steering; Committee; Workshop; Build; Community

Computer Science (31)This project involves the running of a workshop whose goal is to establish a steering committee that will guide the development of internet-based resources to support a developing community of users and developers of algorithm and data structure visualizations (AVs). Successful use of AVs depends on both the availability of quality educational materials and their proper deployment. The field of AV has progressed little from the mid 1990s in terms of adoption levels or total educational impact. Many developers are not making use of lessons learned. Since effective ways of developing and deploying AVs are known, these difficulties can be overcome by a cohesive community of AV developers and users. The goal of this project is to build this community. The first step to building this community is to establish a steering committee of active members in the field who help to guide creation of an integrated collection of resources and infrastructure to serve as a communications hub and information clearing house. These resources leverage the progress already made by AV developers and users to bring about wider adoption and greater successful impact in the classroom.The intellectual merit is the improvement of the computer science education community's understanding of how AVs can be made pedagogically effective. The broader impact is improving on the general availability and quality of AVs, which can affect the educational outcomes for many students every year in computer science and related disciplines. Providing a community resource on best practices improves the development of future AVs. A clearing house of available AVs and documenting best practices for their use provides quality educational materials to instructors.

计算机科学 (31) 该项目涉及举办一个研讨会，其目标是建立一个指导委员会，指导基于互联网的资源的开发，以支持算法和数据结构可视化 (AV) 的用户和开发人员的发展社区。 AV 的成功使用取决于优质教育材料的可用性及其正确部署。自 20 世纪 90 年代中期以来，AV 领域在采用水平或总体教育影响方面几乎没有进展。许多开发人员没有利用吸取的经验教训。由于开发和部署 AV 的有效方法是已知的，因此由 AV 开发人员和用户组成的有凝聚力的社区可以克服这些困难。该项目的目标是建立这个社区。建设这个社区的第一步是建立一个由该领域活跃成员组成的指导委员会，帮助指导创建资源和基础设施的综合集合，以充当通信中心和信息交换所。这些资源利用 AV 开发人员和用户已经取得的进展，在课堂上实现更广泛的采用和更大的成功影响。其智力价值是提高计算机科学教育界对如何使 AV 在教学上有效的理解。更广泛的影响是自动驾驶的普遍可用性和质量的提高，这会影响每年许多学生在计算机科学和相关学科的教育成果。提供有关最佳实践的社区资源可以改善未来自动驾驶汽车的开发。可用 AV 的信息交换所并记录其使用的最佳实践，为教师提供了优质的教育材料。