CPATH-2: Learning Computational Thinking in Context: Using Problems and Cases in Financial Market Regulation

金融市场及其监管是展示计算思维的力量和重要性的绝佳场所。金融市场对国家至关重要？美国经济健康；目前的经济动荡是由国家的不稳定造成的。美国金融市场。跟踪、监控和分析现代市场中大量交易的需要推动了在金融市场监管中使用尖端计算机科学和信息技术。此外，很大一部分美国本科生主修或辅修与商业、公共政策和金融相关的领域。这为学习计算思维的相关性和吸引力提供了大量潜在的受众。该项目将计算思维作为一个基本主题整合到计算机、商业、公共政策、经济学、数学和金融市场社会科学的教学中。奥尔巴尼大学是金融市场监管中心的所在地。我的第一个本科专业和辅修专业是金融市场监管。这些程序是开发新的计算思维课程的重点。在两年的时间里，该提案的研究人员正在与政府和行业监管机构合作，制定一套学习目标，以推动以问题为基础的本科课程的创建。首先是金融市场监管课程，然后是校园里的其他本科课程，包括计算机。这项工作的最终结果将是案例、模块和课程，提供一个有吸引力的跨学科学习环境，让学生对计算思维产生兴趣并精通计算思维，并了解其对社会的重要性。知识价值。促进金融市场监管的各种学科都是成熟的领域，并且作为学术项目有很好的代表性。这项工作的一个主要创新是使用计算思维作为中心焦点的多学科合作伙伴的明确整合。这是可能的，因为该提案中的人员从他们在组成学科的研究和教育经验中带来的专业知识，在多学科团队中共同工作，与非学术专家合作，并为学生设计有效和愉快的学习环境。此外，这项工作还调查了金融市场监管应用领域的专家如何构想关键的计算问题以及与解决方案最相关的思维技能。最后，本研究考察了基于问题的学习课程对金融市场监管中计算思维发展的功效。更广泛的影响。最近的事件表明，这个国家？美国经济的健康取决于为我们的金融市场建立有效的管理、监督和监督体系。该行业一直被划分为由销售、业务和法律专业人员组成的前台操作和由IT和其他定量专业人员组成的后台操作，但现在看到了整合这些多个学科的需求，并认识到在业务战略的各个方面都需要计算思维。行业和政府监管机构也是如此。让学生了解计算思维在金融市场中的作用？特别是它在监管和监督方面的重要性？将促进劳动力的发展，帮助美国建立更有效的监管和风险管理体系，促进经济增长，为投资者提供安全的环境。此外，这种在应用环境中培养计算思维的方法可以作为其他领域类似项目的模型，并有助于多样化学习高级计算思维的学生群体。

Financial markets and their regulation are excellent arenas in which to see the power and importance of computational thinking. Financial markets are critical to the nation?s economic health; the current turmoil in the economy has been driven by instability in the country?s financial markets. The need to track, monitor, and analyze the large number of transactions in modern markets drives the use of cutting edge computer science and information technology in financial market regulation. Also, a large portion of American undergraduate students major or minor in fields related to business, public policy, and finance. This provides a large potential audience to learn the relevance and appeal of computational thinking. This project is integrating computational thinking as an essential theme in teaching students in computing, business, public policy, economics, mathematics, and the social sciences about financial markets. The University at Albany is home to the Center for Financial Market Regulation and has the nation?s first undergraduate major and minor in Financial Market Regulation. These programs are the focus in the development of a new computational thinking curriculum. Over a two-year period, the researchers on this proposal are engaging government and industry regulators in developing a set of learning objectives that will drive the creation of problem-based undergraduate curricula ? first for courses in the financial market regulation programs, and then in other undergraduate programs across the campus, including computing. The end result of this work will be cases, modules, and courses that provide an attractive interdisciplinary learning environment in which students become interested and proficient in computational thinking and understand its importance to society. Intellectual Merit. The various disciplines that contribute to financial market regulation are all mature fields, and are well represented as academic programs. A major innovation of this work is the explicit integration of the multidisciplinary partners using computational thinking as a central focus. This is possible due to the expertise that the personnel in this proposal bring from their research and educational experience in the component disciplines, working together in multidisciplinary teams, partnering with non-academic experts, and designing effective and enjoyable learning environments for students. In addition, this work is investigating how experts in the applied field of financial market regulation conceive of critical computational problems and the thinking skills most relevant to their solution. Finally, this work is examining the efficacy of problem-based learning curricula for the development of computational thinking in financial market regulation. Broader Impacts. Recent events have shown that the nation?s economic health depends on developing effective regulatory, surveillance, and oversight systems for our financial markets. The industry has been divided into front-room operations staffed with sales, business, and legal professionals and back-room operations staffed with IT and other quantitative professionals, but now sees the need to integrate these multiple disciplines and acknowledges the need for computational thinking in all aspects of business strategy. The same holds true for industry and government regulators. Enabling students to learn about the role of computational thinking in the financial markets ? in particular its importance in regulation and oversight ? will promote a workforce that helps the United States build more effective regulatory and risk management systems that will grow our economy and provide a safe environment for investors. Further, this approach to fostering computational thinking in an applied context can serve as a model for similar programs in other domains, and help diversify the pool of students learning advanced computational thinking.