Advancing Computing Education: Formation of a Computing Education Coordinating Council

这个CISE特别项目提供资金，以形成一个实体称为计算教育协调理事会（CECC）。CECC的设想是包容性和广泛的，最终包括所有对计算教育感兴趣的组织。理事会的出发点将很简单，由一小部分著名的计算教育组织组成，负责为CECC的长期可持续性奠定基础。一旦CECC达到更高的成熟度和接受度，它将扩大为一个更大、更强大的集团。该项目是2009年6月由NSF资助的计算教育峰会的直接结果。 CECC项目团队计划首先为CECC启动制定一份战略计划草案，其中包括有关CECC形成的想法和建议。然后，该团队打算让核心计算教育组织的领导层参与进来，以巩固CECC的目标和活动，建立一个为期两三年的战略计划，并确保他们对CECC计划的承诺。智力优势：计算领域有点自相矛盾。几乎每个人都认识到它在日常生活中的至关重要性;计算是许多其他科学的基础;计算产品和服务的预算不断扩大;目前对主管计算专业人员的需求很高，并延伸到未来。然而，在过去的十年中，教育计算项目的入学人数几乎没有增长;计算学生，教育工作者和专业人员的人口缺乏多样性;大学预科计算教育在资金，教师准备和课程要求方面存在严重弱点;公众对各种计算专业的性质，内容和实践没有很好的理解。女性和少数族裔从事计算的惊人缺乏将对我们的创新能力产生长期影响。这种思想多样性的缺乏最终被政府和工业界认为达到了危机的程度。各种计算组织已经独立地工作来解决这些问题;然而，单独或在小团体中工作并不具有与更实质性和通用的方法相同的积极效果。CECC的目的是提出一个关于如何解决计算教育所面临的重大挑战的统一观点。更广泛的影响：CECC将对计算机教育的状况产生广泛而重大的影响。理事会将致力于支持和促进以下方面：通过教学法、课程、实践和技术的发展，在计算教育方面进行持续的研究和奖学金，以确保有效性、相关性和通用性;在教师准备和课程要求方面改进大学预科计算教育;增加计算学生、教育工作者和专业人员人口的多样性;增加了在计算机各个领域攻读学位的学生人数，包括计算机教育;提高了公众对各种计算机专业的性质、内容和实践的理解;并加强了对计算机与其他学科之间关系的理解。

This CISE Special Project provides funds to form an entity called the Computing Education Coordinating Council (CECC). The CECC is envisioned to be inclusive and wide ranging ultimately including all organizations with an interest in computing education. The starting point of the Council will be simple, with a small core of prominent computing education organizations, which will be responsible for laying the foundational for long-term sustainability of the CECC. Once it has achieved a higher level of maturity and acceptance, the CECC will be expanded into a larger and more robust group. This project was developed as a direct result of the NSF-funded Future of Computing Education Summit that took place in June 2009. The CECC project team plans to first develop a draft strategic plan for CECC start up that includes ideas and recommendations concerning CECC formation. Then the team intends to engage the leadership of the core computing education organizations in order to solidify CECC goals and activities, establish a two-three year strategic plan, and to secure their commitment to the CECC plan. Intellectual Merit: The field of computing is somewhat paradoxical. Almost everyone recognizes its vital importance in their daily lives; computing is foundational for many other sciences; budgets for computing products and services continue to expand; and there is currently a high demand for competent computing professionals that extends well into the future. Yet, in the last decade there has been little or no growth in the enrollment in educational computing programs; the populations of computing students, educators, and professionals lack diversity; pre-university computing education has critical weaknesses in funding, teacher preparation and curriculum requirements; and the nature, content, and practices of the various computing professions are not well understood by the public. The alarming lack of women and minorities engaged in computing will have long-term impact on our ability to innovate. This lack of diversity of thought is finally being recognized as reaching crisis level by government and industry. Various computing organizations have worked independently to address these problems; however, working singly or in small groups does not have the same positive effect as a more substantial and universal approach. The purpose of the CECC is to present a unified view of how to address the significant challenges faced by computing education. Broader Impact: The CECC will have a wide ranging and significant influence on the state of computing education. The Council will engage in endeavors that support and promote the following: ongoing research and scholarship in computing education to ensure effectiveness, relevance and currency through developments in pedagogy, curriculum, practice, and technology; improvement in pre-university computing education in the areas of teacher preparation and curriculum requirements; increased diversity in the populations of computing students, educators, and professionals; increased numbers of students pursuing degrees in various fields of computing, including computing education; improvement in the public understanding of the nature, content, and practices of various computing professions; and enhanced understanding about the relationship between computing and other disciplines.