US-Cote d'Ivoire Planning Visit: Computational Coastal Management and Global Computing Education Partnerships, August 2009

Guy-Alain Amoussou教授和洪堡州立大学（HSU）提议与西非几个讲法语的高等教育机构合作，组织一项？计算海岸管理和全球计算教育伙伴关系？计划于2009年8月访问科特迪瓦首都阿比让。象牙色。拟议计划的目标是：1)启动国际计算海岸管理计划。第一步将是建立一个基于网络的图书馆，收集有关加利福尼亚北部海岸地区和西非地区海洋环境的最佳科学信息；2)确定有效的学习模式，将全球维度纳入计算机教育；3)建立大学合作，支持学生和教师交流。对于这些讨论领域中的每一个，我们都确定了我们预期将激励参与者的资助机会。创造支持他们合作的项目。最终，我们的目的是发起创新的项目理念，这将有助于建立计算海岸管理和全球计算教育伙伴关系。此次计划访问将汇集来自HSU的三名教师和一名评估员，来自非洲合作机构的五名教师和三名学生（HSU的一名本科生和科特迪瓦的两名本科生）。智力优势：参与计划访问的教师和学生将成为跨学科研究环境的一部分，打破了他们习惯的传统学术孤岛。此外，考虑到21世纪现代社会越来越多的技术驱动特征，我们迫切需要参与教育和研究工作，以扩大我们的视野，以便：-开发可在加利福尼亚和西非使用的健全有效的计算模型，-确定计算教育需要的必要特征是全球性的-更好地为下一代学生和教师做准备。最后，这次规划访问将使具体的资助项目得以启动。更广泛的影响：拟议的项目将有助于与其他现有的国家科学基金会资助的HSU跨学科研究和教育项目产生协同作用。其中包括，例如，设计科学和本科生项目的研究经验。这次计划访问的成果将在不同的场所分享，包括加州州立大学系统学院教学和学习电子杂志，计算机科学教育特别兴趣小组2010年年度研讨会和计算机科学联盟在大学西北地区会议。我们的目标是在美国吸引更多的合作机构。

Professor Guy-Alain Amoussou and Humboldt State University (HSU) propose to organize, in collaboration with several francophone West African institutions of higher education, a ?Computational Coastal Management and Global Computing Education Partnerships? planning visit in August 2009 in Abidjan, Cote d?Ivoire. The objectives of the proposed program are to: 1) initiate an International Computational Coastal Management program. The first step will be to build a web based library of a collection of the best available scientific information on the marine environment of the North Coast region of California and the West African regions 2) identify effective learning models that incorporate a global dimension in computing education; and 3) establish university collaborations to support student and faculty exchanges. For each of these discussion areas, we have indentified funding opportunities which we anticipate will stimulate participants? creativity to generate projects that will support their collaboration. Ultimately, our intention is to initiate innovative project ideas that will contribute to build Computational Coastal Management and Global Computing Education Partnerships. This planning visit will bring together three faculty and one evaluator from HSU, five faculty from the African partner institutions and three students (one undergraduate student from HSU and two from Cote d?Ivoire).Intellectual Merit: Faculty and Students participating in the planning visit will be part of an interdisciplinary research environment that breaks the traditional academic silos they are used to. Additionally, given the increasingly technology-driven features of our modern society of the 21th century, there is a critical need to be involved in education and research endeavors that widen our perspectives to allow: - the development of sound and valid computational models that can be used in California and West Africa, - the identification of the necessary features computing education needs to be global and - a better preparation of the next generation of students and faculty. Finally, this planning visit will enable specific funded projects to be initiated.Broader Impact: The proposed project will contribute to create a synergy with other existing NSF funded projects at HSU that are focused on interdisciplinary research and education projects. These include, for example, the Science of Design and the Research Experience for Undergraduates Projects. The outcomes of this planning visit will be shared at diverse venues including the California State University System Institute for Teaching and Learning e-magazine, the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education 2010 annual workshop and the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges North West regional conference. Our goal will be to attract additional partner institutions on the American side.