NSF Workshop: Designing Tools and Curricula for Undergraduate Courses in Distributed Systems

威廉姆斯学院建议组织一个研讨会，重点是开发和传播新的工具和课程，为本科课程在分布式系统和计算机网络，利用公共访问的测试平台中可用的资源。鉴于分布式系统的普遍性，本科计算教育必须正确解决其设计和实现问题。如今，在大学水平上教授分布式系统的一个关键挑战是为学生提供对分布在全国和世界各地的计算和网络资源的访问。教育工作者有机会使用学术界和工业界现在出现的各种可公开访问的测试平台和云平台来填补这一空白。20-30名研讨会与会者将来自各种机构，包括研究型大学，文科学院和行业。研讨会的目标是确定一套教学材料，可用于广泛的跨部门的学院和大学，为本科生提供必要的背景和动机，成为参与系统研究。讲习班将产生一份报告，详细说明与会者的调查结果，并建立一个网站，汇集有关的教育材料。

Williams College proposes to organize a workshop that focuses on developing and disseminating new tools and curricula for undergraduate courses in distributed systems and computer networks that leverage the resources available in publicly-accessible testbeds. Given the ubiquity of distributed systems, it is imperative that undergraduate computing education properly address their design and implementation. A key challenge today in teaching distributed systems at the college-level is providing students access to computing and networking resources distributed across the country and world. Educators have an opportunity to fill this gap using a variety of publicly-accessible testbed and cloud platforms now emerging in academia and industry. The 20-30 workshop attendees will come from a variety of institutions, including research universities, liberal arts colleges, and industry. The goal of the workshop is to identify a set of teaching materials that may be used at a broad cross-section of colleges and universities to provide undergraduates with the necessary background and motivation to become involved in systems research. The workshop will result in a report that details the participants' findings, as well as a website that aggregates the relevant educational material.