Calico: Improving Software Design Education with Tool Support, Design Exercises, and Course Modules for Sketch-Based, Continuous Design Practice and Reflection

Calico：通过工具支持、设计练习和基于草图的持续设计实践和反思的课程模块来改进软件设计教育

• 批准号: 0920777
• 负责人: Adriaan van der Hoek
• 金额: $ 49.99万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0920777&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Calico; Improving; Software; Design; Education

Computer Science (31) This project focuses on software design education, and provides tool support, design exercises, and course modules for sketch-based, continuous design practice and reflection. From an educational perspective, the process by which a student or group of students arrives at some particular software design is as important as the design itself. What alternatives were considered? Why were certain alternatives favored over others? How deeply were the various alternatives explored? What primary concerns drove the design process and the choices that were made? What constraints were assumed and applied? In the answers to these and other similar questions lie valuable opportunities for instructors and students to reflect upon and learn from the design process undertaken. This expansion project brings together and builds upon three related strands of work: (1) observing actual software designers in action, (2) implementing a tool for supporting creative, sketch-based software design activities, and (3) migrating to a studio-based approach to software design education. Preliminary results from this work highlight a strong potential for a new approach to software design education, one in which practice and reflection through sketching take center stage in a studio-oriented educational setting, and one in which the sketching exercises, whether in class or out of class as part of an assignment, are supported and continuously reflected upon through powerful instructional technology.The project has six components: (1) further developing Calico, an existing prototype software design sketching tool, into a design environment more explicitly geared towards education, (2) creating an extensive library of sketch-oriented design exercises, (3) providing course modules, (4) performing comprehensive, multi-university evaluations to gather conclusive evidence regarding the educational merits of the approach, its success factors, its strengths and weaknesses, (5) promoting faculty development through workshops/tutorials at conferences, a web-based portal, and sample lectures published via iTunes university, and (6) creating an effective strategy for widespread dissemination.

本项目侧重于软件设计教育，并为基于草图的、持续的设计实践和反思提供工具支持、设计练习和课程模块。从教育的角度来看，一个学生或一群学生完成某些特定软件设计的过程与设计本身一样重要。考虑了哪些替代方案?为什么某些选择比其他选择更受青睐？对各种备选方案的探索有多深入？驱动设计过程和做出选择的主要关注点是什么？假设和应用了什么约束？在对这些问题和其他类似问题的回答中，教师和学生有宝贵的机会来反思和学习所进行的设计过程。这个扩展项目汇集并建立在三个相关的工作链上：(1)观察实际的软件设计师在行动，(2)实现一个支持创造性的、基于草图的软件设计活动的工具，以及(3)迁移到基于工作室的软件设计教育方法。这项工作的初步结果强调了软件设计教育新方法的强大潜力，其中通过素描的实践和反思在工作室导向的教育环境中占据中心位置，其中素描练习，无论是在课堂上还是课外，作为作业的一部分，都得到支持并通过强大的教学技术不断反思。该项目有六个组成部分：(1)进一步开发Calico，一个现有的原型软件设计草图工具，使其成为一个更明确地面向教育的设计环境；(2)创建一个广泛的面向草图的设计练习库；(3)提供课程模块；(4)进行全面的、多所大学的评估，以收集有关该方法的教育优点、成功因素、优缺点的确凿证据；(5)通过会议上的研讨会/教程、基于网络的门户网站和通过iTunes university发布的样本讲座来促进教师发展；(6)制定有效的广泛传播策略。